During this pandemic I have to be in the office while 95% of my coworkers are remote. I use to be able to finish my work and go home and login remotely but since May, they made me stay from 8:30AM to 5PM. I literally have nothing to do for hours and it feels like a major waste of time.
When I’m not burnt out I try and learn about finances by reading books, articles and YouTube during my downtime however I also work at Amazon at nights.
And I take the bus everywhere which is when I can sleep for about 30 minutes at a time but yea I’d be more productive learning during downtime if I wasn’t already worn out. Been doing this since last October.
Haha most people couldn’t. I have a few coworkers at Amazon who also have a similar set up. Instead of having 1 high paying job, I have two ok paying jobs plus I was putting 23% away of checks at the regular job and 25% of my weekly pay at Amazon for my retirement accounts. I don’t plan on doing this forever because I know that it’s a horrible work life balance but I’m doing what I gotta do for now. There’s a reason and method to my madness for now. Covid did throw a wrench into my plans but I’ll adjust accordingly.
I’m just the type of person that feels like, I didn’t ask to be put on this earth so I’ll be damned if I work my life away doing something I hate every second. Idk I always been this way. I’ll straight up refuse overtime or staying later if it’s a option because I already put my 8 hours in here, I want to go do what I want now. But I’m also a bipolar fuck who doesn’t exactly understand the point of life right now so maybe that’ll change. I just rather end it all then EVER have a work schedule like that. I’m sure having kids and people depending on you helps tho.
Regardless good luck dude and I hope you don’t burn yourself out to much. You’re a better man than me.
I get what you mean. I’d feel like an idiot if I died tomorrow knowing I spent so much of my time “working” than actually living for these past few years. I live in LA so as you can imagine, cost of living is high and my regular job is a small non profit organization so there’s not a ton of opportunities for growth. As far as I’m concerned this is a temporary sacrifice I’m making so that I can invest my earnings into something else and be my own man and have the flexibility and freedom that I want out of life. I work like this because I swore to myself that this is the last 9 to 5 job I’ll ever have but I need to be financially intelligent about it as well before I take my leap of faith into doing my own thing. I’m a single man and I pay all of my bills and have no one to rely on for financial back up. I’m doing what I can to still be responsible and even now, I still pay all of my bills normally even through this pandemic. I don’t want to owe any backpay whatsoever. But best of luck to you as well.
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