Agreed. It’s hard and I get it from a mental health perspective, but the best way to fight them is to make it hard, be annoying, be inconvenient, not just walking away. That’s how they win. That’s how they stack the department with sycophants and yes-men.
I did this as a Millennial (actually xennial) and recommend it. Most of my friends went straight to uni. I got a trade, worked 10 years and then started a degree in my late 20s. No fees as I saved up having done trades, and worked up from there. Now doing science water work for state and federal government.
Also I don’t hate my work unlike a lot of my friends (especially those who did IT)
I’m fairly new to Lemmy and started an account when all the api’s went down (because the reddit app suck) but ended up back there when I got one of them to work (at cost).
Until I got banned for “hate speech” by a random mod because they didn’t know the lyrics to Fairytale of New York and appeals go nowhere and then I commented on something on a different user account and got perma-banned for ban-evasion. All dumb.
So now I’m back on lemmy permanently, trying to find as many communities as I had in my reddit subscriptions (I had a lot), and bringing my daily engagement here. Would be good if numbers went up, but also, there’s a lot of idiots on Reddit too. The Fediverse needs better SEO to drive engagement. I haven’t once seen a solution to a problem (e.g. IT, tech or DIY) that links to a fedi page.