Something wrong with the work life balance!

Russinating said:
You don't have to work 9-5 :).

I work an average of 5/6 hours a day, spread from 8am to 12am. I find I work better at night too and there's less to do so that's great. But just generally being able to go out/take days off whenever I want is great.

PS. I run my own businesses and work from home - and it's not as hard as you think, depending on what skills you have! Certainly easier than job hunting at the moment, which is why I decided to screw that and just give myself a job.
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What do you do out of interest?

I was always moaning about work and how life seemed to be just waiting for the weekend, so I quit my job and moved to a new city.

Now I have loads of time and still do sod all with it. :D

Guess the issue isn't me working, its just me being a lazy git. :p

Going to avoid the 9-5 now though for a while, probably work fri to mon instead.
 
Russinating said:
PS. I run my own businesses and work from home - and it's not as hard as you think, depending on what skills you have! Certainly easier than job hunting at the moment, which is why I decided to screw that and just give myself a job.
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Great post & couldn't agree more. I've done exactly the same & couldn't be happier. Doing what I want when I want to. No more meetings in the morning where my boss is asking me "what the plan of attack is for the week" or "how are we going to move the business forward" (so he can get yet another new BMW / Porsche).

Great thread though as I have always had an issue with this whole work / life balance thing and hated being part of the rat race for my 11/12 working years thus far.

If your good at what you do, start your own business & as long as you can pay the bills, look forward to a slightly easier life :) lol
 
daz said:
You say that but a 40 hour working week is a modern thing. Generations previous would have been working much longer hours, for worse conditions for less pay with less opportunities...

Even though I work hard at my job and business, I'm glad that I'm not down t'pit.
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Like me then?

Longer hours, Worse conditions, Less pay and almost no opportunities.

Im down t'pit too:(

Felt like giving the boss the finger and walk off today when he was about to blow his top like he does when things dont go his way.

I am trying to change jobs though:)
 
It wasn't like this when I was a kid.
My mum worked in health sector from 6.30 am til 2.30 pm, it made perfect sense because it was health support for industrial sector, and factory workers, as well as guys in industrial design, like my father, all worked 7am till 3pm on day shift. That, again, was supported by schools - my school day would start at 8am and end at 2:45 pm. So my parents could drop me off and pick me up on their way to and from work, give or take 20 minutes. As a family, we had entire afternoon and evening to ourselves. Whole 8 hours of it. I remember spending a lot of time with my folks as a kid.

And even retail sector was built around this model, shops were open like now - 10am till 6pm specifically so workers could do their shopping after work. And it worked for people in retail as well, since offices and health system worked from early morning hours retailers could sort out their stuff before work.

Some time in early ninenties, entire Europe converted to nine to five/ten to six model, leaving everyone equally screwed, and without time to live. It's a great loss I feel. And makes no sense whatsoever. It serves no one. Shops are open for unemployed people. This month all workers across entire world leave home when its dark, come back home when its dark, waste extra 2 hours of their short day stuck in grid lock traffic because everyone on the planet start and finish within one hour from each other.
 
Apprentice IT Analyst 2nd Year
wake up 7am get changed washed etc leave at 7:30am
Arrive at work for 8:30am and work til 5:00pm (Lunch at 1-2pm)
Arrive at home roughly 5:45-6:00pm
Food PC Gaming til 11:00
Sleep at 11:10ish

And repeat!
Leaves me with under 5 hours to myself, dont mind my job but when no one has a problem it gets boring since they dont allow us to have a radio etc =[.
 
v0n said:
It wasn't like this when I was a kid.
My mum worked in health sector from 6.30 am til 2.30 pm, it made perfect sense because it was health support for industrial sector, and factory workers, as well as guys in industrial design, like my father, all worked 7am till 3pm on day shift. That, again, was supported by schools - my school day would start at 8am and end at 2:45 pm. So my parents could drop me off and pick me up on their way to and from work, give or take 20 minutes. As a family, we had entire afternoon and evening to ourselves. Whole 8 hours of it. I remember spending a lot of time with my folks as a kid.

And even retail sector was built around this model, shops were open like now - 10am till 6pm specifically so workers could do their shopping after work. And it worked for people in retail as well, since offices and health system worked from early morning hours retailers could sort out their stuff before work.

Some time in early ninenties, entire Europe converted to nine to five/ten to six model, leaving everyone equally screwed, and without time to live. It's a great loss I feel. And makes no sense whatsoever. It serves no one. Shops are open for unemployed people. This month all workers across entire world leave home when its dark, come back home when its dark, waste extra 2 hours of their short day stuck in grid lock traffic because everyone on the planet start and finish within one hour from each other.
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What the **** happened :(
I'd like to personally punch the "think tank" that brought in this new way of life.
 
MonkeyMan said:
What do you do out of interest?
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Run a media agency. Pretty vague I know. We mainly do wedding videography and then anything else we can get our paws on - copywriting, corporate/promo video production, web design, photography, etc.

nate247 said:
I've done exactly the same & couldn't be happier.
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Good to hear :). What industry are you in/what do you do?
 
i don't have a 9-5 job, i spend 14 years doing split shifts, therefore, 9.30-2.30 as one shift, go home for 3 hours and wait for the next shift at 6pm, 6-10pm, yep,it's an 8 hour day, but it takes up virtually your whole day. no time for yourself etc.

Now however, i've gone to sort of an extreme opposite, i work Mon - Friday, 8am till 2pm, for a decent (ish) wage, leaving me loads of free time :D
 
Up at 6am - breakfast, read news online, knock back enough tea to drown a horse in.
7am - leave for work, get there at 8am
8am-10am - sleep/read in my car, no, really. We have to wait for rush hour to subside first before working. Less trains around.
10am-11am - slowly start work.
11am- 1pm - Lunch
1pm- 2pm - Work
2pm - 3pm, seriously winding down.
3pm - I slip away and home at 4pm

It's a nice balance at the moment and very little work. I do however PM big contracts when they come up which in return blows the whole work/life balance to bits.
 
I'm beginning to find things a bit of a pain at the moment. I'm on a good wage but went for my job because although the pay was lower than some of the banking jobs I'd be working shorter hours. Now I find myself working 8am til just about 7pm with very little lunch break. I'm sure there are many people doing the same but with the skills and background Ihave I could have gone into banking, worked the same hours and a few more I guess and earnt 50% more...
 
Scubascorpion said:
So the average person does a 9-5 average job 5 days a week and spends 11-7 asleep. Agree?

8hrs a day working, 8hrs sleeping, leaving 8hrs to yourself. Sounds reasonable
Until you think that the first two hours are taken up getting ready for work and actually getting to work..
So you're down to six hours.
Take off another hour to get home, get washed and changed.
5 hrs.
Oh, now all the shops are shut and it's dark.
So realistically everyone dreams of the weekend.
So you have 24 hrs over 2 days to get everything done and have a good time.

In effect you work 40 hrs to have 24hrs of fun.

In my book that's a bit pants when you look at it like that, not to mention depressing.
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You only work 8 hours a day/40 hours a week. You lucky sod.:(

I work 11-12 hours monday-friday, 4-6 hours Saturday or sunday (6 days a week work).

And when i say 10 hours, that is turn up at 8am, leave 7pm
 
Russinating said:
You don't have to work 9-5 :).

I work an average of 5/6 hours a day, spread from 8am to 12am. I find I work better at night too and there's less to do so that's great. But just generally being able to go out/take days off whenever I want is great.

PS. I run my own businesses and work from home - and it's not as hard as you think, depending on what skills you have! Certainly easier than job hunting at the moment, which is why I decided to screw that and just give myself a job.
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indeed, I was job hunting recently, but I figured out if I could work for myself earning enough to live on but with less hours then I would be on to a winner... :)
 
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