my job is killing me
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Freeman
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lol.
Yeah I feel you, working those kind of hours with kids is hard. I work in the oil field in New Mexico Texas area and put in an average 160-180 hours every two weeks. My schedule is 6 days on 3 days off but I have to work days off to make the extra money so I work 8 days on one day off. The most I've worked in two weeks was 215 hours. there's times we only get 2 hours of sleep a day for 3 days straight and have to drive from location to location.
I'm not complaining or boasting but you got to do what you got to do to support a family.
I'm not complaining or boasting but you got to do what you got to do to support a family.
CaptainMaximus
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This may not be as crazy as some of tall with the newborns... But I am taking 18hrs schooling at Tennessee tech university (my last semester where I will graduate with honors in Criminal Justice). I proposed to my fiancé in October and are currently planning and helping to pay for a wedding in June (less than a month after I graduate). I work 25-30 hrs a week waiting tables at Cracker Barrel, and am trying to find a job I'm law enforcement :cop:ASAP after I get out so I can put us both on my insurance. (She's a junior Tennessee tech student)
STRESSFUL!!!
P.S. She is talking about kids and buying a house soon, and I am like "what about my next audio build!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/scared.gif.f134e57c6c93ccd0f15aa5ac32c7d4a0.gif but yet I am excited //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/partytime.gif.c93957d22b3fb208098e423485fd0404.gif
STRESSFUL!!!
P.S. She is talking about kids and buying a house soon, and I am like "what about my next audio build!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/scared.gif.f134e57c6c93ccd0f15aa5ac32c7d4a0.gif but yet I am excited //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/partytime.gif.c93957d22b3fb208098e423485fd0404.gif
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brian84corvette
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man status = doing what it takes to provide for family, props to you responsible men grinding every day - it takes a big set of shoulders to handle it well
CaptainMaximus
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Speak for urself bro, I am a Tennessee highway patrol intern and will be one of the youngest kids to ever graduate with a double major and honors in both. She has a 4.0 gpa and is receiving a scholarship to vandy school of law. So, that doesn't sound like a "successful at being nothing" kind of life. We both want a house now, with kids inna few years, but know that those will wait. The reason I say trying to find a job is that I'm almost positive that I have one right outta college, but I'm also aware of this awful economy.... Trust me, we are career oriented, but wanna start our life together at the same time.
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Speak for urself bro, I am a Tennessee highway patrol intern and will be one of the youngest kids to ever graduate with a double major and honors in both. She has a 4.0 gpa and is receiving a scholarship to vandy school of law. So, that doesn't sound like a "successful at being nothing" kind of life. We both want a house now, with kids inna few years, but know that those will wait. The reason I say trying to find a job is that I'm almost positive that I have one right outta college, but I'm also aware of this awful economy.... Trust me, we are career oriented, but wanna start our life together at the same time.
I was deployed from Nov 2011 to Nov 2012 and my wife is in the air force. Our daughter was 2 when I left and my son was 3 weeks old. She was working around 55 hours a week, plus going to school every night because she needed to finish her associates so that we could get stationed together in Cali. I respect her a lot for working that much with school, a newborn, a 2 year old and maintaining the house all by herself for a year. I can't imagine how tough it must have been on her
bubbagumper6
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Not trying to be a dick but that's not "growing up" that's "growing up uneducated." With the right education and job placement you could be working half those hours and still making just as much money.
18 credit hours + 25hrs of work a week? Weak fucking sauce.
This thread is full of whiners and lazy children.
fatboytyler
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Trolls galore. Gotta love the people who make fun of people they know nothing about.
I didn't read all the posts in this thread... but I'll state this...
Finding the right balance is a bee-awtch!!
I worked 80-120 hour weeks for years and still lost my family. Why? Because I was desperately trying to give them the STUFF they needed (wanted)... and I FAILED to give of myself... even though that's precisely what I was TRYING TO DO!!
All gone now...
Don't be a fool.
Those calling others "lazy spoiled children"? F-YOU!!
Your family needs YOU as much or more than they need the money... and if not... there's a far bigger problem to address.
Finding the right balance is a bee-awtch!!
I worked 80-120 hour weeks for years and still lost my family. Why? Because I was desperately trying to give them the STUFF they needed (wanted)... and I FAILED to give of myself... even though that's precisely what I was TRYING TO DO!!
All gone now...
Don't be a fool.
Those calling others "lazy spoiled children"? F-YOU!!
Your family needs YOU as much or more than they need the money... and if not... there's a far bigger problem to address.
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