Why do so many people nowaday suffer from burn-out syndrome or similar disease even though most of your jobs are inside...

Why do so many people nowaday suffer from burn-out syndrome or similar disease even though most of your jobs are inside of a comfy office in front of a computer?

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Increasing workplace demands, costs for living skyrocketing while wages stagnate.

General anti-fun policy being inflicted on us by our Nanny-State government.

These are good enough reasons to be suffering burn out.

because office job kills the soul

On a slightly related note:
Tell me about the deer. Why do you post them?

Also, are you vegan?

I own a small business and spend most of my time at a desk, and at the end of the day I'm usually exausted. It's pretty high stress when the phone is ringing off the hook, problems are popping up constantly which need solving, you have more work than you can finish, and every decision and responsibility rests on your shoulders. I wouldn't say I get burnt out, because it's rewarding to see the business you built doing well, but I do give myself 2 weeks vacation each year to decompress.

>commuting for 2-3h each day because chinks drove up the price of all real estate located anywhere near your job, just so that you can afford to live.

gee golly gosh i wonder why

That and office work can literally kill or disable you.
>DVT Clots
>Strokes
>Carpel tunnel
>heart attacks
>obesity
>stress

Office work is mentally exhausting.

anxiety.

it's the same fucking response from the body minus the actual physical work.

but the thing is physical "work" creates adaptations (strength gain, increased work capacity) while non-physical stress creates bad habits -> laziness, bad eating habits, sitting behind a fucking desk.

In the 70s it was quite common to drink and take naps at work. Not joking.

You are supposed to work to live, not fucking live to work, which is increasingly what is expected of you. Smartphones did not help in this regard. On 24/7. Hey I texted you, hey I called you, why didn't you answer? FUCK.

Your food looks a little raw there.

What I want to know is why you have a deer living in your home.

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Why do I not even have to mouse over the pic of your thread in the catalog or read the title or description of your thread to know who you are, german deerposter?

Also, a question I've had for a long time, if I may:

Do you fuck it?

hows the deer doing? how many do you have

Humans weren't meant to sit in one spot for hours

Because people aren't machines, and it turns out that standardised systems cause recurrent stress if they don't fit properly... as they tend to not do for a lot of people.

What business do you have

>that feel when you have a wagecuck job that you absolutely adore

FUCK working inside, bros. Sure, I'm just a wagie, but I wouldn't trade my job for an office job +$15,000 a year.

Working outside all day is glorious. I get paid to work out and have fun (most of the time).

Baumpflegerei ftw.

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I love my job.

you think the human body is made to stay sitting at a chair inside all day?

It's mentally-draining to deal with a bunch of different small tasks at the same time. The mind prefers to focus on one problem at a time, and deal with it before moving to the next task.

Modern office work often involves dozens of small things happening at the same time, with different end-points, and with different tasks constantly interrupting each other.

This is not physically-demanding, but the mental strain it causes is significant.

Eh office jobs are more stressful and hurts you mentally. My last job was like that. Easy as fuck but super stressful when every little detail counts.

I work at UPS now and this shit is WAAAAAY more labor (unload). I'm tired at the end of the shift but I never get burnt out now because I'm almost never stressed. The only thing I can stress about now is school. Which doesn't cause me too much stress.

Because most desk jobs aren't that compelling and being a fungible cog in the corporate machine following some retarded process isn't a fulfilling way to live your life.

I can't imagine these guys ever getting bored.

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Lol @ epic editing of that Video. Im glad you like your Job but youre only cutting down trees.

Yeah, that particular dude is a fucking fag. It is just cutting down and trimming trees, but using a chainsaw while suspended from a rope and rigging down 2000 lb. chunks of tree does take some degree of skill.

What do you do, user?

Its best not to question DEer user.

This, and even if you're not "doing anything" (i.e. browsing facebook or whatever normies do) you're still faced with the fact that your life is slipping away as you stare an illuminated square reading clickbait and propaganda.

I just finished a book called 24 / 7 by Jonathan Clary, it's like 130 pages long and about 24/7 culture and how it evolved, how it effects sleep, happiness, and so on. Really interesting.

It also involves having to deal with female gossip, childish office pranks and "cake days", etc. The only people I have come across in my office experience so far are boring, gossipy women and dull, mediocre men.

you will be replaced by a robot in your lifetime

My hands are sweating just looking at that video.

Why are deer so sexy? No other animals are as sexy as them.

Because what's the fucking incentive? There's nothing good to desire these days.

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Because we wuz hunters and warriors and sheit and rotting away clicking spreadsheets doesn't come close to that.

We didn't evolve for this environment. Office work and all the little stresses that go with it are basically like being under constant threat of attack as far as our body is concerned. That's why guys in Asian computer cafes who marathon a game for 3 days straight drop fucking dead. Your body just gives up. Life use to have a lot of down time, and even when you were "working" hunting or harvesting or crafting, it was at a pretty leisurely pace and you had something to show for it afterwards.

You're clearly female.

case in point. things that use to be important roles in a village/tribe setting, hunting, fishing, etc. are now considered recreational activities.

Theres a tree surgeon (what we call your job here) on Facebook who does some funny as fuck tree surgery tips videos that I see friends like/share..Phone posting ATM but maybe you can find the guy, you'll enjoy it

It's a selfie

The deer, why does he post them?
If he stops posting the deer, will he stop posting altogether?
He's a frequent and big poster.

kek confirms

I recognize and find this referance amusing

You realize you sound like a beta orbiter right now, right? You're probably a cuck, too.

Human beings did not evolve in a way that caters toward sitting in one spot for 8 hours staring at a flickering computer screen. We are supposed to move around and have meaningful human interaction.

Constant state of stress/mental stimulation/cortisol release with no physical exercise to allieviate.

Meditation helps.

>beta orbiter
kys

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>tfw work at an IT managed service provider
>tfw do 5 times the work as a normal in house IT guy that spends most of the day sitting around
>tfw really nasty clients, 40-80 hour work weeks and 200-300 miles of driving every week
>tfw nearing burnout

You need a different job bro, 2-3 fucking hours?

>burn-out syndrome
?
You should have finished High School.

Is that squirrel dead?

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Couldn't pay me enough money to do this job.

I've never had to climb that high, but this is pretty similar to my job.

>You should have finished High School.

Really? Because typically, the more education that one has, the more likely they are to get an extremely high-stress job.

4U

I don't have it in me to be insincere, which is required in literally any workplace.

I'm not pretending that this is a problem with the world. It's my problem and I understand that, I'm not blaming anyone else.

I had a job at a marketing firm once and the work itself was easy as shit but I couldn't handle they "HAHA HEYHEY HOW'S IT GOIN' CHAMP, BOY OH BOY DIDJA CATCH THE NEWS LAST NIGHT?" I know for a fact that you do coke and fuck prostitutes, don't come into my workspace with that fake bullshit. Insincerity fucking bothers me so much and I don't understand why.

I have neighbors who work so often that the fake character overwrites their actual personality and they walk around with that "HOWDY CHAMP" attitude and can't deal with real life. That same dude's wife is an alcoholic and a slut and he can't do anything about it besides drink himself because he forgot how to be a person. Just yesterday I heard her screaming at the top of her lungs at her kids, and the husband was standing in the parking lot staring into the sky when I took the trash out. As she was screaming, he looks at me, raises his hand, and l i t e r a l l y says "howdy-ho neighborooni!"

I understand that you have to act professionally but most people overdo it and I can't function in an environment like that.

I work in IT right now and the only time anything ever gets solved is when I finally get on a call with someone and they say "alright dude now what the fuck is going on?"

I never thought I'd be edgy enough to complain about "fake" people but I don't do office stuff because everybody is so insanely "fake" and it drives me up the wall. Just be urself my man ;^)

>spend all evening dreading work
>get up early, go to office, clock in, plink away at a keyboard doing a hundred tiny confusing and complicated tasks for 4 hours
>at lunch take a long walk while eating my sandwich, resenting the fact that my work hours were extended to make sure that all eight hours are still spent doing actual work and my breaks are just extra time wasted
>clock back in and work another four hours
>all day long have to focus 100% on what i'm doing and solving the problems of the fucking idiots at the doctors' offices who don't do their jobs and necessitate my fixing their mistakes, can't even daydream i'm so busy
>finally it's over, clock out last to prove my worth so i don't get fired, drive home
>take a shower, eat dinner, watch a little anime or play some video games
>go to bed so i can get up the next day and do it again

Working part time minimum wage was the best time I have ever had working. This full time career horseshit makes me want to die.

>anti-fun

Tell that to th Chinese factory worker who still shows up for work at 5AM

It's because of a lack of meaning outside of work. 0 family life, nothing to live for, no prospects, etc.

huh. interesting perspective. I work in IT and hate the whole "hows it going [manager]? :)))" kinda thing. But there's not really jack you can do about it

i was not speaking from personal experience, but its not uncommon for people in the greater toronto area to commute 2 hours EACH way just so that they can work downtown and live out on affordable property.

the average house in toronto costs a million

Well it depends on the person. Indians tend to go toward the other extreme which wastes just as much time.

>hows it going buddy?? :)
>how are you today? :) :)
>so I have something wrong
>Raj has set his status to Away.

I don't mean that I prefer casual people, I mean that I prefer when people are straight to the point instead of people hitting me with that "howdy neighbor" stuff. Tell me what you want and leave me to do it. I don't want to hear about your daughter's dance recital, and you know that I don't care, and you probably don't really want me to know, you're just making small talk. This is phony and we both know it. I'm here to work. I have work to do and so do you, so lets get to it.

I have a friendly chat with my current boss almost every night because he isn't behind a veil. The veil is what bothers me. He complains about politics and I don't even agree with the shit he says but at least he means it. He talks like we're standing in his garage on a Saturday so I don't mind talking with him.

My absolute best boss ever was when I was teaching. At the end of the night some of us would stay after and play Counter Strike Source because we were just normal people and not putting on any act. My students would routinely say that "you're the best instructor I've had so far because you talk to us like people/don't gladhand us." A lot of my students were 40 year old career jumpers and I'd say "look, if you're here because you heard about networking from a friend and figured it would be easy money then you probably shouldn't be here because this takes a lot of work so if you aren't genuinely interested in tech then you probably won't get very far" and they THANKED me for it.

Nobody likes insincerity and it is required in most desk job environments these days which is a problem. Maybe its a generational thing because millennials are usually straight to the point while boomers love to ramble about nothing.

In the early 90s, when I was interning, going out to lunch with the old guys meant drinking 3 or 4 Manhattans or Gins & tonic and trying to keep focused and awake until quitting time.

One guy kept a fifth of Crown Royal in his desk drawer- for medicinal use only.

Fuck a bunch of Cake Day. It's embittering to see the fucking braloads take over the workplace.

Does are so sexy

>Tell me what you want and leave me to do it. I don't want to hear about your daughter's dance recital, and you know that I don't care, and you probably don't really want me to know, you're just making small talk. This is phony and we both know it. I'm here to work. I have work to do and so do you, so lets get to it.

theres a new guy who sits right nxt to me and he wont shut up. I can concentrate literally when someone is staring at more or trying to drag on a convo cuz he has an insanely high social libido.

You and me seem alike though, cutting out the bs, honest, no fluff. I wish there were more people like us.

How old is he? Do you think its a generational thing as well?

I think millennials are to the point because everybody already knows that millennials have worse social skills (because of technology) and because autism is apparently so prevalent in the millennial generation. Millennials that aren't into the whole progressive thing are usually pretty cynical and singularly-minded as well.

If you combine all of that and remove the "I don't leave the house" aspect then millennials have the potential to be a very meticulous workforce. "LEAVE ME ALONE TO WORK I DON'T LIKE TO CHAT REEEEEEEEE"

>tfw electrician
>long days, physically exhausting
>leave the rest of my day to fire up the almonds and critically think about what I choose

must suck being brain drained, white collars

he's like 32. Is a hacker-type like me, but sucks dick at programming and critical thinking, always wants me to check his shit out, "how do I do this", talks about himself and doesn't know when to let a convo die. And I'm 22 and just like "yea uhuh sure" I can't tell him to be quiet cuz we work together, and my lack of assertion just perpetuate s the cycle of him talking.

I'm sure millennials have worse social skills. I have pretty bad social anxiety/esteem which can mess me up when casually talking, yet in groups/1 on 1 I'm an extremely fluent conversor, smoother than most

Because quality of life and level of technology aren't relevant.

A white-collar worker panicking he can't find a taxicab can be the exact same amount of stressed as a starving African stressed he can't grow crops.

Man was not meant for monotony

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>lives in Houston
>doesn't like "howdy neighbor"

As a native Texan, I feel shame for you

FUUUUUUUCK SO CLOSE TO ACCIDENTAL SEPTS

I'm not a native and I've seen this everywhere, its a suburban thing. People get stuck in "haha I'm at the office wow haha" mode and can't deal with their families. They think that its a time issue because they're at the office too often but its because they never leave the office in their heads and treat their families like coworkers. They don't want to push any buttons or ruffle any feathers. The same thing always happens, their wives get out of control and the can't do anything other than say "haha wow oh geeze how about them Steelers." It's an example of the soulless dead-inside office drone.

It's caused by the insincerity and also this

No clue. Haven't thought about it much. As several other people alluded to, I think the artificial persona most people out on is taxing. Maybe that's why so many of us are always looking for fresh happenings. Just please God let something real happen for once so we can all drop the act and stop walking around pretending to care about shit.

I've had 3 pretty "good" full time jobs in financial services and technology and none of them really fit for me

>a lot of small talk and office politics
>on 24/7
> (((diveristy)))
> ~$70,000 but still not worth the bullshit

fuck that is a really good answer

they are just lazy.

>on 24/7
I haven't had a job where I wasn't perpetually "on-call" in a while.

> (((diveristy)))
Sup Forums would have a field day if anybody ever posted the mandatory training.

>Joe was born a man but identifies as a woman. Joanna assumed Joe's gender and called Joe "him." What was Joanna's mistake?
>She should have said "she."
>She assumed Joe's gender
>She's doing retarded tranny training instead of working and we don't even employ any trannies in the first place

Before
>Work mundane job for money
>Advance in career eventually, maybe not get an amazing job but a decent paying one at least
>Marry woman
>Have kid
>Buy home
>Child grows up to be well adapted from good family
>Retire with an established legacy

Now
>Work mundane job for money
>Stay in same position until laid off
>Work more mundane jobs for money
>Retire on state welfare with no legacy
or
>Eventually get married along the way
>Have a child
>Buy overpriced home and go into massive amount of debt
>Get cucked
>Get divorced
>Lose everything to wife
>Declare bankruptcy
>Child is mentally broken from bad upbringing, becomes a permavirgin weeb, a junkie, an alcoholic, pornstar or hooker, etc. so no grandkids (or if there are grandkids they are twice as fucked in the head)
>Retire on state welfare with no legacy