Why I hate the weekends (2017)

Re:Why I hate the weekends (2017) by coldtea on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:48PM (#19181431)

>Our lives are high maintenance. We need to maintain our relationships with our spouses, friends and family. We need to take care of ourselves with exercise, hygiene and so on. Our houses need to be kept clean and our fridge full of food. And to be able to do all that, we need work to make a wage so we can pay for what keeps us alive.

Nothing that a short stint in the developing world doing a non-desk job for a month or so can't help put perspective on...

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Re:Why I hate the weekends (2017) by throwaway875u58 on Saturday February 16, 2019 @06:29PM (#19181618)

Just because there are kids starving in Africa doesn't make me any less hungrier.

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Re:Why I hate the weekends (2017) by coldtea on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:01PM (#19181746)

I'd say it does.

https://youtu.be/YYfajPXdvSM?t=67

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Re:Why I hate the weekends (2017) by Noumenon72 on Sunday February 17, 2019 @12:11AM (#19182774)

Yeah, I worked mandatory 53 hours in a plastic factory for years, sometimes six twelves in seven days. You still manage to take care of most things. Then sometimes when the economy slowed we would go down to 36 hours a week. That would show us just how much time off that actually is. Just working an 8-hour shift instead of 12 means you come home and have four-plus hours of your own time for whatever you want, every single day.

After that, programming is so far from exhausting that I work overtime just because I feel like I'm not doing my fair share any more.

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