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Anon is stuck in a rut (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It surely gets better if you can make the necessary changes to your life to improve this.

I never hear anyone talk like this who doesn't live in the suburbs with a huge commute. I live in a city and can get to work in 15 minutes without a car.

My schedule is:

  • 6:00am: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, get dressed.
  • 6:45am: Leave for work.
  • 7:00am: Arrive at work.
  • 12:00pm: Lunch hour.
  • 4:00pm: Leave work.
  • 4:15pm: Arrive home and unwind.
  • 5:00pm: Workout.
  • 5:30pm: Prepare Dinner.
  • 6:15pm: Eat Dinner.
  • 6:45: Clean up kitchen and other parts of home.
  • 7:00pm: Movies, Video Games, Social Time, Sex Time.
  • 10:00pm: Go to bed

That gives me a full 6 hours between finishing work and going to bed. If I choose an easy dinner, I hardly have to do anything less than fun after work, and I work in a cool part of town so I don't actually have to go commute anywhere. I can be drinking at a bar within 5 minutes of clocking out, and I don't have to drive home. Any other errands I make in a week are within walking distance of my home or work.

Before I moved, my schedule was:

  • 5:45am: Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, get dressed.
  • 6:30am: Leave for work.
  • 8:00am: Arrive at work.
  • 12:00pm: Lunch hour.
  • 5:00pm: Leave work.
  • 6:30pm: Arrive home and unwind.
  • 7:00pm: Prepare Dinner.
  • 7:45pm: Eat Dinner.
  • 8:15pm: Clean up kitchen and other parts of home.
  • 8:30pm: Movies, Video Games, Social Time, Sex Time.
  • 9:45pm: Go to bed

So that gave me an entire 3.25 hours after getting home, giving me no time to fit a workout in without giving up other leisure activities. This doesn't even factor in that everywhere else I needed to run errands was a 15-30 minute drive away.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've had some pretty long commutes in the past because my work location changes every few years. I enjoy the work, though, so that helps, but I've still been feeling the OP lately. I'm in my late 30s and I don't have kids and "fun" doesn't really do it for me anymore. More and more I need to feel like I'm doing something worthwhile instead of aimless hedonism. I'll figure it out, though, it's just time to make some, as you say, necessary changes again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Making sure you have time is important. My schedule breakdown isn't really the blueprint of my life. I belong to social groups, and I volunteer. I have hobbies and projects that I work on.

If you don't have enough unstructured time, you'll never have the opportunity to build structure around it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The largest predictor of divorce is a commute longer than 45 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stay up longer. Wake up tired. Do your job really half-assed all day. Let your employer have the worse you.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Did this while younger, it can work for some time but don’t underestimate the consequences to your health from not getting enough sleep.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Here's the trick: just sleep less! You'll get more time to ~~play games~~ do chores, ~~stare at the ceiling in existential dread~~ find yourself, and ~~slowly lose your sanity as sleep deprivation begins to bring your worst nightmares to life~~ sleep deeper in the precious hours.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Get up at 6. Work will 6. 1hr to make dinner. 2 hrs awake with wife. Go to bed at 9. Wake up at 530 and cry for 30 min.

Rerpeat adinfinium until i finally die. This is no way to live.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is no way to live.

I wonder what would happen if everyone who felt this way all at once just decided to stop. All at once, everyone turns around and goes home. How many people would it be? Half? 3/4? Most of them?

We almost got to experience a change when Covid hit, the only bright spot, but it was soon eclipsed by corporate buzzwords and inspirational music montages on powerpoint telling us how happy we are to return to offices and ten hours of driving and 1/8 of our paycheck on gas every goddamn week so we can sit in a visible place while we waste time reading emails that don't pertain to us and attending meetings about initiatives that are meant only to make the shareholders think we're doing something.

Shareholders who attend the meetings via Zoom at that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At first it looked like Photoshop, and I know it is, but I just realised... it's that dude from that double suicide photo, isn't it? Russian dude and his girlfriend?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What the fuck man. It's Ryan Gosling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh, so it is. That's reassuring. The photo is from the ancient times of the net. Very peaceful, the guy like he's sleeping except it's in the snow so you know something is amiss. That pic with its weird vibe reminded me of it.

Also... have you actually been to 4chan, my friend? Where do you think I was exposed to a suicide pic (as SFW as it was) without warning...?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Narrator: No, it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait until he goes without work or videogames for a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean if anything, surely that justifies their claim of wage slavery even more no?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hah they still actually look forward to playing the game, instead of just playing it to fill the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I buy them to pretend I'm happy. Not that I have time to be happy.

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