> You are going to spend the clear majority of your waking time (%75+) over the next 27 years confined to working, with the remaining 25% or less actually enjoy

> You are going to spend the clear majority of your waking time (%75+) over the next 27 years confined to working, with the remaining 25% or less actually enjoying your freedom (holiday/vacations away, social visits, recreation, etc) before finally retiring. You have substantially miscalculated: 9 working hours out of 15 waking hours per day you are at work (including mid-range commute and lunch break and generous 9 hours sleeping) is already only 60% of your waking time. Then taking into account weekends and annual leave / bank holidays = 38% of your waking time at work (or 41% if in USA with no annual leave and 10 federal holidays). Besides, you have equated being in prison with being at work. It's as if you're saying, they're both not enjoyable, and therefore the same. I am lucky enough to enjoy my job, but I've been in crappy menial jobs for summer work as a student and they're still better than being in prison - not just a bit better but so far off I don't see how you could compare them. If you are in a high pressure job where you hate working and are working a lot more than I just calculated then maybe by your logic (and I actually would agree with this) you should take some much lower paid job where you don't have ridiculous expectations on your life. You shouldn't need to hate your job more than going to prison to come to that realisation!