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    #23621369 - 09/07/16 10:04 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

So I'm working for the new few months and taking off school. I wakeup at 6am, commute after some tea, yoga/meditation, sometimes working out. I am out the door by 8am and at work by 8:45. I work from 9 to 5. By the time I get home and eat dinner it's about 7. I am wondering what it was like moving from the college/school schedule to a standard work schedule

The tight schedule and strict wake/sleep times can be hard to adjust. I feel like a lot of my coworkers just go to work and head home. Either drink or watch tv or both with their free time. I imagine/feel people allow themselves to be a slave to this sort of system. A lot of people act like like working 9 to 5 is absolutely horrible. And to an extent I see how some can be miserable in this schedule

But if u r efficient with time it doesn't sound bad. A lot of people (not all) who complain about the 9 to 5 grind r just not utilizing a todo list (my opinion)

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?


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23621376 - 09/07/16 10:06 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23621378 - 09/07/16 10:06 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

I worked a 9-5 and managed to drink beer and smoke weed as much as necessary to keep me in line


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82] * 1
    #23621409 - 09/07/16 10:14 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

You're just starting? Give it a few years and you'll figure it out.

It doesn't matter how efficient you are with time, that efficiency will start to feel like work, always having one more chore to do even off the clock. Its necessary but there are times when having a full schedule can be overwhelming. Then there are times when its really not a big deal and things seem to fall into place.

Anyways I live my life regardless of work, even if I'm putting in 12hrs a day x 6 days a week.


At this point though, I only work day jobs part-time, my injuries haven't entirely healed and I just need to get by for awhile before performing again.


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Re: Work life [Re: Repertoire89]
    #23621434 - 09/07/16 10:22 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

IME....Some like the rigid schedule of a 9-5 or whatever 8 -10 hr. work day and some are just not cut out for it. Some like to eat dinner at the same time every night then go on with their comfortable structured evening. Others repel from structure. I'm somewhere in between. It is very important to fit some fun time in there whether it is playing volleyball or softball or mushroom hunting...but something that can relieve the built up stress from a work day.


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23621450 - 09/07/16 10:25 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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topdog82 said:
So I'm working for the new few months and taking off school. I wakeup at 6am, commute after some tea, yoga/meditation, sometimes working out. I am out the door by 8am and at work by 8:45. I work from 9 to 5. By the time I get home and eat dinner it's about 7. I am wondering what it was like moving from the college/school schedule to a standard work schedule

The tight schedule and strict wake/sleep times can be hard to adjust. I feel like a lot of my coworkers just go to work and head home. Either drink or watch tv or both with their free time. I imagine/feel people allow themselves to be a slave to this sort of system. A lot of people act like like working 9 to 5 is absolutely horrible. And to an extent I see how some can be miserable in this schedule

But if u r efficient with time it doesn't sound bad. A lot of people (not all) who complain about the 9 to 5 grind r just not utilizing a todo list (my opinion)

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?





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Re: Work life [Re: Alyssa]
    #23621511 - 09/07/16 10:44 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Add in home maintenance or a child to care for and kiss what little free time you had away. That's adulthood.


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23621533 - 09/07/16 10:49 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Sounds about right. I'm usually up by 5:45AM and out the door by 6:45AM to make work by 7:30Am. then I work till 4-4:30, hit the gym for just over an hour and home by 6:30PM. Then its shower, eat, etc.

It doesn't leave much time, but I have all my weekends free and plenty of time off.  All in all, during the work week I may only have a few hours/day here and there to do stuff, but I can cut out the gym to gain an extra 75 minutes. I can also go to bed a bit later if I can suffer through a touch of fatigue the next day.

Face it, you're going to have to work for a huge portion of your life (e.g., 40 hours a week). Its helpful to spend that time on something productive and meaningful.


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Re: Work life [Re: badchad]
    #23621542 - 09/07/16 10:52 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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badchad said:
Sounds about right. I'm usually up by 5:45AM and out the door by 6:45AM to make work by 7:30Am. then I work till 4-4:30, hit the gym for just over an hour and home by 6:30PM. Then its shower, eat, etc.

It doesn't leave much time, but I have all my weekends free and plenty of time off.  All in all, during the work week I may only have a few hours/day here and there to do stuff, but I can cut out the gym to gain an extra 75 minutes. I can also go to bed a bit later if I can suffer through a touch of fatigue the next day.

Face it, you're going to have to work for a huge portion of your life (e.g., 40 hours a week). Its helpful to spend that time on something productive and meaningful.



That sucks, I feel sorry for you.


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Re: Work life [Re: Alyssa]
    #23621573 - 09/07/16 11:00 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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Alyssa said:

That sucks, I feel sorry for you.




Don't.  Honestly, I love what I do, and more importantly its my choice. I could always flip burgers 20 hours a week if I wanted to.


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...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436


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Re: Work life [Re: badchad]
    #23621615 - 09/07/16 11:11 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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badchad said:
Quote:

Alyssa said:

That sucks, I feel sorry for you.




Don't.  Honestly, I love what I do, and more importantly its my choice. I could always flip burgers 20 hours a week if I wanted to.



Fair enough, I'm glad you managed to get a good job. I wouldn't be able to, I never got an education. I could have, I got into a really good university, but I went manic from the stress and quit. I'll probably start taking classes again soon, I've been traveling for the last 5 years.


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Re: Work life [Re: badchad]
    #23621768 - 09/07/16 11:58 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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badchad said:
Quote:

Alyssa said:

That sucks, I feel sorry for you.




Don't.  Honestly, I love what I do, and more importantly its my choice. I could always flip burgers 20 hours a week if I wanted to.




Glad you enjoy your career, what field are you in?

That's the big caveat in my opinion, finding work you love.

When I'm performing/teaching and not having to load trucks or dig ditches for a living, the busy schedule takes on a whole different dynamic. If it came down to just doing something I didn't like, I just couldn't do it.


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23623095 - 09/07/16 06:21 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

For a while I didn't have much of a life. I lived a ways away from work, and worked long hours. I was up at 4:30 am, didn't get home til between 9:30-11 pm most nights, depending on how long I wound up staying/what the train situation was. Now I still work long hours, but I live in walking distance, so I have way more free time. But I also work 4 days a week, so I had free time before, and did get out. But in general life is hella busy. It's not just work; as you get older you get more & more responsibilities. Such is life. But it's really not so bad. But yeah I still have fun, as do my coworkers.


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82] * 1
    #23623135 - 09/07/16 06:31 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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topdog82 said:
A lot of people (not all) who complain about the 9 to 5 grind r just not utilizing a todo list (my opinion)



Seems a little obtuse to state this after doing it for.. how long, your school holidays?

Just wait until you've been at it for 18 years; you might have a little more empathy for others that do by then.


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Re: Work life [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 1
    #23623148 - 09/07/16 06:34 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Seriously. Older you get, the longer those to do lists get. OP is just unaware of how busy he's gonna be.


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23623202 - 09/07/16 06:46 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

I think having something to do outside of ur work is absolutely necessary to maintain a healthy and happy life style. i think one of the most important things u can do to make things easier for u when u are working a job that is so structured is to maintain a structured lifestyle outside of work as well.


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Re: Work life [Re: Alyssa]
    #23623225 - 09/07/16 06:51 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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Alyssa said:
I've been traveling for the last 5 years.




I would love to do this (who the fuck wouldn't), but how do you do it?

Did you come into an inheritance? Or got well off parents or something?

A half decade of traveling requires basically infinite free time and a whole hell of a lot of funds.


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Re: Work life [Re: Niffla]
    #23623264 - 09/07/16 06:59 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

She claims to live on welfare so clearly all of it is bullshit, up to and including being a woman.


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Re: Work life [Re: Niffla]
    #23623275 - 09/07/16 07:04 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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Niffla said:
Quote:

Alyssa said:
I've been traveling for the last 5 years.




I would love to do this (who the fuck wouldn't), but how do you do it?

Did you come into an inheritance? Or got well off parents or something?

A half decade of traveling requires basically infinite free time and a whole hell of a lot of funds.



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.


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Re: Work life [Re: Alyssa]
    #23623307 - 09/07/16 07:15 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Welfare payments aren't shit you must also be on ssi . Even that isn't much.


Used to work 50-60 weeks and school. Tell o snapped.

Soon I'll be back to working overtime no school anymore just loan payments .


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Re: Work life [Re: Alyssa]
    #23623330 - 09/07/16 07:22 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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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.


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23623342 - 09/07/16 07:25 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23623357 - 09/07/16 07:29 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23623442 - 09/07/16 07:48 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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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Re: Work life [Re: RobZombie68]
    #23623496 - 09/07/16 08:02 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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...


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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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Re: Work life [Re: Niffla]
    #23628370 - 09/09/16 08:35 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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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.


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Re: Work life [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #23628429 - 09/09/16 09:03 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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Re: Work life [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #23628463 - 09/09/16 09:22 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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

:ohnowaitokay:

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.

:speechless:


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Re: Work life [Re: SonicTitan]
    #23628657 - 09/09/16 10:43 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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.


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Re: Work life [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #23628960 - 09/09/16 12:54 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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. :grin: (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.:grin: I put in my notice the day they announced the closing.:grin: For the first time in years I can enjoy the holidays with friends and family!:grin:


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Re: Work life [Re: topdog82]
    #23630901 - 09/09/16 10:42 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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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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    #23630948 - 09/09/16 11:01 PM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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 :shrug:


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