I don't know if this is the right sub for this. Posting under a throwaway because I'm fairly certain I have coworkers who know my Reddit info.

I don't mean that I hate my job, I mean that I hate work in general. I have multiple degrees and certifications, I'm in my late 30s, and I've been in the workforce for about 25 years, across four different industries. I've had about a dozen jobs, and I couldn't stand any of them. A couple of them was okay, but it was only okay because I was basically a kid and had short days.

It's not about the pay. At my most recent job I was being paid pretty well, and I was pretty high up on the totem pole so many people depended on my work, but I couldn't stand waking up at 5:30am, I couldn't stand wearing uncomfortable clothes all day, I couldn't stand that whenever I got sick the entire department came to a screeching halt, I couldn't stand that the sun hadn't come up yet when I went to work and the sun had already set when I went home. Every day I'd get home and have roughly three hours to make dinner, eat dinner, and shower, and once all that was done I'd have around 30 minutes to relax before bed so I could do it all over again. I know this is all fairly normal and I know nobody likes it, but I've never been able to stand it.

When I was in my 20s I expressed this, and everyone told me it's just life and people deal with it, and it eventually gets better. Well, 15 years later it's significantly worse. My days at work are spent sitting at my desk checking the clock every five minutes waiting for the day to be over. The entirety of my week is basically counting down the hours until Friday afternoon, and then every Sunday I wonder if it'd be easier to just die than go back to work on Monday.

To combat this, I've changed jobs, I've changed careers, I've gone back to school for a completely different major, and it's never helped. I've always hated working.

The only jobs I've ever had that I sort of liked were when I washed dishes at a restaurant about 50 yards from my apartment (four hour shift, walkable commute), shelving books at a library (four hour shift, ten minute commute), and slicing bread at a bakery (didn't have to talk to anyone, and anyone in the department could do my job if I wasn't there).

Is this a 'me' problem or does everyone feel this way and nobody talks about it?