Posted on 02/03/2024 4:29:04 AM PST by gattaca
TikTok video of a young woman complaining about having to work 40 hours a week went mega-viral with millions of views on social media.
The woman, who says her name is Eliza, posts under the moniker "SupposedlyASystem," and she says that it is impossible to enjoy life while working 40 hours in order to pay the rent.
"How do people manage to enjoy life while working full time?" she wrote on the video.
"So, I work 40 hours a week so I can have a two-bedroom apartment and an extra $300 a month," she says.
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“How do people manage to enjoy life while working full time?”
Do not answer a fool according to their folly. Enjoyment of life, IMO, is found in purpose and meaning... not in luxuriating.
I work 40-70 hrs per week depending on the time of year. Then I come home and do all the other work necessary to support my wife and 6 kids and property. I never watch TV but enjoy banging on the piano in downtime. It’s nothing but work, in one sense, but nothing but meaningful purpose in another.
Find the heaviest load you can bear and pull it.
The problem with moving today is if you go to a cheaper apartment or house, you may end up with really really undesirable neighbors who could make your life hell.
I understand how she can be so tired if she is working ‘down at the docks’.
Really! The pliers. They were cheaper than remote batteries, though. Every dad had one or more.
Some(not all) of that experience can be explained if you understood how unsatisfying that persons experiences were during his/her working days. In some cases it may have become physically impossible to continue at the job they were were working. Sometimes it may help if you can develop a liking for daytime TV & maybe saving a little money as an ongoing life experience.
In 10 years, my months living went from 2K to 3K and that’s the basics. Home insurance went up a thousand in a year. Everything has risen.
Then there was that one weird kid in the class who watched a 4th channel, but that’s because his parents were pinkos
I have absolutely no quarrel with people who want to strike a different work-life balance.
As long as they own their own choices and don’t expect someone else to subsidize them.
If such people pay their own bills, are good neighbors, and don’t whine about other people’s choices, we’ll get along fine. In my own life, I’ve had a couple of chances to grab at a fast track job ... and turned them down for stage of life and family commitment reasons. At some point I realized that I don’t want 70 hour weeks, constant travel, 24/7 availability, constant stress, high risk, and the subordination of everything to racing around the rat track. The title and pay boost aren’t worth it. To me. YMMV. And I won’t criticize people who step off the rat track at some earlier point. The hippy-dippy, crunchy granola type who wants to run an organic bakery in some tiny rural town? I’m glad they’re there. In my limited experience, they’re generally good neighbors and competent small businessmen. Each to his own.
But in my experience, these people reject the very idea of envying other people’s choices. They know the tradeoffs they’ve made and they’re happy with them.
Poor Gen Zero. They seem to think the world owes them a living. Maybe we should start a go fund me to give them all enugh $$$ so they only have to work a few hours four days a week at an annual salary of $200k a year .... Bwhahahahahaha
That is what my former mother in law said. Not me. I don’t consider going to the grocery store being busy.
I wasn’t speaking of myself. I’m generalizing what the new generations have to look forward to. My industry allows for a good income and hard work allows me to earn a good wage. As a business owner I do work in excess of 40 hours a week. I refuse to struggle although I do have reduced income currently due to circumstances I created. That’ll be eliminated in July so I’m not worried.
-PJ
"Like I get off work at 5:30, come home, I'm just so tired.
…and then I'm like, I'm too tired to do this after work…
At a certain point in the evening, you were counting the feathers on the war bonnet of the test pattern Indian.
Or during medieval times.
Well said.
Thanks.
The national anthem that preceded the test pattern Indian had subliminal messages—see for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14rvQy3_KG0
Start at the two minute mark to skip the intro.
Keep voting Dem and you won’t be able to afford the apartment.
You sound miserable and you want others to be miserable.
The American Dream…
Meanwhile a banker is pulling $500K for lending money he did nothing to earn at 15%.
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