[jwr]

It sounds like modern day slavery, or perhaps more precisely "corvee" labor. You have to toil away on your master's land before doing your own thing. I find it unbearable, but sadly much of the world has to deal with it.

[jimbokun]

You are mocking the suffering of actual slaves by comparing a modern highly compensated office job to slavery.

[chiggsy]

And you are mocking his authentic feelings. Slaves are an abstract kind of human for him. Feelings are not comparable, right? Now this poor dude can't even vent a lil in an online forum?

To the OP: When it sucks a lot, try singing. It really, really helps. Throw your head back and let it out of you on the way home.

[jwr]

Mocking was never my intention. Reading the discussion, I now regret posting any thoughts here and will try to avoid that mistake again.

[Scea91]

You don’t “have to”, you “choose to”. There are plenty of paths out there. Slaves or serfs actually didn’t have a choice.

[ghaff]

But I could only make a third the money doing the thing I really want to do! /s