Why some people are workaholics

[Insomniac]

I'm not a workaholic but I think I understand how work can become so addictive to some people and a way to cope with depression.

I thing it all comes down to the sleep deprivation. I think that's the most addictive part.

when I work/study 16 hours straight while drinking a ton of coffee, sleep becomes impossible. I only sleep 2 hours at a time, very lightly and in total don't sleep more than 5h in 24h. Working too much leaves the brain to active to be able to rest.

Do this everyday and you'll feel completely numb. Like a zombie. You start to feel like nothing is real due to the severe sleep deprivation and honestly it's a good feeling.

 

[Maudlin]

Do this everyday and you'll feel completely numb. Like a zombie. You start to feel like nothing is real due to the severe sleep deprivation and honestly it's a good feeling.

It sure can be. I turned into a workaholic around 28-29 once I decided to quit being a scumbag.

 

[Insomniac]

It sure can be. I turned into a workaholic around 28-29 once I decided to quit being a scumbag.

a scumbag?

 

[Maudlin]

a scumbag?

In my late teens I decided that work was for suckers, so I embarked on a different kind of career.

It got ugly.

 

[Insomniac]

In my late teens I decided that work was for suckers, so I embarked on a different kind of career.

It got ugly.

ohh, I see.

every teen go through that phase I think. I surely did.

being low energy and too depressed to work is also very normal in our day and age. gathering the will to work feels like a privilege because every fiber of your being knows that ultimately your "work" is meaningless at best, harmful at worst.

 

[ikadasui]

Yeah, I don't get it at all. There's a dude a few years younger than me in my office and he's always talking about his current part time job, school, tutoring and one other work related function and gym time! Only the gym and tutoring out of all those has any real value though and it's sad to see, he's also always on insane amounts of caffeine and sleep deprived, but I guess that's what it takes to "survive" in today's world. Doesn't make me wanna participate either way

 

[Insomniac]

he's also always on insane amounts of caffeine and sleep deprived,

I k ew it, anyone can become a workaholic on the right dose of caffeine..

Doesn't make me wanna participate either way

I honestly respect people who don't value work over everything else. People who ate working too much are ironically the ones destroying the planet the most and for what? So they can sell us the latest iPhone and call it lifechanging?

They are doing nothing but creating overpopulation and destroying ecosystems but they call it being "productive".

It's so comical to me. Sad thing is, I can't help but participate even though I k iw that what I'm doing is meaningless. The best way I'd be actually useful is by dying so I stop destroying nature and contributing to stupid overpopulated world.

 

[Maudlin]

ohh, I see.

every teen go through that phase I think. I surely did.

being low energy and too depressed to work is also very normal in our day and age. gathering the will to work feels like a privilege because every fiber of your being knows that ultimately your "work" is meaningless at best, harmful at worst.

I don't think it was quite that, for me. I was pretty high energy, and willing to take bigger risks for bigger payoffs. The way I looked at it, worst that could happen to me is I get locked away somewhere for a decade, and I'd still be only in my thirties when I got out.

Thankfully, that didn't happen to me... but plenty of other ugly things did. I got myself into it, I got myself out of it.
Financially I was likely much better off than if I had devoted my time and effort to the normie way of doing things... but such a life took a toll on my soul.

There was no job I could have taken at 16 that would have led me to own my own home free and clear by the time I was 24, but I took the path less traveled and got it for myself. The hardship that came with that success was one of the very few things I overlooked at that time in my life.

You live and you learn, no?

 

[Hell-On-Earth]

I used to be a workaholic. I didn't have anything else in my life so I thought I could make my mark by working nonstop and becoming really good in my field. I still cannot believe how much of a fool I was.

 

[Insomniac]

I still cannot believe how much of a fool I was.

what happened?

 

[Hell-On-Earth]

what happened?

I did nothing but work since uni, so I never got in the position to have a romantic relationship and my friendships with my old mates suffered. After I graduated I isolated myself completely which absolutely fucked me. In the end work did me in, it's what ignited me to become suicidal.

 

[Insomniac]

romantic relationship and my friendships

oh I see..
hmmm, well, if you ask me, friends and family don't make that big of a difference I'm just saying, I'm just saying..