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The moment that made me antiwork.

Growing up I have always kind of hated the idea of working. I remember pretty early on I got to watch the movie Office Space and I tend to sympathize more with Peter. But another instance that made me more antiwork was back in 2012. I was taking some course that was helping people with disabilities and helping them find jobs but I don't fully remember. I was doing some assignment where we wrote our own resumes and such. On one assignment I was filling out the “what time are you available” time sheet and it had a chart of the week. So I did the normal 9 to 5 40 hour work week standard stuff. Then one of the teacher aids came up and said that you should be available to work all week and be available all the time. Like, no! I just want to do my 5…


Growing up I have always kind of hated the idea of working. I remember pretty early on I got to watch the movie Office Space and I tend to sympathize more with Peter. But another instance that made me more antiwork was back in 2012. I was taking some course that was helping people with disabilities and helping them find jobs but I don't fully remember. I was doing some assignment where we wrote our own resumes and such. On one assignment I was filling out the “what time are you available” time sheet and it had a chart of the week. So I did the normal 9 to 5 40 hour work week standard stuff. Then one of the teacher aids came up and said that you should be available to work all week and be available all the time. Like, no! I just want to do my 5 day 40 hour work week and have the weekends off. I don't want to think about work on my 2 days off. I don't want to be working the full 7 day work week. But that was one of the moments that made me antiwork.

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