has anyone here worked like really really hard?

Like 18 hour days and shit?

wake up real early, go back home real late?

how did that work out for ya?

 

12 hrs. was the max (at one time). Worst fucking day of my life.

 

one day? I've worked once from 9am until 2:30am on several occasions, beating deadlines and shit.

fucking nuts. i got some cash and OT pay though so I was rollin in it. I had a period of 6-8 months where I'd work 12-13 hour days 5 days a week....the extra money was great, but every day was like a blur and a repeat of everything else. I'd spend like $60 a day on eating out...5 days a week then add in a lot of drinking on top of that...only way to cope with that kind of shit. it was nuts.

I kind of want to have to work hard right now....with the shit in america, its just kind of depressing. working smarter is always better but it'd be nice working long hours as long as it wasn't something lame like accounting.

 

Only if those days were spent doing manual labor would you have any right to bitch.

 

nah, with manual labor you'd probably end up feeling satisfied by the end of the day. sitting in an office and working all day sucks ass.

 

i'm having an office space moment. meh. just bored with work. having some job be intellectually challenging would be ideal but my current work allows me to post here all fucking day without any repercussions.

 

College summers for two years making trips to LaBarge, Wyoming. Gas dehydration plants on "shutdown" 31 days straight of at least 12 hours/day, followed by working on either a big rig or a workover rig 7/on, 7/off for 12 hours a day until school started.

I made a crapload of money those summers, but I luckily lost zero digits or teeth.

Yep, I was a roughneck.

 

Only one day. I'm a well oiled machine, my friend.

 

Summer jobs were usually shit. The shittier they were, the more they paid it seems.

 

4-5 years back in the 80's with 2 fulltime jobs.

Builds character, widens horizons, pays bills.

 

I had friends who went to Alaska to work on fishing boats. We'd argue over who saw the most "can you believe that" moment of the summer.

I've lived in roughneck land and made some friends after all was said and one. I'm not easily intimidated now when in my white-collar business world. Bunch of poseurs.

 

I've spent 15 hour days at school.

The school I use to go is kind of far from my house so I tried to fit in as many classes as I could into one day, so some semesters I took 3 or 4 three hour classes a day with a one hour break in between.

 

I heard about those. creepy. I worked one summer at OHSU in the animal research department cleaning up pig and dog shit. that sucked, but it didn't pay so bad, and I actually enjoyed taking the bus around portland, etc.

 

LOL

You've never worked "really hard", then. No big deal, but I've seen some stuff. We used to drive around with a loaded pistol in the car. We were the "college boys" in an area where a GED was a goal. Fought my ass off there at times, and then you buy an Oly together after the fight.

 

I'm AT work a lot of hours every day. But considering I get all my meals there for free, and I have the gym there, I don't really WORK exceptionally long hours.

 

It was pretty shitty...literally. I've worked hard...but not hardcore I guess like carrying around pistols and shit. one summer worked in various warehouse backrooms at department stores in Washinton Square....JC Penny's was fucking torture.

 

Fuck, I wonder how awesome it'd be to work at nike or whatever, to be able to use the gym during work hours....

 

Without a family of your own, the Nike approach kicks ass. With your own family, well...

 

I'm not at Nike, but it is pretty nice to be able to head over to the gym at any point in the day instead of in the early morning or evening, when the motivation is lacking.

 

I did a stretch of 6am-11pm shifts for a month straight before. It was the worst month of my life.