Working the 9-5 Rat Race | Joe Rogan 

Dreamed of breaking free for years... On the 19tj on October, 2023 will be my last day as a W2 employee. I started a motor carrier company and I hit the road with my own truck, my own LLC And my own DOT #. I made one step everyday for 4 months. Saved every penny loved like a homeless person AND I DID IT!

After 15 years devoted to a company, my mother was fired via registered letter for abusing her sick days. She was battling cancer. Surgery then chemo and radiation. Isn't the corporate world just wonderful.

It's soul-crushing.

I will escape

Facts!!! We don’t want do this shit anymore.

I’m so glad I chose to break free back in September of last year. I’ve been making a living as a musician, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. After years of factories and retail, it’s amazing to be my own man for once in my life. It can be done. I thank God for Rogan and his advice over the years.

Must be nice to not be a slave...

1 week vacation AFTER a year and 4 sick days then you're fired at the factory I work at

You don’t get payed for a lunch anymore and you get 2 10 min breaks with a 30 min lunch

If we were paid better it wouldn’t be as bad. Companies profiting 100’s of millions and you get a nickel raise. Total BS.

9 to 5 thats a f***ing blessing. Im a quality engineer in Mexico i work from 8 to 7. My official schedule is 830 to 606. My manager and all the managers where I work at they work from around 730 to 9 pm. And we have japanese managers the f**ing live there nobody knows at what time they get in or out. You enter as early as you can and they are always there same at night Ive gotten to work until 10pm and the japanese managers are there. Thats a well paid enterprise tho. Im willing to risk some years of my life for the bread. But most of Latin american jobs have insane schedules

Yeah, come to Perú and enjoy working 12 hours, 6 days a week, for less than 300$ a month

Retire overseas in southeast asia and live like like a king 6 to to 7 months a year after you have made a great deal of capitol from index investing a few years.I only visit the states during the summer time and and i earn more income when i am back.Damn this system of economic slavery.The dollar is alot stronger overseas.

We hate the 9-5 rat race. We so hate it. Working 40 hours a week and getting 2 weeks of vacation is the reason why I daydream of living in different countries on a daily basis.

I live in Hungary and I would never ever would want to work for an American company. We work 8hrs/day, in some cases lunch is included in those 8hrs.I have 34 days payed holiday/year due to my age (hmm) and having kids. (Each child means 2 extra holiday days, plus the older you are the more holiday you have) Plus of course x amount of payed sick days, but I'm never sick so I don't know how many weeks we get. And I still feel exploited by the multinational firm I work for... 😀 Also, if a family has 4 kids or more, the mother doesn't pay income tax for the rest of her life. This is an initiative by the government (conservative of course) to increase child birth rate.

What episode number is this??

1:23 tug boat in Seattle, work for a few months. What other examples are there?

1:36 who? Which podcast?

11 years in the factory. Night shift. ❤❤❤😂😢

5 weeks in germany Wow and all the other days i have to work literall the whole day

Haha, I won I work a 2-11 job instead

I get 300 hours of PTO and work less than 170 days a year. It's not so bad

God bless Merica 🇺🇸

At Walmart it’s one week vacation.

Dude i live in belgium . Sick day is ulimited if your contract is indeterminate you can use your insurance for years and u won't loose your job

How many people can actually get by just working 8 hours a day? 9-5 sounds like a fantasy

yea ive been living minimalistic its called not having money

I need to escape

“Working jobs you hate, to buy things you don’t need, to impress people you don’t like.” - Tyler Durden

The whole thing is sick. I can only speak about life in an office (in the UK), but I would estimate that every interaction is dysfunctional in some way. Not only are we all wasting precious time, which cannot be replenished -- rendering the amount of time spent at work truly obscene -- you're constantly forced to lie about how "useful" or "interesting" an email or proposal or meeting is. If you lied this much outside of work, to people you love, people woild rightly consider you a sociopath. To compound matters, everyone seems to spend the entire week waiting for Friday and dreading Monday. They're vocal about it too, on Mondays, Wednesdays (halfway there people!), Thursdays (almost there folks), and Fridays (just hours to go!) This is not the way to create a happy or creative society.

It’s not 2 weeks sick it’s 5 days

Help me escape to those who have give me a plan

I will manifest better. I will break the matrix

so lucky im not living in America ^-^

The rat race sucks when it's low to mid pay.. I know people making 300k/yr as an employee, and they go vacation multiple times a year.. Sounds all good to me. Not everyone needs to start some business

I wonder how they feel about these comments now. Can’t see forest for work ethic. Stoners will ruin everything

9 to 5 is sad.

Lazy people who call in sick when they just don’t want to go to work or are hungover make it harder for the rest of us and companies are forced to implement sick days.

Im stacking and investing. The stock market can make you a lot of money if you get enough in there.

This is the same Joe Rogan who famously said “fuck you, shut up and go to work”

You can tell Joe Rogan has never had the responsibility of keeping a normal business out of bankruptcy. Give your employees unlimited sick pay and see how long you last. Many businesses allow healthy people to donate sick time to others with lengthy illness.

"25 days off...5 weeks" Bro should stop getting high

Ari did not age well

I will be free i promise! I can feel it in my heart, Trying to use my free time to learn Crypto currency and invest in it

all i see is two losers who got lucky and became famous and have never worked a day in their lives, dont let people tell you ur wasting ur life just because ur building a career and dedicate urself to ur work, Its how the everyday man provides for their family not everyone has a podcast where they sit down and talk shit and make a million dollars. Youll get that with these yuppie celebrities that have no idea what its like in the real world.