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how do you survive working 9 hours a day 5 days a week... I'm broken... i shoot off my frustration on CoD2 afterwards... and I really have no energy to do anything... bleugh...
guys... I thought it never was going to happen... but TS is slain by RealLife... this is a day of doom...
You'll get used to it fast.
I had to work indoor construction, and I was totally exhausted at first at the end of every day; but after a couple of weeks, I was back to normal.
Keep on chooglin'.:2thumbsup:
Well you get used to it
Work sucks big time, depending on the job...
Im guessing this is some crappy factory job ? one of your first jobs ?
I have worked one or two different factorys over the years and when you first start it almost feels like your body can't cope with the constant work rate, but aching feet adjust to standing all day, arms adjust to lifting all day...
Discomfort and energy loss should reduce considerably as you get used to working all day, when i was a foot canvesser we would walk all day and at first my feet used to kill but after not to long i started to enjoy the walking and could happily have a game of football after work or something
quickly put... it gets better....
It's a big **** pie and you just got your slice.
Chew. ~:smoking:
9 hours a day, 5 days a week? I didn't think that was allowed in the EU. ~;)
What kind of work, physical or mental? If it's physical labor, you will probably get used to it. If it's mental, it kind of depends on how satisfying the work is.
Take coffee breaks.
Well, there are worse things than working 9 to 5 weekdays. At least you get to bed at a reasonable time, get evenings to yourself and get the weekends off.
You'll get used to it.
During the exams we worked longer hours each day, every day of the week for about a month or two.
:sad: Shame TS.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
Great question though.
craterus... you dirty spamming ****** :P how did you get another 1000 posts? no girl right... thats it :P he lost his playthingie and now he is bored :P
Dad, you have it easy... yur just a lumberjack...
i'm planning on working 7 days soon though... after i get used to 5... i work at somekind of grocery store... my boss and other employees are allright... the work is dull for me, but i get distracted veryvery fast... its not too heavy, cleaning cutting and such, draggin boxes with fruit... but its from 7:45 till 17:45 with break, so in the end its quite heavy... i get payed crappy for the work though... its not a bad wage i get... for my age. but for the work its crappy pay...
Umeu, as charming as ever ~;) and so cute now you're all grown up :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
I always wondered how people could happily go to their meaningless jobs every morning when all they do is make somebody else rich. How many people can honestly say that what they do is important in the big scheme of things?
But I've decided that what's important in your life (your legacy, defining moments, whatever) is likely to be what you do outside of your job. A job will just be the way you sustain yourself while you wait for those important bits.
If that makes sense.
I am perfectly fine not caring about that, life isn't perfect. Neither am I, but oh baby do I come close.Quote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
well im working because i have a goal... im making money to go on a trip... i wanted to go on that trip all my life... so I honestly dont care about the big scheme of things, i only care about my scheme of things... yeah its crappy pay, but i have no better alternatives... besides... are you having part in the big scheme of things when u sit home and do nothing? even less i guess... i agree with your last part though... it goes for most people... if work takes up the most wonderful moments of yur life... eith you are sad, or your life is :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Craterus
and yeah, i still love you 2 :D
I'm not getting at anyone. Nor am I suggesting my (jobless) life is any better. I'm just saying that the insignificance of things can be depressing.
Heh, insignificant?
I work at a fuel station, and not nearly the hours Stranger does but looking at the money going through my hands in just one shift, how people depend on what I sell and how dirty the place would be if I and others didn't clean the place now and then, I'd hardly say it's insignificant. If The Stranger wouldn't clean that grocery store your groceries would end up full of dirt and bacteria, if he didn't carry around boxes there wouldn't be any groceries in the first place etc. Of course his work is significant, insignificant are some decisions at management positions that the employees hardly consider and noone really cares about. ~D
You should be sorry for those rich managers who try to be important and live shallow lifes and still don't get that they cannot appreciate what they have after their fifth wife has left them. :no:
No offence intended toward rich and clever managers. :sweatdrop:
9 hours ? 5 days ?
GIMME THE FLYING JOB ! THIS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT WILL TAKE YOUR VERY OWN JOB AWAY !
9 hours/5 days is a dreamy schedule you'd have in Turkey. Especially if you work in the private sector, life is sucked the **** out of you with "flexible work hours" that never shorten but are guaranteed to go over 12 hours where even your Saturday is demanded. The only way to grant a job that is as BEAUTIFUL as a job that takes only 9 hours a day on a 5-days-a-week run is to get yourself on the state offices' boats.
I understand your pain but, man, you can't guess how it feels when you're waiting next to the AD agency 's car with a flat tyre that was supposed to take you home on a work day that started at 9 a.m. and finished the following day at 4 a.m.
Endure it, grasshopper. Pain is your lifetime friend.
TS, are you finally going to come to a land down under?
Considering we are talking about employments, anyone here from the IT or Computer Engineering sector?
Right about now, while the realization is fresh in your mind, would be a good time to go and give a big hug to Mom and Dad... who've "put up with this" for decades so that they and their beloved son could eat, wear clothes, sleep under a roof, etc.Quote:
how do you guys out up with this
Bravo! that you've joined the workforce, and come to realize the value of work, and the relative value of money.
Oh, and like the other fellas said: "You'll get used to it." And more. You'll be amazed at your own ability to work even longer, harder hours, when necessary. Farmers and small business owners typically put in 16 hours per day, 7 days a week.
december mate, new south wales ill land.Quote:
Originally Posted by pevergreen
len, yeah i know its not that bad... definitly not when ur an adult... i mean, i know people that work way more hours, including my dead... but he has his own business, so youre never off actually...
hmmm maybe :PQuote:
Originally Posted by KukriKhan
my boss prolly makes those hours yes...
thanks all :P this convinced me to work 7 days a week... i dont know wether i should love or hate u guys :whip: :wink:
Be happy that you're not doing nightshifts.
Working in the summer vacation really sucks...I'm glad that it's raining constantly over here, serves those non-working slackers right.
Bring with you all a walkman with radio so, if you can hear music from a local station (that you like) and you will pass it a little better. Do something to distract ya. That works with me and my school. When I'm bored and have nothing to do, I write. Everyone is talking, and I'm writing, and I pass my free time in that way (in school).
In this country there aren't part time jobs for teenagers, which is a shame because I want to do something someday.
Thats not a bad schedule. When I had my first "job" I was only working 8 hours a day maybe three or four hours a week. Which isn't bad for being sixteen in a college town, but then the next year I moved down to Colorado with my dad, and that summer my dad hired me on.. I was working 12+ hours a day five days a week doing frame work for Condo's and Apartments and such, I couldn't understand how some people had been doing that type of job for 20 years or more. The money was good, but even if you were in great shape, by the end of the week you were goin' to be tired.
Gah! New South Wales. Queensland is a lot better around December, but I will be in Victoria for some of December.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Stranger
To get some Australian Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QflHh0hT6mQ
well... i have to help people and such... so a mp3 is no option... i write during my breaks at times, when i have inspiration... i wrote my best poem of late at work :P so its good for something...Quote:
Originally Posted by Caius
pever... ill be traveling the country... will be in aussie for 5 months, so no worries mate :P
fenring, its raining here as well :P i like it when it rains, its not so crowded in the store than... customers tend to stay away :P less work for me.
and waki, yeah, yesterday i was exhausted but today im quite fresh :)
Lol, my last job was 12 hours a day 7 days a week with 1 out of 3 nights on call and being expected to respond even if I wasn't on call.
Nowadays I do my 37 hours a week and no more, I don't do overtime and I definately don't work for nothing. The only reason I work is to buy good stuff whether it's paying the mortgage or buying a new fish tank and as I was promoted in December I can afford most of the things I want.
and I'm sure you had to walk five miles uphill both ways, always in the middle of a January Blizzard, even in July. And You can't understand why people complain! ~:pat:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ja'chyra
I only joke of course.
Lol, no, it was on a cruise ship and I only had to go up 1 deck to get to work and up another 5 to get to the bar, which was 60p for a pint of vodka and coke. There were plus points and I really enjoyed the job, long hours but decent money, comfortable cabin and good perks :belly:Quote:
Originally Posted by Wakizashi
What really helped me going when i worked in a factory was the fact there were men and women not too far from retirement age working a full 8 hour physical shift, so as a young healthy adult who likes to think he can cope with hard work it kind of guilted me into surviving the shift....
Hearing about the working conditions in the 3rd world can only make the job seem better as well...
well... but if you get paid good... i get paid crappy :juggle2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ja'chyra
I work in the IT sector... but i am in the US for now and work only 40 hrs a week... so have no complaints. A lot of my friends back in India in similar roles easily do 12 hour days 5-6 days a week. :juggle2:Quote:
Originally Posted by asj_india
I suppose needs must but i can't imagine myself handling working that many hours (unless it was my hobby as well as my work) 40 hours a week seemed like a lot to me.... it felt like there was hardly anytime left to enjoy myself
128 not enough?
128 not enough?
well the weekend was all fine and good, -48 hours, 80 hours, it was just during the week i felt i hardly had any time to enjoy myself, 45 hours for sleep through weekdays, that only leaves seven hours a day, including getting back and fore work getting ready for work ect. and then theres the fact that shifts are placed incoveniently, i guess i value my time alot more highly than money.... i never did any overtime....
:beam: I was joking.
Unemployment ftw.
I was thinking it was you i remember you mentioned in some thread... (or this one) so thats how you manage to log up so many fm hours ;)
same here btw, only for the summer though unless something comes along...
Mentioned what in some thread?
The FM is cos it's summer and I didn't play at all today...yet. :grin: Term-time I'm a bit more busy with college.
Mentioned unemployment, i forget when i wander off into my sentences that everyone else can't read my mind and needs to know what im talking about...