I saw this on Reddit and thought it was interesting.
One in four Gen Zs have thought about quitting work over the last year, citing mental health as a key reason to go unemployed.
Do they believe that, somewhere, there is still a dole like the one punk rock was built on in the 70s, or have romantic visions of sleeping under the stars and making enough coin begging/busking to buy the odd kebab? Or are these people who have generational wealth they can tap into, making unemployment into a sabbatical of sorts?
Don’t we all think about quitting work at least once daily?
I dream of driving off into the sunset with my wife on a daily basis. Just pack a bag each and hit the road.
I did the math once, we could go about 18 months like that before we couldn’t afford gas, food, and maintenance anymore.
Of course we’d be financially ruined and our careers would basically have to restart, but a man can dream.
our careers would basically have to restart
Why would your careers need to restart? I took an 18 month sabbatical and went right back in to work.
My dream is more like buying some woodland and living there in a cabin. I can afford it until the council evict me and seize my land for living on it without their permission.
Just offer euthanasia to keep costs down. It is probably ethically superior to the options available to sufferers now.
I wonder if the system has changed?
I was unemployed through most of my teens and 20s and it absolutely destroyed my mental health due to the demoralising things the system does to you along with not having any money
That’s not to say their reasons are not valid. Let’s be honest everything is fucked at the moment so I do wonder what would be the better situation on the mental health front.
You know without expecting the government to do something sensible with it
If you live with your parents its pretty much just a continuation of life when you went to school. And if that was a good time for you then this probably will be too
That may be the difference i was Nether living with my parents and school was not a good time
Thanks for the little but of insight
If the government want to help bring down the benefits bill and improve productivity then they need to invest heavily in mental health. Reduce the waiting time for assessment, make it easier to keep your prescription renewed and think about making some of the standard drugs in this country to improve supply.
Tbh the tories were almost onto something with workfare but they were needlessly cruel with it. All they had to do was give a living wage out of it rather than barely over £1/hour to work at Argos and it would have been kinda ok.
Unemployment benefits are so low you would only have to do a single shift a week if that is what you wanted to pay them. It would essentially be a guarantee of a minimum amount of work and income regardless of circumstance, and you could cut most job centre staff to pay for it. I am sure local councils could find useful things for an already paid for labour force and it would be more useful to the community than subsidising Argos.
Or they could deal with the reasons why workers’ mental health is so bad.
Sorry, joking. I know the driving motivation is maximising profit, while minimising tax burden of the richest.
Does retirement planning count as “Thinking of quitting work?”
