Huh, for what it's worth, this doesn't resonate with me at all. I appreciate the author sharing how they feel but really don't like the "we"s and "our"s, since they're not expressing some universal truth.
The older I've gotten, the shorter everything has
gotten. Whether it's based in the natural warping
of time perception as we age
People in their time working years are relied upon heavily by family and employers.
This is generally true even if you avoid having children, which is the probably most significant time investment a person can make.
Of course, you can live a "lone wolf" lifestyle but this is difficult for most people if they have any family at all.
I think the biggest reason this is not universal is because not everybody hates their job or working. I get an incredible amount of Joy doing what I do. So much so that when I get home I have plenty of energy to do a little more on my own personal projects. This is obviously not true every single day but the vast majority of days it is.
That dosent mean I don’t love my wife or my family, quite the contrary I spend as much time as possible with them and love them very much.
But it does mean that I don’t love TV or much of the other bullshit.
This article is a great read, with a different sort of take on life:
https://blog.stephsmith.io/you-dont-need-to-quit-your-job-to...
Idealists will say not to take a job unless it lets you do something cool and world-changing like that. Well okay, but there is a LOT of code to be written in the world. Somebody has to write the boring stuff. And 99.999% of it is boring. If every developer held out for the chance to write the fun stuff the world would just not work.
It's like if everybody held out for some kind of job they passionately cared about. Theoretically cool, but who'd sweep the floors and shovel the horse shit out of the stables?