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Posted on 5/2/24 at 8:03 am to FLTech
So, you’re fat and angry?
Posted on 5/2/24 at 8:06 am to Mud_Bone
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Wake up.....go to work......put up with shite....glad when you leave work and have a few hours of joy...then start thinking about the next day.
This could all be fixed by getting a new job. Trust me, it's not worth staying there.
I was stressed to the max about my previous job, to the point where it was affecting my home life. They were actively trying to frick me over and get rid of me and it caused me so much internal stress (and I never had to deal with stress in my life really). I stayed there for 15 years and all it got me was shite on constantly. I also hate change, so was hesitant to leave. But I found something in a different office (same department) and have fricking thrived over here. I love working here, I make about 45% more money here with about 2% of the responsibility, and most importantly I am fricking truly content and happy here. My work/home life balance is great...I leave my job at work every day and go home and hang with my family. I now have bosses that appreciate and value me as opposed to ones trying to frick me over. Waking up every day and not completely dreading going to work is a wonderful feeling.
My only advice is start HARD looking for a new job. I promise if work stresses you out even half as much as it seems from a reading your OP for five seconds, you'll open your eyes to true happiness once you are no longer under the thumb of your current job.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 8:15 am to NIH
Yup.. you got be bruh! You got me! Keep bench pressing your hundred (if that)
This post was edited on 5/2/24 at 8:16 am
Posted on 5/2/24 at 8:23 am to Mud_Bone
You must go on
You can’t go on
You must go on
You can’t go on
You must go on
Posted on 5/2/24 at 8:58 am to Mud_Bone
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Wake up.....go to work......put up with shite....glad when you leave work and have a few hours of joy
And will not change until you retire
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:12 am to Mud_Bone
One reason I’m giving it up at the end of the month, let the young ones have at it
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:14 am to Mud_Bone
I think what I miss most about being younger was being able to fit everything I owned in the trunk of a Corolla. Nothing financed, nothing holding me down, could just drag up and leave without second thought.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 9:16 am to Mud_Bone
My only suggestion is to put up as much as you can in your retirement so hopefully you can retire earlier.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 10:27 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
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I'm fed up too with spending the majority of my life working.
Maybe you work more than most, but the average person works 40 hour weeks for about 48 weeks max. Allowing 1 hour per workday for getting ready and 1 hour for commuting that’s 2400 hours per year. We have about 16 hours per day for non-sleeping. That’s 5,840 hours. That leave 3,440 hours for other things. If we allow 4 hours per week for house and yard maintenance that still leaves 3,232.
The truth is that we have a lot of free time. Things like children, parents, hobbies, and other stuff are choices. Probably the real issue isn’t a lack of free time, it’s a lack of satisfaction - probably emotional satisfaction - from our lives. I think that’s probably the place most of us should focus.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 10:55 am to Mud_Bone
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My life is a repeat....a .... Ground Hog day .... just without the chance for a do over.
Wake up.....go to work......put up with shite....glad when you leave work and have a few hours of joy...then start thinking about the next day.
I would like to win the lottery.
I have a friend who inherited a nice family oil fortune...not crazy money but more than a sane person could get shed of in 2 lifetimes. He is BORED out of his mind. He has no intellectual curiosity at all.....he has basically been putzing around the house for about 25 years waiting on his wife, who decided to continue her career when the money came in, to get home from work. She can travel as much she wants...he has no interest. It is really sad but it is his life.
I would suggest finding something you're passionate about and pursure it. Life is short. Work to live, do not live to work. A good place to start is to not answer the question "what do you do?" with what you do for a living....even if all you do is putz around the house and watch TV answer with that....it will break the mindset of living to work instead of working to live...good luck,
Posted on 5/2/24 at 10:56 am to FLTech
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Yea, life is pretty shitty these days
nah
Posted on 5/2/24 at 10:57 am to TulaneUVA
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Without being preachy (just trying to help):
- what’s the end goal? Is it to store up riches here on earth or for life after death? I’m not saying I have my priorities right…but my point is: find a purpose.
- your life is better than >90% of people on this world.
Seriously...volunteer at a children's hospital or some charity that does good work and is not just collecting money to pay executive salaries. It will provide some prospective as to how fortunate most of us actually are....
Posted on 5/2/24 at 11:01 am to Champagne
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It is difficult for sentient beings to find meaning in life.
Is it? I would posit its a ridiculous pursuit, akin to a dog chasing a car. What would one do with meaning if they found it? I think just the opposite is true...stop trying to find meaning and concentrate what time you have on things that bring your joy and do not harm others and be thankful youre alive. Get rid of negative people you can and limit your exposure to those negative people you can't avoid. Boredom and being in a rut is indicative of a waning intellectual curiosity....there is wonder in the simplest things in life if you look for it....
Posted on 5/2/24 at 11:02 am to Mud_Bone
you got a wife and children you go home to every day?
that's basically what powers me through, just seeing my sons face light up when he see's me walk through the door is what pushes me.
that's basically what powers me through, just seeing my sons face light up when he see's me walk through the door is what pushes me.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 11:04 am to Boss13
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Find a hobby and improve yourself. It's much easier said than done, I understand that. Set a goal and move a bit more towards it every day. The most important thing you can do to get past the grind is to create hope that you can dig out of it. If you resign yourself it will never get better.
Make something to look forward to, it can be a new job, new skillset, a passion project, anything.
There are fascinating places and things to see and do within 50 miles of the remotest parts of the US....most people never see or go to any of them. A public library is CHOCK full of interesting shite that could take a lifetime to consume. Being bored and in a rut is on the bored person...there is something out there that does not cost much that interests one unless one is simply a blob. Its easy to fall into a rut but getting out of one is up to the person...they have to want to get out ofi t.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 11:10 am to FLTech
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Life is pretty shitty right now for everybody
No its not. If you're aren't saddled with irrational fears life is as good as it has ever been.
We had a shooting at a local mall last weekend. Folks around me are terrified about it. Thosuands of people a year walk into that mall and have for about 30 years. One idiot pops off a shot and now its a death zone where eerybody is going to die.
I live in a neighborhood full of military families. Upper middle class officers. There has not been a report of a break in or anything being stolen made to the police in the 7 years that people have lived in this neighborhood. They are CLAMORING for a entrance gate.....because they are scared to death someone is going to get them. It is based on nothing but irrational fear and it is crippling for some people.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 11:18 am to FLObserver
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Right there with you man. 450 hours of PTO and too busy to take it. Burnout is a real thing. Sometimes i think about the struggles of the early pioneers but wonder if that life was so bad?
The one benefit it had was those people did not have time to spend all day inside their own heads...they were too damned busy living to worry about living.
I know two old boys who made a living about as hard as it can be made in modern America. One dug ditches....$1 a foot for one inch PVC water lines. The other was a pulp wooder. Both of them were, seemingly, happy as larks and lived into their late 80s and were healthy until they killed over. Why, with such "shitty" jobs? They were tired when they weren't working....they were to busy living to worry about living. Neither one of them ever traveled more than 500 miles from where they leapt out of their mamas as far as I know. They spent what little time off they had tinkering with equipment and keeping their houses up.
Posted on 5/2/24 at 11:21 am to Mud_Bone
I get it dude. Living to work isn't the answer and sucks, but humanity has had to work to exist since the dawn of time. 9-to-5ers weren't a thing, but you most definitely were doing work daily. Do what you have to do; then do what you want the rest of the time.
As the great Frank Costello said to the IRA MFer in his bar whose mother was on the way out: "We all are; act accordingly."
As the great Frank Costello said to the IRA MFer in his bar whose mother was on the way out: "We all are; act accordingly."
Posted on 5/2/24 at 11:26 am to Loup
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I think what I miss most about being younger was being able to fit everything I owned in the trunk of a Corolla. Nothing financed, nothing holding me down, could just drag up and leave without second thought.
The freest person in America is the man whose bed is a park bench. As Thoreau said you do not own a farm a farm owns you...
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