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How many of us enjoy or don't mind their line of work? Is everyone just content with being at work for eight hours a day? There has to be more to the work life than the repetitive shuffle of wake up, get ready, drive to work, slave, drive home, sleep, repeat.

Either I am in the wrong line of work or I am doomed to be a housewife.

168 hours in a week
45+ spent at work
5 spent roundtrip to and from work
56 hours of sleep a week
Leaves 62 hours a week to ourselves

The pessimist says that's not enough.

Let's revolt! Tell me about how you make a living and what you like about it.
 
How many of us enjoy or don't mind their line of work? Is everyone just content with being at work for eight hours a day? There has to be more to the work life than the repetitive shuffle of wake up, get ready, drive to work, slave, drive home, sleep, repeat.

Either I am in the wrong line of work or I am doomed to be a housewife.

168 hours in a week
45+ spent at work
5 spent roundtrip to and from work
56 hours of sleep a week
Leaves 62 hours a week to ourselves

The pessimist says that's not enough.

Let's revolt! Tell me about how you make a living and what you like about it.


I hate my job too. I feel lucky to have a job so I shut my mouth and do it but I am constantly trying to figure out what else I can do.

I'm with you sista. Wanna burn our bras?
 
I find that the weeks I am in class/lab/hospital/part time work are the weeks where I appreciate my free time more, my me time more, my lie ins more, my chatting and catching up time more and just generally time.

During the summer, when I p/t work 2 days a week and none of the university callings are happening I am generally very bored. Hence I try and travel a lot until term starts again.

Granted I've weaseled my way out of a relationship twice now to give me more time, I'm still enjoying the me time tenfold.
 
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My current title is Network Specialist II. I run the network. Switches, access points, all of the data transport equipment and anything related to them. I get to go around to all of our buildings downtown nonstop which means I see lots of cool art and pretty girls. The downside is I have to do tons of port activations, terminate jacks if it's a rush, replace UPS batteries, and all of that type of things.
 
I like my job but it's been very stressful lately

I have no commute and sleep is optional so I consider myself to have 123 hours of me time per week
 
I fucking love my job now that I have a new boss. Who you work for matters almost as much as what you do in my experience.

Edit - I work somewhere between 40 - 55 hours a week, it all depends on what's going on. I'd probably stay longer if it wasn't for the dogs. Most days its like I get paid to play, even when its stressful.

[plugging myself]For example, I just solved a problem engineering had been working on for weeks in the sum total of less than 6 hours. So after noon today you'll be able to see video window inserts on the CNN MagicWall and they'll be stateless and dynamically resizable all thanks to yours truly. How can you not love knowing what you do borders on magic in most people's perspective and you can turn on the TV and see you work along with 30+ million other people?[/plugging myself]
 
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As some of you know I have been going through some really hard times until last week. My company shut down and I was semi-laid off leaving me with no time to search for a new job. I decided to stay with the company and work commission only on some programs we had going. The first one sucked and I only made about 800 bucks in 2 weeks so I started to get very worried. Then last week we started a new program and let me tell you how much of a life saver this is. I worked 4 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday and cleared over 1.7 million kwh. Saved the customers over 1000 a month for 2 years on each of there bills and made 5k for less than 8 hours of work.

Each person I sell is going to save about 25% over the term of the contract and I am targeting large business(just sold Golden Corral). There bills for the 4 locations were over 20k a month and starting next month they will get at least 10% off, building over time

I hate being on the phones but I get full take, without a cut from the office and each customer saves a substantial amount. I also get to keep the residual which gets paid on in 1 year, same amount as the first check. So 5k this week and 5k in 1 year, woot!

Back to the phones I go!
 
A 4-day work week would silence most of my complaints about wasting my life in order to pay bills and surround myself with cheap, disposable garbage for at least a month and a half.
 
My jobs ok, when Im left alone to do it.
Unfortunately, there are too many jerkasses that dont do their jobs, or throw monkey wrenches into the works or just generally go out of their way to slow work down.
Othewise its pretty good.
 
A 4-day work week would silence most of my complaints about wasting my life in order to pay bills and surround myself with cheap, disposable garbage for at least a month and a half.

To keep up morale, companies should implement this.

Actually just change full time to 32 hours a week. It is the French or Italians or someone over the pond that they consider full time to be much less than ours.

The economy is so poor here we feel we have to work so much more to live a decent life. :fly:
 
My jobs ok, when Im left alone to do it.
Unfortunately, there are too many jerkasses that dont do their jobs, or throw monkey wrenches into the works or just generally go out of their way to slow work down.
Othewise its pretty good.
As long as the toilet seat is comfy; you're good.
 
So far the men love their jobs and the chicks are looking for more. Is this saying something?

I'm not sure why it happens, but I noticed if you asked men in college what their plan for the next 5-10 years were, they'd give you a career focused answer with maybe some life milestones thrown in for balance. If you ask women the same question, the answers are flipped; they mostly mention life milestones and when they talk about career, its much more vague. I'd say it could be summarized as "prove I'm as good as a man" and little else. This isn't all women, but it was far more common than not.

Maybe it has to do with role models. Even if your mom worked when you were younger, did she work because she liked what she did and had career objectives or was she working to help make ends meet? I think the only mom I knew with a career plan was my mom. I think I know of only two women in our age range that have career plans now. Every other female just seems to be working to pay the bills, waiting to get married/have kids, or a little of A and B.