alt Hacker NewsI was strangely ahead of my time in a negative way. Spending way too much time alone with computers, didn't care about society, jobs were just jobs, life was meaningless. I recovered and feel much better and much more stable although I was never properly socialized so I still think society is "meh" and jobs are just jobs but some part of me wonders if all of you normal guys are starting to get depressed or something. Many things people say remind me of my 15yo self.
I had multiple phases in my life. Simple min wage jobs, long isolation, IT jobs.
Even in bakery, coffee shop, repair, deliveries.. you feel happy about your simple skills, happy to serve people that need a little bit of what you do, even serving coffee quick and clean.. in a team of people who know how to organize themselves. It can be exhausting, limited.. but it felt better than digital gray fog we're going in (graeber would say bullshit jobs).
And previous generation had even a different culture, my mother keeps telling me how warm and fun it was to work in the 70s. No easy job, 1000~ customer restaurants, but the way people approached jobs, belonging, connection.. was different. I witnessed the cold privatization of her building around 2000s, it became more a factory than a place to drink coffee and eat, everything was stiffer and came from high above management who didn't work with employees.