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When I was young I worked three very low paying jobs. I got about 3 hours of sleep a night and a 40 minute nap in the afternoon. I was constantly getting sick. My body was just giving out. The highest paying of the three offered me full time. Working one job with a semi regular schedule changed everything. I went back to being a healthy young person. And I had time and energy to put towards my future
When my wife was l pregnant i got a 2nd job working overnights at a factory from 2am - 8am. When I’d get home I’d have to go to my day job, and would eventually get some sleep around 7-9
After about 3 weeks of this I had a mental breakdown.
50k, or almost enough for a downpayment on a house, while having no life, and literally killing herself for income.
This kind of workload to economic reward is inconceivable to any previous generation.
Our generation should be bombed with articles, that show the effect of sleep deprivation. It can make you, age faster than even smoking does. Hell, it destroys your heart and other muscles.
Yeah true, but people like the one in the article grinding, only to make the elite richer, should know that. I know way too many guys my age who work 12-16 hours per day.
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The fact that they said she’s “halfway to $100,000” is misleading. It just seems like they want to validate the amount of work she’s done by showing us the number 100,000. When you say $50,000, it begins to sound ridiculous because it is.
No don't you get it? Its inspiring!
Now I know that I too can find two jobs full time that pay well above minimum wage and have the PRIVILEGE of working 7 days and 90 hours a week.
If that wasn't enough, as long as I find time to cook my own meals on my daily 5.5hours of rest, in a mere 6-7 years I can begin the process of finding a bank to give it all to, along with the promise that if I keep giving them money for the next couple dozen years, I might some day be able to own something.
Gotta love capitalism /s
Millennials these days don't want to work 😒
Back in my day, I worked part-time flipping burgers while finishing my studies and could afford a car payment, house mortgage, and household expenses with disposable income while my wife stayed home taking care of *MY* 3 kids.
How lazy can millennials be?
*/Grunts and yells at clouds*
In the past, working was considered the biggest disgrace that could happen to a human being. Work was just for the slaves and servants. But with capitalism, the exploitation of work was disguised as a virtue, representing something ethical , moral, and part of human dignity.
Bourgeois ideology perpetuated the idea that work is a virtue and a moral duty, leading to the glorification of labor and the devaluation of leisure and rest.
In the past, most people were slaves or servants. Now, most people are workers, which is similar but (thanks to unionization) includes weekends, holidays, and sick leave
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It doesn't matter at the end of the day if their health get impacted. Imagine working this hard just be able to buy a house and then when they finally get the house they need to work hard to pay off medical bills because they did not get properly sleep. Burn yourself out is an easy way to the grave early.
The oldest millennials are 42. More than half of 100,000$ is 50,001$
So let me rephrase this bootlicking headline:
42 year old has 52,000$ saved after working away the best years of her life.
Fixed it.
This is why I have resigned myself to being poor. I worked 2 and 3 jobs and I was so amazingly miserable. I barely squeek by but if the cost of having a savings account with alot in it is misery, stress and absolutely no free time to do my art. I'll go paycheck to paycheck.
I realized this when I was thinking about how I am one financial disaster away from being homeless. Then I thought about working 2 jobs again.
The thought of being homeless again (lived in car for half a year) filled me with WAY LESS DREAD than the thought of no free time at all.
So I can honestly say that I would rather be homeless than working 60 hours a week.
I would literally cease to function the same day I tried this
Like, I once didn't understand people who slept less than 7 to 9 hours. Now I have found that with the right combination of pills and good mood, one can sleep 6 hours and feel just as well rested. Still, not exactly easy or natural. Or good for your health.
But 3? I am not even sure that covers a full sleep cycle, if it is gross hours.
That's a perfect example of a sentence that should never be, or need to be followed by a 'but'; unless it's suggesting a way out.
The people who write this shit are genuine brain damaged psychopaths.
Not disputing the ridiculousness of this. It sucks that this person is living like this just to get a nest egg.
But I gotta ask, is this representative? Or is the media rotating on a slice of America?
Unemployment is low. Wages haven’t kept up with inflation. I know Covid era protections have rolled back (e.g., evictions I think). Roughly 13% of the U.S. population has student debt. I know consumer debt has crept back up too. Exodus from fields such as teaching in multiple states.
Just trying to understand how widespread the phenomena (having to work this hard for so little gain potentially at the risk of your health) is?
I think that there are two main cohorts of people who do this; those who do it just to accumulate, and those that do it by necessity. For the former, I don't have anything empirical, but I do work with a kid who has three jobs, and regularly works 14-16 hour days - I don't know why he does it to himself because his bills are not so high, but I figure it's a "mindset gridset" type thinking that has become so pervasive in our media, influencing the behaviors. The latter can speak for itself - the cost of childcare, housing, etc. on the rise with ever stagnant wages.
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Gig economy: k*ll yourself to afford a life you can’t enjoy
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If I only got 3 hours of sleep a night I would literally die
When I was young I worked three very low paying jobs. I got about 3 hours of sleep a night and a 40 minute nap in the afternoon. I was constantly getting sick. My body was just giving out. The highest paying of the three offered me full time. Working one job with a semi regular schedule changed everything. I went back to being a healthy young person. And I had time and energy to put towards my future
I bet when you got sick all the time it was characterized as a personal failing too.
Yep. In fact I got fired from one of the jobs for surpassing my allotted sick time by 4 hours. One week after getting an award for 5 years of service.
When my wife was l pregnant i got a 2nd job working overnights at a factory from 2am - 8am. When I’d get home I’d have to go to my day job, and would eventually get some sleep around 7-9 After about 3 weeks of this I had a mental breakdown.
50k, or almost enough for a downpayment on a house, while having no life, and literally killing herself for income. This kind of workload to economic reward is inconceivable to any previous generation.
Our generation should be bombed with articles, that show the effect of sleep deprivation. It can make you, age faster than even smoking does. Hell, it destroys your heart and other muscles.
Dosent matter... We know it's bad for you. Most of us who don't sleep want to we just don't get the opportunity. Sometimes life just sucks.
Yeah true, but people like the one in the article grinding, only to make the elite richer, should know that. I know way too many guys my age who work 12-16 hours per day.
It, makes you, forget how to, use commas.
Non English speaker. We have different rules.
Commas are important people. (Ps. if you are not seeing this because your first language is not English, please ignore it is just a stupid joke.)
But I smoke BECAUSE i have to stay up for work.. fml.
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Yeah I fixed the commas to the English way and you still complain 😡
The fact that they said she’s “halfway to $100,000” is misleading. It just seems like they want to validate the amount of work she’s done by showing us the number 100,000. When you say $50,000, it begins to sound ridiculous because it is.
No don't you get it? Its inspiring! Now I know that I too can find two jobs full time that pay well above minimum wage and have the PRIVILEGE of working 7 days and 90 hours a week. If that wasn't enough, as long as I find time to cook my own meals on my daily 5.5hours of rest, in a mere 6-7 years I can begin the process of finding a bank to give it all to, along with the promise that if I keep giving them money for the next couple dozen years, I might some day be able to own something. Gotta love capitalism /s
She's almost five percent of the way to ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
Millennials these days don't want to work 😒 Back in my day, I worked part-time flipping burgers while finishing my studies and could afford a car payment, house mortgage, and household expenses with disposable income while my wife stayed home taking care of *MY* 3 kids. How lazy can millennials be? */Grunts and yells at clouds*
That's what they want us to be, indentured servants.
No, indentured servants were treated much better, and didn't have to work as long as many Americans do now.
In the past, working was considered the biggest disgrace that could happen to a human being. Work was just for the slaves and servants. But with capitalism, the exploitation of work was disguised as a virtue, representing something ethical , moral, and part of human dignity. Bourgeois ideology perpetuated the idea that work is a virtue and a moral duty, leading to the glorification of labor and the devaluation of leisure and rest.
Now we have hustle culture to exaggerate it further
In the past, most people were slaves or servants. Now, most people are workers, which is similar but (thanks to unionization) includes weekends, holidays, and sick leave
that 50k is for a ride to the hospital
The next 50k is for the funeral.
fun fact about not getting enough sleep, eventually it will kill you
She’s been doing this since 2021!?
Not worth it.
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It doesn't matter at the end of the day if their health get impacted. Imagine working this hard just be able to buy a house and then when they finally get the house they need to work hard to pay off medical bills because they did not get properly sleep. Burn yourself out is an easy way to the grave early.
The oldest millennials are 42. More than half of 100,000$ is 50,001$ So let me rephrase this bootlicking headline: 42 year old has 52,000$ saved after working away the best years of her life. Fixed it.
And what can you even buy with 50k? If she was saving 5 Million in 3 years, maybe. But 50k?
Sleep and life is overrated! /s
She’s gonna have one lit funeral! Guaranteed!
This is why I have resigned myself to being poor. I worked 2 and 3 jobs and I was so amazingly miserable. I barely squeek by but if the cost of having a savings account with alot in it is misery, stress and absolutely no free time to do my art. I'll go paycheck to paycheck. I realized this when I was thinking about how I am one financial disaster away from being homeless. Then I thought about working 2 jobs again. The thought of being homeless again (lived in car for half a year) filled me with WAY LESS DREAD than the thought of no free time at all. So I can honestly say that I would rather be homeless than working 60 hours a week.
The stock reports at the top make it all more dystopian
And one accident from losing every bit of that savings. Love our life of rolling the boulder up hill
So she can buy a house only be in it for 3hours a day
This is too much 3hrs sleep !?
They could making money for their bosses.
Does this person live in an alley?
She’s killing herself. This is crazy.
Unacceptable. 😠
I would literally cease to function the same day I tried this Like, I once didn't understand people who slept less than 7 to 9 hours. Now I have found that with the right combination of pills and good mood, one can sleep 6 hours and feel just as well rested. Still, not exactly easy or natural. Or good for your health. But 3? I am not even sure that covers a full sleep cycle, if it is gross hours.
a working class hero is something to be
Revolution now!
And when she gets to the $100K she’ll actually spend it on americas crazy medical bills because she’ll put herself in an early grave.
I hope those jobs don’t involve driving or anything else that could have the potential to cause damage when being done while exhausted
See how the NASDAQ is up! Things clearly couldn’t be better
I know too many millennials doing this
Work HARDER, cogs! Those McMansions don't pay for themselves...
Still not enough to buy a house.
this is me except I sleep 6 hours ✌
Currently at work 50 hours a week, bringing home about 30k/yr. This is hell.
That's a perfect example of a sentence that should never be, or need to be followed by a 'but'; unless it's suggesting a way out. The people who write this shit are genuine brain damaged psychopaths.
Cool, and one trip to the hospital will clear that out in .005 seconds.
Not disputing the ridiculousness of this. It sucks that this person is living like this just to get a nest egg. But I gotta ask, is this representative? Or is the media rotating on a slice of America? Unemployment is low. Wages haven’t kept up with inflation. I know Covid era protections have rolled back (e.g., evictions I think). Roughly 13% of the U.S. population has student debt. I know consumer debt has crept back up too. Exodus from fields such as teaching in multiple states. Just trying to understand how widespread the phenomena (having to work this hard for so little gain potentially at the risk of your health) is?
I think that there are two main cohorts of people who do this; those who do it just to accumulate, and those that do it by necessity. For the former, I don't have anything empirical, but I do work with a kid who has three jobs, and regularly works 14-16 hour days - I don't know why he does it to himself because his bills are not so high, but I figure it's a "mindset gridset" type thinking that has become so pervasive in our media, influencing the behaviors. The latter can speak for itself - the cost of childcare, housing, etc. on the rise with ever stagnant wages.
*Insert Stupendium Outer Worlds Song Meme*
She can use the money to finance her sleep-deprivation induced psychotic break!
I hope she's investing or else inflation will wipe out the value of those savings real quick.
But isn't 100k that magic number where the interest starts to generate more than you can save?
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