Had a nice night with Instagram girl. Watched movies, played Tekken 7 (she beat my ass) and Witcher 3, and did some other ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) stuff.
So, I ended up doing something like this (which was what my father advised me to do too)
And it went super great. Tbh, this was a non-issue because she already knew and the reason she brought smoking up a lot was to show me it's okay if I smoke sometimes. She got super happy when I told her I'm gonna quit though. And I'm really gonna quit.
Thanks Peltz and everyone else who responded. Wish me luck on this new relationship. I have really high hopes for it.
I had a first date with a girl like a month and a half ago, she was busy with some college stuff so I told her to let me know when she could go out again. I though that she wouldn't message me again and yesterday out of nowhere she messages me and we set up a date this week.
I had a first date with a girl like a month and a half ago, she was busy with some college stuff so I told her to let me know when she could go out again. I though that she wouldn't message me again and yesterday out of nowhere she messages me and we set up a date this week.
only about two months of summer left before classes start again (this is a long story in itself but I'll spare the details.
I'm a bit behind on where I wanted to be in terms of overall funds for by the time I was at this point. I'm thinking about working around 70 hour weeks for the next two months, while taking a vacation in the middle for a week.
Anyone have experience in this? Planning on getting into work around 6:30 - 7 in the and get out around 12 hours later. Planning on working Saturday at home as well.
Feel like this is gonna end badly, but it's a good chunk of change I can make before the semester starts. My only expenses are gas and what ever I decide to do with it, should be able to get a Pell Grant this semester (2015 taxes, wasn't working then) and pay for most of my schooling.
only about two months of summer left before classes start again (this is a long story in itself but I'll spare the details.
I'm a bit behind on where I wanted to be in terms of overall funds for by the time I was at this point. I'm thinking about working around 70 hour weeks for the next two months, while taking a vacation in the middle for a week.
Anyone have experience in this? Planning on getting into work around 6:30 - 7 in the and get out around 12 hours later. Planning on working Saturday at home as well.
Feel like this is gonna end badly, but it's a good chunk of change I can make before the semester starts. My only expenses are gas and what ever I decide to do with it, should be able to get a Pell Grant this semester (2015 taxes, wasn't working then) and pay for most of my schooling.
only about two months of summer left before classes start again (this is a long story in itself but I'll spare the details.
I'm a bit behind on where I wanted to be in terms of overall funds for by the time I was at this point. I'm thinking about working around 70 hour weeks for the next two months, while taking a vacation in the middle for a week.
Anyone have experience in this? Planning on getting into work around 6:30 - 7 in the and get out around 12 hours later. Planning on working Saturday at home as well.
Feel like this is gonna end badly, but it's a good chunk of change I can make before the semester starts. My only expenses are gas and what ever I decide to do with it, should be able to get a Pell Grant this semester (2015 taxes, wasn't working then) and pay for most of my schooling.
Not necessary at all. I don't really have much to do at the moment, and I work in an office. The most it will do to me is mentally drain me. I have about 10K in the bank right now, if I actually follow through with this, after taxes, I'll be around 20K by the time the semester starts.
I don't know, I just don't really have much else to do.
only about two months of summer left before classes start again (this is a long story in itself but I'll spare the details.
I'm a bit behind on where I wanted to be in terms of overall funds for by the time I was at this point. I'm thinking about working around 70 hour weeks for the next two months, while taking a vacation in the middle for a week.
Anyone have experience in this? Planning on getting into work around 6:30 - 7 in the and get out around 12 hours later. Planning on working Saturday at home as well.
Feel like this is gonna end badly, but it's a good chunk of change I can make before the semester starts. My only expenses are gas and what ever I decide to do with it, should be able to get a Pell Grant this semester (2015 taxes, wasn't working then) and pay for most of my schooling.
I worked 75-80 hour weeks for nearly two years while I was in restaurant management. And it wasn't desk work, it was constant running around, prepping, cooking, in an often hot environment with very little downtime and working late nights (5p-7a). I clocked a few 90+ hour weeks.
You can definitely do two months of working 70 hour weeks.
I was in restaurant management. And it wasn't desk work, it was constant running around, prepping, cooking, in an often hot environment with very little downtime
You can definitely do two months of working 70 hour weeks.
Yea I bet that's how my ex restaurant boss described his job duties when all he did was boss us around like we were his slaves and eat chicken from the kitchen all day 😂
Had a nice night with Instagram girl. Watched movies, played Tekken 7 (she beat my ass) and Witcher 3, and did some other ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) stuff.
only about two months of summer left before classes start again (this is a long story in itself but I'll spare the details.
I'm a bit behind on where I wanted to be in terms of overall funds for by the time I was at this point. I'm thinking about working around 70 hour weeks for the next two months, while taking a vacation in the middle for a week.
Anyone have experience in this? Planning on getting into work around 6:30 - 7 in the and get out around 12 hours later. Planning on working Saturday at home as well.
Feel like this is gonna end badly, but it's a good chunk of change I can make before the semester starts. My only expenses are gas and what ever I decide to do with it, should be able to get a Pell Grant this semester (2015 taxes, wasn't working then) and pay for most of my schooling.
What does this have to do with dating? Why is the fact that classes start again at the normal time that classes start again a "long story"?
As for the hours, it's two tough weeks with a vacation in between. Tough it out. Make the money. Live well. You can do this.
Houseguest hookup not only cleaned my apartment, she also bought me a bottle of vodka. She's a swell person, that's for sure: will cohabitate briefly anytime.
Meanwhile, on Saturday I took the train up to visit my lady for her 34th pre-birthday weekend. Fancyish dinner, several bars, and one after hours gay club (where if you order water, it's actually a bottle of straight vodka) later, I literally carried her to bed and we slept in until 3pm. We are not responsible adults.
During dinner, we actually got into deep conversation: about wanting kids, about inexperience in relationships, about veal tongue.
I saw on her phone that she calls me Cupcake, and I'm totally calling her Kimchi since her name's Kim and she's half-Korean.
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None of this is what I expected. But I'm so fucking happy I don't need to worry about more first dates in the foreseeable future. I'd make y'all retch with the Mega-level cuteness, so I'll spare you.
On that note, belated congratulations to Mega's penis! I feel like it was a hard, sometimes not so hard, journey, but we made it y'all.
I left my apartment keys with this one woman I had this casual thing with while I went back home for Christmas one year and said I was OK for her to chill there. When I returned in January it was the cleanest apartment I had ever seen. I mean, tops of door frames dust free, windows cleaned inside and out and cupboards reorganised. I knew then it would never work out between us becuse she was a cleaning freak. Still appreciated it though.
I worked 75-80 hour weeks for nearly two years while I was in restaurant management. And it wasn't desk work, it was constant running around, prepping, cooking, in an often hot environment with very little downtime and working late nights (5p-7a). I clocked a few 90+ hour weeks.
You can definitely do two months of working 70 hour weeks.
lol everyone has different thresholds of how much work/stress they can handle. Congrats to you for shortening your life by ten years, but going "if I can do it anyone can" when it involves any kind of work/careers is quite narrow sighted.
Shortening your life comes off at the end, the shit part where your old don't have enough of a pension to be golfing every day and your kids never call you. That and the ever mounting ailments. It's a fair trade IMO.
I had 3 really good dates this weekend out of 4. I volunteered for pro bono design and video work for the Ameya Pawar governor campaign. I like his message and him and all the people on the campaign seemed great. Another place to meet people in real life with similar goals.
Dates 2 and 4 were fantastic and i cant choose between either so ill keep going until its more obvious.
Shortening your life comes off at the end, the shit part where your old don't have enough of a pension to be golfing every day and your kids never call you. That and the ever mounting ailments. It's a fair trade IMO.
But the shortening of life usually comes from those ever mounting ailments popping up earlier because of stress!
I mean in the person asking's situation, if he's really that bored and have nothing else to do might as well make that dough, but it's never a one size fits all scenario... there's so many factors in play, and a lot of it depends on how someone handles stress compared to how much stress an increased work week would induce.
Shortening your life comes off at the end, the shit part where your old don't have enough of a pension to be golfing every day and your kids never call you. That and the ever mounting ailments. It's a fair trade IMO.
Yea I bet that's how my ex restaurant boss described his job duties when all he did was boss us around like we were his slaves and eat chicken from the kitchen all day ��
That might be the case in restaurants that can afford to pay a manager to sit in an office while the rest of his staff works, but I guarantee you I squeezed every last possible ounce of work out of myself so that I could run down my labor cost by NOT having people scheduled doing work I could be doing. It's not easy to do at a QSR in a college town with super competitive (read: low) menu prices.
I was essentially working as hard or harder than everyone else in the store at any given time. I don't think a manager that does as you describe can effectively manage a good operation because they'll just be looked down upon by the rest of their staff as you're implying, and that wasn't me.
lol everyone has different thresholds of how much work/stress they can handle. Congrats to you for shortening your life by ten years, but going "if I can do it anyone can" when it involves any kind of work/careers is quite narrow sighted.
Very much doubt I shortened my life by 10 years and I now work behind a desk at a major game company that takes very good care of my health, nutrition, and fitness. Yes people have different thresholds but never being willing to push yourself isn't good either, it's a great way to remain perfectly mediocre.
I worked 75-80 hour weeks for nearly two years while I was in restaurant management. And it wasn't desk work, it was constant running around, prepping, cooking, in an often hot environment with very little downtime and working late nights (5p-7a). I clocked a few 90+ hour weeks.
You can definitely do two months of working 70 hour weeks.
That might be the case in restaurants that can afford to pay a manager to sit in an office while the rest of his staff works, but I guarantee you I squeezed every last possible ounce of work out of myself so that I could run down my labor cost by NOT having people scheduled doing work I could be doing. It's not easy to do at a QSR in a college town with super competitive (read: low) menu prices.
I was essentially working as hard or harder than everyone else in the store at any given time. I don't think a manager that does as you describe can effectively manage a good operation because they'll just be looked down upon by the rest of their staff as you're implying, and that wasn't me.
Very much doubt I shortened my life by 10 years and I now work behind a desk at a major game company that takes very good care of my health, nutrition, and fitness. Yes people have different thresholds but never being willing to push yourself isn't good either, it's a great way to remain perfectly mediocre.
I mean, in his defense, many people do believe that their careers are the most important parts of their lives. I've also known people that work 2 or 3 jobs (or work full-time and go to school full-time) just because they feel bored, not because they want to. It's most definitely not a life-style for everyone though, and I believe people should be pushing themselves outside of their careers. The mediocre comment is a little... weird imo, but it's clear where his priorities are placed.
For me, I worked 2 jobs (and freelanced) for four months one time out of a need for some office experience and a stable income, and I would never do it again... then again, I still regularly freelance while working full time, so maybe I'm a workaholic after all >.>
I think we're getting a bit off topic. Everyone is different. Every industry is different too. Working standards and lifestyles are all relative. What makes sense for some makes no sense for others.
I think we're getting a bit off topic. Everyone is different. Every industry is different too. Working standards and lifestyles are all relative. What makes sense for some makes no sense for others.
I'm sure European work culture is very different from what we have in the U.S. If you want to get ahead in your professional life in the U.S. you're most likely going to have to make some work-life balance sacrifices at some point in your career in order to stand out and move up. As mentioned, this varies by industry, but I by no means regret the sacrifices I made early on in my career based on the rewards I've reaped at later stages.
The OP's question was essentially "is working 70 hour weeks doable on a temporary basis", and for most types of work and people I think the answer is yes, if he decides he wants the money. I don't think I'm particularly resilient and I survived it. Would I go back to working 80 hour weeks voluntarily? No. Am I happy I did it during the time I did? Yes.
I think we're getting a bit off topic. Everyone is different. Every industry is different too. Working standards and lifestyles are all relative. What makes sense for some makes no sense for others.
