[HN Gopher] Why Gen Z workers are already so burned out
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       Why Gen Z workers are already so burned out
        
       Author : akeck
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-05-27 21:30 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | softcactus wrote:
       | I'll throw in my $0.02
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       | I enjoy coding, I'm not some whiz but I can throw together a CRUD
       | app in a weekend and hook libraries together so it's enough. I
       | feel as if any job I take will be intellectually stimulating but
       | spiritually unfulfilling. I would much rather be moving things in
       | the real world with my body, or working outside, or still doing
       | coding as long as it's something that has an immediate visible
       | impact on my community. But jobs like that don't pay the bills.
       | 
       | So instead I take the high-paying tech job. I have no real desire
       | to advance except to increase my income so I can save more and
       | partially retire early and take a much lower-paying job doing
       | something that makes me proud. When that's my motivation it's
       | difficult to care about anything other than doing the bare
       | minimum to get the next paycheck. This sentiment is reflected by
       | a lot of the engineers I know my age who escape it through
       | partying, sitting around all day doing nothing and still getting
       | paid, having multiple remote jobs where they barely do any work,
       | or trying to escape the rat race via entrepreneurship. None of
       | them are lazy, the incentives just aren't aligned for employee
       | satisfaction.
       | 
       | There's no amount you can be paid to give a shit.
        
         | wildrhythms wrote:
         | Same. I like coding. I do not like the things I'm coding. My
         | livelihood starts and stops at paying the bills. If I could pay
         | my bills writing FOSS software, I would in a heartbeat.
         | Capitalism is going to kill us all
        
       | PebblesHD wrote:
       | I think the article touched in it, but from my group of friends,
       | the main theme is this. We're working just as hard as our
       | parents, and particularly the older colleagues in our offices,
       | but not receiving the same rewards in regards to life milestones
       | like getting a 'nice' car, moving out, or even owning a house,
       | which further delays other milestones like putting down roots and
       | starting families, leading to an ongoing sense of futility.
       | 
       | The feeling is 'why bother working 50 hour weeks in a stressful
       | profession if I'm going to be in roughly the same position as
       | working 20 hours at a book shop and getting to spend more time
       | with my friends', and this is something I relate to as well even
       | on the more successful end of the young person with job spectrum.
       | It does feel a bit pointless doing all this. My savings and money
       | are just as useless as nit having them when a house I could live
       | in is 20x a bookshop salary and 12x my salary, they're both not
       | cutting it so why bother?
       | 
       | Anyway, that's where this feeling is coming from in my group, and
       | is something I'm still trying to find a solution for in my
       | setting.
        
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