on january 24th 2015 i started the biggest experiment ever conducted in human history
for more than six and a half years i worked at the office for 40 hours a week and started
living a regular 9-5 life just to observe what would happen to my body and mind but
nobody could have prepared me for what would happen the results were shocking
to start this experiment i first needed to land a job i started applying for jobs and pretty soon i
landed my first interview at this company called Uber Shoe yeah so we're basically the "Uber of
shoes" we're revolutionizing the shoe industry and making the world a more mobile and sustainable
place at the same time you see instead of buying your own shoes you have an app and you can just
see a map of all the available shoes around town and just pick up the shoes you want and when
you're done using them you just leave them there and as you can see it's all driven by blockchains
and machine learnings and A.I. so have you ever heard of those terms uh yeah i have you're hired
when can you start oh and so my experiment begins it was actually pretty awesome day i met a lot of
cool new people and i forgot everyone's names of course oh yeah i was supposed to receive my laptop
today but something went wrong with the request for my laptop so uh the IT guys are looking into
it so i should have it by the end of the week since i still don't have my laptop i was giving
some documents to read through it was a lot but it was some information about the process of the
company and how everything works i also had a couple of coffee meetings scheduled with some
new colleagues hi i'm Rick nice to meet you so how are you first couple of days here yeah i like it
so far a lot of new information to process but so far so good everyone is really nice
here Angela has been really helpful oh Angela watch out for her man i don't want to sound too
uh you know but Angela trust me anyways uh what did you say you study yeah i studied industrial
engineering and management at the university of marketing yeah i studied marketing as well
i in fact i started working at the marketing department here 20 years ago but you know i worked
my way up to the advanced analytics team currently yeah great team except for tom he could really be
an [ __ ] you know he's always complaining and talking behind people's back and stuff
i don't really like him who did you say your manager was again alexander oh alexander
yeah he's a [ __ ] so i still didn't get my laptop but i got some used laptop from someone who left
the company last week they say it's temporary until i get my own laptop IT is still looking
into the problem alright let's see daily stand up yeah and then the next point on the agenda is
the MVP will be finished by the end of this week so we can circle back next week to align on the
requirements of the stakeholders before we can move on to MVP 2.0 does that work for you guys
uh yeah definitely uh we just need to take a look at the agile data driven bandwidth and
consolidate the data and then we can either cascade it down or drill
that drill up or bubble it up or yeah you can ping me later to take it offline or circle
back from there we can always align yeah alignment meetings or uh yeah spring review
exactly sounds awesome okay then tomorrow afternoon it is i have no idea what's
going on i'm starting to notice the physical effects of working at the office the whole day
i'm really tired at the end of the day when i get home
after work i just want to lie on the couch and just wind down by watching some tv
oh i got my first paycheck by the way which is pretty cool i guess i feel like at the
office the only thing i talk about is work but outside of the office i also only talk about work
i mean even the way i talk outside of the office is changing hey can you help me with the dishes
not right now babe i'm out of bandwidth for today but i'll add it to the backlog
low hanging fruit it's been really hectic at work the last couple of weeks so we used some of our
savings to go on a vacation i mean i really needed the break yeah so i used some of our savings to uh
to buy this brand new tv i got laid off from work today business isn't going so well we
have this new competitor that's eating away our market share the cold "Shoeflix" basically the
same concept as "UberShoe" but you pay a monthly subscription instead of pair shoe you know what
i'll get over this i heard about this Linkedin thing that you can use to
promote yourself career-wise if you're looking for a new job this is the place to be so i typed
the post about what happened today it is with great pride that i want to thank Alexander my
manager or should i say ex-manager who has given me the opportunity to grow further beyond the
"UberShoe" all the long days commuting and working overtime have resulted in a three percent raise
every single year because of this i was able to only lose five percent of my salary because of
the rising inflation instead of the otherwise eight percent it would have been without the
raise i will always be grateful for this thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to
grow beyond the limits of "UberShoe" available for new projects kind regards Stefan you know what let
me update my profile picture while i'm at it let me update my bio as well blockchain enthusiast
visionary hustler tedx speaker now let's start applying again so i just received my laptop from
"UberShoe" i don't work there anymore i haven't worked there for two months i don't know how could
it take so long i don't understand so i started at this new company called "Shoetify" and they
say they they want to make the world a more mobile and accessible place for everyone and surely they
must be different their culture is different they say so Jesus Christ it's even worse here there's
so many managers everyone is a manager i'm the only analyst here i'm the only one doing anything
when's the dashboard yeah when well when will you have that's really difficult to say because
we never know what we might run into yeah yeah i know but let's say purely hypothetically
everything goes according to plan when can you have the dashboard finished yeah when um
if everything goes well which we have learned from past experience it it it never has
yeah we could have it finished in about four maybe three great next week it is by the end
of this week sounds great yeah all right i'm just uh sending an email to the CEO to tell him you're
gonna have it finished by tomorrow you know to just keep him in the loop they are all the same
where am i oh hey there buddy you're at the hospital you almost didn't make it
almost didn't make it what happened well your wife told me everything i need to
know about your little experiment what were you thinking working at the office no i know i just
i wanted to see what it would be like to work a nine-to-five what it would be like
i'll tell you what it would be like you almost forgot it's an experiment you you got addicted
to a monthly paycheck you wasted your money on material stuff you forgot about your dreams
Jesus Christ man you almost died you gotta quit this [ __ ] right now
you gotta take care of yourself buddy you almost didn't make it
nice nails thanks buddy your vital signs are all good you're good to go buddy thank you doc
hey doc yeah
never mind hey wait i never got your name
and that was the day i decided enough is enough working at the office for more than 2
000 days almost got me killed and made me give up on my dreams it got me addicted to a paycheck
it made me have less energy and time for my friends and family my health and generally
just enjoying life so went to the office to hand in my laptop and quit my job i'm going to the bank
for the last time this year for the last time next year maybe for the last time in my life
to hand in my laptop because it's over i quit my job and i start traveling in two weeks
cheers two months later i was in paradise finishing up my latest video
i just needed to add the part where i tell people that if they want to follow me on this journey
and if they want to learn from my life lessons on this journey of quitting
my job then they should subscribe to my channel and follow me on instagram cheers
[ __ ] crickets crickets you know cricket the sport will these are crickets the [ __ ]
suddenly it's quite i swear to god i'm gonna kill every single mosquito
i'm just standing here for two minutes and i got [ __ ] i'm gonna [ __ ] this mosquito up
ah
i'm gonna put you right here you can be a background actor i don't know what the name is