I'm having a bit of an existential crisis, fitbros.
I work in a pipe mill 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. After work, I go to the gym for 2 hours. I come home and eat dinner, shitpost online for an hour or so, and go to bed. I go out on Saturday maybe once a month. On Sundays, I'll get pizza with my brother and his girlfriend, maybe hang out with some friends, and watch a movie. Twice a month my girlfriend who goes to school out of province will come over for the weekend.
Is this life? Is this it? What more is there to do? How can I experience more out of life? I tell myself that getting fucking huge and shredded is all that matters right now, that this is only temporary – but I feel like I am only telling myself this in order to dangle a carrot to get me out of bed every day.
In short – how to get more out of life, especially one with a poor work/life balance?
Owen Myers
Well you've taken the first step I guess in becoming aware of your situation.
What do you dream about when you let your mind wander?
Chase Thomas
This is the worst part – I dream of comfortable mediocrity.
I dream of earning $50 000 a year working 40 hours a week, of living in a $200 000 home in a quiet neighbourhood, of driving a 10 year old car that gets good gas mileage. I think I might honestly just be boring, which is terrifying.
Landon Perez
If that is what you want that is what you want man.
Maybe you lack purpose?
Leo Baker
Change job, the amount of work hours would kill me.
Nathaniel Wright
Lol.what? Are you 16? I work 80 hours a week just so I can have spending money. 60 hrs a week just covers bills etc
Gavin Russell
Stop living in San francisco
Brayden Lee
Stop living an extravagant lifestyle that you can't afford.
Brayden Diaz
I live in tweed ontario canada,60 hours of work gives me just over 600 dollars after taxes
Adam Reyes
I don't live extravagant I don't even have a car
Adam Parker
I work 40 a week and that's a good amount for, can work out and still got some free time. Out of curiosity, where do you live?
Jacob Bell
Instead of working 80 hours a week, maybe you should have spent 10 hours a month on your education?
Elijah Flores
I'm not smart enough for school
Kayden Price
>Twice a month my girlfriend who goes to school out of province will come over for the weekend. Stop.
Cooper Wilson
You should be saving up loads of money with that right? Start dollar cost averaging in some etfs and retire in 10 years.
Jace Green
You are a human being - you are smart enough for school. It has nothing to do with intelligence at all, it's simply a time investment like everything else.
Samuel Cook
Lol fucking ameriblubbers.
I work 80 hours too but that's because I'm aiming to get rich. Could dustain myself with perhaps 15 hours of work per week.
Nolan Reyes
Stop working a shit low wage job
Henry Barnes
He cucked himself for life by not wanting to study.
Daniel Wilson
save money stop spendings on fancy shit pick an online course, youtube howtoos for coding. start learning on your own. start looking for new jobs in it and make double the money in half the time
Easton Perry
I work 18 hours a week currently and earn $35,000, save half of it, go out twice a week and eat most meals at restaurants
how the FUCK do people work 80 hours a week and not consider suicide
Benjamin Evans
This I work 37.5 hours a week and it drives me nuts
Michael Jones
>how the FUCK do people work 80 hours a week and not consider suicide Well OP obviously doesn't.
Brody Bell
Maybe what you desire is stability, how do you feel about your mother?
Liam Brooks
Break out of the cycle. If you're Jewish you can move to Israel and join the idf
Jack Kelly
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Austin James
>If you're Jewish you can move to Israel and join the idf Yeah, getting stabbed is usually a great way to break out of a cycle.
Blake Kelly
yeah I get into this mode 2-3x a year.
for be its this.
I'm not sure where you live but goto a local bar / club and challenge yourself to really improve your social life.
there is LOTS of videos on how to pickup girls and you can learn that.
right now thats what I'm doing. going out everynight and learning to introduce myself to women and meet new people.
its fun. then I get a bunch of dates. fuck a bunch of girls.
its fun man.
just say what ever and give it a shot. its fucking challenging and fun as fuck.
Jaxson Gray
>being such a normie brainlet he can only think about work and gym
Not even going to give you advice lol. I don't count you as sentient.
Austin Murphy
>the key to life is fucking girls
brainlet
Robert Anderson
>its fun. then I get a bunch of dates. fuck a bunch of girls. > >its fun man. > >just say what ever and give it a shot. its fucking challenging and fun as fuck.
Are you retarded?
Owen Myers
I live 80 minutes away, I'll do you a favour and come kill you
Kayden Adams
>I think I might honestly just be boring, which is terrifying.
Everyone is boring
Jonathan Sanchez
Go back to school, push yourself towards a career that makes you happy
Luis Russell
>tfw absolutely no discipline and concentration for mental tasks that don't interest me >can't study
Biggest failure of the family
William Walker
Maybe it's because you have never experienced true hardship and struggles in your life to appreciate what you are having.
I am from a third world country and my income is only $12/ day for 10 hours. And I dont have any job stability at all. I would love to have what you are having now.
I have some relatives in the US who are happy to work 14 hours a day for minimum wage.
Brandon Fisher
enjoy dying at 50
Carson Price
Ukraine?
Blake Powell
Come to Alberta, turn that 80 hours a week into $8k a month on a drilling rig
Jaxson Brown
Not him, but I also want a stable boring life more than anything and I despise my mother.
Anthony Long
I can relate
>be young kid >obviously very smart >get told by everyone that I will do great things, be successful etc >see gleam of pride in fathers eyes as I get top grades in everything >finish Swedish equivalent of highschool >go on to work at dead end job for 6 years and counting now >never had a girlfriend >never used any of my talent >father still supports me unconditionally and I feel like such a shit for letting him down and not using all the chances he never had
Jonathan Brown
Read "Rivethead" and realise that by working in a factory you are literally company property, nothing more than a machine used to increase production. You're already well on your way to understanding that.
Then make a change.
Or
Stop whining and just put up with it.
Evan Ortiz
I'm not, I have lively and complex inner workings, it's just that people can't relate because they are so limited in the profundity of their intellect.
Christopher Davis
im exactly like this. i jist want the ability to dance and relax when i want. my dad used to almost punch me when id tell him this. fuck
Elijah Robinson
Me too.
Levi Perez
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Henry Turner
This
Elijah Cox
Honestly, 60 hour weeks is your problem. Throw a generous gym time onto that and there's no way you're going to have the time or energy to do constructive stuff outside of work. Working harder at work, unless you plan to move up in the company, is not working on improving your wealth. Unless it is the career you want to make you as comfortable as you want to be, consider it a means to an end. A way of supporting yourself. In the mean time, learn things, go to school if you want, figure out how to work an easier job for less time for more money/time. Easier also means more fun, I'm not saying don't challenge yourself, I'm just saying find something that you enjoy enough to usually look forward to going to work.
Chase Taylor
I feel like that "oh you are so smart argument" is just useless though.
Being smarter is absolutely useless if it doesn't come with a great deal of ambition. Everyone in my family is self driven by an underlying motivation to achieve something in the business world. That is worth so much more than "being so intelligent!!":
Elijah Brown
What's wrong with that?
Start planning what you can do to achieve that goal. Probrably starting with earning more so you don't need to work over 40hours.
Caleb Carter
How the fuck do you earn $35,000 on 18 hours a week of work?
Colton James
It absolutely is. I have a friend who is not very smart but with unlimited energy and ambition.
He makes loads of money already at 24 and will be very successful no doubt.