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Going to Work Every day

calamity

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One of the most underrated, difficult things we do is going to work every day. Doing everything in your power to make it into work every single, bloody day, is probably the hardest thing there is to do in one's life. What think you?

In my case, we can look to this past week for a good example. I have been under the weather since coming back from vacation last week. Yesterday, I was actually sick. Sick as a dog, actually: fever, aches, head like a football, I could barely focus. But, I had things to do. So, "m here.

I dragged myself in yesterday and struggled though the day until about 4 PM or so, when I could finally go home and go to bed. Today is not much better. It would have been very easy to call in sick for 3 days. But, with my job, that’s not really an option, especially after being on vacation for 10 days.

The effort to get to work every day goes beyond just what happens inside of work. For example, going to the bar and staying out until 2AM is not going to aid in the effort to show up ready for a full workday. At best, you can arrive a dysfunctional mess. But, odds are, more often than not, you will not show up at all.

Most of us who are successful and enjoy our careers work for 50 years, or even more. That's roughly 12,000 alarm clock beeps and early morning showers. Somewhere around the turn of the century, all of this began to dawn on me. That **** is hard. No wonder so many people struggle with it.
 
calamity said:
One of the most underrated, difficult things we do is going to work every day. Doing everything in your power to make it into work every single, bloody day, is probably the hardest thing there is to do in one's life. What think you?

In my case, we can look to this past week for a good example. I have been under the weather since coming back from vacation last week. Yesterday, I was actually sick. Sick as a dog, actually: fever, aches, head like a football, I could barely focus. But, I had things to do. So, "m here.

I dragged myself in yesterday and struggled though the day until about 4 PM or so, when I could finally go home and go to bed. Today is not much better. It would have been very easy to call in sick for 3 days. But, with my job, that’s not really an option, especially after being on vacation for 10 days.

The effort to get to work every day goes beyond just what happens inside of work. For example, going to the bar and staying out until 2AM is not going to aid in the effort to show up ready for a full workday. At best, you can arrive a dysfunctional mess. But, odds are, more often than not, you will not show up at all.

Most of us who are successful and enjoy our careers work for 50 years, or even more. That's roughly 12,000 alarm clock beeps and early morning showers. Somewhere around the turn of the century, all of this began to dawn on me. That **** is hard. No wonder so many people struggle with it.
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I've done it for about forty years and it's not that hard. It demands perspective, diligence and focus, but rolling out of your bed and putting in a day's work just isn't that hard. What makes it hard is when you think that you shouldn't have to do it. When you think that the universe somehow owes you happiness. My happiness comes out of my work. It's my work that gives me the finances to travel to E. Idaho and see my grand-daughter. It's my work that provides the finances to fund my hobbies. It's my work that gives me the finances to sleep in a warm bed, under a water-tight roof with cable TV and a comfy chair. Going to work isn't hard unless you make it hard.
 
calamity said:
One of the most underrated, difficult things we do is going to work every day. Doing everything in your power to make it into work every single, bloody day, is probably the hardest thing there is to do in one's life. What think you?

In my case, we can look to this past week for a good example. I have been under the weather since coming back from vacation last week. Yesterday, I was actually sick. Sick as a dog, actually: fever, aches, head like a football, I could barely focus. But, I had things to do. So, "m here.

I dragged myself in yesterday and struggled though the day until about 4 PM or so, when I could finally go home and go to bed. Today is not much better. It would have been very easy to call in sick for 3 days. But, with my job, that’s not really an option, especially after being on vacation for 10 days.

The effort to get to work every day goes beyond just what happens inside of work. For example, going to the bar and staying out until 2AM is not going to aid in the effort to show up ready for a full workday. At best, you can arrive a dysfunctional mess. But, odds are, more often than not, you will not show up at all.

Most of us who are successful and enjoy our careers work for 50 years, or even more. That's roughly 12,000 alarm clock beeps and early morning showers. Somewhere around the turn of the century, all of this began to dawn on me. That **** is hard. No wonder so many people struggle with it.
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If you don't enjoy going to work most days, you should be at least preparing for another job. Each step is a morale booster because you are acting to better your circumstances.
 
faithful_servant said:
I've done it for about forty years and it's not that hard. It demands perspective, diligence and focus, but rolling out of your bed and putting in a day's work just isn't that hard. What makes it hard is when you think that you shouldn't have to do it. When you think that the universe somehow owes you happiness. My happiness comes out of my work. It's my work that gives me the finances to travel to E. Idaho and see my grand-daughter. It's my work that provides the finances to fund my hobbies. It's my work that gives me the finances to sleep in a warm bed, under a water-tight roof with cable TV and a comfy chair. Going to work isn't hard unless you make it hard.
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IMO, it's something people do only because they have to (even if it's a self-imposed obligation). If given an option, most of us would probably slack off and show up 3 days a week, tops.
 
I get (take?) some days off but usually because of the weather. Generally I work every day that I have something to build, fix, paint or mow. Perhaps being able to set my own hours helps but even being self employed it still makes the boss mad when the help won't show up. ;)
 
calamity said:
IMO, it's something people do only because they have to (even if it's a self-imposed obligation). If given an option, most of us would probably slack off and show up 3 days a week, tops.
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Your post reminds me of an Eagles song. You should do something to change your predicament.

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key
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SDET said:
If you don't enjoy going to work most days, you should be at least preparing for another job.
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That's just it. I love my job. It's autonomous, and I basically do exactly what I want all day. Rare is a day when something comes along that ruins my control over what I will be doing for the next 8 hours. But, push come to shove, getting up before dawn and going to bed early enough to do that without throwing your system into total shock is a real commitment.

I can see why millennials have hard time with it. Hell, I had a hard time with it the first 15 years of my career. I certainly called in sick more often back then.
 
calamity said:
IMO, it's something people do only because they have to (even if it's a self-imposed obligation). If given an option, most of us would probably slack off and show up 3 days a week, tops.
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Being lazy is always a choice.
 
It ain't work if you love what you do ...

Don't waist your life away dragging yourself to a place you don't want to be.

Starting tomorrow, set a goal, and don't ever stop setting them.
 
SDET said:
Your post reminds me of an Eagles song. You should do something to change your predicament.
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I think your missing my point. But, that's OK. I'm used to that.

Let me try another tack. One of my favorite things to do in life is ride my racing bike to work. It's a 50 mile r/t and pulling it off 4-5 days a week at my age gives me one hell of a rush. That being said, doing it every day is still a bitch. A real challenge that sometimes kicks my ass to the point that I have to drive a couple days.

So, what I'm getting at is that it's not that someone dislikes their job. It's the fact that you have to do it every day, even when tired or feeling under the weather, that makes it hard.
 
Cigar said:
It ain't work if you love what you do ...

Don't waist your life away dragging yourself to a place you don't want to be.

Starting tomorrow, set a goal, and don't ever stop setting them.
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I wouldn't do it if I didn't want to be here. I certainly don't have to. But, like some wise man once said, "never make your hobby your source of income, you'll end up hating it."

Or in other words: They wouldn't call it work and pay us to be here if it was all fun and games. We'd be paying them $250 a day like we do when we do fun stuff on vacation. :)
 
calamity said:
I wouldn't do it if I didn't want to be here. I certainly don't have to. But, like some wise man once said, "never make your hobby your source of income, you'll end up hating it."

Or in other words: They wouldn't call it work and pay us to be here if it was all fun and games. We'd be paying them $250 a day like we do when we do fun stuff on vacation. :)
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Not so wise ... I've always loved solving problems via automation and software.

I even do it for free sometimes :mrgreen:
 
calamity said:
You just described my weekends. :)
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Lazy is hitting a Golf Ball as Hard as I can, then Drinking, Smoking a Cigar and having a few laughs with my friends until I find the ball ... then I knock the crap out of it again.

:mrgreen: Of course I Ride and don't Walk, it ain't like I'm out for the exercise.
 
Cigar said:
It ain't work if you love what you do ...

Don't waist your life away dragging yourself to a place you don't want to be.

Starting tomorrow, set a goal, and don't ever stop setting them.
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Exactly. Don't stay in a job you do not enjoy. Find what you like and pursue that job.
 
PIPEWRENCH said:
Exactly. Don't stay in a job you do not enjoy. Find what you like and pursue that job.
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I worked for 10 years in Corporate America as a SW Engineer and Director.

Then I said screw that, why am I making the Man Rich off of my idea's.

I received 5 patents and got $1 for each
 
calamity said:
One of the most underrated, difficult things we do is going to work every day. Doing everything in your power to make it into work every single, bloody day, is probably the hardest thing there is to do in one's life. What think you?

In my case, we can look to this past week for a good example. I have been under the weather since coming back from vacation last week. Yesterday, I was actually sick. Sick as a dog, actually: fever, aches, head like a football, I could barely focus. But, I had things to do. So, "m here.

I dragged myself in yesterday and struggled though the day until about 4 PM or so, when I could finally go home and go to bed. Today is not much better. It would have been very easy to call in sick for 3 days. But, with my job, that’s not really an option, especially after being on vacation for 10 days.

The effort to get to work every day goes beyond just what happens inside of work. For example, going to the bar and staying out until 2AM is not going to aid in the effort to show up ready for a full workday. At best, you can arrive a dysfunctional mess. But, odds are, more often than not, you will not show up at all.

Most of us who are successful and enjoy our careers work for 50 years, or even more. That's roughly 12,000 alarm clock beeps and early morning showers. Somewhere around the turn of the century, all of this began to dawn on me. That **** is hard. No wonder so many people struggle with it.
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This is a learnable skill, one that we used to try to teach by making HS students get up the earliest (somebody has to because we can not afford all the schools having their own buses) but there is a big push on to let HS snooze and be the last to start over the younger kids because they "need their sleep".

No, getting to bed at the proper time is part of being able to get up at the proper time, a skill high school students need to be taught and need to learn...the coddling has gotten so out of hand.
 
calamity said:
I wouldn't do it if I didn't want to be here. I certainly don't have to. But, like some wise man once said, "never make your hobby your source of income, you'll end up hating it."

Or in other words: They wouldn't call it work and pay us to be here if it was all fun and games. We'd be paying them $250 a day like we do when we do fun stuff on vacation. :)
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I don't agree. I have enjoyed every job I have had since I was 16.
 
PIPEWRENCH said:
I don't agree. I have enjoyed every job I have had since I was 16.
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Enjoying a job is one thing. Showing up for work every day is something completely different.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
This is a learnable skill, one that we used to try to teach by making HS students get up the earliest (somebody has to because we can not afford all the schools having their own buses) but there is a big push on to let HS snooze and be the last to start over the younger kids because they "need their sleep".

No, getting to bed at the proper time is part of being able to get up at the proper time, a skill high school students need to be taught and need to learn...the coddling has gotten so out of hand.
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lol...I am reminded of my sister in law and nephew. She let him "homeschool" because he didn't like getting up.

Today he works at a Speedway. His prospects are not much better either.
 
Harshaw said:
I just described your thread.
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If given a choice (and I use choice loosely because I actually do have the choice, but I know it would be the death of me), I'd stay in my bathrobe until 2 PM everyday, have some sex and then sleep until 6.

Hmm...come to think of it, that might actually be healthy :)
 
calamity said:
One of the most underrated, difficult things we do is going to work every day. Doing everything in your power to make it into work every single, bloody day, is probably the hardest thing there is to do in one's life. What think you?

In my case, we can look to this past week for a good example. I have been under the weather since coming back from vacation last week. Yesterday, I was actually sick. Sick as a dog, actually: fever, aches, head like a football, I could barely focus. But, I had things to do. So, "m here.

I dragged myself in yesterday and struggled though the day until about 4 PM or so, when I could finally go home and go to bed. Today is not much better. It would have been very easy to call in sick for 3 days. But, with my job, that’s not really an option, especially after being on vacation for 10 days.

The effort to get to work every day goes beyond just what happens inside of work. For example, going to the bar and staying out until 2AM is not going to aid in the effort to show up ready for a full workday. At best, you can arrive a dysfunctional mess. But, odds are, more often than not, you will not show up at all.

Most of us who are successful and enjoy our careers work for 50 years, or even more. That's roughly 12,000 alarm clock beeps and early morning showers. Somewhere around the turn of the century, all of this began to dawn on me. That **** is hard. No wonder so many people struggle with it.
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I've never really had that problem for much time. Hangovers are bad. But my father told me to never work a job I didn't enjoy. So.... ;)
 
My natural rhythm is to go to bed around 2 or 3 am, and get up maybe 9-10 when I was younger but more like 11 now. But given work, kids and school during my life my wake-up was anywhere from 2:30 to 8:00 almost every day of my life. I dont think I have overslept a half dozen times in my adult life, because I learned this skill as a kid. That 5.5 years of getting up at 4:30 for my paper route really helped, my parents were not going to deliver my papers for me and if I missed the bus I was totally screwed because my parents were not going to drive me. Plus I was going to get punished all day for being irresponsible.

Kids today rarely learn any of this.

They are deprived.
 
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