Humans evolved as hunter-gatherers, who spend about 14 hours a week working to support themselves, with the rest of the time spent playing, teaching, learning, creating art, and making love. Our modern 9–5 lifestyle exists not because there is work to be done (100 years ago, Piotr Kropotkin observed that fewer than 1 in 4 do actual productive labour, and that number has dropped far lower since – most do nothing but paper-shuffling and make-work) but because those who rule us want us so exhausted that we haven’t time to think, plan, or organize.
So in answer to your question, there is nothing you can do. So long as you hold a 9–5 job, you will be kept deliberately exhausted and soul-sick until you blink and discover it’s 40 years later, you’ve slept your life away, and you have nothing to show for it but a mortgage and kick out the door when you’re too old to be of any further use to the business which exploited you. If you want to feel any better, you’re going to have to get off the treadmill. You’re going to have to deal with a lower standard of physical well-being, since they will punish you by denying you good, healthy food. You will probably become fat (like most poor people) from a diet of cheap, starchy foods, and you will wear cheap, nasty clothes, and will become a subject of scorn and mockery by all around you. But you will be free. And when you have had time at last to sit and think, you will begin recognizing the cage we have built for ourselves, and you will probably begin fighting. And that’s when your real life will begin.
Turn on, drop out, and tune in.