Various studies have shown that Americans not only work longer hours, but have more stress-related illnesses than their European and Japanese counterparts. These days, everyone is being pressured to be as productive as they physically can, and often, can’t.
While anyone who’s ever had a truly demanding job knows how it feels to be turned into a dried-out sponge by the end of the workweek, many parents still claim they don’t know how much worse it gets when you have kids.
And one Redditor, a childfree 34-year-old woman who “works long hours, never really gets to turn off, and has a contract which means unemployment is always looming” knows that all too well.