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Didn't you see the part about there being white men in the office? Imagine the horror!

Marx's theory of alienation explains this phenomenon. Humans are not built to find satisfaction in mere "stable and high-paying" jobs. What we derive satisfaction from is having a visceral connection to the fruits of our labor. This is deprived from us in typical office job.

A typical office worker's job is so abstracted and disconnected from the end result that his lizard brain does not understand what it is he is accomplishing. He will never use the products that he helps make or sell. Maybe he will not even see or touch it, or maybe the product is so intangible that it can't be seen or touched by anyone. He did not even decide what those products are or what he can contribute to it, such decision are made for him by the higher-ups.

People were evolved to hunt game and then be directly rewarded with the meat. Even as recently as the middle ages most jobs involved physically doing something that produced some tangible result. But after the industrial revolution, that became a rarity.

It's not rational that we feel this way. Evolutionary speaking there is no problem, it's easier than ever before to ensure one's survival. But the environment changed so quickly that evolution hasn't caught on. We are not programmed to feel like that the optimal strategy is actually the optimal strategy, and so we are doomed to either devolve society back into something far from optimal, or suffer.

Life kind of does pass you by when you get into a routine like this where there's no fulfillment. the quality of your life will not increase whether you made $250k, or $300k. i want to do the 1 year travel type thing too, but i think it's some kind of escapism or grass is greener mentality, but it might be a good reset and perspective shift. personally, i don't think i can ever derive satisfaction out of a job, even if it was some high-profile executive career. i think creating my own successful business is truly the only way to achieve satisfaction in earning money.

and need a ladyboy.

Don't we all?

I have the same idea. Currently I'm looking for jobs that will be 100% remote in my field so I can fuck off to a different country. I don't even care about the pay anymore.

Coincidentally, I am going to Thailand in a couple of months. But I'm not gay and I don't fuck with ladyboys.
Thankfully I'll have enough cash to take care of my home expenses and live in another country for up to 18 months. But a remote job that I can do 2 or 3 times a week would be ideal. That's not really feasible in my line of work though.

I just want to be a blacksmith making the finest swords

There is no "evolution" in being able to accept this bullshit as long as humans are creative and able to think.

I’d be excited to make 50k in current year

I rewatched it recently and was fucking jealous honestly because I keep getting fired and replaced with Indians.

literally me since like 2019 I'm honestly impressed I'm still alive with how many jobs I've churned through already

Zoomers have this fantasy of office work but they don’t understand the hell it is. You lose years of your youth so quickly, doing the same thing every single day. It’s only because it’s so hard for zoomers to get an office job that they create this fantasy

Currently I'm looking for jobs that will be 100% remote in my field so I can fuck off to a different country

That's a good idea. you can at least take care of some expenses, and/or allow you to travel more luxuriously abroad.

Yeah. When we found out our whole lives were about preparing and training us for thinly veiled slavery in one form or other most of us weren’t thrilled. Offshoring and efficiency experts were already making work life pretty shitty by then. Inflation began to steal from us very quickly post 9/11 & Dotcom without raises or promotions to compensate as Boomers still won’t step aside even today and they are the only ones with money to fight a “unfair” dismissal/forced retirement. The Boomers are a fucking plague.

All wagie life is hell, but it's worse now because the barrier to entries are higher (super competition) and pay doesn't go as far.

You'll know if you ever get stuck at this kind of job. It's like getting paid to sit still in a room and stare at a wall. Sure, it's better than shoveling tar in 110 degree heat. Most things are. But there's an axis of success called "job satisfaction" and if that's zero for you, a bigher number in the bank account doesn't mean much.

t. happier in a blue collar trade than I ever was working as a pencil pusher in a cubicle

Millennial here and I feel this way often and have to remind myself to stop giving a fuck and just do my best without over working myself. Let stuff fall. Don't get everything done. Who cares. Explain reasonable excuses. Be a yes man. Be nice to people. It will all be ok

Colleagues are passive aggressive douches, management are sociopaths and egomaniacs

Don't even get me started on female bosses. Imagine going into work every day and taking orders from someone who confuses sass with job competence, spends most of her work day browsing Amazon, and whines about how she is "exhausted" when asked to do basic job functions

Too many people are going to these countries which is ruining the appeal. USA will be third world soon enough

at first I was complaining about gen z for quitting all jobs, until I understood that most jobs nowadays are shit and pay shit, some have to use things like $rocky or put almost all their salary in crypto to survive, but gen x was much luckier and still did nothing

Gen-X here. I literally burnt out at a stable high-paying remote job.
At least, your generation will be put out to pasture by AI before you have a chance to burn out. You don't know how good you have it.

oh god I need to sit indoors and type at a computer :(((( what a grand tragedy, I feel my youth and vigor slipping away

in his free time? Indoors typing at the computer

Shut the fuck up actually

USA will be third world soon enough

In two weeks?

Cant you read a book or do side hustle in the meantime?

It really was like that.
All through the 90s, "popular culture" was all about rebelling against the stable, happy suburban life.
It kind of culminated in shit like American Beauty; the narrative was that suburban family life always had some kind of dark undercurrent and was actually le bad.

do side hustle in the meantime

This is exactly what I did, and the side hustle ended up making enough for me to quit. The scariest part is how fast time passes. I learned everything there was to know about the job in 6 months, then I blinked and 3 years had passed

I think it's some form of hypnosis where if you're not doing anything new or challenging, your brain falls into a rhythm. I think that's how people wake up one day and they're 70. And life has passed them by

has a city centre apartment he's bored spending money on

gets to fly all the time with work

job is so brainless he can manage it despite permanent insomnia and injuries

HELP ME MY MANAGER IS WEARING THE YELLOW TIE

Woah... le bad?

fuckin' a

Newfrens who don't know his job is covering up the company's many crimes based on a death-spreadsheet, and this is what's soul destroying about it.

Yea it do be like that.

Gen x is cancer. Worse than boomers