Antiwork

Don't get me wrong, I prefer to be productive and doing productive work. I get comfort from being responsible, and an upstanding member of my family and community. I just don't enjoy the way modern jobs suck all of your time, energy, and enjoyment of life away. Counting my commute (because lets be real here, a work commute is part of the job and always has been), I spend 60+ hours a week working. I work to pay bills and have a moderate savings for a vacation or emergencies. I work to have an unenjoyable lunch while at work and then a rushed dinner at 8:30 at night when I finally get home. I work to get to a weekend where I have work-induced PTSD that makes me feel like I'm working to recover on my two days off. . .two days where I usually need to get things done…

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Are there options for not working un the US right now? The grind is exhausting and even enjoyable things become a burden when you need to do them just to “earn” a living.

In the past 2 years I've made huge life gains going from window washing, broke, student, single, shit car, living in my moms spare bedroom to being engaged to the perfect woman, new born daughter, fantastic first career job, new car, nice new (rental) house, money to spend, etc. However, as much as my fiancee likes to gas me up and congratulate me for everything I've achieved since I met her I can't seem to allow myself to enjoy any of it because it's basically all riding on the assumption that I don't get fired. In a couple years after I've saved up a nice nest egg I won't be as anxious, but at this point since I only just started working I'm 1 pay check away from my entire life collapsing in an instant. I'm really not that great of a software engineer and while I don't think I'm…

I joined this sub some time ago, and am amazed at the stuff that goes on. Well, now here I am, with my own issue. Technically, not MY issue but still. My partner started working for a company about 2 months ago. There were red flags all over the place, but he kept insisting that the owners were so nice (ikr?) He was supposed to be their customer service person, answering emails and calls. He was told he needed to start in the warehouse, packing items, to understand the business. Fine. After 2 weeks of this, there was some realization that this wasn't entirely true. This is a third party warehouse and shipping company and they are backed up. Like waaaay backed up. Shipping containers full of items are dropped off at the warehouse, many of these items are fragile and expensive and require special packaging. Another problem: they have…

I'm a contracted, full time worker. Today, my boss and I had an altercation which resulted in him squaring up to me with body language that signalled he wanted to hit me. I said “you're scaring me, man” to which he replied “Am I? So walk away. Hand in your job and walk away.” Where do I stand on this being taken as dismissal?