How is everyone with a 40 hour per week office job not depressed as fuk?

[MiscterHands]

try asking if you can shift your hours to coming in earlier and leaving earlier. I get to work early and leave around 3:30, feels so much different than when I was working 8-5p

[RS8]

40 hours work week ain't nothin but a peanut

-otto von bismarck

[Codo]

PRO TIP

If it wasn't for JOBS with 3-4 weeks of vacation time a year,

We would all be running around the woods 24 hours/day 7 days/week trying to find 1 f*cking berry to make it 1 more day through the sh*tty life we had.

[HollywoodBody]

agreed OP.

I remember those first few weeks after college graduation when you're in your first office job. Each day feels so long and miserable. But slowly you get used to it. 1week or 2week vacations are never enough to completely decompress, you're always in that grind until you're 60+ if you follow the ratrace lifestyle. It's absurd to not take breaks, travel, try starting your own consulting business, whatever.

I've found that the end of 2 weeks off is when you just START to find your groove and be comfortable not working 9-5 (if you've been doing it for a few years). And that's exactly when even the longest vacations usually end! So you're right back in it.

I think if you quit your 9-5 you'd actualy be depressed 1-2 weeks, feeling empty. Did you make a mistake? etc But after that 2 week period you'd get into your groove and realize life is amazing and there's so much time in each and every day! We wake up super early, go sit under flourescent lights, the sun crosses the sky and sets, and then we leave barely in time for dinner.

Crazy if you ask me.

[Nicklol]

try to get a job less than 30 mins away from your home, doing something that u like (not night shifts because that sucks)

and it cant be that bad... work very hard for like 10 years and then u can be in a good position

[Fist-Of-Freedom]

If I had a 40 hour per week job paying good money man that will be heaven seriously.

It would be like

BRB 22 years old
BRB making $50,000 a year
BRB saving 75% of that
BRB can buy a house and live comfortable in my 30s.
BRB can take vacations
BRB can eat what I want

Only a dream son. btw 50k is A LOT for a single man with no kids.

50K after taxes, yes.

[juicebrah92]

drugs breh lots and lots of drucks

[ZenBowman]

Most of them are OP, most of them are.

We need to face the reality that modern civilization is designed for domesticated animals, not free human beings.

[yabbayabba]

Working 40 hours a week is nothing if it is a job you like. I have zero problem going to work, hitting the gym, messing around at home, and doing things with friends. I feel bad for the people that have 30+ minute commutes to work. Commute time is hours a week you are throwing away for nothing.

[MURedHawk235]

50K after taxes, yes.

My wife made this out of college (this was ~4 years ago). However she busted her ass in college and had two different summer internships. She had tons of experience and could easily apply for jobs that other people graduating couldn't get. She is currently bringing in over 72 after tax

[Kabamaro]

Work a job I like or live on welfare crew

already depressed without work can't imagine how I'm going to feel with a boring 9-5 job

[phillyfreak7]

Build passive income = never work a job again.

If you're working for someone else you won't ever live life on your own terms.

[AlleyBoy]

Lol, thats nothing bro.

brb up at 4
brb back at 2-6 if that
brb ******* oriented environment
brb short notice but hey you are going far away for a little while
brb this place can kill you or this place can be ****ing awesome idunnolol, pak ur chit
brb 6 on 1 off 12 (14)hr shifts, on call afterwards
brb techincally you are on the job 24/7 365/yr

srs tho... it really isn't that bad lol

[Tune5k]

im getting up at 9am tomorrow and if i decide to work i will and will probably stop working around 3 and if i don't then i wont

[coldcasefiles]

I work in a brewery. I love my job!

[4SetsOfKegels]

8 hours of work is not bad. Mark cuban noted in his book he would work 16+hr days plus time on the weekend on his computer business. I think its important though to do work your naturally more inclined to. Not necessarily enjoy, but something you know that the more work you put in the more it benefits you. Lot of these office gigs are about managing paper work and customer service, versus engineering where you are actually doing tangible work.

[antiwhitekn1ght]

fuk this gay earth

[zeronotyethero]

Say you sleep 8 hours/day, work 8/hours a day, and that leaves you at least 5-6 hours to do whatever you want (the other 2-3 hours may be spent showering, driving, or other stupid stuff so not gonna count that).

I don't see what the big deal is.

Plus you have Saturday and Sunday off ALL day.

I know people who work 60+ hours a week. Just be happy you don't have to live through that.

[userofpeace1111]

8 hours of work is not bad. Mark cuban noted in his book he would work 16+hr days plus time on the weekend on his computer business. I think its important though to do work your naturally more inclined to. Not necessarily enjoy, but something you know that the more work you put in the more it benefits you. Lot of these office gigs are about managing paper work and customer service, versus engineering where you are actually doing tangible work.

Working 16 hour days on a regular basis, 5+ days a week (80+ hours) is absurd. That's no way to live life.

[imaginindatlife]

lol @ all the *******s in here bragging/proud about how much time they put in at work to earn money for someone else.

[FullSack]

PRO TIP

If it wasn't for JOBS with 3-4 weeks of vacation time a year,

We would all be running around the woods 24 hours/day 7 days/week trying to find 1 f*cking berry to make it 1 more day through the sh*tty life we had.

ever heard of growing/building shiit?

[wgoodman]

Professionally licensed geologist in Florida, Michigan, and Virginia. M.S. in Sedimentology.

Go fist yourself pony boy. 40 hours a week isn't going to impinge upon your personal life, unless you think that the world owes you a debt and you are special kind of *******. I put in 60+ hours a week the first few years, and I most likely make much more than you do or ever will.

News flash. I, nor any one else gives a flying **** what it is you do to "earn a living" and earn fake notes of paper which run your life. It's who you are that matters, not what job you do to earn fake money. Your goals should be focused on personal growth and helping other people out in need, not materialism. Just because your bank account is growing, it doesn't mean you are. Congratulations on being completely ENSLAVED to digits on your bank account and pieces of paper in your pocket.

[rootcon]

40hrs isn't bad. My uncle is a dairy farmer

-Gets up at 3:00am for milking
-45min break at 9:00 for breakfast
-45min break at 11 for lunch
-Done for the day at 6:30pm (longer days when haying)

* Milking is indoors but rest of the time he's outside shoveling spoiled hay or other jobs. Feel bad for him when its 20mph winds and -10F

Works 7 days a week, takes 2 days off per month (another farmer takes over for him). Does take Sat/Sunday off from regular duties and just does milkings, so only 8 hour work days on sat/sun.

None of you should be complaining

[Rambo26]

not really

brb wake up 8:30 and get to work for 9:00...finish 17:30

lots of time in evening for lifting etc

[BrocepCurls]

plot twist: most of em are

[joem1cha3l]

work 45 hours a week (7-5) M-F. Get up at 4 AM for Gym, get home from gym and shower to be out the door at 7. I work on the road.

if a 40 hour work week is your excuse not to exercise, lift or enjoy life.....you lazy bruh.

[sam903]

I just finished an internship working 40 hour weeks with 1 hour travel time each way and it was awesome. There is not much to do at home apart from gym and maybe one hour tv show a day.

[Issobolic28]

lol @ all the *******s in here bragging/proud about how much time they put in at work to earn money for someone else.

Owning a business is harder than it kooks; and if you deal with clients you have to always please them to keep your business afloat; so who exactly is the boss?

And with your business, you're always working.

[scullin]

I wake up at 5AM, at work at 6:30, work till 5PM.

I still have time for everything.

^this and I have about 1 to 1.5 hour commute each way

[BustaCapp]

BRB barely any time for hobbies/chores/exercise during the week
BRB tired all the ****ing time
BRB waking up at 6:30, work at 7:30
BRB BRB BRB

It's like life's trolling us. You started out getting coddled and cared for and then school's not that bad. Only 6-7 hours/day plus loads of vacation time. College is even less time in class and more vacation time. Then you graduate and have to find a **** job for **** pay and you have to work your ass off with 4 weeks off per year if you're lucky.

Fuk this ghey earth.

I'm gettin paid to reply to this thread.