Having a job and living alone is such a crazy combo. You go home, shower, eat, scroll through your phone, and stay silent until you talk to someone at work the next day.
High intelligence often comes with heightened pattern recognition. You start noticing social masks, forced conversations, performative friendships, hidden motives, emotional immaturity, and energy that feels draining instead of nourishing. Many highly intelligent people also have more active nervous systems, deeper inner worlds, and lower tolerance for superficial stimulation, so solitude can feel safer than constantly shrinking themselves to fit environments that don't feel aligned.
Some of you take these jobs way too seriously. No job is worth snitching on coworkers, skipping breaks, coming in on your days off, working unpaid overtime, or refusing to use your PTO or call out. Especially not for dead-end jobs with zero room for growth.