• ⚠️ UK Access Block Notice: Beginning July 1, 2025, this site will no longer be accessible from the United Kingdom. This is a voluntary decision made by the site's administrators. We were not forced or ordered to implement this block.

Raven2

Raven2

Arcanist
Dec 1, 2022
487
I'm probably too young to be thinking this way( late 30s ) but I'm sick to the back teeth of working. I worked over 20 years and I've got another 30 years of this until I retire unless I've resorted to ctb.

I daydream about winning the lottery and having enough to not have to go to work.
My jobs not the worst but I dont want to be a wage slave.
I dont want to be rudely woken up by my alarm every morning, being winter I really struggle to get out of bed.
I dont want to contribute to society by paying tax and national insurance. ( yes I know we dont have a choice )
I spend the last few hours of my shift just wanting to not be there and looking forward to going home.

I know I sound like a spoilt brat but i just dont want to do it anymore! I thought about just quitting and just not working for a couple of years as I've got savings but I wont ever find a job as suitable as the one ive got so I guess I'm just gonna have to suck it up.

Please tell me I'm not the only one feeling this way
 
  • Hugs
  • Like
Reactions: Praestat_Mori, LakeMungoGirl, rozeske and 5 others
R

rs929

Wizard
Dec 18, 2020
682
Youre not the only one, the fact that I need to work for 25-30 more years makes want to CTB
 
  • Like
  • Hugs
Reactions: Praestat_Mori, itsgone2 and lovelydove
Arvayn

Arvayn

Face the end.
Nov 11, 2025
44
I could never work a meaningless job. If I had to work only because it pays my bills, and not for any reason I actually care about, I'd get completely sick of it.
The only reason I want to work is because I like what my job stands for. Otherwise? I'd be in the exact same shoes as you. You're not crazy or spoiled, you just see through the capitalist dogma.
 
  • Hugs
Reactions: Praestat_Mori
AuraByte

AuraByte

If I'm lost, please don't find me.
Jun 24, 2025
103
Hard same.

I wish I could quit but I need the money lol.
 
  • Hugs
Reactions: Praestat_Mori
I

itsgone2

-
Sep 21, 2025
715
I could never work a meaningless job. If I had to work only because it pays my bills, and not for any reason I actually care about, I'd get completely sick of it.
The only reason I want to work is because I like what my job stands for. Otherwise? I'd be in the exact same shoes as you. You're not crazy or spoiled, you just see through the capitalist dogma.
Can I ask what you do? You don't have to say if that's private.
I'm having difficulty seeing anything as meaningful
 
S

sadman1897

Lost And Gone Forever
Aug 16, 2025
57
I love to work and I desperately want my old job back , but that won't happen
 
  • Hugs
  • Love
Reactions: Praestat_Mori and itsgone2
sweetcreep

sweetcreep

reincarnating as a worm
Jul 21, 2024
224
some people are really lucky and have jobs that they like. i hate my job and i hate working 40 hours a week. it would be lovely to have some more free time to do the few things that i can still enjoy. i am very much just a cog in the machine.
 
  • Hugs
Reactions: Praestat_Mori
Pluto

Pluto

Cat Extremist
Dec 27, 2020
5,907
images
 
  • Love
Reactions: Praestat_Mori
Jorvak

Jorvak

Member
Feb 7, 2025
61
I completely get it, and i would add what you and others may be feeling is not just disliking work on itself, it's also the extremely regressive and toxic culture surrounding work that capitalism indoctrinates people into. Specifically that people are "expected" to contribute, regardless of their specific circumstances, marginalization and so on, and that you only deserve dignity if you "contribute".

This is a fundamentally disgusting mentality. The point of a society should be to uplift people, and enable them to find meaning in their own lives, including if that happens to mean wanting to do a regular job in society. If someone doesn't want to work for whatever reason, be it feeling marginalized, social stigmas due to disability, neurodivergence or other mental issues, feeling ostracized, or simply being unable to work due to disabilities, or from any number of other reasons why someone cant or wont work, these are not failures of an individual, they are failures of a society to uplift that person to give them a meaningful and dignified existence in the first place wit h plenty of opportunities. Of course so many people, especially from marginalized communities are not going to feel motivated to work, because they don't feel accepted or valued as people at a basic level.

For example, autistic people have an extremely high unemployment rate of about 85%. this doesn't mean autistic people can't work, the vast majority of autistic people, just as the vast majority of neurotypical people, have the mental and physical capacity to work. The issue is socioeconomic, its that we have a society which greatly marginalizing autistic and other neurodivergent people. the interview process itself highly marginalizes autistic, adhd and other neurodivergent and disabled people, because its more of a 'social game' of whether you conform to a specific "social mindset" or "Corporate culture", rather than simply a gauge of competency for the task.

The whole expectation of expecting "Contribution" just for existing is itself wrong. People don't choose to exist, but yet our current society imposes a tremendous amount of expectations on young people that demands that they must become part of a workforce to make the owners of property (and the political system) increasingly wealthy off of their labor, and forcing conformity to corporate culture to serve the interest of the class that owns society. This expectation is imposed across the board regardless of whether an individual had the means and opportunities to have a healthy existence growing up with plenty of opportunities for self-improvement and positive affirmations.

And if members of a group have worse statistics as a result of not having their needs met? they become villified. Actually its amusing, if for example autistic people or ethnic minorities or women have a lot of jobs, they get accused of being "DEI hires", but if they don't have a lot of jobs due to socioeconomic causes, they get accused of "Being lazy and mooching off the system". You can't win with reaction and bigotry, the capitalist will always find a way to villify the most vulnerable to make a privileged majority feel better about themselves and to turn attention away from how the capitalist system itself works.

My approach is simple: People should be provided human dignity as a baseline, and any humane society that actually serves human needs should never expect anything in return from people who happen to exist. By providing plenty of opportunities to everyone, you enable them to find meaning in their lives and that would motivate them to take on task that they are genuinely passionate about. this of course would require an economic system that is democratically controlled by the public to serve human needs, rather than one privately controlled by a small class of people against humanity.
 
  • Like
  • Hugs
Reactions: Praestat_Mori, LakeMungoGirl, katagiri83 and 1 other person
I

itsgone2

-
Sep 21, 2025
715
I'm probably too young to be thinking this way( late 30s ) but I'm sick to the back teeth of working. I worked over 20 years and I've got another 30 years of this until I retire unless I've resorted to ctb.
Yeah once you see the scam it's tough to not see.
Especially now when companies are laying people off even while turning profits.
I was at peace with my job and was told it would not sell, and we could retire there. Well some greedy pricks changed their mind and I'll be out soon.
Many in my shoes. I did everything right. Worked hard in hs and college, always on time and worked hard at work. Doesn't matter. Twice this has happened. And in this economy and being in my 50s I'm f'd. So you wage slave and play by the rules and get screwed anyway.
The concept of capitalism isn't so bad imo, but it's being overly twisted by private equity. They're ruining society.
 
  • Like
  • Hugs
Reactions: Praestat_Mori, katagiri83 and Jorvak
Jorvak

Jorvak

Member
Feb 7, 2025
61
Yeah once you see the scam it's tough to not see.
Especially now when companies are laying people off even while turning profits.
I was at peace with my job and was told it would not sell, and we could retire there. Well some greedy pricks changed their mind and I'll be out soon.
Many in my shoes. I did everything right. Worked hard in hs and college, always on time and worked hard at work. Doesn't matter. Twice this has happened. And in this economy and being in my 50s I'm f'd. So you wage slave and play by the rules and get screwed anyway.
The concept of capitalism isn't so bad imo, but it's being overly twisted by private equity. They're ruining society.
you have great points, but where I would differ sharply is that i would argue that the concept of capitalism is fundamentally bad to organize a society around, and inherently leads to the consequences you have personally felt the brunt of.

If we can agree that an aim of any humane society should be that as many people exist with dignity and equal rights as possible, i would point out that capitalism by default is antithetical to this aim. It requires creating an economic and political system dominated by private interest. The only things people 'like' about capitalism are ironically the major reforms that predominately socialist had organized the working class around in unions and otherwise to fight for basic dignities in a system that by default does not serve human needs. Capitalist politicians have only strategically maintained these reforms up until they manufacture reasons to reverse them, which they have been doing and are actively doing now.

If we want to have a system that serves human needs by default, we have to structure it on that premise to begin with, meaning that the economy is controlled by the public and democratically managed for public needs, not private interest. Every aspect of society should be developed around the premise of enshrining human dignity and equal rights of all, rather than allowing an class of people who owns property control society at the expense of humanity; IE we need Socialism.
What socialism advocates for is pretty straight-forward, and this is my interpretation of it:

  • Economic democracy (and the abolition of class), where property is owned by the people to serve human needs

  • Equal Human rights for all, in opposition to all forms of bigotry, division, or supremacy

  • The securing of all essential needs for every person, in accordance to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs.

  • The abolition of any forms of exploitation, imperialism or oppression
 
  • Like
Reactions: Praestat_Mori, LakeMungoGirl and katagiri83
Arvayn

Arvayn

Face the end.
Nov 11, 2025
44
Can I ask what you do? You don't have to say if that's private.
I'm having difficulty seeing anything as meaningful
I'm an apprentice mortician. It's a vocation. There's a twisted irony and satisfaction for me in what the profession stands for. Idealized death.
It's hard work, and the pay is not anything to write home about in comparison to what they make me go through, but I do it with a smile on my face.
Besides, I believe the one thing that society will never be able to master or gain control over is death. We might crack biological immortality, sure... but even then, there's no avoiding the end forever. You're just delaying the inevitable.
 
  • Like
Reactions: LakeMungoGirl and itsgone2
jsker

jsker

Member
Nov 24, 2025
9
right now, plan A is to CTB and plan B is to quit my job and start a business in the meantime. Its really not that difficult to make a good living working for yourself, but it might be cope to think that things would feel any better doing so. Ikwym.
 

Similar threads

shiftingtendons
Replies
4
Views
188
Suicide Discussion
Flubber
Flubber
jatty
Replies
4
Views
326
Suicide Discussion
Hollowman
H
schatzbunny
Replies
5
Views
202
Suicide Discussion
schatzbunny
schatzbunny
T
Replies
7
Views
212
Suicide Discussion
WhatCouldHaveBeen32
W
вечный сон
Replies
3
Views
134
Offtopic
Shadows From Hell
Shadows From Hell