Just started my first office job and there's something about the parking of working on excel in cubicle and sigur rus that gives a profound feeling of completeness, like yea I'm an sissyphus and I am happy
I maybe am less fun and interesting than I once was but having a nice routine where I put on cute little office siren Outfit and go to work and chitchat to coworkers during lunch feels very niceโฆ. u can still do fun artsy things on the side but also have health insurance!
Life post-grad has its many perks and many downsides. Of which one is that I find it harder to feel productive without a constant pressure of deadlines looming over my head. And while it's nice to measure the quality of my life and well-being through other things that the intellectual work I produce... I miss the feeling of constantly writing down very smart thoughts. So yes fuck the capitalist system but also... So nice to work in an office and to feel like you actually added something to the world by writing a thousand emails (that lead to actual real life things).
Before I get fired from my office job for being a communist agitator, I want to champion how easy and fun it can be to be an office drone. itโs comforting to know thereโs always someone above you. Checking emails. Stealing paper clips.
I used to spend like 5+ hours a day on twitter and what I found helped me get it down was deleting it off my phone and only looking at it on my computer. Helped me cut down on time without cutting of completely cause there is still stuff I like about the app.
