As someone who is going to have to get a job in 2-3 years, I’m dreading the day. Going to the same place 5 days a week coming home with no time and energy left for anything you actually like and doing this for FOURTY years or even more if you were unlucky, sounds HORRIBLE!! How could anyone actually like working?
I don’t enjoy having to do it to live but I really enjoy a large portion of my job and feel like I am actually helping people
For me it was finding something I love and using the job as training to help with it in situations I like
Then again I am working in ems so the vast majority of my time is spent sitting around doing whatever I want being on call to sprint out the door of the base and or start moving the truck quickly
But seriously if you find something you love and get an actual job that wont suck every last bit of enjoyment from it having a job isn’t the problem
Some places do different shifts you may wanna look into
Like the place I am at does the standard work days but you can also do like 4 12 hour shifts or at some bases a 24 hour shift 3 days one week than 2 the next with every other day off and as long as you have the pager set loud enough you can be sleeping a decent portion of the after dark period on either a 24 or a night shift 12