My job is very physically demanding and I’m feeling like I’m getting too old and worn out for it. My plan is to go take some courses at the community college so I can work some kind of desk job.
It seems like any kind of job that doesn’t require physical labor is 8-5 M-F and sometimes even every other Saturday. When did the 9-5 turn into 8-5 with an unpaid one hour lunch break? And why every other Saturday now too? What the fuck? This is unreasonable to me. Why are there no M-Th jobs? And it seems like all the work from home jobs are disappearing. I’ve only seen one or two in my area.
With this standard work schedule at an office, your entire day consists of getting ready for work, driving to work, getting stuck in traffic, working, more traffic, coming home, cooking dinner, watching tv because you’re mentally exhausted and then it’s time for bed, repeat. Oh yeah, and then spend your weekends running errands and doing chores.
I mean fuck. Are these my only options? Hard manual labor that breaks your body down, but have a decent work schedule or a desk job that takes up ALL your free time?