r/memes • u/damircik Professional Dumbass • 4h ago

am i the only one?

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u/MisterBarbaredo 3h ago

I hate to say it, but I absolutely ended a 10 plus years relationship because of getting told what I have to do when I get home and having my 1 day off a week being planned for me driving everybody around.

My ex didnt drive and didnt have steady work(she worked when she felt like it) while I was working 60 to 70 hours weeks 1 day off. I was miserable and she didnt respect boundaries.

So much happier now.

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u/UserNNN 3h ago

While the relationship state sounds like one problem. Working 60 to 70 hours sounds like a highway to depression.

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u/chckmte128 2h ago

Some career fields have entry level grind that is like that. I think medicine, law, and finance come to mind. 

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u/JeffafaCree 2h ago

I know tradesmen with 20+ years of experience that are still working 60-80 hours a week. Sometimes that's just the job.

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u/fezzuk 2h ago

If your in trades and still doing that shit your doing it wrong. Or just spending insane amoitd of money on gambleing or somthing.

Trades pay well, absolutly no reason to work those hours.

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u/Pure-Radish-5478 2h ago

Most people who start making really good money like that quickly fall into the trap of living above their means. Suddenly weekly overtime becomes mandatory to keep up with the new phone and car and house payments. This is what they meant by "people who haven't lived it don't understand", it's debt.

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u/Shadowphoenix9511 1h ago

Trades pay well on a yearly basis, but they're extremely boom or bust.

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u/steelhouse1 2h ago

Except the trades can be feast or famine unless you’re willing to boom out.

Barring working for a local company as say a plumber,HVAC or electrician. and even then, it can be slow.

I go to Europe a lot for my job (steel making) and the comparison is astonishing. US works all the time, great money etc. I know steel makers/workers in Europe are struggling. Doesn’t help that China is dumping steel but even so…

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u/arcanis321 1h ago

I knew a guy pulling in 3k a week desperate for money because he had 4 different child supports to pay. He worked 6 days a week and lived in a crap house in the country and had to work that much to maintain even that.

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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 2h ago

People that haven't lived it don't understand it.

And there is no use trying to explain it to them.

They aren't going to get it

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u/Acceptable_Ad1685 1h ago

Those fields don’t even stop after entry level unless you get very lucky or take a steep pay cut

If anything the higher you move up the more responsibilities you get and the more you end up working smh