'Work-Life Balance' Sure Seems Like A Scam (20 Posts)

I have been struggling with work life balance lately. I work as an actor and run a private tutoring company and both of those jobs require pretty much endless hustle: if I don’t work, I don’t earn a check. I can’t just pop out for mental health days or for vacations.

It’s something I’ve been really trying to work on in 2022 because the grid is just wildly unsustainable.

So imagine my disappointment as I scrolled through this list and BOY I hope you have a better story than all of these people.

1. Cancer

2. You don’t.

3. Wtf is retirement

4. Absolute UGH

5. Why ARE we working?

6. So tired

7. Pay people.

8. What a weird complaint

9. Oh dear.

10. A purpose

western cultures believe we must be alive for a purpose. to work, to make money. some indigenous cultures believe we're alive just as nature is alive: to be here, to be beautiful & strange. we don't need to achieve anything to be valid in our humanness. https://t.co/xzv821b0UN

— lanie (@melatoninlau) July 26, 2021

11. This IS sad

That Sunday feeling
byu/signuser inantiwork

12. Take a break!

Seriously thinking of becoming a demotivational speaker. Someone needs to tell people to take a break and chill the fuck out, we aren't here just to work ourselves to death

— g h a u r a (@ghauraghaura) June 16, 2021

13. Amen

Get a job doing what you love and you'll have to work twice as hard for half as much money, because your boss will exploit your passion for profit, and drive you little by little to hate what you once loved.

— Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) (@existentialcoms) September 22, 2019

14. Maybe.

I realize this is a controversial take but maybe being one blown tire, one broken bone, or one paycheck away from homelessness & financial ruin at all times isn’t actually “freedom” the way we were raised to believe it is.

— One Hot Mess AK (@libbybakalar) April 13, 2020

15. Oi

https://twitter.com/adamkeawe/status/1332241614647955457?s=20

16. It is sad.

The worst capitalist brainwash is being proud of your own exploitation. Saying you've worked 80 hour weeks since you turned 17 isnt a flex, it's sad

— Savvy ☭ (@sleepisocialist) December 17, 2020

17. Finally!

I love how Millenials and GenZ are collectively rejecting Hustle Culture.

No we will not work on our rest days
No we will not sleep for 2 hours.
No there is no glory in blind devotion to the grind
No it is not admirable to- very literally -work oneself to the grave

— Kaluhi's_Kitchen (@KaluhisKitchen) June 16, 2021

18. Holy crap!

Someone at my mom’s workplace who has COVID and was on a ventilator for more than a week up until earlier today joined a Zoom meeting from the ICU because her boss told her she needed to start working remotely as soon as she was off the ventilator?? Capitalism is a death cult!

— Malini 🇵🇸🍉❤️ (@alitlstrawberry) August 17, 2021

19. This is so sad

https://twitter.com/AlixEHarrow/status/1469687107916648471?s=20

20. I feel you

https://twitter.com/kellynotbrecht/status/1308117083272560641?s=20

20 Posts That Show How ‘Work-Life Balance’ Doesn’t Really Exist