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I also don't toil in a field for ten hours a day, I sit in my pants at my desk working from home 7 hours a day and get weekends off. I'll accept I only get 40 days a year holiday all things considered.
Added to this, you have a car, place of your own, eat good food and not dirt, have more than one pair of clothes, own a phone, have healthcare, etc. Also I call bullshit on the whole 150 days number. If you know any farmer you'd be calling it too. There are no vacations when you are a farmer.
Why would you accept that? Are humans only a value when they're grinding themselves down to nothing? We got the keys to do more with less and then convinced each other we shouldn't be allowed all the free time science has dug up for us.
It's like shredding your tax refunds.
I don't feel my job is a grind at all. I do it for 35 hours a week, maybe a fourth of my week. I have reasonable targets, a manager who's open to listen to my issues, and when I had a mental health issue due to an undiagnosed condition was given several paid weeks off to deal with it.
You're an exception
Not really, I have the same deal as any other council worker in the UK as it's a collectively agreed deal. Millions of people across the country have the same conditions.