I Don't Know How Some People Do This ALL The Time...

haffajappa

the whole, 2 jobs, seven days a week, underpaid and ripped off of overtime... i mean, i've been doing it for the past 2 months or so, since i got back from europe.... to feed my travel & pearl jam fix... i'm about to completely burn out tonight... i feel sick both mentally and physically...
my only daylight and fresh air break is the bus ride from one job to the other...

...but i know its not forever, and i'm starting school in the fall (finally) to move on to bigger and better things (i hope)... at least i have the tour and friends to look forward to...

but i don't know how these people do it, who have families to support and car payments and mortgages and mouths to feed, having to work until their bodies can't take it but they've got no other option but to keep working to pay the bills, with nothing to work towards or look forward to... i mean, i do this all the time (such is the life of a 20 year old with no career yet and 2 shitty jobs), everytime i travel its the only way to afford my ticket away for a couple weeks... and everytime i do it, at some point i think of how it must really suck to have to do it to get by, and not just for something really expensive that you have your eye on.... my heart really goes out to those people :(

and really, i do it to myself.... it is self inflicted ...it just feels better to complain about it sometimes

Indian Summer

Hang in there.

I only work 4 days a week, and some weeks I think that's a few too many. Couldn't imagine having to work all week long.

gobrowns19

No kidding. I work 5 days a week with two random days in the middle of the week off, ranging from 35-40+ hours a week and it's tough. Not ANYWHERE near as tough as when I started out, it was miserable, and it's not too bad now, but still, I have so much respect for people who somehow manage to work more while I manage to complain about unimportant things.

pearljamjen

It is draining...a few years ago I took a holiday retail job. I was working 40 hours at my regular job and about 35 at the retail job. Which is SOOO tiring cuz you are on your feet. By the end of January I was worn out and asked if they could reduce my hours. They said "sure, we can reduce your hours to 30 hours." :eek: I said I was thinking more like 20...they compromised to 25. A couple more months after and I left.

I am thinking of doing the part-time job again this holiday season...although there might not be any in this economy. We'll see! I am thinking of moving next summer, possibly overseas again so I want to save.

But yes, I can't imagine HAVING to do that just so your family can get by.

haffajappa

pearljamjen wrote:

It is draining...a few years ago I took a holiday retail job. I was working 40 hours at my regular job and about 35 at the retail job. Which is SOOO tiring cuz you are on your feet. By the end of January I was worn out and asked if they could reduce my hours. They said "sure, we can reduce your hours to 30 hours." :eek: I said I was thinking more like 20...they compromised to 25. A couple more months after and I left.

I am thinking of doing the part-time job again this holiday season...although there might not be any in this economy. We'll see! I am thinking of moving next summer, possibly overseas again so I want to save.

But yes, I can't imagine HAVING to do that just so your family can get by.

yeah... i work 2 retail jobs... don't know where you worked or if it was the same deal but, the customers are enough to strip you of all sanity, let alone the hours! haha

LONGRD

Network with some of your school's classmates/counselors to get a better job. I feel your pain, I have a lot of experience in retail- believe me, you'll get nowhere, well I didn't. :(

haffajappa

LongRd. wrote:

Network with some of your school's classmates/counselors to get a better job. I feel your pain, I have a lot of experience in retail- believe me, you'll get nowhere, well I didn't. :(

yah, ive been in it for 3 years now, thats about 2 and a half too many.
i actually got fired up today, with a coworker of mine, we just about went off in the lunchroom at one of the managers... sorta fed off each other's anger... luckily it didnt go to far or anything, i kept my mouth shut about most of it... hard to describe, theres a lot of dissent flying about the store, and drama and such... then you go to the next job and you realise how shitty your social life is, when you're there til after the sun goes down watching happy people go about their friday and saturday nights... its just a giant circle of annoyingness, til i just wanna explode.


ONLY A MATTER OF WEEKS TIL THE TOUR...godddddd just give me some pearl jam. :eek:

libragirl

Yeah that isn't living imo. It's one thing if you have a family to support, paying for school, medical expenses or something vital like that. But I know people who do it to support a certain lifestyle and to get more "stuff" I just don't understand it. I work to live not live to work.

he still stands

but it doesn't get any better.

I have a Master's Degree and I'll just throw this out there, I make $72k / year, living in Phoenix Arizona, and I don't make enough to support myself and my wife. She has to work also, even though we'd both rather her be at home popping out babies (which we can't afford).

Now I would think that my level of income would be plenty, but its not! Once you have a mortgage, a car payment, contribute 10% to a 401k, pay your utilities (which are now about $400 per month or more), pay credit card bills (my wife's from college), pay your student loans (both mine and my wife's), and pay $500 per month on gas, it leaves very little at the end of the month.'

Its a sad state in the world when a white-collar job isn't enough for a family to live off of. You will always be a slave.