Nah, listen, things can change. This may become a public transport commute, a walk, or you may not even go at all if you work from home. But what really sucks is when you are unemployed, and yes I speak from experience on all of these examples
I've been unemployed for two week and it doesn't suck. I can do what I want when I want. What really sucks is eventually being broke after running out of money.
Maybe it's because I lucked into a career that I can be content in but I would rather be employed than unemployed even if I was able to sustain myself through my unemployment. I'm happier if I have a job from which I can derive a sense of purpose and duty. If I was a multimillionaire, I would probably either volunteer or still be working.
I’ve had two multi-month stretches of unemployment since the start of covid, and before that I was employed for 15+ years straight.
The “not working” part never got old. I am a chill person and a homebody so it was wonderful sometimes.
The part about not earning money, yeah that sucked. Living below our means for years made sure that the financial side wasn’t life-shattering, but it was still a huge hit.
I assume different people have different needs, but I feel so much more content with life when I get up early and drive my bike to work/Uni. Having some structure forced onto me is just way easier than living from day to day. But I have also struggled with depression in the past, I may require it more than others do.
True. Most of us are just working to buy our financial independence. Having my own business is even more challenging.
I've been trying for more than a decade and still poor (doing better than before but still poor), but that's still the plan for me.
Yeah I like my public transit commute with walk. Gives me a good 10 minute meditation time in the morning. Sure, I’d prefer to not have to go in, but it’s nice that it’s free for me to do that since the company has the unlimited pass.
"The Customer orders the food, you cook the food, and the customer gets the food. We do that for 40 years and then we die." - Squidward.
Reverse heist!
You only have to do that the next 30-40 years of your life if you live the next 30-40 years...... just saying.
It could be worse, you could have to work the next 60 years.
Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it'll be over soon You wait
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30 would be nice, it's more like 50
Lol, joke's on you! With these meager wages, paltry living conditions, and body-destroying hours and tasks, I probably won't even survive 30 years of this! You don't have to save or invest for retirement if you expect to be dead before then 🫠
Man, it seems if Putin dies(or goes to prosin) and Russia will say "free visas and transport to get here", it will get tons of cheap qualified labour.
Imagine not working from home
As a teacher, I would rather die than ever teach a class over zoom or teams ever again.
As a student, I agree.
I wish I could cut grass from home.
In all seriousness, some jobs cannot be done remotely. Schools are a prime example of this. That should mean that those jobs should cover expenses for travel and have some sort of tax for offsetting their carbon footprint.
Working from home is so beautiful to me. I can work from my living place, and don't need to see faces of everyone (most of the time)
As someone that used to be a blue collar worker but now is a software developer, people like us REALLY need a reality check. Working from home is a privilege that most people will never experience, and I am forever grateful for having the opportunity.
Something like 75 percent of all jobs in the US aren't able to be done remotely, according to a study by researchers at UW.
Imagine having no good public transport
Unless the reason travel by car takes really long is because of traffic jams, it's actually rather hard to create public transit that actually wins out in time. Bus will be a lot slower, trains can only take you to so many places, and building a large metro system is prohibitively expensive.
I would like to use public transit, but when that would turn a 15 minute drive into a 55 minute trip, I'd rather not spend 27 hours a month extra going to work.
I live in Seoul, which has superb public transit. It can work if designed well.
Busses have their own lanes to ensure traffic minimally affects them. Bus-train transfers are well managed. High density means that mass transit ends up being faster due to traffic concerns. Speed limits are quite low, which also makes vehicle accidents less lethal.
As for prohibitively expensive, that's only if you don't sufficiently tax your corporations ;)
So basically, vote for local and national government that will create an environment where public transit works
Bus or car to work takes at least 40 minutes. When there's a morning and evening rush, the bus wins easily because it has dedicated lanes and can go where cars are not allowed. Biking takes me 20 minutes no matter the time of day - even when it snows and it is black ice
If we're talking in terms of comfort my own car wins hands down?
Yeah these people think getting screamed at and not being able to use earbuds for fear of some maniac sitting behind you is some sort of virtuous affair that should be experienced by all.
It's not Europe, so fuck off with that shit.
Try forty or fifty years, unless you got your first job at 40. Unless you're a boomer, you aren't even getting full social security until 67 and unless you saved like a motherfucker you probably won't retire till your 70s.
I didn't expect the UnspecificGravity to be so strong.... But damn did that hurt.
I have a wife and three cats. Being stuck in traffic is the closest thing I have to free time.
That seems… super sad.
1931God damn I love communist propaganda art style. there used to be a subreddit for sharing it on reddit, is there anything similar on Lemmy?
Probably because it's targeted at working class adults instead of housewives and retirees like most American propaganda.
Maybe? Didn't see one here. Or on reddit. I used reddit only few times in my life.
Someone is optimistic about the future of society.
Nah, someone is optimistic about the future of capitalism. Hopefully bunker rat will die or go to prison in next 3-10 years. And his oligarchs too.
But then one day, after 30 or 40 years of hard work, you'll realize that you've done a lot of hard work.
And, if you're American, that you have to keep doing it until it kills you.
You can also burn your house down and go live in the woods. I’m just saying, you have options.
This does seem compelling.
That's why I moved less than 5 miles away from work.
Bold of you to assume you'll retire by 50-60.
Best I can do is die on shift.
Best I can do is die on shift.
I once worked a job where this was nearly literally true. Were I to die on shift, my life insurance would pay double.
Die, resurrect, profit
Well, you don't have to. If you want to just save enough to buy some land you could work for just a few years then homestead from there.
Still a lot of work tho But also very tempting
Although not very realistic for most people in most countries. In my social reality, buying land and conditions to homestead depends on having a fat inheritance or having an exceptionally good salary.
Take the train, bring a book or a nintendo.
But what if train is transsib?
Nah, check out:
See also this motivational blog post that happens to lie at the intersection of the two.
TL;DR: change your lifestyle to (among other things) not need a car, then use the savings to retire early.
When you get the paycheck you'll feel like it was all worth it.
(until rent is due and there's nothing left)
That depends on your paycheck
“Whew! At least that’s over!”
— Me literally every time I clock out
(hint: it’s not over)
What is that meme from?
Great Teacher Onizuka
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I would be more upset that we have to eat for the next 30-40 years... work is just the symptom of this fact. To get food you have to either produce it or barter it for some other service.
Eating is a fundamental physiological need. Making money from selling food isn't. We have the means to feed everyone but it's nor profitable. The ecomomy is a human fabrication.
Forget the evil economy. Why would anyone producing food give it to you for free while you sit on your ass all day and they worked hard to produce it, even if they have enough?
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I don't get it. You do the same job for 40 years? Or is the issue having something to do for 40 years? I would be so bored without a job - actually I still get bored with a job and can't imagine what I would do with even less on my plate.
I get that, I used to work with an old timer +65 and their job made them feel useful. They told me that otherwise they'd be drinking beers and cruising on demand media. I hope he's still out there doing exactly that. Personally I'd rather be murdered than work until I'm dead.
Covid quarantines and stuff were so boring that everything I normally enjoyed became boring also. I learned that if I don't have something to break up time between leisure activities I'll get tired of them. I work, and it isn't the pinnacle of existence, but what I like to do when I am not working feels better or atleast stays as good.
So you have no hobbies at all? You exist to labor for others, eh? Well, if it works for you I will reserve my judgement.
What? I literally did not say anything about a lack of hobbies. Well, if jumping to conclusions works for you I'll reserve my judgement.
We don't need a paid job to in order to work and be productive. We can volunteer to make a better society or do something creative. We need to stop making the equivalence between free time=mindless media consumption. Also, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
The problem is we need the job money and getting it leaves us so exhausted we restore to lay down and watch a screen. But this is a situation created by the job-centric culture, not solved by it.
