Ask HN: When did you realize you were wasting your time?
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When I got kids and looked back at my twenties, I can't remember what the hell I did with all that time.
Every day at work. My career is going nowhere. It took me a few years of getting screwed over to realize it.
that implies it's possible to waste time.
Of course a person can feel like they're wasting their time. Nobody tried to claim they're taking literal time to the trash.
To support that 'standard' family, I had to have the prestigious job, I had to have a prestigious house along with its required burdensome mortgage, and I had to drive the prestigious car.
That meant I was continually 'chasing my tail', forever being obliged to spend increasing amounts of time at work, and spending increasing amounts of time fitting in with the social mores of my community.
I wasn't doing those things that I enjoyed. Instead, I was doing things that Society demanded of me. I wasn't living, I was merely being a 'pack-horse' carrying the demands and externally-imposed responsibilities of a wider community.