My Life is Over

[Cougar]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
When I was looking for a job a few months ago, I thought I had no life. I woke up late every day, did some freelance work during the day, and I hung out with friends every night. Then I went to bed feeling like a piece of crap every night for not having a steady income, and because I felt like I was wasting my life away. Now that I finally have a nice paying, full-time job, I feel like my life is over. I go to bed at 11:30 most nights (as opposed to 4:00 which I used to do), I wake up at 6:15 and drive 2 hours to work. My friends all think I died. I don't have a minute for myself. If I'm not waking up or going to sleep, I'm busy driving to and from work. I know this is my "welcome to the real world", but that doesn't mean I have to like it!

Well, what exactly are your friends doing that make their life so special? We all have to put our time in at our jobs so we can have money in our pocket to pay the bills and save for the future. I was the same way too for a while and I pretty much felt worthless. I couldn't find a job to save my life and I had no money but I had all the free time in the world. Now, I have some steady work and money in my pocket but less free time so I make the best with what little time I have. Life isn't all fun and games and that's something we all have to accept.

There's actually a guy I work with that doesn't take his job seriously at all. He's never on time, doesn't abide by the dress code, calls off when he's hung-over, and won't make any effort to do anything remotely beyond his job description. Somehow he's managed to survive in the "real-world" for the past couple years but you can mark my words that his time will come. Some day he's not going to have such a lenient boss and he's gonna get a hard dose of reality which he sorely deserves.

I guess that doesn't really have much to do with your situation, but I can guarantee you that if you were to live by my co-workers standards that you would get no where fast. I'm not about to become a corporate slave, but I don't envision myself being 35 years old working part time at McDonalds just so I have a "life".

 

[OS]

heh, I was going to write the same post.

At work, they're finding that I'm working faster now so they piled on the workload deeper and higher. I did like 3 times as much today as I did a week ago. Before I'm finished with the current batch of stuff, I get more forms and orders on my desk. I don't get any freaking breaks at all and wednesday is a mandatory company meeting/lunch so I don't even get lunch off. God I'm so tired. I come home, eat dinner, check my snail/e mail, shower and then go to sleep.

I've been promised a raise in about a month so we'll see how that goes. I want to look for another job but when I come home, I don't even have the energy to seriously look. I almost didn't pay my cellphone bill, not cause of money, but cause I'm so busy it slips my mind.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: Cougar

Originally posted by: ThePresence
When I was looking for a job a few months ago, I thought I had no life. I woke up late every day, did some freelance work during the day, and I hung out with friends every night. Then I went to bed feeling like a piece of crap every night for not having a steady income, and because I felt like I was wasting my life away. Now that I finally have a nice paying, full-time job, I feel like my life is over. I go to bed at 11:30 most nights (as opposed to 4:00 which I used to do), I wake up at 6:15 and drive 2 hours to work. My friends all think I died. I don't have a minute for myself. If I'm not waking up or going to sleep, I'm busy driving to and from work. I know this is my "welcome to the real world", but that doesn't mean I have to like it!

Well, what exactly are your friends doing that make their life so special? We all have to put our time in at our jobs so we can have money in our pocket to pay the bills and save for the future. I was the same way too for a while and I pretty much felt worthless. I couldn't find a job to save my life and I had no money but I had all the free time in the world. Now, I have some steady work and money in my pocket but less free time so I make the best with what little time I have. Life isn't all fun and games and that's something we all have to accept.

There's actually a guy I work with that doesn't take his job seriously at all. He's never on time, doesn't abide by the dress code, calls off when he's hung-over, and won't make any effort to do anything remotely beyond his job description. Somehow he's managed to survive in the "real-world" for the past couple years but you can mark my words that his time will come. Some day he's not going to have such a lenient boss and he's gonna get a hard dose of reality which he sorely deserves.

I guess that doesn't really have much to do with your situation, but I can guarantee you that if you were to live by my co-workers standards that you would get no where fast. I'm not about to become a corporate slave, but I don't envision myself being 35 years old working part time at McDonalds just so I have a "life".

My friends lives are not special at all. They're just my friends. My post was not meant to complain or whine. It was just a rude awakening. I don't plan to be a bad worker who doesn't show up on time etc.

 

[wyvrn]

This is why people do other things on the side like real estate and open businesses. They want a chance at retiring early and enjoying their life, instead of being stuck in an office for the majority of it. I work so hard now my social life suffers a bit, but, I can honestly see the time when I will retire because I have enough residual income from nearly self-sustaining business that I can focus my energy on doing what I WANT.

It's either that or be a bum and live on the street, which according to some of the bums I run into, isn't half bad