When people say flexible job I imagine they mean 0 hour contract with randomised shift work run by literal Satan as a shift manager and never being able to plan for anything ever because your life doesn't coincide with anyone elses but also not flexible because you can't ever reasonably take time off and whatever time you do take will earn you a last minute shift change or getting fired. Or the opposite, anxiously waiting to be alloted work that never comes and wondering how you'll afford rent.

So yeah a 9-5 is probably better than a "flexible" job. The bar is low for better.

Hi I’m three commercial real estate investors crammed into a trench coat here is why working from home is bad for gen z’ers like me all of whom I speak for

Flexible job for whom?
Flexible job for whom?!

let's dig into this...

I just started to feel demoralized about all of the flexibility in my life and I wanted consistency so that I was waking up for something everyday.

who would even get out of bed if they didn't have a boss to report to! CRISIS!

here's the buried lede:

I ended up leaving the agency to join Flashfood because I wanted the structure of a 9-to-5 and the benefits it offered. For example,** I really wanted to start therapy for the first time and I couldn't afford to do it unless I was getting health benefits. **

It's easier for me to schedule my personal life into my week rather than with a flexible job.

there it is. the "flexible" job didn't actually compensate the worker for their time. it also sounds all ad hoc and on-call whatever. like not so much flexible to the employee, but flexible to the employer. maybe this person is more normal than i thought....

I don't really have an interest in owning a home, period. I'm much more interested in the idea of renting an apartment, being able to move, changing my lifestyle over and over, and traveling all over the world wherever my job takes me. That's a fun adventure to me.

enjoy the Motel 6 in Winnipeg in January, adventurer. it may not be Bali, but there is probably a medicine ball in the basement gym.

I love stalking people's career paths, especially on LinkedIn, because I admire the people who are working on top of me.

jesus christ. come on!

My boss, our chief brand officer is a girl named Jordan Schenck — I just think she's the coolest. She has such a cool repertoire and a very cool résumé. I feel really excited about working in a job that could land me in Jordan's seat one day. It gives me something to base all of my efforts and aspirations on.

oh come on, get the eff out of my face.

I will say that going from a part-timer who had to balance their schedule and was completely at the whim of my managers as to when I could try to have a good life to just being an office drone was an improvement

But that's like saying going from actively bleeding to death to just in severe pain is an improvement

"I hate flexibility, i wish it was legal for me to ~~be~~ chain myself to my desk so I could focus better."

-Jon Realmann

It makes me laugh and cry when people think that society forcing them to have "structure" in their life is somehow a good thing.

To be fair, unless you lived in a rich or very dense area, us zoomers didn’t have anything to do besides going to school and the mall because everything is so far away, so we’re not used to creating our our routine and structures

flexible job and it was frustrating and demoralizing

In this imaginary scenario definitely written by a zoomer, their complaint is that when their job allowed them to not go to the office, they chose the thing they disliked instead of choosing the thing they claim to like

Wait, you guys are actually getting hired?

My immediate response to this shit? Call me back in 20 years. I'll be waiting.