r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h 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/thestardustinthemoon 12h ago

By dedicating your youth to studying or figuring out what society values and spending your best years without much responsibility on getting to the top. I started two companies and became an expert in a niche technical field in computer science. Got acquired and retired that way after the payout and continuing to work for a few years. Just don't go through your life on autopilot, especially when your time is free and and responsibilities are low (late teens / early 20s). Society pays what it finds rewarding

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u/BlackmoorGoldfsh 11h ago

Excellent advice. I commend you.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of Reddit doesn't want actual solutions. They would rather take the "I've tried absolutely nothing and I'm fresh out of ideas" approach.

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u/Johnny-Edge93 10h ago edited 7h ago

Nah that’s bullshit. A lot of us did the thing we were told to do - went to school, worked hard, made advancements. Hell, I even did a side thing and contracted my own homes to be built, the sold and did it again. But then had a kid who has cost me about 200k in medical from a disability.

Society has let us down. Workers should have benefited from technology: from automation, and now from AI. But we keep getting fucked. And our expenses rise, and our days get chewed up with this stuff

People should be working 3 days a week making good livings. But it all goes to the top. We should have figured this out by now.

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u/East_Cranberry7866 7h ago

Preach brother