Transition from college to working 40 hours

[Nightfall]

Ok, it sounds like you aren't having a problem with the transition from college to work. You are having a problem with your job. The travel is stressing you out and you should start trying to find a way around it. Can you talk to your workplace about cutting your travel time? What about finding a new job? It is always easier to find another job while you already have one.

As for me, it was easy to transition. Especially if you love your job, and I do love mine.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
LOL. Welcome to the real fvcking world.

Try thinking about the people who don't have nice jobs, who work 60+ hours a week, just to almost pay the bills.

^ My parents.

 

[realsup]

Originally posted by: Rickten

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: TallBill
Uh, 40 hours a week is nothing. Its called life. Deal with it. You'll be working the next 30-40 years, probably more hours in the future.

QFT! LOL@40 hours. The most successful people I know work upwards of 80 hours per week.

successful how? they make a bunch of money and have no time to enjoy it except for three weeks out of the year when they go on vacation. I don't call that success.

Maybe they enjoy there work?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
LOL. Welcome to the real fvcking world.

Try thinking about the people who don't have nice jobs, who work 60+ hours a week, just to almost pay the bills.

^ My parents.

Mine too. But they accept it, and they are happy. OP should learn from there, IMHO.

 

[midwestfisherman]

qwitcherbitchin! Be glad that you're employed. Oh and, welcome to the real world.

 

[Rickten]

Originally posted by: realsup

Originally posted by: Rickten

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: TallBill
Uh, 40 hours a week is nothing. Its called life. Deal with it. You'll be working the next 30-40 years, probably more hours in the future.

QFT! LOL@40 hours. The most successful people I know work upwards of 80 hours per week.

successful how? they make a bunch of money and have no time to enjoy it except for three weeks out of the year when they go on vacation. I don't call that success.

Maybe they enjoy there work?

I guess, I enjoy my work but wouldn't want it to consume my life.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Rickten

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: TallBill
Uh, 40 hours a week is nothing. Its called life. Deal with it. You'll be working the next 30-40 years, probably more hours in the future.

QFT! LOL@40 hours. The most successful people I know work upwards of 80 hours per week.

successful how? they make a bunch of money and have no time to enjoy it except for three weeks out of the year when they go on vacation. I don't call that success.

that's great, similarly, some people don't call being middle-class success

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: gopunk
that's great, similarly, some people don't call being middle-class success

Omg, you are still alive? Where have you been?

 

[Sphexi]

You kidding? I spent 30 hours a week during school and homework, plus I worked 30+ hours a week at a job while in school. 40 hours a week is like a vacation to me, I get bored all the time.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Rickten

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: TallBill
Uh, 40 hours a week is nothing. Its called life. Deal with it. You'll be working the next 30-40 years, probably more hours in the future.

QFT! LOL@40 hours. The most successful people I know work upwards of 80 hours per week.

successful how? they make a bunch of money and have no time to enjoy it except for three weeks out of the year when they go on vacation. I don't call that success.

Well, they're like 25-26 and make $300K a year (and will make twice that in two more years of work). If they manage it right, which I'm sure they do since they're both into finance, they can retire at 30! Work your ass off now while you have the health to do it. Have fun later.

 

[OS]

look for another job if you aren't happy or go back to school to study something else.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Well, they're like 25-26 and make $300K a year (and will make twice that in two more years of work). If they manage it right, which I'm sure they do since they're both into finance, they can retire at 30! Work your ass off now while you have the health to do it. Have fun later.

Man, I'd love to make $300k a year, and not raise my living standards based off of my $30k salary. Talk about early retirement.

 

[ngvepforever2]

hey....try working 40 hours and going to college full time

Somehow...once the exams end by mid december, working only 40 hours seems like a blessing.

Regards

ng

 

[Xyo II]

Pull an Office Space if you really don't like your job that much. I work 40 hours a week during the summer (in high school), 27 hours a week during school. I would be working a hell of a lot more if WI laws didn't prohibit my working hours this much, but until I turn 18 in February, right now 27 is all I can work.

 

[redgtxdi]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Well, they're like 25-26 and make $300K a year (and will make twice that in two more years of work). If they manage it right, which I'm sure they do since they're both into finance, they can retire at 30! Work your ass off now while you have the health to do it. Have fun later.

Ha........that's the problem. You make $30K, you live your life @ $30K. You make $300K, you live your life @ $300K. I've seen it far too often. It is BEYOND RARE to find folks who make $300K and live their life the same as someone who makes $30K.

There's also a whole lot more to retirement than "to stop working"!! A lot.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: redgtxdi

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Well, they're like 25-26 and make $300K a year (and will make twice that in two more years of work). If they manage it right, which I'm sure they do since they're both into finance, they can retire at 30! Work your ass off now while you have the health to do it. Have fun later.

Ha........that's the problem. You make $30K, you live your life @ $30K. You make $300K, you live your life @ $300K. I've seen it far too often. It is BEYOND RARE to find folks who make $300K and live their life the same as someone who makes $30K.

There's also a whole lot more to retirement than "to stop working"!! A lot.

I try to share this point with my wife as we save up more money.

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: Keego
Did anyone else have a problem going from college to working 40 hours a week? I got a nice paying job 6 months ago and it's exactly what I want to do, but I find myself hating it more and more.

I work for a corporate department that does a lot of travel. At the start, they said it was going to be 25% but so far it's about 40%. I had to give my cat to my parents because I was gone literally every other week. My $700 apartment sits empty for half a month. I end up traveling on weekends, so it's like I don't even get a break from work My apartment looks so messy right now because whenever I'm home, I literally crash on the bed or the couch and that's it.

I got a job straight out of college with less than a week of break between graduation and starting, so it didn't help with the problem

What can I do to reduce the stress?
I could move to one of the plants and get the same job title, but it'd get rid of the corporate pay and it'd get rid of the notoriety of working at corporate too
I could drink more but drinking alone is bad.

Get a job where you aren't traveling. I tried that when I first moved to Phoenix. It was cool for about two months and then I said, "Why did I move to Phoenix if I'm never going to be there?" It didn't take long to get old.

 

[iversonyin]

Originally posted by: redgtxdi

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Well, they're like 25-26 and make $300K a year (and will make twice that in two more years of work). If they manage it right, which I'm sure they do since they're both into finance, they can retire at 30! Work your ass off now while you have the health to do it. Have fun later.

Ha........that's the problem. You make $30K, you live your life @ $30K. You make $300K, you live your life @ $300K. I've seen it far too often. It is BEYOND RARE to find folks who make $300K and live their life the same as someone who makes $30K.

There's also a whole lot more to retirement than "to stop working"!! A lot.

I think he's talking about investment bankers. Those guys work 80+ hours and make about $300k a year. Some of them live their life at $300k some of them still live a normal live and retired early or start their own business later on.

Either way $300k a year definitely better then $30k a year. Imagine you make $30k a year doing 9-5. If you triple your output to 120 hrs week, you only make $120k compare to $300k. It make sense to go that route if you want to work that many hours.

 

[Chaotic42]

I go to school and work 40 hours. When school's out, I don't know what to do with myself because I'm only gone 9 hours per day.

Buck up.

 

[iversonyin]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I go to school and work 40 hours. When school's out, I don't know what to do with myself because I'm only gone 9 hours per day.

Buck up.

Same here. this guy a wimp.

 

[redgtxdi]

Originally posted by: iversonyin

I think he's talking about investment bankers. Those guys work 80+ hours and make about $300k a year. Some of them live their life at $300k some of them still live a normal live and retired early or start their own business later on.

Either way $300k a year definitely better then $30k a year. Imagine you make $30k a year doing 9-5. If you triple your output to 120 hrs week, you only make $120k compare to $300k. It make sense to go that route if you want to work that many hours.

Again, I will repeat...........RARELY do these people.........(scratch that)..............rarely CAN these people discipline themselves to live like that. I've been there myself (not $300K, but close) and it's darn near impossible.

Sure $300K vs. $30K *can* mean making life easier (financially) but there's a lot more to life than making a lot of money. I know a couple right now who make about $400K/yr combined right now & they can't have children. They'd live in poverty if they could make a child of their own. It's wearing on their relationship. I don't know if they'll still be married in 5 years.

I commend the OP for expressing his feelings on the matter of the working world.

From here, I'd suggest to the OP that he look for a different area of work. If you can, find something that you enjoy doing every day. It's hard to say you love to do something every day, but at the worst, find something that you find you're able to get up & do every day without feeling the way you do now.

 

[Slew Foot]

Try being a medicine resident, youll get 70-80 hours a week an average.

 

[cressida]

Originally posted by: redgtxdi

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Well, they're like 25-26 and make $300K a year (and will make twice that in two more years of work). If they manage it right, which I'm sure they do since they're both into finance, they can retire at 30! Work your ass off now while you have the health to do it. Have fun later.

Ha........that's the problem. You make $30K, you live your life @ $30K. You make $300K, you live your life @ $300K. I've seen it far too often. It is BEYOND RARE to find folks who make $300K and live their life the same as someone who makes $30K.

There's also a whole lot more to retirement than "to stop working"!! A lot.

Spoken so true.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

This is exactly what happends when mom and dad pay for your college education.

I had to work ~40 hours a week and goto college full time at the same time for FOUR YEARS. You've got it easy son.

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
This is exactly what happends when mom and dad pay for your college education.

I had to work ~40 hours a week and goto college full time at the same time for FOUR YEARS. You've got it easy son.

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