I'm glad someone posted this, and that I am not alone. I am a graphic designer at a corporation, but I too hate working. Perhaps I hate the routine, and the countless hours spent toiling away at work that will near see the light of day. Hard enough is it to be an artist but even harder when you sign a contract that you will never be able to show your art to another human being outside of your cell.

I constantly take more sick days than I should, come in late or work half days. People always ask where I am at and I know I am just looked on as lazy. My workplace is dreadfully noisy and people are constantly shouting, carrying on and chatting in our open workplace, where sound carries across the building. I am still able to complete projects n time with my absenteeism, but some days I dread going into that noisy place so much that I will get completely ready for work...and then just not go.

Before I worked full time for 4 years, I did freelance, but still had issues with oversleeping and motivation. I constantly think about all I could accomplish not working, but then thinking back to when I didn't have as much responsibility regarding work, and my behavior then, I wonder if I would slip back into my old routine.

At work I daydream about all the stuff I want to do, and by the end of the day I just want to crawl into a hole and hide. I am lucky to have a fiancé who makes a decent living to support us both, but still I need the money too and hate thinking that someday, looking back at my life, I will see it as utterly spent in a one wall cube staring at a monitor.

Are human beings really meant to live this way? I wish when I was a child someone would have told me to treasure my youth because all it amounts to is being stuck in an endless routine of unsatisfied life. And that you will spend your days staring at a screen while someone else makes millions of dollars.

In the U.S. they encourage the work horse mentality and minimal days are given. We are only of the few countries that don't enforce government mandated vacation time. And people like me simply do not "have mental disorders" they are just considered inept or lazy if they miss work.

I can't handle it most days even though I know I should be restful to have a job, no less one in which I do relatively close to what I went to college for.

I read things that say someday the work force will change - more of the younger generation don't like to live their lives confined to dark windowless cube farms. Hopefully more freedom to work from home will come from this and more flexibility that will keep people from like me from going crazy or losing their jobs.