There’s jobs out there that you could get that.
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In my city they get a 1000 euro a week for labour
I might be going back to work soon
Just need to cut down my alcohol intake tbh
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That’s great I hope you will find something you like
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I’m gonna volunteer at the food pantry in the next town over, and see how I do. I’m a little nervous, but hopefully it goes alright
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I don’t plan to work ever again. I wouldn’t be able to handle social interactions. Paranoia. Stimuli.
I’ve been been working on and off throughout my 20’s but my SZ has made it very hard to properly hold down a job. The longest job I’ve had post-SZ was about a 1 year as a housekeeper but I got laid off as the company went remote because of Covid. I also recently quit a call centre position because of my paranoia. It’s been really hard. I’m 32 now and honestly, I think it’s time to throw in the towel! I’m still open to volunteering and working casual gigs but, I don’t think I’m meant to really have proper career of my own.
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I’m 34 and reaching similar conclusions myself.
I have been trying since I was 17 years old to work through this mess, and I think doing that for half my life has been very draining.
What I hope for is that a new drug I am trying might solve the puzzle, but I have my doubts.
There is only so much medication can fix, and I am exhausting myself trying everything I can to keep going.
My longest stint in a job was 6 years, but the company was owned by a family friend, my mother worked there, Aunt and 2 cousins.
When I had that level of support, I did very well and had a good reputation
Then the company got bought by a billion (s) dollar American firm to take their IP software, and it became something horrible, disrespectful and dangerous to mental wellbeing let alone health
Believe me if I could have stayed I would, but I am no way the only one who voted with my feet.
That job led me to a near successful suicide it got that bad
Now I have since March 2020 had a business, that I then couldn’t cope with and was off sick. Then I tried to get back into data, and next week I will equal 2 months working for that firm, with 2 months off sick with more to come
It has become an utter nightmare.
The employment specialist is crap, the financial advisor is useless and I now have a new replacement case worker who said herself she’d stop other people ‘reading of scripts’, and she does exactly that in MY HOME today…
To say that life is being made difficult by many factors is an understatement
In 100 years no one will remember, and no one will care.
I have nothing more to offer society, as I do not any longer see a reciprocal relationship as I have moved from a nurturing employment situation to all these ■■■■■■■ leeches who’re always trying to ‘get one up’ on you to put you down, put you in your place just for cheap point-scoring.
In my home town or anywhere nearby, I fail to see a company that’s worth existing that will pay a liveable wage and provide interesting opportunity to me, and even more importantly, the young people coming up now.
I despair at all this I really do
In ref to a popular netflix film, I am looking up and hoping for the best that I am in a minority of.
Humans are ■■■■■■■ parasites and the Earth has all the right to take life away from us, as we have been awful custodians and deserve to no longer be in charge of our own destiny.
I work because otherwise i dwell too much on other things.
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Yeah, your not always right about your anti work views. Reading about other people who work and speaking for myself, there are many benefits to working. The simplest reason to work is as others stated, we tend to do badly when we have nothing to do. And the moneys nice. I’m not going to get sucked into big, long arguments about how work should be abolished. On the surface I seem to lose but then when I have time to think and I read your posts later I see you only appear right out of eloquence. I’m not going to change your mind about work and you’re not going to change mine. But the facts speak for themselves.
Disagree or not the hearts of every individual who lies to themselves is a heavy consequence to bear near the end of life.
Its only a common view in our time to extoll work because - as I said - it tends to be a form of escapism. In other words its used for the same reason any addiction is used: to avoid some unwanted truth/pain.
We can use our self righteous sense of how ‘good’ we are for working to egotistically raise ourselves up to lower others. But also to avoid introspection that keeps us from owning any darker truth we have hidden.
Im also not anti work as you seem to think. Its anti-dishonesty because that is what keeps us at a standstill in terms of social and economic progress.
Are you going to ignore my points of how damaging it is to be consumed in work while a family suffers emotional wounds? Even pets are tormented by the absence of an owner who works all day. It is AGONY.
But a more considerate approach would be that work should be more limited in time for every individual. If more people worked together (which is another dark aspect people want to avoid) then a lot less people would be overburdened and causing unneeded mental and physical/emotional pain. People would be happier and more rested and less prone to accidents.
It is not at all a light issue with me because I have seen first hand the damage normalizing it has done.
But hey I guess its more important to have a right and ‘good’ view relative to our time than to be considerate of the ways people suffer.
Which is ironic because the essence of what we consider ‘good’ is to reduce suffering… Not add to it.
Unless of course you are promoting sadism?
American business owners and managers are the most ruthless bosses. The US has national paid sick laws unlike most industrialized western countries. So essential workers have to work sick.
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My suggestion for work is find a place with people age 40 and up that are in a sort of cushy job setting. A relaxed environment. They’ve been here 10+ years with no intention of going anywhere. They were afraid I was gonna leave cuz they thought I’d be bored.
I somehow lucked out getting a job like that in July.
So on my crap brain days (like today) I don’t get much done but It goes unnoticed. I even can learn programming at work.
So I hope you will find a good place and keep up the good fight.
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Very eloquent… To sum it up, I don’t think a lot of your points are valid though you’re halfway good at expressing them. The argument is bigger than you or me. I’m satisfied working and that’s what counts to me.
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In canada they just gave all workers 5 extra paid sick days
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My cat likes to shoulder surf while I’m working and warble into my headset mic. I think she’s doing okay.
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Between paid vacation and personal days I have 7 weeks off with pay every year.
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Lucky! I’ve got about 3 weeks with the sick paid days. But I’ve only been here 6 months so it’s okay.
It’s like the first time ever that I’ve had paid holidays since I’m not working for myself anymore 
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I have like 4 weeks. Over in a lot of countries in Europe they get more paid vacation each year than in the U.S.
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I was just saying there’s some sense to getting your mind off your thoughts and that you can exercise or do other things to do that. You think maybe writers live in their heads?
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