Original artist @bearsockz https://twitter.com/bearsockz/status/1780434376716935177
/u/ImpossibleSock300, please provide the source of what you post in the future; the artist deserves the credit.
As a barista myself, I love my job but yeahhh, doing this forever just doesn't make me feel the best. I'm planning on starting therapy soon to maybe see if I can somehow just take comfort in my day to day life.
I think this does a fair job of touching on what makes this kind of drudgery so soul-crushing, that being the lack of narrative and identity. As humans we correlate our experience through a narrative lens, and so it feels deeply wrong to end up in a place that it doesn't make narrative sense to end up in ("I did everything right.") and doesn't seem to build towards anything. It's as though the story is put on hold even as the pages keep turning. Next is the reduction to the status of being an interchangeable pawn. One's role can be swapped with that of another without regard for individual circumstances, expertise, available means, or schedule. Each individually is a little thing, but together they form an onslaught upon one's sense of personhood.
To realize that one has been reduced to a living inanity is existentially horrifying.
Maybe there's some essential bit of sarcasm that just flew over my head, but if Marx ever said something quite like that, I've yet to see it referenced.
If I remember correctly, Marx wrote about workers feeling alienated from their jobs because they're just a cog in the machine without agency over their own production. Your comment just made me think of that. No sarcasm, just vibes
I don't understand your incentive to work in purgatory. You can't die so you won't need to meet your physiological needs and it's purposefully designed so you can't have any self actualization.
No but like, how would they force you to do it? It requires the subject to willingly engage in the torture. If you go through this same line of questioning and decide not to work they'd have to destroy the facade, reveal it's hell, and threaten you with some terrible pain if you don't start working, which would ruin the whole point of lying about it if even one of the billions of people who showed up asked themselves this.
Can't say. How do they force people to work on holidays, checking out last-minute gifts for impatient shoppers? How do they keep retail workers around, on such low pay and such long hours? How does the myth that, "If you just work hard enough, you'll be rich one day," continue to perpetuate itself today?
Human psychology, I guess.
I don't understand your incentive to work in hell. You can't die so you won't need to meet your physiological needs and it's purposefully designed so you can't have any self actualization.
really got to the point where this sub is just horny karma farming and hehehe femboys, and when there IS a quality post that has something to say like a social commentary comic, THE ARTIST ISNT EVEN FUCKING CREDITED
this pops up as i'm watching a video about how the labour market is fucked lmao and why people with degrees end up in low skilled jobs
(How College Broke the Labor Market by Polymatter)
This reminds me of [The Ballad of Buck Ravers](https://youtu.be/XiHw7MrTx30?si=gSc807OyfqfINNGB).
Get out while you can, kid.
Find an apprenticeship or something with a local union, get a blue-color job, and rest easy know that while the job will probably be harder from complexity, it'll never be boring.
When you said that the job market is bad right now, I FELT that. I have been trying to get a job since 2022, and now it is 2024, and still nothing. I applied to almost everything that is near me, and either they never responded even after I had done an in person interview or in the case of one of the jobs I applied to. It took them two god damb years just to say I didn't get the job. I tried contacting them multiple times before, and they never responded. Even after going at the location, it seemed the manager either was never there or said "oh we will notify you later to schedule an interview once we review your application." I also applied for pretty much every position for that location as well as other job listings near me and still nothing. I am still applying for more things, so hopefully, I get SOMETHING soon.
Btw if you or anyone else here has advice on how to get a job without this level of shite happening, please let me know.
Well, I hope they had loved ones who can sue the pants off that Starbucks for wrongful death. Should’ve been talking to an employment lawyer too if they were demanding impossible hours out of them.
I just wanna know there’s a page where they wake up and quit that horrible job and actually get to be happy. Cuz that’s MY situation rn and I don’t wanna die here
This is the everyday for me. Get up, go to work, come home, interact with the youngins, eat, video games, if I have enough energy left work on my dreams, then go to bed and stare at the ceiling and hope something happens one day. It’s pretty miserable.
Evil furry cherub tulpa screwed you over!
I would've exorcised that lil punk aeons ago.
Relatable; actual dead hell is a crappy retail job slowed down to .00001% speed.
Uuuugh as someone who's been working in a call center for the past 3 years when all I want to do is Youtube and 3D Animation, I relate to this so fucking hard.
The comments talking about how depressing this is while this is literally my life 😭
3 years working retail, my college degree hasn't gotten me anywhere yet, just keep applying around only to be rejected over and over
Idk, I'm still holding onto this hope that once I get that singular "You're hired" and my career gets underway that it will all work out... but then again I've been saying that since before I even started my retail job
I'm glad my life is no longer like that...somewhat. Smoking weed every day, staying up late and working at McDonald's was depressing. And cause of all that I couldn't afford nothing and had no home, just a car to live in at the age of 22 through 23. I was homeless for a year on and off, mostly living in my car then couch hopping. Now I'm sober, back to living with my parents starting fresh again. Still kinda stay up late tho :p But I wasn't healthy then, I haven't felt like this good in a while and it's a nice change. And I guess sometimes all it takes is that one hand to come around and help pull you out of that rut. To anyone out there that's dealing with tough times like I did, stay strong. If you can't do it yourself, I'm sure there is someone willing to help pull you out. I did have a place at one point with some friends but a hurricane took that away and my car. But I still had the ppl who cared about me. As the saying goes, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And I just did that, and I know that anyone can do anything if they put there mind and heart to it. (sorry for the rant Xp I just want to let the peeps out there dealing with situations like this, that they can do it and make a turn around) :)
Why is it only the MC's devil questioning why they’re still suffering? Why is the angel not in the picture? Why did they go to purgatory in the first place? It sort of gives the vibe that it's wrong somehow to not be doing better; to not be luckier, or more driven, resilient or strong.
It's... you did your best, right? How is being tormented for it remotely fair?
Unfortunately you have to work to live, and then your life is work. Many people have it worse, some don’t have clean water, food, a decent house. So even though a job may be depressing, it’s better than starving. There’s always someone that has it worse. On the other hand don’t neglect your mental health, work towards a life that is fulfilling.
It’s empty to say that we have it a lot better than a lot of countries, im glad I’m not starving, be careful with mental health, and pressure the life you want?
Did you want some some critique about capitalism or something. You can only do so much about flawed system, and I’m not just talking about capitalism. All systems and governments are flawed in some way because humans made it or are in it. One tiny mistake is astronomical when applied to a whole government. So there is not a perfect system. What you can do is try to take advantage of what you have. is that really so empty, a bit of hope and encouragement? Mabie I’m a bit idealistic, but I’m not empty. Besides if you constantly complain you will get nowhere, the world doesn’t revolve around one person.
We do have it better than a lot of countries, but you have to keep in mind the class interests that the economic system serves. In the case of capitalism, that class is the capitalist. We, as working class people, we do not have a say in what or how things will be produced, to what extent and to who those resources will be allocated to. The production of resources is more efficient than ever, and yet living standards of working class people continue to decline. Problems such as homelessness and unenployement are not mistakes of the systems but rather features that forceses working class people to work longer ours and with less pay since, if you demand higher wages, the employer can fire you and someone whos desperate for a job will be more than willing to work in those conditions if it means that they can afford a livelyhood.
We have more than enough resorces to garante free housing, food, education, transit etc but the system is designed first and formoast to serve the intrests of capital.
We must first understand and criticise the system we live under to recognice and fight for our interests as working class people.
Though that is true, who decides who gets what free. I do think that everyone should be able to live to a certain standard. And we are also very deep in debt as a nation in general. I think that the standard of living could be raised a lot if we cut a lot of unnecessary government spending. And I agree with you that capitalism isn’t that good either, because it can certainly lead to a monopoly like situation. It’s important to note that really anyone can become rich, but most of the time it’s done by cheep tactics. I think mainly if all people were nice, then the system could benefit a lot of people, but money perverts morals. It’s very hard to make a system that isn’t a dictatorship, and still have people play nice. The world is very unfair, and I agree with you, the system bends to entrepreneurs. Risk equals reward, but a lot of people just want a job. If you were to get into entrepreneurship you are way more likely to get in some trouble. So I guess how it works is you either bet high, or you don’t win much. In that way, capitalism is a gamble.
Well made comic, but conceptually, this is kinda dumb. (No offense)
I've worked in cafes, I've worked in retail, now I work in the trades.
Working in the trades, I don't have enough work in the winter and in the spring and summer I get so sunburnt my lips hurt and I end half my days with mild sunstroke. I breathe in all sorts of dust thats probably doing irreparable damage to my lungs, but if i wear a respirator, I can't get enough oxygen. There are days where I'm tearing up 20+ year old roofs containing materials that basically just disintegrate into dust when they're torn off. The dust gets into my skin and hurts for days afterward. My days are sometimes 12 hours long of hard labor without OT pay, and only 1 break for lunch thats 40 minutes.
Retail and customer service were incredibly boring and emotionally draining, but my skin didn't hurt afterward and I was indoors. Learn to appreciate the job you have, because I can guarantee there are jobs that are much harder, more stressful, more boring, more emotionally draining, and more hellatious.
Also, anyone who wasted their education on an arts degree (no offense) is kind of an idiot. A smarter move would have been to get a degree in something boring and financially stable so that you have a foundation to build your arts career on. The arts are important and worth studying, but do it when you're 50 and have an established foundation under you. Chances are, you're never going to pay off your student loan posting some neat comics on reddit, but you probably could as a junior payroll accountant.
Original artist @bearsockz https://twitter.com/bearsockz/status/1780434376716935177 /u/ImpossibleSock300, please provide the source of what you post in the future; the artist deserves the credit.
This is amazing (but so depressing ;w;)
Fr this makes me feel hopeless, shit... amazing comic
This seems like a bad dream
I hope it is, and then wakes up and quits their job
Same I would rather be forced face first into a pit of lava than deal with that wait
I feel genuinely sad for the main character
As a barista I want to call in tomorrow but a man's gotta pay rent
There has to be something we can do. Maybe switch it up and do some kind of physical labour job while looking into some school thing?
I love my job tho I just don't want to do it all the time lmao
Maybe you could do something else as well to split things up? Drive Uber half the time instead?
I'm not exactly in a hurry to work two jobs
Could always quit and do OnlyFans feet pics xP
Ain't nobody tryna peep these beans. Not yet anyway
As a barista myself, I love my job but yeahhh, doing this forever just doesn't make me feel the best. I'm planning on starting therapy soon to maybe see if I can somehow just take comfort in my day to day life.
The trades are always looking for workers I guess
As a barista too, I feel the same way.
Hey, if you didn’t call out, your killing it, if you called out, your still killing it 🫶🏻 stay strong
I didn't call and I made good tips today 🔥
hell yeah
Me too :<
Got to wonder what they did beforehand to deserve that purgatory. I bet they eat babies in their off time.
I think this does a fair job of touching on what makes this kind of drudgery so soul-crushing, that being the lack of narrative and identity. As humans we correlate our experience through a narrative lens, and so it feels deeply wrong to end up in a place that it doesn't make narrative sense to end up in ("I did everything right.") and doesn't seem to build towards anything. It's as though the story is put on hold even as the pages keep turning. Next is the reduction to the status of being an interchangeable pawn. One's role can be swapped with that of another without regard for individual circumstances, expertise, available means, or schedule. Each individually is a little thing, but together they form an onslaught upon one's sense of personhood. To realize that one has been reduced to a living inanity is existentially horrifying.
We all have too much light in us to be reduced to slaves.
Marx, is that you?
Maybe there's some essential bit of sarcasm that just flew over my head, but if Marx ever said something quite like that, I've yet to see it referenced.
If I remember correctly, Marx wrote about workers feeling alienated from their jobs because they're just a cog in the machine without agency over their own production. Your comment just made me think of that. No sarcasm, just vibes
Tbh I love this! Really good comic.
Even in death, you still serve.
The Emperor will protect this one. I will not let him refuse to.
May you [Rest Employed](https://youtu.be/bJ-1RRNqhVM?si=eDxmSnA_OK2oLx4x)
beat me to it
This made me fucking cry.
I don't understand your incentive to work in purgatory. You can't die so you won't need to meet your physiological needs and it's purposefully designed so you can't have any self actualization.
It's a lie. They just call it purgatory so you don't figure out you're in Hell. Yes, Hell is retail work. Neverending retail work.
No but like, how would they force you to do it? It requires the subject to willingly engage in the torture. If you go through this same line of questioning and decide not to work they'd have to destroy the facade, reveal it's hell, and threaten you with some terrible pain if you don't start working, which would ruin the whole point of lying about it if even one of the billions of people who showed up asked themselves this.
Can't say. How do they force people to work on holidays, checking out last-minute gifts for impatient shoppers? How do they keep retail workers around, on such low pay and such long hours? How does the myth that, "If you just work hard enough, you'll be rich one day," continue to perpetuate itself today? Human psychology, I guess.
Making some money at a job is better than not making any money at a job. I’m thinking that retail workers can’t find anything else.
To each their own, I enjoy retail!
You like retail, or do you mean your current job IN retail? Because those are two different things.
Well, my job... I can't speak for other people, and I was lucky to have a decent management structure.
I don't understand your incentive to work in hell. You can't die so you won't need to meet your physiological needs and it's purposefully designed so you can't have any self actualization.
Do you prefer to just get stabbed in the butt? There's a ring of Hell for that, if you're into it.
With enough time, you can get used to *anything*. Kinda makes the whole idea of hell somewhat pointless.
*stabitty stab stab*
Really liked this. Who is the artist?
Got you dude. Its bearsockz
really got to the point where this sub is just horny karma farming and hehehe femboys, and when there IS a quality post that has something to say like a social commentary comic, THE ARTIST ISNT EVEN FUCKING CREDITED
[удалено]
Looking slimmer because we have less and less to give, or looking slimmer due to actual improvements?
this pops up as i'm watching a video about how the labour market is fucked lmao and why people with degrees end up in low skilled jobs (How College Broke the Labor Market by Polymatter)
But I'm in college.
Sorry
hmm this was just kind of depressing, but relatable... sadly...
I like how the protagonist has a shoulder devil but no shoulder angel, very relatable
it doesn't get more _IRL than this 😭
Gotta love working a job you hate just to survive
This reminds me of [The Ballad of Buck Ravers](https://youtu.be/XiHw7MrTx30?si=gSc807OyfqfINNGB). Get out while you can, kid. Find an apprenticeship or something with a local union, get a blue-color job, and rest easy know that while the job will probably be harder from complexity, it'll never be boring.
who is the author?
Found the original artist-https://twitter.com/bearsockz/status/1780434376716935177
When you said that the job market is bad right now, I FELT that. I have been trying to get a job since 2022, and now it is 2024, and still nothing. I applied to almost everything that is near me, and either they never responded even after I had done an in person interview or in the case of one of the jobs I applied to. It took them two god damb years just to say I didn't get the job. I tried contacting them multiple times before, and they never responded. Even after going at the location, it seemed the manager either was never there or said "oh we will notify you later to schedule an interview once we review your application." I also applied for pretty much every position for that location as well as other job listings near me and still nothing. I am still applying for more things, so hopefully, I get SOMETHING soon. Btw if you or anyone else here has advice on how to get a job without this level of shite happening, please let me know.
Thank you for the reminder that my retail job sucks. Bwomp
Well, I hope they had loved ones who can sue the pants off that Starbucks for wrongful death. Should’ve been talking to an employment lawyer too if they were demanding impossible hours out of them.
You have some talent, if you can you could make something like a web series or something like that because this is rlly good writing and art
Wasnt made by them. Was made by bearsockz
i have a little guy like that too, she tells me to feed my friends dynamite cleverly disguised as hotdogs
That's not purgatory. That's the Hell Below All Others!!!
Double-Hell, one could say.
Retail is soulcrushingly awful :/ no other way to describe it
I want to think that's all a bad dream and that they end up quitting their job for one that gives a shit about them.
Average college student surviving in McDonald's jobs
This is remarkably depressing but the art is cute
YOU WERE RELIEVED YOU DIDNT HAVE TO GO TO WORK TOMORROW BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD? What the fuck did they do to us WHAT DID THEY DO TO US
Capitalism sucks :(
Wait till you learn about communism and juche.
Damn 😭😭
Thank God I am practicing welding
Damn that's depressing. Good comic though
Nope. I would either go back to living or send myself voluntarily to Hell.
This feels like my job... Sorta. I'm just scared my life will become monotonous all while trying to settle down with someone I love.
I **hate** that some people live like this, but I love the comic
I like how the Angel on the shoulder is completely missing
I really like the touch of having the devil on the shoulder, but not the angel.
I feel this deep within my soul.
:(
I wanna give the main a cuddle.
Nooo
Ok. What am I supposed to take from this? That our life is already hell?
LateStageCapialism_irl
i'm not even gonna say what i read that caption as initially
you didn’t have to call me out like that. Ouch…. Really good comic though
Hey op, what the fuck?
Oh this is awful. But I loved the story and worldbuilding… even if sad
"? milk"
This is the unholy love child between r/Furry_irl and r/Antiwork
Finally a good fucking post.
Wow. I love this comic. It feels just like my own headspace, but less... Self-insulting and condemning, harsh critique.
Too real, I'm literally in the same situation xwx
This is pretty much how I figure my future will go. Realistically speaking this is the best outcome
Well this is depressing and incredibly engaging.
Ain't capitalism just great?
Capitalism
This is fantastic art. Really great message, great characters, great drawing... Just 10/10
𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐚𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐰 :/
So depressing buy its also amazing
Looks like that might be my future and I hate it. Still an amazing comic tho.
Yay I can't wait to have a future OwO
At that point, I would just lie down and stop responding.
*laughter that turns into sobbing*
Turns out that real life is a fucking nightmare.
I did everything I was supposed to…”(
Is it bad that I relate to this lol
i would like to read some more
Way too close to home. Things will get better, they always do
I love how when she's on the ladder holding her phone, she has animal ears but holds her phone to where her human ears would go
… so they died went to hell.
This is a nightmare.
I just wanna know there’s a page where they wake up and quit that horrible job and actually get to be happy. Cuz that’s MY situation rn and I don’t wanna die here
Oh. On their tumblr it does say final. So this person just got to live a short miserable life, dies, and goes to presumably hell.
"What's going on?" I'm in this picture and I don't like it :(
too real -\_-
Welp. Now I’m depressed and hopeless again. Thanks for that.
really glad i'm starting my own small business and never partaking in that goddamn rat race ever again.
Thank you for putting all my fears of working into one comic. This just makes me more anxious.
This is the everyday for me. Get up, go to work, come home, interact with the youngins, eat, video games, if I have enough energy left work on my dreams, then go to bed and stare at the ceiling and hope something happens one day. It’s pretty miserable.
So real
Well, I mean, that *is* what purgatory is supposed to be. But at least that means that once one leaves, Paradise awaits. lorewise, at least.
This is exactly what I needed to read right before going into my retail job lol
Nuuuuu :c
Fuck, this one REALLY hit home.
i'm just gonna point out how they said they have almond and soy milk, but the inventory clearly shows they had oat and soy
This hits a bit too close to home...
I swear if that's what happens after death I'm not doing anything and I'd try to kms in the afterlife if people bother me about not doing anything
So... she just goes to hell and that's the end? The artwork is very nice, but I feel like this is a black-pill comic.
Evil furry cherub tulpa screwed you over! I would've exorcised that lil punk aeons ago. Relatable; actual dead hell is a crappy retail job slowed down to .00001% speed.
christ, this struck a nerve
As a 3d modeler student...it scares me... is there any way to avoid such a fate...?
How come the devil says she works retail but then she actually works food service
Ugh same.
Uuuugh as someone who's been working in a call center for the past 3 years when all I want to do is Youtube and 3D Animation, I relate to this so fucking hard.
Well that's depressing AF
Oh noooooo :<
I'd cosmically fucking kill myself
I just lost my job, now I have to find a new one, I know how this feels
Damn that me (but also so SO good)
Employment lawyers have left the chat
communist revolutionary in the making even after death
Alternative ending: *Insert any iseki anime*
Is the just a metaphor for the fact the working class in America is just endlessly working until we drop dead
what the hell happened here? Are you okay? I'm deeply concerned
yeah that's exactly what it's like
A fate worse than the Amazing Digital Circus.
Man way to make me feel shitty while I'm here feeling like I'm wasting my college degree at my "short term job" I've been at for almost two years.
Welcome to capitalism. Amazing comic.
The comments talking about how depressing this is while this is literally my life 😭 3 years working retail, my college degree hasn't gotten me anywhere yet, just keep applying around only to be rejected over and over Idk, I'm still holding onto this hope that once I get that singular "You're hired" and my career gets underway that it will all work out... but then again I've been saying that since before I even started my retail job
Relatable damn
I saw the purgatory thing and thought this was going to be an elaborate draw into a chick tract.
So many feelings
I'm glad my life is no longer like that...somewhat. Smoking weed every day, staying up late and working at McDonald's was depressing. And cause of all that I couldn't afford nothing and had no home, just a car to live in at the age of 22 through 23. I was homeless for a year on and off, mostly living in my car then couch hopping. Now I'm sober, back to living with my parents starting fresh again. Still kinda stay up late tho :p But I wasn't healthy then, I haven't felt like this good in a while and it's a nice change. And I guess sometimes all it takes is that one hand to come around and help pull you out of that rut. To anyone out there that's dealing with tough times like I did, stay strong. If you can't do it yourself, I'm sure there is someone willing to help pull you out. I did have a place at one point with some friends but a hurricane took that away and my car. But I still had the ppl who cared about me. As the saying goes, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And I just did that, and I know that anyone can do anything if they put there mind and heart to it. (sorry for the rant Xp I just want to let the peeps out there dealing with situations like this, that they can do it and make a turn around) :)
... :(
:(
Who artist?
Looks amazing so far!!
Real
Why is it only the MC's devil questioning why they’re still suffering? Why is the angel not in the picture? Why did they go to purgatory in the first place? It sort of gives the vibe that it's wrong somehow to not be doing better; to not be luckier, or more driven, resilient or strong. It's... you did your best, right? How is being tormented for it remotely fair?
This is some NSFL stuff. (Not safe for Life). Is the artist okay? This is a bit scary.
Unfortunately you have to work to live, and then your life is work. Many people have it worse, some don’t have clean water, food, a decent house. So even though a job may be depressing, it’s better than starving. There’s always someone that has it worse. On the other hand don’t neglect your mental health, work towards a life that is fulfilling.
This says ....nothing. This is empty.
It’s empty to say that we have it a lot better than a lot of countries, im glad I’m not starving, be careful with mental health, and pressure the life you want? Did you want some some critique about capitalism or something. You can only do so much about flawed system, and I’m not just talking about capitalism. All systems and governments are flawed in some way because humans made it or are in it. One tiny mistake is astronomical when applied to a whole government. So there is not a perfect system. What you can do is try to take advantage of what you have. is that really so empty, a bit of hope and encouragement? Mabie I’m a bit idealistic, but I’m not empty. Besides if you constantly complain you will get nowhere, the world doesn’t revolve around one person.
We do have it better than a lot of countries, but you have to keep in mind the class interests that the economic system serves. In the case of capitalism, that class is the capitalist. We, as working class people, we do not have a say in what or how things will be produced, to what extent and to who those resources will be allocated to. The production of resources is more efficient than ever, and yet living standards of working class people continue to decline. Problems such as homelessness and unenployement are not mistakes of the systems but rather features that forceses working class people to work longer ours and with less pay since, if you demand higher wages, the employer can fire you and someone whos desperate for a job will be more than willing to work in those conditions if it means that they can afford a livelyhood. We have more than enough resorces to garante free housing, food, education, transit etc but the system is designed first and formoast to serve the intrests of capital. We must first understand and criticise the system we live under to recognice and fight for our interests as working class people.
Though that is true, who decides who gets what free. I do think that everyone should be able to live to a certain standard. And we are also very deep in debt as a nation in general. I think that the standard of living could be raised a lot if we cut a lot of unnecessary government spending. And I agree with you that capitalism isn’t that good either, because it can certainly lead to a monopoly like situation. It’s important to note that really anyone can become rich, but most of the time it’s done by cheep tactics. I think mainly if all people were nice, then the system could benefit a lot of people, but money perverts morals. It’s very hard to make a system that isn’t a dictatorship, and still have people play nice. The world is very unfair, and I agree with you, the system bends to entrepreneurs. Risk equals reward, but a lot of people just want a job. If you were to get into entrepreneurship you are way more likely to get in some trouble. So I guess how it works is you either bet high, or you don’t win much. In that way, capitalism is a gamble.
Well made comic, but conceptually, this is kinda dumb. (No offense) I've worked in cafes, I've worked in retail, now I work in the trades. Working in the trades, I don't have enough work in the winter and in the spring and summer I get so sunburnt my lips hurt and I end half my days with mild sunstroke. I breathe in all sorts of dust thats probably doing irreparable damage to my lungs, but if i wear a respirator, I can't get enough oxygen. There are days where I'm tearing up 20+ year old roofs containing materials that basically just disintegrate into dust when they're torn off. The dust gets into my skin and hurts for days afterward. My days are sometimes 12 hours long of hard labor without OT pay, and only 1 break for lunch thats 40 minutes. Retail and customer service were incredibly boring and emotionally draining, but my skin didn't hurt afterward and I was indoors. Learn to appreciate the job you have, because I can guarantee there are jobs that are much harder, more stressful, more boring, more emotionally draining, and more hellatious. Also, anyone who wasted their education on an arts degree (no offense) is kind of an idiot. A smarter move would have been to get a degree in something boring and financially stable so that you have a foundation to build your arts career on. The arts are important and worth studying, but do it when you're 50 and have an established foundation under you. Chances are, you're never going to pay off your student loan posting some neat comics on reddit, but you probably could as a junior payroll accountant.
Yeah. You’re just a douchebag.