Preach!

I used to be able to do math problems and get paid well to do them. It wasn't ever "fun" or particularly rewarding but I could do it and not be completely exhausted or in pain at the end of the day.

Now my pay is cut and I've been doing brain-rot marketing for months thanks to trump's cuts. My brain fog is so bad and motivation so low that the email that used to take me 30 seconds takes at least 20 minutes if not an hour these days. It's just meaningless and I feel like I'm working at a telemarketing call center for a company that doesn't sell anything. It's even hard to apply for new jobs. I don't know how the fuck I'm sober especially now of all times...

Just luvky I managed to get a couple promising interviews lined up, have some friends, and relatively low expenses.

Depends on your definition of work. I don't think we should let ourselves be convinced that work can only be selling your energy, your time and your skills to a company that will pay you as little as it can get away with. If you have creative hobbies, practice some craft on your free time or help other people free of charge, that's still work: you're creating something of value for others and/or for society. It just doesn't feel like it because it's something you actually want to do instead of being forced to do.

‘Do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’.

I’ll bet there are things you love to do that would have value to others in society, even if you wouldn’t consider that a ‘job’ or ‘work’.

That’s kind of my point. If our society weren’t so broken, you could contribute without having to do what we currently consider ‘work’.

e : this sounded wrong, sorry. I meant if we could let go of capitalism, this is how things should work. We can’t have nice things, though.