How do our parents work such long hours without complaining?

>ften end up horribly depressed and possibly even suicidal when they retire
This is very true. My parents, uncles, aunts, etc. Are in that age they start to retiring. Those who already have got terribly ill within a year or two. One uncle got a tumor on his stomach/esophagus (can't remember) and died (age 56), other idk exactly what happened but he only has 1 eye (57 years old), and my aunt first got breast cancer, had her tits removed, and then uterine cancer, so they took that out too. She's 60.

Same thing happened to many of my parents' friends and, some of my brothers's coworkers. Working all your life will literally destroy you, slowly but surely.

How can people do that? Because they've been told they would be worthless if they don't. Sadly, that is true in this society.

There are few ways out, and the average person can try for most of their lives without ever making it

I put in 50 hours a week at a demanding physical job, and yeah you just get used to it. If you ever work this kind of job you will need to push thru the first few months using your sheer willpower because your body will give up, but eventually your body will catch up and you'll get used to that kind of workload.

I actually think it's easier than working few hours. I had no trouble when I had a full time job. Now, I work 2 hours a week and I'm fucking exhausted all the time, and usually spend most of my free time dreading going back there

I'm scared of getting a full time job. What should I do? The office terrifies me because then they can fire me or treat me badly

>work a factory job
>8 hr. shifts 5 days a week and sometimes work saturdays
>at least 1-3 days a week have to stay for overtime for an extra 2 hours
>physically draining

kill me pls.

Well, I can't help you much. I got that job through nepotism and from the beginning I knew it was only temporal. When I felt like killing myself, I just thought "only x months left"

It wasn't that bad, though. I just felt awkward all the time because I was too autistic/shy to talk to my coworkers. They called me "the mime guy"

I work 12+ hours in a packhouse. It sucks but the days fly by and at the end of it I have enough money a year's worth of food and gas. Much better than having to come in for shitty 4-5 hour shifts 25 hours a week and not getting any meaningful time off.

>just finished second 11+ hour shift this week

feels goodman

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It's easier than you think. I worked 75 hours last week. 84 the week before. One of the days was a 22 hour shift.

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I did a shitload of overtime at a hot as fuck paper plant last year and it sucked ass. The pay was really good though so I kept going back.

Broke my foot Saturday, said fuck it to the doctor, back to fixing cars Monday morning, back to drumming as of today.

Pic related, it's my swollen calf/foot. Ankle and foot were the size of a softball on Saturday.

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For the most part older generations work harder and have more skills (eg. plumbing, fixing cars, navigation, general life skills) but they also had an easier time finding education and employment. My dad has had the same job for 35 years and is living very comfortably.

>I kept going back
what, was it seasonal or part time or something

wow. Your so cool user.

You should point the barrel of a loaded gun towards your head and pull the trigger to see how tough you really are. I bet you'll walk off without a scratch.

I would, but I have shit to live for. I can't afford medical care, so I'll keep on keepin on intil my body is broken beyond repair, or I get a job with good insurance.

Parents can work hard because having kids after awhile makes you able to put up with anything. As a parent you absorb bullshit, it's your job.

thats almost identical to what my leg looked like when i broke it. pic related

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Its cause they grew up without the endless fucking distraction that is the internet. They get satisfaction out of things that are real and not 0s and 1s on a screen.

Im only 33 and lived half my life without the internet as well. It suxks you in and dries you out for real

he's not defective?

If you are well adjusted, work hours mean nothing. Some people even look forward going to work cause they love their workplace or being with their co workers

But how do they keep going to work without getting scared?

I work 3 12 hour shifts in a row as psych nurse. I fucking love it tbqh

Nice edge, don't you have an Instagram meme page to go admin you seventeen year old fag?

everything everyone here is saying is fucking bullshit. i'm neet right now but ive worked my fare share for 40-70 hour weeks. you DON'T get used to it EVER. my last job was so mentally and emotionally crushing that i was contemplating suicide just to get away from the routine fucking boredom of having a meaningless job. All you fucking do is punch hours in and clock out, get yelled at by your boss when you're exhausted and don't feel like making yourself look busy to please them and save up money that you don't have time to enjoy spending.

DO NOT take the jobpill. find something that works for you. there's more than one way to live life and if being a parasitic fuck is what works best for you..then start building skills to maintain that.

Eventually your parents will die and you won't be able to leech off them though. real shit. you cant prepare yourself in advance for that either. you might think you've premourned them being gone but you havent and when the responsibilities of life finally fall at your feet, you're gonna fuckin wish you'd made some kind of plan to survive. so do that shit now. no matter what it is.

Scared of what exavtly?

Getting fired, the co-workers and boss bullying them, coming back day after day and talking to the co workers. How do they not get scared of being fired all the time?

12 hour shifts are the shit. Hours in a row don't really count the way I see it. When I worked a typical 0800-1600 it was miserable, 5 days a week wasted. Now with three days in a row it's much better. If I work even 5 minutes then entire day is ruined, it is a work day. To make it in the wagecuck world longer shifts give a perception of more time off. Also nurse pay is pretty decent.

I just switched to ICU from progressive/acute for 1 year. Progressive sucked but even though I love ICU I feel like a retard pretty much every day. I was a psych tech the entire time in nursing school and it was pretty cool. I wouldn't be surprised if I find myself going back. What flavor psych are you? Chemical dependence was my favorite since they were more chill than the geri or regular psych units.

This year I have been studying during free days for like 8 hours a day. And the equivalent on the days where I have stuff to do. It's April so I'm basically used to it. I don't feel bad, while last year or in the years before the thought of "wasting" so many time studying left me a bit depressed.

Of course, it's not the same as working, but I think it's possible to draw some conclusions. What matters most is not the amount of time of work (as long as it isn't too much that you can't do anything else), I mean, of course it does, but what is most important is how satisfied you are with it. If you have a good mental health, hobbies (evenspending some time shitposting on Jow Forums) a stable life/relationships with your partner (or, if you're single, if you can deal well with it), family and friends, and also, attainable goals... Then working won't feel like a dead end, even if in the end we will die and vanish completely from existence. In the goal part, for example, I'm studying to be a good doctor and enter in a residency so I can power through the study hours and even find them comfy. I imagine a parent who loves their children will feel satisfied with their work as well, because then it has a meaning.

tl;dr it's a mix of being used to it and dealing with it in a mature way

I was called edgy by a redditor. I am crushed.

what did i do to deserve this?

how do you earn 50k a year working 2 days a week wtf

It is more time off in a way. You have 4 days full of energy to do things whereas a 9-5 gives 2 days. It's twice the days you can be free to have fun. After a 9-5 you plop down and just lay anyways.

Having a job where you basically repeat physical stuff for money is easier than uni where you have to work hours using your brain and stressing for a grade.

anyone ever feel like the 40 hour work week was always an arbitrary number? an arbitrary number better than the average at the time (like 60-80 hour weeks) but still arbitrary nonetheless? and in these times more superfluous than ever

Also, to add on what said, when I had a shitload of free time I'd spend hours watching porn and eventually end up fapping to trap shit. Or reload the same boards a lot of times to read the same threads. So I don't feel like I'm losing much. I wish I had more time to practice guitar or watch series/animu, though, so that is a bad point.

100% this. Studying is way more stressful than working. And at least with work you get paid and don't have "homework" (unless you're higher up in the company and have to answer emails all the time).

It always makes me sad to know that so many people have to work 40 hours a week. I think it should be changed to 30 hours. People who wanted or needed could choose jobs that kept the 40 hours but the majority would have 2 extra hours to relax, spend time with their families, exercise, eat comfortably, do another activities. The general well being of the population would increase imo. 40 hours seem so draining for the average fag. But that sounds like an impossible dream.

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No you didnt break it, if you did no drug would make you able to both walk around with it and function at work. You just got a serious sprain.

Nobody can fire you from studying

The average full time worker works almost 50 hours a week in America.

Yeah I used to work an average of 48-56 hours a week and the difference of 40-48 wasn't as noticeable but 32-40 definitely was.

I think the work week should have 3. 13 hour shifts and 4 day weekends

Not him but I think the internet means you can easily get a tons of opinions of what happens if you work too much from many people quickly. Without the internet, you only know the life your parents and teachers would tell you about, and it wouldn't seem too shitty so you wouldn't go in worrying about that stuff. If you spend most of the day talking to people online that are mentally ill and depressed beyond all repair telling you how shitty work and life is, you might get scared by extension.

I do about 50 hours a week and it really doesn't feel like much. professional/office job so there's that

I work 9 to 12 hours x day sometimes on saturdays, never on sundays. The key is to like at least 30% of what you do. Being reliable and staying late means not getting fired and makes you hard to replace. Only normies leave early and hope for a raise or not getting replaced.