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I have all that, too, and I am unemployed. Granted, there are some luxury things I can't get or sometimes tight months and I pirate a lot, but I do still live a better life than kings of the 19th century without grinding myself down.
Also I already fell for the same trap the promise of "hard labour earns you stuff", worked myself into two burnouts with no reward worth the consequences, so fuck it, I'm done. And you need to wake up. You're not working for yourself and everything you strive for can get ripped from you by some unforseen shit. On their deathbed, no one ever regretted not having worked more.
The grind is not the grind for your boss, it's for you, if you got hit by lifestyle inflation I can understand why you're feeling ripped off.
If you're grinding for no reward then you should stop or move to a company that appreciates you
You also seem to have gotten half the memo, there are productivity nutters on linkedin who love working and love going all out 100% all day every day, but for the rest of us we generally have 2 goals:
Fuck You Money
FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)
If you're not really interested here's a brief 1 minute video on it taken from a movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGC9FY65HBo
If you're interested:
https://jlcollinsnh.com/2011/06/06/why-you-need-f-you-money/
I have F U money, so if I lose my job unexpectedly I'll be fine for the next 2 years and because I've got so much experience and skills in my industry it won't take that long to find something else. I'm also happy because I've left 2 crappy workplaces for an amazing one with a great boss that appreciates the hard work I put in and that I'm grateful for every day
Next step after that is FIRE, this is a bit of an intro to it but there's tons of info all over the net:
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-zero-to-hero-in-one-blog-post/
Again some people go to the extreme with this lifestyle and make their own food and live off grid but for most of us it's just a matter of spend less than you earn, save/invest the rest
and once I've got my house paid off in a few years my average expenses per month will be down to pensioner levels while I earn 10x as much, as I do like working at that point the next goal is:
:)
It is, because your boss gets a far bigger share from whatever worth you produce than you. If the grind was for yourself, you'd get the biggest share of profits you worked for.
Risking your health isn't worth having your boss profiting most off of your work.