Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 6 days agoFrom the perspective with decent workers rights in EU and I’m not against the reforms or improved payment.
Excluding capitalisms exploitation. Work does have a nice bonus of forcing a fixed structure and a simple goal. Those can be rather beneficial.
From personal experience, i do start to slowly drift towards depression during my mandatory 2 week vacations as oftentimes there just isn’t anything to do and i tend to doomscroll way too much. Nighttime sleep goes to shit and day-night cycle starts to shift. Sometimes even the 1 week vacation can be hard to manage.
Usually i do try to counter it by planning some home renovation for that time to keep me active.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s kind of on you for not having any fun activities on the side. You should really look into diversifying your occupations or you’ll just die when you hit retirement (or unemployment, or whatever).
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 6 days ago
Why do everyone always think i have no interests, when i say i like to work? Of course i have.
Like i love resistance training, but that’s luckily a rather self limiting activity, but takes absolute max few hours a day. I like PC gaming, but that’s really prone to hobby burnout. As a backup i have mini painting and I like to tinker/customize my PC, so there are enough activities to alternate between. In addition i like to work with my hands and there’s almost always some construction work/tinkering somewhere to be done. Though almost all of those activities can be rather costly.
To maintain that interest, i just have to do those sparingly. Otherwise i will suck any enjoyment out of those rather quickly. Of course i will return to those after a while, but just to once again suck any enjoyment out of those.
Yeah I’m fully aware that retirement will be rather difficult for me and I’m not planning to retire and if I’m forced, i have a long list of activities already lined up and retirement fund to fund those, but yeah it’s going to be hard.
Actually liking to work makes the unemployment part rather irrelevant, because theres always work to be done.
Zink@programming.dev 5 days ago
They don’t think you have no interests because you say you like to work.
They think you have no interests because you say:
In my case, I have loaded myself up not just with hobbies and projects, but with ones that are often physical in nature and very different from my career at a desk writing code.
If I were forced to take the next two weeks off, I would probably get MORE “work” done but it would be according to what I find fulfilling at the time.
lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think some people also struggle with the lack of routine when on a break from work. I know I do (though I am autistic) and it’s not necessarily that I want to be at work lol but it’s the lack of structure for the days. Waking up and not having a plan is very overwhelming for me and definitely gets me into a depression if it’s consecutive days without any structure.
I do think non-autistic people can struggle with this too - you definitely see with it retired people and others who say stuff like they just don’t know what to do when they’re not working or they come back from the break and are still feeling burnt out. Some people do need to more consciously plan for breaks so they can kinda make their own structure for the week or however long it is they have off. I used to have the same thing even at school - even though I hated school! 😅
So I think different people just need to figure out what works for them - some people can just take time off and go with the flow whereas others need to have a few things to do over the time off, some basic plans and others might need to make themselves a whole routine.
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 5 days ago
That makes sense, thank you for explaining. I can oftentimes miss some meaning in text, even with the ones i write.