How come people want to work? (literature.cafe)

submitted 2 days ago by Karl@literature.cafe to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As someone who is going to have to get a job in 2-3 years, I'm dreading the day. Going to the same place 5 days a week coming home with no time and energy left for anything you actually like and doing this for FOURTY years or even more if you were unlucky, sounds HORRIBLE!! How could anyone actually like working?

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[-] DreasNil@feddit.nu 6 points 17 hours ago

I don't understand people who do NOT want to work! Sure, it's nice being home having nothing to do for a few days, but then what? I start feeling bored and useless and I want to contribute and feel useful again.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

When people do retire, something like this usually happens. Either they solve it by joining into so many activities and hobbies they're actually busier than before, they end up finding another job for the hell of it, or they decline into misery.

Doing nothing is like a covid lockdown that never ends, basically.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Okay, you do you.

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

There's ways the do all that without working a job?

And who said No Work = No Thing?

Volunteering, Arts, Hobbies, Crafts, Socialisation

And Jesus, you're going to be depressed when you're forced to retire, with no friends outside of work and no hobbies

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 16 hours ago

The other way to look at it is what are hobbies and volunteering but work in of themselves? Human existence involves work, but every human should be able to find work that they can enjoy (or at least not actively hate)

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, avocation and vocation can both fill that hole. It is a hole that most people need filled, though.

[-] DreasNil@feddit.nu 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Wow, that escalated quickly 🤣

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah I think I went a bit too hard on it

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