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"I work 60 hours most weeks.

And somehow, I still feel like I’m struggling to get by.

At some point you have to ask yourself:

What’s the point of working this hard if you never get to enjoy your life?

Something needs to change."

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    60 hrs a week? That’s just slavery. This is not an enjoyable life and has to change. I just assume USA, never heard anyone working 6Ohrs a week. Unless it’s one’s passion and one also has no hobbies or life.

    Heck, I don’t even work 60 hours a year. And even those I would prefer to do other stuff.

    • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Yeah well USA checking in with 50 hr mandatory and shit health caste with a 4k out of pocket forest health care.56 and no chance the wife and I can afford a 1500a month mortgage. Probably be living my golden years in a tent.

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        7 days ago

        Sorry man, you guys really have it worst (of the so called civilized world). Why not piss off? You already speak a global language and everyone pities muricans anyway, so no hate. Canada? Some place in the EU? i know a handful who moved here and now don’t understand why it took so long. You might be still poor here, but at least your shit is cared for, even if not 100% optimal.

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          7 days ago

          It’s a nice thought, the wife would go but not without the daughter and she Isn’t. I’m too old to want to get rid of everything and start again and too poor to move anything with me. Nope - I’m in it for the whole ride.

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            6 days ago

            Understandably. Us old farts are a lil harder to move :) Though this “health”-system alone would drive me batshit-crazy there…i hope life will treat you guys mildly!

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        7 days ago

        I’m sitting here, crossing my fingers that my father dies quick and soon. If he lives too long, he’ll need to sell his house to fund his elder care, and then I’ll never own a home.

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        7 days ago

        A few hours a month to enable living in retirement. It’s not a “regular” job or so.

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      7 days ago

      If you’ve got kids you do what you gotta do. It sucks. I’ve watched it kill a man in 50 years.