professional purgatory

Experienced largely during a person's mid-twenties, denoting a period of a person's professional life where they feel they are pointlessly clocking in and clocking out, endlessly over what is viewed as an infinite length of time.

"I'm stuck in professional purgatory, Sue - however many jobs I apply for, I still have the cold sweat of having to wakeup tomorrow to do the same job that I hate, day in, day out"

"I'm so glad to have escaped professional purgatory; I've finally got a job where people give me a real wage, real responsibility and a sense of worth!!"

by Marwam September 27, 2013

Purgatorial Meanderance

A purposeless existence spent in limbo wondering around.

Rather than getting sent to hell for eternity, I lucked out and got banished to a Purgatorial Meanderance in no man's land.

by Vin Nguyen October 11, 2017

graduation purgatory

The period of time between the culmination your final semester and your graduation where you're required to make crucial decisions which decide how your life is gonna turn out.

Dude, watcha gonna do during your graduation purgatory?

Thinkin about takin a road trip and gettin laid bro...

by vij_29 May 24, 2011

Lobby Purgatory

Lobby Purgatory is when you're playing a game and you're stuck in the game's lobby for huge amounts of time or even forever. Most common game for this to happen is Landfall Games' April fools 2018 joke "Totally Accurate Battlegrounds"

Jim: Why hasn't the game loaded yet?
Bob: You must be stuck in Lobby Purgatory.
Jim: *leaves game*
Bob: OH GOD STOP
Jim: *dies*
Bob: *dies*

by Lilhappi June 10, 2018

Cart Purgatory

Window shopping online and build a shopping cart list of things you want to buy but know you won’t due to financial or nonessential reasons.

Hey why is your amazon cart full of computer and home goods? Are you going to buy them or are they going to sit in cart purgatory?

by StruggleFeast May 11, 2024

Weather purgatory

When the weather is obnoxiously terrible or stagnant for an extended period of time with no change in sight.

Ugh. This weather purgatory in Sydney has been going for almost a year. When will this end?!

by epiwonk May 18, 2022

Food Purgatory

The act of being forbidden to receive food made by a coworker because you were being rude.

“Oh, you want to say something rude, well now you’re in food purgatory.”

by FP12345 April 11, 2020