Category: Antiwork

If I had a dollar every time someone said “you should quit your 9-5” “you’re a slave to your 9-5” “you should become and entrepreneur and buy my course to escape your 9-5” I’d have enough to retire and never work again. Unfortunately nobody is paying me for that and I actually enjoy working my 9-5. Now it’s not that I actually like working. This is the anti work subreddit after all. However in my current position I feel pretty fortunate and blessed compared to some of my previous jobs I’ve had. I’ve ran a small online store before. You literally never stop working. Always on call to customers and since you run the business all pressure is on you. Used to work as a line cook doing night shifts. I’d take the 9-5 over the 5-12 any day. The 9-5 is great for me cause I get to do…

Really interesting how some things show up in Corp America https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26184/pg26184-images.html

I'll just give some basic history of myself first before I tell you my Experience. I'm a white male (24) living in the Ozarks. I have worked previously as a groundskeeper for 1 company for almost 8 years. (3 seasonal years) and the rest full time. During this time period I have achieved the goal of getting an associates degree within 3 years. I had no real days off during those 3 years. I was brought up in a family that worked in education. It is installed in me that a degree means everything to a financially secure life. Just recently I quit that 1 company after numerous loyal years of hard manual labor. I decided to go back to college and get a bachelors degree in something that im passionate about.. I did not want to continue being a groundskeeper for the rest of my life….even though I toot…