Work hard for the rest of my life?

[TheGoodGuy]

Work hard for the rest of my life to sustain a mediocre life with my physical and mental problems I don´t think so.


Sorry a bit of a shitpost but I found this funny and extremely accurate.

 

[Lra888]

Love it. I've tried but I know that my chronic depression / anxiety and fucked up circumstance will not allow me to have a decent life in this system. Also don't have the ambition to compete against the happy/ healthy people for survival.

 

[BlackDragonof1989]

So relatable.

 

[sadsoul]

 

[sadsoul]

Making these memes is oddly satisfying

 

[samsays89]

For me, the alternative is starving to death on the streets. I'll work as long as I can for me and my dog. If i die, I'm pretty sure my extended family would take care of my dog because she's a good dogo.

 

[scales]

 

[scales]

You're right this is very satisfying.

 

[fuckthis]

"Just go outside"

"Join a club"

"Nah life gets better you will realize that eventually"

"Just find a hobby"

Ah yes, surely that will get rid of years of suffering and self torment. It is because I have no hobbies! The best type of medication is to distract yourself from reality and be as ignorant as those around you! Then you can trick yourself and live the remainder of your life in some imaginative world until you're on your death bed and finally realize how much of a fuck up you were! By then it's too late and you're left to slowly wither away as those you thought you could trust disappear when you're at your worst. IT'S ALL ABOUT BEING HAPPY YAY YAY! AM I DOING IT RIGHT!?

 

[your pathologist]

Thank you so much for these, nothing makes me laugh this hard anymore <3

 

[BaconCheeseburger]

I see no appeal in working mindlessly for the next 50 or so years until retirement age (which will no doubt have increased by then). My dad keeps badgering on at me about adjusting my pension too. Be assed waiting around for something that I hope to be dead long before.

 

[polyswarm]

Thanks for the laugh!!

 

[Lra888]

I see no appeal in working mindlessly for the next 50 or so years until retirement age (which will no doubt have increased by then). My dad keeps badgering on at me about adjusting my pension too. Be assed waiting around for something that I hope to be dead long before.

When people talk to me about planning for decades ahead I feel sick. Can barely take another day.

 

[fuckthis]

When people talk to me about planning for decades ahead I feel sick. Can barely take another day.

I did this but my life never went to plan and now i feel even shittier.

 

[Lra888]

I did this but my life never went to plan and now i feel even shittier.

Exactly. It's putting all your faith in life going smoothly and ending perfectly so you comfortably die of old age as society intends for you- after you've been used up for labor. Very little chance of that actually turning out a "happy ending" like that for many people.

 

[BaconCheeseburger]

When people talk to me about planning for decades ahead I feel sick. Can barely take another day.

I have no idea how to tell my dad this so I just keep telling him I'll do it 'later'. I have no idea what else to say

 

[your pathologist]

Speaking of acting in a roundabout way to your family.

 

[sadsoul]

When people talk to me about planning for decades ahead I feel sick. Can barely take another day.

I always feel sick when people (especially my parents) ask me "what do you want to do after school". I always say "I don't know yet" but in my head I'm like "I don't wanna slave away my life, I wanna be dead". I just hope I will indeed be dead before I finish school because school is already a horrible hellhole and having a job will probably be even worse. I don't want to spend all my life working a meaningless, exhausting job which pays shitty and makes me feel even more suicidal. So yeah, fuck you society, I won't support and perpetuate you with my labour power.

 

[sadsoul]

 

[Lra888]

I always feel sick when people (especially my parents) ask me "what do you want to do after school". I always say "I don't know yet" but in my head I'm like "I don't wanna slave away my life, I wanna be dead". I just hope I will indeed be dead before I finish school because school is already a horrible hellhole and having a job will probably be even worse. I don't want to spend all my life working a meaningless, exhausting job which pays shitty and makes me feel even more suicidal. So yeah, fuck you society, I won't support and perpetuate you with my labour power.

I find it difficult to believe that anyone can truly be happy in that situation. Even seemingly super happy and healthy people - perhaps their brains are wired in such a way that they thrive on positive feedback from employers/society. They are happy as long as someone tells them "good job - that's the correct way to live". Maybe they don't have moments of deep self reflection. They can get life satisfaction from watching tv, Netflix etc to take mind off of everything.

 

[Lra888]

We're all told that "you must become useful" or you will suffer poverty and isolation. It's a threat. Even people who put themselves through the stress and financial strain of getting education/skills still must beg an employer for the ability to work for them. Look how many we'll educated people are unemployed - they did everything right still ended up in hell.

 

[Lra888]

Mentally ill people, people with chronic pain and health issues simply do not fit in that scheme. They can get public assistance and exist at bare minimum level, work very low wage part time jobs, or live in extreme poverty & will never have dignity of being seen as a success. They will always be looked down upon.

Many people simply cannot work 9 hrs of stress - commute hour + to and from job and manage their depression/anxiety/pain etc.

They tell people to get medication in order to be normal but we all know that meds usually lower awareness, make the mind foggy, and cause perpetual drowsiness.

 

[your pathologist]

Mentally ill people, people with chronic pain and health issues simply do not fit in that scheme. They can get public assistance and exist at bare minimum level, work very low wage part time jobs, or live in extreme poverty & will never have dignity of being seen as a success. They will always be looked down upon.

Many people simply cannot work 9 hrs of stress - commute hour + to and from job and manage their depression/anxiety/pain etc.

They tell people to get medication in order to be normal but we all know that meds usually lower awareness, make the mind foggy, and cause perpetual drowsiness.

As someone who is mentally ill, can't hold a job, suffers from permanent brain fog due to an ssri withdrawal syndrome that has lasted nearly 3 months now... and is being told their only way to recovery is more psychiatric drugs... i couldn't agree more...

 

[sadsoul]

They tell people to get medication in order to be normal

If being normal means being able to live without problems in this sick society, then I question how healthy being "normal" really is.

 

[Trashcan]

I don't see the point in spending most of my waking hours at work for the next several decades. Then by the time I'm done, I'll be old. And when I'm not at work, there will be bills to pay, errands to run, etc. And I'll be lucky to get one or two weeks off each year. If I don't enjoy life already, why would I enjoy doing all of this?

 

[sadsoul]

I don't see the point in spending most of my waking hours at work for the next several decades. Then by the time I'm done, I'll be old. And when I'm not at work, there will be bills to pay, errands to run, etc. And I'll be lucky to get one or two weeks off each year. If I don't enjoy life already, why would I enjoy doing all of this?

Look, if you don't enjoy taking part in modern society just go live in the woods. Maybe then you'll realize how b e a u t i f u l society is and how ungrateful you were
/s

 

[oldgray]

and there's no way out, try to explain this to normal people, even when they get it and agree with you they say "that's life", "try to find something you like", in the worst case they just assume you are lazy.
and they aren't completely wrong, that's life, you have to choose between work, homelessness or suicide.

 

[your pathologist]

Look, if you don't enjoy taking part in modern society just go live in the woods. Maybe then you'll realize how b e a u t i f u l society is and how ungrateful you were
/s

Personally, im dealing with the inability to sleep more than an hour at a time and memory loss along with other cognitive problems..
But if that were magically to go away...
I find something very satisfying about going to live in the woods, no bills, no debt, no job, no expectations... just
Oh thats right, i have chronic depression and cannot be satisfied by anything

 

[TheGoodGuy]

I always feel sick when people (especially my parents) ask me "what do you want to do after school". I always say "I don't know yet" but in my head I'm like "I don't wanna slave away my life, I wanna be dead". I just hope I will indeed be dead before I finish school because school is already a horrible hellhole and having a job will probably be even worse. I don't want to spend all my life working a meaningless, exhausting job which pays shitty and makes me feel even more suicidal. So yeah, fuck you society, I won't support and perpetuate you with my labour power.

I know right I have been asked that question over half a dozen times in the last couple of month and dropping out of school only made people ask more.

Many people simply cannot work 9 hrs of stress - commute hour + to and from job and manage their depression/anxiety/pain etc.

I don't see the point in spending most of my waking hours at work for the next several decades. Then by the time I'm done, I'll be old. And when I'm not at work, there will be bills to pay, errands to run, etc. And I'll be lucky to get one or two weeks off each year. If I don't enjoy life already, why would I enjoy doing all of this?

I have known for years that I would never want to work 8-10 hours a day 5 days a week for the next 40 years till retirement because that isn´t life. I have said this before but I will say it again.
When I was 18 I was an apprentice in a butchers shop for only 1½ month before I had a mental breakdown (went down hard with depression) I had depression since I was 14 but getting up at 5am every morning or earlier, turning in at work at 6am working 10 hours till it was 6pm I quickly realized within the first week that I have to do this every day 5 days a week for the next 40 years or I could get another mundane boring job to slave away so I could have my 2 days off in the weekend. When I worked as a butchers apprentice and only had those 2 days off in the weekend that didn´t even give me enough time to relax and regenerate the mental energy to go back to work that is why I went down HARD!

I also could workout back then before my back injury so I would come home to a prepared meal since I lived home back then and I would eat immediately when got in the door and got my shoes off after that straight to the gym to workout, go home take a shower, eat, go to bed and repeat I literally didn´t have as much as an hour a day to relax ONLY the 2 days off in the weekend so how in the hell can people do this shit and still be able to enjoy "life" when they only have 2 days of life a week and in those two days you wouldn´t even be able to relax properly.

As one of you said people might call us lazy so what if I am? I used to work 2½ years as a dishwasher 16-20 hours a week sometimes along with school when I was 16-18 but a full time job I don´t have any passion for? FUCK NO! A lot of people like what they do an take pride in it and have colleagues they are excited to see each day but I don´t fall into that category I just want to have money so I can live life and people will say "find something you like" Look I have been looking for that since I was 15 I am 24 now and there is nothing I have such a passion from that I can live off today.

So work 8-10 hours a day 5 days a week all year to have a few weeks off to regenerate the energy to do it all over again for 40 years nope not for me I´d rather be dead..

 

[Lra888]

and there's no way out, try to explain this to normal people, even when they get it and agree with you they say "that's life", "try to find something you like", in the worst case they just assume you are lazy.
and they aren't completely wrong, that's life, you have to choose between work, homelessness or suicide.

Exactly.

"It's just the way things are."

"Be positive"

"you're not in the right mindset"