Complaining in the workplace really serves no purpose at all other than blaming other people or circumstances for something that you should be caring about. You don’t like your job? Leave. You don’t have enough money? Wake up an hour earlier and learn something new. It’s too hard? That’s just the world ways, you either work with or against and trust me, working against is going to be literal hell.

The stoics have a really dark way of putting it. Have you ever been in a situation where someone tells you if you don’t like it, just leave? Well, the stoics claim exactly the same thing, but with life, if you don’t like it, you can always leave. It’s dark and certainly scary, but it’s also sobering.

I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes from Epictetus.

“What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar — and no savage criminals to rid the world of? What would he have done in the absence of such challenges?

Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.

And even if he had, what good would it have done him? What would have been the use of those arms, that physique, and that noble soul, without crises or conditions to stir into him action?”

― Epictetus,