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topdog82
Death Spirit



Registered: 07/16/10
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Re: Work life [Re: Alyssa]
#23623330 - 09/07/16 07:22 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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So I just read thru all of these. Once you throw in groceries, kids, wife/gf, keeping up with the news etc. this all seems pretty overbearing
I have been at this for about 4 months now? But either way, thats jack fuck in the long term. i live with my rents too so that makes it a lot easier to handle
Adding all those together sounds like hell. Makes me wanna take stock investing much more seriously to break out of the 9 to 5. Or not have kids. damn
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Alyssa
consecrated woman ✝️

Registered: 11/25/14
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Re: Work life [Re: trekie]
#23623334 - 09/07/16 07:23 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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trekie said: Welfare payments aren't shit you must also be on ssi . Even that isn't much.
I get a grand a month, I'm a rich ass motherfucker.
-------------------- I'm Alyssa. I'm consecrated to the Immaculate Heart. I don't want her to have to look at adultery to save my privileged living cells, so please keep it PG-13.
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RobZombie68
The Shaman's Apprentice


Registered: 06/22/14
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If you have ever worked a night shift for 10 years, you will understand how precious any day shift is a blessing.
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zZZz
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i think u're thinking too much into this man.. although it is perfectly healthy to think of the future, i'd try to keep myself in the now while im still young..
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Repertoire89
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Registered: 11/15/12
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Quote:
topdog82 said: So I just read thru all of these. Once you throw in groceries, kids, wife/gf, keeping up with the news etc. this all seems pretty overbearing
I have been at this for about 4 months now? But either way, thats jack fuck in the long term. i live with my rents too so that makes it a lot easier to handle
Adding all those together sounds like hell. Makes me wanna take stock investing much more seriously to break out of the 9 to 5. Or not have kids. damn
Or get yourself into a career you enjoy, work doesn't have to be bad
Working less is always an option, but you have to sacrifice something or another to do so
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Jokeshopbeard
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Registered: 11/30/11
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RobZombie68 said: If you have ever worked a night shift for 10 years, you will understand how precious any day shift is a blessing.
I've been working late shifts for the last 10 years, wouldn't have it any other way in the city.
Now in the countryside, I would feel entirely different...
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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Niffla



Registered: 06/09/08
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Loc: Texas
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Re: Work life [Re: Alyssa]
#23628353 - 09/09/16 08:28 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Alyssa said:
Well, it wasn't continuous. I saved up welfare payments, went somewhere, came back and saved up more, then went somewhere again. To address doubts that this is possible, I always traveled on a tight budget.
If you don't mind me asking, is there a particular reason why you're on welfare (assuming you still are)?
Do you have something that keeps you from being able to work or do you just simply not feel like working?
Not trying to be insulting. Just genuinely curious.
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SonicTitan


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Re: Work life [Re: Niffla]
#23628370 - 09/09/16 08:35 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Work cuts into free time no question there. It makes it harder to do the things you want, but thats life man. Just gotta work around your schedule and maybe cut some things down in your lifestyle that would affect your work performance.
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Jokeshopbeard
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Re: Work life [Re: Niffla] 2
#23628407 - 09/09/16 08:54 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Niffla said: do you just simply not feel like working?
A fiver says it's this. I only bet cause I've known, and even been in a relationship, with people this way inclined. It's like the world owes them, so someone else should keep them alive AND (now here's the rub) fix them. Cause anyone who is happy to sponge, and can type with the claroty she does and travel the world like she has can damn well work.
I mean, I went through a phase of being pissed at being here (since I never asked to come and spend time is this fucked up world), but thank fuck I was given a stable enough upbringing that I can accept it's my responsibility to earn my place by working hard in every aspect of life.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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SonicTitan


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Last two relationships I had my ex wouldnt work and expect things handed to them. I would even just politely or suggest that she would work to help out so we're not so poor and then the yelling /hitting started haha. I dnt know why I put myself through that twice.. All I wanted was to be happy and stable with the person I loved. I dont understand the sense of entitlement. How can we do things when everything I make goes to everything needed to survive. Doesnt leave much to anything else hahaha. Ah well live and learn
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Niffla



Registered: 06/09/08
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Loc: Texas
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Quote:
Jokeshopbeard said:
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Niffla said: do you just simply not feel like working?
A fiver says it's this. I only bet cause I've known, and even been in a relationship, with people this way inclined. It's like the world owes them, so someone else should keep them alive AND (now here's the rub) fix them. Cause anyone who is happy to sponge, and can type with the claroty she does and travel the world like she has can damn well work.
Yeah I gotta admit seeing that kinda had me like
I've been working my ass off for a while, in the neighborhood of ten years now, spent two years of that working 6 days a week, 3 years on the graveyard shift -- all in an effort to keep rent & the bills paid. And I'm lucky if I get one decent real vacation a year.
Currently I'm finding myself back on the third shift working Mon through Fri from 11 PM to 8 AM. Full 40 hour week, every week, with overtime on the reg.
Meanwhile Alyssa here has been vacationing for five years straight off the government, lmao.
Edited by Niffla (09/09/16 09:25 AM)
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Jokeshopbeard
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I mean it's OK being in relationships with such people IMO, as long as you aren't enabling them (paying for shit for them, which I was always stubborn about not doing - oddly until I met a woman who was stubborn about always paying her way, and worked her ass off to do so and save - then I got a bit forceful about paying for shit cause I earned almost double - reverse psychology FTW).
All my partners tend to be older than me, and very worldly wise and wild (this often goes hand in had with playing the system IME, or somehow being on the edge), but once you see through that, in the end, this was the BIGGEST turn off for me in a partner. I realised, after 3 years, that I just don't like or respect people who lack the moral compass to take everything they can from the tax pot (about 1/3 of my wages go to the tax man, and over 55% of the national pot goes on welfare, and I'd put money on the fact that 30-50% of those that claim could easily work) that all the people who slog their guts out to put into, and do nothing redeeming at all in exchange. Maybe if they were like some community mother who charitably childminder I could look past it, but all I saw in the end was entitlement.
I once had a friend who does this once say, 'I could never work for the corporations'. I had to bite my tongue not to say how much I hated doing it and how much tax I pay because I earn a lot working for these cunts I hate with my heart and soul, but I do it because I have a responsibility to be self sufficient in this life.
Mind you, one does have to make exceptions at times. An abusive childhood (as many I kow and love had) seems to skew people in ways I cannot imagine coming from a home with two (reasonably) stable loving parents. They fucked me up of course, but never through extreme violence or abuse.
Fuck, I just remebered I used to give thanks ever day for that. I gotta start doing that again. Starting now.
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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tyrannicalrex
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Been working since age 13, but 17 legally. I have a chance to not work until January right now and I'm taking full advantage of it! My last job closed the doors with 1 day notice, and I got my unemployment. I'll take it because I have paid taxes for the last 30+ years and I don't feel bad about it. (443 a month by the way). Also it is providing me with the time I need to study/pass my online courses, they did me a huge favor and don't even know it. I put in my notice the day they announced the closing. For the first time in years I can enjoy the holidays with friends and family!
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demiu5
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topdog82 said: My question to ya'll; If you guys work a standard 9 to 5, do you still "do things", i.e. Have hobbies outside of work? What about your coworkers?
work is my hobby. i prefer 4am to 7pm. the other time is filled with sleeping and eating
although, i'm taking tomorrow off to take care of some personal things (emails, phone calls, food order, saw maintenance.....work-related, and maybe organizing my music collection. also have to clean/dress my boots)
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Masked
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I work 5am to 5pm and swing frequently to 5pm to 5 am as well
...and still manage to have a life and hobbies and raise children
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