Chunking away

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Does anyone else feel like their just grinding away; each day you go into work so you can come home and do things for a few hours, before having to go to work again?

I got into this huge debate about how one is supposed to spend all their time at work knowing that when they get off, they can do the things that make them happy. Seems to me that a goo portion of us are not doing that, and thus, missing out on the things that keep us going.

I don't know, dumb topic. I just thought I'd put something else up here.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I think I can totally relate to this. I work for 6 days with only Sunday off. Let me just say that one day off isn't enough. Last night I got home at 9:00 pm. I normally go to bed at 11:00. 2 hours is not enough for me-time, wife-time, rest-time, life-time. I rarely see a day getting off before 5:00 pm. I got injured by falling off a ladder nearly 2 weeks ago and yet I still work. The job makes you feel bad taking time off. And everyone else suffers when one or more of the technicians don't show up for work. It's time to move on but I hardly have the energy to search. I just know I can't do this same thing for the next five years.

I try to do the things that make me happy. Unfortunately, that is only good for me, not the others in my family. While they get to do whatever they want all day, they expect my attention at night. What about the things that I want to do?

It hurts just to think.

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I think I can totally relate to this. I work for 6 days with only Sunday off. Let me just say that one day off isn't enough. Last night I got home at 9:00 pm. I normally go to bed at 11:00. 2 hours is not enough for me-time, wife-time, rest-time, life-time. I rarely see a day getting off before 5:00 pm. I got injured by falling off a ladder nearly 2 weeks ago and yet I still work. The job makes you feel bad taking time off. And everyone else suffers when one or more of the technicians don't show up for work. It's time to move on but I hardly have the energy to search. I just know I can't do this same thing for the next five years.

I try to do the things that make me happy. Unfortunately, that is only good for me, not the others in my family. While they get to do whatever they want all day, they expect my attention at night. What about the things that I want to do?

It hurts just to think.

Yeah I agree, and I think this is a huge problem that we don't always take into consideration. We don't really get to spend enough time by ourselves, or really focus on the things that make us happy. Occationally we'll do something like go boating or fishing, or whatever makes us smile, but really, think how often that really happens? It seems to me that we as a nation have somewhat given up that bit of our lives that we had when we were children to somewhat compensate for our 'responsibility.'

That's not to say that we all should get rid of responsibility, I just think that we all need to make sure that there is something that actually keeps us going. As you said LOTD, you work really late, and you only have 2 hours or so of your day that you can use for whatever you want. It seems to me that if that were the case, you'd never really have time to do anything that consistently makes you happy, especially if it's late at night, and winding down to where you have to go to bed for work the next morning.

I certainly know that I feel the same way, when I have people over and whatnot, and then, all of a sudden, it's 1030 or so, and they're leaving and I have to get ready to shut down for the night. It just seems like those few hours that I have, I'm somewhat forced to make a decision on what I want to do, and sometimes feel bad that I have to stick to just one.

[comrvf]

i try too have at least a few hours by my self each day thats the main reason ive gotten into bonsai its sometihing i can get away from all things and get into my world and its helping me with my contion

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Something interesting to note, and I don't mean this in a "sour milk" sort of way, but going along the lines of this thread, I noticed that when my girlfriend and her room mate headed out of town last week, that was the first time in nearly 3 months that I had a night to myself.

It's interesting how little time I really do have, and more interesting, it seems that more often than not, I'm the one choosing to give up that freedom. I want Kat to come over and hang out with me, but when the night is done, I can't say that I've really had some time to myself.

I don't know, just wanted to write something.

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I feel like the cycle has begun again, that things are just chunking along. One days events lead to a night of rest in preparation for the next day. Anyone having this problem again? Must be the weather?

[tiremonkey2000]

Yea, i've been having this problem for awhile now. Getting up every morning at 6am leaving for work by 7am getting home from work after 6pm everyday. Tends to wear you out real quick, oops forgot about the 4 hrs. i work on saturday mornings also. Stuck in the same routine really sucks.....

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

I think I can totally relate to this. I work for 6 days with only Sunday off. Let me just say that one day off isn't enough. Last night I got home at 9:00 pm. I normally go to bed at 11:00. 2 hours is not enough for me-time, wife-time, rest-time, life-time. I rarely see a day getting off before 5:00 pm. I got injured by falling off a ladder nearly 2 weeks ago and yet I still work. The job makes you feel bad taking time off. And everyone else suffers when one or more of the technicians don't show up for work. It's time to move on but I hardly have the energy to search. I just know I can't do this same thing for the next five years.

I try to do the things that make me happy. Unfortunately, that is only good for me, not the others in my family. While they get to do whatever they want all day, they expect my attention at night. What about the things that I want to do?

It hurts just to think.

::Update::

Just 5 weeks after this post, things changed. Aside from getting a supervisor's position, I no longer have the dreaded hours mentioned above. The pay is less but I have more me and family time. I will be asking for a raise soon as they should realize how good a deal they got by promoting me by now. A bit more money and it will be easier to breathe. :shades:

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I'm really glad to hear that LOTD! Glad to hear that things are improving!