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Are there actually jobs that allow you to do more than work and sleep anymore?

So in the past few years here in the US I've noticed a trend in the workforce. If you have a job that can actually pay your bills, even if it is only 40 hours a week (I say only because lately most have been more like 50-60), you tend to feel like you can't do anything other than pass out after work. I've talked to a lot of people from all different industries and it seems to feel the same to the majority. These jobs have you so anxious with unrealistic, or worse undescribed, expectations that you become so burnt out by the end of your day that you have no energy left for anything. When did this start? How do we get away from this? As human beings we need our lives and time for passions back. It seems incredibly systemic to exhaust the population so much that…


So in the past few years here in the US I've noticed a trend in the workforce. If you have a job that can actually pay your bills, even if it is only 40 hours a week (I say only because lately most have been more like 50-60), you tend to feel like you can't do anything other than pass out after work.

I've talked to a lot of people from all different industries and it seems to feel the same to the majority. These jobs have you so anxious with unrealistic, or worse undescribed, expectations that you become so burnt out by the end of your day that you have no energy left for anything.

When did this start? How do we get away from this? As human beings we need our lives and time for passions back. It seems incredibly systemic to exhaust the population so much that we become robots with no fuel to drive change.

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