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Topic: work

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Candace L.	March 01, 2006 1:25 PM I work at a car dealership in customer service. 8:30 - 5:00 M-F. While I am grateful that I have this job, as it's a nice job as jobs go, it's a struggle for me to force myself to get out of bed on a daily basis. I am very uncomfortable in the corporate arena, and the way people interact at my work is so not the way I am. I can't wait until I can find a job more suited to who I am, because every day that I have to be there, I feel like I'm being suffocated. I hate not being able to be me... [ send green star]
Sushi C.	February 21, 2006 9:38 PM I have a friend who works at WalMart, they treat her like a piece of crap (along with everyone else). She doesn't want to work there, but there aren't any other options for her right now. [ send green star]
Sarvo P.	February 21, 2006 11:05 AM Wal-Mart is the bright shining beacon for the entire corporate world. They are setting the pace. So what's it like to work at Wal-Mart? I start at minimum wage with zero benefits. Obviously I want a raise. The best way to get one? Rat out a fellow employee. For example: So and so spent too much time in the rest room. OK now that I got a few raises by snitching on my fellow employees, I'm in-line for a boost up into a management position. As a supervisor in charge of other workers there's an unspoken policy that will help me advance my career. It works like this. I say to the underlings in my department, "After you clock out tonight, it would be good if you can stick around for a few hours to help clean up the area." [ send green star]
PElAgUS V.	February 21, 2006 10:56 AM [ send green star]
Foxy V.	February 21, 2006 10:52 AM amazing... I wish that greek employees were protected in a way but no. Today i was talking to my best friend and she was saying she quit her job cause she was working for 10 hours with no breaks (!), no water no nothin and now that she left they accuse her of stealing... so they won't pay her what she has worked. It seems that in Greece the only way to get your money is either break some heads or go to the lawyers. bosses! [ send green star]
PElAgUS V.	February 21, 2006 10:43 AM i'm a freelance & work home... so... well, i pretty much work when it has to be done lol! in france, the law says you cannot work more than 8 hours a day, if you do, you are payed more but cannot work more than 2 more hours i think. But, there are specific cases like temporary jobs when you will work 10 to 12 hours... sometimes more... you have 10 mn breaks every 2 hours, then food break (1 hour) etc... & you cannot work again if you don't have 11 hours of rest between the time you finish & start again... Ok, i might be wrong on certain timings, but this is how it is [ send green star]
Uno D.	Work is a drag ... February 21, 2006 5:22 AM I'd much rather do art, play all day, and travel ... [ send green star]
Sarvo P.	I love my job. I'm a performance artist. February 21, 2006 1:26 AM Right now it's a little cold for me to hit the streets on a regular basis but that's where I cut loose and do my best routines. I've had whole subway platforms laughing. I beg people to chant Hare Krishna. They think I'm crazy but probably harmless. [ send green star]
Paul S.	Hi Ted February 20, 2006 11:19 PM you must be online now... it's after 2 in the morning here... I think there a lot of night owls on Care2.... the creative types [ send green star]
Ted K.	February 20, 2006 11:15 PM late night works best for my creative juices as well. [ send green star]
Sushi C.	February 20, 2006 11:07 PM I don't like to do anything I consider "work", it needs to be fun for me and somehow enrich the lives of others. This isn't work to me... I'm a writer, performer and an artist. Also a workshop facilitator, topics vary widely. Do other things too, I listed my favorites. Not all of it is paid - actually much of it isn't. Anyone want to buy some art I keep strange artist hours, to be consistent with the strange person that I am. I like consistency Lots of late nights, it's when things really flow for me. Sushi Crow [ send green star]
Paul S.	I work for myself February 20, 2006 10:46 PM every day is different. I think almost every day I am doing some kind of work. There are slow times and busy times. I stay up very late half the week. Then several nights a week my wife is home and we do things, go out, etc. I stay up late, wake up whenever, but usually by 9. I work online, take calls, work online, then maybe go do some photography job, lots of photo editing. then I waste a lot of time on Care2 making friends and reading stuff like this.... [ send green star]
Foxy V.	i am a journalist... February 14, 2006 12:17 PM so i work from 10 am to 10 pm my dream work schedule?!? NO WORK AT ALL... i would love to volunteer for food but not working for ANY boss. utopia [ send green star]
Sarvo P.	February 14, 2006 6:36 AM First job I ever had was cultivating corn in Minnesota. It was 1957, I was ten years old and Jim Valek paid me seventy-five cents an hour. I liked how when I got to the end of the row and stopped the tractor to turn for the next row, it seemed like the corn rows kept moving for a little bit. That was my first hint about how my senses could be subject to illusion. In 1973 I got pulled up off the factory floor up into the engineering department at Brown & Sharpe Precision Tools in North Kingston, RI. They noticed that when I was setting up the screw machines to pump out nuts and bolts and screws and washers, I wasn't producing the expected few bucket fulls of scrap metal that would normally be there during the break in period since I was in training. They didn't know I was chanting the maha mantra and it was apparently helping me concentrate and come up with parts well within the accepted margin of error. They gave the department I was in a battery of tests and apparently I aced them all and so the next day I found myself up in an office pushing a little piece of paper back and forth with the man who became my immediate boss in the engineering department. He'd write an amount and push it accross to me and I'd put a slightly higher amount and push it back across to him. We did it a few times and then when it was all over with I ended up making twice what I made on the factory floor for about half as many hours. We didn't have to clock in upstairs and people usually headed on out around two or three in the afternoon instead of five. After about a year, I went on a two week vacation to Hawaii, ran into the Hare Krishnas there and discovered that the next step was to not work at all but to just chant, dance, sing and enjoy God's mercy in the form of the most excellent vegetarian food on the planet earth. So I've been doing that ever since. I've been to India three times, traveled back and forth across Europe a few times and been to every state in the U.S. except for Alaska. Most of the work that people are engaged in is contributing to the destruction of Mother Earth. To work is clearly a great illusion. Now that I have a choice, I'd rather be a human being than a human doing. [ send green star]
Nikki T.	February 14, 2006 5:46 AM I work for a major university in their Transportation Department. I'm responsible for all the Accounts Payables. I work from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. with an hour break for lunch. [ send green star]
Thomas P.	February 14, 2006 5:44 AM I've been trying to define ''work'' for many years... with little success. I once drove an hour, built instruments for 8 hours in an air-condintions lab , but then, ''after work'' they wanted me to go out in 95 degree heat and play a three inning ''game'' of baseball ? ! They would have to pay me a LOT of money to do that kind of miserable work. I told them, ''I only play baseball in the winter.''. They thought it was a joke. [ send green star]
Ted K.	February 13, 2006 9:12 PM nice to have you here ladies [ send green star]
Celene D.	February 13, 2006 6:25 PM i've been a professional hairstylist for 23.5 years and had my schedule down to about 20 hours per week, never going in before 11am. at the beginning of this month i added a second job, booking bands at a local celtic music brew pub. now, well... my hours are so variable, though most of my pub job hardly seems like work the learning curve is mostly keeping me away from much time spent in cyber space... [ send green star]
Glenda W.	My schedule is rather bizarre... February 13, 2006 6:16 PM I work as a substitute teacher/Education Assistant/Secretary for our local school district, and am in the process of becoming a Red Cross disaster relief team person, and 1st Aid Instructor...so I'm pretty well a freelancer myself. And I'm outlining a novel as well. [ send green star]
Paola Z.	November 10, 2005 10:22 AM plans of engineer......... also accounts.......mmmmmm....and care2 gorups ...lol...there are my job! [ send green star]
Gizzaroo G.	September 06, 2005 5:39 PM I am an Environmental Manager and typically work 8-5 PM, but I am on call 24/7. I used to like my job but now I suffer from burn out. It is an endless sea of paperwork thanks to our government. I am so involved in tracking paperwork trails that I cannot see the forest for the trees at times. It's crazy. At least I have a job...but I am looking for something else. [ send green star]
Nanette B.	I'm a writer September 04, 2005 11:49 PM My schedule as a disabled writer is my own to set, but I find I can't get much creative work done when the sun is up. The juices just don't flow then. However, I do editing and revision then, so it all works out. [ send green star]
Joseph R.	I work at a factory September 04, 2005 11:27 PM doing sanitation in a cannery.no longer can eat grean beans. my super and 90% of my co-workers are hispanic immigrants and hate white people. No speaka englis...etc. my real passion is making tie-dye and marketing it around. but i dont get to do it very often b/c i work from 11 p.m. to 7a.m. and sleep most of the day. if i could make my own hours i would not work at a factory anymore and would just do tie dye all day...it is amazing how many hours you can work when you are being creative and working for yourself. my record was fifteen hours straight doing my tie dye... factory work sucks, and hateful people suck. Be Peace [ send green star]
anonymous	August 28, 2005 1:27 PM I am disable and have the perfect job, I get to stay at home all the time, wake up when i want to not because i have to go to work. I really miss working though i miss being around people, If I could I would go back to work today. Hugs Anjee [report anonymous abuse]
Cindy S.	August 28, 2005 1:24 AM I work 7:30 to 3:30 Monday through Friday's...However, I'm known to pull a few hours longer each day, and/or take alot of work home. I work at a teenage prison, and I absolutely LOVE my job! Then, my best friend (who is also my ex-b/f Ha!) is an activist in many issues and I am forever doing some work to help him out, and I am planning on getting more involved with things. I donate alot of time trying to help women in abusive situations, etc. (most anything that can help anyone, is where I'll be); and when my son is gone...I will dedicate my life to such, as that is what makes me most happy. [ send green star]
Georgia L.	August 18, 2005 1:05 PM *8am to 4:30pm......I am not a morning person so I was thinking I would rather work nights......but......why waste the good hours on working!* [ send green star]
Kathryn T.	August 18, 2005 12:55 PM Hello: I don't have a work schedule although wish I did. My life has changed so much since I became disable. I try to keep going and keep a Positive outlook on things. I would give anything to be able to work like I use too. Take care and Hugs............................Kathy in Va. [ send green star]
Dennis A.	August 18, 2005 12:51 PM My work schedule as a freelancer is flexible, since I work from home most of the time. The biggest deal is telephonic communication, but only when the internet fails me. As a lobbyist, Tuesdays are always the worst days. That's when all the boring meetings take place downtown. Occasionally a trip or speaking engagement is required. It gets particularly bad during the legislative session every two years. This is one of the "on" years, unfortunately. Darn school financing issues! Why can't they just share books - that's what I had to when I was their age. But hey, at least we got another raise for Tyra and her state crew, and more training for my buddies-in-blue. In any event, I refuse to work more than 10 hrs/day, 4 days a week. My weekend of Friday-Sunday is sacred to me. I've earned it. [ send green star]
Sarvo P.	God I love my job! July 29, 2005 10:10 AM I was setting my alarm for 3:00 A.M. But then I was waking up at 2:30. So I set my alarm for 2:30. Then I was waking up at 2:00. Got all the way back to 1 a.m. This is after hitting the sack around 9 or 10 because I have to put the deities to rest every night. I should say I get to put the deities to rest. I love my job. Incense, flowers, amazingly good vegetarian food. I could go on and on. My favorite thing, though, is explaining Krishna consciousness to people and seeing someone pick up on a few of the concepts for the first time. It's really exciting to explain transmigration of the soul, and have someone say, "Hmm, that makes sense. That sounds pretty logical. I never really thought of it that way before." My internal pleasure meter goes through the roof. It's like a total rush! I love this job. Nothing I do takes more than a couple hours and it's all interesting and fun and colorful and satisfying. I don't want to brag, but I'm starting to think that God loves me a lot and maybe this wasn't a mistake after all. [ send green star]
Sarah S.	. July 29, 2005 9:35 AM 9am-3pm. sitting at a computer for Discover. [ send green star]
Amy S.	Long Days July 26, 2005 9:13 PM My heart goes out to those of you working twelve hour days. I understand your fatigue. Icurrently work a fourteen I go in at 4:30 in the evening and work until 6 the following morning. Since I can effectively say (at least at the moment), that I truly hate a job I'm unable to leave, I try to fill my off time with as many things s I can that I enjoy. [ send green star]
David M.	July 26, 2005 9:02 PM Hummm, very interesting. I work from 7 to 5:30 four days a week and 7 to 3:30 on fri. with once a month, 7 to noon on sat. And yes anything over 40 hours a week should be outlawed. For sure. [ send green star]
Ted K.	agreed Luke, and more July 26, 2005 8:58 PM Luke, I think that working overtime, except when absolutely necessary, should be illegal. We should have the right to say "no" without worry of reprimand. As for me, I like making my own schedule and juggling it once in a while for variety's sake. [ send green star]
Mariannie D.	Jimmy, July 26, 2005 8:34 PM I admire your ability to wake up early...... darn, I found myself going to bed at 5h00 now and then...... don't know how you do it..... [ send green star]
Mariannie D.	Luke July 26, 2005 8:34 PM You're right, it shouldn't be legal at ALL..... actually, I think anythingelse than maybe, to push it, 10 hours is dead wrong..... [ send green star]
Jimmy M.	early mornings July 26, 2005 8:31 PM My shift starts at 5 am and I am suppose to be off at 1 pm (once in a while, I've had to put in 10 to 12 hours). My afternoons, evenings, and weekends are free. [ send green star]
Luke W.	July 20, 2005 8:50 PM Variable-7:00 to 4:30 usually, I've been stuck there as late as 8:00. I don't think it should be legal to have to work more than twelve hours in one day. [ send green star]
Marion B.	July 19, 2005 8:12 AM 8:30-4:30 in the summer. 10-6 winter [ send green star]
Paola Z.	July 18, 2005 9:34 PM 9 to 6 pm..sometimes 9 to 11 pm hahaha...sometimes 8 to 5 pm..wow!!!i really have a stress work ..hehehe [ send green star]
Mariannie D.	work July 18, 2005 8:44 PM what's your work schedule? is it 9 to 5 or some other? what would be your work schedule if you could make it yourself??? [ send green star]