Is this normal?

I hate the concept of working. Now, that doesn't mean that I hate the idea of working hard and being productive, I would just rather do it on my own terms. I am going to be 36 years next month. I have lived with moderate OCD and anxiety, ADD, and Tourettes for my entire life. Working 40 hours a week, being tied down to someone else's timetable and working for someone's else's expectations and quotas can be depressing and soul crushing. The worst thing about working? Coworkers. I hate the idea of getting up, going to work and interacting with people who are, for the most part largely toxic and immature. I don't interact with these people outside of work, and I keep up the necessary facade of professionalism and courtesy because I have to work with them, but I have to wonder......is it absolutely necessary to be two-faced, gossipy, and back stabbing as adults? Again, I'm in my mid-30s......I hated, HATED that shit in high school and my tolerance for it as an adult is far less than it was in high school. On the clock, I don't care what problems or damages someone has, I don't care which coworkers hate each other nor do I care what reason they hate each other, I already don't want to be there eight hours a day, putting up with drama makes it more unbearable. I would love to be able to work part time and support myself and my family on that. Life is short and it shouldn't be wrong to want to enjoy it and spend time with those you love and want to be around and experiencing what life has to offer with them. I don't know what job would be good for me, but I know that I am not happy one bit with the daily grind.

What do you all think? Anybody else hate working?

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robb65 · 56-60, M

Yeah. It took me years to find a way out but I made it. Now work is a hundred yards from my back door and I take breaks any time I want. Most days I don't have to deal with people. My last two "real jobs" involved a couple who bought an existing business (where I first started in my late teens) and ran it into the ground in three short years followed by working for a guy who liked the idea of owning a business but didn't want to put the effort into it to make it work, so after about 7 years he decided to call it quits. Needless to say I hated both of those jobs.
Fortunately by the time the last one fell through I was already in the process of starting my own business. I really didn't have the funds but just before the last guy called it quits I got a call from the son of the man who had taught me much of what I know and he wanted to hire me to build all the cabinets for his new house. It was a big enough job that I was able to take the down payment and buy enough of the tools I didn't have to do it with, and then I worked nights and weekends while still working the other job. It was rough but it got me where I needed to be. It's been over 15 years now. Some of those were not easy years but I'm still here.

My next project is one I didn't really want but I didn't have anything else lined up and the customer was having problems finding anyone else that would take it. I'll get busy with it eventually but right now it's wet and cool and I'm dragging. What I need to be doing and what I must get done in the next day or so is get everything ready for the bad weather this weekend. I need to check the antifreeze in everything, make sure the pipes are wrapped and there's enough firewood, greenhouse closed up and get some heat out there. Got a feeling I'll be sitting next to the fire for a few days.