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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I don't hate my job because I dread doing it. In a complete vacuum, I like my job.

I hate my job because of all the things I'd *rather* be doing. Raising my kids, working on my hobbies, etc. A full-time job and its associated tasks consume approximately 45% of my waking hours in a given year. It's hard not to hate something that demands so much of my time while holding my healthcare and livelihood hostage.
gpt
This is exactly it. When you go to work every day, that's hours, days, literally years of your life gone. That's not *just* time you could have spent elsewhere, it is **your life**. It's worth more than anything in the world and it's spent sitting at a fucking desk making excel spreadsheets or arguing with customers who want to return a shirt without a receipt or making latte after latte after latte after latte or whatever it is you do at your job day in and day out.

Work is fine and necessary but we have normalized these meaningless repetitive tasks taking up nearly our entire fucking lives and it's depressing and absurd.