Is it normal to not care about working in high end jobs?

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I want a life where I want to work and it'll sustain me. I want no family, which will ultimately be in my favor. If I'm in a roommate environment, that is okay too, however I am slowly teetering towards the idea of living alone and I know I'll be juggling a heap of responsibilities once that day comes.

I see so many people saying that if they work at an X job, depending on what it is, then they're just wasting their time and life. That they need to aim high, get a career, be a contributor to society and the world at large. Society loves to kick at people who work at minimum wage jobs all the time, so much, you see this sort of thing happen in movies and shows where such positions are mocked for audiences to laugh at.

I find it very disrespectful to the idea of such. I've been told a few times that a 'job is a job' and I can get behind that. I want to work, still play games and generally live my life. It's all I can ever ask for. Why stress myself out for longer hours? Why should I try so hard to be a company loyalist who'll stay OT regardless? What's wrong with just going to work, doing the best you can and ending the day at the time you're to be done?

Is it normal to just not care for all of that?

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  • litelander8
    4 years ago

    I wait tables. I love it. I love the people that the restaurant industry attracts. I'm always told to get a "real job", but I make a shitload of money and have a great time doing it. Fuck the haters.

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    • FromTheSouthWeirdMan
      4 years ago

      Waiting tables is a real job. Theres certain restaurants they make 1,000 a week or more.

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      • litelander8
        4 years ago

        I do very well for myself. It's definitely not for everyone though.

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        • Manimaltheanimal
          4 years ago

          I worked the service industry for a few years before I started my apprenticeship. I'm definitely a "back of the housr" kind of guy. I'd be fired for telling "those customers" they could eat a bag of dicks and die...

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  • Pumpurrnickel
    4 years ago

    I've felt the same way for as long as I can remember. Society frowns upon this simply because society already frowned upon it. Meaning, people are brought up around this mindset and conditioned to think that you need to go to college, work hard towards a prestigious job, etc. or else you're a loser/aren't someone to respect/aren't important. Then those people bring their own kids up around this mindset and so on. I've realized I would much prefer making a humble, stress-free living than busting my ass off in order to appease people who don't deserve any appeasing, whose opinions on me have no bearing. Besides, if anything, someone who realizes what they truly want and works towards that is far more respectable than someone who works hard because they're afraid of what society would think of them otherwise.

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  • Inkmaster
    4 years ago

    There's nothing wrong with wanting a simple life, but I feel that I should point out that, at least in America, those who are married actually pay less on taxes.

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    • leggs91200
      4 years ago

      Yeah but marriage itself is taxing in so many ways.
      Think of the extra tax paid as a fee to not have to deal with someone else's bullshit.

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  • Fugazi,again
    4 years ago

    I just want enough so I'm busy but still have time to stop and relax when I need to

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  • ellnell
    4 years ago

    Yeah. My dream job that I have also educated myself for doesn't earn you a very high pay but I don't really care because if i'm gonna work with something all my life I want it to be something i'm happy doing.

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  • FromTheSouthWeirdMan
    4 years ago

    The problem with working minimum wage is you're gonna have to live with your parents until youre like 35. Then when you finally move out you have to get the government to buy your food and give you welfare all because you want to "play video games and live your life.". So in a way it makes you a underachiever. Makes you less desirable to women. And theres really NO reason you have to work a minimum wage job.

    You say you dont want to work long hours but there's plenty of jobs you can work that pay decent and you dont have to work long hours.

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  • leggs91200
    4 years ago

    It doesn't matter how much you make really because your lifestyle will adjust. People get good paying jobs and end up hopelessly in debt so they are STILL fucked.
    I know people my age that make like three times as much as I do but don't seem to be in any better shape financially.

    Some people are just not career driven. Nothing wrong with that. I work a simple job, don't get paid much, I don't give a damn.

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  • Manimaltheanimal
    4 years ago

    A wiser man than I once said; "find a job you love doing and you never have to wake up and go to work again".

    I have a mechanical engineering degree and I've only worked in a position that required it for 6 months. I hated everything about my life for those 6 months. I just cant sit in an office behind a computer all day. I was born with a strong body built for labor with hands that have a knack for creation. I have a need to feel the sun and rain on my face. I left that cubicle hell and returned to my family's trade. I'm now a 4th generation carpenter and I couldnt imagine life any other way. My friends I grew up with are all working "professional" careers. We are all nearing 40 and while I am constantly told I look no older than my late 20s they are bald, fat and appear to be in their 50s. Most have health problems. My point is, there is nobility in every position. Without the warehouse worker or the cook, the store clerk, trash collector, our society would be non functional. Find a task that suits you and breath deep. Contentment is yours for the taking.

    P.s. I've never wanted to or have been married or had children.i live on my own and my life is filled with sunny days. The storm clouds of depression cant seem to close the distance to darken my way. Good luck to you.....

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