{"id":2081234,"date":"2023-10-27T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viral-9-to-5-video-is-a-plea-for-a-meaningful-life-not-an-excuse-for-laziness\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T15:37:08","slug":"viral-9-to-5-video-is-a-plea-for-a-meaningful-life-not-an-excuse-for-laziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viral-9-to-5-video-is-a-plea-for-a-meaningful-life-not-an-excuse-for-laziness\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;9 to 5&#8217; viral video urges a purposeful life, not laziness."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fviral-9-to-5-video-is-a-plea-for-a-meaningful-life-not-an-excuse-for-laziness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2081234&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>A young woman\u2019s lament \u2062about the \u201cfour-hour life\u201d that she found herself living post-grad went viral earlier this week when Libs of TikTok posted it with the caption \u201cRecent college\u2063 grad \u2064has breakdown over working a job. We\u2019re doomed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m probably just being so dramatic\u200d and\u2064 annoying. But this is my\u2062 first job, like my first\u2062 nine-to-five\u200b job \u2062after college and\u2062 I\u2019m in person and I\u2019m commuting\u2064 in the city\u200d and it takes me f-cking forever to get there,\u201d the woman begins. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1446864504\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3d41dfcdcd2984c149cfa6e4611cc072 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3d41dfcdcd2984c149cfa6e4611cc072\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"xcCP5SQrl7FR\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Recent college grad has breakdown over working\u2063 a job. We\u2019re\u2062 doomed. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pp680PDQdv\">pic.twitter.com\/Pp680PDQdv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Libs of\u2064 TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1717193628194680895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25,\u200b 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>She wishes she could simply walk to\u2062 work but says she can\u2019t \u201cafford living \u2064in the city right now.\u201d Instead, the young adult is stuck commuting on a train that leaves\u200b well before work begins and arrives after suppertime. <\/p>\n<p>By the time she gets home for the day, the young woman says\u200d she\u2019s too\u2064 exhausted\u2062 to do anything but \u2062\u201cshower, eat my dinner, and go to\u200d sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it could be worse.\u200d I know I could be working longer,\u201d the woman continued. \u201cBut, like, I literally get off, it\u2019s pitch black. Like I don\u2019t have energy. How\u2064 do you have friends? Like how do \u200cyou have time to, like, meet a\u200b guy?\u200d I don\u2019t know, \u2063like,\u2062 how do you have time for like, dating? \u2063I don\u2019t have time for anything \u2063and I\u2019m\u200c like so stressed out and I\u2019m also getting my period so that\u2019s why I\u2019m all \u2062emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cyoung woman goes out of her way to clarify that\u2063 her\u2064 adulthood \u200bepiphany has \u201cnothing \u200dto do with my job\u2062 at all.\u201d She\u2019s simply adjusting to the fact that her corporate\u200d employer (<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/28\/companies-eager-to-subsidize-abortion-because-they-think-only-childless-women-are-profitable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which likely hates women<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/05\/transgender-inc-a-running-list-of-corporate-gender-insanity-insulting-women-kids-and-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">everything<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/15\/consumer-group-exposes-deluge-of-corporate-money-going-to-dangerous-pride-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">normal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/26\/corporate-america-has-launched-a-religious-war-its-time-to-choose-your-side\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Americans stand for<\/a>) will control much of her schedule for an indefinite amount of time. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2cb781418454710ffc919b0eda7b80fa fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2cb781418454710ffc919b0eda7b80fa\"><\/div>\n<p>Yet, commentators like Libs of TikTok still clocked the \u2064woman\u2019s ill-advised\u200d on-camera meltdown as an unwillingness to work or an emotional \u200bweakness \u2064that could not withstand first-world growing\u200d pains. <\/p>\n<p>There are\u200c plenty of lazy and entitled people out there who simply don\u2019t\u2062 want to work and know that the government will eagerly line \u2063their pockets with taxpayer money indefinitely. <\/p>\n<p>This woman appears to be none of those things.<\/p>\n<p>Her problem is not with working hard\u200d but with modernity and how the problems that came with it stripped her \u200dlife \u200dof meaning. It\u2019s\u2062 time to make a \u200cchange. Moving away from the city is the easiest, most\u2064 effective way out\u00a0and something she should \u2062be willing to consider if she genuinely wants to start\u200c addressing the frustrations she complains about.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f55c2f7716ef2e7756a846767f3de74c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f55c2f7716ef2e7756a846767f3de74c\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You Can\u2019t Buy Happiness<\/h2>\n<p>Because she works in an expensive big city and has to shuttle herself back and forth, this gal feels like she has no\u200c time to invest in\u2063 the things and people that matter. <\/p>\n<p>She longs for a life with love and purpose but, as she\u2019s already discovered, she\u2019s likely not going to find that in the corporate world. If\u200c that \u2062aspect of her life doesn\u2019t change, she knows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viral-9-to-5-video-is-a-plea-for-a-meaningful-life-not-an-excuse-for-laziness\/\" title=\"'9 to 5' viral video urges a purposeful life, not laziness.\">soul-sucking work-eat-sleep-repeat thing<\/a> she \u2062has going on now could easily become her eternity. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s enough to send any sane person spiraling. <\/p>\n<p>Federalist contributor and pastor Hans Fiene <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HansFiene\/status\/1717383407993233774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">put\u2064 it \u2064best<\/a> when he identified the \u2062woman as \u201ccrying the \u2064tears of Ecclesiastes, not the tears of sloth.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to build up the next \u200dgeneration, let\u2019s not mock those \u2062struggling with loneliness by accusing them\u200d of laziness,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Young people are <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/well\/2023\/08\/11\/loneliness-study-digital-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lonelier now more than ever<\/a>. Their sadness is primarily rooted in their \u201clack of friends or community\u201d and \u201clack\u2062 of purpose.\u201d Current economic conditions and the fact that new adults like the young lady in the video\u200d did a lot of their coming of age in the throes of government-mandated lockdowns only exacerbate their isolation issues. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a crime\u2064 that deserves the scorn of \u2064older generations. It\u2019s an opportunity \u2064for those of us who have found \u200dpurpose through \u2064faith, community, and family to show her an escape \u2064route.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Work Smarter<\/h2>\n<p>By all measures, \u2062the \u200dweeping woman appears to have done the\u200b \u201cright\u201d things \u2014\u200c the things\u2062 that parents, \u2064professors, and society\u200b said would make her successful. She went to college, earned a degree, and then secured a job without falling into the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/02\/02\/young-americans-leave-those-creepy-college-covid-camps-and-start-your-careers-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trap of perpetual studenthood<\/a>. \u2063 <\/p>\n<p>Yet, she still \u2063feels unfulfilled for the majority of her day-to-day life. <\/p>\n<p>Too many\u200d youngsters take jobs in crime-ridden hellholes because the movies \u2062and books tell them it\u2019s cool and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/army-sees-safety-not-wokeness-as-top-recruiting-obstacle\/\" title=\"Army Sees Safety, Not \u201cWokeness,\u201d as Top Recruiting Obstacle\">good career choice<\/a>. Women especially are sold \u2063the modern girl-boss, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/08\/the-end-of-the-lean-in-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201clean in\u201d lie<\/a> that a fulfilling life means dooming \u2063their souls and bodies to a cubicle.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2023\/07\/19\/why-are-people-not-getting-married-anymore.html#:~:text=In%20the%20U.S.%2C%20marriage%20has,at%20the%20University%20of%20Virginia.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marriage rates tumble<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/13\/as-inflation-spikes-again-biden-and-medias-boasts-about-record-price-hikes-cooling-are-offensive-as-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inflation spikes<\/a>, and housing becomes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/homes-for-sale-affordable-housing-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less and less affordable<\/a> for even the average American, new adults slave away for\u200c years at a desk for a boss they may never meet\u2062 just so they can barely pay the bills.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keenanpeachy\/status\/1717196624571896288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cexistential terror\u201d<\/a> of being cooped up in a high rise staring at\u2062 a screen all day settles in. When the next generation of corporate America\u2019s workers finally look up from their \u200bdraining commute-work-lunch-work-commute cycle, they are 35 years old with no love life, no children (and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acog.org\/womens-health\/faqs\/having-a-baby-after-age-35-how-aging-affects-fertility-and-pregnancy#:~:text=A%20woman's%20peak%20reproductive%20years,getting%20pregnant%20naturally%20is%20unlikely.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rapidly declining fertility<\/a>), and \u200cnothing of real value.<\/p>\n<p>This gal is\u200c already off to a good start\u200d because she\u2019s having this realization now, in\u200d her early 20s. <\/p>\n<p>If she makes the right kinds of changes still has plenty of \u200ctime create a meaningful life. If she\u2063 doesn\u2019t make any changes, she won\u2019t make friends or date. That means her chances\u200b of\u200d getting married and whisked off to a peaceful suburban area in an\u200b income-tax-free state plummet drastically. <\/p>\n<p>To live a meaningful life means making sacrifices.\u2062 Young women especially must start by ditching the \u201cSex \u200cand the City\u201d pipe\u200b dream and \u200bmove from their closet \u200bapartment in \u2062that trendy, but\u2064 more \u2063importantly, expensive urban hub.\u200d <\/p>\n<p>People who live in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2018\/05\/17\/people-who-live-in-small-towns-and-rural-areas-are-happier-than-everyone-else-researchers-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smaller, rural towns are automatically much happier<\/a> than their city-dwelling peers. The same \u200cgoes for people who <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2023\/05\/16\/poll-religious-attendance-is-shrinking-but-those-who-remain-are-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regularly attend<\/a> and become involved in \u200ba local church. <\/p>\n<p>From there, they should find a job with a small business or a traditional company that isn\u2019t beholden to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/27\/corporations-need-a-roadmap-back-to-neutral-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">woke \u201cESG\u201d rules<\/a> and \u2064offers flexibility to families. An even better solution is to \u2063find a husband who is willing to offer \u200dhis love and paycheck so his wife can comfortably raise her children \u200dand keep their home. <\/p>\n<p>Eliminating that pesky commute and settling down with someone who is willing to share\u2064 the emotional burden of adulthood\u200c frees up \u200dyoung women\u2019s time to invest in\u200b the things\u200b that really matter. <\/p>\n<p>The good life \u200disn\u2019t easy. It takes a lot of work \u2064and sacrifice to build\u2062 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-killing-people-is-not-a-humane-solution-for-the-wests-epidemic-of-despair\/\" title=\"No, Killing People Is Not A Humane Solution For The West\u2019s Epidemic Of Despair\">life worth living<\/a>. But at least that work and sacrifice has benefits that go beyond a paycheck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fc1eb9ceffc6a324b8cefc70925cb06c fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fc1eb9ceffc6a324b8cefc70925cb06c\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2>Questions:<\/h2>\n<p><span>  A Young Woman&#8217;s Struggle \u2063with the Modern &#8220;Four-Hour Life&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent post on TikTok, a young woman \u2063shared her\u2063 frustrations about the demanding nature of her post-graduate life, which quickly \u200dwent viral.\u200d The video\u200b was captioned with the \u200dominous statement, &#8220;Recent college grad has \u2063breakdown over \u200dworking a job.\u2062 We&#8217;re doomed.&#8221; In\u200d this video, the woman \u200dexpresses her grievances about her first job, her long commute, and\u200d the exhaustion she feels\u2063 at the end\u200b of each day.<\/p>\n<p>The woman \u2062begins by acknowledging that she may be overreacting and being dramatic. However, she shares that this is \u200cher first nine-to-five job after graduating from college, and the daily\u200d commute to the city takes a\u2063 toll on \u2064her. She\u2064 reveals her desire to live\u200c closer to her workplace but laments\u200b that the high \u200bcost of \u200bcity living \u200dmakes it unaffordable for her at the moment.\u200b As a result, she finds herself\u200c commuting on a\u200d train that leaves early in the morning and arrives back late in the evening, leaving \u2064her with minimal time for herself.<\/p>\n<p>By the time she returns home, the young\u200b woman admits that she \u2062is too exhausted \u200dto do anything other than take a shower, eat dinner, and go to sleep. She questions how\u2063 people find the time and energy to have friends or engage in\u2064 dating, feeling overwhelmed by her lack of personal time. She attributes\u200c some\u200d of her emotions to \u2064her menstrual cycle, further compounding her stress.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, she clarifies that her frustrations have nothing to \u2063do with her job itself but\u200d rather stem from the realization \u2062that her\u200c corporate employer holds \u200ca significant amount of \u200bcontrol over her schedule. She expresses her skepticism\u200b towards \u200bthe corporate world, highlighting issues \u2063like the \u2063mistreatment of women and \u2063the disconnect from normal American\u200b values.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the woman&#8217;s genuine struggles and vulnerability, some commentators dismissed her outburst as laziness \u2064or entitlement. However, this woman&#8217;s\u2064 situation is far\u2063 from that. Her\u2062 frustration\u200c stems\u2063 from the \u200bchallenges\u200c and lack of meaning she finds in\u2063 the\u200b modern world. She acknowledges\u2063 the importance of hard work, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A viral video on TikTok featured a young woman expressing her frustration with the monotonous &#8220;four-hour life&#8221; she experienced after graduating. The caption by Libs of TikTok read, &#8220;Recent college grad breaks down over job. We&#8217;re in trouble.&#8221; Despite feeling dramatic and annoying, she acknowledged it was her first job, highlighting her struggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2081235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2081234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2081234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}