pretty much 40/week with 1.5 hour commute each day

commute sucks but job isnt too bad and i get like 3 weeks vacation and 3 weeks sick time a yr plus ton of holidays

only way id be working 60+ hours a week is if i ended up getting a 2nd job (most likely as a personal trainer) or if i end up starting my own business

I've had a shitload of different jobs.

Then one day I sat down. Took an hour or so to evaluate where my life was at. I despised working 40 hours a week, called in sick all the fucking time or got REALLY shitty jobs that had a good wage and worked part time.

I was a gamer, but I also wanted to do a bunch of extra curricular activities and I just couldn't fit all of those in a day while having a full time job.

So I decided to get a job related to gaming and now I'm paid to play video games 40 hours a week. So when I get home, I don't even fucking wanna touch a video game with a 10 foot pole. Super fucking saturated. It's important to get a job you actually like. + Now I've got time to do shit.

I started playing chess again, playing badminton twice a week, etc.

40 hours a week is an excessive amount of time, but if you want to live comfortably and actually DO what you want to do rather than just think/dream/hope of doing it, you need to work unfortunately. If you wanna work less, you need a high paying job, but getting one of those usually requires you to work a fuckton for quite a few years.

I like traveling. I'm paying 7000$ to go spend 2 weeks alone on a boat with a 3 man boat crew in Antarctica about 7 months from now. I just got back from China. I was in Boston and New York 4 months ago. California last year. The only places I haven't been yet are Japan and Africa. Africa can suck it, I'm not going near that shithole.

I digress a little. Overall, I think having to bust your ass at a shit job 40 hours a week to come back to a bitchy wife who's more of a mom than a wife is cause for suicide. That's not a life. That's a failed attempt at what other people tell you life is.

If someone shot me in the face tomorrow, I wouldn't even be sad about it. I've exclusively done things I wanted to do ever since I left my parents' house a decade ago. That decade is worth a lifetime of someone telling me he works 60 hours a week and wishes he could do something with all that $ he ends up spending on cheap sushi and starbucks coffee.

For those of you still stuck in that black hole of consumerism, just pause for a second and think. What do you WANT to do? Do it. Right now. Don't postpone. Don't give yourself bullshit excuses. Just grab your balls and do it. Stop trying to buy next gen phones, pretty little furniture, gucci douchebag glasses, 100$ cologne and penis enlargment pills. Stick to what you ACTUALLY need and you'll realize it's very little.

This post was edited by CMBurns on Dec 30 2014 01:18am

deep br0

welcome to fight club

so many lazy people

is 3 weeks vacation considered good in america?




have fun spending 1/3 of your lifetime being a slave to someone else

Sadly yes. Most out of college jobs in the US start you at 2 weeks or less. However, it is one of the tools you use to negotiate if you can't get your salary to budge.

As an engineer who has had to work with people from Europe, I always found it amazing how much time you guys get away from work. There will sometimes be over a month pause on a project due to time off.

So glad we have people like you legalized slavery is awesome

100%

I was scheduled to be in Antarctica 3 weeks ago ... But my trip got cancelled because of engine failures ... Now the ship is floating in the Beagle channel in Ushuaia because it's still undergoing repairs. On the bright side, I still went to Argentina and Chile and hiked in Patagonia which was frigging awesome (so beautiful).

Hope your trip to Antarctica goes without hiccups. But uh 7 months from now? What tour company are you going with ??? None that I know of go down there at that time of year ... It's winter ... All the companies are going now (October - February) when it's spring/summer time.

This post was edited by PartyInMyPants on Dec 30 2014 08:58am