has anyone here worked like really really hard?

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AgentDrazenPetrovic

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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.
 
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Only if those days were spent doing manual labor would you have any right to bitch.
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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.
 
PapaG said:
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.
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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.
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
Summer jobs were usually shit. The shittier they were, the more they paid it seems.
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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.
 
PapaG said:
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.
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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.
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
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.
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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.
 
PapaG said:
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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.
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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.
 
blazerboy30 said:
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.
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Fuck, I wonder how awesome it'd be to work at nike or whatever, to be able to use the gym during work hours....
 
AgentDrazenPetrovic said:
Fuck, I wonder how awesome it'd be to work at nike or whatever, to be able to use the gym during work hours....
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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.
 
Those are insane hours! 6am-11pm....fucking shit! I'd be useless after the 13th hour or so.
 
Yeah, I've done several stretches like that. The worst stretch was the years when I worked in corp fin in Manhattan. Looking back at it (70 hour weeks were the norm with periods of 100-110 hour weeks) it was crazy, but because everyone else was working the same hours it felt reasonably normal.

The hardest stretch for me, however, were the years when I started my own business. It was harder because I was all over the place--raising money, testing products, running the numbers, doing buildout, interviewing vendors, etc. It was the randomness which made it so hard. I could never get into a groove.
 
6am-11pm white collar hours being called "tough" make me laugh. I've done that as well. No comparison versus the roughnecking days. :biglaugh:
 
I once got a book deal - on the condition that I have it done in 14 days! It was an "insta book" on a breaking news story. I worked 18 hour days for 22 days straight and wrote 300 pages. It was hell, but weirdly fun. Exhausting in the end. I would not do it again.
 
PapaG said:
6am-11pm white collar hours being called "tough" make me laugh. I've done that as well. No comparison versus the roughnecking days. :biglaugh:
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To be fair, they're different kinds of "tough". I've done the physically taxing two-job thing (landscaping during the day and working on a loading dock at night) and I've done the desk job with long hours. The former was tough because I was physically beat down. The latter was tough because it required mental sharpness long after the time you should be expected to do it.
 
PapaG said:
Without a family of your own, the Nike approach kicks ass. With your own family, well...
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Most people at Nike don't really work that hard. At least that's my opinion from a previous employee. They also don't seem to pay very well (although the benefits are good) because everyone wants to work for them...they can get talented people for cheap. Besides, what designer (or IT nerd) would love to say they work for the swoosh. My longest day was when I had to make a conference call to Europe at like 6:30 and then stay until 8:30 to make a conference call to Japan. Then again, they gave me a project too big for an "intern" and I spent a whole lot of time at home working on the project. I even came in one weekend and worked four hours of overtime and got yelled out because it wasn't in the budget. That's the only reason I worked long hours there though.
 
Stevenson said:
I once got a book deal - on the condition that I have it done in 14 days! It was an "insta book" on a breaking news story. I worked 18 hour days for 22 days straight and wrote 300 pages. It was hell, but weirdly fun. Exhausting in the end. I would not do it again.
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I researched and wrote my college thesis in about two weeks. Add another half week for revisions and then I presented it and finally graduated. But that was more to do with procrastination. I still was working from morning through night on it. Over 100 pages with some technical stuff to do as well.
 
Right now I'm doing 12+ hour days and making 500 bucks a month. Oh, grad school.

My dad works for Nike and they run him absolutely ragged. 80 hour weeks, soul crushing by all accounts, he pretty much suicidal at this point. Fuck those people.
 
Back in the early 70's I used to work double shifts at the mill in Roseburg as often as I could get the work. Worked 12 hours at least twice a week for several years there. Worked 12-14 hours a day logging in the 70's, too.

At the time I was young and a party animal. Could afford to party hardy with the extra $$$.
 
PapaG said:
6am-11pm white collar hours being called "tough" make me laugh. I've done that as well. No comparison versus the roughnecking days. :biglaugh:
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Not sure if I was one of the people you were referring to, but for the record I've never had a white collar job in my life.
 
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