Why I’ll Never Work a 9–5 Job Ever Again

Soul-crushing jobs

Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch
Published in
4 min readAug 17, 2022

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Image from Apple Tv’s Severance/edited in Canva

Punk rocker Henry Rollins once said there’s a terrifying feeling you get when you realize you can’t work a 9 to 5 job.

You’re not happy. There are no fireworks. You say to yourself, “Oh no — I’m not gonna have a straight life. What am I going to do?”

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Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch

Journalist for 99Bitcoins and former USA Today, also Ultramarathoner | On Substack: https://isaiahmccall.substack.com/ mccallisaiah@gmail.com