This time last year I was 29 years old, had no house, $7,000 of credit card debt, and made $21 an hour.
Right now I’m 30 years old, I have no house, $7,000 of credit card debt, and make $21 an hour.
Of course I’m unsatisfied. Because I know my hard work doesn’t pay off and all I’m doing is existing with no money or time left over for myself. I don’t give a single fuck about my job at this point besides doing the bare minimum. Which is pretty sad because I used to actually enjoy my job and would work as hard as I could.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah cause wtf is the point anymore? No pensions, no raises, no houses, nothing. You literally get to stall the inevitable for another day. Fuck that.
KidnappedByKitties@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nothing to show and a day closer do death, as the song goes.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
This. I’ve struggled to explain the general malaise, especially to older people, but you are completely right here. There is simply no point to anything anymore. Things used to operate such that hard work = reward. Now, the reward has been almost universally removed. The system itself is failing, and any hard work just makes some other rich person richer.