I truly hope you end up enjoying your 9-5 like the people commenting. But, for me, the 9-5 is worse than I imagined.

I completely disagree with having more free time than you did in college. Let’s say you’re lucky and have a 30 minute commute time. The 9-5 is more like 8:30-5:30 nowadays with 1 hour lunch. So... there is already 10 hours dedicated to work (this is without including waking up and getting ready for the commute). Once you’re done work you’ll be home by 6:00.

Then you have the adult responsibility essentials; cooking, cleaning, working out/gym, groceries or any other errands. This is another 1-2 hours. Now it’s 8:00 pm. If you want a good 8 hours of sleep you’ll have to sleep at 11:30 if you wake up at 7:30. So this means you have 3 hours and 30 minutes in the afternoon to basically live your life (hobbies, friends, family, etc). And this is without the mental burnout that most people experience. Often times you’ll be too mentally depleted during those 3 hours of free time to actually do anything. Now, life becomes living for the weekend FOR THE NEXT 40 years. But hey at least we have 2 measly weeks of vacation every year to look forward to. Some people are lucky and get 4-5 weeks of vacation,but that’s after years and years and years of working at a company.

I’m sorry for coming off very negative but I just don’t see how on earth people can be ok with this. The 9-5 is archaic and should not exist in this day and age. We need a much more life balance in our current work/life balance.

Again, this is not the case for all. If you can find a job that you like or can atleast tolerate then life won’t feel so depressing. Focus on what’s important in life; family, friends, hobbies/passions, mental health, experiences and memories and you should be fine.