Anyone just tired of going to work, there is nothing wrong with the job, I just don't feel like going.

I was in your shoes (everyone is.) Work is meaningless. I don't believe anyone who says they are fulfilled by it.

I paid of the little debt I had, reduced my living expenses to under $1000 a month, and started making mandolins for a living. I have a shed I turned into a workshop, and started carving. Now, if I sell one every couple months, I'm making a living. That requires about ten hours of "work" a month.

There is a way out. The underlying theme is reducing your spending. Remember, the only reason you have a job is to make money to spend. Stop spending and you don't need to work.

Devil Dog wrote:

I paid of the little debt I had, reduced my living expenses to under $1000 a month, and started making mandolins for a living.

Got a couple questions for you:

- Does your beard ever get in the way when you're working over those mandolins?

- Do you live in a flat area? I'm guessing riding your fixie on hilly terrain would be very, very hard.

Balding Eagle wrote:

Devil Dog wrote:

I paid of the little debt I had, reduced my living expenses to under $1000 a month, and started making mandolins for a living.

Got a couple questions for you:

- Does your beard ever get in the way when you're working over those mandolins?

- Do you live in a flat area? I'm guessing riding your fixie on hilly terrain would be very, very hard.

My beard is pretty well trimmed. Gets too itchy when its long.

I live in Flagstaff. Moderately mountainous. No problem pedaling my fixie around. I'm not your typical, soft, obese, middle manager with Stockholm syndrome.

I like what you're doing but where in flag are you living that cheap?

Pursue early retirement. Or leave so frugally that you don't need to work full time.

TAA wrote:

Pursue early retirement. Or live so frugally that you don't need to work full time.

Devil Dog wrote:

I was in your shoes (everyone is.) Work is meaningless. I don't believe anyone who says they are fulfilled by it.

I paid of the little debt I had, reduced my living expenses to under $1000 a month, and started making mandolins for a living. I have a shed I turned into a workshop, and started carving. Now, if I sell one every couple months, I'm making a living. That requires about ten hours of "work" a month.

There is a way out. The underlying theme is reducing your spending. Remember, the only reason you have a job is to make money to spend. Stop spending and you don't need to work.

you just don't get it.

The entire point of life is to show up work ON-TIME.

Everyday.

Forever.

How else you going to afford a $200,000 a year nursing home?

just tired of it wrote: But the idea of doing this forever seems depressing.

anyone can find a job. a job is easy. the really hard thing is to find someone who will pay for doing something worth devoting your life to.

very few people achieve that.

which is why we run.

running gives my life purpose and structure and meaning and joy.

a few days ago the quote of the day was from a lady, Dina Asher-Smith, who gave thanks that the biggest stress in her life was figuring how to run fast in a straight line. when I run, I think about all those people who can't run. amputee war veterans, handicapped people, folks with mental issues, people whose job is caring for others, and like Dina Asher-Smith I give thanks that I am not one of them and that the biggest stress in my life is figuring out whether or not my treadmill is correctly calibrated.

when I run I think about people who serve others, intensive care nurses, traffic safety police, firefighters and coastguard crews and I give thanks to them for doing that 24-hours per day so that I can have the peace, the time and the freedom to run wherever and whenever I want and know that if anything happens they will look after me.

maybe you could try being a little bit more grateful for the things you have, and that might just distract you from how depressing your job is.

Cheers.

No eye candy? No-one to flirt with? You will just have to resort to daydreaming. Getting paid to daydream is really the ideal job.

This isn’t not meant to be the traditional teacher bashing....if you became a teacher you could pursue your personal ambitions 3 months/year.

I picked up a Canadian hitchhiker and he told me his employer has a program where you get every 5th year off. They trim your paycheck 20% so that you get paid that 5th year, and they promise you your job back.

I think you should pursue some type of arrangement like this, so there is always light at the end of a short tunnel.

The less you spend, the more off time you can likely have.

It’s weird when you go from school to work, because school has all these steps/breaks/ending points/starting points...with work it is kind of like you just do this forever and that’s it.

just tired of it wrote:

My coworkers are decent nice people, the work is not boring but not too hard either, I do well at it but I when I wake up in the morning and I just don't feel like going. Sometimes when I am at work its really not as bad as I think it would be. I don't work weekends, but I start hating Sunday evenings because I am dreading Monday.

Its a secure decent paying job so I won't leave it. Besides, what if it wasn't the job, it was just me. There is no other job that I dream of doing so no reason to leave it.

But the idea of doing this forever seems depressing.

Be grateful

Be thankful

John 3:16

Romans 10:9

You could have a dirty job

Then what?

Spoiled brat

Learn from Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs

Oh you hate going to work? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that called EVERYONE. We meet nightly at the bar.

Drew McCarey wrote:

Oh you hate going to work? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that called EVERYONE. We meet nightly at the bar.

There is an entire class of people that doesn't have to work, you know that right?

I have been to the inner city before and it isn't a happy place.

My brother lives on a net income of about $800 month. He lives in a suburb of St. Louis. He has no heat. hot water, credit card, car, TV or health insurance. He is in excellent shape.

ck3237 wrote:

My brother lives on a net income of about $800 month. He lives in a suburb of St. Louis. He has no heat. hot water, credit card, car, TV or health insurance. He is in excellent shape.

Under the Obama regime he was turned into a criminal. MMAGA!!!

My job's been pretty stressful lately as my boss is about to get canned and his slacking is bound to make look bad also. Haven't really enjoyed working for a couple of years anyway, because I'm overworked and underpaid. Today in a meeting I caught myself staring at my coworkers and wondering what the hell I'm doing here with these people. Most of them are boring twats and couple of them are donkeyholes mixed with these passive aggressive lowlifes. I'm a year shy of 20 years on the job so I've been thinking to hang on a year love, but after today I'm not so sure I can do that.

Typical millennial statement.

I want to show to work when I feel like it, work for ten minutes, the go home for a week.

I want to make $80K per year with a company car, gas credit cards, an expanse account I am not responsible to maintain records of anything (sky's the limit) Mycompany pays for my apartment. I don't want to be held responsible for anything and I want an all expense pain vacation to go anywhere I want to, when I want to, for as long as I want to. Yep I am a millennial which is why I ask...

Anyone just tired of going to work, there is nothing wrong with the job, I just don't feel like going.

Lets see how long the planet last with my attitude.

Why can't this person fantasize about not going to work? You obviously fantasized about not going to school, and then followed through with that fantasy.