9-5 Life Is Hell

punching the clock, seeing the same poeple everyday, sitting in my little cubicle staring into space, walking around like a zombie, drive home completely drained of all energy. do this everyday for 40 more years...

how did our parents do it and not go crazy?

this is akin to chinese water torture

Make it a challenge to move up in the company then. Give yourself some challenges so you're not bored all the time, and you can only benefit from them.

I voted the 3rd option but found the 4th one a good choice too.... Don't take it personally though. I actually like my job and the 9 to 5 shift, weekends off, I like it.

No, 6-6 life is hell -- as is 4pm-12am.

Would rather work 4 10-hour days a week rather than 5 8-hour days, though.

It's not bad when you're doing something you enjoy.

I'm doing programming and problem solving. It's enough to keep me busy but not enough to keep me occupied out of work hours.

I'm a graphic designer for a small t-shirt printing company and i work the 9-to-5 schedule, and i dont mind it. I get to work on new designs each day and im largely left on my own to do things. I get to listen to my music as a work and design stuff. The job is easy (for me) and moderately satisfying; I wish the pay was better.

If you dislike your job, i dont think the scheduling is going to matter. Conversely, if you DO like your job, i also dont think the scheduling is going to matter/

No, 6-6 life is hell -- as is 4pm-12am.

Would rather work 4 10-hour days a week rather than 5 8-hour days, though.

coolbeans90

Second shift is the worst. I used to work 4-12. Your social life is gone when you work that shift.

That's why I've always made a point of making as much time for myself as humanly possible. Go to work.....come home and relax.....f*ck the rest.

But thankfully, the normal hours where I was working before was four ten hour days.

Graveyard shifts suck :(

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

No, 6-6 life is hell -- as is 4pm-12am.

Would rather work 4 10-hour days a week rather than 5 8-hour days, though.

Wasdie

Second shift is the worst. I used to work 4-12. Your social life is gone when you work that shift.

I used to work 11pm to 7am.... Tuesday to Saturday. Fvcking killed me for that year. Now, I'm on a 9-5 shift and love it....

No, 6-6 life is hell -- as is 4pm-12am.

Would rather work 4 10-hour days a week rather than 5 8-hour days, though.

coolbeans90

Worked at an alarm central once and one of my colleagues worked 4 10-hour shift days. Sunday to Thursday. Best shift ever.

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

No, 6-6 life is hell -- as is 4pm-12am.

Would rather work 4 10-hour days a week rather than 5 8-hour days, though.

DeadMan1290

Second shift is the worst. I used to work 4-12. Your social life is gone when you work that shift.

I used to work 11pm to 7am.... Tuesday to Saturday. Fvcking killed me for that year. Now, I'm on a 9-5 shift and love it....

Night shift... I was doing 5 days of 11pm - 7:30am for awhile there. It wasn't too bad at first since I was working on my own and I was able to blast my music the whole time. But yeah.....when you're working on your own, it does get hard to keep pushing yourself after awhile.

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

No, 6-6 life is hell -- as is 4pm-12am.

Would rather work 4 10-hour days a week rather than 5 8-hour days, though.

DeadMan1290

Second shift is the worst. I used to work 4-12. Your social life is gone when you work that shift.

I used to work 11pm to 7am.... Tuesday to Saturday. Fvcking killed me for that year. Now, I'm on a 9-5 shift and love it....

I would actually take a 3rd shift over a 2nd shift. I used to work a swing shift. Some weeks I would be 1st shift, others 2nd, and sometimes 3rd. I hated 2nd shift the most.

Once I got my sleeping pattern down, 3rd shift wasn't bad.

punching the clock, seeing the same poeple everyday, sitting in my little cubicle staring into space, walking around like a zombie, drive home completely drained of all energy. do this everyday for 40 more years...

how did our parents do it and not go crazy?

this is akin to chinese water torture

black_chamber99

If you think working 9-5 is hell...you have ALOT of living to do. That is a good shift number one. Number two if you don't like your job, do something about it. Number three, hell is when you are one of the thousands of people applying for a decent job everyday WISHING they had a 9-5. That's hell.

I steadfastly maintain that the hardest job is looking for a job.

I steadfastly maintain that the hardest job is looking for a job.

sayyy-gaa

Particularly now.

i wish we had 4 day work weeks and work generally start at like 10am and go to like 4pm. people would be happier.ZumaJones07

In other words a part time job.

Hey I've seen that movie, 9-5! :P

I work closing which still suck.

Sounds like the lifestyle of a robot.

I think we as Americans work too much, I don't think humans were meant to work most of the day away, in fact I think our work schedual is part of the reason why we have alot of problems in our society like divorces, bad kids, depression ect....

Think about it, 24 hours in a day, 12 hours of sunlight, you work about 8 hours of those 12 away, that leaves you with only 4 hours of downtime to enjoy life. Which is cut even shorter since you have to go to bed in order to work the next day, that really leaves you with just about 2 hours. 2 hours, that's it!

If your married you hardly see you spouse, you hardly spend time with them, no wonder why people cheat on each other, they are hardly around their husband/wife.

If you have kids then you also hardly get to spend time with them, with both parents working more and more now kids often have no adult at home and are bound to get into all kinds of trouble. Depression sits in as you grow tired of the job, if you don't like it this is what you do every day and mostly all the time.

IMO if you don't like a job it's not worth doing, however I have no kids so I can do that, for people that do they have to provide for their family. I remember once I worked in this terribel boxing job for a factory. I hated every single moment of it, it was such a mind numbing menail task.

I went to bed every night depressed and agnry because I didn't want to go to my job, one day it was my lunch break and I just walked off and drove off to the coast. Never went back, not worth it.

In the 50's people thought we would all be working about 15 hours a week by 2000. Boy were they wrong. What's even more sad is we work more than any other western country, we are just barely above China in labor hours!

CNN.com - Study: U.S. workers put in most hours - August 31, 2001

Do you want this kind of future? Do you want your kids to work the kind of hours we do? I think people should have more time to enjoy life and be happy instead of wasting away by working. More time to learn and grow, instead of working just to live, because that isn't really living now is it?

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

No, 6-6 life is hell -- as is 4pm-12am.

Would rather work 4 10-hour days a week rather than 5 8-hour days, though.

DeadMan1290

Second shift is the worst. I used to work 4-12. Your social life is gone when you work that shift.

I used to work 11pm to 7am.... Tuesday to Saturday. Fvcking killed me for that year. Now, I'm on a 9-5 shift and love it....

Not only that, but late night/grave yard shifts have negative health effects and can increase risk for heart attacks and diabeties ect....

ShadowMoses900

You are forgetting a few things here bud. We do work more than our parents and their parents, but U.S. is no longer an industrial country. We are a service country. That means people like me spend the majority of their days working in the AC at a computer desk in a comfy position.

Not in the sun building roads, or in a very hot factory making product, or in a field picking cotton.

Second, if you enjoy what you do, that goes a long way. Third, working hard is just life. If it's worth having, it's worth working for. If you don't want to work so hard don't, but don't blame everyone else for your problems, and don't get mad when I don't give you any of the money you'll be asking for under a bridge at a stop light.

This is not aimed directly at you, but working hard is just life man. Period.

I think we as Americans work too much, I don't think humans were meant to work most of the day away, in fact I think our work schedual is part of the reason why we have alot of problems in our society like divorces, bad kids, depression ect....

Think about it, 24 hours in a day, 12 hours of sunlight, you work about 8 hours of those 12 away, that leaves you with only 4 hours of downtime to enjoy life. Which is cut even shorter since you have to go to bed in order to work the next day, that really leaves you with just about 2 hours. 2 hours, that's it!

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ShadowMoses900

How do you only have 2 hours of free time? :? In a 9-5 job, you're probably home at 5:30, and usually a lot of people stay up until 10-11, so I'd say you have 4.5-5.5 hours free time.

[QUOTE="coolbeans90"]

No, 6-6 life is hell -- as is 4pm-12am.

Would rather work 4 10-hour days a week rather than 5 8-hour days, though.

Wasdie

Second shift is the worst. I used to work 4-12. Your social life is gone when you work that shift.

just be happy you aren't working til like 11pm or the overnight

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

sayyy-gaa

You are forgetting a few things here bud. We do work more than our parents and their parents, but U.S. is no longer an industrial country. We are a service country. That means people like me spend the majority of their days working in the AC at a computer desk in a comfy position.

Not in the sun building roads, or in a very hot factory making product, or in a field picking cotton.

Second, if you enjoy what you do, that goes a long way. Third, working hard is just life. If it's worth having, it's worth working for. If you don't want to work so hard don't, but don't blame everyone else for your problems, and don't get mad when I don't give you any of the money you'll be asking for under a bridge at a stop light.

This is not aimed directly at you, but working hard is just life man. Period.

Finding something you enjoy doing is improtant, but I find most people don't do jobs they enjoy, they only do them because they have to. Some do it because they want to support their family, it gives them a purpose. But being me I have no family as I'm only 22 so it might be different for me, but I can't stand working jobs I hate, just menail ones or ones I go home exhausted.

It's not worth it to me (right now anyway). Mabey it might sound like I'm lazy, but I just think enjoying life is the most important. Guess I should find something I enjoy doing then.... Still doesn't change my point though, why do we have to work so much? Why does it have to be a part of life?

I understand where your coming from but shouldn't we step back and look at the system? I for one think that people who work 40 hours a week should get more vaction time throughout the year, not just two weeks a year or whatever, like a month off or something.

I think we as Americans work too much, I don't think humans were meant to work most of the day away, in fact I think our work schedual is part of the reason why we have alot of problems in our society like divorces, bad kids, depression ect....

Think about it, 24 hours in a day, 12 hours of sunlight, you work about 8 hours of those 12 away, that leaves you with only 4 hours of downtime to enjoy life. Which is cut even shorter since you have to go to bed in order to work the next day, that really leaves you with just about 2 hours. 2 hours, that's it!

If your married you hardly see you spouse, you hardly spend time with them, no wonder why people cheat on each other, they are hardly around their husband/wife.

If you have kids then you also hardly get to spend time with them, with both parents working more and more now kids often have no adult at home and are bound to get into all kinds of trouble. Depression sits in as you grow tired of the job, if you don't like it this is what you do every day and mostly all the time.

IMO if you don't like a job it's not worth doing, however I have no kids so I can do that, for people that do they have to provide for their family. I remember once I worked in this terribel boxing job for a factory. I hated every single moment of it, it was such a mind numbing menail task.

I went to bed every night depressed and agnry because I didn't want to go to my job, one day it was my lunch break and I just walked off and drove off to the coast. Never went back, not worth it.

In the 50's people thought we would all be working about 15 hours a week by 2000. Boy were they wrong. What's even more sad is we work more than any other western country, we are just barely above China in labor hours!

CNN.com - Study: U.S. workers put in most hours - August 31, 2001

Do you want this kind of future? Do you want your kids to work the kind of hours we do? I think people should have more time to enjoy life and be happy instead of wasting away by working. More time to learn and grow, instead of working just to live, because that isn't really living now is it?

ShadowMoses900

I really don't find a problem in working 8 hours a day. I also don't agree when you say we work most of the day, I work from 9-5, I get home around 5:30pm then go out with my girlfriend to do groceries, have an ice cream, see a movie, or simply enjoy the nice weather out with a friend. I get home around 10-11, prepare my stuff for the next day, go to bed and stay on my laptop until maybe 12-1am and sleep, wake up the next day at 7:30am no problem. Of course in my case, we have no kids so I guess it's less of a hassle.

I also think weekends are meant to be spent with family and kids and whatever. I think those who get stressed to the point of cheating on their wife/husband simply can't handle their situation and are not worthy of having a family to provide for. Might as well just live by yourself.

Also if your job stresses you then you should find something better to do, something you like. Job hunt for a while without leaving your current job until you find something you know you'll like, THEN quit and move on.

I think we as Americans work too much, I don't think humans were meant to work most of the day away, in fact I think our work schedual is part of the reason why we have alot of problems in our society like divorces, bad kids, depression ect....

Think about it, 24 hours in a day, 12 hours of sunlight, you work about 8 hours of those 12 away, that leaves you with only 4 hours of downtime to enjoy life. Which is cut even shorter since you have to go to bed in order to work the next day, that really leaves you with just about 2 hours. 2 hours, that's it!

If your married you hardly see you spouse, you hardly spend time with them, no wonder why people cheat on each other, they are hardly around their husband/wife.

If you have kids then you also hardly get to spend time with them, with both parents working more and more now kids often have no adult at home and are bound to get into all kinds of trouble. Depression sits in as you grow tired of the job, if you don't like it this is what you do every day and mostly all the time.

IMO if you don't like a job it's not worth doing, however I have no kids so I can do that, for people that do they have to provide for their family. I remember once I worked in this terribel boxing job for a factory. I hated every single moment of it, it was such a mind numbing menail task.

I went to bed every night depressed and agnry because I didn't want to go to my job, one day it was my lunch break and I just walked off and drove off to the coast. Never went back, not worth it.

In the 50's people thought we would all be working about 15 hours a week by 2000. Boy were they wrong. What's even more sad is we work more than any other western country, we are just barely above China in labor hours!

CNN.com - Study: U.S. workers put in most hours - August 31, 2001

Do you want this kind of future? Do you want your kids to work the kind of hours we do? I think people should have more time to enjoy life and be happy instead of wasting away by working. More time to learn and grow, instead of working just to live, because that isn't really living now is it?

ShadowMoses900

I completely agree with this.

I think we as Americans work too much, I don't think humans were meant to work most of the day away, in fact I think our work schedual is part of the reason why we have alot of problems in our society like divorces, bad kids, depression ect....

Think about it, 24 hours in a day, 12 hours of sunlight, you work about 8 hours of those 12 away, that leaves you with only 4 hours of downtime to enjoy life. Which is cut even shorter since you have to go to bed in order to work the next day, that really leaves you with just about 2 hours. 2 hours, that's it!

If your married you hardly see you spouse, you hardly spend time with them, no wonder why people cheat on each other, they are hardly around their husband/wife.

If you have kids then you also hardly get to spend time with them, with both parents working more and more now kids often have no adult at home and are bound to get into all kinds of trouble. Depression sits in as you grow tired of the job, if you don't like it this is what you do every day and mostly all the time.

IMO if you don't like a job it's not worth doing, however I have no kids so I can do that, for people that do they have to provide for their family. I remember once I worked in this terribel boxing job for a factory. I hated every single moment of it, it was such a mind numbing menail task.

I went to bed every night depressed and agnry because I didn't want to go to my job, one day it was my lunch break and I just walked off and drove off to the coast. Never went back, not worth it.

In the 50's people thought we would all be working about 15 hours a week by 2000. Boy were they wrong. What's even more sad is we work more than any other western country, we are just barely above China in labor hours!

CNN.com - Study: U.S. workers put in most hours - August 31, 2001

Do you want this kind of future? Do you want your kids to work the kind of hours we do? I think people should have more time to enjoy life and be happy instead of wasting away by working. More time to learn and grow, instead of working just to live, because that isn't really living now is it?

ShadowMoses900

I really don't find a problem in working 8 hours a day. I also don't agree when you say we work most of the day, I work from 9-5, I get home around 5:30pm then go out with my girlfriend to do groceries, have an ice cream, see a movie, or simply enjoy the nice weather out with a friend. I get home around 10-11, prepare my stuff for the next day, go to bed and stay on my laptop until maybe 12-1am and sleep, wake up the next day at 7:30am no problem. Of course in my case, we have no kids so I guess it's less of a hassle.

I also think weekends are meant to be spent with family and kids and whatever. I think those who get stressed to the point of cheating on their wife/husband simply can't handle their situation and are not worthy of having a family to provide for. Might as well just live by yourself.

Also if your job stresses you then you should find something better to do, something you like. Job hunt for a while without leaving your current job until you find something you know you'll like, THEN quit and move on.

Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?

[QUOTE="DeadMan1290"]

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

Second shift is the worst. I used to work 4-12. Your social life is gone when you work that shift.

ShadowMoses900

I used to work 11pm to 7am.... Tuesday to Saturday. Fvcking killed me for that year. Now, I'm on a 9-5 shift and love it....

Not only that, but late night/grave yard shifts have negative health effects and can increase risk for heart attacks and diabeties ect....

Well, it made me lose have my weight. Which in my case is good, I was at 290lbs. in 2010. Now I'm at less than 240lbs. last time I checked.

[QUOTE="ShadowMoses900"]

sayyy-gaa

You are forgetting a few things here bud. We do work more than our parents and their parents, but U.S. is no longer an industrial country. We are a service country. That means people like me spend the majority of their days working in the AC at a computer desk in a comfy position.

Not in the sun building roads, or in a very hot factory making product, or in a field picking cotton.

Second, if you enjoy what you do, that goes a long way. Third, working hard is just life. If it's worth having, it's worth working for. If you don't want to work so hard don't, but don't blame everyone else for your problems, and don't get mad when I don't give you any of the money you'll be asking for under a bridge at a stop light.

This is not aimed directly at you, but working hard is just life man. Period.

I wish people would only work jobs they enjoyed, but I don't think most people do. I think most people just work just to live, or they work to support their family even though they don't like their jobs. Which makes sense, but I don't have that problem yet because I'm too young (22), mabey I will later some day. Mabey it sounds like I'm lazy, but I don't think it's right that people have to work so much.

I don't know why people don't want to step back and rethink the system, why does working hard have to a part of life? Why do we have to spend most of our days doing tasks we hate and coming home exhausted? IMO everyone that works 40 hours a week should get more time off, not just the 2 weeks a year crap, I mean like a whole month off. I think if our money had more value then we wouldn't have to work so much, people could afford to live a comfortable life and provide for their families without doing the 9-5 thing.

Better than 8-5... but also, we are a pretty lazy generation. Franklinstein

I'm currently unemployed and probably will be until July at the earliest, but when I did work at McD's it was 7:00AM to 5:00PM, 8:30AM to 6:00PM and 11:00AM until 11:00PM, including weekends. It sucked but not because of the hours, but because I was one of two adults(the other being the shift supervisor) working alongside some of the most spoiled teenagers(which is to be expected since it was located in a high socioeconomic area ). Myself and the other adult ended up quitting mid shift because after working 2 hours under a scorching sun, hauling heavy boxes from our weekly shipment, we stopped to drink some water and the store manager yelled at us and treated us like we were her slaves, like we're not allowed to have a sip unless she lets us. I can take all kinds of abuse, but telling me not to hydrate after working my ass off for two hours when it's 35 degrees celsius in the shade doesn't fly. But if you're working with and under good people, then any shift no matter if it's 9-5 or 6-6 can be enjoyable. So I'm gonna go with #2, "You're exaggerating, working life ain't so bad". :)EatShanna

I feel ya. I used to work at McDonald's full time overnight shift, 40 hours a week, Tuesday to Saturday, NEVER took a weekend off, because the little kids couldn't do overnight because they couldn't sleep right after that, so one day I asked the Store Manager to PLEASE give me a AT LEAST one Saturday off and he told me this: ''You're not entitled to have a weekend off, because no one wants to work overnight on weekends.'' I understood, but every night I would come into the restaurant and it'd be a zoo, the closing managers never did sh!t and the spoiled 16 year old brats wouldn't a damn thing, so one day I decided to simply never go back, I gave back the uniform and since then I do not regret my decision.

I'm currently unemployed and probably will be until July at the earliest, but when I did work at McD's it was 7:00AM to 5:00PM, 8:30AM to 6:00PM and 11:00AM until 11:00PM, including weekends. It sucked but not because of the hours, but because I was one of two adults(the other being the shift supervisor) working alongside some of the most spoiled teenagers(which is to be expected since it was located in a high socioeconomic area ). Myself and the other adult ended up quitting mid shift because after working 2 hours under a scorching sun, hauling heavy boxes from our weekly shipment, we stopped to drink some water and the store manager yelled at us and treated us like we were her slaves, like we're not allowed to have a sip unless she lets us. I can take all kinds of abuse, but telling me not to hydrate after working my ass off for two hours when it's 35 degrees celsius in the shade doesn't fly. But if you're working with and under good people, then any shift no matter if it's 9-5 or 6-6 can be enjoyable. So I'm gonna go with #2, "You're exaggerating, working life ain't so bad". :)EatShanna

sounds rough, man. I hope you find something sooner.

Working life needs to be engaging for people to be trully happy. Or else it all becomes mechanical and monotonous and the thought of going to work litereally depresses you.

[QUOTE="Franklinstein"]Better than 8-5... but also, we are a pretty lazy generation. Animatronic64

[QUOTE="Franklinstein"]Better than 8-5... but also, we are a pretty lazy generation. Animatronic64

My first ever job was at a warehouse, pretty big company at the time, I asked some of the people there how long they've been working in that company and some said 20 years others 10, others 15. I was amazed because all these people did EVERYDAY was pick up boxes and change labels and nothing else. I always say tio myself that I don't see myself in ONE company or ONE job doing the same thing for the rest of my life.

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[QUOTE="Franklinstein"]Better than 8-5... but also, we are a pretty lazy generation. Franklinstein

Sounds rough, man. I hope you find something sooner.

Zaibach

Thank you, I appreciate that.

I hope there is a job for me out there, I'm not terribly picky and will work at anything from cleaning to scraping road kill. :P

Anything except being a waiter, I don't think I'll be very good at that.

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Sounds rough, man. I hope you find something sooner.

EatShanna

Thank you, I appreciate that.

I hope there is a job for me out there, I'm not terribly picky and will work at anything from cleaning to scraping road kill. :P

Anything except being a waiter, I don't think I'll be very good at that.

It's all about looking and finding the right thing for you. Takes a while, but when you find it, you'll love it.

Yes, its probably insane, but thats life for most.

You just have to make the most of what you're given i guess.