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“Five more on-call shifts will age me by two years.” “By dawn, I can feel my internal organs are rotting.” “Just gotta rinse and repeat till I’m out.” Is the
by postpawl 6y ago
“Five more on-call shifts will age me by two years.”
“By dawn, I can feel my internal organs are rotting.”
“Just gotta rinse and repeat till I’m out.”
Is the point of this entire post to invoke an existential crisis in readers?
Why would you glorify hurting yourself like this?
- fy20 6y agoIt sounds like OP is fulfilling the conscription requirements of their nation, so by "I'm out", they mean finished their military service.
- postpawl 6y agoAh, his next post talks about how he got done with his service: https://tyler.kim/army-review https://tyler.kim/army-review Wasn’t sure if it was a career based on the context.
- wombatmobile 6y ago> Why would you glorify hurting yourself like this? You sound disapproving, incredulous, or perhaps mystified, but you probably have similar dynamics in your own culture that you hardly notice. Do you not see the parallels with crunch coding, or all nighter heroics at law firms and brokerages? Or even the obesity that inevitably results from lifestyle advertising for junk food?
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoI see the parallels, but I don't do those either, fuck that, there's no reward for that. It's a subculture that a small percentage of people are able to follow, and often only while they're young.
- wombatmobile 6y agoFair enough. Why do you think some other individuals embrace those behaviours?
- sneak 6y agoPerhaps to expose the horrors that comprise the slavery that he is unwillingly engaged in.
- mssundaram 6y agoFrom what I know about the military in general, and mandatory military service in Korea, the author has no choice.