s/o anyone here just not like working very much?

[Anonymous]

I can’t wait to retire. I’m 38.

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of people are this way. I like some things about my job, but not others. I know I'm lucky.

If it were up to me, I'd do something totally different, but since I have a family to help support, I stay in my job.

When DD is out of the house and on her own, I'll switch to something else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, this is me. I understand why I have to work, but I just don’t want to work. People look at me like I’m nuts when I say this out loud. They say they’d be bored stiff if they didn’t work. I don’t get that mentality. I’d be perfectly content not working. Some days I’d do a lot and some days I’d do not very much, but I would be much happier.

OP here. And YES to this! I love to fantasize about what I’d do if I wasn’t working. Long walks with my dog in nature! Read all the great books! See all the new movies and tv shows! Spend quality time with my kids! Play board games rather than hassle them about homework and drive them to activities. Become a better cook. Actually get my ass to the gym. Take up yoga and Pilates. I can go on and on.

But so many people are like if you mention wanting/hoping to retire early to do these types of hobby things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 35 hour work week, and only 15 more years to do it. I’m educated, good at what I do, have a lot of autonomy, and paid a solid salary with great benefits. Nothing to complain about when you think of people working at Walmart or in a factory or on a farm somewhere. What I do isn’t real “work” and I recognize that privilege.

OP here. Sure, I get this. I’m the same. I actually picked my field as a career change thinking it would be more interesting (I’ve bounced around from an internship with a magazine post college to a few years teaching to HR to non profit admin). But honestly most of it is tedious or stressful (magazine industry cratered just as I entered, teaching was a hellscape I barely survived). I bought my nonprofit job would be the winner but I’m bored again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like my paycheck. I hate my job. I don't like my coworkers. I hate my commute. I like my lunch. Did I say I like my paycheck??

I work part time. Why are you so money hungry?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like my paycheck. I hate my job. I don't like my coworkers. I hate my commute. I like my lunch. Did I say I like my paycheck??

I work part time. Why are you so money hungry?

Not PP, but someone needs to provide health insurance for my family, and I can’t rely on my spouse to do so. It’s hard to find a part time job with benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 35 hour work week, and only 15 more years to do it. I’m educated, good at what I do, have a lot of autonomy, and paid a solid salary with great benefits. Nothing to complain about when you think of people working at Walmart or in a factory or on a farm somewhere. What I do isn’t real “work” and I recognize that privilege.

What do you do exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a 35 hour work week, and only 15 more years to do it. I’m educated, good at what I do, have a lot of autonomy, and paid a solid salary with great benefits. Nothing to complain about when you think of people working at Walmart or in a factory or on a farm somewhere. What I do isn’t real “work” and I recognize that privilege.

What do you do exactly?

Marketing VP for a trade assn. I make about $200k.

[Anonymous]

No one I know likes to work as much as they do, even though they may love their job in theory... but the system is not set-up for part-time work.

[Anonymous]

There are people who don't know what to do with themselves other than work, which is sad. But most people talk about loving work because that's a form of affluence -- signaling that you work because you want to and thereby implying you don't have to and/or you're energetic enough to enjoy it.

I'm ready to retire as soon as I can afford to -- and have been since I was 25.

[Anonymous]

I work exclusively from home. Makes it mu h more bearable. I'm making 175k, so not killing it but at least I don't have to commute a d easily work out.

I'm a FIRE follower so I do see an end in sight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work 25 hours a week and take 2-4 months off a year. Really nice balance. Plenty of time to do what I want to do, but I do nothing most of the time.

Please tell more!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, this is me. I understand why I have to work, but I just don’t want to work. People look at me like I’m nuts when I say this out loud. They say they’d be bored stiff if they didn’t work. I don’t get that mentality. I’d be perfectly content not working. Some days I’d do a lot and some days I’d do not very much, but I would be much happier.

OP here. And YES to this! I love to fantasize about what I’d do if I wasn’t working. Long walks with my dog in nature! Read all the great books! See all the new movies and tv shows! Spend quality time with my kids! Play board games rather than hassle them about homework and drive them to activities. Become a better cook. Actually get my ass to the gym. Take up yoga and Pilates. I can go on and on.

But so many people are like if you mention wanting/hoping to retire early to do these types of hobby things.

In my 30’s I said I would be bored if I didn’t work. In my 40’s, I could give anything to not have to.

[Anonymous]

I felt this way for the first 15 years of my career. In the past couple years my job shifted (same org, but now in less of a ho him technical role, more of a leadership position where I get to lead teams,come up with creative solutions to hard problems, and have a lot of clout). My feelings about work - even though it’s with the same people in the same field - have totally chanced, which has been a huge surprise to me. There are plenty of days when I’m stressed out, and periods when I feel burnt out, but for the first time I generally wake up energized and excited to tackle what is coming my way. Apparently I DID have the capacity to enjoy work - just not in the kind of positions I had held. I’ve been totally surprised to find myself here, as I never really understood people who were passionate about their jobs previously.

[Anonymous]

59 YO here started not liking work around 55 32 years at the same company $160k a year with a pension. Only thing stopping me from retirement is the fear that everyone puts in you about living into 100 and running out of money.