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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unbelievable.  A young woman in her first job out of college is complaining that having to commute to a 9-5 job, she has to leave by 7:30am and doesn't get home to 6:15 and then doesn't even have the energy to make dinner.  She laments that she doesn't have time for friends or "her life".

She should be glad that she only has an office job and not a laborer or factory job and that thanks to the way paved by labor unions in the past, that employers can only have a 40 hour work week without paying overtime (to non-salaried workers).   Gen Z is so amazingly entitled.

[url]https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/viral-tiktok-college-graduate-9-to-5-job-b2435504.html[/url][/quote]

This is a little unfair. The kid is commuting 1.5 hours ONE way.  She's commuting 3 hours a day. It's a lot. [/quote]

Everyone makes their own choices.  She commutes 1.5 hours one way because she chooses to live alone.  That's the price for living alone.  My niece chose to live in Manhattan when she was working there.  She got a 4 BR apartment and she sublet three rooms.  3 room mates meant that they could all afford to live in town and be within 30 minutes of work.  When she finally decided she didn't like it, she moved out of New York and with the resume filler from the job in New York, she got a great paying job in Houston (hometown) and was able to rent a really nice 2-BR condo near work and live by herself and her standard of living increased a lot.

So, if you want to work in Manhattan, you have to make sacrifices.  She chose the commute as the way to live.  My niece chose otherwise and was able to survive for nearly 5 years with a different set of choices.[/quote]

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