"This is something that never gets discussed - a 9-5 job is NOT an 8 hour shift. People always say **** like "it's only 8 hours!" to try and encourage workcelling. First off, that's ridiculous because 8 hours is still a long ****ing time, but more importantly: that concept is completely false. When you have a job, your entire life revolves around it. This point needs to be stated over and over again until it's understood fully. If anyone reading this is on the fence about working full time, my advice would be to do whatever you can to avoid it, unless you absolutely 100% need to work.
When you're a full time wageslave, things are very different. It's not like you have your life, and within that there are your relationships, your hobbies, and your job. No no no. Instead, you have your WORK, and everything else is secondary. Every action of every day will relate to work in some way. You have to wake up early to get ready for work. You have to stay alert in the work day, never slacking and CONSTANTLY paying attention. You've finished for the day and it seems like you can unwind? Guess what! You have to go to bed within a few hours, as otherwise you won't be able to function the day after! Almost every day of every week of every year is spent working. The "vacation time" you get in most countries is a joke. Even the time you do have for "recreation" will spent by you feeling drained, because you've worked like a dog ALL DAY! Suddenly, problems you worried about in the past just seem meaningless. It's like caring about a stubbed toe when you have cancer. Incel? No girlfriend? Uh... so?! That's a ****ing non-issue, wait until you have to work ALL DAY. You'll wake up every morning, wishing you could do something else. If you thought your time as a NEET browsing forums all day was boring, just wait until you have to do stuff that's even more boring but actually requires effort. As boring as being a NEET can be, at least you're actually free. At least your time is actually that, when you're a workcel you forget what free time even is.
Probably the craziest thing is how it never really gets better. You don't get used to it, you wake up every day doing the same thing, thinking the same thoughts, feeling just as bad if not worse as you did the day before. Your work remains dull, your coworkers' radios play the same repetitive pop songs, and the minutes pass like hours. I have enough points that I could write a book on the hell of workcelling, but it makes me feel sick to even think about it.
A lot of people on this forum say life ends at 20. If 20 is when you start working full time, then I agree 100%. I was 18 when I got my first full time job. When I look back at my life, the few months before I started work were honestly the best of my life. The day I started working full time, things changed and have never quite been the same since."
