Do you hate full time WORK?

[StarGoddess]

I really want some honest answers. I am a woman on my own living with the love of my life and I like my job. Not love, but like. I work the average 40 hours a week, though some of my shifts can be 9 hours long since we get a 45 minute lunch break. There is a woman there who puts in up to 70 hours of work a week, so it's not as bad as hers, but honestly...

I come home and I'm too tired to make my love anything to eat, so sometimes he's nice and has dinner made for me. I am grumpy to him at times and sometimes when something frustrating happends at work I am upset at home. I am constantly tired, treasure my days off and am noticing a bit of depression. I am an artist and have not felt inspiration in months despite my love's attempts to coax me to draw.

Sometimes doesn't it just feel like you're living to work instead of working to live?

I'm waiting for my review to be part time so that I can work and do a little LIVING for my own mental sanity.

 

[dusky_tresses]

Oh I know how you feel! I also live on my own with no other assistance. I have done the whole work close to full-time and go to school full-time deal and well honestly, it sucks pardon my language. It really really does. I had no social life, I was barely taking care of myself, I was under stress all the time, and whenever I had a weekend off, all I wanted to do was be a homebody. I no longer work full-time but for the summer I am just for the money.

My bf works full time and feels like he never has time to do anything. And honestly when you do work full-time, how do you get business-hour stuff done? like stuff that you can only do during 9-5?

In a way after I graduate Im looking forward to a steady full-time job and income but at the same time I'm not. I relish my days off too.

 

[~Beauty_from_Pain~]

It depends on the job. Every job has it's downside, but there are jobs that I have really loved despite all of that.

 

[Jedi]

There are times when full work days can seem to weigh on my shoulders, but when I really think about it, I suspect it would be worse if the opposite were true: if I had nothing to keep me busy all day. Doing work, even if it's not always fun, often gives me a sense of accomplishment - like I did something worthwhile that day.

 

[frost82]

I guess I'm one of those that see good and bad in a lot of things. I work midnights as a corporate security officer which is terribly dull most of the time and has turned me into a "vampire" (sleeping most of the day), but at the same time allows me to study for my MCSE as well as study a Book I hadn't given as much time as I should have before this job. Good and bad.

 

[charlie_hunter]

you adapt to it

i once worked a job where i would pull maybe 1 or 2 16 hour shifts in a day.

if your diet is good and you get enough sleep it's not too hard to do (as long as the job is good)

it beats being unemployed

 

[eringilmour]

Yea my job is BORING and that is the biggest hurdle for me - i sit most of the day on here and I feel that I should be doing more. Don't get me wrong I actually love to be busy and work hard but this jobs pays well but gives little work which vexes me greatly, I also don't get a lunch which also vexes me..

But hey get yourself into debt as I did you have to get yourself out.....

 

[intricatic]

I despise fulltime work.

Regardless of what job it is. I find it dehumanizing. But strangely, I would still do it, mostly because I need money in order to live.

 

[HotToast]

I like working full-time. I like to have something challanging, but not too difficult to fill my days with.

However I have a job where I have to bring home a lot of work.
I would like to have a job where I don't have to do any work on the weekend or in the evenings.

 

[intricatic]

I would like a job doing something I enjoy, but unfortunately I'm not qualified to do the things I enjoy to do yet.



That's why I'm in school! But even then, I'll probably start my own business to avoid having to work full time.

 

[chi_rho]

lawl ! im scared now, im taking a year and a half off uni to move out and buy a car so im going full time at work. im part time now and find it real busy!
ehh i dont want to be stressed and have no free time!
maybe i should stick it out at uni till i graduate....

 

[JulySheMustFly]

40 hours a week is less than 25% of your time in one week. Let's get real here. Even if you sleep 8 hours every night you still have 72 hours all to yourself to do what you want. That is more than 40% of your week to do the things that you want to do.

 

[intricatic]

40 hours a week is less than 25% of your time in one week. Let's get real here. Even if you sleep 8 hours every night you still have 72 hours all to yourself to do what you want. That is more than 40% of your week to do the things that you want to do.

Theoretically, that sounds wonderful.

I find life is much more complicated than statistical reasoning leads us to believe. But then again, I'm not a computer, so statistics really don't mean much to me other than conceptual abstractions.

Now... factor in the fact that one would be completely exhausted after work, emotionally drained over the weekends, frustrated during the work week, and put in a position where you're basically owned by your employer and the economy, and perhaps we can talk statistics.

 

[Terri12345]

I work 30 horus a week and take around 13 credit hours of school each semester.


It's fun. :-/

"Fun" in the sarcastic sense anyway.

I cannot WAIT until Janurary...I'm going to try and save up enough $ so that I can drop down to only working one day a week instead of 5-6.

 

[intricatic]

Even 20 hours a week + full time school is a pain in the neck [chronic migraines and whatnot.]

I found that [full time work + part time work + full time school = nervous breakdown] and am now working part time.

 

[plum]

i like working full-time (so far). but i think it depends on the work and the people.

i like it because it gives stability to my day, my week, and my lifestyle. i can fund my dreams and my playtime. i also like working and seeing the results of my work. what i don't like is that i'm basically in a desk chair staring at my computer ALL day. horrible for my body, my eyes, neck, back, and sanity. so i need to do something about that!

 

[fairiedust]

Hmm.. yeah.. I don't like fully time work so much.. but the money is needed, so it has to be done.
I find that it leaves hardly any time to do anything else, and also often leaves me too tired after work to do much of anything.

 

[Snoofles]

i don't mind working full time, but when i have to work really really long hours at this job, it kills me.

 

[charlie_hunter]

I despise fulltime work.

Regardless of what job it is. I find it dehumanizing. But strangely, I would still do it, mostly because I need money in order to live.

lining up in Centrelink to collect the unemployment is dehumanizing

 

[intricatic]

lining up in Centrelink to collect the unemployment is dehumanizing

Ugh, standing in any line for a bureaucratic processing is infact quite dehumanizing. Bureaucracy in general is dehumanizing.