As long as I was doing something I enjoyed I wouldn't mind.

 

That's probably part of the issue

 

anyone who says "you dont wanna work..your lazy" is full of s**t.people only go to work for money if they were not getting paid they wouldnt go and if they could find a way to get paid by sitting around they would also.

 

amen

 

You have to find something you like to do. I have realized that going for money is stupid
when picking a major. Just like you, I think it's really hard to finish something I don't really enjoy that much (I am halfway my studies though so I am just going to finish it).

I wouldn't mind working If I could be Indiana Jones all day long

Sometimes I am annoyed at myself for not liking jobs that pay well. I should have been interested in being lawyer, broker, whatever pays well.

 

Nobody likes working unless they like their job and that's basically the bottom line. The only way you can improve your situation is to win the lottery or find something you want to do, find a way to do it and then go do it. I'd suggest attempting the latter.

 

Of course it sucks but if people didn't work society couldn't function. Just find a job that pays well and enjoy you time off
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I think in this time, you should pick what you like. Be creative about it and it can earn you extra money.

Youtube is a perfect place for extra income for example, if you know your thing well.

 

Finding a career that you enjoy is extremely difficult, especially if you have no idea what you want to do with your life. I'm in a similar situation, I don't necessarily hate my job but I know it's not what I want to do for a living. Yet I have absolutely no idea what I really want to do, and I'll end up being stuck in this same job for far too long.

At the end of the day getting paid for a job you hate is better than being unemployed.

 

Logically I know you're right. I'm being loaded with extra shifts and I'm physically in pain right now, I can't refuse as we are understaffed.
Manager rang earlier and told me I'm doing all day tomorrow.

 

Then quit. Why waste your life working if you hate it? There are ways to get by without having a job.

 

I've DETESTED every job i've ever had.
I wake up and the ONLY thing going through my mind after I clock in is ''Hurry up time! I want to go home!!!''
If I could take a pill that turns me into a robot for the working weekdays (so i'm at work but have no awareness or memory of it) and I was only 'alive' on the weekends, i'd swallow it in a second.

I told my dad this once, and he said that it made him upset to hear that, lol.

I kind of feel like i'm not 'meant' to work. The whole concept seems crazy, bearing in mind we only get ONE short life, and we spend a huge percentage of it at work, doing something we don't enjoy, at a place we don't want to be, making someone else rich.

There's a TINY percentage of people who are lucky enough to earn loads of money and enjoy their job.
For example, I have a friend who plays football for a premier league club! His whole life it one big dream. He makes 2 million pounds per year to play football!! I actually SPEND money to play football for fun!

 

You have a celebrity friend? Nice,maybe you should see if you could work for him,do all his chores...

 

Well most people that work feel the same way to a degree. Most people don't really enjoy working or their job in general but they don't flat out hate it either. Most jobs have aspects that people enjoy- like their co-workers, a certain part of the job, etc.- but also a few parts they dislike. Its a balance.

It is when the parts they dislike add up to them hating the job- or some other reason- that they quit and move on to something else.

 

Yeah, cept usually when people like something about their job it's their friends at work. SA losers like us are the awkward friendless quiet weirdo at work.

 

I don't mind working, I just hate having social anxiety and working.

 

This is my exact problem... If I had a job where I didn't have to deal with people, I feel like I would feel content coming to work. But we live in an extroverted society... it's almost impossible to find such a job.

 

I don't really require much to live.

I don't travel, I hardly spend money, I am usually entertained with just a computer and an internet connection, I eat cheap food, etc...

I wish I was motivated by money but I'm not.

 

if you make friends with your coworkers it can actually be pretty fun. i know, easier said than done though, it took me months
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Be prepared for people to tell you that you are the lazy and entitled embodiment of the millennial generation; but the fact is neither you nor I asked to be born and have these arbitrary expectations thrust on us.

 

Yussss, preach it!

 

Okay, I'll admit it.

I absolutely hate working for a living, I hate everything about it.
I have disliked all paid employment that I have done, my managers have all sucked and I would rather be anywhere else.

I know it's irresponsible, yes I' am lucky that I have work and money that i've earned but I can't help this feeling. I will continue to work
to pay bills and whatnot, but I really hate it.

I feel so frustrated, my family constantly make snide remarks when I complain about work "you don't even want to work, you want to live a life of leisure" and to be fair I don't want to work.

Urgh, I'm not sure of where I want my life to go. I do the bare minimum in my job at the moment, I constantly pick fights with management and I'm beyond caring if I'm fired.

Anyone else feel this way? I feel like a freaky, selfish child who does nothing but whine.

70% dont lkke their jobs. develop skills you enjoy that employers will pay for and u will love work

 

Makes me wish I could win the lottery and move out into the woods somewhere, possibly as far away from human civilization as possible while still being able to fulfill simply necessities.

 

If i have to have a dream this is it,

living out in the backwoods, i would still like an internet connection, t.v, radio ect, all those comforts but at the same time, it would be awesome having acres of land you can do whatever you want with

imagine all the possibilities, i would like to grow my own fruit and veggies but i wouldn't go over board with it, because i don't want to be a full blown farmer, but a small handable amount would be sweet, a decent size garden, a cow or two for milk, a few other pets, that would be dope,

i'd love it,

 

Don't we all.

Unless you're sitting on savings to burn, or have won the lottery, the grind is the only 3rd option to make sure bills are paid & prevent homelessness

 

I completely agree. Work should be a choice because not everyone has the 'work persona'. What I mean is, if I don't want to work then I be able to collect some kind of government subsidy to help me get by until I decide to work again. I feel like work is a place for extroverts to talk about how 'interesting' their lives are...it's so boring and the people are fake

 

I completely agree. Work should be a choice because not everyone has the 'work persona'. What I mean is, if I don't want to work then I be able to collect some kind of government subsidy to help me get by until I decide to work again. I feel like work is a place for extroverts to talk about how 'interesting' their lives are...it's so boring and the people are fake

What would happen if there were more people not working than working?
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I agree work sucks but lets remember one person's right is another's responsibility. If you have a right to quality healthcare someone has to work hard to provide that. Same thing with food and shelter. Life without the creature comforts we have today would suck royally and people have to work to provide them.

 

I don't think I could ever really make my passion my job. I tried it when I started my home business, but after growing it a bit I didn't enjoy my passion as much. It was getting warped as a matter of work instead of a matter of interest.

Now I only have my home business as a small nights/weekends thing, and a regular day job to live on. I'm the type of person who gains satisfaction from a job well done, so in that sense I like to work and knock out projects. It's the social aspect that often holds me back.

 

I want to win the lottery so bad.... So I could never work another day in my life.

 

I hate it too. Having to go to the same dreary place every day to do the same monotonous thing all day long, and too bad if there are people there who get on your nerves, because you're stuck having to put up with them for 40 hours every week whether you like it or not. Work just feels like a punishment for being alive, which I may have been more willing to accept had I actually asked to be born.

 

I also hate having to work . I don't winge or any thing I just do my job and no more and no less .

 

If people had the choice not to work then few would and then where is the government going to get the money from to pay for people to live? No one is paying taxes anymore. Who would then be the first to complain about there not being any services available to cater their lifestyle?

Basically, the way the world functions is how it has to function, this is natural progression.

 

I've been working for more than 14 years now. I can truthfully say that I've loathed it for at least 10 of those years.

To me, working is little more than what I'd consider to be an 'Open Prison' environment. You have to be at a certain place and stay there for a fixed period of time whether you want to or not. Disobey and face the consequences…

If you work a regular Monday to Friday job as I do - you spend 5/7ths of your life working. The other 2/7ths in my case is largely spent asleep - recovering from a grueling and stressful week. Therefore I don't think me referring to it as an 'Open Prison' is being too unfair.

The concept of work doesn't actually bother me. It gives me something to do with my life, even if it's menial and unimportant. The problem I have, as always, is mixing and dealing with people of whom don't like me. If there was a job out there in which I didn't have to deal with people, I think I'd be reasonably content.

As my mother says though "Life's a bi**h and then you die" and "What's the alternative?". Indeed, life isn't far - especially given the last 40/50-odd years of our family's history. It's just been an endless sea of bad luck and poor fortune. The alternative to working? Not working and basically being made homeless due to unpaid bills within a few months.

Sadly, if you don't win the lottery, there is no alternative. There was a time, not that long ago, when you worked to live. Thanks to the recession, you're not expected to live to work. We're now merely robots that are expected to continue on, living largely a life we don't want to lead, for longer (due to rising retirement ages), for less reward at the end of it all…

One goal I have in my life is to basically save up as much as I can so I can perhaps retire early - or retire at a more sensible retirement age, rather… I would rather sacrifice a social life as I do now, so I can take myself out of the workplace environment sooner and become self-sufficient with the savings I have until the state pension becomes applicable for me.

 

What a well thought out answer! I wrote the original post out of tiredness and irritation, I do agree that work is necessary although not generally enjoyable.

 

I am the quiet weirdo at work.