How do y'all cope with the sucking void of the regulat working world

For those who are in it obviously - how do you cope?

I'm finding it harder and harder. They say I'm neurodiverse so maybe that's why I struggle more than others but damn. HOW can we just spend most of our lives and energy around work that doesn't really matter?!

It physically hurts me to waste my precious life away like this and I feel physically ill most work days. Like how do regular people do this?! :/

 

I used to change jobs a lot before I became a stay at home mom. Now that that part of my life is coming to a close I am trying to find ways to make a living without having to get a "regular" job. I am very creative and I have lots of skills and hobbies that I might be able to monetize. Right now I am looking for a new place to live and once I get settled, I plan on creating more inventory for an online store, getting my website up and running, and looking into other options as well.

 

I had a career path I loved. It was always a joy going to work because of what I was involved in. The coworkers were mostly good but there were those from the bad apple barrel. I put up with them as I immersed myself into my work. Those that chose to complain about me and my personality were ignored as I advised management that my skills were in demand and could be used by other companies if they so desired. Eventually my interest waned but my wealth increased. Wealth increased to a point I no longer needed to work and I retired. Early. Life has been a blast since.

That's how you cope. Build a skill set that can be used elsewhere making yourself indispensable. Then you will have the upper hand either having the management fend off the idiots for you or you go apply your skills where you are better served. Save and invest for the future and when you find you no longer want to work, retire and go have fun. But know there are some personalities that enjoy work so much it's just as good as retirement to continue working. They just found their own coping mechanism.

 

it never agreed for long to cope with me. not that i wished it any harm.
my skill sets have never been about little green pieces of paper.
my mind has always just refused to work that way.
instead i try to give free to the world what it somewhat inconsistently,
on random and unpredictable occasions has given me.
thus i have always lived with some degree of anxiety.
there is so much more i could have given had i been given the chance to access more of the means of developing such skills.
i have always sought to, though again, always driven more by curiosity, and the motivation to create, then any pursuit of social or economic status,
which to me is always less gratifying then to create and explore.
this is the fault i find with capitalism, and ultimately every other ideology i have analyzed the potentials and capacities of.
there are no exceptionalisms, but there are equitable ways a nation or a world could live without them,
as i believe many indiginous cultures likely at times have.
not claiming i would know how to apply them, but i can see in my mind what a world might look like that did.
it is that world that is in my dreams and is my dream. (and that i choose to create images of, as substitute for being not being able to live in them)
i do not live in expectation of seeing such a world here, on this earth, in what remains of my natural life-time.
and yet i do very much expect such world to be by far the more dominant sort among other sapiently populated worlds, orbiting other suns, in our universe.

 

If one lives to say--60---one has spent 20 years working, 20 years with free time, 20 years sleeping. Kind of a shit deal, that.

 

Don't do what I did and dive head first into a bottle of alcohol.