There are those among Gen Z who are really passionate about their jobs/activities
Because they face romantic failure, financial failure, social failure, lack of third places, no sense of belonging nor being rewarded for partaking. They finally get a job and they got a dollar-amount put on their hourly attendance. None of those who go "hell yeah #grind #hustle" actually work well-paying jobs; it's min-maxing or accepting the torture that is employment. I'm the same to a degree; if I've no plans, I don't mind an extra shift sunday morning. I feel like I can actual control of my life: I -choose- to work and be rewarded for it. Unlike actual careers where working hard at the office doesn't guarantee promotion. Sometimes, often, the opposite.
Sure if the economy and jobs stink and are hard to find, there is always happiness to be found in life. I am blessed to have a job but I am poor, but that is okay! I just go to church, spend time here, and read my books.
I tell myself I pursue this lifestyle. I don't need to buy games; I have the ones I want to play, I just lack the drive. We've got local fighting game tourneys here, I could meet up at one to see if it ignites a passion. I've done a lot of sports and could easily see myself joining a club, but in equal measures I know it might as well be a gathering of social outcasts or something of such broad appeal you don't get that "oh, you too?"-connection. I like to be by myself, drinking tea and reading books, but I get these tourettes-like impulses to just say hi to strangers and hope something happens. If I were in a place where that was the goal, I think I'd excel. And it's scary thinking it might not ever happen unless I make it so.
If no Zoomer can find friends and GFs but we're all looking for them, in theory then in shouldn't be that hard to find them, unless. Nobody is actually searching for such a thing anymore.
And those who do get together, two 9s, will post on r/datingadvice asking "should i choke and spit on her?" and she goes "I don't get turned on by being choked and spat on but all my friends do?". I've absolutely no issues imagining myself mingling with 'normies' in a local community, but I'm also of the internet generation where I can't imagine anyone else my age would 'stoop' to doing that. Like going to an event called 'make friends'. Who'd go there? Sure as shit not those who already have friends. It'd be a loser circlejerk, and even though I'd love a no-confidence boring bitch loser partner, even those don't stoop to such events.
Doomerism is ultimately the most cowardly way to view the world. Sure, shit is terrible right now but bitching about it online without even thinking of self-improvement isn't helping anyone. My advice to my fellow Zoomers is this; Stop being a faggot and work on yourself. Maybe then will you see the world differently.
I think simply put the younger generations aren't bored enough. Imagine sitting in your apartment after work with no phone or pc. You'd -have- to find something to do if you're any measure of energized and hopeful in life. If I got kidnapped in a black van outside work and was told "we're doing 3 hours in the soup kitchen", I'd be up for it, but it's getting to that point that sucks dick.
In my own experience, yeah, I think what has disappeared nowadays is just that idea of a simple 9-5 where you just clock in, try to look busy and follow a few orders, and then head home and do fuck all for the rest of your day.
It's kind of crazy to look at the modern equivalent of this. 9 to 5? Add in an hour of working out at the company gym or pool. Add in 3 hours of meetings keeping you from being a cog in the system, add 30 mins to your commute home cause we only work in the big cities, and once you're finally home, you don't crack open a cold one and watch Al on TV; you look at your phone before, after and during, wondering about some political situation on the other end of the world.
I've watched a fair few ""video essays"" about the zoomer job market and the comments are full of "I'd kill to work in a cubicle for a living wage". Meanwhile doing just that was the basis of many a movie in the 90s. AAAA IM GOING INSANE I CAN BUY A HOUSE AAAAA!!!!
Gen Z can't afford to passively do a mediocre job and go home, we're entering a shift where you kinda HAVE to be dedicated to your job and heavily specialize in order to survive.
The office job I just gave up on felt like I was going project-to-project. Never a day that was just treading the mill and going home. I only just realized this in my new, old job, which is basically doing the same service routine every single day. I am here to serve and I get paid and I go home. The only advancements are those I make up on my own; trying to optimize our shifts, the excel tables, our posters etc. I look at the old office job and both see no day-to-day cog work, but also no means of scaling the ladder. Yea, better pay, but holy shit was it dreadful, even ignoring the in-house bullying and ruination of my mental health. And every time I open the 'modern job horror stories' thread on here, I recognize that exact situation. My friends said "bro just keep grinding, make that bag". For what fucking purpose? I won't get to retire and I won't get to own property, not that I have a reason to, cause I won't have a family as long as the jews keep putting women on Onlyfans and Tinder.
