Workin' 9 till 5

[PureChaos]

i leave home at 7am and get back around 6:30, that wouldn't bother me so much if i got paid for those hours but 3 hours of that is travel. it sucks. got a job interview Friday which will mean a lot less travel should i get it.

Well good luck to you, my friend.

thank you

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I leave home at 6:30, get back at around 7:30. My shifts start 7am - 7pm. Luckily, I don't live too far away, but it's a bit of an odd area to get to, so I have to take a taxi. I also work 4 on - 4 off So my shifts fall on weekends and bank holidays which I'm required to work. I don't get time and half at all.

I stand at the same spot for 11 hours a day. Doing the exact same thing over and over again. The equipment always breaks, nothing is in the right place, the servers always crash, I get nagged at for not reaching my ridiculous targets because all the equipment is constantly breaking, They dissaprove of fun. (seriously. One guy got fired for flicking an elastic band.

Still, beats no work at all.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Dude, thats why you have to make sure your career is what you love so that you never really work a day in your life.

If you feel that worthless, thats why you need friends, get a hobby, or start looking for a new job.

Right now? I'm working a McJob, it doesn't bother me because the hours fluctuate and I know it's just that. A McJob. It's not going to be my life's work. In a year I'll have my degree backup plan set, and in the meantime I'm laying the ground work to chase my hopes and dreams, and with any luck, they'll succeed and I'll never really work again a day in my life.

 

[Worr Monger]

WTF is with this cushy 9-5?

I work 8-5... but I like my employer and my coworkers enough not to mind so much. Unfortunately it's life, unless you're creative enough to do something fun... or rich enough already not to have to work.

But that's an insane commute... that could make a big difference.

 

[Nickolai77]

Tbh, i imagine 9-5 wouldn't bother me. I like routine because i know what to expect and it allows me to plan my schedules. What bothers me about regular, full time work once i'm out of education is only having something like 3 weeks of the year off. My exams finished in June and i've been "off" since, i would have to work for over two years in future to get the time-off i have now. And, instead of enjoying myself like i suppose i should be doing, i'm constantly worrying about what i do after a graduate.

 

[burningdragoon]

You know, if you are doing something you actually enjoy, then that's that bad. I have a 9-5 and yeah it absolutely sucks most of the time. But there are days (as few as they are at my current job) that are glorious. The low frequency of those days are the reason I've been looking for something else.

But then there lies another problem. If you want to better yourself or learn new things or whatever while working a 9-5 everyday you then have to be extra motivated to do so. There have been so many days where I feel good and motivated when I get to work and when I get home I just shut down.

 

[Zykon TheLich]

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[CrashBang]

I start training to be a teacher in September and I'm really apprehensive about many parts of it but not about the hours. School hours never bothered me when I was a kid so they should bother me even less as an adult. Teachers also get weekends off and school holidays so, time-wise, teaching should be quite a nice gig.

 

[Neko Pounce]

9 to 5 is easy that's only 8 hours... you are apparently doing 13 hours, which is stupid.

If that's all commute time I suggest you move somewhere that isn't a gridlocked shit hole.

It's 3 buses every morning, and 3 every evening, it's 31 miles from home and yeah, it's bullshit. but It has to be done because it's the only place that would do the course I wanted.

Move house, if you only get £400 a month then you should qualify for quite a lot of housing benefit.

You would think so, wouldn't you? But since i'm 17, apparently I can't get ANY housing benefit. -_-

 

[Flailing Escapist]

I actually worked a night shift job all summer: 9pm - 6 am. It was actually pretty cool.

But schools coming around again so pleegh. Yeah

 

[infohippie]

I do 9-to-5 and have for quite a few years. It's ok, but I'd much prefer to find a job where I can work something like 14:00 to 22:00, or even 16:00 to 0:00, it'd fit my natural waking rhythms much better. I find I don't really start to feel properly awake until the sun starts to go down.

More importantly, why the hell is the standard working week still 8 hours, five days a week? Isn't it about time for the four hour day? Or the four day week?

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

SNIP

I know how you feel man. I don't have a 9 to 5 job anymore but now I have two part time jobs. It sucks, I know but at least you're being paid.

[sub]If you wanna talk sometime, shoot me a PM bud [/sub]

 

[infohippie]

Dude, thats why you have to make sure your career is what you love so that you never really work a day in your life.

I can't see that working. No matter how much I enjoy something, once I have to do it every day it becomes a chore. I could get a job doing quality testing in a brothel and the first couple of weeks would be awesome, then I'd start thinking "Dammit, I don't want to have to go to work again today!"

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Dude, thats why you have to make sure your career is what you love so that you never really work a day in your life.

I can't see that working. No matter how much I enjoy something, once I have to do it every day it becomes a chore. I could get a job doing quality testing in a brothel and the first couple of weeks would be awesome, then I'd start thinking "Dammit, I don't want to have to go to work again today!"

It's got to be something you care about. If you run that Brothel, and dream to have the best damn brothel in Reno? Any work you put into that brothel won't feel like work because you want to do it.