does anyone else feel this way too?

[huberm]

It seems like all I am doing is work related. I get up @ 5, out the door around 6, and don't get back home until 4:30 or so. So the whole fiasco consumes 11 1/2 hrs per day of my time.

I go to bed at 10, so I only get 5.5hrs of time to "myself" (and errands, etc have to be done during that time, so actual freetime dwindles down even more).

Does anyone else feel this way?

 

[imported_Trippin315]

I would suggest a new job. And dont cry about how good it pays. If your life sucks that much, then change it.
And I like my job, so I dont b1tch

 

[huberm]

Originally posted by: Trippin315
I would suggest a new job. And dont cry about how good it pays. If your life sucks that much, then change it.
And I like my job, so I dont b1tch

how would this solve that situation? I work 80hrs every two weeks, and would be working the same at another full time job?

 

[I Saw OJ]

I'm in the same boat.

I work the graveyard shift so I'm sleeping the whole day.

Wake up at 10pm out the door by 11:30pm. Off at 9am, get home around 10am. Fall asleep around 1pm and repeat the whole thing over again. If I dont get a good 8 hours of sleep during the day I am dead tired at work and it sucks.

Its a never ending cycle.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

i wake up at 4am, gym at 5am, work from 6-ish to roughly 7pm, home by 7:30 or 8pm. Monday - Friday. Luckily I really like my job, and I get paid overtime.

 

[MrWizzard]

I think thats called growing up.......

Just get used to it and things will look better also get a job you like.

 

[Kilgor]

LOL get used to it like everybody else or do something to change it.

 

[HN]

don't you hate it when before, you were young and had all the time in the world to do anything but no money to do it. now you have the money but no time.

welcome to being old.

 

[Dacalo]

It's kind of depressing to think that we work so many hours a day, just to earn something called "money" so that we can pay bills.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Welcome to life.

 

[Eeezee]

You need to reduce your commute time somehow. This is the biggest problem I have with living far away from my place of work/school. If it takes you an hour just to reach work then that's officially 2 hours a day that you've thrown away on nothing. It's a tough compromise, though, since living really close to work isn't always easy, especially if it's not a good area. If you're dream home is an hour's drive away (including traffic), then there's not a whole lot you can do about that.

I'd try to get some of my errands done during work, if possible. If you can get away with making a few extra phone calls or picking up/dropping off things during lunch, then you've cut down on your errand time and got paid to do them. How about saving your errands for weekends?

 

[huberm]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
You need to reduce your commute time somehow. This is the biggest problem I have with living far away from my place of work/school. If it takes you an hour just to reach work then that's officially 2 hours a day that you've thrown away on nothing. It's a tough compromise, though, since living really close to work isn't always easy, especially if it's not a good area. If you're dream home is an hour's drive away (including traffic), then there's not a whole lot you can do about that.

I'd try to get some of my errands done during work, if possible. If you can get away with making a few extra phone calls or picking up/dropping off things during lunch, then you've cut down on your errand time and got paid to do them. How about saving your errands for weekends?

i live 7 miles from work, takes me about 13 minutes to get there

 

[miri]

Originally posted by: huberm

Originally posted by: Trippin315
I would suggest a new job. And dont cry about how good it pays. If your life sucks that much, then change it.
And I like my job, so I dont b1tch

how would this solve that situation? I work 80hrs every two weeks, and would be working the same at another full time job?

80 hours every 2 weeks is not bad, you get weekends off right? I work 7 days a week

 

[thehstrybean]

I quit my job today and I got a new one that I'm pretty sure I'm gonna love...But yeah, I do feel like that...but that's what life is, I guess.

 

[miri]

I agree about the commute time thing. I live in Southern California which has some of the heaviest traffic in the county, but I only live 8 miles from work so my commute takes about 15 minutes.

 

[Koing]

Kind of but I enjoy my work and the people at work .

The only weird thing is that we plan when we go out as we're all busy with different timetables etc. Before we'd just all go out and meet up.

I also/did have a really nice 15minute commute on my bike (stolen 3 days ago...f0ckers). I use to drive 50minutes each way to get to work .

I'm either working (second job also) or training (going to start training before work also and in some lunch times) and I never get back home before 9pm Monday to Friday. Busy busy busy.

Koing

 

[NuclearNed]

Typically what you are describing doesn't happen to me. I decided early in my career that I wasn't going to spend more than 40 hours a week at work, except in extremely rare emergency situations. Not all my coworkers and bosses have appreciated this pledge of mine. I'm happy, I do a good job and work hard during my regular 40, and I've gladly accepted the fact that others may get all the bonuses and promotions - they are the ones who don't like their lives.

 

[bobsmith1492]

Ya, I feel for you; I also have a senior engineering elective this semester and a roughly 40 min. in/50 min. back commute... and I'm training for the Chicago Marathon (54 miles this week... at ~8 minutes/mile, that's about 7 hours there, plus extra for getting prepped and whatnot). I also like long showers twice a day (~50 min/day) and need to sleep some (average 6.5 hrs/day). Lessee... that's about 18 hours/day; subtract 2 hours/day for food and an average of 1/day for homework, and I'm down to 3 hours of downtime.

 

[mobobuff]

That's nothing. I work 7 days a week 11 hours a day. Sometimes I work 14 hours in a day. Sometimes I get Sunday off.

Alright maybe some days I only work 7 hours or so...

 

[bobsmith1492]

What do you do?

There is such a thing as a workaholic...

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: bobsmith1492
What do you do?

There is such a thing as a workaholic...

I'm a DirecTV technician. If you don't count drive time as working hours (my paycheck doesn't) then the numbers are a little lower. But I consider any time that I'm not home due to work as work time.

 

[KeithTalent]

My life is like this, but I like my job and the people I work with so it does not bother me. Plus I like getting paid. :thumbsup:

 

[cker]

Out of 24 hours, the conventional-wisdom average is to sleep for 8. So you have 16 hours to do with as you please. If you can, you can sleep less to get more time.

You'd like to have money, so you have a job. Off the top goes 8 hours to work, 1 hour for mid-day break. We're down to 7. If you commute 30 minutes each way, you're at 6. If you take 30 minutes to crawl out of bed, jump in the shower and dress to get out the door, and 30 minutes to undress, brush teeth and prep for bed, then we've dropped it to 5 hours.

Yeah, man. 5.5 hours sounds about right. Do you get vacation time at all? Sometimes when I'm feeling tired of the grind, it helps to take a day to just goof.

 

[TreyRandom]

Originally posted by: huberm
It seems like all I am doing is work related. I get up @ 5, out the door around 6, and don't get back home until 4:30 or so. So the whole fiasco consumes 11 1/2 hrs per day of my time.

I go to bed at 10, so I only get 5.5hrs of time to "myself" (and errands, etc have to be done during that time, so actual freetime dwindles down even more).

Does anyone else feel this way?

Try doing all that with a wife and kids.

Sounds like you've got a heck of a commute if you're only working 40 hours per week. I'll have to agree with some of the other opinions on here - get a job closer to home, or at least find a job you really enjoy.

Best of luck!

 

[Zenmervolt]

Meh, it's life.

ZV