Would you rather spend 40h a week in a dull environment exchanging your time and mental focus for money or spend 50h in a fun and relaxed environment working on something interesting, but also having great nutrition available and with a laundry, so no more household chores for you?

To me #1 seems like you're stuck exchanging the best of yourself for some paycheck. #2 sounds more like fun, but also gets you your paycheck.

If you're at a point in your life where all you want from your job, office and colleagues is to see as little as possible of that and get as much money as you could, you need to make some serious changes.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, I have a home, a great family, and I cherish my hobbies and free time. I work to live, I don't live to work.

A job will let you go the minute they need to. Your family will be with you for life, and it's much more important.

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You're wasting the majority of your life. In order to enjoy the minority part. Nothing to be proud of, even less so is it justifying to be so toxic about people who do enjoy their jobs.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 points 5 months ago

Why would I call it wasting? It's funding the worthwhile part of my life, and it does a great job at it. I've been on several vacations already this year. I get to live where I want to. I have a great family that I love spending time with. To allow that I have firm limits with my job of 40 hours a week, then I go home. I enjoy several hours every night with them, and on weekends we usually go out and do something fun.

You keep trying to convince me I'm not happy, and I assure you I'm very happy with my lifestyle. If other people want to work more, more power to them. I don't understand it, but I guess do what you enjoy. I don't enjoy working - I enjoy my personal time. So I found a job that pays me well, respects my time, and every day promptly at 4 I clock off, and I enjoy my evening. Whatever work there is will be ready for me at 8am.

There are always things that get in the way, sometimes I need to work the occasional night, there's a deadline, I've missed a few weekends - but I always take the time off the following week to make up for it. Your younger years are gone in a blip, these times become memories quickly. I have many fond memories of trips, time with loved ones, friends, and even coworkers. You know what I don't remember? Projects, deadlines, and meetings.

[–] overcast5348@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Did you just call "family" the "minor part of life"‽ Or am I misunderstanding you?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think it's a matter of taste. OP has a great home life, so maybe they'd prefer the 40 hour gig. The 50 hour gig sounds better to me personally, ASSUMING IT'S ACTUALLY INTERESTING and not in a how-do-we-crush-souls-better way.

There's nothing wrong with doing hard, unpleasant work so you can live outside of it. Does anybody actually enjoy pulling out a leaky sewer stack?

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 4 points 5 months ago

In the end, I don't care what lifestyle my job can afford if I don't have the time to enjoy it.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

My god, #1 a million times over.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

#3 spend 30-50 hours a week working on projects you find interesting working from home so you do laundry or make a sand which on a break.

Sometimes even cook a b8gger meal during training and such

That said, I never want to work a bullshit job, I know people who've ridden them out to retirement and I would rather just be homeless than that.

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you might prefer a lonely isolated lifestyle, or your social environment being only your wife, kids and your suburban neighbors. But that's absolutely not the case for most people who gladly socialize at work and prefer to have a great environment there. You all collectively shitting on it and praising work from home only shows that lemmy is a club of extreme introverts.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

We have get togethers and go to conferences to have that.

I get that not everyone is the same though. Hell I've gone over to friends to work like the lab parties we had too, which I'm sure is an anomaly.