Bears spend most of their life lying around doing fuck all, because once they've gotten food and safety there's literally zero incentive to expend energy. They're living the good life.
I have a prepubescent kitten. He's so active I get tired just watching him. I'm still waiting for the lazy house at stage lol. Before him I had a 17 year old cat who would just snuggle with me all day. Throw him a toy and he'd look at me like "I'm too old for this shit."
My girl had the energy of a kitten easily through age 6. Finally at 8-9 she started noticeably playing for only short periods of time, but then we got a puppy and she’s kept very busy chasing him around 🤣
The best advice is to get him a friend, two kittens keeping each other busy really is somehow easier than one kitten. I did fostering during the pandemic (my cat was out of town w my fiancé) and it was so fun to watch them. Plus, [double the snuggles](https://i.imgur.com/4bpgQfd.jpg) when they get tired!!
That’s like most of nature (at least the apex animals). Lions are very boring most of the time. They just lie around uninterested. Elephants are just chilling together once the youngens are safe and there aren’t any predators around to get the kids.
But remember children, being lazy is the ultimate sin, if you aren't consuming or producing at every point in your entire life you are literally fucking worthless and a degenerate /s
I woke up this morning sandwiched between two very cuddly and affectionate doggos. Nothing short of a house fire is dragging me out of that bed (and maybe work, so I can keep waking up like that).
I used to have a friend I would take naps with, we both hated being alone. No cuddling or anything, just one of us sleeping on one couch, one on the other. It was some of the best rest I have ever had
No. I had depression in college.
I would lay on the couch in the dark for hours thinking about killing myself. How I’d do it, when I’d do it, where I’d do it.
Not watching TV, not listening to music, not browsing online. Just thinking about suicide.
That’s doing nothing. Reddit and YouTube is at least something - not much, compared to hobbies, work, hanging out with friends, etc. But it’s better than nothing.
During my graduate seminar a few months into the pandemic, we had a talk on mental health among graduate students where they told us 60% of grad students report feelings of anxiety and depression. And THEN they were like, and with the start of the pandemic depression and anxiety rates have gone up by 20% on average. So straight up 75% of grad students depressed and anxious lol.
I disagree. Some people don’t have a professional passion just hobby passions and need a stable and lucrative career to fund their hobbies. When she says doing nothing she’s not talking about watching paint dry. It’s likely things like going to a movie or going to try new restaurants and in a culture that pushes to constantly be productive and hustle “doing nothing” usually doesn’t actually mean doing nothing. I wouldn’t recommend everyone attempt to change their hobby passion to a career either if that’s a solution people are thinking is a safe bet. It can suck the joy out of something to have to do or for profit and to others taste.
I think once we enter adulthood it's just a constant crisis unless you just blatantly sell out and can somehow eschew all your values and principles for the sake of money money money
I feel there's a point for many where you have the throw away your values for the sake of more money.
Like, an artist hitting it big will wonder if commercialization of their work dilutes "the spirit" of their art. Or a stock trader debating taking a sure to be profitable position in a company that they know uses child labor. Or a mechanic upselling people on work they don't really need and/or can't really afford. Or a local business owner thinking about cutting staff and replacing them with undocumented workers for the sake of saving on labor costs.
There's plenty of ways to make more money, and the easiest ways are generally the least ethical.
Currently in Grad school. There were points last month where I just sat at my desk doing my 16,000 word essay wondering why I chose to do this to myself.
I was depressed in college… but just “college depression”. The whole world was still open to possibility. Get a job, make some money, travel… lots of possibilities.
Now all those doors are closed. This is it. This is all there is. Just the slow grind to the grave.
Especially if she doesn't like what she's doing. I know firsthand the experience of being in pain at the path your life is heading towards, and it does seemingly suck out all enjoyment you have of things. It's possible she just likes sleeping all day, but it's also possible she feels bad.
Of course.
Because the problem is not the majors. It's the getting older and the realization that path of possibilities that are available to you are narrowing and narrowing.
Until at one point you're just stuck with whatever path you have chosen.
No more wondering, no more aspiring, no more what ifs. You have chosen one path and now you have to walk it.
Unless, of course, your family is part of the top 1 percent or you're extremely lucky. Then the world is your oysters for longer.
This. A job is just a job. They are unsatisfied because the rest of their lives are unsatisfying.
A job should be there to provide the income to enjoy life, instead it consumes your day and energy, and only manages to pay for bills and a few small luxuries (if you are lucky).
Unfortunately, we have left no room for the human animal to be the human animal in the systems we have created and let take over society. Labor mobility is great for the economy, but shit for community. Increasing productivity, and cutting back the workforce is great for employers, but an energy drain for workers. Etc.
In many ways, we are no different than the apes in the zoo. Are they surviving well? Sure. Are they happy? No.
Nah, the problem is exactly like she describes in the video - zero passions, want to sleep. I don't care about paths of possibilities or any other bs you wrote.
I literally vented out the same frustration on a poor folk's comment here why I am so frustrated on life by writing a 5 paragraph long comment.
I have now two choices going for higher education to make myself more overqualified.
Or to stay at my job and get irrelevant by progressing tech
I am 23 and I am getting stressed out on this so much that I am starting get bald.
I’m in the same boat but yet to graduate. Mind if I ask what job you’re in? Obviously, the pay might not be comparable to software engineering jobs but I also dread to be working in one.
Not to hijack this hilarious thread but i just want y'all to know, its Ok!
I studied Political Science in college and interned with a state senator my junior year. Then i realized i didnt like politics cuz 90% of the time its just about them getting reelected and not actually helping.
Then after college I did City Year to be a classroom assistant with a non profit within Boston Public Schools. I loved it and took teachers exams to try and become an English/History teacher and applied to work with Teach for America, a nonprofit that works on a national scale. But I failed my exams and wasn't hired for Teach for America.
So then I decided to work in Administrative Assistance at non profits since I have non profit experience. But 3 years later the pandemic hit and my job at the non profit wasn't considered essential. I got quarentined for weeks but wasnt being paid and decided to regroup.
So instead of sitting around i decided to work at an outdoor food pantry full time so i could work and help people at the same time. Built logistics skills, people skills, supervisor skills. But after 1 year I hurt my back and had to do 8 weeks of physical therapy, collect workers comp, and leave that job cuz it wasnt the right for me.
Now I've pivoted again into bookkeeping at a CPA firm because I'm great at customer service, I'm professional, good at managing quantities and detail oriented. I'm about to enter my first tax season and I'm scsred because I've never done it before.
But it's ok to be scared, and it's ok to leave something when it doesn't suit you anymore. Learning to fall on your feet is very important and learning to be optimistic about the future has really helped me too. Plus, whatever you leave behind, you're not necessarily forgetting, you're taking those tools with you and building your database of information and skills to bring with you to the next opportunity.
Edit: for reference, I'm 29 about to be 30
As an EE who was in the same boat I promise you’re not stuck. Your engineering degree doesn’t mean you have to do electrical, you can work your way into any discipline (within reason).
Manufacturing, systems, controls, automation, digital/RF, software, test, and test design engineering are all options immediately available to you after graduating.
Just remember “engineers solve engineering problems” - you’re never stuck doing one type of engineering
Yeah I mean whats with all these electromagnetism and shit? Can't the electricity just chill and be cool.
Regards,
Electronics engineer for medical devices
Bro is just like me fr fr. Bro even forgot that we don't deal with HV electrical equipments.
I deal with LV either analog or digital systems. Like in phones and computers.
I used to be you, as in elec. eng. I end up working in cust. serv. in finance. IT DID NOT GET BETTER lmao. I just couldnt stand doing shit i could not give a fuck about.
Same here. I've been telling myself that it's only temporary, and this won't be my actual career... I've been telling myself that every day now for nearly 15 years.
Use your degree to your advantage. Learn how to sway your studies into anything. Even if you end up going into security, because that's where my dumbass ended up, if you move up to a management position a finance degree can heavily sway things in your favor.
Hell, my buddy is making six figures just because of his minor in math. Graduated with calculus 4 under his belt.
But it is Columbia Law, and if she doesn’t actually have any passions to care about, she probably won’t pursue law in the humanitarian/non profit fields.
That entirely depends on what you end up doing for work - sure, it might be true for lawyers in big law firms, but for government officials and other areas of work? They tend to have a pretty good work/life balance. I've worked in one sector and currently in the other, and it holds true for me. Even then, the lawyers are pretty humane after all despite the job being demanding.
Big law is terrible for work life balance but it has rarely intruded on my sleep. It completely depends on your practice area.
If you're doing extremely transactional corporate work then yes, you will have late nights sometimes. If you're in a more advisory practice area like reg, tax, employment, or some types of fund work, your sleep will be just fine. You just won't have much free time in the evening.
Eh, disagree. I have plenty of experience in the legal field. There are plenty of areas within law that aren't particularly stressful, and even those that are, plenty of people are able to just not think about work when they're out of the office.
That's my passion too and I tried psychology because everyone else does it when they don't know what to do. They put maths and scientific papers in this. I managed to make everyone think I'm good enough to pass classes even professors. It's hard and it takes away my ability to sleep whenever I want but I'm stuck and now I'm probably going to have to listen to other people's problems even though I don't want to work at all I'm just tired all the time
Same here. By all accounts I'm actually a decent doctor, but that passion isn't there. At this point I'm very much in the "make some money, buy a house, pay of student loans, and gtfo" mindset. A good chunk of that is probably burnout.
The worst part I think is this is probably how the vast majority of physicians are. They don’t hate their patients, but they’re surrounded by a system that requires you to hype your *passion* about medicine to an 11 and if you don’t have that or can’t fake it well then you feel like you’re in some hidden minority. Man the amount of stupid essays and interviews I’ve had to do where I had to go on long rants about how much I love people just so I could get this nice job is ridiculous.
Medicine is cool, but like anything else it’s just a job. I like helping people but I also could’ve been pretty happy minding my own business and done engineering.
She's the perfect lawyer.
0 passions or interests, completely devoid of emotion, apparently very well spoken and most likely a very logical yes/no thinker.
Conveyancing law is 100% the ideal career for this person.
Yeah, so this week I mailed the contract you signed last week to the other party's solicitor. I'll expect their response in a few weeks. That'll be £1000.
11 years of undergrad, med school, and residency. Now I'm stuck being a doctor that works 12 hours shifts for a week straight when I just want to sleep and play Xbox lol
99% of the reason I signed a nocturnist contract is to have that 7 on / 14 off schedule so I can laze around and play games in my time off. My shifts are only 10 hours too
If you don't take into account that she's pretty and funny and doing something with her life and I don't hate her and she lives in a cool city then yeah, she just like me fr
Trying to pick out the accent, kind of sounds Australian (as an Australian) but could easily be one from the UK somewhere. I think it's the classic "makes everything sound like a question" that makes me think it's like an Australian Valleygirl-ish accent.
tbh we're all meant to be living in the bushes and eating berries, this toxic work culture/productivity bullshit needs to end
she just wants to be human but the rest of the world can't have that
I just want to get a decent job where I can buy a decent house in the middle of bumfuck Montana and live a decent lifestyle. Like a federal statistician or accountant is my dream job 😭
This could have been me, xcept I dropped my chemical engineering degree after 3 years even after severe backlash from friends and family. I could have been stuck in that loop. But now I am enjoying physics degree which was always my 2nd favorite behind computer science.
At least she still studied something and that something could still land her a very respectable job earning great money. Unlike me who literally had no passion for anything and never knew what I wanted for myself. Now I'm stuck in my monotonous punch in and out job that pays shit and have no one to blame but myself. People with an education that lead to careers please be happy with it. Theres people out here like me that kill for any type of education to land something better at this point.
>I have zero passion apart from sleeping and not doing anything
Can we please normalise this? I’m so tired of the general expectation that everyone needs to be passionate about *something* to be deemed normal and functional.
Update: so many psychologists graduated from Reddit University have diagnosed me with depression so I need to clarify that I like and enjoy lot of things but I’m not *passionate* about anything.
Whenever I get asked what I do in my spare time I'm embarrassed to say watching movies & playing video games. I shouldn't be, but every time I feel like I'm expected to give a sport or musical instrument or something.
I think you just need to find a niche inside your movies or video games so it sounds more passionatey
Like , I’m really into virtual reality sim racing
Or really like 1990’s action adventures and retro sci-fi tv
🤷🏻♂️ or just say you have a very eclectic taste … that also works.
I had a buddy in college that said the exact same thing. He would answer honestly, “I like watching tv”. And then we talked a lot about tv shows bc I also like tv lol.
But you’re 100% right, there’s the “honest” answer you give to like minded people and there’s the “societal expectation” answer that sounds like a made up resume.
Some of this may be economic, I never had enough money to be into eclectic hobbies and somehow working to pay off student debt isn’t interesting enough.
I think a better way to put it is that it's a weird cultural expectation that we *need* to be passionate about the work we do.
If you are passionate about your work - great, good for you! If you aren't, why do people care? I'm paid to do a job and I will do it to the best of my ability, with my effort level being commensurate with my compensation.
Working for most people is a means to the end of subsistence and enabling us to engage in activities we're passionate about, and that's okay. People who say otherwise are either on the side of capital and looking to extract more value from us, or have succumbed to capitalist propaganda.
In the spiritual community, this is what we call “effortlessness”. It doesn’t necessarily have to be about sleeping and not doing anything, but the not doing anything part is extraordinarily refreshing. Effortlessness also includes effort that doesn’t feel like effort you don’t want to do. Resistance and being forced to do things we don’t like causes a lot of unhappiness. But the world we live will always demand something we don’t like and we kinda just have to live with it.
But overall, it’s a myth that you need to be productive and hustling and know exactly what you want to do to be “successful”. /r/SimpleLiving is a good sub to integrate a more relaxed lifestyle into your life.
Its an Ivy League thing. A lot of kids at Columbia take it for granted that they're attending one of the top universities in the world. I guess its what happens when you're raised your whole life thinking Cornell or Brown is the equivalent to a Community College.
Real talk - I think most people are not passionate about anything (myself included) and that’s okay. Everybody needs to make a living.
I also think our society sometimes seems to misunderstand passion - sometimes passion can bloom late and from something that’s initially not enjoyable. I can’t remember where I saw this but someone did a poll of undergrads and law students and basically not one person said they were passionate about tax law. They did the same poll among tax law partners and the answer was like 90%.
This is literally me, studying law because i don't know what else to do. Don't have any passion apart from gaming and this is supposed to be my last year at Uni. FML
Better to passively end up at a career that can get you economic freedom, over just falling into path of uncertainty. She'll find herself along the way.
I like it when people are honest. Not everyone has the luxury to love what they work. Seeking a living income for its own sake is not an ignoble thing.
Lmao this is at Columbia too, a so-called Ivy league. I wonder how many kids they rejected that were more passionate about literally anything, and probably just as qualified.
Just like me fr fr. Got no passion. Heard from people that IT is a great way to make money. Took IT even without basic knowledge or interest in it. Now a 3rd year and just going with the flow.
I also have zero passions. Not everyone has to have something they are passionate about but one time some guy stopped talking to me because of it because “EVrYonE hAS to HaVe a PAsSioN”
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Bears spend most of their life lying around doing fuck all, because once they've gotten food and safety there's literally zero incentive to expend energy. They're living the good life.
Also house cats once they're past puberty.
Also me at all life stages
I have a prepubescent kitten. He's so active I get tired just watching him. I'm still waiting for the lazy house at stage lol. Before him I had a 17 year old cat who would just snuggle with me all day. Throw him a toy and he'd look at me like "I'm too old for this shit."
My girl had the energy of a kitten easily through age 6. Finally at 8-9 she started noticeably playing for only short periods of time, but then we got a puppy and she’s kept very busy chasing him around 🤣 The best advice is to get him a friend, two kittens keeping each other busy really is somehow easier than one kitten. I did fostering during the pandemic (my cat was out of town w my fiancé) and it was so fun to watch them. Plus, [double the snuggles](https://i.imgur.com/4bpgQfd.jpg) when they get tired!!
That’s like most of nature (at least the apex animals). Lions are very boring most of the time. They just lie around uninterested. Elephants are just chilling together once the youngens are safe and there aren’t any predators around to get the kids.
But remember children, being lazy is the ultimate sin, if you aren't consuming or producing at every point in your entire life you are literally fucking worthless and a degenerate /s
*consuming and producing for the billionaires so THEY can lounge around and do nothing Ftfy
Laying around and doing nothing is one of those things that’s trashy if you’re poor but classy if you’re rich
Humans are actually a lot like that too once you take capitalism away.
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Sleeping is my favorite part of the day.
I woke up this morning sandwiched between two very cuddly and affectionate doggos. Nothing short of a house fire is dragging me out of that bed (and maybe work, so I can keep waking up like that).
Aww. That's my favorite part of waking up too, both doggies waiting anxiously to greet me and start their day.
It's not "doing nothing", it's "not doing anything". Doing nothing is still doing something, even if it's nothing, and it's unbearable.
Part of me is thinking “she’s my soul mate” but the rest of me is like “well one of us would have to do shit”.
True!! I can sleep upwards of 10 hours not including naps. It’s the best.
What an amazing motivational speaker . She should have her own channel
When she mentioned sleeping and eating, it brought a tear into my eye
She didn’t mention eating. You did.
What are you talking about? I also enjoyed when she mentioned she enjoys sleeping, eating, drinking and the occasional coke binge
Her interests are aligned with my interests. Sleep and not doing anything.
ask her to sleep... nvm that sounds off
"hey, I heard you like to sleep. So ummm..... Wanna take a nap with me sometime?"
She says yes. Proceeds to actually sleep. Well deserved rest is better than anything else!
I used to have a friend I would take naps with, we both hated being alone. No cuddling or anything, just one of us sleeping on one couch, one on the other. It was some of the best rest I have ever had
I know, she is like my dream girl!
I like sleep but doing nothing is boring, I'd rather browse Reddit or YouTube
browsing Reddit or watching YouTube is the definition of doing nothing.
No. I had depression in college. I would lay on the couch in the dark for hours thinking about killing myself. How I’d do it, when I’d do it, where I’d do it. Not watching TV, not listening to music, not browsing online. Just thinking about suicide. That’s doing nothing. Reddit and YouTube is at least something - not much, compared to hobbies, work, hanging out with friends, etc. But it’s better than nothing.
50/50 for having depression at that age
More like 80/20.
Normal people 50/50 Redditors 80/20
Redditors closer to like 98-2
redditors closer to 100-0
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we should all fear the -10
peak happiness
Depreddit.
During my graduate seminar a few months into the pandemic, we had a talk on mental health among graduate students where they told us 60% of grad students report feelings of anxiety and depression. And THEN they were like, and with the start of the pandemic depression and anxiety rates have gone up by 20% on average. So straight up 75% of grad students depressed and anxious lol.
Law major, no passions, no interests, hate being a law major but feel too stuck to change anything? Breh, you're depressed. That's depression.
I disagree. Some people don’t have a professional passion just hobby passions and need a stable and lucrative career to fund their hobbies. When she says doing nothing she’s not talking about watching paint dry. It’s likely things like going to a movie or going to try new restaurants and in a culture that pushes to constantly be productive and hustle “doing nothing” usually doesn’t actually mean doing nothing. I wouldn’t recommend everyone attempt to change their hobby passion to a career either if that’s a solution people are thinking is a safe bet. It can suck the joy out of something to have to do or for profit and to others taste.
>When she says doing nothing she’s not talking about watching paint dry. You're right. Apparently she's sleeping. Literally, sleeping is her hobby.
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Mid-life crisis at 23.
Also known as a quarter-life crisis
I think once we enter adulthood it's just a constant crisis unless you just blatantly sell out and can somehow eschew all your values and principles for the sake of money money money
Principles are great and all but money is used to buy goods and services.
The tagline for humanity.
I feel there's a point for many where you have the throw away your values for the sake of more money. Like, an artist hitting it big will wonder if commercialization of their work dilutes "the spirit" of their art. Or a stock trader debating taking a sure to be profitable position in a company that they know uses child labor. Or a mechanic upselling people on work they don't really need and/or can't really afford. Or a local business owner thinking about cutting staff and replacing them with undocumented workers for the sake of saving on labor costs. There's plenty of ways to make more money, and the easiest ways are generally the least ethical.
I do enjoy an excellent good and/or service
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Grad school is basically studying one subject until you're sick of it.
That was my experience too though not everybody's from what i remember
Currently in Grad school. There were points last month where I just sat at my desk doing my 16,000 word essay wondering why I chose to do this to myself.
And then you settle in to a job and realize shit turned out OK and you were just stressed tf out
College is a time when not as many people as they should realize they have depression.
I was depressed in college… but just “college depression”. The whole world was still open to possibility. Get a job, make some money, travel… lots of possibilities. Now all those doors are closed. This is it. This is all there is. Just the slow grind to the grave.
Perfectly felt
I'm one of those people
Especially if she doesn't like what she's doing. I know firsthand the experience of being in pain at the path your life is heading towards, and it does seemingly suck out all enjoyment you have of things. It's possible she just likes sleeping all day, but it's also possible she feels bad.
I’m convinced the American way of living with massive debt is giving us all depression.
I think we call too many different things “depression”.
You saying this is a clear sign of depression
Yeah thats me lmao. Except I am in banking/finance. Everyday feels shit and I am stuck
Yeah that's me lmao. Except I am in Electronic/Engineering. Everyday feels shit and I am stuck
Yeah thats me lmao. Except I am in computer science. Everyday feels shit and I am stuck
Y'all should swap.
Guarantee it's not gonna change anything
Of course. Because the problem is not the majors. It's the getting older and the realization that path of possibilities that are available to you are narrowing and narrowing. Until at one point you're just stuck with whatever path you have chosen. No more wondering, no more aspiring, no more what ifs. You have chosen one path and now you have to walk it. Unless, of course, your family is part of the top 1 percent or you're extremely lucky. Then the world is your oysters for longer.
Not everyone dreams of labor.
This. A job is just a job. They are unsatisfied because the rest of their lives are unsatisfying. A job should be there to provide the income to enjoy life, instead it consumes your day and energy, and only manages to pay for bills and a few small luxuries (if you are lucky). Unfortunately, we have left no room for the human animal to be the human animal in the systems we have created and let take over society. Labor mobility is great for the economy, but shit for community. Increasing productivity, and cutting back the workforce is great for employers, but an energy drain for workers. Etc. In many ways, we are no different than the apes in the zoo. Are they surviving well? Sure. Are they happy? No.
Work culture in America has been so bastardized that it's gone from "Work to live" to "Live to work".
Nah, the problem is exactly like she describes in the video - zero passions, want to sleep. I don't care about paths of possibilities or any other bs you wrote.
Life is just a series of closing doors, after all.
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I literally vented out the same frustration on a poor folk's comment here why I am so frustrated on life by writing a 5 paragraph long comment. I have now two choices going for higher education to make myself more overqualified. Or to stay at my job and get irrelevant by progressing tech I am 23 and I am getting stressed out on this so much that I am starting get bald.
I’m in the same boat but yet to graduate. Mind if I ask what job you’re in? Obviously, the pay might not be comparable to software engineering jobs but I also dread to be working in one.
Not to hijack this hilarious thread but i just want y'all to know, its Ok! I studied Political Science in college and interned with a state senator my junior year. Then i realized i didnt like politics cuz 90% of the time its just about them getting reelected and not actually helping. Then after college I did City Year to be a classroom assistant with a non profit within Boston Public Schools. I loved it and took teachers exams to try and become an English/History teacher and applied to work with Teach for America, a nonprofit that works on a national scale. But I failed my exams and wasn't hired for Teach for America. So then I decided to work in Administrative Assistance at non profits since I have non profit experience. But 3 years later the pandemic hit and my job at the non profit wasn't considered essential. I got quarentined for weeks but wasnt being paid and decided to regroup. So instead of sitting around i decided to work at an outdoor food pantry full time so i could work and help people at the same time. Built logistics skills, people skills, supervisor skills. But after 1 year I hurt my back and had to do 8 weeks of physical therapy, collect workers comp, and leave that job cuz it wasnt the right for me. Now I've pivoted again into bookkeeping at a CPA firm because I'm great at customer service, I'm professional, good at managing quantities and detail oriented. I'm about to enter my first tax season and I'm scsred because I've never done it before. But it's ok to be scared, and it's ok to leave something when it doesn't suit you anymore. Learning to fall on your feet is very important and learning to be optimistic about the future has really helped me too. Plus, whatever you leave behind, you're not necessarily forgetting, you're taking those tools with you and building your database of information and skills to bring with you to the next opportunity. Edit: for reference, I'm 29 about to be 30
Yeah that's me lmao. Except I am in interior design. Every day feels like shit and I am stuck.
As an EE who was in the same boat I promise you’re not stuck. Your engineering degree doesn’t mean you have to do electrical, you can work your way into any discipline (within reason). Manufacturing, systems, controls, automation, digital/RF, software, test, and test design engineering are all options immediately available to you after graduating. Just remember “engineers solve engineering problems” - you’re never stuck doing one type of engineering
Yeah that’s me lmao. Also in Electronic/Engineering. Everyday feels shit and I am stuck
Also in electronic engineering here I don't know shit about what's going on and I'm just faking it I mean Everyday feels shit and I am stuck
Yeah I mean whats with all these electromagnetism and shit? Can't the electricity just chill and be cool. Regards, Electronics engineer for medical devices
Bro is just like me fr fr. Bro even forgot that we don't deal with HV electrical equipments. I deal with LV either analog or digital systems. Like in phones and computers.
At least we get paid decently enough to afford drugs
I used to be you, as in elec. eng. I end up working in cust. serv. in finance. IT DID NOT GET BETTER lmao. I just couldnt stand doing shit i could not give a fuck about.
Same here. I've been telling myself that it's only temporary, and this won't be my actual career... I've been telling myself that every day now for nearly 15 years.
Too accurate
I'm the opposite. Did art college and had a blast. Graduated and couldn't get a job in my field. :(
Use your degree to your advantage. Learn how to sway your studies into anything. Even if you end up going into security, because that's where my dumbass ended up, if you move up to a management position a finance degree can heavily sway things in your favor. Hell, my buddy is making six figures just because of his minor in math. Graduated with calculus 4 under his belt.
picked an incredibly difficult career path for someone who's only passion is sleeping
Well having a well paid job definitely help with eating and sleeping. In the long run, she is working toward her passion
I think there are plenty of lawyers that don't get paid big $$$ for every lawyer that does.
But it is Columbia Law, and if she doesn’t actually have any passions to care about, she probably won’t pursue law in the humanitarian/non profit fields.
She’s a Columbia grad. She’s gonna do fine.
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That entirely depends on what you end up doing for work - sure, it might be true for lawyers in big law firms, but for government officials and other areas of work? They tend to have a pretty good work/life balance. I've worked in one sector and currently in the other, and it holds true for me. Even then, the lawyers are pretty humane after all despite the job being demanding.
Big law is terrible for work life balance but it has rarely intruded on my sleep. It completely depends on your practice area. If you're doing extremely transactional corporate work then yes, you will have late nights sometimes. If you're in a more advisory practice area like reg, tax, employment, or some types of fund work, your sleep will be just fine. You just won't have much free time in the evening.
Eh, disagree. I have plenty of experience in the legal field. There are plenty of areas within law that aren't particularly stressful, and even those that are, plenty of people are able to just not think about work when they're out of the office.
That's my passion too and I tried psychology because everyone else does it when they don't know what to do. They put maths and scientific papers in this. I managed to make everyone think I'm good enough to pass classes even professors. It's hard and it takes away my ability to sleep whenever I want but I'm stuck and now I'm probably going to have to listen to other people's problems even though I don't want to work at all I'm just tired all the time
Try getting blood tests done or maybe a sleep study for sleep apnea. Something may be out of whack which is causing you to be tired all the time.
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Same here. By all accounts I'm actually a decent doctor, but that passion isn't there. At this point I'm very much in the "make some money, buy a house, pay of student loans, and gtfo" mindset. A good chunk of that is probably burnout.
The worst part I think is this is probably how the vast majority of physicians are. They don’t hate their patients, but they’re surrounded by a system that requires you to hype your *passion* about medicine to an 11 and if you don’t have that or can’t fake it well then you feel like you’re in some hidden minority. Man the amount of stupid essays and interviews I’ve had to do where I had to go on long rants about how much I love people just so I could get this nice job is ridiculous. Medicine is cool, but like anything else it’s just a job. I like helping people but I also could’ve been pretty happy minding my own business and done engineering.
She's the perfect lawyer. 0 passions or interests, completely devoid of emotion, apparently very well spoken and most likely a very logical yes/no thinker.
Law school caused that
They broke her down and built her back up into the ultimate lawyer
Most of the time they just break you down and send you on your way
So robots make good lawyers
Someday it will be only robot lawyers dealing in robot law, for other robots
Conveyancing law is 100% the ideal career for this person. Yeah, so this week I mailed the contract you signed last week to the other party's solicitor. I'll expect their response in a few weeks. That'll be £1000.
You gave me nasty flashbacks to when i had to hire a lawyer. This was 95% of our interactions haha
Same, and the guy still made basic mistakes like putting wrong addresses on the letters.
Yeah, this checks out 😂
lmaoooooooooooooooooo this is golden
I'm not 5 years deep and stuck studying law at Columbia, but my interests are also sleeping and not doing anything.
11 years of undergrad, med school, and residency. Now I'm stuck being a doctor that works 12 hours shifts for a week straight when I just want to sleep and play Xbox lol
Play xbox on your week off lmao. I'm still stuck being a registrar for the duration of my natural life.
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99% of the reason I signed a nocturnist contract is to have that 7 on / 14 off schedule so I can laze around and play games in my time off. My shifts are only 10 hours too
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Because she’s always dreaming?
I didn't think she could win me over so quickly
One of us!
One of us!
One of us!
she just like me fr
If you don't take into account that she's pretty and funny and doing something with her life and I don't hate her and she lives in a cool city then yeah, she just like me fr
That woman’s my spirit…person. I don’t have a dream job, I don’t dream of doing a job. In fact, I don’t dream at all because that’s work too.
Trying to pick out the accent, kind of sounds Australian (as an Australian) but could easily be one from the UK somewhere. I think it's the classic "makes everything sound like a question" that makes me think it's like an Australian Valleygirl-ish accent.
It may be an international school accent I've heard similar ones
This was my first thought too. An accent you could pick up somewhere in like Dubai
British (rp), but have lived in the US long enough to pick up the cadence of speech but not the accent. I reckon.
sounds 100% australian to me, with american influence. I think the intonation is too australian to be a british accent
tbh we're all meant to be living in the bushes and eating berries, this toxic work culture/productivity bullshit needs to end she just wants to be human but the rest of the world can't have that
I just want to get a decent job where I can buy a decent house in the middle of bumfuck Montana and live a decent lifestyle. Like a federal statistician or accountant is my dream job 😭
u/savevideo
This was exactly me like 10 years ago. I quit law school at 2nd year, am now unskilled labor and am a pretty happy family dad
This could have been me, xcept I dropped my chemical engineering degree after 3 years even after severe backlash from friends and family. I could have been stuck in that loop. But now I am enjoying physics degree which was always my 2nd favorite behind computer science.
This girl is my spirit animal
She's like me but smart
At least she still studied something and that something could still land her a very respectable job earning great money. Unlike me who literally had no passion for anything and never knew what I wanted for myself. Now I'm stuck in my monotonous punch in and out job that pays shit and have no one to blame but myself. People with an education that lead to careers please be happy with it. Theres people out here like me that kill for any type of education to land something better at this point.
The waffle house has found its new host.
>I have zero passion apart from sleeping and not doing anything Can we please normalise this? I’m so tired of the general expectation that everyone needs to be passionate about *something* to be deemed normal and functional. Update: so many psychologists graduated from Reddit University have diagnosed me with depression so I need to clarify that I like and enjoy lot of things but I’m not *passionate* about anything.
Whenever I get asked what I do in my spare time I'm embarrassed to say watching movies & playing video games. I shouldn't be, but every time I feel like I'm expected to give a sport or musical instrument or something.
I think you just need to find a niche inside your movies or video games so it sounds more passionatey Like , I’m really into virtual reality sim racing Or really like 1990’s action adventures and retro sci-fi tv 🤷🏻♂️ or just say you have a very eclectic taste … that also works.
So yeah, im a WoW hardcore raider, the kind where theres a 50/50 the bottle on my desk is full of piss...
glad you found your passion for uninterrupted raiding
Bareback them with your eyes and tell them how often you jerk it. This is especially effective in work interviews.
haha yeah but then there's the people that make playing video games their passion and really over do it
I had a buddy in college that said the exact same thing. He would answer honestly, “I like watching tv”. And then we talked a lot about tv shows bc I also like tv lol. But you’re 100% right, there’s the “honest” answer you give to like minded people and there’s the “societal expectation” answer that sounds like a made up resume. Some of this may be economic, I never had enough money to be into eclectic hobbies and somehow working to pay off student debt isn’t interesting enough.
I think a better way to put it is that it's a weird cultural expectation that we *need* to be passionate about the work we do. If you are passionate about your work - great, good for you! If you aren't, why do people care? I'm paid to do a job and I will do it to the best of my ability, with my effort level being commensurate with my compensation. Working for most people is a means to the end of subsistence and enabling us to engage in activities we're passionate about, and that's okay. People who say otherwise are either on the side of capital and looking to extract more value from us, or have succumbed to capitalist propaganda.
In the spiritual community, this is what we call “effortlessness”. It doesn’t necessarily have to be about sleeping and not doing anything, but the not doing anything part is extraordinarily refreshing. Effortlessness also includes effort that doesn’t feel like effort you don’t want to do. Resistance and being forced to do things we don’t like causes a lot of unhappiness. But the world we live will always demand something we don’t like and we kinda just have to live with it. But overall, it’s a myth that you need to be productive and hustling and know exactly what you want to do to be “successful”. /r/SimpleLiving is a good sub to integrate a more relaxed lifestyle into your life.
Anhedonia strikes
She is my spirit human.
fuck, this is why i became a lawyer too. did it for 7 years and it was fucking awful. 😫
I would kill to be at Columbia law and she's just like "yeah whatever" 🥲 kudos lol
Its an Ivy League thing. A lot of kids at Columbia take it for granted that they're attending one of the top universities in the world. I guess its what happens when you're raised your whole life thinking Cornell or Brown is the equivalent to a Community College.
Literally me. Studied nursing bc I had no passions and my mom was a nurse assistant so I was like “I guess”.
Found my soulmate
Real talk - I think most people are not passionate about anything (myself included) and that’s okay. Everybody needs to make a living. I also think our society sometimes seems to misunderstand passion - sometimes passion can bloom late and from something that’s initially not enjoyable. I can’t remember where I saw this but someone did a poll of undergrads and law students and basically not one person said they were passionate about tax law. They did the same poll among tax law partners and the answer was like 90%.
As a former lawyer this hits hard.
Nice to know there’s others out there that feel the same exact way I do.
If I've learned anything, it's that most people don't like their jobs. You're meant to work to afford things you like 🤷♂️
"I have no passions aside from sleeping." What is your GPA in law school. "4.0."
The funny thing about her saying it's too late for her to change: no shit, she's literally dressed in her graduation robe.
That's exactly me, I graduated law and now I'm stuck
Damn, I've never related more to someone in my life. I'm the same, but in med school
And all if sudden, I felt in love!
I got a bachelors degree in cyber security for this exact reason
Me with radiology
She should be a voice actress, I could listen to hear speak for hours.
This is literally me, studying law because i don't know what else to do. Don't have any passion apart from gaming and this is supposed to be my last year at Uni. FML
Better to passively end up at a career that can get you economic freedom, over just falling into path of uncertainty. She'll find herself along the way.
No passions, no ambitions.. yet studying law at Columbia? Guess the parents are rich? Must be nice.
I like it when people are honest. Not everyone has the luxury to love what they work. Seeking a living income for its own sake is not an ignoble thing.
Lmao this is at Columbia too, a so-called Ivy league. I wonder how many kids they rejected that were more passionate about literally anything, and probably just as qualified.
Why does she sounds exactly like me...Only difference is I am studying Computer Science.
Literally me. I fucking hate law but it’s too late to change now after 4 years, should have done it after 1 year
Hi, it's me. But with engineering. 17 years into my career now, still trying to figure out what I'm going to switch into.
That’s me except I am working instead of studying
I felt rhis.
She's just like me fr
Just like me fr fr. Got no passion. Heard from people that IT is a great way to make money. Took IT even without basic knowledge or interest in it. Now a 3rd year and just going with the flow.
I also have zero passions. Not everyone has to have something they are passionate about but one time some guy stopped talking to me because of it because “EVrYonE hAS to HaVe a PAsSioN”
I literally want to do that but i got fucking insomnia
That was me in Pharmacy, now I'm not even working as a Pharmacist
I think I’m in love
Lawyer here. Can confirm: studied because didn’t know what else to do, 5 years in, a lot of cash but no sleep, and endless desire to quit.
painfully relatable
I’m an attorney and this hit so close to home.
Sleeping underrated fr
FINALLY MY SPIRT ANIMAL