Working a 9-5 sucks hOW DO PEOPLE DO THIS

three6mafia said:
****. Try Working 11pm-11am sunday-friday. **** sometimes I go like 3 weeks straight without a day off.

On that 7 day work week this week. Sucks but good money. All of Sunday is double time. 84 total hours. 12 hours double time, 32 time in a half, and 40 at straight. Impacts the social life but, whatever blue collar life. I chose this when I dropped out of college.
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hellllllll no

i hope youre saving that money up at least, thats gonna take at toll on you
 
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Al Audi said:
hellllllll no

i hope youre saving that money up at least, thats gonna take at toll on you
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I still got bday money from wheb I was 7. :smokin
save everything.



I hear ya bro but id be lying if I said it was strenuous work. Hardest part is trying to stay awake. Usual day I bring about 3-5 prerolls. Good book. And I got spotify and Netflix on my phone. Just try to keep busy
 
WrightOne86 said:
iwhipmyheadovv iwhipmyheadovv
So are you still looking or do you have something lined up now?

I currently work for CACI and I used to be with ManTech and got some connects in the Comp. Science/Engineering/Programmer area over there still. They mainly do a lot of SharePoint development and integration work, but they have some other work as well.
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@WrightOne86

Actually I am still looking. I dont realy know the status of my security clearance investigation. i dont expect it to be a problem but i also dont know when/if i can start so i dont want to become complacent. only issue is i've never used sharepoint lol. the languages im most comfortable with java, MySql, and c++...ive been exposed many more but i think one of those will be my focus...although im willing to learn anything to get out of my current situation lol
 
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Today is my first day off in 2 months. Working with 12 hours a day you should feel lucky I dont even know what day it is
 
RUSTLENOMICS said:
i started buying music equipment when i first started as a stagehand, i copped samplers and also read up on them prior to making my purchases,
these jobs just required you to know the basic ins and outs in regards to input and output, its been cool to see how these live shows happen.
sound engineer was always the thing i wanted to do but i have just been working all i can and do want to go to school for it, its not neccesary but it really helps to have that under your belt in this proffesion, i used a yamaha m7 console at my old job, i replaced a person who had gone to school for 6 years for audio but in the end they were just lazy.

some of the people that ive met that have degrees in theatre also sucked and were so set in their ways that they wouldn't listen to advice especially coming from someone who didnt go to college, in the end those are the types of people that ruined my job as a stagehand, the theatre first started out by hiring locals. basically they needed muscle and people to move large set pieces, but with hiring people locally you had to deal with people getting arrested on their days off, coming back from lunch breaks drunk or high, the ish i saw there was crazy but we all did our jobs.after a couple of years they cut the locals out and eventually started bringing in these nerds from all around, they were mostly from the midwest. these kids would stand around a set piece for 10 mins discussing what the best way would be to move it :stoneface: ..that place is now closing after 22 years.


there is some mixing involved in the live shows i have worked but for the most part all of our faders were preset in the console so when we triggered a scene the faders would go to their spot, i still plan on going to school or at least getting an audio technician certification, i would love to work in a studio, thats the next thing i want to do.

like i told someone thru PM, you just gotta get your foot in the door, when i started as a stagehand i was basically moving furniture and being a janitor and then they needed someone to give the audio guy a hand running cables i was picked because i was going to school at that time for music, i didnt mention that i was just taking 2 classes at community college,english and reading i also mentioned that i owned some audio equipment too .i eventually ended up running the audio booth on my own during the show a couple years later.

at the movie theatre afterwards i started at the concession stand sweeping up popcorn, but since i was a stagehand before and a hardworker they apporached me about a position as a projectionist, they gave me insurance 401K and i just recently found out 7K worth of stocks that i get to cash out in 2015.

i've only worked 4 jobs so far, i dont want to be one of those people that jumps from job to job, left all my jobs on good terms.

this is what my work experience looks like from 17 to now,im 26, 27 on the 14th.

making pizzas, stagehand,concession stand /projectionist, audio technician/stagehand

all of my jobs i busted my behind, i was 17 working at the pizza place part time, studying for my GED.
i passed my GED, started working fulltime, operating the buffet, taking orders ,running the deep fryer all types of ish.

we all gotta start somewhere.

sorry bout the life story and nothing about mixing and mastering. :lol:  

i own an mpc 2500 and old eps 16+ the asr 10's little brother.
i have always made loops on the side, nobody knows that about me just my close friends.
have tons of records, and would always just fire up the mpc and release some stress,i have been slacking lately also my buttons on the MPC are getting messed up.
i dont have anything on the internet except a 30 sec low quality snippet from 2009.
i dont use computers to make music either, this is all the mpc1000 and a sample.

https://myspace.com/theelectrifyingdeathdefyi/music/song/black-emeralds-36949181-38903721
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Interesting. Was talking to a teacher and she was saying I should start looking around for places to where I can get my foot into the door at. I need to start looking around.
 
I graduated with my degree in Illustration and Animation in 2011. Held a series of jobs mostly working with children and freelance art for acquaintances producing unstable income. In 2012, I made a goal to become a an art teacher and a coach on the weekends. As usual I did all the research and gained the knowledge to acquire credentials but never pursued it. In 2013, I got into deep trouble and lost my job at that time and needed a job fast. I applied to every job i saw, whether I qualified or not. Many times I would get a call back for interviews and didn't even know I applied to that job. Fortunately, one of those employers calling back was a principal seeking a PE teacher that loved my background work with kids. A week in she offers me a volleyball coach position. Two months later she offers me the Computer Lab Instructor and After School aide. At the end of last school year she offers me the art teacher position for Summer school. This school year I am Art, PE and Coach and sometimes I sub for more money.


Tuesday and Thursday
8am to 5pm

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
12:00pm to 5pm

Days I sub
7:30am to 5pm


All in all, the pay is low and hours are funny. I love my job a lot. I work 30 hours sometimes more if they need me. I make enough to sustain my way of life. I ride my bike 5.5 miles to and work (no car) and I refuse to pay for transportation. That can goes towards food. It took a while to sink in but even though this isn't the best paying job it has the be one of the most rewarding jobs. Hence, if you find a job you like to do time will not be a factor. Now I am looking to get another job to supplement this one or a job pertaining to my major. Whichever comes first.

Btw, I am 25
 
calikev34 said:
Graduated in May.
Working actualllyyy 8am-5pm

Is this all there is left?
Get a job/house/wife/dog/church... die???????

I miss the social scene in college and at 22 I feel old AF

Anybody work 9-5 and dig their job?
Am i doing it right?
Sitting down for hours on end- how do people do this??????
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22? You aren't old at all. It is called due diligence and eventually you will learn it. You have to work. You have to work and abstain for years before you build the leverage you need to get to where you want to be. All of those successful people you want to be like? They have been on the grind for decades. If you expected to graduate and immediately receive your dream job/lifestyle at x amount of dollars you are out of your mind and extremely overconfident.

Get to work and keep your eye on your true goals. It sounds like you are off to a good start. You are going to be fine.
 
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I work
M-Th

Any where from 30-45 hours a week

$45k base with bonus for hitting budgets


Start my day at 7am every day except Monday(6am), and am finished by 5pm every day. Most days before 3pm.
 
I like my 9-5. I'm an engineer so my days vary all the time. I go out a few times a month on inspections, get to run at lunch, and make some good guap. For how i want to live, I'm set. 
 
Stay Lurkin said:
22? You aren't old at all. It is called due diligence and eventually you will learn it. You have to work. You have to work and abstain for years before you build the leverage you need to get to where you want to be. All of those successful people you want to be like? They have been on the grind for decades. If you expected to graduate and immediately receive your dream job/lifestyle at x amount of dollars you are out of your mind and extremely overconfident.

Get to work and keep your eye on your true goals. It sounds like you are off to a good start. You are going to be fine.
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I'm 22. Have a decent job but will be seeking better once I finish my degree. I get the whole grind for decades thing, but quite frankly, that's some bs too.
The older generation straight lied to us and said if you stay in school you'll be able to do what you want and go where you want.

In retrospect, it is naive and arrogant to think I'm entitled to a certain lifestyle without putting in time in the real world, but nobody said hey parts of your 20s will get monotonous and antisocial while you focus on working hard and amassing wealth. Nobody said hey you might find yourself in a job you do just to earn money but without any personal meaning. No one said all your peers will begin to get trapped into family roles and won't be free to do things with you. I'm pretty sick of the "you youngsters will learn" mentality after being fed the American dream propaganda for the first 20 years of life. You guys could've said that crap from the get go, instead of being mad at us for feeling entitled. My parents are pretty well off, fortunately, and quite often I hear them talk about how they partied and got involved in all kinds of shenanigans and cut school to go to baseball games and the beach etc. They simply didn't have the same pressures to perform and compete against others. But the trade off was when they got in the real world they had to work their way up. Well a lot of this generation gave up on some fun times and adolescent antics to do what was responsible and finish school competitvely and still can't even start where they are. 

PS. all those successful people you want to be like? Beiber been grinding for decades? Zuckerberg been grinding for decades? Lebron been grinding for decades?  Kim K been grinding for decades? NO. These people didn't even get degrees and I'm not supposed to feel entitled. Kanye, the one dude who talks about how hard he had it before getting to where he is, get ridiculed on the daily by most of America. To keep things in context, we are talking about 9-5s. They might have worked hard but it wasn't by jumping through the hoops that people like you told them to. The people I want to be like took a different path that wasn't even explained as an option to me growing up. Now that I know this I have to spend a decade setting myself up to pursue my passion like they did from when they were still in high school. If working a basic 9-5 and "grinding" for 15 years until you're in good shape to retire and have an established family is your idea of living the dream, I hate to know what you guys call nightmares. 

/endrant
 
Work in finance, my alarm clock goes off at 5:15am every morning. If I'm lucky I leave work at 6pm, generally I'll leave around 9pm. I genuinely enjoy financial markets so maybe I'm a lucky one but it pays the bills and affords me the ability to enjoy the other things in life (food, travel, things). At some point in my life (I'm 26 now) I want to do less work and focus more on real life - a home, family, a wife. But at this stage in my life - just grinding it out and enjoying the hell out of weekends. I make sure I pursue my interests and I don't let it feel like my work dictates who I am going to end up being.

If your 9-5 has you trapped and you have no plan - just quit. Honestly. Don't work for a couple years and then look back and wonder why the hell you ended up doing it in the first place. The biggest regret (and I may have this regret as well) that my mentors (some in finance, some not) have told me is they never really gave themselves the chance to REALLY try and succeed at what they really wanted to do.

For those who feel entitled: Life has it's realities. Money matters. The grass is always greener someplace else. But at the end of the day you're only worth as much as the situation you're in and your current salary. If you hate it, improve it. If you say that you can't improve and it's simply the hand you were dealt, then you don't deserve better. If you're mad some celebrity on TV has something that you don't, crying about it won't change your situation.In finance obviously there are a ton of entitled people, and there really are many "Ragged ****" stories (Horatio Alger book you all should have read in school). There are also a ton of people in between like myself. I admire the hell out of the people who came from less and end up killing it in finance - they're so impressive and I can genuinely tell you that those people savor what they have SO SO SO much more than the trust fund babies.
 
I got a 3 year plan (word to Sid at Hooters with his old balls). Making 43 now I'll be at 75 by sep 2016 then I'm starting the career I really want with the help of the masters degree my current job is paying for. You get use to the 9-5. It could be way worse.
 
DLee23 said:
Stay Lurkin said:
PS. all those successful people you want to be like? Beiber been grinding for decades? Zuckerberg been grinding for decades? Lebron been grinding for decades?  Kim K been grinding for decades? YES. These people didn't even get degrees and I'm not supposed to feel entitled. Kanye, the one dude who talks about how hard he had it before getting to where he is, get ridiculed on the daily by most of America. To keep things in context, we are talking about 9-5s. They might have worked hard but it wasn't by jumping through the hoops that people like you told them to. The people I want to be like took a different path that wasn't even explained as an option to me growing up. Now that I know this I have to spend a decade setting myself up to pursue my passion like they did from when they were still in high school. If working a basic 9-5 and "grinding" for 15 years until you're in good shape to retire and have an established family is your idea of living the dream, I hate to know what you guys call nightmares. 

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Started a 9-5 office job a year ago alongside my weekend job as a wedding videographer for the health benefits & whatnot; 9-5's are deff a pain. All the traffic, same people, same problems gets more boring than watching paint dry in slow-motion. Working weddings on weekends keep me sane & financially stable (not to mention the perks). I already make what I want but dont enjoy this current 9-5, gonna change that by heading to PA school next year & then I'll see what happens after that.
 
I think God made it this way.


Ecclesiastes Chapter 1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?
4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8 All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

The Experience of the Preacher
12 ¶ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16 ¶ I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. 1 Kgs. 4.29-31
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
 
Hennessy said:
I got a 3 year plan (word to Sid at Hooters with his old balls). Making 43 now I'll be at 75 by sep 2016 then I'm starting the career I really want with the help of the masters degree my current job is paying for. You get use to the 9-5. It could be way worse.
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may i ask what it is that you do?
 
DLee23 said:
I'm 22. Have a decent job but will be seeking better once I finish my degree. I get the whole grind for decades thing, but quite frankly, that's some bs too.

The older generation straight lied to us and said if you stay in school you'll be able to do what you want and go where you want.

In retrospect, it is naive and arrogant to think I'm entitled to a certain lifestyle without putting in time in the real world, but nobody said hey parts of your 20s will get monotonous and antisocial while you focus on working hard and amassing wealth. Nobody said hey you might find yourself in a job you do just to earn money but without any personal meaning. No one said all your peers will begin to get trapped into family roles and won't be free to do things with you. I'm pretty sick of the "you youngsters will learn" mentality after being fed the American dream propaganda for the first 20 years of life. You guys could've said that crap from the get go, instead of being mad at us for feeling entitled. My parents are pretty well off, fortunately, and quite often I hear them talk about how they partied and got involved in all kinds of shenanigans and cut school to go to baseball games and the beach etc. They simply didn't have the same pressures to perform and compete against others. But the trade off was when they got in the real world they had to work their way up. Well a lot of this generation gave up on some fun times and adolescent antics to do what was responsible and finish school competitvely and still can't even start where they are. 


PS. all those successful people you want to be like? Beiber been grinding for decades? Zuckerberg been grinding for decades? Lebron been grinding for decades?  Kim K been grinding for decades? NO. These people didn't even get degrees and I'm not supposed to feel entitled. Kanye, the one dude who talks about how hard he had it before getting to where he is, get ridiculed on the daily by most of America. To keep things in context, we are talking about 9-5s. They might have worked hard but it wasn't by jumping through the hoops that people like you told them to. The people I want to be like took a different path that wasn't even explained as an option to me growing up. Now that I know this I have to spend a decade setting myself up to pursue my passion like they did from when they were still in high school. If working a basic 9-5 and "grinding" for 15 years until you're in good shape to retire and have an established family is your idea of living the dream, I hate to know what you guys call nightmares. 

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Bingo. Had to rep you. It's all BS. It's all brainwashing to believe in the "dream". We're being used like cattle and mules to fuel, perpetuate, and maintain the desires and status quo's of those creating this big game we're all playing. I guarantee you some of these landscapers out here (especially those without papers) work harder than any 9-5 white collared job, but make substantially less. "Oh well they didn't go to school....". Maybe they couldn't afford it. Or maybe they realized accruing that much debt to come out into this current hand situation simply isn't worth it. If we all came together, we could really put an end to all of this though....
 
DLee23 said:
Really?! Kimmy was out chea grindin for decades as a celebrity stylist?

Man first of all, kim came from money and secondly all that "grinding" wasn't worth crap until she was grinding ray j on camera.
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He was being sarcastic. Your last statement was the grinding he was alluding to lls...
 
i could never raise a family...

id much rather use the time, money, and effort that goes into a family and house to travel...
 
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