If so, how long until.
Just started a 8-16 5 days a week job. Started last Thursday so only done it for 2 days then weekend. I was already super tired and feel pike 2 days aren't enough to rest. Now thinking about how I'll have to do it for 5 straight days. For potentially 40 more years.
This is actually not my first 8-16 job. I had one but… I enjoyed that one, and I never feel like I worked… Plus I got 2 WFH days a week. I did them well. But I see signs that I was being replaced (let's just say my work has something to do with art and illustration). My senior's job is to direct us to make things, now he direct it to robots. I see signs. I look for an escape to a more “stable jobs” that my parents always wanted (they were right all along) and I got it. It's the opposite of the creative job I used to have. Graphic design, but will gradually shift to web developing and programming. I've never touched code in all my life.
Those first two days were the first time I realize what “going to work” means. I'm so tired. I dread tomorrow. I'm filled with panicked despair. The only consolation is in hoping that I'll get used to it. I'm telling myself I don't have to like it, I just have to do it, to survive so I can come home everyday to do something I like, like art or video games, and go on a vacation once every few years or so. But will I? Will I get used to it? Will it get easier to wake up each day? Does it ever got better? How do you all do it? What will become of me? How do I minimize the damage here?