Nah, listen, things can change. This may become a public transport commute, a walk, or you may not even go at all if you work from home. But what really sucks is when you are unemployed, and yes I speak from experience on all of these examples
I've been unemployed for two week and it doesn't suck. I can do what I want when I want. What really sucks is eventually being broke after running out of money.
Maybe it's because I lucked into a career that I can be content in but I would rather be employed than unemployed even if I was able to sustain myself through my unemployment. I'm happier if I have a job from which I can derive a sense of purpose and duty. If I was a multimillionaire, I would probably either volunteer or still be working.
True. Most of us are just working to buy our financial independence. Having my own business is even more challenging.
I've been trying for more than a decade and still poor (doing better than before but still poor), but that's still the plan for me.
"The Customer orders the food, you cook the food, and the customer gets the food. We do that for 40 years and then we die." - Squidward.
You only have to do that the next 30-40 years of your life if you live the next 30-40 years...... just saying.
It could be worse, you could have to work the next 60 years.
30 would be nice, it's more like 50
Lol, joke's on you! With these meager wages, paltry living conditions, and body-destroying hours and tasks, I probably won't even survive 30 years of this! You don't have to save or invest for retirement if you expect to be dead before then 🫠
Imagine having no good public transport
Unless the reason travel by car takes really long is because of traffic jams, it's actually rather hard to create public transit that actually wins out in time. Bus will be a lot slower, trains can only take you to so many places, and building a large metro system is prohibitively expensive.
I would like to use public transit, but when that would turn a 15 minute drive into a 55 minute trip, I'd rather not spend 27 hours a month extra going to work.
But you can do things while on the train like sleep or internet. It depends what that tradeoff is exactly, but I would still rather have a longer commute I can do things during.
I live in Seoul, which has superb public transit. It can work if designed well.
Busses have their own lanes to ensure traffic minimally affects them. Bus-train transfers are well managed. High density means that mass transit ends up being faster due to traffic concerns. Speed limits are quite low, which also makes vehicle accidents less lethal.
As for prohibitively expensive, that's only if you don't sufficiently tax your corporations ;)
So basically, vote for local and national government that will create an environment where public transit works
Imagine not working from home
As a teacher, I would rather die than ever teach a class over zoom or teams ever again.
As an adult who had to sit with a first grader to make sure they stayed in their zoom classes, I couldn't agree more. I don't hold a grudge against her teacher, we were all doing our best. It was just impossible to keep a first grader focused on her laptop for more than 20 min at best.
You just see what would happen in class. Now imagine having 20 of them.
I wish I could cut grass from home.
In all seriousness, some jobs cannot be done remotely. Schools are a prime example of this. That should mean that those jobs should cover expenses for travel and have some sort of tax for offsetting their carbon footprint.
Working from home is so beautiful to me. I can work from my living place, and don't need to see faces of everyone (most of the time)
As someone that used to be a blue collar worker but now is a software developer, people like us REALLY need a reality check. Working from home is a privilege that most people will never experience, and I am forever grateful for having the opportunity.
Try forty or fifty years, unless you got your first job at 40. Unless you're a boomer, you aren't even getting full social security until 67 and unless you saved like a motherfucker you probably won't retire till your 70s.
I didn't expect the UnspecificGravity to be so strong.... But damn did that hurt.
I have a wife and three cats. Being stuck in traffic is the closest thing I have to free time.
That seems… super sad.
1931
God damn I love communist propaganda art style. there used to be a subreddit for sharing it on reddit, is there anything similar on Lemmy?
Probably because it's targeted at working class adults instead of housewives and retirees like most American propaganda.
But then one day, after 30 or 40 years of hard work, you'll realize that you've done a lot of hard work.
And, if you're American, that you have to keep doing it until it kills you.
That's why I moved less than 5 miles away from work.
Well, you don't have to. If you want to just save enough to buy some land you could work for just a few years then homestead from there.
Still a lot of work tho But also very tempting
Although not very realistic for most people in most countries. In my social reality, buying land and conditions to homestead depends on having a fat inheritance or having an exceptionally good salary.
Nah, check out:
See also this motivational blog post that happens to lie at the intersection of the two.
TL;DR: change your lifestyle to (among other things) not need a car, then use the savings to retire early.
When you get the paycheck you'll feel like it was all worth it.
(until rent is due and there's nothing left)
“Whew! At least that’s over!”
— Me literally every time I clock out
(hint: it’s not over)
