Work hard for the rest of my life?

[worldexploder]

 

[oldgray]

Exactly.

"It's just the way things are."

"Be positive"

"you're not in the right mindset"

also i think the "find something you like to do and you'll never work a day in your life" mentality is kind of dangerous, i'm not saying it's not possible, but it could also result in making you hate what you enjoy.
i remember reading on reddit about someone who was a gamer, started to work in the industry and lost all of his passion towards videogames, no surprise: it's not only about what you like to do, there are deadlines, long work hours, underpayment, being forced to do stuff you don't like (both generally and artistically speaking), a lot of things to take into account.
when i was younger i liked to draw and wanted to make comics, then i read "bakuman" a manga about two young mangaka on their way to the top and, even if i'm not japanese and my pace of work would probably be less insane than their, even if the manga itself was super fictionalized, it was enough to make me say "what the fuck" and reconsider everything.
although, on second thoughts, maybe without all those doubts i would have made different choices, maybe i'd still like to draw today and maybe i would have something to keep me going, who knows.

 

[Trashcan]

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.


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..

Agreed! I also know in order to make a living I'll have to go to college. I'm so far behind I have no idea what to do. Well, I do have an idea, but I'm very stressed about the courses that I have to take. Just thinking about it is enough to make me want to ctb.

 

[Idorus]

Every post deserves 10 likes here PLUS to be pinned at the top!!!

 

[Tragoedia Vitae]

Yes, I agree! Every step I take in my life is a source of incalculable anxiety and misery. For that reason I have come to prefer stasis to progress, but at the same time I find myself growing unhappy with the inertia, monotony, and repetitiveness of life. For all that, I know perfectly well that any significant progress in my life would severely tax my extremely limited mental and emotional resources. At this point in my life, I have absolutely no interest in being my own rock (quite contrary to the rhetoric of self-reliance so vigorously preached in American society), simply because I lack the capability. For that reason, I don't see myself accomplishing much of anything. And if I do accomplish something, it will have been dearly bought. I don't think I will ever be able to justify my existence. Consequently, working in order to live seems rather pointless.

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

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

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

All the studying in the world won't make me smart … shit jobs til I die. :(

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

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Making these memes is oddly satisfying

AWESOME !!! :)

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

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.

There isn't anything I like. :(
Other than the sweet release that death will bring :)

 

[Severen]

It's either that or become homeless. Both options equally suck. Better to just die unless you are lucky enough to get yourself a decent job.

 

[Severen]

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You fucking rock for making this meme.

 

[Threads]

You have to build to what you want.

 

[littlelungs]

"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!?

PREACH!

 

[creationisdeath]

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.

This makes me happy somehow. Good doggo.

 

[sadak_the_wanderer]

I'm reminded of Con Air and Garland Greene: "What if I told you insane was working a fifty-hour week for fifty years, at the end of which they tell you to piss off, ending up in some retirement village, hoping to die rather than suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time. Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?"