I probably loved your thread the first time around but I just totally agree. I have 13 years left before I can qualify for retirement. THIRTEEN YEARS. While I am better off than some because in theory, once I get that I will have about 23 years or more of freedom. But it all seems insane. To get this I will have worked 40 hours per week for 25 years. TWENTY FIVE YEARS. They don't even give murders that kind of sentence anymore because it is "inhumane".

I most liken it to prison. It is like a slightly better form of prison. Like your in prison all day and then at night you get let out on electronic monitoring. But that is pointless anyway as all you do with your time "off" is run errands and sleep.

What bothers me the most is the time suck. I don't mind working if I am getting someplace. I don't mind working if it makes sense. But just like school... work is warehousing me. I have to sit there for 8 hours though it could be done in four... and then I have a needlessly long commute because they won't let me come and go at any other time than 9 to 5. I actually do have a job where I can come and go on a flex schedule but I Have to be there every day from 9 am to 4 pm. So that doesn't really help on the commute.

My bosses park in the garage underground so it doesn't matter to them.

Oh I could go on, but how am I going to do it. How?

When I go to my doctor I am always angry with her and frustrated she doesn't care to keep me alive preventively. I would tell her the truth but I am pretty sure it would be off to the psychologist for me. The truth is.. I must stay healthy for purely economic reasons. If I get sick and die before age 60 it all will have been for NOTHING.