Ever get depressed when you realize you're going to spend the next bunch of decades working your life away?

[Everlong]

Cus I sure do.

Like seriously, what's the point? Every week I look forward to the weekend, but it's like, the weekend is only two days, and next week is the same thing all over again. And it's goin to be the same for the next like 40 years of my life, at least.

Don't get me wrong, I'm fairly satisfied with my life, but it's kind of depressing to think about it that way sometimes.

[Westcoastvibes]

I never did before but I do now. Thanks Asswhole

[Twister]

I'm not working at the moment but I totally understand where you're coming from. Life in general is pretty depressing when you think about it.

[Daz]

Even more depressing when your 25th birthday is looming and you realize that because of some stupid illness you've had since you were fifteen, you have zero work experience, no prospects and the idea of going back to school to get some qualifications under your belt both nauseates you and has become an unrealistic expectation financially. Life sucks.

[lyonssv]

I'm kind of on the other end of the spectrum.

If you find something that you love doing and don't dread going to work everyday, then life is a lot more satisfying. I was lucky enough to find that path in my life at a fairly young age. Unfortunately, a lot of people never do.

[Locke]

Every weekday I wake up and realize I have to go cut hair, and I die a little inside. Barbers never retire, so if I live until I'm 80, that means I've got 50 more years of barbering left.

I'll probably commit suicide if I can't find a better job before that.

[Daz]

Every weekday I wake up and realize I have to go cut hair, and I die a little inside. Barbers never retire, so if I live until I'm 80, that means I've got 50 more years of barbering left.

I'll probably commit suicide if I can't find a better job before that.

Or you find a nice barber shop above a pie place and go full Sweeney Todd ... you know, just to spice the days up a bit.

[Hanley!]

Yeah, I think like this a bit and it sucks. It seems crazy that we still spend so much of our time working. Improvements in technology should have allowed for shorter work weeks by now, but our systems aren't changing. Instead we have widespread unemployment and others working longer hours than they should reasonably have to.

Have you ever had that moment on a Friday evening where you think to yourself that the work week passed pleasantly quickly this week? That naive ignorant moment of optimism, ignoring the fact that if the work week went quickly, the weekend is going to go much quicker.

Even more depressing when your 25th birthday is looming and you realize that because of some stupid illness you've had since you were fifteen, you have zero work experience, no prospects and the idea of going back to school to get some qualifications under your belt both nauseates you and has become an unrealistic expectation financially. Life sucks.

Dammit Daz, just let us enjoy our first world problems. Okay?

Fuck it, your problems considered, I guess I have it pretty good.

[PorkChop]

I enjoy my job, but I still think about this from time to time.

On my deathbed I'll think about my life and the things I've accomplished, and I'll realise that I never made the most of my time on earth. Nobody does, because a vast majority of us spend two thirds of our lives working. I won't see all the sights I could've seen and I won't have spent as much time with my wife and children as I wished I could, because I'd been at work instead.

For most of us it's a system we'll never escape, and we must reluctantly accept that we're going to spend our lives this way.

[Viazon]

That's life though. You spend most of your time at work. I feel like that now in fact. The only time I leave the house, it seems like it's only to go to work. I suppose it wouldn't be that bad if I had other stuff going on but I very rarely do. My friends never seem to want to do anything anymore. But I do too usually look forward to the weekend all week long. And then all I seem to do at the weekend is hang out at home.

[AkydefGoldberg]

There was a time when I was working, post University, working in call centres (doing unsociable hours/people who thought they ruled the roost because they were a 'team leader'/unhelpful people) that I would have agreed with your sentiments.

However, the job I do now, gives me a more positive outlook on work. Unfortunately, the job is fixed so I could lose it come next year or the year after but I'd be content to do this job for the rest of my life and that's a shame considering I spent three years at University - and £9,000 worth of debt - but life kicks in and I'm 28 and I'm content. But my worst fear is losing my job and having to go back to slugging away in a call centre, that nagging feeling of not utilising the skills gained.

But you're right on the working week - when it's Monday morning I'm already thinking about Friday but because I have no life, on the weekends I kinda think, it's good to be in work because the days go quick and you're busy. This is the longest time I've had a job so must be telling something..

[Daz]

Yeah, I think like this a bit and it sucks. It seems crazy that we still spend so much of our time working. Improvements in technology should have allowed for shorter work weeks by now, but our systems aren't changing. Instead we have widespread unemployment and others working longer hours than they should reasonably have to.

Have you ever had that moment on a Friday evening where you think to yourself that the work week passed pleasantly quickly this week? That naive ignorant moment of optimism, ignoring the fact that if the work week went quickly, the weekend is going to go much quicker.

Even more depressing when your 25th birthday is looming and you realize that because of some stupid illness you've had since you were fifteen, you have zero work experience, no prospects and the idea of going back to school to get some qualifications under your belt both nauseates you and has become an unrealistic expectation financially. Life sucks.

Dammit Daz, just let us enjoy our first world problems. Okay?

Fuck it, your problems considered, I guess I have it pretty good.

Perspective my dear fellow.

[Chewy]

Not when I think that I will retire at 45.

[lyonssv]

Not when I think that I will retire at 45.

You got me beat by a few years. I can retire with a full pension at 48. I'll probably work until I'm 56 though. We have this program where you can enter into retirement and still work for right years. So you still make your salary, but also earn your pension and they throw it into a investment account. If everything works accordingly to plan I'll retire at 56 with a full pension plus a couple million in investments.

of course, I could just get sick of working and retire at 48 and just drink beer, play golf, and fish for the rest of my life.

[Daz]

New plan. Marry a C-List celebrity, endure a shitty reality television show for several god awful, soul sucking years. Wait for their inevitable cocaine addiction. Check them into rehab, partially against their will, file for divorce citing irreconcilable differences, take half their money, buy a beach house ... blow it all on Swedish import models who contractually have to service me once a day, and in an ironic twist of fate, wind up with a cocaine addiction of my own. After a stint in rehab myself, write a tell all book about my past troubles, get a shitty daytime talk show that runs for seven unbearable seasons, leading to depression and inevitable bankruptcy. Once the ocean air by aforementioned beach house erodes the foundations and the whole building begins to slowly tilt and collapse in on itself, I'm forced to move into a small apartment that smells vaguely of urine. But it's okay, because I'll find my feet doing daily vlogs on youtube about going to Starbucks and how all I have is Minecraft.

It's good to have life goals.

[Kein]

I never enjoyed my work, but my work environment and the people I work with can make it bearable even if I choose to keep my distance from them. Sure, sometimes I want to simply uproot and move somewhere else and see what I can make of myself.

[Irin]

Yeah, NGL -- this has been haunting me for awhile now. I'm trying my damned hardest to land a job in a career that I'll love, and I won't mind waking up on Mondays (who am I kidding, Mondays just suck in general)

It's also kind of depressing because when I first joined WWE-Club, we were all kids pretty much and this stuff was pushed to the back of our heads.

I need to win the lottery, and live on a yacht.

[VaderBomb]

For most of us it's a system we'll never escape, and we must reluctantly accept that we're going to spend our lives this way.