The short version of my life is, I served two tours in Iraq as a combat medic, then spent a decade or so working myself to death for poverty wages in our American medical system until I had a nervous breakdown and now live on VA disability. I am now arguably The World's Only Retired Millennial and it kinda sucks.
The good news is, life is unimaginably better! I sleep and eat and regularly make dents in the big pile of books I'd always meant to get around to. PTSD is actually a lot easier to live with when you're not being yelled at by managers and customers.
The bad news is, it's lonely because everyone my age is still being worked to death and even when they have a little free time they've monetized every possible activity. I do some volunteer work but that's about all I've got. Not religious, don't drink. It seems there is nowhere for humans to just be with other humans. Not without paying for the priviledge.
Free from work isn't necessarily free from capitalism. The banks took my whole society, is what it feels like. I want my neighbors back.