drug tests, background checks, points for clocking in late, ■■■■ pay, why do people put up with it. if it’s a free country they can go ■■■■ themselves. i want to work for myself and turn my place into a homestead. dreading going back to work. i absolutely hate them, being employed isn’t noble in any way.
If you have the entrepreneurial bug, you still need startup capital. Like mid 5 figures at least.
I like money. I need to keep my lifestyle and pay my bills and have money left over for entertainment and small luxuries. To have these things I’ll put up with occasional bulls*it and work jobs I don’t like. This is my rational for going to work. Besides, this may sound impossible or rare but the company I work for is a nice company. Really. They hire the disabled and veterans and bend over backwards to accommodate us. They put up with some of the crap my co-workers pull. And me too sometimes. I had attendance problems and tardiness problems other employers I’ve worked for in the past would have just fired me. But they discussed it with me and changed my hours to make it easier to get there on time. Anyways, believe me, it’s a nice company.
Anyways, I’ve gone through the arguments with other posters about how work should be abolished, what a stupid institution it is, etc. Yawn, I got sucked into the other guys ridiculous opinions on work. He had me going there for a minute. He laid out an argument that he thought was the definitive proof that work was a big waste of time, no one should ever do it, that no one in history should ever have worked etc. That his opinion was the only right one and that the billions and billions of people in all of history who have ever worked were wrong and that he was right.
I ain’t talking about you @Lifer, I already stated my rational for working and that’s how I justify working. Work, can be noble though. I’ve had bosses I’ve hated before, I’ve had employers who I liked such as my current one, and I’ve had employers I was ambivalent about. Nothing wrong with being self-employed if that’s what you want and you can do it. Lots of people start their own businesses for the exact same reasons you laid out.
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One of my biggest problems with working is I can’t stand to be around most people and they can’t stand to be around me.
I don’t think it’s ok for people to talk down at me.
A few people where I volunteer talk down at me or give off bad vibes and I avoid them.
I love volunteering with three people I volunteered with this week.
I love them.
I love the girls at another volunteer job I have too.
It’s so great that I love them and enjoy working with them and that they are nice to me and don’t talk down at me or boss me about.cant stand that.my body starts to react.
It is too much stress for me to work so my disability pension is one of the best things to ever happen to me.
It’s better for my stability and mental health that I be on the pension.
I liked working sometimes but I couldn’t stand it when people bossed me about and talked down at me and it depends on who you work with.
I can’t stand being in same room as many people let alone work with them.lol
There are jobs I would perhaps want to do and enjoy doing.
I think comedy would be fun but I don’t think I can be funny as such it might become shy.
There are a few other jobs that could be fun.
A guy on YouTube has Patreon’s and they pay a certain amount of money for every video he uploads or there are similar things they pay once a month.
He has one fan that gives him $400 for one video.
He can be independent just by having one single fan.
He is very educated though and interesting.
I enjoyed working at a cafe sometimes depending on who with.
I enjoyed being a steri nurse and I e enjoyed a few other jobs too.
But I feel I have special needs and I should have a special agent not a employment agency but a single professional agent who understands my wants and needs and strengths and who could make good pay deal for me to because maybe he she can get percentages or a good deal from it themselves.
This professional could find job I want to do and would do good and even get paid well and I just say yes or no .
I feel if I had a agent that knew how to handle me without supressing me or putting me down but empowering me to be my best and helping me get great work that I enjoy even that it could work.
My agent would have to make sure that who ever I work with and for are compatible with me.
I want a special agent that is all that I think.
But I’m happy to be on disability pension.
Because I can’t stand employment agencies and centrelink putting unrealistic demands on me to do things I can’t do.
I notice I can do things with some people but with other people it’s impossible for me to do that.
At volunteer work I could not unrack .
I couldn’t.
I felt overwhelmed and confused.
Now I know it’s because the girls were bossing me about and talking down at me and I can’t stand that.
I couldn’t do it.
Then
Another volunteer a man was around instead and he did not talk down at me but my three favourites left me in peace by the rack and I did two racks all by myself and quickly too.
They left me in peace and I could do it.
They brought out the best in me.
I seriously did not think I could do it but I could.
Depends who you work with and how they treat you.for me anyway.
I love my manager.
People can enjoy working.
People do enjoy working
I have enjoyed it😮
I need lots of time by myself in bed so I don’t want to work many hours.
I only volunteer a few hours a week.
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I’m just 50 and no intention of going back to work. I get stressed. I get stressed I get paranoid and it all spirals down from there. I too am on disability pension since about 2004 besides a short term in the book trade. I actually had a really good advocate at this disability employment agency but they lost funding and it went shite after that pretty quickly…A good reason to stay on the pension and volunteer.
Your right @Truemist8 . We do need special help and that isn’t really there with all this rubbish they put people through these days. I worry about the kids coming through with sz. I would hope they have the opportunity to get on the dsp rather than unemployment which is so much more below the poverty line.
As to those you work with…that really can make a difference to your work experience. It’s not easy with difficult people and can relate to your frustrations. People can be such dicks.
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i have no problem with working, in fact i want to work some. but i hate corporate overlords, who subject you to all their rules. ideally i would own my own business. but in the meantime the perfect job for me would be to work for a small mom and pop business, without managers, assistant managers, regional managers, and shareholders to answer to.
I love how they give a job description that’s all detailed but I ask why bother. They should just say We are going to abuse the sh!t out of you and in the meantime you are easily replaceable.
I’ve had two corporate jobs. Never again. I’ll work for less at a family owned business before I step in the corporate manure pile again.
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I hate entry level job postings that require 5+ years of experience 
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you can be an owner and self-employed.
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employers really can suck. i work in a corporate job now and the micromanagement alone is enough to drive me up a wall. not to mention that want you to do a million things for little pay. and all the high stress and pressure of it.
the 5+ years of experience thing really gets me too and makes it hard to switch jobs
if you can be self-employed that would be awesome
wish i could be
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