I’ve been working 9-5 for 3 years. It’s suffocating to think that we need to live this lifestyle until we can retire. I have 1-2 hours to myself everyday after dinner and cleanup. I have no energy to do anything in those couple of hours. Weekends go by with meal-prepping and resting for the next week. There is a whole world out there and I spend most of my days glued to my work computer. It’s depressing.
Everyone is scrambling to make money, get their retirement plans, invest. It’s all money money money money. I am only semi talented, semi good, semi make money, semi smart. I want to live a simple life but even that needs me to spend what feels like 80% of my life for work. I am not smart enough to work the system. I am tired and just want to live in the woods.