I don't want to work, help needed!

Join my Kingdom. I pay you no wages, make you work in the sweltering heat for 16+ hours. At the end of the day you sleep on glass, and if you're hungry you must fight with others for so much as a sliver of pig poo. It is a lifelong contract (999,999,999 years long), and you are bound by it. Should you decide to have a 'holiday' (ugh), or a picnic with your significant other and children, you shall find yourself tar and feathered for making a mokcery of the sacred lifelong contract. Oh, and in addition to this brilliant opportunity, there are infinite placements and no need for qualifications beyond having an arm and two legs. You can be disabled in any other manner, and still get the job! Quite generous if I do say so myself! There's no lack of opportunity here!

I can already sense your excitement. Be calm, young one. Just sign below.

"want" doesn't come into it. You are a man now. Do.

Join my Kingdom. I pay you no wages, make you work in the sweltering heat for 16+ hours. At the end of the day you sleep on glass, and if you're hungry you must fight with others for so much as a sliver of pig poo. It is a lifelong contract (999,999,999 years long), and you are bound by it. Should you decide to have a 'holiday' (ugh), or a picnic with your significant other and children, you shall find yourself tar and feathered for making a mokcery of the sacred lifelong contract. Oh, and in addition to this brilliant opportunity, there are infinite placements and no need for qualifications beyond having an arm and two legs. You can be disabled in any other manner, and still get the job! Quite generous if I do say so myself! There's no lack of opportunity here!

I can already sense your excitement. Be calm, young one. Just sign below.

Alright that was a pretty dope post, but I thought Brienne killed you?

An arm? Do you cut the other one of for insurance?

I'll be honest, I have no idea what you are talking about xD

I'll give you a serious response since you didn't get offended by my post. I'm actually in a similar position (though I'm not certain if I've failed yet, and I doubt think I have, but you never know). I'll say that you should find something you're passionate about and work on it, to make a living out of it. Pursue your dreams as some would say, but at the same time, understand the reality that you need food. It also depends on your parents, but from the tone of this post, I'm assuming there's a reason you think you'd need to work, and you're not able to lounge around off the silver spoon.

I'm sure there's been better advice, but I'm in a similar position and this is what I'm doing. I like writing, and so I'm writing a book, hoping to get into University and get published sometime along the way. I'm willing to work part/full time if it means I can do what I love the rest of the time, but not just do it, actually work to make my dream a reality. Most people give up on that last part.

I recently turned 18 and have pretty much failed my A-Levels. I hate school but love to learn, I just prefer it at my own pace and whatever I want (I have a bit of a butterfly brain which is both a good and a bad thing). I am now going into full time employment, but I just don't want to. I don't see why I should spend my entire life slaving away at some company to make someone else's dreams come true. After all, I want to live my life, not someone else's. As well as this, I seem to have had the luck of parents who literally only care about grades and bring up how I could've been really successful at uni every day out of spite. The only thing that seems to interest me is travelling, and this is something I see myself doing for the rest of my life.

TLDR: I hate society and it's pressures and need a way out permanently.

Hey shrimpymo,

I know what you are feeling! I told my parents the same about 2 years ago when I said I didn't want a job. All because they work so hard and I never had time to spent with them... They thought I was crazy. I carried on anyway and for a while they didn't support me...

One thing people don't realise is we are in the information age, not the industrial age anymore. A degree is almost useless (I am studying one btw - parents)

if you could do something, what would it be?

I agree.

Society is out of control and too overwhelming, and modern technology is to blame.

Why work 40 hours a week so you just watch TV and play video games

Power to you. I think people are too quick to resent those who are willing to think outside the box in terms of how they live their life.

I don't know how to recommend you reach your goals but fair play to you and don't stop thinking creatively.

I find it hard to stick at s..t min wage jobs and I've had people berate me for it but I think "if you want to give an hour of your valuable time to a bunch of ... in exchange for the cost of what youre willing to pay for a sandwich then thats your perogative".

Genuinely wishing you the best of luck with it.

Have you ever tried working for yourself? doing something that you imagine yourself learning like something that could allow you to travel the word and explore (that is what I understand you want to do)