NaturallyChill
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Full time student, part time @ DQ. So, unlike everybody else, I'm working less the closer we get to Christmas
Every hour I can get, but overtime is almost impossible to get these days. Actually the work load is so bad that I end up working "off the clock" a couple hours a week despite not getting paid... just to fricken' stay employed in this bad economy. :roll:
I am just curious, because a lot of times I tend to want to side with the conservatives on here because seems like a lot of you are just bitching because you have to actually work a lot to make a lot of money so...how many hours do you work on average a week?
I normally work about 60 hours a week. Lowest is 48, most is around 72. I have a baby daughter to take care of as well. I also do design and writing work here and there on contract on the side. I sleep like 4-5 hours a night. I am obviously Democrat. I support some of the ideas of OWS but as a whole think it's counter-productive (or not productive at all). Just trying to get a feel for how you all are...
I work a lot (one full-time job and a part-time job with damn near full-time hours). I average between 60-74 hours a week. As a conservative, I don't bitch about it because it's what I choose to do. I don't need the extra income from the 2nd job to survive, but it's nice to have the extra money. Your argument here is flawed, but I'll get to that later on.I am just curious, because a lot of times I tend to want to side with the conservatives on here because seems like a lot of you are just bitching because you have to actually work a lot to make a lot of money so...how many hours do you work on average a week?
The (Tea Party) conservatives and the OWS crowd have a few things in common, and in other areas they couldn't be further apart. For example, both are pissed off about bailing out Wall Street, but there are so many differences between the two that it's not even funny.I normally work about 60 hours a week. Lowest is 48, most is around 72. I have a baby daughter to take care of as well. I also do design and writing work here and there on contract on the side. I sleep like 4-5 hours a night. I am obviously Democrat. I support some of the ideas of OWS but as a whole think it's counter-productive (or not productive at all). Just trying to get a feel for how you all are...
I work a lot (one full-time job and a part-time job with damn near full-time hours). I average between 60-74 hours a week. As a conservative, I don't bitch about it because it's what I choose to do. I don't need the extra income from the 2nd job to survive, but it's nice to have the extra money. Your argument here is flawed, but I'll get to that later on.
The (Tea Party) conservatives and the OWS crowd have a few things in common, and in other areas they couldn't be further apart. For example, both are pissed off about bailing out Wall Street, but there are so many differences between the two that it's not even funny.
It seems to me that you are confusing conservatives with what the media paints conservatives out to be. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, smaller government and freedom. The OWS crowd doesn't believe in personal responsibility, doesn't believe in fiscal responsibility (at least not anywhere close to the same level that conservatives do), doesn't believe in a smaller government and they hate freedom. OWS is all over the map politically, philosophically and everywhere else.
As for your argument that conservatives are bitching because they have to work a lot to make a lot, I call bull****. True conservatives understand that it is our responsibility to take care of ourselves and our family. Times are tough right now, for everyone, but I'm not waiting on the government (at least not this administration) to do anything even remotely close to helping the economy. The mess we are on now was created by our government. Our government stuck it's nose in private business (Fanny & Freddie), has practiced crony-capitalism for years and years and has spent recklessly for decades. Why would I expect our current government to do anything to fix that when all they have done is add to it?
To sum it all up, I work to take care of me and my family. I chose the profession that I'm in and I like what I do. But until the economy turns around and the proper steps are put into place to aid in that recovery, I do what I have to do. I may complain about being tired and missing time with my family, but it's because of them that I do what I do. If I didn't love them and didn't care, I'd probably be a loony liberal camped out in a tent occupying something other than a job.
I work at a department store, 8 hours per day and 1 day off at week.
So, 64 hours per week.
Good heavens - we're busy people.
But yet - have the time to spend together as the coolest group of debaters around.
MJ: And idleness and hard work aren’t mutually exclusive; there's just a more balanced way of approaching hard work, right?
TH: Yes. And I had that approach right from the beginning. It wasn’t exactly the old “do nothing all day,” it was just that you appreciate the value of a good portion of doing nothing in your day—for your mental health, your physical health, your relationships, that sort of thing. But also you appreciate the importance of getting out of this wage-slavery thing, more or less, and try to look after yourself, and that’s the anarchist side of it. People say, “Aren’t you going backwards?” or “You’re a Luddite.” But I think it’s good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.
I work at a department store, 8 hours per day and 1 day off at week.
So, 64 hours per week.
don't sell yourself short you are a master debaterLet's not generalize, I am neither too busy or a good debater.