Being a 9-5er sucks

[mothballs]

I saw this post on FB about a week ago comparing shift workers to 9-5ers. It was portraying shift work to be hell, and 9-5 work to be great. All these shift workers complaining and saying "9-5ers don't understand how good they have it".

I worked shift work at one point in my life but now I work 9-5. I hate 9-5 way more. The thing with shift work is that you either have days off in between or night shifts. So if you need to catch up on sleep, you only work a day or two, then sleep in the next day. I absolutely detest waking up early (I'm a night owl), and I have to do it 5 days in a row with no breaks. So if I'm sleep deprived on Tuesday, I'm fucked because I have to wake up early for 3 more days in a row after that with no breaks to catch up on sleep.

They say I can come home on weekdays and enjoy my evenings, but I really can't. When I get home I'm exhausted and don't have the energy to do things that I normally like to do (play drums, go to the gym etc) so by the time I eat and shower and whatnot, it's time to go to bed and repeat the same annoying process the next day. It feels like it's all I ever do. The schedule is extremely monotonous and boring. I have weekends off, but so do my parents and the rest of the world which means I can never have the house to myself anymore or be off on a day where I don't have to deal with people. Like seriously, Saturday and Sunday are like the two most obnoxious days to be off on.

Also, even though 9-5 jobs are usually better jobs and pay more, the people who work them are usually miserable adults that have no sense of humor. My shift jobs usually had college kids my age that were more fun to work with and liked to go out and do stuff, there were more girls who liked to hang out etc.

/rant

Discuss how bad I have it living in the 1st world with a job a car and a roof over my head

[Boomstick]

It really does suck, I work 2 jobs, one is part time but on weekends.

I wake up fucking early for the part time job and as soon as I'm off I have to go to my full-time job. the days I have off, no one wants to do anything, so it really makes me depressed that I am bound to my job.

I wouldn't quit though, pay is good and I can't complain about my benefits.

[Fro]

I've done both now, my current 7-4 job is by far superior than the rotating shift I've ever had, but the biggest downfall (And only downfall in my opinion) is that when I get home at the end of my shift I do a couple of things, then am too tired to do anything.

It's a big downfall, but by Saturday afternoon I'm fully refreshed. Wednesday - Friday is a complete torture though.

[generalwinter]

I usually work 7-4 or 8-5 with a mandatory hour lunch, I enjoy these hours personally on account of I can eat dinner at a normal time.

[Timsplosion]

I've been putting in 8 hour days recently, and the only way I can really bare them is if I'm working from home and roll out of bed to my desk and start before I've had breakfast or got dressed or anything. My commute to the studio is usually what kills me. I wake up at 7, and by 8 I'm ready to go and out the door, but I don't get into work until nearly 10 cos I rely on two buses and a work shuttle van that finishes up the last leg of the journey. When I have to leave the flat to go to work, it's a rare day that I stay til 5.

[Scintillating]

At 12/15/17 07:47 PM, yurgenburgen wrote:

At 12/15/17 02:40 PM, mothballs wrote: I absolutely detest waking up early (I'm a night owl), and I have to do it 5 days in a row with no breaks

lol
what a nightmare
i get up at 4:30 on workdays and 4:00 a.m. on my days off and am awake all day
if working eight hours a day on a fixed schedule is too much for you, i don't know what to suggest other than go back to pre-school
as soon as my alarm goes off in the morning i'm already half out of bed. wide awake within a few minutes
change your diet and start exercising in the morning and evening and everything else in between becomes a breeze

False. I'm willing to bet my entire life and savings that morning person/evening person is determined at an epigenetic level, and can't change (except with age). I read an article about tribal people waking up spontaneously in "shifts", with no person or persons organizing it. It's instinctual. They said the older folks go to sleep earlier and wake up earlier.

[Malachy]

I've always ever had either part time weekend jobs or shift work. As I've moved up I've had a little more control over my own schedule but I'm always at the mercy of business demands. Sometimes that means I gotta work a night shift or work 10 days in a row without a day off or I have 5 days off in a week because there's no business.

Now that the spousal unit has a Monday-Friday (Although not a 9-5) I am a little jealous that she has weekends and holidays off work. There's something to be said for having a regular schedule and knowing ahead of time when you'll be available for things when friends and family want to make plans.

I guess I would like a 9-5er job but maybe it's not just the hours. Those types of jobs usually don't vary much day to day. You may be doing the same tasks every day and I bet that can get old quick. And having that monotonous type of job with a very structured schedule can really wear you down - I know I hated high school but loved college and I think a lot of that was getting away from strict structure.

[Ultramartyr]

i would want to kill myself working 9-5. i work 12 hour night shifts, 4 days on, 4 days off, overtime if i want it. i will NEVER get off this schedule. i am a night owl through and through, i like making my money all at once then having 3 or 4 days off.

[Sensationalism]

7:30 -4:30 was the best shift I've worked.

[mothballs]

At 12/15/17 03:27 PM, Fro wrote: the biggest downfall (And only downfall in my opinion) is that when I get home at the end of my shift I do a couple of things, then am too tired to do anything.

That's my main complaint too. Yeah I have a few hours to myself but I can't even enjoy it because I'm so tired when I get home. 2 days on the weekend just isn't enough to live my life.

At 12/15/17 05:47 PM, JosephStarr wrote: Sounds annoying, half the reason I like my workplace is because I don't have to deal with annoying 20-ish shitbags.
I bet they stand around and play on their phones instead of working like a bunch of 16 year old girls.

Oh don't get me wrong they can be annoying in their own ways believe me. But I'll take that any day over some fat miserable 50-year-old Irish woman who hasn't seen a penis in 20 years jumping down my throat about bullshit every 5 minutes because they take their job way too seriously.

At 12/15/17 07:47 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: lol
what a nightmare
i get up at 4:30 on workdays and 4:00 a.m. on my days off and am awake all day
if working eight hours a day on a fixed schedule is too much for you, i don't know what to suggest other than go back to pre-school
as soon as my alarm goes off in the morning i'm already half out of bed. wide awake within a few minutes
change your diet and start exercising in the morning and evening and everything else in between becomes a breeze

First of all man I just wanna say congratulations that you're happy with your schedule, and I'm very happy for you that you being a natural morning person is working out for you in your career.

However, I'm just not the same. I'm always tired as it is and I'm just not a morning person. It has nothing to do with my diet or my lifestyle, I've been an athlete my entire life and stick to a strict health diet where no junk food is involved. So for you to act like you know everything and brag about how great you are for not being bothered by it, maybe you should learn a little bit about other people's differences and stop acting like a smartass over the internet.

At 12/15/17 11:01 PM, Malachy wrote: I guess I would like a 9-5er job but maybe it's not just the hours. Those types of jobs usually don't vary much day to day. You may be doing the same tasks every day and I bet that can get old quick. And having that monotonous type of job with a very structured schedule can really wear you down - I know I hated high school but loved college and I think a lot of that was getting away from strict structure.

Pretty much. I always told people before this job that I'd love to be a 9-5er because it seems ideal, and people would tell me "no you're going to hate your life". I didn't believe them. Now I do. It's the same thing every single day over and over again, and I think the idea that I'm going to be doing this until I'm 70 years old and crippled is what scares the shit out of me the most.

At 12/16/17 12:00 AM, Ultramartyr wrote: i would want to kill myself working 9-5. i work 12 hour night shifts, 4 days on, 4 days off, overtime if i want it. i will NEVER get off this schedule. i am a night owl through and through, i like making my money all at once then having 3 or 4 days off.

That actually sounds ideal for me. May I ask what your job is?

[sharpnova]

One of the best parts of being wealthy, retired, and young, honestly is reading posts like this.

Seeing the misery of everyone else makes my prosperity all the sweeter.

[mothballs]

At 12/19/17 01:55 PM, slopndoodle wrote: everyone just needs to go to a how to eat pussy seminar

It's not that difficult, anyone who's bad at it should reconsider why they're alive

[Kieran]

At 12/19/17 10:39 AM, sharpnova wrote: One of the best parts of being wealthy, retired, and young, honestly is reading posts like this.

Seeing the misery of everyone else makes my prosperity all the sweeter.

money isnt everything you know

[lokeee]

At 12/19/17 05:46 PM, Dickbringer wrote:

At 12/19/17 10:39 AM, sharpnova wrote: One of the best parts of being wealthy, retired, and young, honestly is reading posts like this.

Seeing the misery of everyone else makes my prosperity all the sweeter.

money isnt everything you know

Pretty damn close though.

[S3C]

At 12/19/17 07:47 PM, lokeee wrote:

At 12/19/17 05:46 PM, Dickbringer wrote:

At 12/19/17 10:39 AM, sharpnova wrote: One of the best parts of being wealthy, retired, and young, honestly is reading posts like this.

Seeing the misery of everyone else makes my prosperity all the sweeter.

money isnt everything you know

Pretty damn close though.

40% money, 40% sex, 20% other stuff.

of course for males sex is 34% contingent on wealth(with the other major factors being height and penis size) or 100% if you purchase a legal escort, and 'other stuff' is largely dependent on wealth...so IOW, you are right.

[sharpnova]

At 12/19/17 05:46 PM, Dickbringer wrote: money isnt everything you know

Hmm. It's taken my life from being good to awesome.

[XwaynecoltX]

At 12/19/17 09:22 PM, sharpnova wrote: Hmm. It's taken my life from being good to awesome.

Yes money is good. 9-5 is notbad it pays the bills

~X~

[lokeee]

At 12/19/17 08:42 PM, S3C wrote:

At 12/19/17 07:47 PM, lokeee wrote:

At 12/19/17 05:46 PM, Dickbringer wrote:

At 12/19/17 10:39 AM, sharpnova wrote: One of the best parts of being wealthy, retired, and young, honestly is reading posts like this.

Seeing the misery of everyone else makes my prosperity all the sweeter.

money isnt everything you know

Pretty damn close though.

40% money, 40% sex, 20% other stuff.

of course for males sex is 34% contingent on wealth(with the other major factors being height and penis size) or 100% if you purchase a legal escort, and 'other stuff' is largely dependent on wealth...so IOW, you are right.

Lol damn you're pulling out the statistics here. I was just saying that money isn't shit on its own, but it's how you use your money that matters. Work hard, make good money, budget and invest it wisely so you can live an easy life later.

What really matters is just being happy doing what you do every day. That's why people hate a 9-5 grind. It doesn't make them happy, they're just there for a paycheck and if they quit they would be replaced in less than a week.

As for sex, I'd choose work over bitches.

[Ultramartyr]

At 12/20/17 12:36 AM, JosephStarr wrote: That actually does sounds really good, what do you do?

At 12/19/17 10:35 AM, mothballs wrote: That actually sounds ideal for me. May I ask what your job is?

i work for a Duro-Last sub company called Plastatech. there's 4 main departments that all produce different components for Duro-Last roofing material and assemble them together, and i work in the Knitting department, which produces a woven material called scrim that goes in between two film sheets and then is laminated. my job is basically to keep 8 industrial-sized knitting machines (you can do jumping jacks inside them) running as much as possible. make repairs, thread them, replace parts, etc. it's a pretty dope job, physically easy but you need to be smart to work in that department in particular. i get to drive a fork truck too :).

[Halberd]

I'm tempted to just get a night shift job because my sleep schedule is always fucked and probably no one else my young age wants to do the job. I'll have to deal with all the midnight crazies though.

And I don't understand how 9-5ers can even have a life outside of work. Get home and you're exhausted, have only a few hours of free time (even less if you have to commute, buy groceries and other chores, have to work back if you're really unlucky) god forbid you have kids

[mothballs]

At 12/19/17 08:42 PM, S3C wrote: of course for males sex is 34% contingent on wealth(with the other major factors being height and penis size)

Bullshit. Not all girls are gold diggers. Some will fuck just as long as you have a dick.

At 12/19/17 11:37 PM, XwaynecoltX wrote:

At 12/19/17 09:22 PM, sharpnova wrote: Hmm. It's taken my life from being good to awesome.

Yes money is good. 9-5 is notbad it pays the bills

~X~

Not for me. I work at a title company but I'm a receptionist (they told me initially I'd be moving up to a better position quickly, which never happened yet and probably won't). I went to college for 5 years and graduated with a Bachelor's in Business Management, apparently just so I can answer 500 phone calls a day for $12/hr. Not to mention I have $40,000 in federal loans from school to pay off, so this job just isn't cutting it. All the girls who work in the higher up (and more tolerable) positions in my company never went to college. I'm more than qualified yet I'm stuck in this position.

But tbh I probably won't be working here very often, because A. I hate it B. I'm not making enough money and C. I've heard gossip around here (it's a small company) that they've been complaining about me and my job performance so they're probably going to get rid of me soon if I don't quit myself. I'd like to see someone else do this mind numbing shit I do every day

At 12/20/17 03:17 AM, Halberd wrote: I'm tempted to just get a night shift job because my sleep schedule is always fucked and probably no one else my young age wants to do the job. I'll have to deal with all the midnight crazies though.

And I don't understand how 9-5ers can even have a life outside of work. Get home and you're exhausted, have only a few hours of free time (even less if you have to commute, buy groceries and other chores, have to work back if you're really unlucky) god forbid you have kids

Before this job I worked security, where I'd sit in a booth outside a gated community and scan cars that came by. I worked overnights, which was 12am-8am, three nights a week. Since it was overnight there was barely any work to do except just stay up and keep busy. I always stayed up all night anyway, so staying up till 8am wasn't bad for me. I'd get home at around 8:30, eat something and whatnot, go to sleep at 9am.

But then it got worse. 9am became 9:30. Then 10am. Then 11am. Soon enough I found myself going to sleep at 2pm, and waking up at 11pm for work at midnight. I'd be waking up at that hour eating breakfast like it was normal. It got so fucked up to the point where I hadn't seen daylight in so long that every time I was outside in the daytime the sunlight would burn my eyes and I had to go back inside. I probably would have stayed with that job if it paid more, but it just wasn't worth it.

[S3C]

At 12/20/17 10:31 AM, SansNumbers wrote:

At 12/20/17 12:02 AM, lokeee wrote:

At 12/19/17 08:42 PM, S3C wrote: 40% money, 40% sex, 20% other stuff.

of course for males sex is 34% contingent on wealth(with the other major factors being height and penis size) or 100% if you purchase a legal escort, and 'other stuff' is largely dependent on wealth...so IOW, you are right.

Lol damn you're pulling out the statistics here.

What statistics? This guy literally just pulled a bunch of numbers out of his ass. I can smell the shit on them from here.

I can assure you that these numbers were the result of several randomized experiments with a large sample size, and the data passed under high scrutiny of peer review.

[XwaynecoltX]

At 12/20/17 09:24 AM, mothballs wrote: Not for me. I work at a title company but I'm a receptionist (they told me initially I'd be moving up to a better position quickly, which never happened yet and probably won't). I went to college for 5 years and graduated with a Bachelor's in Business Management, apparently just so I can answer 500 phone calls a day for $12/hr. Not to mention I have $40,000 in federal loans from school to pay off, so this job just isn't cutting it. All the girls who work in the higher up (and more tolerable) positions in my company never went to college. I'm more than qualified yet I'm stuck in this position.

You have to get out there and find what makes you happy I worked a lot of shitty jobs for a lot less money and I finally got to where I want to be the money is good I'm in charge of my crew and the job takes care of its employees, you gotta go thru a lot of shit before you get the one.

~X~

[davthjr]

All of you people should be lucky to have a job, 9 out of 10 people in America is unemployed

[lokeee]

At 12/20/17 04:24 PM, S3C wrote:
I can assure you that these numbers were the result of several randomized experiments with a large sample size, and the data passed under high scrutiny of peer review.

I need at least two sources in MLA format.

[BronzeHeart92]

If you think being a 9 to 5 worker is awful, try being a 5 to 9 worker instead. :P

[CaptainJackTHAC0]

At 12/19/17 10:39 AM, sharpnova wrote: One of the best parts of being wealthy, retired, and young, honestly is reading posts like this.

Mr Money Mustache? Is that you???

If you aren’t trolling, may I ask how you funded your early retirement? 401k max, inheritance, real estate, dividend investing, etc? And if you did have a 401k while you were employed, do you do the Roth conversion ladder, 72t, or just take the 10% hit on withdrawals? Or do you not have to touch that yet due to other investments currently funding your lifestyle?

Just curious ;)

[Ganon-Dorf]

I don't want either system, I just want to show up and 7am in the morning and work until everything I need to accomplish that day is complete.

[mothballs]

At 12/21/17 12:37 AM, BronzeHeart92 wrote: If you think being a 9 to 5 worker is awful, try being a 5 to 9 worker instead. :P

I've worked overnights before, but I don't know if 16 hour shifts are very common.

At 12/20/17 10:15 PM, davthjr wrote: All of you people should be lucky to have a job, 9 out of 10 people in America is unemployed

lol

At 12/21/17 07:18 AM, KungFuSpaceBarbarian wrote:

At 12/19/17 10:39 AM, sharpnova wrote: One of the best parts of being wealthy, retired, and young, honestly is reading posts like this.

Mr Money Mustache? Is that you???

If you aren’t trolling, may I ask how you funded your early retirement? 401k max, inheritance, real estate, dividend investing, etc? And if you did...

Just curious ;)

It's clearly a troll account, dude.

[XwaynecoltX]

At 12/20/17 10:15 PM, davthjr wrote: All of you people should be lucky to have a job, 9 out of 10 people in America is unemployed

9/10 not sure about that but yeah I'm greatfull for my job its actually a really great job.

400 hours a year vacation time
401k
2 bonuss a year ($500-$2000 per bonus)
full health benefits
etc

~X~