I really can't do this anymore. Every job I've ever had made me crazy in the long run. How do you all cope? I am totally fine with doing chores, I understand that for example in a tribal community or pre-industrial times you needed to do things like laundry, cooking, hunting, farming for yourself and your family or the like (or think Red Dead Redemption), I don't have a problem with that at all. Of course not my favourite thing to do but I'm not lazy, at times I can find enjoyment or peace in it, other times I just get over it and do it.
Not so jobs. In modern day jobs someone is constantly breathing down your next. You're not given more time if you need a bit more because you've felt sick and you're not being given the promotion because you didn't do this and that. Full of BS, almost every single job there is and it just keeps piling up. Chances are at least 1 if not 2 out of 5 people in the company or in your direct work environment are neurotic from the constant work stress, meaningless meetings and overcommunication, overly strict rules about BS and and and.
And really even if it is a somewhat okay enviroment, there's always that you need to get up at a certain time and be at a certain place and it's just not natural.
And even if you're a freelancer or have your own business, it's all the same. It's like the world is stuck in this constant business neurosis. I notice how I myself stress-eat and spend money while I work in this environment (for money) and only once I detach for it I have peace (it takes a while to get there though). Then I can just be.
I don't know how the world keeps doing this. All this constant productivity and distraction and just doing something is driving me insane. It's like we adapted to have the natural thought that we need to do something (and others need to see it) to be worth anything and we get stuck in this pattern.
Can't we just stop?
I know it will all collapse way too hard if we all stopped going to work but can't we just limit it? Is there ever going to be a chance to change his craziness of the system that obviously damages people by keeping them alive long enough for retirement (maybe) but giving them miserable lives filled with doing things just so that they are not stuck doing nothing?