I know my friends have jobs as well. They go to work, they get paychecks, but the part in between seems really hazy to me. I have a certain set of responsibilities and tasks to get done during the day and sometimes I have to bring work home. So how do these guys log 80 emails a day, find random shite on the interwebs, make travel arrangements, make fun of other people, and get their work done on top of it all?
Hutchison found some amusing reading by doing some research on who is making bamboo bicycle frames. One of the former riders from the Colorado scene was getting bashed by one of his Ivy League colleagues for self promotion, aggrandizing himself and his talents, and being a clown in general.
Maybe my friends can teach me the ways of the working world, I want my money for nothing and my chicks for free . . .
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Dear Pinkerton's Blog's comment section . . . . long time lurker, first time poster. We will help young Pinkerton in the ways of the American workplace.
Are you retarded!? Don't take work home with you! You are selling out to the man even more, if he's getting you to do work at home that you don't get paid for.
Think about work; essentially your employer is paying you for your TIME (which is very much limited by death) and your SKILLS (which you've likely already spent quite an investment on - in time and money). Does your employer REALLY pay you what you feel your limited time is worth?
Well played sir, well played. Given that our time is a limited resource, most of us sell out way too easily with the excuse being creature comforts like "food" and "shelter" . . .
I like to go for a slightly different approach to set up the situation in my favor. Set expectations way low for what you can accomplish work wise. It frees up a whole chunk of time for "other" while at work. If you can finish what is expected of you in a mere hour, that gives you seven hours of pure free time, well minus an hour for lunch.
Exactly Seth... look around you. Chances are, you work with morons, or at least a large percentage of morons.
Set the expectations to a very reasonable level. "Hey Mr. Boss man, I think I can get this, this, and this done in a particular time frame." In the back of your mind, sure, you know you could do more, but you know what? You aren't getting paid to do MORE. Doing more is going to cost Mr. Boss Man.
Further... we all need to spend too much time at work, so you need to enjoy your work and not let it run you ragged.
Work is merely a vehicle for financing what we like to call "life" . . . do you live to work or work to live?
Don't get me started on the need to forget about work immediately after you walk out the door. It shouldn't encroach on your real life.
Young Pinkerton, start here.
We all have to sell out to The Man to some extent, because food and shelter are just plain nice to have. Otherwise, your option is to be a dirty hippie, and no one wants that.
Just don't take it too seriously, or he will steal your soul.
Follow our example on this one . . . come 9:30 it is time to spend an hour or so debating what lunch will be and when exactly.
Yo Brian! What's for lunch?
Maybe it also just seems like more "interwebs conversating", since I ask Rubin what he's doing for lunch, but I don't spend time over at the water cooler asking my cube-mates what they are doing for lunch.
Oh... and I have to travel for a meeting with The Man just before lunch, so I need to figure out someplace along the way to stop to grab some grub. Too bad it's cold out today, I could go for some outside time.
Overworked.
So I guess it's my turn today eh? I guess I was due. I'm sure you are correct on all points.
How are your days going?
You didn't even read the posts... did you?
Of course I read all the posts. I have a very logical rebuttal for each of them, but I don't want Seth to get out his giant Jewish beating stick and hit me with it. All I can say is right now I'm attempting to build a career, so in the end all my hard work and effort will be recognized so I can live a life akin to what my father has as I age. A few hard years now will lead to many comfortable years in the future.
Where's the Out O Office meeting? Not too far I hope.
I am building a career too . . . what are you trying to say?
I'm saying that the financial world is a little different than your management. I'm acutally lucky that I only have to work 50 hours a week. A lot of my peers are doing 60-70, it's just kinda the nature of the beast in this industry.
My attention span isn't that long . . . Hey! I just sold my old phone here.
So... does that mean you are doing hard work now, in the hopes of getting up to the point where you work 60-70 hours a week?
There were just a couple studies done, that all showed people today, were not living as comfortably (financialy) as their parents, regardless of the economic growth we've had over the last 30 years. I'll try to find it for you.
What did you guys end up with for lunch? I went with the "more chinese food than I can eat for $5" approach.
Here Joey... because I do care.
i am brian: my comment on your employer is paying for your time comment. Nothing is further from correct. Your employer is paying for you to do a job. If you are unable to complete that job in 8 hours then you are required, as a condition of your employement, to take that work home and complete it.
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