I (25 F) have been at my current job for about 1.5 years. This is the third job that I have had since I was 16. It feels like everyday I get up just to go to work and count down the time until I get to leave. When I leave work on Fridays, it always sets in that the weekend is going to go quickly, and I feel so much guilt for not “appreciating my free time properly”. I wake up early in the morning before work and stay up way too late at night just to feel like I have some sort of free time.
It’s not that I dislike my job; I, for the most part, like my coworkers and the work is easy. There is one coworker who is always on me and jumps on every instance to critique me and one who is a complete moron where everyone has to fix their mistakes, but I feel like some version of that would happen anywhere. I just generally hate spending so much time working. I need the paycheck to pay my bills and rent, but that is my only incentive to keep going everyday. I do not know how to cope with this dreadfulness anymore. How do people do this for decades upon decades?