@sombre: I was unemployed for about a year straight starting in May of 2020, relating to various things in my life that all went tits up at the same time in conjunction, coincidentally, with the pandemic. For the first couple of months, it was great being able to sleep in every day, do basically whatever I wanted, play games, etc.
But after a while. yeah, it's living hell. I think we need something beyond just doing whatever the fuck we want to keep us feeling... I don't know, useful? Dynamic? It doesn't necessarily even have to be a traditional job -- other projects, volunteering for shit, etc, I think can serve that same purpose, but of course usually don't come with an income.
Anyway, now I'm back to being employed full time and every time I groan when I wake up and have that moment of wishing I didn't have to go to work, I remember what it felt like to not be able to go to work.
Or maybe our monkey brains are just trained to desire labor thanks to capitalism, I dunno man.
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