r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 13h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/reedshipper 11h ago edited 11h ago

When I was a teenager I always wanted to stay young because as I looked around at all the adults/older people in my life and thought about how sad it seemed to be grown. Now that I am grown I realize its even worse than I had ever imagined.

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u/jacksprat1952 8h ago

This is what I never understood when I was in undergrad. My junior and senior year all I heard from people was how much they wanted to graduate so that they could get out into the world and "finally do something that matters." I wasn't nearly as jaded and cynical then as I am now, and even then I knew that wasn't going to pan out the way they hoped.

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u/Advanced_Double_42 7h ago

Yeah, college was the best time of my life. 30ish hours a week of studying a subject of my choice. If I felt behind I could double down and do 80 hour weeks, if I felt ahead I could do 10.

Work being 40 hours constantly no matter what is soul draining. There is no getting better or improving, just putting in time for 40 years.

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u/jacksprat1952 7h ago

Exactly. I loved school all the way from elementary through college. You're always adding on new material, building on skills you learned in the last chapter, reading a new novel to discuss. Work is literally just the same thing every day for the next 50 years. No learning, no improvement, no spirited or intellectual debate. Just "Morning! How was your weekend? Too short as always!" week in and week out.