Generation Z wants to retire at age 21.
This country is doomed. You know that, right?
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A Gen Z employee lamented in an essay published by Business Insider that her day job at the YMCA is, while rewarding, still "difficult" since it takes up too much of her time.</blockquote
Piper Hansen graduated from college in spring 2023 and while she has only been working full time for a few months, she said it is depressing to have the 9-to-5 schedule.
"How can I make sure I'm eating well and seeing my friends and taking time for my hobbies?" she asked. "How am I supposed to fit my whole life into a 9-to-5 work schedule?"
Hansen explained that she wakes up around 7 a.m. for her 10-to-7 job, but by the time she gets home, she barely has time to walk her dog and make dinner before it gets dark.
"Then I have to make sure the coffee pot is ready for the next morning, and I have something to take for lunch the next day," she wrote. "I'm home for just a few hours before I get ready to go to bed by 11 p.m."
Maybe there aren't as many Girlbosses as the Media Propaganda Complex assures us there are.
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In the TikTok, the young college graduate questioned how people are supposed to make time for friends or to date.
"I want to shower, eat my dinner and go to sleep," she said. "I don't have time or energy to cook my dinner either. Like, I don't have energy to work out, like that's out the window. Like, I'm so upset. Nothing to do with my job at all, but just like the 9-to-5 schedule in general is crazy."
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The 23-year-old said it is "wild" how "there's only time to work and go home to rest before work starts again," arguing, "That's not how humans are supposed to live."
I mean, I do get the general complaint, but...
This letter from "Piper" was written in response to the TikTok by a young Gen Z woman complaining that with a 40 hour work week plus commuting time, there just was not a lot of the day left for her friends and dating life.
In the upload, Brielle, who asked that Insider only use her first name to protect her privacy, said that it was her first job out of college and that she worked from the office, which meant she had to commute into the city even though it took "forever" because she couldn't afford to live there.
She said she got on her train at 7:30 a.m. and didn't get home until "6:15 earliest," at which point, she said, she had no time or energy to cook dinner or work out. The 9-5 schedule and the commute wiped out her days, she said.
At the start of the video, the TikToker said she was "probably just being so dramatic and annoying" and acknowledged her situation could be worse. She said she could be working even longer hours but questioned how people were supposed to make time for friends or to date.
"I don't have time for anything, and I'm, like, so stressed out," she said toward the end of the video.
The upload appeared to resonate; it received 1.2 million views and more than 7,300 comments. Many wrote they could relate to the situation, as they shared that they, too, had limited time for their own personal lives and found the repetitive routine difficult to deal with.
"The 40 hour work week is beyond outdated and your feelings are totally valid," one viewer wrote.
I think someone lied to all of these non-Girlbosses about how AWESOME and FUN and EMPOWERING actual work is. And I think the videos released by non-Girlbosses "working" in the tech industry by drinking lattes all day is also causing a lot of bitterness in people forced to actually work in real jobs.
That girl has been laid off. If you're being paid to waste time at work all day, you should probably keep your good fortune secret from your bosses, rather than bragging about it on TikTok.
There's a whole trend of "Lazy Girl Jobs." The idea is to work very little, get a decent but not huge salary, and avoid all work stress.
I mean, it's not a bad plan. Non-ambitious people do have every right to seek work that suits them.
But the pay she says you can get for a "lazy girl job," $60-80,000, might make most girls stressed, as they're required to actually work for a lot less.
A self-declared "Lazy Girl Job Girlboss" had to warn her fellow Lazy Girls not to post about their Lazy Girl Jobs on TikTok.
If you watch tech girls bragging on TikTok about their jobs basically being Kindergarten Birthday Parties all day long, you might start to get resentful about the 40 hour workweek, too.
People "curate" their lives on TikTok and social media to brag. They create a false impression of how great their lives are. It's all fake.
But they do this because a lot of people believe them. They really believe you can make $80,000 per year doing practically nothing, and so anyone working harder for less is a chump.
Interesting, while the TikTok girls brag about how little work they do, the TikTok bros brag about the ludicrous amount of work (and gym training) they claim they do. This guy is parodying them.