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  I 100% agree with you OP.
  I have kids, a significant mortgage and work full time. Life is very busy.
  But I love my life. I love the fact I'm in control of how things get done and how I will manage bad situations. 
  I'm also incredibly thankful as a female I was born into a first world country at this stage of history.
context: I think the major reason people think adulthood sucks is money. You’re lucky if you think the only stressful thing about paying bills is the time it takes to write a check or set up auto payments >
  
  Well you also need to find a job and stick to it, how's that a problem >
  
  Rent in my city is $800. There is chick I worked with at McDonald’s that had been there for like 10 years. I’ll never forget her. 
  She’s had two jobs her whole life, 37, had kids and still has one living with her, and barely makes rent. I told her why don’t you get a better job? 
  She said, I have no fucking time for job interviews, nowhere is close enough, I only have my diploma, I work 6-7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day, and I don’t have a car. 
  She walks everywhere. And lives in an apartment that’s only $800 a month in our city! Sounds like a hell of a way to save money, right? WRONG! It’s fucked, after rent, insurance, food, she still barely has any money for food. I used to buy her food, working at McDonald’s while in high school.
  How can you save up money for college, a down payment on a car, deposit for cheaper rent, if you can’t afford to eat, already working constantly????
  America is fucked. 60% of households are paycheck to paycheck. Comfortable living wage is 60k. Average is 35k. You should know this, yet you’re blind. Learn for fucks sake. >
  
  "I don't have time for interviews" is the most made-up excuse, I can't even believe someone has used it. It's not anyone's fault she's in this situation. >
  
  Yeah right she should just go to the job interview on the 8th day of the week when she doesn't work /s >
  
  She can call in sick, take a day off (when it's possible), or move to a 2x cheaper place (a room) for a few months until she saves enough to survive 3 months, then give her notice and be free to go to interviews. She can get another part-time job until she saves enough to do the same. She can move to a cheaper location etc. I'm not saying it's easy or nice >
  
  Fuck yeah, that'll give her like 5 days worth of interviews if the company agrees to a specific date notified weeks in advance and no place for her kids to sleep. Stellar plan. >
  
  Why not sleep in the same room as her kids for a few months? She can also apply to many companies and explain her situation. >
  
  imagine thinking companies care about your situation omegalul >
  
  Haha, I didn't say they are a charity like most people downvoting me expect. But you can say "I am free for an interview on X and Y dates/days of the week" in your motivational letter and say why you want to change your job. >
  
  The positives far outweigh the negatives. For example, I can eat cake for breakfast >
  
  See that's where you and I are different, for me it's like. "I never have to eat unhealthy food again, since I can chose my own meals" >
  
  The people who view adulthood as great because they can eat whatever they want will be in for a rude awakening in a couple decades.  You can often borrow against your future bodies health for a long time though before those debts are called in >
  
  True, though I think if you suddenly start to practice good diet and exercise in old age, you can be in phenomenal condition, well above average. We need more grandma and grandpa body transformation montages! >
  
  I’m only 31 and no amount of good diet and exercise will get me back to phenomenal condition. You gotta take care of it in the moment. >
  
  I don’t believe that. People have turned their lives and health around at much older ages. >
  
  Oh of course they have! And I’m happy for them! But it’s not always possible to make it that far without irreversible damage happening first, is what I’m saying. If I had taken better care of myself in my 20’s, I wouldn’t have tendinitis in my elbows, a hemorrhoid, and a hernia. Years of neglect and those things (or the affects of them) are with me forever. >
  
  I think some of that is just bad luck. What did you do to cause those things? The average person your age would not have such problems just living a normal life, even if they did not take any special care of themselves. >
  
  Working a lot and drinking heavily in my early 20’s. >
  
  Lol paying bills isn’t stressful because the physical act of paying them is difficult it’s the spending most of your time earning the money to pay them and the high stakes consequences of not being able to do so that sucks >
  
  Fr i love me some paid bills  and i love working but sometimes you just wanna lay in bed >
  
  You...love working? >
  
  I love working too. It's sad how normalized it is to hate work. Obviously some dead-end jobs suck, but the same people seem to say "I don't live to work, I work to live" everytime you suggest doing something more challenging >
  
  I honestly think it's sad how normalized it is to say we love work.
  If you won billions, would you keep working exactly the same way with no changes? 
  If your answer is anything other than an immediate yes, you don't love working. >
  
  I would 100% not be okay if I had nothing to do all day than sit in bed watch YouTube and hang out
  I love working and would continue to code most of my day if I ever won the lottery, but I would never buy a lottery ticket tbh >
  
  Who said you had to do that? Plenty to do.
  I have way too much to do even if I never work again. >
  
  like? >
  
  I don't get nearly as much family time as I want.
  I have a list of chores and errands to run that I never have time for.
  I have a stack of magazines and books I don't have time to read. Same with shows, movies, music, etc. 
  I barely have time to work out and try to stay healthy and I'd love to do a lot more working out.
  I'd also love to just explore all the things I want to do and don't have time. >
  
  this implies that people cannot do all of these things. you can love your work and still engage in downtime activities and social activities. hell, i work and decided to go back to school, but that doesn't stop me from going out, reading, getting chores and errands done, etc. it is possible to do both, it's just about making it work with your schedule. >
  
  This is kind of a case-by-case subject matter my dude >
  
  Adulthood would be great if it wasn’t so isolating. I legitimately have no idea how to make friends or meet people outside of a college setting or even where to start. >
  
  The way to make friends is to say yes to every social opportunity and ask people to participate in social opportunities, and seek them out yourself. Staying at home with your S.O. only won't net you new friends, though it is totally fine to do so if you enjoy that. >
  
  This requires you to be invited to multiple social opportunities on a regular. >
  
  Not to mention, have the time, and interest, to participate. >
  
  If you don’t have interest then maybe you’re not interested in making friends. lol
  There are online groups that do meetups based on commonalities. You should check out some local ones and chat with the people in the group or attend a meet up and see what happens. It’s a great way to make friends and only requires as much energy as you’re willing to put it. >
  
  I love being an adult. 
  Being a child was horrible. You have zero control over what happens to you. I'd rather work, pay bills, cook and do laundry. >
  
  That analogy makes zero sense. >
  
  I mean, if you have A job that pays for all your bills, your housing, your future, AND a little left over for some fun, then yes, being an adult doesn’t suck.
  But how many have to “hustle” to just do the first two, never mind the last two? And how many here look down on people who live paycheck to paycheck, see them sad, and tell them they just need to work harder, as if they aren’t already working hard?
  It only doesn’t suck if you have the means to actually live beyond survival mode. >
  
  Bingo. >
  
  Paying bills? No problem. 
  Wage slavery? Depressing. >
  
  If you can afford your bills and to do things it is great… if you live paycheck to paycheck it is soul crushing and stressful. (I’m a teacher, so is my wife, can’t afford to live) >
  
  How can y’all not afford to live on two teacher salaries, i make like 13k a year and still live 💀 >
  
  Congrats you’re on the poverty line. Weird flex but ok >
  
  Adult life doesn't stick when you're not paying to live. 
  When you're like so many of us where a single bad moment that even anyone else can intentionally cause that puts you so far behind that you start losing everything, it dominoes into even losing your job. 
  Adult life sucks because if I miss a single bill, I can lose where we live, our car, our jobs, our kids. 
  We weren't always living like this. We used to be well off. Now we have to have foods stamps to survive except someone reported us for fraud so now we have lost food stamps until we can prove it wasn't fraud. 
  We have multiple full time incomes, but I'm still limited in what I can do because of disabilities I have, and because of that we can't afford ride share services. If we lose our car, we lose our jobs. We lose our home, then we'll lose our kids. 
  Adult life doesn't suck only when you aren't working to live. >
  
  
  Adult life sucks because if I miss a single bill, I can lose where we live, our car, our jobs, our kids. 
  
  So the problem might be having kids, which is a big expense, before you have a substantial financial buffer. We would all be living paycheck to paycheck if we made sure to get things we can barely afford. >
  
  Except when I first had kids, I could easily afford it. Here lately, I can't. Literally nothing changed these last 6 years except the price of everything has increased. My wife and I have both received multiple raises yet cost of living continues to go up faster than our income. 
  At the rate everything is going, even those without kids are going to struggle the way we do. >
  
  Strange, we've had over 18% inflation these past years where I'm from and while we did feel it we didn't feel it that much. No kids however. At 50% of our income unused I still feel we can't really afford them cause it's a ~20 year commitment. So I guess it depends on your perspective. >
  
  So only the rich should have children?
  While i agree with wise living and doing your best to not have a family when you can't afford it (birth control, vasectomy)  I also don't care for the argument that children are a purely financial consequence. >
  
  See that wouldn't work because countries do need workforce. Only the rich having children wouldn't suffice. Decreasing birthrates can make governments pass laws that incentivize having children. Of course, this only works in countries where government would rather do that than ban abortions or bring in cheap workforce from abroad.
  So obviously not, children aren't just for the rich. 
  But a lot people are birthing children that will struggle to survive. We're delaying a problem rather than solving it. But I suppose some people see their children's lifetime of struggle worth it. >
  
  Idk, it depends. What I do feel now that I’m an adult, compared to when I was a kid, is that things are less exciting. When you’re a kid everything is new and exciting, magic exists. When you’re an adult there’s exciting things, but it’s not the same >
  
  Yeah, I love doing exactly what the fuck I want to. That’s a highly underrated advantage of adult life. >
  
  I wish I had the money to do what I want to >
  
  Lmaoooo, the act of paying the bills isn’t the hard part. People aren’t complaining about that. They’re frustrated that it costs so much to live and that most have to live as a wage slave to simply rent an apartment or feed ourselves. >
  
  For real… having enough money goes a long ways towards easing the stress of everyday adult life. >
  
  Getting the money to pay those bills is not easy and when the price or bills, groceries, rent, and other things continue to climb but my pay isn't paying those things becomes less easier and more stressful. 
  My life as a kid growing up was stressful, being an adult is more stressful. At least as a kid I didn't have to worry about working and bills. I had school and then could come home, do one or two basic ass chores, maybe do some homework, and then chill for the rest of the day/weekend with no other worries. 
  I worry 24/7 about all the shit that I need to get done on the days I don't have work. I don't have a chance to sit down and relax for long periods of time anymore, I got shit that needs to be done and a lot of it cost money that I simply do not always have. I hate it. >
  
  the problem is time, normal folk need to work 8-10 hours a day, 5-7 days a week to pay for bills and necessities.
  they get almost zero time to be “free“ and thats not even including the time needed for responsibilities outside of work.
  I dunno what job you have but it must be pretty cozy if you have the time to be “free” >
  
  I like what you’re saying but I don’t think you understand WHY people hold this common sentiment. 
  People don’t have a problem with paying bills and accepting responsibilities. I think most of us know that that is a part of life and can be very rewarding. 
  People have a problem with adult life because you begin to see how the world operates. It’s incredibly depressing. I’m not sure what country you’re in but where I am we have a system that is run by corporations, many of which are run by greedy egotistical maniacs who make awful decisions that make the workplace unbearable. When these “leaders” plans fail due to being founded on ego rather than reality, they reach out to the government, who sends them to the people who literally own the currency, and some guy who is incapable of blinking literally prints more money for them simply because “they are too big to fail.” Oh. Also this money is actually, factually fake. It has no resemblance to anything related to value whatsoever. 
  Sounds pretty miserable doesn’t it? 
  So you think ok, I’ll generate my own wealth, despite the fact that money is fake. Not a bad idea, except that if you are capable of producing a product or service that is functional and sustainable, the previously mentioned corporations will either sue you out of business with bullshit laws, create campaigns that destroy your business, and even sometimes kill you. 
  So basically your left with 2 options: become the egotistical maniac and lose any sense of humanity, or become a drone who accomplishes pointless tasks on behalf of such corporations and live paycheck by paycheck without ever having the opportunity to own anything for yourself, including your time. 
  I hope that sums it up nicely. >
  
  At that point you just buy shares of the companies that would do anything to stay at the top and get rich with them. >
  
  No, because as previously mentioned these company’s products don’t hold water. So their shares go to shit. But the company doesn’t die. It gets bailed out and everyone except the CEOs lose. And then they redo that cycle. 
  Also, even if you do make the right calls on the companies stock and make money off it, I’m not sure how living in a place where the economy is an actual casino isn’t miserable. >
  
  Luckily there are index funds so you don't actually have to try and pick the winner, as long as a few of those shitty companies make it, you make it too. It stops being gambling and turns into investing once you diversify enough.
  ETA I don't think it's a perfect system but it's currently the only way I can think of that will make it possible for me to retire. >
  
  I will keep that in mind, thanks. 
  What a wild world. >
  
  I think the only thing that sucks about adulthood is less time to do the things you love. Once you start a family, you start to yearn for those times as a kid where you had hours of free time. >
  
  That’s why it’s great to be childless. My husband and I travel, go out, and do whatever we want with absolutely no worries outside of showing up for work. I have way more free time now than when I was a kid and had a million extra-curriculars and was pushed constantly to work and study by my parents. >
  
  This honestly having a partner who has the same childfree beliefs as you is the best way to go >
  
  r/richpeoplemoment >
  
  r/subsifellfor >
  
  I absolutely agree. I feel like people who miss being a teenager either peaked in high school and don’t know what to do with themselves, or were a total loser and can’t get over it. As a teen, I was an ugly duckling. A complete fucking nerd. I wanted out so bad that I dropped my chance to be valedictorian and went to night school to finish early. 
  Being an adult is so freeing. I have my own money. I never have to hear “do you have McDonald’s money?” “No, you don’t need that” or “all you wear is black, pick something” ever again.  I don’t need to ask permission to go anywhere or do anything. If I want bacon at 3 am, I can cook bacon at 3 am. I don’t have to rush to do my AP homework. I’m not awake at 7 am on a Saturday morning because bachata is blasting because we’re about to clean. I don’t need to ask a teacher to use the bathroom. I don’t need to walk into a school building, hand over my phone and then wait in a long ass line to get it back before I go home. The only downside is having to do the dishes and doing my own laundry, which I’ve been doing since I was 14 anyway. >
  
  by all traditional standards I have a perfectly great adult life, but I still enjoy the juvenile fun of high school more than anything >
  
  This post was made by a government agent to keep us content with our sad lives. /j >
  
  Nah, adult life sucks. You make it sound like the action of paying bills is what makes it tough to people LMAO. Trying to stay financially stable, having the money for bills plus necessities on a monthly basis is what is stressful. People struggle to stay afloat because they have to make enough money. Your post just comes off as tone deaf lmfao.
  On top of this, because everything needs money in order for us to have basic needs like food and shelter, pretty much all adult life is is getting up in the morning, going to work all day, coming home, and then only having an hour or two to do what you want (or to do household chores) before needing to go back to sleep for work in the morning. Adult responsibility is incredibly taxing and unfulfilling unless you're privileged and rich. >
  
  Well when I was a kid I believed that anything was possible. That magic was real. That people are generally good. That love was the greatest thing in the world, could conquer all things, and was everlasting.
  There were no bills.
  No worries about my mental health.
  No worries about friends or relationships.
  No stress over money.
  Going to school was my biggest gripe was school and grades.
  I didn't have to actively work at finding happiness. It came from things as simple as popping in a video game or watching cartoons on an off day from school.
  And the world seemed filled with endless possibilities.
  That ease of life and ignorance was bliss compared to being an adult. >
  
  Sounds like you had a sheltered upbringing where you didn't experience any hardships. Adulthood would seem hard if you never had to face eviction with your parents, go hungry, be beat, verbally abused, get picked on at school etc >
  
  YES! I had a sheltered easy childhood and your analysis is completely accurate. When I hit 18, shit hit the fan real hard and I didn’t know how to deal with hardships of any kind >
  
  You're not out of touch enough to really think thats the reason people hate paying bills right? >
  
  Adult life is definitely more fulfilling but it is also a lot harder. 
  Wether someone thinks it sucks or doesn’t, really depends on the person and how they approach it. 
  You aren’t more free as a child unless you mean free of responsibility. >
  
  I agree, but only before kids and husband. Now being an adult SUCKS. I loved my 20s. And agree about being free-er. But three kids later, middle aged, a useless spouse…I can’t go or do anything. I’m less free than I’ve EVER been in my life. >
  
  Sounds like you should have left the spouse a long time ago. >
  
  Studies on happiness show that people without children are on average happier than those with children. Speaking from what i see and hear around me its mostly the child bearing stuff that makes adults between 25 and 50 miserable. So if you're childfree its more like an extension of your 20s just with nore money and more experience >
  
  It isn’t about paying bills taking more than a few minutes. It’s about paying bills you don’t have the money for, and worrying about being in debt, losing your assets, etc >
  
  It is true that a lot of jobs are poorly paid, but it's also true that we consume a lot more than we really need to. We just decide that it's what we must have because other people have it. >
  
  Are food, shelter, and medical care things that we only need need because other people have it? >
  
  No of course not, but I'm not talking about the homeless. You're saying it like majority of people don't regularly buy new clothes, go out, order take out, buy games and what not. >
  
  My guy, a large proportion of the population lives below the property line, which means that even people who aren’t homeless aren’t guaranteed access to those basic necessities. It’s not a case of “I chose to spend my money on excess and now I’m stressed about money.” It’s a case of “I work full time (or more) and still can’t comfortably afford basic necessities, let alone save for emergencies, or god forbid, occasionally spend money on something fun.” Some people absolutely mismanage their money, but suggesting that the only reason that people might be stressed about money is that they spent it on stuff they don’t need is willfully ignorant >
  
  Alright well since you insist on missing the point.
  If the data doesn't lie, in US over the past 3 decades the percentage of population below poverty line has fluctuated but not gone above 16%.
  Yes a large portion, but still way below half.
  Slightly different kind of data or EU on a quick search, still an average of 21% of population in 2021, worse in some particular countries
  So still not even close to half of the population. Yes, a large portion, it is a lot of people, I am aware. But I am not talking about these particular people. Can you understand that? I'm talking about the other 60-70%. >
  
  Reddit always takes sides with the exception and not the majority just fyi you're arguing with a brick wall >
  
  Responsibilities don’t suck. The part about being an adult that sucks is when people you love (friends, parents, relatives) start dying. The older you get, the more you start attending funerals more than birthday parties, wakes more than weddings and baby showers, and it just kind of sucks. It’s a natural part of life, but it sucks. >
  
  Death has never been a big deal to me. I’ve lost the majority of my relatives already, many gone as early as my teens, and it has never really been something I’ve been concerned about. >
  
  We I guess this all depends on your connections with people. It’s not just relatives, it’s friends too. Anyone you’re close to. Eventually you start to lose them. >
  
  I was close to those people, and it still doesn’t bother me. >
  
  I totally agree it's more relaxing than student life because I have less things to focus on >
  
  For me and a lot of people, adulthood sucks because we’re too stressed all the time to do anything that is freeing. I have to work and go to school and on my days off is when I’m able to run errands.
  I can’t really eat cake for breakfast if I wanted to cause I’d rather save that money for the cake towards gas, or the time it would take me to make my own cake towards sleep.
  And that would probably upset my stomach and I can’t afford a sick day.
   Often than not those that say they don’t like adulthood are the ones that struggle with financial security. 
  As a kid I had free time to do whatever I wanted, now I’m lucky if I have time to myself at all. 
  As a kid I had parents and teachers telling me what to do but if I messed up or fell behind it would be forgiven easily cause I was just a kid.
  Now I have a boss and landlord and whoever sends me my bills that tells me what to do and if I mess up or fall behind then I’m just fucked. >
  
  A lot more people were still alive when I was a kid. >
  
  I just would like the chance to get a house sometime in my lifetime. >
  
  Depends. >
  
  after readin all the comments , now i’m a bit more excited to officially enter adulthood payin bills & all ! i can’t wait for “freedom” ~ >
  
  same, most of the comments are positive >
  
  I complain too much but I love my adult life, it is simple but I am very happy. As a kid I would have never been allowed to have a Garfield collection but as an adult I can, that freedom is priceless to me. >
  
  depression and anxiety are the primary reasons that cause people to have the opinion that adulthood sucks, the infinitely building stress caused by dwelling on the limitations and shortfalls that plague your waking hours and losing sleep over divining the ways you must contort what meager resources (that includes your time) you have to cover which responsibilities you are able, because it's not going to be all of them. factoring kids into the situations exponentially compounds this monthly/weekly/daily cycle.
  for the majority of people "adult life" is a continuous game of janga, trying to figure out which bricks you can pull and which holes you can maintain. except you aren't playing by yourself, there are a random assortment of people randomly coming by and pulling random bricks. you can go months without anyone pulling a brick or you could have five pulled all back to back, who the fuck knows. some people don't even have a tower anymore, just an armful of pieces that they are desperately trying to not let hit the floor all at once.
  you say that you don't necessarily have any references to point to in your life for why adulthood sucks, to that i say congratulations. truly, good for you. it helps me deal with my situation to know that there are people who don't experience such strife, and that this isn't necessarily permanent or the default way of living...but please understand when i say people with your opinion make my teeth hurt, and it's not just because of the dental work im avoiding that i can't afford. >
  
  I was actually happy as a child so yeah no >
  
  I completely agree with this.
  Adult life is so much better, but a lot of people make mistakes, which makes their life worse than when they were children, so that's why they would disagree with this. >
  
  So it’s not being adult that sucks, it’s making bad decision.. >
  
  I think what people mean is that as an adult a lot of the innocence and carefree bliss is lost as you have more responsibility and are more aware of what is going on in the world due to being more mature. Life is a series of trade offs, being a kid means you have no responsibilities or cares, but significantly reduced freedoms. However, being an adult affords you all sorts of freedoms at the cost of increased responsibilities and things to care about. >
  
  Imagine. Imagine it takes just a few minutes to clear the bill but you don't have that money. The place you work doesn't pay you enough to cover your bills, slowly you plunge in debt.  You never had a good education because your parents were also unable to pay their bills so you lack the skills and knowledge to get a high-paying job. The girl you loved left you for another man who earns much more and loves paying bills because it only takes him a few minutes and he has a lot of freedom. >
  
  That's an issue of Social inequality rather than adulthood per se. I.e. those issues would have been present in different forms during childhood too. >
  
  Except during childhood it’s not your responsibility to deal with that. Adulthood doesn’t suck because you have to do things for yourself, it sucks because you’re suddenly in the position of wondering whether or not you can afford to live >
  
  Adulthood doesn't suck. There are many adults who are certain they can afford to live. Like I said, the issue is social inequality, not adulthood itself. >
  
  Did you worry about social inequity as a kid? Adulthood itself may not suck, but a lot of the realities (and awareness of those realities) that come with it do suck >
  
  It's not inequity, it's inequality. I was lucky enough to grow up in a privileged household, however, children who grow up in poverty stricken households are impacted by social inequality in every aspect of their lives. From not having the right clothes to fit in with other kids, to not being able to go on expensive school trips, not getting the same toys etc for Christmas as their peers, not having all the school supplies they need etc. >
  
  I think the sticking point here is that adulthood doesn’t suck for YOU. It does for a lot of other people. Just because you were aware of the inequality you experienced as a child doesn’t mean that it doesn’t get exponentially more stressful when it’s your responsibility to manage it >
  
  The original post suggests that adulthood doesn't suck for adults in general. That's what is being referred to, not a particular demographic. This isn't a case of me being unable to consider the experiences of other people. >
  
  In order to say that it doesn’t suck for adults in general, you’d have to ignore the experiences of all the adults who think it does suck. That particular demographic is a part of the whole population. You can’t claim that something is universal when in doing so you have to ignore that portion >
  
  The people complaining about their adults responsibilities are most generally parents and think that having kids was a mandatory part of growing up. They are suffering from their own life choices, not from the fatality of being an adult. But don’t tell them that, or you’ll be the immature one with peter pan disorder that refuse to grow up. >
  
  This. People need to realize: You don't have to have children, and its REALLY important to think it through from all angles! Kids shouldn't be an impulse decision you get just for the sake of having kids. >
  
  Exactly! 
  Kids require huge sacrifice and this lifestyle is not for everyone. Unfortunately once it’s done there’s no going back and people just don’t think much beforehand. >
  
  Most peoole spend most of their life at work where they have less freedom than even children, and then when at home it's all about responsibilities until bedtime >
  
  Not much different than going to school when you were a child. >
  
  In school  you get points  for learning stuff. In adult life you do jobs that you already know how to do. >
  
  I never got "points" in school for learning stuff, but I get what you mean as that happens in a lot of schools. 
  Although, in adult life, the more I learn at work, the more I get paid.
  I know which one I prefer 😋 >
  
  You did. You surely  did exams. >
  
  I thought you meant like a reward points system you get in some schools when the points build up when they do well.
  But you must mean getting marks in exams and earning a grade then. Which yes I did ofcourse. >
  
  Do you have a job? >
  
  Yessss. I'm the weirdo who loves cleaning and paying bills >
  
  I agree that it doesn't suck, but I still find it ridiculous that we lose half of our pay to rent and bills, and are expected to work 5 out of 7 days a week. We should never be expected to work more than we're off (4 days a week max.), and rent and bills should take maybe a third of my pay. I want to be able to save up to actually own a house one day without feeling like I can't enjoy my life while doing so. >
  
  The worst and the best years of my life have been as an adult. >
  
  It does sometimes >
  
  Ah, I am not going to lie, part of me wants to be a child again, because I didn't care about anything, now I have to pay the bills, and I don't go to stores, but I do have to make sure my prescriptions are all filled, as they won't speak to another member of the family when you reach a certain age. You have your job, or finding a job, etc. I wouldn't go back to being a child for very personal reasons, but I hate being an adult. >
  
  Hell yeah! Being a kid ruled when all I did was play with my Bionicles and watch cartoons and that was when I wasn't at school which was most of the time learning crap I wasn't interested in.
  Being a teenager sucked so much.
  Now, as an adult, I have my own place and I can do whatever the hell I want with my time and money, even so after working eight hours everyday.
  No one is forcing me to do nothing.
  Don't have to be with people that mistreats me. >
  
  I don't want to worry about money.....but i need to pay my bill,  I think abdulthood suck.
  You need to go to work no matter you like it or not. Tons of responsibilities and planning that i need to do. >
  
  You had me until the thing about being free. I'm not sure the conclusion to that line of thinking is that being a kid has more freedom, but that being a kid is less stressful and has fewer responsibilities. >
  
  
  [I] don't honestly understand what's bad about having to pay couple bills a month when it only takes couple minutes
  
  People who complain about the bills aren't complaining about the time it takes to pay them. >
  
  I agree. I revel in the freedom that I have as an adult. >
  
  Fortunately, coincidentally, the older I grow the more I enjoy mundane tasks. >
  
  I recently turned 18 and although I haven’t fully experienced adult life in the slightest. I think it’s cool I can do pretty much anything I once couldn’t. It takes a little bit to adjust to walking into a pub/restaurant and think “hey I can order alcohol” or I can drive myself places. This stuff doesn’t suck so far >
  
  I typed a big thing then realized it wasn’t worth it. Adult life doesn’t suck. Quality of life for adults sucks ass and it’s by design. >
  
  I also like adulthood more than childhood. I grew up with controlling parents, difficulty making friends and at least 3 fights/day in our home that was too snall for how many we are.
  Now I’m married to a good man, we basically never fight. We have a wellbehaved 6yo who is well adjusted and has a ton of friends. We both work, and live below our means. We can survive on one income, so while I’m still stressed about economy, I realize that’s more of an issue with me and not an actual problem. Life is pretty good. I do wish I didn’t have to work, but it’s not like being a kid was better there - I had to go to school and do homework in my freetime. 
  And yes, I realize that I’m very much in a privileged position, and that not everyone is. For me though, being a kid was way worse than being an adult. >
  
  Fully agree
  I can eat what I want when I want, I can run around the house naked, and nobody tells me off for swearing my fucking cock off. Plus, I can drive where I want when I want, do anything as long as I can afford it, and have all the alcohol and porn my heart desires! >
  
  I think that consensus is for people who do full time jobs >
  
  Life as an adult can be difficult for those who come from poor households, as they may not have the same resources and opportunities as those who are wealthy. The divide between rich and poor can be significant, and this can create feelings of inequality and injustice. 
  Most rich people like the op here think that everyone has the same access to opportunities as them, but this is not true. >
  
  Not unpopular opinion in real life but definitely unpopular for Reddit crowd. Take my upvote! >
  
  Recently started living by myself as an adult and I agree 100% with this >
  
  one day I'll reach your mindset 🙏 >
  
  I lived under a controlling mom for 27 years then I moved to Germany for pursuing my masters. I was scared, nervous when I landed. Now after spending one year alone and doing all things alone make me feel great. Earning money, paying bills, doing paper work. I am alive and I am grateful that it happened even though I was Afraid at first. >
  
  lucky for you to feel that way. people make life complicated >
  
  Lol all activities u mentioned r actually the easiest >
  
  I agree with a few things. Although i had a great childhood and parents who took good care of me, I hated where I lived during my adolescence and i couldn't stand the daily grind of going to school for years and years.
  I never finished college because of that and it took me a while to even get a liveable wage, but even when i did flat sharing, i still had a lot of freedom. If i got tired of my daily grind, I could just go and look for jobs abroad and move wherever I wanted. When i wanted to get a cat and a dog, I could just get them. I really enjoy the independence, even though I've had plenty of financial issues. I realized that in a lot of cases, people never learned how to handle money and to budget. 
  I'm now at a point where I've learned that there's a lot of money to be saved, if you make the effort. I'm 31 and never had a need for a car. There's plenty of jobs from home nowadays, so i don't need to spend money on things i used to like transportation to work, money for lunch etc etc. Going to multiple supermarkets to buy things that are on prom ok that week also helps a lot. I have a big freezer so i can cook in bulk and always have easy access to good food, even when I'm too lazy to cook.
  So now, even though I still don't have an amazing salary, it's become quite easy to save money to travel or buy nice things. >
  
  The only people that say adult hood sucks... is the ones that screwed around too much as teens and never made anything out of life. 
  There's alot of people I went to highschool with that complain about adult life. But they don't have degrees. Don't have careers and work mundane unskilled jobs. 
  On there other side I know alot and work with some that say adult life sucks. They make good money. But don't know how to make a budget. One of my coworkers who makes the same as me. Complains constantly. But he's always buying high dollar shoes. And buys 100s of dollars in clothes every week. Leases high end cars instead of buying. He basically lives paycheck to pay check. Even though we make over 70k. >
  
  I think the hating adulthood thing is just a different version of the idea that:
  -When you're young you have time and energy but no money
  -When you're a young adult you have money and energy but no time
  -When you're elderly you have time and money but no energy
  Now, with the way the economy has been the last couple decades, the money part is absent from all three of those for many people. Childhood becomes the de facto winner. >
  
  You just sound very privileged and a little naive. 
  You say you don’t understand what’s so bad about paying bills. It only takes a few minutes, even less if you have autopay! I’m not sure if you’re aware, but a lot of people work their asses off for the entire month just to pay rent and see it all depleted in “a couple of minutes”. Then do the same thing again next month, the next month, the next month, the next month, and so on for the rest of their lives. Plugging away at their 9-5 job like a zombie until the industrial-capitalist machine squeezes them of everything they have in return for a whack ass pension and 10-15 fun years of retirement. Then you’re senile. 
  We are forced to adhere to arbitrary rules about stupid things regularly. No weed and no abortions are just two easy ones I can think of immediately. 
  We’re constantly spied on and being data harvested. 
  We’re constantly being forced to trust our untrustworthy government, while they funnel our tax dollars to their own pockets and to the things that we really don’t even want or need.
  We’re nowhere near free. The people w enough awareness to see how fucked everything is are the true prisoners. The kids and others who choose not to see are the only “free” ones.