It's also hypocritical because companies fully expect you to pretend to like your job for their own satisfaction.

Plus the unpaid commute for many of us, which is both lengthy and expensive in many cases

The worst part of my day, the worst part almost every single day, is when I have to unwrap myself from the arms of those who love me the most before getting in a vehicle and driving away from them at the maximum legal speed. All the nonsense at work I can mostly handle. I even have a job where I can be creative, I've got a job so cool that if I mentioned my job title, nobody would believe me.

But I really just want to be home with my wife.

There's a difference between accepting your job and liking it.

A job has always been necessary. Even if you live of the land you still have to put in the work to survive.

Part of the problem is many of us can’t describe what a good job is. So we just stick with what we got.

Also, not all jobs are sitting at a desk looking at a screen.

I got lucky and found a job I actually enjoyed doing. Yes, I'd take the occasional mental health day, but most Mondays I went to work feeling pretty okay.

I think that's a misunderstanding of the intent. Obviously having a miserable job will make you miserable. But not everyone has to have a job that is their life's great passion. It's OK to have a job that just pays the bills. It's OK to not care about your work.

That's the part that CEOs hate to hear. Capitalism wants everyone to believe that their work has to define them, has to be the most important thing they do. Because if you get people to believe that then 1) that depresses wages for the "meaningful" jobs by creating more competition, and 2) it sells the lie that you have to go above and beyond because if you're not treating your job as a calling then you're failing at life.

It's OK to clock out on time. It's OK to put in the minimum effort required. It's OK to care about your work life balance. And it's OK to find a job that just pays the bills and doesn't stress you out.

I prefer "work to live, not live to work".

I have a very professional job. I could of I wanted to absolutely pour my entire life essence into this job and I would probably make more money than I make now and be more professionally successful.

But in reality, my career is and will always be a way to support me and my family. Bottom line.

You should absolutely be looking for a job and a career that gives you balance, wherever that balance may be for you personally.

Honestly I have never heard anyone give the advice in that post anyway...

I've wanted to blow my brains out at every job I've ever had except the one I currently have.

I decided that I was going to blow my brains out unless I could find a job that treated me with respect, paid me fairly, and gave me decent benefits, without piling on so much work that I felt like I was being physically crushed.

I got lucky and after 1,000,000 applications and basically at the end of my rope, I finally got it. Or, honestly, I probably would have blown my brains out cuz I was pretty much over this shit.

Our work culture is fucking dogshit.

Man, I live in a county dominated by a military base. It has been and still is hard finding suitable work that is not department of defense or a contractor. If I had a job that supported our military it would be weighing heavy on me.

i want a job close to home, where my boss makes sure im not working too hard and kicks us out when its time to clock out. i would honestly do pretty much anything for a boss like that. these MBA cunts think they need to squeeze every drop of blood from us but dont realize that if they just treated us like humans with a little fucking compassion theyd get so much more.

I used to complain to my dad about my truly horrible jobs, and he would always say something along the lines of “No one likes their job.” and treat it as if all jobs are equally bad, so I should stop complaining.

About six months after he retired he realized he had legitimate PTSD because his jobs were so awful, but he had to fully relax before he could even feel it. He’s a lot more empathetic now, but my current job is actually nice.

It's a spectrum.

I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until I was 30 - that diagnosis helped a lot.

When I was growing up, I was convinced I was going to be a programmer like my dad. And when I was seeking work, I was trying to work my way up doing tech support to get my foot into the tech door.

The problem is that this was in the late 90s, before chat support (which I was much better at surviving). Telephone support sucked. I'm good at it, but I passionately hate it. I kept getting jobs doing it.

I remember once of them, around 2003, I got a job for a cable internet provider. Went through training, got out on the floor. I lasted about two weeks and one day I literally could not talk myself into going to work.

That's really not what they're talking about. In my case, I had to find something else to do.

All the saying really means is that it's okay if you don't enjoy your job - that you don't wake up and go HOLY SHIT I GET TO GO TO WORK COME ON LET'S GO GO GOOOOOO. You do have to survive, of course. And if you're in a shitty place, if you can find a better place, go for it.

But it's okay if you're mostly just ticking the hours at work and you can find your passions outside of it.

You also have to be able to stand up and stop after-hours bullshit, too. That is stolen labour and is illegal.

But it is complicated, sure. One simple saying is not This Is The Rulebook For Everyone's Life.

"A job" is the modern equivalent of "finding enough berries to stay alive for a few more days" or "going through the crops on your hands and knees picking weeds and killing pests".

It's insane to think that a job is supposed to be fun. A job is what you have to do to survive.

Some extremely lucky people will actually find something that they love doing, are good at, and that people are actually willing to pay them money to do. If you're among the richest billion people on the planet, you may be lucky enough to have a job that's boring, unfulfilling, but not dangerous and doesn't involve back breaking labour.

For most people on the planet, a job is whatever you have to do to get a roof over your head and enough to eat for the next meal. Of course it's going to suck, and it's probably going to be a lot more than 40 hours a week. But, the alternative is death.

If you are one of those richest billion people and you have a job you hate, but you could do a job that's only unfulfilling and boring, by all means, switch.