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[quote=Anonymous]It’s kinda funny—I distinctly remember a phone call to my dad about a month after I entered the full-time workforce as a 22-year-old, in which I stated “who’ve ever invented this whole 9 to 5 workday thing ought to be shot…”
And I loooooved my job!
It was just a lot to take in that this was the schedule of my life now.

He chuckled heartily and seemed both sympathetic and amused. Then he said ruefully, yet still laughing “…try doing it for 35 years…” And then I sincerely THANKED HOM for the years and years of quiet personal sacrifice of time that he made to HiS job to provide our family with all the advantages and comforts that we enjoyed. It was a really meaningful and touching conversation that meant a lot to both of us.

The point is, the difficulty in adjustment to “adulting” isn’t new.
I feel like the difference is that her expectation (or maybe her peers’ expectation?—the ones who are responding as though this rant is a groundbreaking aha moment or deep commentary on our backwards society) is that society should adjust to her level of comfort and just fix this by making the experience of working somehow easier and more palatable and fun for her.
It would be nice if her experience brought about a little self introspection and gratitude rather than served as “evidence” of a societal evil. 
This just in: taking on responsibility for earning a living as an adult is no joke. But you can do hard things, and you’ll even gain a sense of earned pride and accomplishment for it!
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