Dear Work: I Just Don’t Care
I’m Gen X and all I want is a paycheck.
It’s 10:00 pm on a Sunday.
This is peak procrastination. I didn’t get things done all week and I have deliverables for Monday. I kicked the can down the road and figured I’d get it all done on Sunday since I didn’t have the kids or plans.
Well…it’s Sunday. Here I am on Medium, procrastinating some more.
We Gen Xers are in a weird spot. Boomers have the cult of “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” with the security of pensions and fully-funded Social Security. I can subscribe to any cult if it’ll give me an affordable house and a cushy lifestyle on one income.
The generations after Gen X took our jaded attitudes and did something about it. Fuck buying overpriced homes. Fuck getting married and having 2.5 kids. Fuck staying at a miserable company that has no loyalty beyond a severance check.
Some people may say they’re woke snowflakes who don’t want to do real work. I disagree.
The people that think that are incapable of challenging old-school belief systems. It’s like when people have kids; they try convincing others that having kids is amaaaazing because it’s better to suck everyone into the misery. Yes, I love my kids to death, but it hasn’t been a walk in the park and I…
