Is a 9-5 really that soul crushing?

[Rozay Oro]

For the last 3.5 yrs I work from home exclusively. I can live anywhere in the continental US that I choose to and make over 70K a year.......

What's your job

 

[Marc Spector]

The past year I been salaried and it's mad draining. They legit work the shyt outta u. I usually work 4 days on, and 3 off.

U always on call all the time, I either work 1pm to 1am or 8pm to 8am. And a lot times it's when that 1-1 turns into 1pm - 4am and constantly missing out on life, don't know how much longer I can pull it off. I pretty much had to change my life is drastically when I got this position

I'm 26, getting paid a lot more than I was a year ago and am a lot less happier. Add the fact I relocated to another city for the job. So it really gives me no time to really see my family or go to function.

worked a salaried job making damn good money but ran into the exact same situation. Changed my whole outlook on work and what I really wanted out of life. Got the fukk up outta there after 6 months.

 

[Oran "Juice" Jones]

working from home ;)
Life is good

Do you mind sharing what you do?

 

[Rozay Oro]

I gently weep for my fellow dreamers and aspiring creatives

 

[Breh13]

The people that work in places like NASA, NSA, CIA, Google, Tesla, Apple or any high level companies that impact the world, must feel some type of way. Those jobs especially near the high end must be constantly engaging, something new nearly everyday.

Always wanted to work at NASA.

But you gotta have the brain, ambition and drive for some of these jobs though.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

only on the internet is everyone signing their own checks and rocking with day to day freedoms looking down on 40 hour a week jobs 99.99% of folks have for their lifetime, talking about "you should be getting your own business started" as if capital to do that just grows on trees and you wont be putting in more than 45 hours a week trying to get it off the ground and finally profitable, if it even works out and you dont end up in heaps of additional debt and losing your house when it falls flat. plenty of people enjoy their work. getting your own thing going is often stressful as fukk and you fail a majority of the time, its hardly a walk in the park

What would it take to get your job....I know you probably have a great time at work?

shyt, I want in lol

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

Bruh, you nikkas are really complaining about a 9-5? My older sister at 19 was working from 4 in the afternoon to 3 in the morning in a damn plant. She was doing those numbers when she was 2 months pregnant before she got fired because of her health and missing too many days. Job was only paying like $13 an hour too. People in here making 3x that on less hours and STILL bytching and moaning.... Funny thing is that she STILL had enough time for a social life.

I even saw a nikka complaining about a being a cashier. A cashier, bruh...? Not a firefighter or a cop, but a fukking cashier/waiter. My younger sister does that. She complains, but that's because she has a shytty attitude.

Pregnant at 19?

 

[Blessings]

Do you mind sharing what you do?

Supply Chain Analyst

 

[Hammer]

9-5 is a piece of cake

try fukking working 3pm-11pm

 

[Cynic]

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You're some what correct, finding the correct market fit can be profitable early on. It also requires the right debt ratio and other management skills. Also you would find in scenarios like this the entrepreneur had past failed ventures and took that experience into the new one.
These nikkas aint business savvy like that They just on some fukk a job shyt.

If you can market/sell/close and convert... you'll never need debt breh

Management is a different beast....most businesses are terrible at it.

but again ... I'd assume the motivation for going into biz wouldn't be to end up like "most"
it's a good first step but ... you gotta do more than "most"

This. This so much.

Try being ops management for warehouse/physical labor work.

Your employee base mostly consists of either kids who DGAF or miserable/salty a$$holes who hate management because of one supervisor they had 2940 years ago.

Compound that with the fact that how well YOUR day as supervisor will go depends on how well THEY work. Even worse in production environments where its all about
"X per hour" metrics that on most days arent realistic, for multiple reasons.

I had interest in a manufacturing company like this .... We ended up giving the whole business to the staff and letting them rent the equipment and industrial space from us.

Once they owned something, they were never late, rarely sick and productivity grew.

 

[TrebleMan]

When AI starts taking jobs (even advanced ones) and universal basic income becomes a thing maybe 30 years from now

Guarantee some people would be opposed to this too because they wouldn't know what to do if someone told them they didn't have to work 60 hours a week anymore and still get paid.

 

[Wink Beaufield]

Id say the ideal 9-5 is:

1. A job that focuses on quality vs quantity: Alot of production jobs are soul draining because youre chasing a number as opposed to seeing a product through from day 1. When you actually have projects vs products you gain a greater level of investment.

2. A job that encourages innovation and improvement or a job that where you constantly need retraining: A job where you constantly have to learn a new skillset means things never get stagnant. Plus if the training is specialized, you can expect getting paid on the clock and hopefully, out of town (alot of training courses turn into minivacations).

3. Jobs without holiday peak seasons; kinda self explanatory. Ive been a supervisor at UPS for years and its terrible knowing every holiday season youre basically chained to the facility.

4. Jobs that let you travel: self explanatory

5. Jobs that allow interdepartment or even office to office/regional transfers: Once again nobody wants to do the same thing over and over again for 30 years.

Sounds like you want a government job bruh. Keep an eye out on usajobs.gov since this hiring freeze just lifted.

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

I've been self employed for years. It's amazing.

 

[Jesus]

School me ill wait

fukk a salary you work overtime without being compensated. I'm on a fixed 40 hour work week, if I work more on get paid more.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

I haven't had a real 9-5 since I've been out of college


but I think I would love the benefits and the fact that I know I have a paycheck coming every week.

Working for yourself is great but it's very tough and often there's lags in business.

If business is going great then there's nothing better, if not it's completely miserable.