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No motivation to work and need advice

I’m a gen Z who recently graduated college and subsequently worked abroad for a year until late July this year and has been unemployed ever since (although I have been doing some volunteering since September). Ever since coming back to live with my parents I’ve applied for job after job only to have no luck. The closest I’ve gotten is getting through the first few stages of one company’s hiring process only to end up getting rejected. I’ve never really desired to work in the first place, but now I especially don’t since it all feels pointless and I feel hopeless about ever getting a job or even having much of a future since everything is so expensive now with wages not keeping up with the cost of living. Plus I don’t feel passionate about any one specific thing; I just want to help make the world a better place.…


I’m a gen Z who recently graduated college and subsequently worked abroad for a year until late July this year and has been unemployed ever since (although I have been doing some volunteering since September). Ever since coming back to live with my parents I’ve applied for job after job only to have no luck. The closest I’ve gotten is getting through the first few stages of one company’s hiring process only to end up getting rejected. I’ve never really desired to work in the first place, but now I especially don’t since it all feels pointless and I feel hopeless about ever getting a job or even having much of a future since everything is so expensive now with wages not keeping up with the cost of living. Plus I don’t feel passionate about any one specific thing; I just want to help make the world a better place. I’m single and I have no desire to have kids or travel (I’ve traveled a fair bit growing up), or even move out or get married. I also absolutely hate driving and have no desire to drive or have my own car. My parents are ofc expecting that I will find a job soon. I’m a huge introvert and it seems like the only possible “solution” is to maybe look for remote jobs but I wish there were some way out of having to work. I do genuinely want to keep helping my parents though, and ofc I’m deeply grateful that I have a close relationship with them and that they’re allowing me to stay with them potentially indefinitely. I haven’t really seen anyone else in the same circumstance as me (who also doesn’t really desire to move out, drive a car, have kids, get married, or travel along with not wanting to work) and have been feeling alone in this struggle. I am wondering if there are others like me out there. I’m otherwise just hoping for good advice. (Thanks for taking the time to read this!)

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