Basically what the title says. I’m 42 (will be 43 this month), I’ve been working since I was 14 and in the restaurant industry since I was 15, during summer vacations in HS I would work two job (by choice my parents didn’t force me, I just liked the money), I’ve consistently worked 50-80 (often more) hours a week since becoming a manager in my early 20’s. I owned my own restaurant for 5 years, where we actually paid our employees a living wage, treated them with respect, and had fun while doing it, we served at least 150-300 homeless folks dinner per week, I helped two employees get out of student loan garnishments, and paid a deposit for one employee to get into a house. Not saying all that to make myself look good just saying that it is possible to do good (for the community, employees, and the earth) in the industry if the owners want, but no one else seems to want to do that. Honestly, I’m just tired of working, I’m tired of serving middle class to rich people who mostly don’t give any fucks about any of us. I used to love serving people, but now I feel like it’s (the restaurant industry) a pointless endeavor, that does more actual harm than good in the world. There’s so much abuse from customers and employers, so much food waste, and I’m just fucking done. I just don’t want to work anymore.