A way out

I've brought myself to Steemit with the idea of creating passive income for myself. I spend my days slaving away in a factory, six to seven days a week with up to twelve hours a day. This isn't the kind of life I, nor anyone else for that matter, would desire. We grow up thinking that it's ideal to work and spend hours out of our day making money just to survive. Days spent ridiculed by a company that doesn't care about you or the work you put in. A paycheck given to you as payment for giving up time out of your life. When you really look deep into it you realize you need to escape. Working your typical job is almost like a prison in itself. You drive yourself insane with stress piling up, working your own personal schedule around the schedule of your job and finding yourself too exhausted to put more into your life. How are we supposed to better ourselves and our lives if we are stuck working like slaves? How are we supposed to grow, learn, and be happy when we have to spend so much of our time just trying to get up and go make money at a place that makes you feel so down and so lost that you barely see any hope for your future? I don't want to have retirement be my escape. I want to create my escape, I want to find ways to make income without having to take apart my own life to do so. We are prepped to think that retirement is the ultimate goal and the only way. Raised to believe that working every day is the only way to get the life you want. Well I'm done with that and I won't allow that to be the answer. I want more for my life and I will continue to look for my way out. This isn't living...it's dying.