Current Events > are there actually adults out there who enjoy things and take pleasure in life?

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wake up at 6am, shower, get dressed, drive to work, drink coffee, respond to emails, sit in conf calls, and edit spreadsheets for 9 hours, drive home in traffic, eat dinner, exercise, kill an hour watching reruns of the Simpsons, go to bed, repeat for the next 40 years or until the day you die
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No
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while i completely understand the frustration of living the rat race, i still find that i (mostly) enjoy life. while the first 10 minutes of the day are the worst i find it gets better as it goes on.

i spend the first ~30 minutes of the morning taking my time, enjoying my coffee and my breakfast and reading the news at a leisurely pace.

work is work. it's not something i enjoy but with the amount of freedom i have to slack off (post here) i find it really breaks up the monotony of the work day. i also go out to lunch every day and i find this really, really helps the day go by because im getting out of the office for 60+ minutes. it gives me something to look forward to during the morning hours as well. then i take a break for tea in the afternoon to break up that part of the day. so, really, i work in like <3h chunks and it goes by pretty fast.

i get home around 6:00 PM and i stay up until 12:30, so that gives me just over six hours to do whatever i want.

Romulox28 posted...

repeat for the next 40 years or until the day you die

this is why i save a shit ton of money and live well below my means. i want to retire around age 50 and im on track to do so.
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Eat. Shitpost on CE. Sleep. Repeat.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

while i completely understand the frustration of living the rat race, i still find that i (mostly) enjoy life. while the first 10 minutes of the day are the worst i find it gets better as it goes on.

i spend the first ~30 minutes of the morning taking my time, enjoying my coffee and my breakfast and reading the news at a leisurely pace.

work is work. it's not something i enjoy but with the amount of freedom i have to slack off (post here) i find it really breaks up the monotony of the work day. i also go out to lunch every day and i find this really, really helps the day go by because im getting out of the office for 60+ minutes. it gives me something to look forward to during the morning hours as well. then i take a break for tea in the afternoon to break up that part of the day. so, really, i work in like <3h chunks and it goes by pretty fast.

i get home around 6:00 PM and i stay up until 12:30, so that gives me just over six hours to do whatever i want.

Romulox28 posted...

repeat for the next 40 years or until the day you die

this is why i save a shit ton of money and live well below my means. i want to retire around age 50 and im on track to do so.

Plenty of people lose their life savings for various reasons.
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Work towards a general goal. If you are unhappy doing what you are doing, strive to do something you'd rather do.

Either way, if you have a normal 40 hr/wk job, you still have a shit ton of time to enjoy life outside of work.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

work is work. it's not something i enjoy but with the amount of freedom i have to slack off (post here) i find it really breaks up the monotony of the work day. i also go out to lunch every day and i find this really, really helps the day go by because im getting out of the office for 60+ minutes. it gives me something to look forward to during the morning hours as well. then i take a break for tea in the afternoon to break up that part of the day. so, really, i work in like <3h chunks and it goes by pretty fast.

good idea, i need to stop eating at my desk
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I enjoy my job
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It really feels like 90%+ of adult life is just extremely monotonous and more of a chore than anything else.

There's the occasional flash of life in there. Like laughing and enjoying time with friends/loved ones, time spent on hobbies, getting to take a vacation or experience something new (although even this becomes increasingly rare with age).

I just feel numb most of the time, like I'm drifting through all my days but never really feeling alive while doing so.
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Ultima Dragon posted...

It really feels like 90%+ of adult life is just extremely monotonous and more of a chore than anything else.

There's the occasional flash of life in there. Like laughing and enjoying time with friends/loved ones, time spent on hobbies, getting to take a vacation or experience something new (although even this becomes increasingly rare with age).

I just feel numb most of the time, like I'm drifting through all my days but never really feeling alive while doing so.

yep
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I don't know about y'all but my life is better than it was when I was a kid. I have control now, instead of having angry dictators control my life.
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even if I eat at my desk I tend to go out for an hour just to mentally jack off because I would blow my brains out otherwise

though I'm trying to figure out the same and how to be content too lol, I know getting a new job will not fix everything but that is one of the steps I wish to take in personal growth and I want to do a bunch of things after which I hopefully follow through on. but as it is right now I feel like I'm stuck in a time loop

Ultima Dragon posted...

It really feels like 90%+ of adult life is just extremely monotonous and more of a chore than anything else.

There's the occasional flash of life in there. Like laughing and enjoying time with friends/loved ones, time spent on hobbies, getting to take a vacation or experience something new (although even this becomes increasingly rare with age).

I just feel numb most of the time, like I'm drifting through all my days but never really feeling alive while doing so.

goddamn this is how I feel so much lately
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Get hobbies, stop being so boring.
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Romulox28 posted...

are there actually adults out there who enjoy things and take pleasure in life?

Yes.

In the last couple of years I've been to Machu Picchu (Peru), the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), and Hobbiton (New Zealand).

Also, I enjoy my life on a daily basis with my wife and video games and the two combined.
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i have a lot of good memories from those 40 years
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Vindris_SNH posted...

Romulox28 posted...

are there actually adults out there who enjoy things and take pleasure in life?

Yes.

In the last couple of years I've been to Machu Picchu (Peru), the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), and Hobbiton (New Zealand).

Also, I enjoy my life on a daily basis with my wife and video games and the two combined.

yea i should try travelling more, i just get anxious at how expensive & time consuming it is.

i love my wife as well but i can tell shes kind of in the same rut as me

drunkmuggle posted...

though I'm trying to figure out the same and how to be content too lol, I know getting a new job will not fix everything but that is one of the steps I wish to take in personal growth and I want to do a bunch of things after which I hopefully follow through on. but as it is right now I feel like I'm stuck in a time loop

yea same thing here, i feel kind of like i just exist to keep existing at this point
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Life is pretty amazing bro
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Romulox28 posted...

yea i should try travelling more, i just get anxious at how expensive & time consuming it is.

there are ways to travel on the cheap. budget airlines like Frontier do flights from OH to FL for like $150 round trip, for example. or you can take a 6-8 hour road trip, which isn't too bad IMO, to get to someplace for not much money.

i like taking long weekends (4-5 days) to visit places. that way i only burn ~2-3 days of PTO from work and it cuts down on the expenses as well.

i plan at least one major vacation per year and a few 'mini' ones to compliment that. similar to how going out to lunch gives me something to look forward to in the morning, scheduling vacations gives me something to look forward to long term.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

i also go out to lunch every day and i find this really, really helps the day go by because im getting out of the office for 60+ minutes. it gives me something to look forward to during the morning hours as well.

If you worked 8 hours +1 hr lunch, would you prefer 4+4, or 5+3? When I was in a supermarket, I preferred 5+3 because then the afternoon part is shorter, but some people thought 5 hours was too long. 5 hours was also the time limit before overtime kicked in.
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Laserion posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

i also go out to lunch every day and i find this really, really helps the day go by because im getting out of the office for 60+ minutes. it gives me something to look forward to during the morning hours as well.

If you worked 8 hours +1 hr lunch, would you prefer 4+4, or 5+3? When I was in a supermarket, I preferred 5+3 because then the afternoon part is shorter, but some people thought 5 hours was too long. 5 hours was also the time limit before overtime kicked in.

i agree with you and i would prefer 5/3, but the people i go with don't like to wait that long, so it ends up more like 3/5. that's part of why i take ~10 minutes in the afternoon to walk down and get hot water for tea, then sit for ~5 minutes drinking it while just enjoying my beverage.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

there are ways to travel on the cheap

YEAH there are!

My wife got us round trip tickets to New Zealand for $300 each. Only reason we were able to take our dream vacation was because of a mistake on an Airline's website that they ended up honoring.

Gotta subscribe to some blogs that follow cheap airline deals and you can fine some stupidly good stuff.
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Sure there are.

Up at 6, eat, go to work, build things from 7 to 5:30. Come home, eat, go swimming, walk the corgo, tinker on the bike or quad or whatever for a bit, watch a movie with my fiance, go to bed.

We have a good time. We have fun.
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I gotta get to taking long weekend trips and stuff more often
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No, it fucking sucks.
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drunkmuggle posted...

I gotta get to taking long weekend trips and stuff more often

same, but most of my weekends are occupied doing chores i didnt have time to do during the work week and having to do stuff with my wife's family
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ExtremeLuchador posted...

No

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Only the rich ones
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No. I don't.
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Everyone must find their own path to happiness. There is no right lifestyle or right work-life balance that works for everyone.
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