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ThrowawayTheLegend t1_j14624b wrote

Worked for 3 years in IT after finishing school and now taking a month off just to relax and do nothing.

I'm good at my job, like it and always manages being friendly. But man working 40 hours a week really takes a toll on my mental health after a long time.

I have feeling mental health is neglected a lot in our society.

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Autumnlove92 t1_j159bps wrote

I have to work 2 jobs, 60hrs a week, just to get by paycheck to paycheck. 40hrs a week is like part time work to me now. I hate it. I hate slaving away just to work. Wake up, work, sleep, repeat. People ask what I do for fun -- I survive. I don't have TIME to do things for myself otherwise rent doesn't get paid. This isn't life. It's no wonder we're all depressed

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Fl333r t1_j15f6yr wrote

I wonder if the big brain move here to just work for a few years and retire and shoot myself when I run out of money somewhere in my 40s. The idea of working til 50 or 65 and then retiring with a decrepit body just doesn't sound fun even if you live til 95.

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Autumnlove92 t1_j15hdac wrote

I work in healthcare and literally ALL my coworkers and myself, at every job I've worked at -- from hospital to outpatient -- we've all said we don't want to live past 75. Me, I can't forsee myself last 67-70. It's misery. Government assistance is a joke, Medicare is laughable, and in this day and age there's no retiring for us millennials (unless you're born into wealth/got lucky) so we'll still be working at that age. I've had coworkers who are 72/73/74. They look one step away from death. I had one coworker, 64, who stepped down from full time to PRN because she physically couldn't handle it anymore but she began stressing SO much about how she'll buy groceries going forward. Yep, no thanks. If my life ends up like that, I'll be checking out. I'm almost 31 and I'm now on the hunt for a spouse even though I love being single. This isn't a world where I can thrive and survive by myself, unfortunately. I wasn't granted that card.

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jay-zd t1_j15l8r2 wrote

This is the hard truth! There must be away to overcome this madness and answer lies in that 1% who are enslaving entire world!

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multiquine t1_j15v0ak wrote

I have a hypothesis where if a person does 8 hours of physical labour per day that breaks their body and if a person does 8 hours of cognitive labour per day that breaks their brain.

I believe that on average a cognitive worker might have 3 hours worth, in the best case, of "output" per day.

So, if you spend 8 hours today writing code, and an other 8 hours the day after because you are in a flow state that's cool but it will in turn lead to experiencing a few 0 hours days but the thing is we've been conditioned to feel anxious or are stressed by external factors to do "something" tangible on those 0 hour days were what we need is good and proper recovery time which we never get or allow ourselves to take because it is not acceptable.

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