Topic: When will we stop living for the weekend? Escaping the 9-5 life. - page 9. (Read 915 times)

This is the rat race and that's why we're just like living day to day just to survive and have bare minimum. As long as there's no change, we'd be on this cage forever. Taking a step to change is a good start if you've discovered something that will push you out of 9-5 jobs. You can have some skills that will make you work freely anytime you wish for. We're in the digital and gig economy where it has been possible plus the understanding to Bitcoin and the crypto market.

It's possible but it varies depending on our skills and passion. Don't think that we're doomed for that forever unless you've already accepted your path and that's like to live like that way forever.

I am satisfied with my life for now but that doesn't stop me for wishing and aiming for now.

Ask yourself what's your passion and purpose in life and maybe from there, you'll see some opportunities that would be your ticket to a life changing opportunity. But majority of us already have seen that with Bitcoin but at least for you, there could be something else.

You can take some consolation on the fact that most likely people won't need to work as much in the future. Automation took huge amount of jobs that some of those were replaced by other jobs, but that created employment problems. Next one is the fact that AI is going to take HUGE amount of 9-5 jobs. Combine that with robotics and soon there will be nothing left but onlyfans for us. This might sound cynical but it most likely get people on barricades wanting universal basic income. As rules of work have totally changed, i can see it happening. Even in US where that's basically considered as communism. But when you don't have jobs, what else is there?

This will be a big goal for me and I know, one day I can achieve it.
Working is still the best option to many because this is their way to make money even if they don’t want to spend most of their days working. I see this to become possible if you already have passive income that can pay for your expenses for the rest of your lives, having good investments is the key and living within your means can help as well. Contentment should be the top goal, as living a happy life matters a lot than to having a work and stressing yourself everyday, know how to balance your life and stay healthy, simple life is all what I want right now.

I understand your point; the majority of us will go through this lifestyle for the rest of our lives. Personally, I've always had one day off per week, and it wasn't enough. I can't imagine spending the rest of my life with so little time off. Moreover, you don't have 16 hours of free time like you mentioned; add another 8 hours of sleep, eating, and commuting to work and back, and you'll end up with less than 6 hours of free time available on a daily basis. Personally, this isn't enough for me, and I'm going to attempt to find a way to avoid living the rest of my life so limited.
My point is that there should be a better work to life balance, not to be lazy and have everything ready for yourself. Life should be more than just surviving on the bare minimums.
Definitely, as someone who only had one day off, I'd be quite satisfied having every weekend off. However, I don't think I'd be happy doing it for the rest of my life.

Some people like this, some does it to survive, or others do it because they have no other options. Depending on your need, this could feel like hell or heaven. Also, there's a term that says, you need money in order to make more money. Many choose these 9–5 jobs so that they can save enough money in order to start a business on their own. So if you have a plan and enough asset to start something like that, you can decide to quit your job. But for me, the competition is so high. So grab any opportunity you can get. Have something as your backup and then move onto something new if that involves risks.

Nothing comes for free in this life and we will only reap what we sow, these two words have a very big meaning, there must be a price to be paid for everything, and remember, too much of everything is bad.

If you sleep all day, eat and sleep, you will get obsessed and it's unhealthy, heart disease can follow.

If you eat too much sugar you will get diabetes.

Ups and downs will always be the way of live, I would rather work 6 days a week to have a balanced life than sit my ass down doing nothing and having all the money I needed, working, moving from one place to another is far more healthy and using all your days to relax.

What is keeping many people from living a full free life without being tied to a particular job that only gives you 2 days off per week is the means, if you can not afford such life style then you must one way or the other work to sustain your livelihood.
Right now there is nothing more i need than leave my job completely but my income is not going to sustain me much if i don't have a steady income stream, so what to do 
Many people want it but only few can afford to leave that way.

That's life, sometimes things don't go the way we expect but there is no choice to be able to accept it because on average everyone does the same thing working 5 days a week and 2 days off and some even only have 1 day off. And I think that's normal because most are like that and will get used to situations like that and it all depends on how they manage their homework and vacation during the 2-day vacation and also plan holidays when there is a red date.
and i enjoy the state i think the same as you and most importantly after 8 hours of work i still have 16 hours of rest and also with my family and for the next 10 or 20 years i just want to have a business and be boss with some workers and one- my only hope is to make a profit from bitcoin which i do in the long term. And with that I can enjoy life with other things with my family.

I was just talking about this today with a friend. Our life has just become like this now. We work for 5 days just to enjoy these 2 days and this has just become a normal thing for us which shouldn't actually be normal. But yes I am also unaware about the fact how to get out of this trap. I doubt I'll ever be able to get out of this because 5 days working will never end.

Time passes, and we have nothing to look forward to. We watch our lives pass, and the only thing we're looking forward to is the weekend or 20 days per year of paid time off. We're working a whole year, from 9 to 5 and sometimes even more, at someone else's business just to have an approximate of 20 days of vacation and two days off per week, with many of us having one or even none per week. Is it just me, or does this life sound completely depressing to me? Our ambitions are completely crushed by such a daily routine; our days off are mostly to get things done around the house and to rest. By the time that happens, the day has passed, and we have to go to work again.

At least where I'm at, having two days off per week is considered extremely lucky and privileged, especially if it's two days in a row. Personally, I only had one day off per week, and it honestly wasn't enough. On the one hand, I wanted to get things done around the house and rest, but on the other hand, I didn't want to stay inside doing practically nothing to enjoy myself. Thus, the single day off wasn't even close to being enough. Certainly, I'd be better off with two consecutive days off, but still, is that how you want your life to be for the next 10–20 years, or even more?

On the one hand, I don't want to complain; through the last few years of working, I've been on vacation four times, from 2020 to 2022, which isn't bad at all. On the other hand, I'd like to constantly travel and explore new destinations, the majority of which we'll never experience through this way of life.

Do you believe that there's a true way to escape this vicious cycle, or are we doomed to live like this forever? Telling me that my minor savings in Bitcoin are going to settle me for the rest of my life isn't going to cut it, because the majority of us won't ever have enough Bitcoin to retire.

Are you satisfied with this way of life, or would you prefer to live a different way? What would you like to change and how? Personally, I'm clueless and not satisfied with the idea of spending the rest of my life like this.