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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/KawiNinja on 2026-08-19 10:31:37+00:00.

Kind of a rant post, can’t sleep right now due to the overwhelming stress of it all.

I’m working 60 hours a week, making a little north of $100k per year, and I’m barely keeping my family afloat. My wife wants to work, can’t though because either there is no daycare availability, or the cost of daycare just makes her paychecks a wash. We rent a modest 1,500 sq ft duplex, have one car, live in a relatively LCOL area, and yet we’re literally one bad paycheck away from losing it all.

I have to pay $1,000/mo just for health/vision/dental insurance for me and my kids (can’t even afford to cover my wife). If I could go without insurance I probably would, but I have Ulcerative Colitis and need the meds in order to keep working.

I wake up at 4AM, get home from work at 5-6PM, shower, make dinner, watch an hour of a movie with my kids, then it’s bedtime stories and repeat. The weekend is always just full of errands (not like we could afford to do anything anyways) and feels like a blip where the only true reward is an extra 2 hours sleep.

Work doesn’t give a shit, their entire mindset is that if you’re not making enough then you’re doing something wrong at work. Management is just full of people using ChatGPT to send emails back and forth. Every single move or action I do is measured and recorded in real time. We have a ridiculous amount of KPI’s they want us to all hit simultaneously.

Meanwhile I get to watch the CEO build his new custom lake side mansion on social media and all the fun things he gets to do each day.

I broke a tooth last night and instead of wanting to go get it fixed, all I can think about is how I probably can’t afford it and I definitely can’t afford to take a single day off from work. So I’ll likely go buy some temporary filling kit and repeatedly use it for months until it hurts or becomes infected and I have no choice.

It’s all bullshit.