Totally agree man.. This is not how things are meant to be.. I pray everyday for a change and send my intentions out in the world in every way possible!! Its just STUPID to spend 8 hours in a company doing meaningless work, and then couple hours in traffic.. its like a freaking prison!! I want to get out of thiss, but at the same time I cant because I have got bills to pay!!

I just hang on to the hope that things are changing and times will be good.. actually I am quite positive that this system is not going to last for long.. This world can be muchhh better, and it will be very soon

You might as well have put my name under that text OP! Your words correlate with my inner feelings so accurately, that this thread has actually brightened me up a bit knowing there are other people with the same repulsion to said matters.

Some of my friends think they understand me but anyone still committing to a 9 to 5 because 'thats the way it is' doesn't really understand the true horror of the system

YES!! I am also in total agreement with you. I am currently enrolling in another new university and yet another new major, and I still do not believe that I will find what I am looking for in the system that we are in. I feel as if I am not from this current time period. I want and feel that I should be able to be free and travel across the world to experience everything and everyone that is out there. I do not want to be stuck in a 9 to 5, working paycheck to paycheck, wasting my time away, when we should be out and about enjoying the world and being one with the planet and the people of our planet.

And forget those that tell you to accept this and move on with your boring and mundane life. You need to BELIEVE that things will change!!! The more of us that BELIEVE that things will change the more likely that this will happen. Those who say accept are only ruining the way we and them want to see life change moving forward. We need to BELIEVE and keep BELIEVING for things to change. Never give up hope, because the way life is now, is not the way that life should be!!!!

A lot of great posts in this topic that have really penetrated the basic truth about the condition in which we find ourselves. I starred every one of them and will let them speak for themselves. In turn I will offer the best of what I came up with working within the system. I believe this course of action is most effective and offers the only real starting platform. It may not be attractive to the majority here even within this topic, but for those who resonate, I hope to show that you are not alone in your endeavour.

my own experimental plan B formula:

(spiritual discipline to increase life & creative force) - (work to survive) - (ageing & stress) + (valence of uncertainty variable) = (minor surplus of life & creative force)[assuming tolerable uncertainty variable]

(minor surplus of life & creative force) x (time & experience) = (accumulated surplus of life & creative force with experience)

how to create a discipline, its effectiveness, and to what end it is used are a matter of one's personal path. Both formulas require nothing short of asceticism within contemporary life, summarized best as putting a definitive end to the current lifestyle in favour of family, work, and the discipline, devoid as much as possible of everything else (addictions, distractions, superfluous emotions, social entanglements, persona (mask) indulgence, indolence, illusions of mind, to name the major ones). Those who understand the subtleties and underlying connections of this will already know that this is not equivalent and in fact the opposite to denying your Self.