@@raccooncity8356 Did you even watch the video before commenting? He's starting his own company that allows him to earn a living while still leaving him some free time.
My question is how is he surviving. He said he started a business. Is it sustainable now or is he living at home while his parents work 9-5? Honest question. I mean we all don’t want to work 9-5.
What do you mean, worked for 38 years and almost nothing to show for it , that's literally millions of dollars of income, you couldn't of spent that much?
If you think it’s so easy start your own and you will be fucken humbled the first month 😂 it ain’t easy bruh trust me. I make bank now with my business, but it’s not easy and you either need connections or lots of money to invest. Hundreds of thousands to start up a legit business not some Amazon bullshit drop ship
Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Men must work, this is a direct command by God. If you do not work you are disobeying God, you will be more miserable if you do not work and disobey the Lord. If you work to honor God and keep this command then work will be a joy
@@ECLECTRIC_EDITSBut why do we work for others? Why do we not create our own shelter and hunt our own food? Then we would be free from feeling like everything we do is so someone else can live better than us. We are working to give someone a feast when we scrounge for crumbs. Surely it would be better to live off of the land that God has provided us? Instead of destroying it with greed and poison? I think we are the equivalent of animals in a zoo. Stripped of our ability to survive outside of captivity. Our captivity is slavery under capitalism. Our education system is indoctrination and a stripping of our free-will and independent thinking. Our entire system is heading straight for a collapse. It is not sustainable, so you are telling me God wills that we work this way? Poisoning the ground that we walk with manufacturing waste, fully engulfed in greed, stripping of our free will?
I especially hate the toxic positivity in office jobs, it’s like you’re not allowed to voice any opinions without the fear of being fired. It’s like you’re expecting to be eternally grateful to your employer for the job despite its shortcomings all in the name of 'professionalism'
I was horribly sexually harassed at work and being told that I should realize that it’s just the person’s character or to brush it off. This stuff is ridiculous what you can and cannot do anymore. F*** it
@@GrantTodd-eh7ub "b-b-but we are not" is what I tell them. I have learned to go in, do my time, when I go through the second turnstile, they are no longer a thought just like we are to them.
@@PincheGuey-gc2or "Can you imagine when this race is won Turn our golden faces into the sun Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune The music's played by the, the mad man"
I'm in my 50's and I've never been loyal to an employer. When I was young, that was viewed as being anti social, workshy, lazy. Now it's how most people feel.
Back in the 60s you could work an average job anywhere and pay for a big house, a car, have a wife and 3 kids. Now you’re just lucky to rent a room in some places
Yah, so what happened? All of those good times came after the Great Depression as a backlash with FDR's New Deal. Those policies have been slowly peeled back since the '70s with court cases and Reagan-esque policies that handed over power to big corporations and the rich at the expense of everyone else especially workers. Now it's hard to make a good living with two incomes, and there's more grocery mergers going on. Our country has lost its mind.
That's why Gen Z doesn't want to work anymore than previous generations in the last 70 years, the social contract we were all promised has broken and there's very little incentive to want to spend 40+ years of your life slaving away for someone else
Had I been able to see through the massive amount of Bovine Scat I was fed earlier on, I might have retired in my 50s. I started investing late, so relying on compounding interest from ETFs alone wasn’t enough for me. After some research, I found a strategy that worked, allowing me to retire with $5 million. Those of you in younger generations, don’t be like me: too soon old, too late smart
I agree, luck plays a part, especially early on. But I’ve noticed that when results stay consistent, it’s usually due to more than just luck. I had a hard time cutting through the noise myself until I came across Emily Ava Milligan, a fund manager. Her strategy helped me understand how to balance risk and growth, and contributed to growing from 300k into this, and counting.
It’s why I DoorDash. I literally cannot stand being in an office for 8 hours a day. The lingo, the sad lunches, the gossip and the bullies who never left their high school mind set. I’ve heard the only way to beat the matrix is to be rich or be homeless.
@nitevibe9886 dealing with it is what makes you an adult. Ask your parents. They raised you, they fed you, they maybe paid for your education. You always work for someone unless you are rich, and if so, you got the money from your parents. If you are a "RU-vid or an influencer", you whore yourself out to your audience. Once they get tired of you, your done. Hope you banked your millions in a good balanced mutual fund, pulling 9%. Then you can live off the interest if you had and gray matter.
I'm only 17 and have never had a 9-5 job, but this video is really making me rethink what might happen to me in the next few years, especially after graduating from college. I just want to live my life to the fullest man.
I'm in the same boat as you man. I feel as though I'm lucky as I'm genuinely one of the most creative people I know and I can leverage that and embrace it but just the idea of all of that being stripped from me and my hopes and dreams and shit getting grinded in this soulless, meaningless corporate machine is fucking horrifying to me. I mean we're both 17 so the earlier we start taking steps, the higher chances we have to avoid that life we dread
The best advice I can give you as a 21 year old is when you starting making your own money just save it and don't touch that money. In today's age its so easy to spend it on unnecessary things like Ubereats and expensive clothes. Save and then when you're ready start using that money to start your own business. Even if the business fails you would have learnt a lot from it and would be ahead of most people in life at your age by far
Since I’m into music alit I want be my own artist and record my own music in my own home I need money to buy my own recording booth is expensive but I know I’ll own it once I have money save up
@@muzzyali8011that’s what I’m always saying SAVE YOUR MONEY 💴 don’t be broke and spend all ur money quick on stupid stuff material stuff u don’t even need a bank account anymore because of scammers have it saved in your house 🏡
I'll be 26 this year, "learning to suppress the feeling of wanting to die" couldn't be a more accurate description of the last 10 years of my working life.
I used to be like that too. I was out of job for a while and realised having a stable income is much nicer than having time and not having money to do anything. Also i found a job i really enjoy (at least for now) and can see myself going far. The thing is that money isn't worth the same it used to be and one income isn't enough to pay for a house.. that's the sucky part. But I'd still rather have work stress compared to having money stress and thinking how am i able to eat every day.
Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Men must work, this is a direct command by God. If you do not work you are disobeying God, you will be more miserable if you do not work and disobey the Lord. If you work to honor God and keep this command then work will be a joy
This is such a breath of fresh air! I'm so tired of people expecting us to follow traditional paths when in reality there are so many possibilities out there. Great video!
I HAVE to remind myself of this OFTEN. I tell myself there's literally 100's of millions of ways to generate income without selling your life to some company. If they could after we are all gone they would start over with each one of our kids...... THEIR kids even.
@@SupremeFreebroooo be a hustler like me 😅open ur own business or sell stuff like t shirts or clothes or something there’s always ways to make money But don’t do anything illegal like selling drugs u can go to jail 😅😅😅😅
I'm 31 (I live in Toronto) and remember feeling exactly like this at 21. Hold onto this feeling and don't forget it. Act on your gut instinct and listen to your inner self. Subscribed.
@@bernardoj54 Instead of writing a mean comment to an internet stranger, you could have used that time to better your life in several different ways. Congratulations, you played yourself.
I get depressed going to my job. Working a 7 to 4pm. Clocking in. Fake hellos and good mornings. The gossip. The high school games. The only time people are happy at work is 1. Clocking out for home at 4pm 2. Free food in the breakroom 3. Leaving early on friday for overtime. 4. Vacation 5. Lunch time 6. Crap raise Its horrible.
In my shitty country working "just" from 7 to 4pm would be like a blessing. The reality is more like 8h to 18h split with an hour to eat, the whole day thrown away just to barely stay above never ending debt 🤮 What a way to go.
This is usually how they get people. Especially these trucking companies. They go on and on about the pay, and almost nothing about the home time, or how any of the trucks are being maintained.
working a cushy 9-5 is no problem at all. its boring and not ideal, but saying you'd rather unalive yourself then work an easy jobs while people in other countries die for a chance to make $2 a day. even others in developed are working labor jobs breaking their back. and 99% of people throughout history had it harder. you guys need to stop being ungrateful. if you dont want your cushy easy job where you dont break a sweat, hand it over to the indian that is willing to do it, or the unemployed people that dont know how they will pay their bills. Working for yourself is great but you will absolutely be trading time for money still. and probably alot more time.
The phrase welcome to the real world, is the biggest programming ever. Real world? They have no idea what the real world is like, they don’t even know what money is
@@rogergeyer9851 i never did that. I never received any money from the government or anything. I have my own company and I make more money than 80% of people in my country lol 😂
@@BrisaRuiva so other than owning your own income, how else are you paying rent w out a 9-5? And what state lmao bc you'll die here in Cali if you don't own your own business or work a 9-5.
Not even just 9-5, dead end jobs in general. I've been working since I was 13, I'm now 25. For what? What have I got to show for it? My entire life is surviving the grind to make someone else richer. We've been convinced this is the best we can do as a species. And why? Money. I've been saying I'm going to quit my current job for over a year... But for what? Another dead end job? Where they continue to cut down on wages while profits skyrocket to all time highs. I've got qualifications, where have they gotten me? Work or eat shit and die. Freedom baby!
@@ShawnDesilets freedom mate, this broken system cant last, it's already cracking. We're living in the information age, we've got the advantage of knowledge and our ability to access it. I spend most evenings teaching myself new skills online. DIY is a great way to stick it to big corporations. It's a great distraction from the doom as well lol. Stay strong mate, feeling your struggle down the creek, much love from Australia.
The Office Space is secretly the actually most socially impactful film of all time. There are true stories of people who work 9-5 watching that film and then quitting their jobs, and it made me work way less hard at my job, and my co-workers have corroborated that it has made them work way less hard. Movies almost ever actually result in real action.
@SedgeHermit yeah, it's too bad more young people likely haven't seen it. If only we all rejected this system simultaneously. They couldn't handle it if we did
Shawn, take it from a 56 year old man. Don't let anyone tell you that you're lazy. You're a Critical Thinker and can see the American (Canadian) dream is just that - a dream. Well done, bro.
I know for a fact if you bust your ass you will eventually come ahead. I’m proof of it. Got all my shit hard way. It is possible if you’re not a weak complainer. Not everyone gets a basketball contract some people are gonna earn their shit
27 here. Couldn't work for years due to a traumatic brain injury. Finally got expensive experimental neuro-therapy at 25 and thought I could finally be a productive person. Hold a job. Take care of myself. I quit my job literally yesterday. Buying a sailboat. Going to live off grid on the water. Only money I'll need is for food. I can get my own power, my own water, and use my cellular for internet. I'm never touching foot in a 'workplace' again. So weird to be chasing something for over a decade only to realize it's a facade made of lies.
@@redrustyhill2Haha thought the same thing. Like it would be better to live in a van, than a sailboat, because the maintenance for boats is very expensive (I don't have a boat, I just heard so😂)
Life is all about survivability, we are just interacting with different kinds of external stimuli which are empowered by our consciousness and motivation.
@@redrustyhill2 If you don't know how to do the repairs yourself. I'm buying a fiberglass boat. Something both affordable, and that I know how to repair. I'm going for a diesel engine, on the smaller side. Something I know how to repair. Ropes and cord I know how to audit from my mountain climbing days. The most 'expensive' thing will be dry docking to do repairs. Which can be saved for with a remote job or a temporary part time, or even just alternative income if I'm fortunate enough to get something like that. It's much more attainable than say, getting a house.
Here in the philippines, in the factories you work 6 days a week, 8 hours each day. Then on sunday, you do laundry, clean the house and then go back to work the next day. Modern day is a dystopian reality.
I’m with you brother. I’m a lawyer who used to work for a firm making over $100K, but decided to leave and start my own firm making a fraction of what I used to make, but now I control how I spend my time and guess what…. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Making much less and building upward is E-V-E-R-Y-thing. Control your time mate, go build your own dream.
Hi mate I’m an economic students interested in online marketing. I’m studying some McKinsey courses and searching opportunities to help some businesses to build a portfolio of successful cases; would you be one of them? :)
Yeah not everyone has a bachelors degree 📜 even though it helps a lot I met some people working at McDonald’s even with a degree 📜 cause they need the money so badly so college isn’t for everyone
I almost drowned when I was a teenager, and years later I had an incident that also almost led to my death, and I completely understand how you feel. I wake up at 6 AM and get home after 6 PM, feeling drained and exhausted. I have no energy or time to do anything, no motivation. I feel like garbage every day and my only hope is that I can get prescribed an upper so that I can just make it through the day -- a day I don't want to even be going through. This is where my has gone to? I dreamed of so many things. I wanted to "MAKE IT", and I did. All of the promises I set out for myself, I accomplished all of them, and now I've got a cushy job where I make a ton of money and have benefits and etc.. yet I cannot wait to get out. I've only been at this job for about a year but I dread every day. I am so tired and so mentally drained, I drive home at the end of the day worrying that I will not even be able to stay awake to make it home. It is not just depressing and hopeless -- IT IS DANGEROUS! I can't take it anymore, but I don't know where else to go. I accomplished everything I wanted to and became the man that I dreamed of becoming, but now here I sit rotting away in an office for 12 hours a day... for WHAT?What the f*** do I get out of it? What is even the point? 75% of the stuff I do I could just do from home. That alone would give me time for myself. If we all worked 1 fewer day per week, we would all accomplish roughly the same amount of work by the end of the week because we'd all be more well rested and happy. Employers are finding that the LESS they work their employees, the MORE productive they are!!! Please, America, take the hint... I am sick of this. Everyone is...
Worked in offices for 40 years. I finally quit a year ago. I understand your perspective - and you're not wrong! I hope your whole generation figures this out like you did. The coworker is instructing you on how to dissociate to bear what is unbearable to our psyches.
you paid your dues you ever notice the track record kids want everything handed to them in a week. all these idots crying the blues on youtube are the problem. i hope you also understand social security and how that works!
Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Men must work, this is a direct command by God. If you do not work you are disobeying God, you will be more miserable if you do not work and disobey the Lord. If you work to honor God and keep this command then work will be a joy
He should say that if he is not caming from hard earned or rich family so we can agree with him i don’t agree with him at all here you are saying you have worked 40 years in office (office) I guess at least you have something to back up so 😂😂😂😂
I said 'I’d rather die than work a 9-5' when I was 15 and that was in 1970. I am now retired and still think the same way. Good for you for rebelling against this slavery. Great video!! Wishing you all the best for the future.
@@Emma-og2jt you are just lazy boomer the economy was a walk in the park back then now it’s like walking through Hell with a tornado earthquake and firestorm all at once.
working a cushy 9-5 is no problem at all. its boring and not ideal, but saying you'd rather unalive yourself then work an cushy office jobs while people in other countries die for a chance to make $2 a day. even others in developed are working labor jobs breaking their back. and 99% of people throughout history had it harder. you guys need to stop being ungrateful. if you dont want your cushy easy job where you dont break a sweat, hand it over to the indian that is willing to do it, or the unemployed people that dont know how they will pay their bills. Working for yourself is great but you will absolutely be trading time for money still. and probably alot more time.
@@ibrahimelmi210 Its a case of living a simple, minimalistic lifestyle while finding a job you love that is not like a job. I found this after sheer hard work studying at university. I was, however, lucky enough to get a grant which meant no study debt.
@@Emma-og2jt I respect that. you put in the work and living minimalistic. the kid in the video saying that he would unalive himself rather than work 8 hours doing IT work. I cant respect that. He thinks he will get rich in business which is much harder and sometimes you wont make a dime for years. so if he already lacks work ethic i doubt he will get there. and on top that he acts like hes better than his coworkers who have "accepted mediocrity" when he is really no better than them. he cant even hold down the job that they do without mentally breaking down but thinks hes better.
@@ibrahimelmi210 I would say that it is really difficult for many people to find out what they want to do in life, i.e. finding their passion. That can take time. Once you find your passion, you can work towards that and try to achieve your goal in any way you can. I also studied online to get my masters but it was fun because I enjoyed what I was learning.
This guy GETS IT!!!! Life is not meant to be lived slaving away at a 9-5 job until you are fucking dead or too damn old to enjoy LIVING!!!! I hope this guy finds his path and succeeds financially and on all aspects of life -- because there is way more to LIVING than money, and as a Nurse I can guarantee you one thing -- not one patient that I have ever seen die in front of me, takes their money with them. BOOMZOOM.
The only way is to change the system. It's psychotic. Anyone who finds success in this system only does so because there are hundreds of others who are essentially slaves
Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Men must work, this is a direct command by God. If you do not work you are disobeying God, you will be more miserable if you do not work and disobey the Lord. If you work to honor God and keep this command then work will be a joy
@@ECLECTRIC_EDITS you are conflating working with wage slaving for currency they are VERY different things. Nobody here doesnt wanna work, but we're not gonna be enslaved quietly. Even the Jesus said if you can get your freedom to do so
People who have given all their lives to companies have no concept of free time above that 2 weeks their employer 'gives' them. WORK FOR YOURSELF. Companies are literally prisons.
@@theapexfighter8741 yeah... you can do collab with someone. In reality, it's really hard to keep them persistent and that's the reason why "employer" ended up looking for someone who need a "stable" job
"It's either work a job or be homeless." LIES. I quit my job at 19 and now I am 27. Been self-employed for near a decade. It's possible. I'm excited to watch this journey of yours!
@@dzemilmehovic5271 I own a marketing company that I started by just knowing how to film videos, as well as a men's self-improvement training company called Gravel To Castle
Same. My house n cars are paid off. I work to pay bills, and have spending money. Tried to work part-time, and my boss said "no". So I now come in, and basically sports gamble on the clock. I make half a day's wages gambling on average.
You have a great and rare mentality, don't give up on your dreams. Your coworkers are already dead on the inside, their dreams are dead, they've given up.
Exactly. They take more and more and expect us to get by on less and less and then wonder why nobody wants to work anymore?? Wow ill be darned. Make it worth it again, make it so people can live on their income, you know, like how things were even 15 years ago. Their greed knows no bounds.
And, too, are enabled and backed to do so - in the, "land of the free!" 😵 The cognitive dissonance of many/ most is ABSOLUTELY UNFATHOMABLY - DISTURBING!!! 💯
Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Men must work, this is a direct command by God. If you do not work you are disobeying God, you will be more miserable if you do not work and disobey the Lord. If you work to honor God and keep this command then work will be a joy
We are like animals bred into captivity. Stripped of the power to provide for ourselves without the oppression of our “owners”. Our longing for our own business is just deep feelings drawing us towards our natural state of self-reliance outside of this system. Our country is $35 trillion dollars in debt last year, up from $23 trillion in 2019. The only thing keeping our country afloat is the ability to print money and take loans we will never pay back. The working class is the fuel to keep this circus firing burning. The money is fake, the food is fake, the economy is fake. We are in a virtual reality that is destined for self-destruction
I told my mother that I don't like selling my time and she told me that's the deal we make. Actually, we're selling CONTROL of our time. That's what feels wrong to us.
Tell your mother the social contract is broken and unlike for her there is no longer a ‘deal’ for younger people since they can no longer survive on the wages being paid. The deal has been broken.
My Science teacher told me once, and i never really thought about it. Humans were never supposed to work up to 8 hours a day. The invention of the lightbulb made humans work overtime/night shifts. something humans have never done and werent built for. Technology such as the internet and automation made the demand for human robots (factory work/office work 9-5) its ironic, almost like a monkey paw wish. We gained an easier life with technology, but we lost years of our life by working.
seems like majority of us from gen z are thinking like this. happy to know i’m not the only one feeling this way, hopefully something changes in the future cause this really ain’t it.
Wanna say something. We have a company in Europe. My sibling and me. After many years, we were able to save as much money as we wanted. We bought houses cars etc. And I thought, We don't need any more money. Why don't we give our employees more time off? Why don't we reduce working hours? We won't make any losses anyway. So we did it. We reduced it to 6 hours. We also increased their annual vacation. The funny thing was that production increased. Everyone was happier, they were doing their jobs much better. I believe this. In the future, even those selfish bosses will realize that this is better for both the employees and themselves. But we need some time. In the past, there weren't even days off. Everything is better now than before and will get better with time. I know it's hard to work right now. My advice to you is to save yourself. Never be a pessimist. Do not distress yourself. Things get better by the time. Of course, I don't know your situation as well as you do. I don't live in America. You are more knowledgeable on this subject, I'm just trying to help.
@@User40919 I think I'm going to be situated as an employer in 2-4 years. I already have notes on how I want to be treated. Golden rules. 6 work hours, paid hour lunchbreak, covered commute, and every hour that wasn't schedule is overtime. I might even do job bonuses if we complete work before schedule. Say we plan to do a job the whole day, and we finish early. They get paid like the worked all day, and we go home early. I personally don't mind 9-5 so long as it stays strictly 9-5. I've worked a 7-7 job, the reason I noticed it sucked was because I didn't have a nicotine addiction to relax me.
The only way anyone can not have debt is if someone else has it for them, in some sense. Not attacking what you do btw, just pointing out that there's more debt than money in the world. The system is insane. We have to challenge it. The end result of not doing so is the collapse of everything, maybe even extinction. So yes, build your own thing to survive, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that's possible without someone else then taking on debt. That's just the simple math behind this society
People sometimes like to say "must be nice working in an air-conditioned office, sitting at a desk all day." Yes, the job is very sedentary, but that's basically just one of a few perks. They don't take into account the mental anguish of working on 3 different screens for 8 hours a day, being expected to do the job of 2-3 people because basically every industry is overworking us all on a skeleten crew, the racing thoughts, and ofcourse, the OFFICE POLITICS - the utter disrespect from higher ups, making you accept feeling less than, the rampant toxicity, living in fear of losing your job over some BS (which means losing any means of health/dental care). This way of life is utter HELL, and the fact that people just continue to live like this makes me so sad for the future.
I learned this years ago when my mom encouraged me quit my job and do what i really wanted to do, because she saw how miserable it made me. She gave me a lecture about "The Rule and The Exception" relating to 9-5 jobs/life and ended with 'The exception existing proves that the rule is wrong."
Im 23 and completely in the same boat. Ive been breaking my body welding and doing construction since age 18. Compared to your IT work i have at least been learning and mastering trades i can use to make my own business, but a year ago today i got my first fun job. I went all in like you and traveled (not far) to be a white water guide in Pennsylvania. While there i decided to get a job teaching people how to ski which was a blast and i met so many people that think like you and i. Now im back home (in NY) and i got offered a position as a ski instructor at Copper mountain in Colorado! Do i have family and connections there? No. But will i make it? Absolutely. By all means necessary AVOID BECOMING A CORPORATE SLAVE!!! You got this Shawn!! Thanks for the inspiring video!
Quite frankly, that's the difference between most people that complain about work and you. You had challenging jobs but trades work bring a different type of personal development. You're always learning something new and often run into challenging, or at least different, situations that will exercise your skillset and cause you to grow. Furthermore, it helps with understanding tools, applied math, physics, and even chemistry (concrete). You develop critical thinking skills as well as a hardened demeanor (because, ya know, tradesman lol). These are things white collared workers will never understand or obtain; It's considered "manual labor" or "not as good" but are willing to work a job they hate because it's not physically challenging. You're on a whole different plane from most people in the comment section.
You were born into a pre-apocalyptic Earth, my young friend. None of this should be considered normal. We're frogs in a pot getting closer to boiling...
Much power to you! I'm an old woman who has never worked a 9-to-5. I've been freelancing my whole life, and I'm still alive. Don't let the stupid system tell you what or how to do anything. EDIT: I'm trying to answer comments, but RU-vid is deleting my comments randomly. I could answer two comments, but the rest was deleted.
@@Glassessss I'm a comic book artist and digital painter. Also, I can code something, and do some animation and 3D modeling because game dev was my hobby. Now I'm trying to combine these things to see what happens haha But I have to confess that I got myself an agent. Things are much easier with some help.
@@Amelia_PCfree lance is difficult to find success in especially for those starting from 0 with no connections. That being said I find it funny how it's always something artsy when I hear about freelancing. It's never some kind of labor or trade lol
@@thedoomslayer5863 Everybody starts from zero unless their parents have some influence. I got myself an agent in the beginning. I don't know, but maybe a kind of agency or group accepts newcomers for labor, trade, or sales. "Artsy" people are very disorganized and usually don't help each other in work groups unless they're in the same studio. I bet labor or trade have larger groups to affiliate with. I have a bachelor's degree in Arts (and studied very hard), but it helped nothing. Having an agent was more useful than my diploma. If things are not going well alone, try to find a group. But you have to be good enough to catch their attention. That's it. Just be good (not great) at something and be a nice team player and stuff will work. OR, be an entrepreneur.
@@thedoomslayer5863 Everyone starts from zero unless their parents have some influence. I got an agent at the beginning because my bachelor's degree in Arts wasn't useful (after studying very hard). I came from the beginning of the internet, so it was harder than it is today. (As I said, I'm old.) "Artsy" people are very disorganized and usually don't help each other get work unless they work in the same place/studio. I bet people in labor and trade have larger groups to start with since they are better organized. That's it, or becoming an entrepreneur or salesperson. It's pretty hard to tell something since I don't know what's your field.
Congratulations on being a leader not a follower. I could never do the 9-5 thing either. I work three 12 hour days right now to pay my bills and that is way better than 9-5 five days a week! As an introvert I need lots of time for myself or I get extremely run down. You are an intelligent free thinker and if other people criticize you, they are jealous and wish they had the courage to be their own captain.
Working 9-5 is legit awful, it's no way to live. People always say "it's not that bad, you have days off!" except not really, because even on a day off you have no time for yourself. You have to use what little free time you have to do chores and errands, and then by the time you're done with those it's time to go back to work. I'm glad a lot of people are starting to realize what a pointless existence it is. I quit the 9-5 life a while ago. Yes, I'm broke, but I'm free, and freedom is more important than money. People need to realize that.
Yup !!!!!! Freedom is more important than money 100 % !!!! I love feeling free !!!! I hate feeling trapped by a job !!it’s misery I love clock out @ the end of a day I feel free to
How are you free though, as in what do you do now? I would say it depends on the work environment and culture of that 9-5. Though my job is a little different, it's more 8-4:30, and it's work at home, and we get an hour break. They give us free extra days off just because, they add extra holiday days in just because as well to make weekends extra long randomly. If you want off, there's no question, you put your name down and you get it off. It's secure job that provides me with reliable and consistent income and good benefits with a positive environment and they genuinely treat us well here. Yeah, the time to yourself can feel like a problem, but having a retail job wasn't much different and that's speaking from someone who's worked both types of jobs. It's the unfortunate reality of life, no matter what job you take (unless you get incredibly lucky), even if you go your own business route (often), you have to dedicate probably at least 40 hours a week of your life to it to get by comfortably. The free time I do get is worth it. The quality of life improvement, the vacations it allows that I can see the world, be able to afford restaurant dine in, I'm just saying there is a lot of good in that. We also get random bonuses of sizable amounts just because as well throughout the year. They've voluntarily raised our wages to match when wages go up. They give us free quality food from local restaurants randomly. There is no toxicity here. I also think the 4 day work week style is the best and my job also offers that. So you work M-Th but you work 2 extra hours per day to make up. You get Friday-Sunday off. It's great. I'm happy.
@@willitfloat7785 It's going to vary for everyone of course, but I work in insurance. Granted, I work in a specific department that is known as the best department in the company, so I did get a bit of luck there. But our culture is very good. The company is always on Forbes Top 50 places to Work every year. It's so understanding here that, we had "zen rooms" in the office pre-pandemic before that happened and made us work at home, and what that was was a room where you could go if you were on, say, a stressful call where you could recuperate and it was encouraged you use it as your mental health was important. The worst downside is the time and repetitiveness of the job, but if that's the worst complaint we have, then I'd say we've got it pretty good. There's a lot worse you could be going through.
Reminds me when these workers would brag about how hard they work, and that's the only thing they can show while having a hunch back and taking painkillers to cope with the physical labor they do. The thing that I question is why is no one is asking question of "why are we suppose to be used to working long hours for a lil bit of pay like the previous generation?". We are expected to work like slaves and when we complain, they call us lazy and entitled when we just want a fair wage for a staggering economy but even though the company made record profits they still can't pay their employee a fair wage.
Your generation gotta pay your dues. Why should older workers work long hours anymore when younger didn’t pay their dues yet. Find a better way if you can I suppose
You don't get anywhere is based on how you spend. Bunk with your parents if they have a room, don't get a car loan, don't eat out everyday, don't be a consumerist drone unless its investments like stocks. I like watching that one RU-vidr "Financial Audit with Caleb Hammer" and idiots will still be broke when making $100K plus. 😑
working a cushy 9-5 that pays enough is no problem at all. its boring and not ideal, but saying you'd rather unalive yourself then work an cushy office jobs while people in other countries die for a chance to make $2 a day. even others in developed are working labor jobs breaking their back. and 99% of people throughout history had it harder. you guys need to stop being ungrateful. if you dont want your cushy easy job where you dont break a sweat, hand it over to the indian that is willing to do it, or the unemployed people that dont know how they will pay their bills. Working for yourself is great but you will absolutely be trading time for money still. and probably alot more time. my parents were entrepreneurs and had an extremely hard life. its fine if you want to choose that life, but acting like its a net positive over a 9-5 for every business owner is a lie. many business owners wish they could get a good 9-5. the real reality of life is everyone wont be rich.
As a uni student in Russia, I receive a $530 monthly orphan's pension until I turn 23 just for studying. This summer, I got greedy and decided to work in food service for extra money. Shifts here are no joke - 9 am to 11 pm, I'm not exaggerating. One month was enough to make me realize the true value of time. Employers used to say, "People are lining up for work if not you" but now they're seeing the shift. There's no one left. They just want maximum output and profit, to squeeze me dry. Is that what I'm living for? Time is everything.
Prior generations were brainwashed with phrases like "giving back to the community" or "Being a productive member of society" all nonsense to trick people into surrendering their time to corporations who couldn't care less about them. With the advent of internet and information being literally everywhere coupled with the fact income is not keeping up with inflation the illusion is crumbling away.
Dude, if you're really in Russia, and you know English then you should run away from there. You're already in top 1-2 % of people who can see through crap that your government serves you. My Russian friends with English ran away through Kazakhstan at the beginning of Russian invasion of Ukraine, and none of them looked back. They travel, work and live now. It's always about the first step to take.
@@dashabelor I'm watching Ivanovi vs Ivanovi here in Serbia and Friends at the same time. There are things I like in both in terms of values but more toxic behaviour and prejudice is being enabled in first, which I also see in my own culture. I too have thoughts of running away but for those reasons first. Though a large part of ambitious people here wants to run the hell away
Omg girl I agree.I am Russian as well, although I am still at school,decided to work this summer as a barista and it is so draining and the boss is so ungrateful,the salary is a fucking joke...I am going to live Russia too,it’s just too much pressure here because of the media and war...bruh
I got my fist job as a graphic designer in the UK, worked for £25 000 for a year and realized that I will die in poverty if I don`t start my own business. All co-workers and the company owner told me that with my learning speed and skills, I could easily get £40 000 in a couple of years, but its still pennies. I save all of my money, commute to work on a bicycle, eat eggs and chicken, wear same clothes, to maximize savings, I don`t go out, I rent a literal basement for £600, its half the minimal rent in my area, but it would still take decades to buy a tiny flat. I do cool packaging, motion graphics for education, conference stands for medical companies, printed materials for surgical field, my work is not useless, I make complex data easy to read, why do I have to live like a 1500s peasant in 2024 to save up anything? What am I supposed to do to save up more? Go hunt squirrels in a park and heat my water with a campfire?
You need to stop being a graphic designer. It's almost as bad as being a musician. The truth is nobody wants to pay for that kind of work anymore. They'll throw in a couple of bucks for a Canva sub and put some slop together and that's it. It's good enough for most "businesses". AI will devalue your work even more. You need to upskill and get into a more technical field that people are willing to pay money for.
@@fE2y3UKF most jobs in the UK have a garbage pay, I could work on a fishing weasel or weld underwater, it doesn’t matter, it all pays peanuts. I have a technical diving license, when you account for gas and gear, it’s even less money for more health risks. At least when I design packaging, I don’t freeze my balls off in a dry suit.
@@snowsnow4231 You're right there mate. Unfortunately the UK is in a very, very poor state of affairs. I honestly don't know how you all survive. Every time I visit London and notice how expensive everything is and how low the wages are I wonder how young people make it out there. I hope things will get better. If you can pull it off maybe look into moving to another country with a stronger economy. I think a lot of anglo countries are doing very badly except for the USA (not exactly an anglo country anymore). Other than that, if I were in your shoes I would be upskilling and networking and looking to start a business to escape if possible. Good luck!
Your personality and way of speaking rlly got to me. U basically explained what I was thinking and wanna say to ppl but most just shit on u if u say anything against 9-5’s
It took me 36 years to learn this amd i am glad your video exist you are helping a lot of people with your message here keep it up wish you the best man
Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Men must work, this is a direct command by God. If you do not work you are disobeying God, you will be more miserable if you do not work and disobey the Lord. If you work to honor God and keep this command then work will be a joy
I’m sorry to say but this mindset isn’t unique. The difference is the people who do something about it Most people can’t though, or they don’t have the opportunities to
I just stay at my local shopping centre for half the day nearly every day, that way l don't have to use up electricity at home, ' cause the electricity bill keeps going up. Plus, staying at home is boring! I just love my retirement years of hanging out there, watching movies on my phone while it's plugged into my power bank in the food court. The shopping centre is my 2nd home. My multi-million dollar mansion 😂
Ten years ago I said I would rather starve to death than ever work corporate again. The first 3 years were brutal hard by the 5th year it was still a struggle but not any worse than a regular job by the 7th year life was easier than working a regular job. Now 10 years later it was the best decision I've ever made. I will never need to be an employee ever again.
This blend in our brains make an year seem like a month in our memories. It's really sad. It's been almost 2 years that I'm working like that and probably soon I will get out, I'm done with it.
ever since i was a kid i had this mentality, i watched my friends grow older and start desiring 9-5's and their dreams that once used to be vibrant and vivid, now replaced with the dream of a nuclear family and a 'stable' job. i haven't changed, and it feels like a curse sometimes, but yet i feel so alive and awake while those around me seem imprisoned. glad to find others like me
Your realization at such a young age is truly remarkable - it's the kind of profound insight that many people fail to grasp even after decades of life experience. You've managed to see through the facade of the conventional system that traps so many in unfulfilling wage slavery. This level of awareness puts you far ahead of previous generations who often blindly followed societal expectations without questioning them. You've recognized the corrupt nature of a system designed to keep people complacent and subservient. By rejecting this flawed paradigm early on, you've opened up immense possibilities for charting your own path and living life on your own terms. Don't let anyone diminish the significance of this realization or pressure you to conform to outdated norms. You have the opportunity to break free from the cycle that has ensnared so many before you. Embrace your unique perspective and use it to forge a life of true meaning and purpose.
We learned from the mistakes of the older generation, which we’re grateful for, but it seems the majority of the older generation is still defending the old way of life. There’s clearly a new way trying to emerge, but it seems like we’re in a constant battle and our parents are the the main ones holding us back for the sake of “safety” based on fear
I just resigned today at my job at UCLA hospital. This is how I’ve been feeling for several months more than I already knew what I decided to do with my life. I’m 21 as well and just know the energy you bring will give everlasting energy to the ones who realize time is worth more than money. Yet why not make money using time for yourself to create and set. Thank you for this statement. TOP G
I quit my banking job after 13yrs with nothing, always feeling bitter in the office felt like something was missen so eventually I quit although I had no idea what to do with my life !!!
After over 15 years of retail jobs I found the perfect Job (night crew at my local grocery store) breaking down pallets, restocking the shelves and facing the store, ZERO customers to talk to. Sometimes I only work with 1 to 3 other people, I get to listen to Music and podcasts all night\morning. Get off at 6:30, sleep till noon, get the rest of the day to do whatever I want. I’m also a Windsurf Teacher
I read working through the night has and disrupting your sleep is the equipment of being a smoker. Don't tell me you smoke too? All the best, do whatever you can to escape the rat race, which will also grind you down
@@47nrubreddew hunter gatherers averaged 15 hours of work a week for food and shelter. We are working 50hrs just to get by maybe 60. 40 is totally inadequate now
@@andrewsmith3257 I was thinking more of medieval farmers, I heard that even they only worked hard at certain times of the year. I don't know if that's accurate though.
@@47nrubreddew eh..I actually watched a documentary on the black plague. Medieval peasants had to get up at 4 or 5 am and the work was pretty grueling. The Aristocracy actually had to fight their own wars. It was definitely a different time period
I remember going to a meeting in Walmart. I work there as a stocker. The actual job isn't that bad. But I remember going to a meeting that was being held, where we were prompted to voice our concerns. I kid you not, every single complaint was met with some variant of "we can't change that." From "we need to train every person on how to use the cardboard compactor," to "we need more space in the backroom," all were met with some cleverly reworked version of "nope, sorry, that's too much." It didn't feel like upper management trying ti reach out. It felt like upper management trying to quell dissenting opinions.
You guys think you're in a bad position? I'm in my 20s and have literally ruined my lower spine from a dead-end job. I can't even do barely anything in life anymore. No compensation, no remorse, no support, treated poorly, pretty much one of the worst-case scenarios. Don't be me. Easy in hindsight, of course, but if I were to go back, I would work so slow or change my career path. God damn, I was so naïve. You don't know what's around the corner sometimes. It is what it is. Please, take care all.
I don't know your situation, but Tom Morrison mobility has been a useful channel for me. If a physio/rehab element is safe with your injury, he has some back videos.
I'm 27 and got a MRI "l5s1 disc herniation" last February due to back/leg pain. Since then the symptoms have gotten a lot better without medical treatment. At first I had to lay down all the time and could do very little but now I can do many more things including physical labor (although less frequently).
@@jmsdnepetl Yeah, herniations *can* get better for sure, but it won't be the same as pre-injury, of course. I have a small broad based bulge along with bertolotti syndrome. The small bulge will most likely be the culprit in my case and it is actually crazy how something on paper may "look" fine, but I'm really, really not. My QoL is affected, badly.
i had this too - i got so depressed i listened to horror stories on my way to work to feel something. - then I inherited money, got fired and started investing the inheritance. its been 5 years - not picking up another job was the best decision I ever made. (disclaimer: i own my home)
Your colleagues will tell you "thats just how it is" because they have an employee mentality. Be self employed if you can, be an employer if you can. No matter what you do, be working towards something better.
Only be an employer if you gonna actually pay your employees. If you don't wanna pay humans a liveable wage then you need to be a sole proprietor and do ALL the work yourself... In my experience small business owners may put in a few years in the beginning but once they can afford to step away they do. Nobody should be running someone else's business for them for $40-60k a year meanwhile the no show owner takes $100ks in profit!
working a cushy 9-5 that pays enough is no problem at all. its boring and not ideal, but saying you'd rather unalive yourself then work an cushy office jobs while people in other countries die for a chance to make $2 a day. even others in developed are working labor jobs breaking their back. and 99% of people throughout history had it harder. you guys need to stop being ungrateful. if you dont want your cushy easy job where you dont break a sweat, hand it over to the indian that is willing to do it, or the unemployed people that dont know how they will pay their bills. Working for yourself is great but you will absolutely be trading time for money still. and probably alot more time. my parents were entrepreneurs and had an extremely hard life. its fine if you want to choose that life, but acting like its a net positive over a 9-5 for every single business owner is a lie. many business owners wish they could get a good 9-5 and are barely making it in business. the real reality of life is everyone wont be rich. i do agree that starting a business at least gives you a shot at being rich. but if you work for someone else and get paid an amount thats not a scam. you should not be considering offing yourself.
Honestly there is no answer. I quit my 9-5 when I was 26 and moved to Korea to teach English and travel. I did it for 3 years. I’ve been to sooo many countries and had so many experiences. It was amazing but I had no money. I truly missed the security of having a steady paycheck and a good one. Even though I knew I’d never go back to a 9-5, that’s all I wanted to do after the 3rd year of traveling and not being able to afford to pay my American debts, like my student loans, with my Korean salary. So now, I’m 30… back in America with a 9-5 with a median salary. And although im back to square one, I at least feel secure.
@@kerart0- nah.. it’s fun to be an expat but 3 years was too long for me. That’s why most people just backpack for a year. You run out of money eventually and miss the financial security you had from a 9-5
I quit my job to start travelling, and it was amazing but eventually the novelty wore off, and travelling was no longer exciting and I just missed waking up everyday with purpose and knowing that I was getting money every week
Genesis 3:17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. Men must work, this is a direct command by God. If you do not work you are disobeying God, you will be more miserable if you do not work and disobey the Lord. If you work to honor God and keep this command then work will be a joy
I just stay at my local shopping centre for half the day nearly every day, that way l don't have to use up electricity at home, ' cause the electricity bill keeps going up. Plus, staying at home is boring! I just love my retirement years of hanging out there, watching movies on my phone while it's plugged into my power bank in the food court. The shopping centre is my 2nd home. My multi-million dollar mansion 😂
I feel you on this one. Everyday I’m trying to figure out so I never have to wake up to an alarm clock again. Or at least the alarm I don’t want to, but more to the one I do. Whichever that is.
When I was 14, my dad made me work for four hours every day as a dishwasher at the family business. I can’t describe how soul-crushing it was for me. Four hours to a fourteen year old is a lifetime. And I looked around at the Mexican ladies chopping vegetables in the kitchen and knew that they had to be there for EIGHT hours… I could barely handle it.
So much wisdom from someone so young! You’ve explained something that’s hard to describe to others who just don’t get it. I wish you all the best with your own business!
I graduated college years ago, but I never got used to the typical 9 to 5 work... Just the thought of mindlessly sitting at a desk, getting up when it's dark outside and going home when it's dark outside, and being told by someone else what to do... Then when I tell other people about it, it's always "Well, welcome to the real world." It sucks. Most people don't really like their jobs too
I've been developing software for 20+ years I can tell you it is more like playing legos than "mindlessly sitting at a desk." Pays better than McDonald's, too. (Spoken from experience.)
@HomelessOnline I'm learning to code now. Maybe I'll get a degree in computer science or something. I already have a lingustics degree so it feels like a waste to pay 30,000 + for another degree. ldk what to do about that
working a cushy 9-5 that pays enough is no problem at all. its boring and not ideal, but saying you'd rather unalive yourself then work an cushy office jobs while people in other countries die for a chance to make $2 a day. even others in developed are working labor jobs breaking their back. and 99% of people throughout history had it harder. you guys need to stop being ungrateful. if you dont want your cushy easy job where you dont break a sweat, hand it over to the indian that is willing to do it, or the unemployed people that dont know how they will pay their bills. Working for yourself is great but you will absolutely be trading time for money still. and probably alot more time. my parents were entrepreneurs and had an extremely hard life. its fine if you want to choose that life, but acting like its a net positive over a 9-5 for every business owner is a lie. many business owners wish they could get a good 9-5. the real reality of life is everyone wont be rich.
I work in the UAE security, I work 12 hours a day, no day off and no bonuses, less sleeping time, Middle East Work is Real Slavery 😮 regardless of qualification
@@electrology I want to not work and live the life I actually wanna live. In my case it's be a complete degenerate stay up as late as I want and sleep in as long as I want and just generally doing whatever I deign to do. I have absolutely 0 interest in contributing to a society that never did anything for me. Before you say "But that's not realistic" it mostly is because I have achieved that.
First finish school, years and years of learning nothing, when I got out of school thats when I actually started to learn the things I need for life. Then get in a building for 10 hours and go home just to do it again tommorow. This is not what life suppose to be yet people think this is normal. The educational system was not made for critical thinkers and different minds, it was made to make a classic factory worker that will obey the manager. What about the money, does money have value? The answer is no. Money has no value, in fact as I speak millions and millions of euros are printed. And we are giving away our health to get this paper. We have accepted this as our reality and we are feeding the next generation with these lies as they are normal.
I resonate with this so deeply. Been working at a firm for the past 7 months. It's a long internship, and I don't even get paid. 8-5. I feel unfulfilled, tired and sad most days. I've asked myself countless times, "Is this what I'm going to do till I'm 65?". I dread the thought. And my body tells me it's not happy in this environment. Headaches, stomach issues. I don't understand why I have to feel guilty for requesting sick leave to treat health problems that are stress related. I hate this.
Maybe back in the day, when you really could chase your dreams while working doing that unemployed but chasing a music career (trope u often see in movies) would be considered a dumb thing to do. But nowadays i think its the only way to go. to stay sane
You’re telling people to quit their 9-5 jobs but if you open up your own business, you’ll hire people to work 8 hours a day to keep your business running.
