Comments on: Why You Hate Work

By: AnotherWorkHater

AnotherWorkHater — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:11:27 +0000

Reading this article and accompanying comments has made me feel much better about my attitude towards work. For years now I have gone from one job to another, hating all of them for different reasons. Now I see the reason is me. For the last 3 years I’ve done almost everything BUT work, and I’ve found, though I have more free time, I’m still not happier or more productive. Now I even put my hobbies on hold in favour of sitting mindlessly in front of the TV or just staring into space thinking negative thoughts about life. I see that it is not work that’s my problem. It’s my attitude. I bet many people who hate their jobs are capable of much more yet they are afraid to go out and look for something better and more challenging. I bet people who are out of work find it easier to stay in bed than force themselves to get up and do something constructive like plant some flowers in the yard or do volunteer work for a day. We tend to not do things we don’t have to. I think the real winners in the world are those who force themselves to do things they know they must in order to achieve the goals THEY have set themselves. They are the ones who end up ultimately being bosses and running their own companies and having others work for them. And I think most people are quite okay working for someone else, at being robots and just getting through the day, but some of us, like a lot of the commenters here, myself included, aren’t okay with that. We want more. So logically, if the desire is there, it means the ability is also there, and we are capable of more. So what’s stopping us? After years racking my brains trying to figure out what it is that I lack that so many uglier, dumber, poorer and less popular people who find success don’t, I have come to the unavoidable conclusion: it’s courage, pure and simple.

I WISH I HAD MORE GUTS.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:55:30 +0000

I found your article after googling “I Hate Working”. I have a good job that I have been at for many years. Bosses at different levels are good, bad, or just indifferent. Cannot imagine having to work 5 days a week from 9-5 or 8-4 or more for the rest of my working days. It doesn’t seem right that we have to work so many days a week and hours a day.

Is my work fulfilling? Yes. Do I make a difference? Yes. Do I make a decent wage? Yes. I know I’m luckier than most. I still don’t want to go to work tomorrow. I would rather stay home and do part of my workday here and throw a load of laundry in and brown beef and put it in the crock pot, and have Dr Oz on in the background for an hour in the afternoon instead of wasting time chatting with co-workers that I wouldn’t even be friends with if I didn’t work with this employer. I want to be here when my kids are done with school and have the house smell like a cooking dinner as they walk in instead of rushing out of the office at 5:00 and rushing in the door and facing hungry kids and 20 minutes to whip something up.

An hour or so before the workday ends I can hear everybody getting stir crazy and visiting with co-workers in their offices or cubicles. Most of them aren’t getting anything done. Why can’t we just leave? Why are typical workdays 8 hours or more plus commuting time? There’s no time for family, or chores, or cooking, or framing the print that has sat in the corner for 3 months. There’s no time to print out photos and make albums of family and friends. There’s no time to read a good book, or go for a daily leisurely walk.

Squeezing in all of the above means staying up too late, not getting household chores done, etc. It is all too much.

However, I am going to try to approach it the way you stated in your article just so its not so hellish and maybe, just maybe, it will make a difference and be more enjoyable.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:19:05 +0000

Whoever introduced a 5 day work week needs to be dug up, necromanced, shot in the head, cremated, and then his ashes pissed on.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:21:01 +0000

I think it all depends on the person. You made some good points, but I don’t think anything could make me not hate working. Even when my jobs have been more tolerable, they are still only “tolerable”, never really enjoyable, and never not a source of stress and degradation. Maybe I have a poor work ethic, maybe I’m lazy, but every job I’ve ever had has made me feel like a slave and pawn for somebody else to get rich off my sweat and sorrow. I hate working because of that feeling. Working is a waste of life in my opinion. I’ve figured out over the years that depression isn’t my problem. Obligations and work are the reasons that people suffer from depression. A life devoid of these things is a happy life. I guess perhaps it’s life itself that I hate. Either way, I can’t seem to quell my hatred for wage slavery and obligation in general.

By: madak

madak — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:05:59 +0000

Great post! I really did enjoy the material as well as most of the comments. Like most everyone here, I too feel that work is a vicious cycle with no end in sight. Day after day I pray for a break or somehing to rip me out of the routine. I often find myself questioning if there is a job suited for everyone. Maybe I will approach work like a hopeless romantic… If everyone has a soul mate, does that mean everyone has a soul “career”? Maybe it’s time to live off the land for a change of pace… ha.

By: UnemployedinEastCoast

UnemployedinEastCoast — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:49:59 +0000

Wow, this is one of the best blog postings I’ve read. Thank you for posting Scott. For a guy who I garner is in his 20s you sure already have keen insight into this topic. I totally comprehend each point you make and can relate. I’ve bailed from several jobs in the past, and most I don’t even have posted on my resume. The environment in each one was not good (harassment from supervisors, etc, waking up thinking..why?..) and in hindsight I should’ve toughed it out and in the meantime looked for another job elsewhere.

I have to admit the work in my career has (even in the places I stuck out and where my colleagues were cool and non-combative) has after awhile lost its appeal ..after awhile it would feel humdrum and frankly boring. Thanks again for posting this on your blog. I have to look at future work (hopefully I’ll get it sooner than later…) in a different way.

By: Minnie Mouse

Minnie Mouse — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:18:06 +0000

I can totally relate to all of the sentiment in the comments and I find the honesty refreshing, although I don’t agree with personal bashing of the author. I don’t think he was trying to be judgmental, just trying to be helpful. I hate work too…with a passion and always have. I loved school, but I hate work. I can’t stand feeling like I’m in captivity. I have no work ethic. It’s not that I don’t like helping people or contributing to society. I just don’t like feeling trapped, caged, forced, etc… I would live like a bohemian if I could get away with it. Forty hours a week is ridiculous. Two days off? No wonder people drink and have drug problems. It’s insanity inducing and we feel we need an escape. I feel like a hamster on a wheel. I don’t indulge in hobbies because I’m exhausted and depressed when I get home. The only way I can deal with being a working professional is to tell myself, “Hey, at least it’s not the industrial revolution” (when people were working 14 hours a day). Uggh. Forty hours a week for one fun night at a restaurant a week, if that. There has to be a better way. Let’s go lobby for a 3 or 4 hour work week.

By: Work hater

Work hater — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:35:43 +0000

Hi all, Work should not rule you. you should be ruling work. you should work like when you feel and you should take off when u feel. That makes life so much easier but it is almost always impossible. It just stays a dream. but anyways I dont like working, Im just working for survival like many others. Not that I hate my job, just that I hate working. Im a work hater. I wanna be a free bird with no restrictions and doing things at my will. but I realize all this is my dream. Cheers.

By: Andre Breton

Andre Breton — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:45:13 +0000

From André Breton’s novel _Nadja_

“I am forced to accept the notion of work as a material necessity, and in this regard I strongly favor its better, that is its fairer, division. I admit that life’s grim obligations make it a necessity, but never that I should believe in its value, revere my own or that of other men. I prefer, once again, walking by night to believing myself a man who walks by daylight. There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning―that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself―is not earned by work.”

By: Denise

Denise — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:00:33 +0000

I hate work. For me it seems pointless. Every day the same mundane tasks. If work was 3 days a week or 4 it would be tolerable. But two days off is not enough time to do much of anything but prepare for Monday. Get your chores done and other things you need to do in order to be in captivity and enslavement for the next 5 days of the week. Over and over. It’s senseless and leaves no time for enjoyable leisure.
It’s never ending depressing cycle. Them inflation hits and somehow we are brainwashed into thinking inflation is normal but it’s only govt stealing your hard labor. You can never really get ahead in this system. We work to pay for basics to live. It’s like doing your duty for just being a human and needing money to sustain breath nothing more. There’s no fun on the weekend if you’re so tired from work. Got to be better life than this…