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........ for the week!
Mine starts for the week in 2 hours. Enjoy your time.
My work is mostly flexible but I have to work every day--every single day. Holidays, weekends, and days off don't exist with the work I do. Oh well, at least I can decide when I go to work every day. Then again, I can't leave every day until the work is done. It all mostly balances out, but I really hate it when people say "have a nice weekend!"
They don't exist.
Deciding when you can go to work is better than when you grew up on the farm!Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
5 am then 5 pm those cows have to be milked 7 days a week!;)
My father HATED Alabama's song Forty Hour Work (for a week) for the reason you just posted --along with many others.Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
Yup. Had to get up at 4:15 in order to make it to school on time.Quote:
Originally Posted by 32t
I work 21, 13.2hour days in a remote location, then I have a 21 day weekend. It is a schedule I’ve gotten used to. There is often changes in the crew, and some times you get to go to work, and other times you have to go to jail. It’s a small crew and one person can make it swing one way or the other. Mariners are all broken, and sometimes the broken pieces don’t fit together that well. I do rather enjoy my 21 day weekends. My weekend starts on Tuesday at 1230. I will be not starting it off quite like that, but it will be the same in that it will be relaxing and enjoyable. Everyone enjoy the moments of your life that allow you the simple pleasures, however they fit in.
:-)
My father was different than many!:tuQuote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
He milked in the morning and us kids did it at night.
Our schedule was 7 am and 7 pm to start.
The hay doesn't get dry to bale until 9 am anyway so why get done early?
Why milk in the daylight and then run lights on your tractor later?
I spent 2 hours a day plus n the bus to school.
Sleeping in in the morning was a plus!
Luckily for us we were the last ones picked up by the bus in the morning, otherwise we would have had to get up even earlier. Downside was we also were the last off the bus route at the end of the day. Fortunately there was another bus that went within a mile and a half of the farm so we rode that one after school and it got us home an hour earlier. Of course, it sucked in the winter, but I hated riding the bus so the walk was worth it.
whats the make and model of that stogie MC?
i like your choice in bourbon. though i generally gravitate more towards irish whisky.
It IS a great photo!
It's a bundle cigar, "National Brand" "Lonsdale". Normally I would buy their "Toro" a fatter shorter cigar but it was unavailable last time. I worked in a cigar shop years ago and these were our go-to smokes. This a label from a bundle of "Churchills"'Quote:
Originally Posted by sloanwinters
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What do you do for a living Utopian?Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
Stem cell lab flunkie.
Flunkie, that is funny.
Egghead.
I miss my schedule when I was working for the company, 30 on 21 off,, but nowadays who knows,, I have been out as long as 6 months,, the last hitch was 7 1/2 weeks,, but I did take off 4 months at the first of the year,, looks like I will have to make it up now, might not get home for another 3 months sometimes my days are 24 hours long. Tc great picture Freddie I need a box of them to try look good,
You know you might be getting a little old for 24 hour days. Part of taking proper care of ourselves is getting enough sleep.
OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Utopian
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Ron has a very valid point. Sometimes work goes sideways and those things happen. I cannot count the number of times I have pulled 24 hour days, but I’d rather not. I have come to a point that it has to be crazy important for me do do those things, because I’m trying to live better.
For me work is to support the rest of my life. i quit my last job and took a pay cut because I didn't have time to enjoy the extra money.
I would rather only be able to afford cheap Bourbon, Beer and Cigars than not have the time or ability to enjoy the expensive ones. :shrug:
Same thing for me. I was working 100-120 hours a week yet my coworkers were just hanging out being paid for doing literally nothing but busy work. I pushed back and the idiot fired me. I should have pushed it sooner. It was killing me.
Two and a half years later I feel a lot better. My new job just doubled in responsibility, and I'm being very proactive about fixing this. I'm only allowed to be paid for 40 hours so I'm only going to be working 40 hours. Weird, huh?
I'm supposed to be retired. I'm still a warranty service center in central Arizona for two U.S. guitar manufacturers. There is no service center in all of Nevada for Martin Guitars so I'm responsible for that territory also. other than that I can be very picky about the jobs I take on and the customers I deal with. My prices are "attitude adjustable". Sometimes its chicken and sometimes its feathers. I might not have work for a week and then all of a sudden, I have 10 in my shop all needing major surgery. Soc. security helps pay the bills and I pay the balance. I'm happy, happy is important.
I was privileged to have seen you perform your magic on one acoustic guitar--really amazing results indeed. :tu :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by MisterClean
this I know Ron, sleep is a cool thing, sometimes I even get a little, as to being happy, I love my job, its one of the reason I came back after retirement, its not the money. I will at some point give it up because of family, I,m not sure I,m wired like most, the edge is where I like to be, working crazy schedules, constantly stressing my performance. driving the crews, and being successful at it. Id do it for nothing sometimes.
I was retired, and my wife and friends and family all told me I needed to get back to work after a year. I like time off, and it was fun to be home all the time and do what normal people do but I wasn't ready. Tc
Completely agree. I have been semi-retired for 14 years, but have really been working at what I love to do full time. I was fortunate to be able to retire out of something I loved to do into something else that I love to do. My brain and body have remained active and my health has stayed really good and I am having fun with what I work at and play at.Quote:
Originally Posted by tcrideshd
I know too many people for whom retirement meant stopping doing something without doing something else and have become ill, passed away or had a spouse pass away shortly after retirement. For it to really work, retirement should mean you retire INTO something that gives you pleasure and stimulation rather than just stopping working.
I will be retired when I am no longer required to work, but when I have the financial ability to choose to work. At this point my retirement plan is to make wood working tools, and do wood work. I will likely be in my shop more than 40 hours a week. I applaud everyone that is happy at work, and has a plan as to what they are going to do when they are no required by finances to have a job.
