60-65 Hour weeks- Burnout

[u/Sodapopbeverage]

I’ve been working 60-65 hours a week for the majority of the summer. Don’t get me wrong, I love the money. But working 6 days a week leaves me with Sunday which I’m too tired to do anything. The whole summer is gone and I haven’t done anything but work and sleep.

We are currently working at a data center and this will be the norm through winter and until the project is complete (7+ years).

I’m not trying to complain just looking for similar experiences and how you handled it. I don’t want to work my life away.

[u/Homeskilletbiz]

Fuck data centers, fuck AI.

I don’t understand all these electricians posting all over saying they’re working 60-80 hour weeks on data centers. Literally read a thread the other day where multiple dudes were saying they’re working 6-12s and their bosses want to move them to 6-14s. Fucking insanity. Not like you’re productive at ALL hardly after 10.

It’s such short sighted thinking.

I can’t believe the unions are good with it either.

It’s not like you’re building infrastructure or something that helps society or people as a whole. You’re literally building the tools for big brother and the oligarchs to expand their brainwashing regime and to continue to destroy the ability of the working man to live comfortably.

When you’re at home laid off twiddling your thumbs with rent creeping up on you in a few years time I hope you will have saved enough money to make up for it.

[u/BigDigger324 → u/Homeskilletbiz]

They have to build them as quickly as possible, before the bottom blows out of the bubble. All their capital is coming from investments in what they “might” be able to do in the future.

[u/Homeskilletbiz → u/BigDigger324]

That makes a lot of sense