wkrmetodeathplz

Yeah, these posts drive me nuts because they seem to imply that I should just "push myself and get over it".

No, sorry. I've been "fun-employed" for 3 years and I've experimented with my sleep schedule extensively. If someone wants to tell me they know my biology better than me, fine, but I'll do what keeps me productive and happy.

Yeah, this works great until ten years pass and you realize you've been killing yourself with work so much in order to stop thinking about the fact that you're fundamentally unhappy and need to change your outlook and approach to life.

Luckily I only did it for about 4 years before I snapped out of complete lack of appreciation from my employer and realized that if _I_ didn't take control of my life and demand appreciation, respect, and time off, that I was going to waste my entire adult life. Took my dad about 40 years to realize.

I mean, yeah, if you work 60 hours a week, commute 2 hours a day and drink 3 beers a night, you spend Saturday recovering, Sunday wishing you had energy for side projects and then Monday hits, cool, we didn't have to think about crushing depression. This is what happiness is, right fellow Americans?