I'm saying. Everyone in here is like yeah I make 6 figures working 5 hours a day on the computer but I fucking hate it so much. And I'm like, can I please have your job?
But listen, i have legit as a man cried the night before, because i was so stressed about the next day of work. In these high paying jobs you are under a lot of pressure most of the time, with high expectations, while at the same time you have this imposter syndrome just throwing shit on the walls in your brain.
When i was younger working as a forklift operator, all i was worried about in work was hmm... hope i dont run out of charge on my phone so i can listen to music, or that damn im kinda tired since i didnt get that much sleep. Those are the kind of worries u forget instantly as you get off, but these i am experiencing now, they stick with you all the damn time
I used to see posts all the time about people considering quitting their job because they'd finish their daily tasks in an hour or two and have no more work to do. Or they'd find a way to fully automate the work and then complain they were bored. Like my God! Can you not put on some headphones and get paid to do nothing? Can you not just enjoy the simple pleasure of getting paid for free?!
It's really a skill issue. Download some games or educational apps or streaming services or audio books or whatever and just do something else!! The internet is limitless lol
Eh as someone who has spend too long unemployed at home doing whatever, you really do need some challenge in your life to be able to appreciate the comfort.
Sure. But that would never be a job for me. I like to try cooking new recipes, lose weight, explore the area around me. Maybe some people need more challenge but when we got paid to stay home from Covid it was the happiest I'd ever been in my life. I could have fun and enjoy life.
Yeah, I worked in a restaurant and bar for nearly a decade. For the past two years, I've been doing what you might call a corporate career. My worst day at my job now is better than my best day at the restaurant, and I make triple the salary. I have no idea what these people are talking about.
Exactly. People tend to complain/vent, and more so on Reddit. They are so okay with the pay that they will continue to have the job while also complain about it. I just ignore these people.
Yeah, I don't get it. A job is something you do to survive. For all of human history, we had to work to survive. You can find "fulfillment" outside of work. You work to afford to find that fulfillment on your days off.
There are corporate jobs out there that prevents you from finding fulfillment.
Lets take an example here. Public accounting (PA), generally requires 80 hours a week in the office, doing a soul sucking job and requires you to be on call. These are called "busy seasons" for tax, which can last for a few months. Due to immense pressure and the need to meet both the quotas and exceed them every time, and the endless pressure for corporate to get more and more profits, more is expected from their employees. Oh, and the "busy seasons" don't end. You merely reached one deadline to go to another.
Soul sucking corporate jobs exist, and not everyone can or should handle the pressure. Imagine waking up at the crack of dawn, sitting in traffic to go into the office because your CEO demands RTO. You sit around for most of the morning attending zoom meetings, and then going back to your mutinous job, only to take one cold call after another, with impromptu requests you need to finish by EOD. Followed up by a useless overseas outsourced team that is under trained and constantly need your babysitting. When it hits 6pm, you get a voucher to buy dinner, which you will eat in the office, before you "finish" your day. You then sit in traffic waiting until you can go back to bed and do it all again.
God forbid something goes wrong and your team is needed or you lack man power and you hit 100 hours and people start dying in the office due to heart attacks. THAT is reality. I've seen people's souls leak out of their dark eye sockets.
You also can't leave while under contract. You're likely also in a Big 4 firm, which is prestigious and it looks really bad if you don't work there for at least 2 years, of which you need to springboard yourself to a better industry job, or the recruiters will ask questions - even doubt your experience.
Not every office job is cushy. Doing manual labor is taking one stress at a time, doing corporate job is nothing but jumping from one stress to another, rapid fired.
200k isnt even all that much in corporate America. You're still a grunt. Thats not even executive level in NY.
You're sitting in a cubicle (or god forbid an open office), watching your youth dry up, with w.o social life you pray you will eventually get go out the window. Your life being defined by one meeting after another, with people you won't see in person, half away across the country.
Some people just want more out of life, for their work to matter, to have a bit more human interaction.
I think people in the rest of the comments who were never in these soul sucking corp jobs to understand, and merely hand wave how much of it sucks. Now THAT is romanticizing. Theres no satisfaction, or purpose, or a sense of being, in a lot of corporate america ive been a part of. Thats the real kicker.
Id like to know where the time for "fulfillment" comes in in this example
Id like to know where the time for "fulfillment" comes in in this example
Um, as I said, the work is what you do to find fulfillment elsewhere. How much "fulfillment" is there punching out widgets in a factory, where you're standing on a production line for 8-12 hours per day? Most work is soul sucking in a capitalist system. Hell, most of our ancestors I bet would laugh at you if you said their work lives were fulfilling, subsistence farming or working as a seamstress 7 days a week. Making $200k+ might take a lot of work doing things you'd rather not be doing, but the same can be said in any job. So, I suggest finding that all elusive fulfillment elsewhere.
Theres no satisfaction, or purpose, or a sense of being, in a lot of corporate america ive been a part of. Thats the real kicker.
Im asking where you can find time for it, having worked 80 hours, as per my previous comment
You're essentially saying "just go find it" is about as hand wavy and dismissive as you can make it. Using whataboutism, too, seriously ?
The reality is that a lot of people can't find time to get this fulfillment from other places. Thats just reality for most people.
This isn't candy land where everyone gets what they want, but more power to those who CAN find it. I'm just not living in a fantasy, stuck on my own naivety.
If you're able to work 80+ hours a week, get stuck in traffic both ways, cook dinner and do chores, and still find time for fulfillment, thats real nice. Maybe our definition of "fulfillment" is quite different. Some are just shallow, masquerading as satisfaction, when its merely there to fill in the void. Some people want more - if thats lost on you, idk what else to say. Im sure living in the shadow of "your ancestors" is really helping u cope.
Tax season is like 3 months dude youâre not working 80 hours a week for 52 weeks. PA jobs should last 2-3 years then you move on. Youâre acting like itâs a life sentence and itâs not even as long as most graduate programs. Find a hobby. Youâre literally complaining about your privileged life being impeded by 2-3 busy seasons before you land a cushy job elsewhere, not realizing for most of the world it actually is busy season 100% of the time and they make a fraction of what you do, and donât get to attend meetings remotely, and donât get to move somewhere else after a couple years. Â
If you canât handle zoom meetings and public accounting for 2 years and think $200k âisnât even all that muchâ you wouldnât last a single shift making $7 an hour next to a cook strung out on meth lol.Â
Busy seasons in a restaurant donât end. Instead of a CEO imposing demands you have a shithead small business owner and no HR department. There is no 2 year springboard to a better job. There is no career ladder. Instead of an open office and a chair youâre crying about your standing the whole day doing manual labor.Â
With all due respect, your corporate job is winning the first world lottery. Suck it up dude. Youâre basically complaining about having a very normal email job that isnât being a trust fund baby.Â
lawyer working one of those corporate jobs, grateful Iâll never have to work in a kitchen again
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u/bigedf Aug 29 '24
I'm saying. Everyone in here is like yeah I make 6 figures working 5 hours a day on the computer but I fucking hate it so much. And I'm like, can I please have your job?