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Anonymous #1
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 Surviving a 9-5 job? 
#11312520 - 10/24/09 04:32 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Right, so I got my first 9-5 job a few months ago. Prior to that, I worked so-called "flexible time" for a few years. This basically meant that I could come in whenever I wanted, as long as I logged a certain amount of hours each week.
Anyway, after I took the new job, I've started to become increasingly depressed. Most of this, I suspect, is rooted in having to accustom myself in a daily routine which I find very imposing to my lifestyle and frame of mind.
Also, my work is highly creative in some ways, but at the same time, also highly technical (I work in software development), and I find the requirement of having to be in "creative/productive" mode between 9-5 every day quite unreasonable. Add in to the mix the constant phone calls from by boss during my spare time, I feel completely exhausted. I used to write, make music and dabble in other creative hobbies in my spare time, now I can barely get out of bed in the weekends. I honestly feel like a drone trapped in an evil circle of pointless routines.
I really don't understand how other people cope with this shit.. I can't just quit either, since the pay is great and I'd be hard pressed to find a better paying job, and it would surely be impossible to find any job without the same down sides. At the same time, my friends have even commented that I seem to have lost my spirit since taking the job, which is surely not a good sign.
The only thing I know, is that there's no way I can keep this up. And if I don't I'm pretty much screwed. I can't survive on air and water living on the street.
Ok, enough rambling; my question to all of you is: what gets you trough the day? How do you guy handle this? Do I just need to grow the fuck up?
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Anonymous #2
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just do it for a year or two and then quit
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Anonymous #3
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Lucky bastard. Just be glad you don't have a 9-6 job like me.
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Anonymous #4
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Drugs man. and sex. Both of those seem to keep my mind entertained
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Anonymous #5
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that's why you gotta find a job where you don't work, like trucking. where you can smoke weed, crank bass and road trip all day. life begins to feel less wasted.
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Anonymous #6
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The only thing that get me through the 9-5 thing is the hope in the near future I will be running and owning my own small company, free to set my own schedule as I wish.
Also, lots and lots of pot.
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Anonymous #7
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So lets get this straight. Before you had "flexible time" which meant you got to dick around all day and do nothing.
And now you're upset because you actually have to work?
You could try and get the old job back.
You could quit.
You could suck it up and realize that 9-5 really isn't that bad.
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Anonymous #1
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Quote:
Anonymous #7 said:
So lets get this straight. Before you had "flexible time" which meant you got to dick around all day and do nothing.
And now you're upset because you actually have to work?
Hardly. When I worked flexible time, I worked 60+ hours a week (yeah, actual work, not dicking around on teh intrawebs or anything like that). The reason it was flexible was because I was one of the founders and owners of that company. Unfortunately, the economy problems finally kicked our ass, and I was forced to find another way to get cash. Most of what I earn now I invest in that company with the intent of going back to it once it's financially sustainable again. Which will take some time. But that's a different story altogether. Point is, even though I used to work a whole lot more, 9-5 is magnitudes more stressful and exhausting for me. Why? I have no idea apart from what I wrote in my OP. That whole 8 hour set-in-stone work time just seems strange and alien for me.
Maybe you're right on that last point though, maybe I just need to suck it up. Either way, I'm basically trying to find a way to do what's expected of me at work and at the same time have the energy and motivation to nurture my own interests.
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Anonymous #8
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Masturbate under your desk. Collect your urethral juices in a mason jar and leave it conspicuously atop your desk.
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Anonymous #9
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Weed. Smoke weed all the time.
If you can't smoke weed at work make weed butter and eat it on your lunchtime sandwich.
I used to work as a computer techie and I got by from smoking weed all the time.
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Anonymous #1
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Yeah, I'm really considering upping my weed usage.
Not too sure about weed butter though, I've tried it once, and it tasted foul. :p Guess I could bring a thermos with hot chocolate mixed with weed though (it *is* getting cold, after all), and pray that no one wants a cup.  I write beautiful code when high too, so it's a win-win.
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Anonymous #10
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9-5's suck balls. They're contradictory to the human body-clock and less productive than open hours.
I got by in my last 9-5 by putting lots of kief in the tips of my cigarettes, by having 4 beers for lunch, and by watching UFC/Pride fights while I worked. And instead of sleeping the whole weekend, I did a bunch of cocaine and lived it up for those 48hrs.
I was so happy when I got fired, the $20/hr was hardly worth it.
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Anonymous #11
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Anon 1, I know exactly what you're talking about. So many people here are the "woe is me, my life is worse- you have no room to talk." These are the type of people that have gotten so used to taking it up the ass- they just give in to the norm of society... at least in the US.
I work 8:00-4:30 and I hate it. Not going to do this my whole life. I don't really have any advice besides don't listen to the idiots in this thread.
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Anonymous #12
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Digging in dumpsters to find used painkiller patches to chew on, drinking cough syrup and vomiting it into a bowl to pass to a fellow addict, holding up a pharmacy.
These are the desperate measures taken to feed drug addictions -- dangerous and, at times, deadly.
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Anonymous #13
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shut your bitch ass up! i cant even get a fucking job just got out of jail bitch! yea shit real ever see someone shanked?? bitch your a bitch right a fucking female! i have to hustle and buglarize like i did before now thats a real fucking job knowing your gambling with 10 years of hell if your caught for anything!
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Anonymous #14
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Quote:
Anonymous #1 said:
The only thing I know, is that there's no way I can keep this up. And if I don't I'm pretty much screwed. I can't survive on air and water living on the street.
If this is all you are going to project than of course it's going to be your limiting factor. You have little faith.
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Anonymous #12
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Quote:
Anonymous #12 said:
Digging in dumpsters to find used painkiller patches to chew on, drinking cough syrup and vomiting it into a bowl to pass to a fellow addict, holding up a pharmacy.
These are the desperate measures taken to feed drug addictions -- dangerous and, at times, deadly.
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Anonymous #15
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Quote:
Anonymous #13 said:
shut your bitch ass up! i cant even get a fucking job just got out of jail bitch! yea shit real ever see someone shanked?? bitch your a bitch right a fucking female! i have to hustle and buglarize like i did before now thats a real fucking job knowing your gambling with 10 years of hell if your caught for anything!
You'll be back in jail before the year is over. 
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Anonymous #10
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Anonymous #15 said:
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Anonymous #13 said:
shut your bitch ass up! i cant even get a fucking job just got out of jail bitch! yea shit real ever see someone shanked?? bitch your a bitch right a fucking female! i have to hustle and buglarize like i did before now thats a real fucking job knowing your gambling with 10 years of hell if your caught for anything!
You'll be back in jail before the year is over.
 Failures make me feel good about myself.
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Anonymous #16
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I have the same problem.
Basically I have a respectable job, with people who are very technical, straight-laced, and ultimately, dull.
Don't get me wrong, the career is great, I'm very good at it, and enjoy it, but I worry constantly that I'm going to lose my creativity and spark working in such a sterile place.
I'm still wearing my wristbands from festivals I went to 9 months ago, just so I remember who I am. So yeah if anyone has any good ideas on getting through the Monday to Friday 9-5 type routine then let me know.
All I want to do is not turn in to a drone, and I really can't see weed helping - I hate the stuff!
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