Work: Owning Your Life...

[ChefChiTown]

Personally, work is absolutely controlling my life. Today (Tuesday) is my only day off. I work 6 days a week and rack up over 80 hours of work every single week. I love what I do, so I can't complain all that much, but I feel like work is dictating how my life is going to turn out.

I work so much that I baaaarely have time to even do laundry. It sucks but I can't help it. I don't have time to meet new people, enjoy fun things or even have a relationship.

I was just wondering if anyone else has this kind of situation, where what they do for a living completely changes and dictates their life.

 

[blackbull1970]

I feel you.

The weeks drag on forever, and the weekends go by in a blink of a eye.

When you take vacation, by the time you relax, its time to go back to work.

Peace.

 

[YMIHERE]

What's a day off. I'm self-employed and if I'm awake I'm working. It's hard but what else can I do, work for somebody. No Thanks, I've been there and it sucks worse even with time off. The only time I'm not working is when I'm on Freeones and then I'm half working by thinking in the back of my mind what the answers are to my work problems.

 

[free4440273]

You have my sympathies. It used to be like that for me also but now I am able to work from home. That does have its own distractions - like FreeOnes

 

[sterobbo01]

Know how you feel, you don't seem to work to live anymore more like live to work!

 

[CaDDaFy]

Like lambs to the slaughter afraid of disorder ordered around by the powers that be.

Why do a job you **** doing every day.


Are you chained to the anchor of You Misery

 

[hedonis]

I work at night- hardly see anyone and get tons of stuff done, because I don't have much in the way of duties if nothing goes awry with networks and servers. I have a few scheduled tasks, but nothing to fear nearly all of a 12 hour shift. I work a week on, then a week off.

Does work rule my life? Nope- I own that bitch....

H

 

[free4440273]

...and networks and servers - IF implemented properly - are quite reliable nowadays. Well, more reliable than they used to be??

 

[hedonis]

...and networks and servers - IF implemented properly - are quite reliable nowadays. Well, more reliable than they used to be??

Way more. But we're talking a huge, multi-million dollar corporate publishing company with LOTS of servers. Strangely, they still manage to do what they do without much failure or incident. But then every now and again... :crash:

H

 

[Peter Gazinya]

Work to live, don't live to work

 

[sterobbo01]

Work to live, don't live to work

So damn hard in the uk though, sooner my loto numbers come up the better.

arty:

 

[rian_evilclown]

im pissed off with my job at the moment, all my boss seems to do is fuckuin moan about everything... and when hes got nothing to moan about he moans about that. these days im starting to think i was probably happier on the dole.

 

[Yankeefan21325]

And if youre lucky these days, you can retire by the time your 65.

 

[rian_evilclown]

And if youre lucky these days, you can retire by the time your 65.

fuck that ****, im going back on the dole when im 60

 

[dave_rhino]

"You are not your job or how much money you have in the bank"

My job does feel like it takes up a lot of time, but I'm constantly thinking to myself "It's only for money".

The day I live purely for my job is the day I paint the wall with my brain.

 

[Kingfisher]

I've been dropping over 100 hours a week (6 days) for the past several months. And have not had any time off or vacation time since last November.
I've only recently been taking Sundays off because my hands have been shaking.
Also the reason I havn't been chiming in here too much.

 

[anomaly]

I started my own business 4 years ago and have never regretted it. A friend of mine bought and old Merita Bread truck and turned it into an ice cream truck. He now make as much as he made or more than his old job. I would recommend anyone who hates their job to become an entrepreneur. It may seem difficult but there alot of options out there.

 

[mongo18]

I work around 70 hours a week, attend college 3/4 time, my wife owns a coffee shop that's about a year old, and we have a 10 week old ********. We are pretty busy, and when our ******** was 3 weeks old and my wife spent 10 days in hospital for a ruptured appendix I nearly broke. I can fall ****** in just about any position inside of 30 seconds, but I just keep telling myself hang in there, get through school, get a job where I get paid a LOT more for doing a LOT less and it'll all be worth it....

 

[free4440273]

...let's not forget also that here in the States many Americans do two jobs, something which is unheard of in Europe I suspect (Asia/Japan i'm unsure of).

 

[sterobbo01]

...let's not forget also that here in the States many Americans do two jobs, something which is unheard of in Europe I suspect (Asia/Japan i'm unsure of).

I think that is a good thing. I would **** to have a second job, anything to put food on the table but my proffession will not allow it. STINKS! I could easily fit in a second job on my days off.