Man the "rather be planting corn at this point" is such a pandemic thought as well. I fantasize about working in a bookstore, buddies of mine think about owning a restaurant, driving public transport vehicles (2 people), repairing bikes, etc. One of my colleagues just actually did it, he quit his job and started to be a baker. Corporate scrum is killing us and all we want to do is work.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

driving public transport vehicles

I retired (aka was laid off) from my job as a programmer, spent a few years converting a used school bus into a motorhome, and now I drive a real school bus. It's insane how much happier I am, even though I make about a sixth of what I used to make and even though middle-schoolers really do suck as human beings. Money is certainly not everything.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

The absolutely critical difference between the work you, your buddies, and basically everyone else wants to do, versus corporate """work""", is that you want to do it because it'd make you happier and your community healthier, as opposed to making a line go up for some shareholders who honestly wouldn't care if you died tomorrow so long as it made the line go up a little further. Neoliberal Capitalism is Hell, man.