Reviewed Date: June 8th, 2022
We all are living busy lives. We take up jobs, work for 8-10 hours a day, and enjoy weekends. This is the format everyone has been following these days. But isn’t it disappointing and sad that we pursue degrees only to end up living on weekends while being in oblivion the rest of the week?
From things I have seen in my life, if someone finishes college, he/she has to get a job immediately; otherwise, they are failures, and they are of no use. People I know took jobs they are not interested in because of that pressure. Now, they cannot escape, trapped in the race.
It is interesting to see that people often get jobs by pure luck; they don’t accept it anyway. If a person is said to be talented, he/she has to get the same job multiple times if attempted. But the problem is as they work, surely they experience burnout, and work becomes uninteresting over time.
When people experience burnout, there is a hike in salary, and bonuses are given. If there is no life outside the job and only money is something you are seeing, is it worth living a human life? What could we do about it?
The Things We See When We Slow Down is a good read, and I recommend it for those who are working. As Nassim Taleb said, salary is addictive. I don’t know where we will go from here. I think, in the future, we will live in offices instead of homes.
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