You dont dig deep enough. There is a mechanism that forces people to do jobs that they normally wouldnt do. Our parents lived a VERY different life. They tried to prepare us for what they have learned worked for them. "You just need to put the efford in and it will work out!" Spoilerwarning: Times have changed. To be able to afford a flat or a house is nearly impossible. The fact that the majority of the people live paycheck to paycheck is extremely frightening. This system forces you to do jobs you wouldnt normally do. Always the fear to end on the streets. It can happen so quickly. One bigger illness (which happens very common) and you are fucking done. All this is happening while inflation kicks in and people are barely surviving. While our parents were able save money and achieved a sense of safety (from illness and whatever) by doing this, gave them a huge boost in motivation to work. Most people also work in very alienated jobs and dont see the results of what they are doing. Many jobs are shitjobs that actually have no reason to exist at all. Working for big corporations (what the majority of people does) in itself is a complete scam. By doing this people are very aware that they are making rich people even more rich. Please make a video about this!
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The biggest difference will be ( at least for me) quitting current job, take a break, persue own interests and hobbies, and then start another job. I think doing something similar like this will be a completly fresh start.
Work is not the issue. Its increased stress and less reward. Edit: by reward I mostly meant appreciation, being valued and respected. People burn out from trying to please certain people in their life that are too hard to please. These people always dangle the cookie of appreciation in front of the person but never give it while the person runs himself to exhaustion.
It could also have something to do with the fact that over half of all states are right-to-work states, there are ZERO mandated vacation days, most health-related insurance is tied to having/keeping a job, and most, if not all, corporations around here are strongly anti-union and will actively work to defeat unionization efforts. America is a joke.
Explained in gamer terms: Boomers had figured out the meta, are now op and gatekeep others from playing it. Gen Z understands that they have no way of winning and choose not to play. Now boomers complain that there are not enough noobs to farm.
How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? - Charles Bukowski
830 lmfao. I'm up at 7 when wage slaving. Snooze 15 minutes, 15 minutes to piss, shit, shave, wash, put on prison jumper, jump into car for long 1 hr commute because houses are 11x salaries where I live, arrive 5 seconds late and get written up. Work 3 hours of overtime to 8pm, stop by fast food for a quick 15 minute slop, take the late train home, back at 930, shower, cry, sleep, repeat 5 days a week. Weekend boss shoots a quick email, say please get these quick tasks done before the weekend is over. Said tasks take 10 hours on Saturday, 6 on Sunday, come in Monday, boss screams at you for not doing it right. Repeat 52 weeks a year 45 years of my productive life, or so I think. Bank keeps increasing interest rates. What used to be a 30 year mortgage is now 50. Get retrenched at 50. 20 more years on mortgage. Drive uber 18 hours a day 7 days a week, till bank raises interest rates again. Your 50 year mortgage is now generational 100 years. Lose home. Bank forecloses house for 100k to the relative of a bank manager in a market where houses are 1.5 mil. Flips house in a year for 2 million. You still owe the bank 1 million dollars. Every penny you earn now is used to pay the poor widdle bank who is "massively out of pocket" from your bankruptcy. Rinse and repeat. Bank posts record profit for the year and issues massive dividend to shareholders. Oh no, the economy is now over stimulated! Time to raise interest rates again!
@phillipsmith7759 is it tho? I genuinely believe humans require hardship just not this kind of hardship. Life is so cushy and convenient and "easy" it's making folks wanna die because there's no actual purpose anymore there is so many stresses that aren't imo equivalant to living in like a tribe surviving a hunt or training to fight building something and being shown gratefulness from your fellow brothers and all. It's all about make someone else rich and to keep them rich keep the masses distracted and stupid give them food easy give them entertainment easy give them everything easy until they literally can't survive without u so they forever stay your slaves unknowingly until you start seeing everyone say oh it is what it is or it's always been this way or to bad suck it up....yea yea just an opinion
I'm generation X, and I said way back in the late 90's after securing my first office job that there was no way we humans evolved over millions of years on the savannas of Africa to sit in cubicles and stare at screens for all of our lives. It's a soulless existence, and all we're doing is chasing a paycheck so we can buy food and have a place to sleep. I really hope younger generations find a better way to live a productive life.
Yes. I am complaining about being a laborer but I am not thrilled about soul crushing office work either. How come @gregm762 gets it but business do not? Still, I would rather be in an office if it was 9-5 Monday through Friday. Remember, laborers do not get Labor Day off!!! Office workers do!!!
@@Errorztx can I ask you a question? Was your reply to my comment @user-qv6sn9xy9k? Or was it to @gregm762? I only ask because I am having trouble with figuring out RU-vids comment board. It gets confusing the way they post a comment under other comments. I assume your comment is referring to mine about not having Labor Day off. Still, you get it. Labor can take unpaid day off, office workers tend to get it off paid. Just another slap in the face to the working class yet media (Mike Roe for example) gets paid to go on tv and say, “I can’t understand why American can’t fill labor jobs”. I want Mike Roes job. He is not that good at what he does, lol.
It's because it's not just the tasks you're hired to do. You're expected to show up early, leave late, put on a happy act the entire time you're at work, answer calls and emails on your free time, do other people's jobs for free, and go "above and beyond." It's so ridiculous. I once got in trouble for slouching. I'm not a robot.
Exactly what happened in my old job as an admin assistant. The same thing applied to my former colleagues - management had a habit of calling or texting when you were about to lock-up, off, sick or even on lunch breaks. There was no life outside of work. I am glad I am now in a job where I just do my required hours, get paid and go home.
Yeah, it must be tough coming home from a few hours of meetings, escorted by your personal assistants, to a private chef-made dinner in your pristine mansion cleaned by maids. Not to mention taking endless vacations to all corners of the world in 5-star resorts. Absolutely exhausting!
Not Gen Z, young millennial, but it just doesn't feel worth it. My husband works extremely hard, we don't live an extravagant lifestyle at all, and we're still barely making it. I bet people wouldn't feel so burned out if they could actually live in relative comfort off of their job.
@@MilanSmore It's been a year since I graduated but I still couldn't land a job . But my friends who go to jobs say that jobs are so frustrating as their companies exploit them by making them work for 9+ hours with very less wages hence why I've turned pessimistic towards going for job.
That and also being offered raises for working hard as it used to be. I am also a millenial and I have just had to hear from older generations about benefits that I have never received.
This idea that people "don't want to work anymore" is ludicrous. People don't want yo work 2 jobs and struggle to make ends meet while companies post record proffits. Pay us more!
If you wish to obtain more money because the company you work for was successful buy stock like every one else... A companies' profits, outside of actual "profit sharing", have nothing to do with your pay scale..
@@david5544g but they should. The workers and not the management are the reason for the success. All management does is make people do more per person.
Back in the day, by showing hard work, you were compensated with higher pays, more time off and promotions. Today when you show hard work you are rewarded with MORE work for the same pay and a promotion to a much more stressful position still for the same pay. Where I live we are always paid minimum wage, doing the job of 20 people in several roles in the same place, even if you have a degree. 3-4x the minimum wage is still unlivable, but no, companies still pay us the misery misery of 1 minimum wage (about $220) to the point that 3 people in the same house with full-time jobs cannot keep themselves. This is an insult, it basically means, if we could pay you less, we would.
I've actually noticed a downward trend of pay in a lot of fields over the last 10-15 yrs. On occasion, I'll look up past job openings for fields I've worked or applied to in various cities. Jobs that once started $20-25+/ hr are now around $15-20. $12-15 are now around $8-10. Everytime I would browse, the numbers would be lower. Nevermind the added stipulations of "minimum degree plus 2-4 yrs experience required" for the most basic of jobs that you have to do some training for upon hiring anyways. Even my chosen field once was at $25-30 plus tips as an employee are averaging $15-20. My feild is so physically demanding that our "full time" is 20-25 hrs max & anything higher is a risk for physical injury so the pay is now equivalent to minimum wage. So employers did do the "if I could pay you less I would" by dropping the hiring pay by $0.50-1 until they found the absolute lowest denominator ppl would accept. Yet if you look at average pay stats over the last decade, everything shows an upward trend. Not because average ppl are getting paid better, but the because the higher ups were able to pay the lower peons less so they could keep more. It's really fucked.
Yes exactly, and more generally, loyalty to employees (stability). We have lived in this modern form for several generations now, we as a society agreed to make certain sacrifices as a fair trade. It's a contract, and if the contract is no longer favorable then it is not worth it. The exercise bit is of course true, but being fairly compensated and not worrying about sudden job loss and financial devastation makes a huge difference to employee engagement and loyalty
@@capo4ever334 and neither do i why do you think your entitled to overtime, start your own business or get a 2nd and quit complaining, job rates have only gone up, i actually employ ppl.
@@invalidaccount2315 I never say I was entitled to over time. Op pointed out that by sticking with a company and working hard they’d REWARD you with it. Not be entitled to it. I also point this out because my company complained they can’t keep overtime help because they refuse to pay them and give them good benefits. You sound super pampered and privileged bro. And starting a business isn’t something you just do. It requires a ton of things sometimes licenses and certifications. You’re living in a dream world dude lol
@@johnnyng8527 This is a lot more true for online dating than it is for IRL dating. Turns out warped expectations on both sides can exist, especially when it's done mostly online. Practical advice here: touch grass, find people with common interests, and have a great time together
@@4doorsmorewhors There's high skill low supply work you just apply for or create yourself instead of low paying jobs that demand lots of hours. How else do you get the bread on the table?
Also, the other problem is that 40/hr a week is not 40/hr a week, in reality it's 60/hr a week (commute, waking up, getting ready etc.) So in reality, we getting paid way less than they actually tell us because the moment I wake up to get somewhere to work, it's work-time for me.
@graywolf2694 yep, plus they count those taxes they charge you as your own income even though it never even tickles the gooch of your bank account...meaning if you try to apply for aid of any kind they tell you "you make too much money"
Yea, people don't realize how soul-crushing commuting is. Spending an hour in traffic on the way to work and the way home adds an extra 10 hours of weekly "work time" that im not compensated for. If I could afford to live in the city where I work and could walk to work in 10 minutes, I feel like I would be a drastically more likeable and less stressed person.
@@measlesplease1266 I knew it since day 1 at school in Germany: We had to write with inefficient two-sided pencils, alternating between red and blue each syllable; my art was considered "too colorful"; P.E. brought me injuries and bullies. It didn't even take a year until I changed schools.
I do remember feeling burned out after high school. I didn't go back to school until my mid 30s. Now I'm exhausted from my terrible Nursing work schedule. It's so dysfunctional. Working holidays, weekends, when I'm sick. Only get 2 days off in a row twice a month.
@@trwn87 most likely they can’t just leave. they’ve spent years of schooling to have that relatively well paying job and now have bills that need paid and debt to pay off. If that paycheck stops coming they are homeless and financially ruined. That is the trap that a normal job is.
Workplaces are incredibly toxic and where bosses use it as an excuse to demonstrate their ego and engage in mental abuse of coworkers in an attempt to mitigate their own unhappiness.
This is a big issue. I’ve experienced this on many jobs. Also the “we’re family” lie they tell then 17% of the family gets laid off randomly doesn’t really help morale…
You gotta work more and more for less and less. Its actually impossible to buy a home with a regular job. Our parents had it way way easier. The rich are buying all houses and pushing up the rent. So we are forced to rent until we die. This is btw the american dream. We are fucked.
Focus on what we have better than our parents, which is things like how much cheaper travel is and how easy it is to invest in stocks. You can build a stock portfolio and then retire early to a cheaper cost of living area
@@nicolasgirard2808 ummm, except the problem is most ppl don't even have extra money to invest anymore. There's a lot who are working 2 jobs & juggling basic necessities from month to month.
@@nicolasgirard2808 you neglected the other stats showing only a small percentage of ppl make profit on thwir stocks for it to add any benefit to their lives, whether it be long term or short. Many consist of penny stocks that just sit & do nothing & ppl don't have the extra to invest more due to inflation over the last few yrs. You have to look at the big picture, not just one set of numbers.
@@Astral_Dusk that pisses me off to no end. Nearly everything is made to not last longer than a season to a few yrs to drive the need for consumerism even more. We've traded quality for quantity without an achievable end. What's worse is that same "quantity" mentality can be seen across just about every aspect of life now. Dating & relationships, finances, more stuff, even in social media with ppl chasing clicks & follower counts to project some shallow idea of "popularity" to make even more money. I hate it.
One thing that no one understands is how little people have “worked” throughout human history. The Roman working business hours were from sunrise to noon. Egyptian laborers worked 18 out of every 50 days. Late middle aged laborers worked 3-6 hours a day. Medieval peasants “worked” less than 8 hours a day. A full days work was considered a half day, if one worked a full day it would be considered 2 working days. They called to a halt for breakfast, lunch, the customary afternoon nap, and dinner. We are living in inhumane conditions and a horrible culture focused on slaving away your soul.
We also were not made to be doing what we are doing. The decline of community, social events, belief in God, and the decline of trying new things. People don't go out, think their job provides anything of value to their life, are more selfish, and many refuse to change themselves. No one thinks to themselves at all anymore. "Is this right" is nonexistent. We have no social circle that is consistent. We humans are social, we need a group of people to visit with, talk to, and who has your back no matter what. Not a forced "work culture" with fake people and completely bullshitting the "friendly" office talk.
@@kevinheise7 "It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep." Psalm 127:2 "Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals". 1 Corinthians 15:33
Social media whether real or fake makes burn out even worse imo. Seeing an alternate lifestyle while you’re working your ass off 40+ hrs a week for no purpose plays a role. Just gotta keep going tho.
I realize this also. I had two Iphones break on me within 3 months. Went to a flip phone and my soul has never felt more relaxed being off social media. I use RU-vid at home on my computer but I've noticed too much of that gives me a stressed out feeling.
Yeah it makes it feel like you're working for nothing. I'm mid 20's unmarried, no property and no way to afford a home, basically no PTO to be able to travel. Feels like I only work and there's no real reason to work other than just survive, at least in the middle ages you had a reason to work, you had your wife, your kids, and your community. Gen z has none of those things
lol do you think it’s ever been different in human history? Find a job you like. You’ll still have to put up with baloney but you’ll feel inspired and as though you’re contributing.
@@minoozolala every full time position that I ever had in life, I didn't feel inspired at all. It might not be different to others, but some, and myself it will be different.
It’s crazy how much you can accomplish in a day on your day off and look at the time and be like I’d still be at work right now if I had work. 8 hours is a long time and some people work even longer it’s crazy to think about. Working 8 hours for yourself and 8 hours for someone else is different too, for me it’s so much more rewarding working 8 hours for myself than 8 hours for some company that couldn’t care less about you.
Borderline Millennial here (1996), to me, modern work just provides no meaning to me, I'm currently job hunting and every job I apply just has nonsensical corporate speak in its job description, I have no idea what they actually want and where my work will make a meaningful difference. In a capitalist society of 8 billion people, work ultimately means nothing, atleast back in tribal or even early civilisation days, your work meant something. If you were the village blacksmith, your work single handedly gave everyone a weapon to defend themselves. If you were the village baker, your work fed everyone. Nowadays all your work does is line the coffers of some soulless mega-corporation.
I’m 43 and most of us older millenials tried to make sense of work and what the meaning of it was a long ways back. We thought if we just worked harder it would make us feel better. It did not. The reality is work is for a paycheck. It provides for me and my family. 99.99% of us are not doing anything other than making a corporation more wealthy. And that’s ok! If you try to make it more complicated than that you will find yourself becoming sad and depressed. Enjoy the things outside of work instead of worrying about what happens at work.
This doesn't make sense. People can work for five days and not run out of energy - we've been doing this for a hundred years and before that people worked far more. Using your analogy of a car needing petrol, humans eat food and sleep overnight so they can work the next day.
@@jt1559Humans have been in toil for the last 100 years, work is different, work means something to you and your local community, work has a clearly defined goal with set parameters. What are the goals today amidst economic collapse, bad fiscal policy and decision making? These things inevitably play a role in energy use and efficiency. Its not as simple as 1 to 100.
Yeah but in the past you used to have the labour of another person for free. A man could go to work and never have to worry about things like grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, or childcare. Now you can work a 9-5 and then come home and do work until you sleep.
Work 40hrs… get paid $1000. Take home $700. Rent $1000 , auto $500. Leaves you with $1300 month to pay all other bills. Or about $43 day. Moral of the story is we work to survive. We are not getting ahead in life.
The reason I personally don't want to work anymore has nothing to do with the work itself I'm doing. I am a software developer and it has been my dream job. However, I am burning out more and more because work just feels "unrewarding". I get my monthly paycheck (which I can't complain about) but what I actually do at work and how much I contribute at work is just completely disconnected from that. If anything, doing well and being efficient is just punishing because you just end up being given more work. The fact that I love doing the work is what makes quiet quitting and disconnecting so hard, but being punished for being so invested is what makes it miserable to the point that I just want to quit.
I worked as a programmer from age 22-24. I had the exact same issues as you -- I loved code in school because it gave me the power to create whatever I wanted, but at work I had to do mindless nonsense the maintain broken 30 year old systems. I got lucky and quit only to become a programming teacher, been doing that from age 24-26 and spend my time designing fun lessons on video game programming, but yeah corporate code sucks. My heart goes out to you. My advice is consider getting into education if you can, or just go into trades and never touch code professionally again cause its just so soul-sucking. In trades at least you can see the physical manifestation of your work.
I just (early) retired. Worked as a software developer for 25 years. I also got tired from being a cog in a machine doing progressively less and less fulfilling and interesting work.
this is exactly what im feeling right now. to the point im wondering whether i'm in the right place. learning and coding stuff is fun, but the work i do just doesnt feel rewarding. finishing a project doesn't make me think "ah, finally its over, time to celebrate", i think "welp, onto the next one." I'm not really asking to be congratulated everytime I finish something, but not seeing the impact of my work definitely takes the wind out of my sails.
Work itself was never going to be that rewarding. Sure building software can become fun but gen z needs to realize it will never satisfy life’s wants and desires. If you want to have fun building software do it in your spare time. Then you can control all of the aspects of work that you can’t at your day job. Just enjoy the daily problems to solve and the large paycheck. Most will never make as much as software engineers make.
Working isn’t the problem, the lack of reward is. At my age my parents had bought a house and my dad was supporting a family of 4 on 1 income… I work the same hours and have just about enough to get by
The main reason is because most of these young people saw their parents and grand parents dedicate 25-30 years of their lives to these jobs and not have anything to show for it and just decided that's not gonna be them.
It's actually true in its entirety. Stop gaslighting americans into thinking your experience equates to what everyone goes through. This country has drug people like me and people who arent blessed with rich parents through the muck of pull yourself by your bootstraps and work more to get paid the fucking same all for the sake a a grand few who literally want everything and do own everything including the very pockets of the united states government. And they expect us to sit and fucking stay and roll over. They lie to us over and over again to abise us for our time and money. These systems exist to benefit our leaders. And participating in that system for some reason also leads to your own downfall. Cause at some point the money is going to d ry up and they cant exploit you anymore. So they discard you and imprison you for being unused and being forced to make car parts for Ford at a prison for the rest of your miserable fucking lives.
My mom got laid off after 15 years because of Rona, my father got laid off after about the same amount of time because they "restructured" my grandmother worked until she was 70, no savings, no retirement, I pay the mortgage, they all live with me. Yeah they have nothing to show for it.
I think this is where high schools really fail kids in helping you find out what you like and what you don’t in life. If you don’t figure out what you want to do nowadays before you go off to either college or trades, it’s really hard to go backwards and build a new meaningful career.
I always knew what I wanted to do since I was a kid. I did very well with it in school, & even tried to excel with it in college. But, the reality of life didn't allow me to continue the higher education, & I had to drop out in the first year. It's a very cruel thing to do, telling kids "You can do/be whatever you want." Not really. If you don't have the financial backing for it from parents, you're being set up to fail. Because everything is about money. My parents didn't help me out at all financially with being able to find a career made with my own personal skills. This way of having to live is ridiculous.
26yo. I have NEVER done the bare minimum in anything I do. Ever since COVID, I have had little regard for societal expectations and rules. I was a pro musician, on tour at the time and it shut my whole life down, and cost me my day job at home too. Now, I speak my mind, I trust my gut. I have walked off a few jobs in a row that were either mismanaged, morally bankrupt, or I just plain got tired of. I see through too much now. I won't lend my precious life energy to this travesty, and am searching for ways to be a part of the solution.
When companies are too stingy to pay raises to ppl that work hard and want to underpay them why not do the minimum. Why break your back for a job not worth breaking your back for.
I've worked an office job for more than 33 years & I can relate to everything you said in this video, a lot of this work can be done in the morning and wrapped up by noon. After lunch productivity goes to shit, and people have things to do outside of work. As a gen x'er I started catching on to this idea some years ago.
You can't rule out the hours people work because unlike in former years, we now go home and are still expected to check emails, pick up phone calls, etc. All that graph measures is hours that were officially paid for.
I used to spend 3 hours after work finishing up emails, spreadsheets, making 📊 and writing the schedule every week. Never got compensation for it but I was fired and replaced with a feminist Satanist bc I was the wrong color and a male and the state allows companies to fire you for any reason, so one false lie to HR got me done in. 😂
“Unlike in former years” lol! People in white collar jobs have always worked many extra hours. Many people in the 50s & 60s worked 10-12 hour days. You think the pioneers laid down after 8 hours? You think the people who built the West watched TV in the evening? Maybe the nobility in old Europe had an easier life but hey, find some servants or slaves and you too can have a dream life.
We needed a 30 hour 4 day work week a long time ago. This is unsustainable. It’s no wonder we’re all depressed, anxious, and exhausted. How does a 2 day weekend recharge our battery from a 5 day work week??? Math ain’t mathing.
I have no problem workin. In fact i could work circles round my coworkers and ive proved it. Im just not working at my highest without the added benefit. Im done killing myself to afford ramen meals after all my bills.
I reckon it's because this generation is not being rewarded for their efforts. In Australia, we have this huge elephant in the room: Housing prices. Why the heck would anyone want to flog their guts out, and not even be able to afford housing!
I live in Germany. The situation is no different here! Rents for flats have risen sharply in recent years. Single-family homes have become unaffordable, even for higher earners. The situation here is so bad that many companies that are located in urban centres can no longer find employees because the rent in the urban centres is so high that it would eat up the employees' entire salary. In Germany in the 1960s, a normal employee could buy a detached house and provide for an entire family at the same time. That is impossible today. Many employees spend almost half of their net income on rent. But that's not all, because the cost of living is very high in Germany. It is income poverty. No wonder people no longer want to work. Is the meaning of life just to work for someone else's dream? Is the meaning of life just to exist and only buy food for 40 years and be grateful to have a roof over your head? Is that all? What about self-realisation and freedom? More and more people are realising that a 9 to 5 job is a scam. It only allows you to survive, if at all.
@@Volksinformant Very good points! Interesting to hear of the changes which have happened in Germany. It's so similar to what's happening in Australia!
Having burnt out I will point out the uploaders theory that manual work has less burnout is silly...but after burn out I'm totally reluctant to do any work that will make me burn out again
They will change to a 4 day work week, and then require all employees to work 12 hours a day, every day. You'll end up working more overall, guaranteed. Evil is ruling the World.
Also, The concept of "being successful" was reconfigured after social media. In the past, being successful meant having a house and stability, today being successful means being a millionaire, having millions of followers etc. This causes people to actually lose motivation and purpose.
@@user-wc5lw7ps6h1 I wonder what drug people take when they ask dumb ass questions like the commenter above you, holy shit the disconnect is real, or is he a troll?
@@sameersheriff7078 "work a job doing what you love and you will never work a day in your life" yeah now I hate what I love and don't want to do it as a hobby, now I have no Hobby's, I just sit at home and watch RU-vid when I'm off work.
Ummm....I think people blame the WRONG thing when it comes to our feelings of sadness and emptiness. The REAL problem is lack of human connections. When I have friends and people who love me, I feel WAAAAYYY less stressed. When I don't have those connections (which is 95% of the time) I feel WAAAAYY more stressed out.
Right but the structure of our society and work culture influence how connected people can be. No vacation means we are exhausted and just trying to keep up with the bare minimum and socializing could mean driving across town and then we get behind of house work etc
Another reason why people do not want to work is because the cost of living is going so high. And people have to work their whole life away just to make the same amount of money.
Thats because humans spends more time at a shitty workplace, underpaid and long hours, while everything in society gets more expensive. There is no inspiration to do a normal job. When You see old people reitre, they get sick or dies almost right away. 50 years of working, just to call it a day right after retirement, not very inspiring. What if we worked shorter hours / days, prices goes down so everyone can afford a comfortable life and retire much earlier?! No one speaks of that in the modern society.
I feel like work life and personal life is a cycle. You find a girlfriend, get a job, have a kid now you got to work extra hours. Wife doesn’t like it, Boss treats you like crap. Wife leaves you and takes the kids Cause your not spending time with your kids and now your left in a hole. I see it a lot but maybe that’s just me.
I've cut my time down to 30hrs/week. I don't regret it at all, even when my mom was mad. But the few hundred dollars I get for staying a whole 2 more hours are totally meaningless, since buying a home became inaffordable for workers. The pressure of having to meet the amount of hours while I have other appointments of private life is finally gone.
It's the BS corporate politics for me. The fact that we get pizza and not a raise after several insane milestones for the company that took 200% of OUR EFFORT to achieve. There's nuance but I'm still gonna make the blanket statement: 9-5s are my kryptonite. That said, trades are looking more and more attractive rn. It's hard work, but if it means mostly doing jobs by myself I'm in!
@@highsol222 If you really believe that in trades there's no boss breathing down your neck, you'll be very much surprised. And that guy definitely won't run around you on his toes and mince words trying to sound nice like in the white collar sphere
Got flexed on by HR at a prior position about how they have record profits that year by a ton, but we got no bonus' that year when we did the prior one. All while my salary fell within the 25th percentile for my position in the area. I resigned the next day.
Prices on goods keep rising, rent keeps rising, salaries remains stagnant. We're expected to work hard day in and day out while barely making it out of poverty. They don't want to pay us more, upper mgmt want to hold onto profits. We need a revolution.
back when I worked when cell phones were not much of a thing, was more fun to be working with people was like a 2nd family, now no one wants to talk to you and just rather be on their phone.
People keep saying that. I experience the opposite. For the most part, I like to stay to myself. Coworkers get upset when I don’t talk. They roll their eyes. Sneer. Same thing goes for the grocery store I frequent. I just want to shop.
I feel the same. A job is a job and I don't wabt to mix my personal life abd work life. I don't like my coworkers and I don't need them to like me. I have family, friends, and a girlfriend.
Why the younger generation doesn't want to work: •Long hours for pay that is sometimes below minimum wage. • You're expected to live to work, not work to live. •At will employment no matter how good you are at your job. •Mental health. •Constant abuse by co-workers and management. •No guarantee of promotions even after years and time you won't get back. •Mandatory overtime.
I wish I had a soul sucking corporate office job. I'm a blue collar guy and I'm sick of getting dirty, sick of lifting heavy shit, sick of worrying about the weather, and sick of worrying about hurting myself.
If you have ever worked outside in the sun for 2- 8 hours a day doing physical labor at a moderate pace you realize in many cases how it improves your mental and physical health. Its how we evolved for thousands of years. Its literally unnatural what we do now staring at screens indoors.
My dissatisfaction stems from expectations and reality. I work to survive, not to live, while all my childhood I've been sold on the idea that hard work yields high results.
Unless you make over 100,000k a year, you can never get ahead in this economy. Simply put most of us feel like tax slaves, why work when you will still be poor? Why work when we will never have the opportunities that our parents and grandparents had? I wanted a house and family, but that will never happen(gotta be wealthy for that)… we all have no purpose.
I literally put in my 2 weeks and told them I am leaving with no back up plan because of the burn out and I need time to myself and they thought I was fucking crazy to leave a job with no back up plan for my mental health. Not shitting on the company or anything.
You nailed it at 19:32. I’ve never seen more people be more active at accomplishing little, if anything, of value. I’ve worked both color collars. The office job was a suckfest with an abhorrent “manager” that made life nearly intolerable. I’m not interested in playing games, office chitchat, and participation in anything after hours. The blue collar trades brutally destroy the body over time. At least there is a satisfaction of completing meaningful work that is observable. It is woefully underpaid.
"Destroy your body"? I reckon that fat and tall people tend to have an earlier on set of physical breakdown even if they spent their whole life at a desk. On the other hand, thin and shorter people seem to hold up better, even the ones who did stoop labor.
Growing up, I was conditioned to believe that success was measured by grades and how successful you are at school. I believed that paved the way to a better career in the future. However, after all of the things I've witnessed, I've come to the conclusion that academic success and getting a high paying job only means being a better slave with more responsibility and things to worry about. No wonder why so many people these days go for frugal life style and work less to have more free time, instead of working their asses off in a high paying job only to have more debt and consume more things that they don't actually need.
I’ve worked both manual jobs and cubicle jobs. The cubicle jobs feel like prison almost. I’m chained to the desk for 10+ hours copying and pasting thousands of numbers into excel. It took me 5+ years to get through college just for this work. Meanwhile my physical jobs paid 1/3rd the desk jobs but I would go home from a long shift feeling satisfied because I actually saw the progress I made at work and feel way more accomplished. My brain was less stressed and it was a good time in my life. Unfortunately those jobs don’t pay the bills :/
As Gen X, someone who has been doing this for a while, I think the conditions are getting actively worse. They demoralize us and pay us like trash, and expect us to salivate on command. Gimme a break.
We all want to have some sort of role where we are making progress in something. It may not look like what is traditionally considered “working a job”, which is where you might be confused
@viktorbarney6795 The government should have to give everyone, employed or unemployed, a UBI. If you're going to take all possible measures to force someone to be a part of an economic system, you should have to give them the bare minimum. You don't get out of paying taxes, for example, just because you're unemployed. So the government should be equally forced to support all citizens by providing bare minimum survival. Healthcare and education should be 100% free and everyone should get a UBI that covers the most basic living arrangement available and basic living expenses. In other words, a dignified existence should be free. No one should have to work just to exist in a system they were forced into.
I don’t mind working. What I do mind is that what am I working for? What is it all for then? Because if I get nothing in the end, then it’s not worth it. It’s not worth working for nothing whilst others get to live a normal life and I don’t get a chance to live that. If I work and my job never pays me a decent income, then it’s not worth it. It’s not worth sacrificing your happiness for nothing. These companies need to show their concern to their employees because working for nothing whilst your boss goes on holiday isn’t fair at all.
From my experience, many places seem to purposefully employ a abusive managers or foreman believing that treating employees as slaves will boost productivity. I can't say it's everywhere, but it is very common.
The Problem here is that they are working more harder than what our grandparents did who fought the Great depression and WW2 Like... is not the cost of living that is creating so much burnt out but a lot of wasting time at work that has no personal life and no time build a family and live better. This is why as a millennial, I refuse to trade my time for money cuz that's how the poor thinks and that's how our parents and grandparents programmed us to be poor.
I like how we always ignore the entirety of history before our grandparents generation 😂 who lived like shit, had substantially lower standard of living, and worked far more than we did. Yet still had many many kids. Read some history instead of reading the doom and gloom of the daily news cycle. You’ll realize how easy we truly have it. The pity is that many don’t realize it, and instead live in sadness and fear.
@@SaltPepperEconomics Everything I'm saying doesn't comes from social media. It comes from history books and people in the streets who works in bigger companies who explained the whole rat race concept and who invented jobs and the whole industrial revolution and the Traditional School system that we have created. Basically a Job is no longer applicable in this modern era like they used to cuz a job was originally "Invented" by an oldman who was involved in WW1 and WW2 in order to keep the civilization productive with purpose and meaning in order to advanced the industrial evolution. But Guess what.... there is no more war and.... why are we still with... "Getting a job!?!?" Is almost like saying "Why are we still playing with stick and stones if everyone are using Laser guns these days? We are no longer in the Flintstones era"
@@PassionateSpirit88 a job is productivity and the whole concept of "Jobs" by productivity hours know as 9-5 work was Invented by this oldman (which I forgot his name) from WW1 and WW2 to give human people purpose and meaning for "Human labor" in order to advance the industrial revolution while at War. These are facts! Do you know the internet was invented by the military before it was release in public? Do you know social media such as Facebook, Whatdsupp, twitter and many others including our phones were invented by dropout students? including the people who invented electricity and the light-bulb were also dropout students. You need learn more about History.
@@SaltPepperEconomicsyou kind of nailed it by mentioning the other side of the coin... they had kids.... i.e. they had a reason to work.. they had purpose
From a millenial standpoint, it is not that Gen Z does not want to work. They dont have a tolerance for fake personality coworkers, and bullshit hours. I work 8 hours a day with occasional weekend hours, it is causing burnout sometimes. They have something we were never taught early on, that is boundaries. I have thought of finding work elsewhere, but have not made that decision yet.
@@kailahmarie5657 sometimes I wonder that too. Is it worth it? How about doing something you actually like instead of being scared into buying the better benefits package .
33 Year old millennial here. I don't blame Gen Z. Why go and slave away at a stressful AF job for a pittance. You can barely afford to live much less actually thrive on what they want to pay. Work-life balance is everything, and even though I've been in my career for over 5 years now and I'm pretty comfy, I don't work a single day of OT. No reason to stress yourself out and waste your best years. Screw these jobs paying pennies while making record profits. Get into a trade or a skilled career where you can just work 40 hours and hit all your goals. Coast from there and enjoy life, fuck working 6-7 days 70+ hours a week.
In my country oftentimes people after 5 year university, have job form which they can only subsist, pay bills and that all, maybe save 100$ a month. People don't wanna work because they dedicate to it 10 hours a day and its just slavery. Only 1-5% of people in society live a life of their dreams and for rest its just hell so they need to drink alcohol and take drugs because reality is so harsh for them.
The main problem ist definitely mental health. And that's not that much related to anything that is mentioned. I've had 6 different jobs and studied at university for 2 years. I was always unhappy, anxious and unmotivated. Now I've been working full time at a bakery for 3 months, and I'm very content with my job for the first time ever. The only difference now is that I've been meditating and did deep inner work over the past 2 years and over the last 6 months I've skyrocketed and I'm getting crazy good results in all areas of life. Ppl are contemplating about the external non stop and never clean up the mess that is their mind.
Sooo most ppl I know including myself work 2 jobs or more than 40 hours a week. I worked 120 in 14 days last check. I still can't afford my bills and to keep my home well. I'm almost 36, I can't afford me, how will I ever afford a family before I'm too old to make one 😂😂 or broken. My doctor tells me 6 times a year I need to work less 😂 last visit. I asked if she had a room for rent 😂
So, I've experienced actually totally different point of view by my 30! I had crazy lifestyle for the last 12 years, working in the clubs, making good money, I bought an apartment, traveled nonstop, been to every party, dated guys, drama and fun, super active, even performed in circus 😂 and I’m from Russia I moved here at 23 totally changed my life. Now I’m 30! And ALL I want is stability, sanity and peace in my life. I found as you say “soulless” job in finance in office and I am happier than ever!! Cuz I finally can relax and just have stability. So - I burned out of too much adrenaline and adventures! I found out how to appreciate office everyday reality ❤🤗
Im not lazy. Been working full-time while going to college. Worked full time since I was 18 ( im 34 now ) and I have nothing to show for it. Live in a social housing appartement, cant afford to buy a house. Cant go on vacations, my last vacation was 5 years ago. I cook almost everyday. My wardrobe is 10 years old. I rarely buy new clothes, I own a car ( bought not leased ) I live very frugal. Still have nothing to show for it.
I have reset my body to “default settings” by allowing its own cycles to determine how and when I live. I found out I wake up naturally at around 5-6, and then get tired again at 12-14, and then I’m up again till 21-22 before getting tired again. I also found out that I am only hungry twice a day, which happens just before I get tired (before 12-14 and 21-22). If I eat prior to work, I don’t work as well as I do hungry. It seems I excel in everything when I am hungry, and am super lazy after I eat. This cycle corresponds with my own grandfather’s lifestyle and my ancestors who were all peasants and farmers, lol. After having worked in so many fields, I have found meaning and purpose in the simple things. It seems that all this body wants to do, is to be a farmer.
I worked at an oil change shop for the first 3 years of the pandemic. I worked with a team of 12 people roughly my age. The business model expected that everyone would eventually becom an assistant manager. If you had the skills and the knowledge, they would get you there. I watched tech after tech climb the ranks and eventually make it to assistant manager or even get their own store. I got along well with my team. 6 of us would come in on any given shift and perform up to 75 oil changes, not including tire rotations and other additional services. It was the best job I ever had. I left because I wanted to stay home with my newborn, so I took a work-from-home desk job. I quit after 6 months because the management was awful, the goals and expectations were not clearly set, and there was little to no training, with a constant shifting of responsibilities between who is doing what within the company. I would gladly take the 110°F in full sleeves for 9 hours straight, dead tired manual labor job with a good business model over a cozy 9-5 sit-down job with no coordination any day.
You really helped me understand what is wrong with my work routine, thanks. If I refuse to look at the computer for most of the day, I am actually thinking about my job constantly and slowly. I deliberate about what I am supposed to do and end up doing it pretty well. I feel much more comfortable with the pace and it is easier to talk to people in the office about work because I am not as apprehensive or bothered by the bells and whistles. Good show, ol boy.
Hell, gen x hasn't wanted to work for like 30 years but having no choice gives a +1 putting the head down and grinding it out. It's not about desire, it's about tenacity and every gen gets to that place by necessity
Millennial Loan Officer here at a credit union here. 4’10 110lb woman who has had some physically intensive jobs working 8-10hrs a day. I have felt exhausted. Physically and mentally. I am more burnt out today sitting at my desk for 8+ hrs a day then delivering an ungodly amount of amazon packages for 10hrs/60hrs a week. Or stocking very heavy object on shelves. I rarely take my lunch and always logged on early/ late. The work load is a lot. The tabs open is too much sometimes days. Although I still try to workout 30-60 mins a day, I am still far too sedentary and exhausted. I’ve even started working at home two months ago which has helped with my 50 min commute one way. I’m still burnt out. I never take off except for my weekends and federal holidays. I actually never even got more than one day off prior to my current position. At nearly 35, I can’t believe I still have 30-40 years of this and I’m not even making a lot of money. It’s depressing. I have no retirement.
I used to do flooring installation for 20/hour and at first that seemed great. Leaving work covered in shit, too sore to do anything after I leave work. Then during the pandemic stuff slowed down and i started doing door dash. I can make the same money in an hour making a few deliveries and not destroy my back. I get called by from my former employer and I just cannot bring myself to spend the 1st hour of day moving 2000 lbs of tile for 20/hr. Rip up a whole bunch of carpet in multiple rooms that needs to be scraped inch by inch. It just feels degrading.
Some things we’ve lost sight of: read more, seek out true conversation and limit forced interactions, limit the amount of screen time on your phone, and find ways to mentally challenge your brain instead of taxing/rotting it.
My day starts at 8am…but you’re really you’re expected to be there at 7:50am. My day ends at 5pm…but you’ll be looked down upon if you leave right at 5pm. I have an hour lunch break, but you better not take a lunch break if you have too many tasks to do. And good luck even planning a nice lunch break, you’ll probably get a surprise meeting right in the middle of it. All of that to go home at the end of every night and STILL be expected to be available / work to catch up after hours if you have too many tasks. Its exhausting.
I'm a so called Millenial, I've been working like an idiot for the last 24 years. I can handle a very high amount of stress and still...I ended up hating my job, avoiding my family and snapping at people. When I told my employer that I have some personal issues and asked them to let me with my current work volume (10-12hrs per day), they acted like they understood. 1 week later I had a 30% increase in my workload. Tell me that's normal and I'll shut up and not call it a burnout.
I do not agree that you cannot get burnt out in food service. I worked in Foodservice for 15 years and I have hired for it as an HR professional and people can get burnt out pretty easily when they are overworked, doing multiple jobs, and covering shifts. Additionally, a lot of factory jobs include standing in front of a machine hardly moving for eight hours. I would think farming or construction would be more like our ancestors. My point is some jobs that are not 9 to 5 desk. Jobs can also include burnout and lack of movement.
Young Millennial here. Been in various construction for 14 years. Working for companies has me burnt out.... I am facing some serious life changes and a move across 2 states and it lead me to decide to start my own business when i get there. And honestly, that part has me the most fearful and most excited. I have skills. I like making connections with people. Now is the time to build something for myself. Now is the time to escape the employee bonds. I'm actually pretty hopeful
I’ve never understood why people take 9-5 office jobs with weekends off for granted. I’ve done retail or residential care work with kids for ten years. I wish I had a 9-5 to complain about. I grow tired of people saying “it’s a Friday!” Or “oh it’s a Monday!” As if everyone actually works a 9-5. We don’t. But a lot of us wish we did. I can’t wait to finish my masters degree and work as a therapist on weekdays 9-5
For me the problem is several issues. 1. Demanding employers demanding jobs. 2. Long hours generally 40+ hours. This can be brutal to "live a life" like that. Its exhausting and stressful especially if you have poor thyroid/liver function and poor mental health. 3. Employers treat you like garbage and quality of life is poor. 4. After a while u notice that all americans care about is money and work. Did i come into existence to serve some ass hole for 40+ hours? So that he can be happy and my life is trash?
I was very motivated when I was 20. Got a law degree. Interview process was horrible. First job was extremely toxic. The only good jobs were for the government where the workless is hardly important. So I lost interest for working and yes I want a family. Ladybossing is ridiculous. I hate having to ovulate or menstruate at work, while I could be making love in the high grass in a green field somewhere out there. Not sit in the prison of excel with some smelly coworker who wants the radio on on popmusic techno.
50-70 hours a week Accelerated schedules High stress pressure with life altering consequences for failure Psychological and emotionally unstable supervision. Still can’t afford a home on the wages
I think this is a pretty solid video. I think the manager part of your analysis is pretty spot on. What a lot of people dont understand about managers is that they have egos themselves, which leads them to treat their employees terribly. They view their team as resources to bolster their own resume in front of their managers and peers, rather than actual people. I fully realized this once I myself became a leader.
