Employment Demographics
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- Grok
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Employment Demographics
Whilst I sneak peaks at SF from my day job, I often wonder whether the rest of you are forced to suffer such indignities as "workin' for the man."
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- Mr. Beast
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- Niveous
- Gemini
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You think you work for the man. No, I work for the Man. I'm a Fed. I throw people out of the country for a living. That's working for the Man.
"I'd like to see 1984 redubbed with this in the soundtrack."- Furrypedro.
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- Grok
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Yup, that is DEFINITELY workin' for the man! My condolences!Niveous wrote:You think you work for the man. No, I work for the Man. I'm a Fed. I throw people out of the country for a living. That's working for the Man.
I work 40 a week most of the time, although when I'm lucky enough to get freelance gigs I'm bumped up into the ridiculous 70 - 80 hours a week. Fortunately (Unfortunately?) This scenario happens pretty infrequently.
(How productive are these 40 hours? Much less so since I was turned on to Songfight. My supervisors will be in touch.)
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I might bitch and moan now and then but I don't feel indignant about having a job. WTF? If you don't like your job you've got the wrong one. If you want to blame that on "the man", then go ahead. I find it hard to believe that people in this community are in such dire straights that they feel trapped by their employment options. This has nothing to do with income or the particular job anyone does for a living.
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"Any more chromaticism and you'll have to change your last name to Wagner!" - Frankie Big Face
"Any more chromaticism and you'll have to change your last name to Wagner!" - Frankie Big Face
Full-time student, but I work during the summer.
"I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony, but hostility, chaos and murder." - Werner Herzog
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I don't think folks are indignant about having a job...indeed, here in Portland, I'm lucky to have one at all.roymond wrote:I might bitch and moan now and then but I don't feel indignant about having a job. WTF? If you don't like your job you've got the wrong one.
Getting "the right job" isn't really easy though, is it?
Gosh, I should have added an option to my poll, "I am satisfied in my current job."
--Em
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- Stable Diffusion
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30 hours flipping burgers (Thursday - Sunday 9-5)
25 hours updating websites / encoding / etc computer work (Monday & Tuesday 10-6 and everywhere else in between)
Wednsdays off.
It's not ideal...it eats up all my time and I'm still magically broke all the time. However, the one job isn't too far and is in a very hip part of town. The other job I commute all of three feet and I don't even have to get dressed if I don't want to.
You left off 'two jobs' option in the poll.
25 hours updating websites / encoding / etc computer work (Monday & Tuesday 10-6 and everywhere else in between)
Wednsdays off.
It's not ideal...it eats up all my time and I'm still magically broke all the time. However, the one job isn't too far and is in a very hip part of town. The other job I commute all of three feet and I don't even have to get dressed if I don't want to.
You left off 'two jobs' option in the poll.
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Correct. And I don't mean to be a snob (which I certainly must have tried to do up there ^ ). But even in the menial jobs I had as a kid I had a sense of where things might go, to buffer the reality of the situation. The other side of it is, when you're on that path (oh god, preaching here...gag!) have the perspective that this isn't what you're going to be doing the rest of your life.anti-m wrote:Getting "the right job" isn't really easy though, is it?
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"Any more chromaticism and you'll have to change your last name to Wagner!" - Frankie Big Face
"Any more chromaticism and you'll have to change your last name to Wagner!" - Frankie Big Face
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Losing a job is like a kick in the nuts.Sven wrote:I just lost my job yesterday. I hear a bender calling.
At first it hurts and you are pissed off.
Then, the pain starts to subside a little.
Finally, the pain is replaced with sweet relief.
I just recently lost a job too. I was mad at first...then I was all 'to hell with them' and then finally, thank god I ain't gotta drive all the way out there no more to deal with those a-holes. They wanted more time than I could afford them, then I got a flat tire at an inopportune time. (and I don't think they believed me so I sent them a scan of my firestone reciept)
Shortly thereafter, I got a call from a friend who needs side work done for his new hosting company. ..
Hang in there.
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- Grok
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Thanks for the Horatio Alger pep-talk, I suppose. Personally, I’m more partial to Nathanael West’s “A Cool Million.â€roymond wrote:Correct. And I don't mean to be a snob (which I certainly must have tried to do up there ^ ). But even in the menial jobs I had as a kid I had a sense of where things might go, to buffer the reality of the situation. The other side of it is, when you're on that path (oh god, preaching here...gag!) have the perspective that this isn't what you're going to be doing the rest of your life.anti-m wrote:Getting "the right job" isn't really easy though, is it?
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Ain't that the truth!jack wrote: for me, and perhaps a few others, the time i spend on music is more correlated to my motivation for making it....
...if i'm really motivated to work on something, i'll make the time.
Until I found songfight, I hadn't made any music in (literally) years. (I sure wish I had a witness to testify!)
Songfight got me off my duff.
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I work a full time job where I get up at 4:30 am (so I can be home at a reasonable hour) and sit at a desk all day. Then I come home to the kids, 7 months and 3 years. Playing, dinner, feeding the baby, baths, brushing teeth, jammies, stories, hugs and kisses, and then finally good night. I have about 1 1/2 hours to myself and then it's bed for me, repeat. I actually don't hate my job, or my job at home. I am just very tired all the time. I have a hobby, painting, but that is so on the back burner right now, it's not funny. Phil and I work opposite shifts, so he is home with the kids all day and then he works til all hours of the morning, sometimes coming home just as I'm getting up for work. We'd love to Songfight more often, but the time just slips away.anti-m wrote: Had I been really thorough, I would have also asked about kids, other hobbies, etc…but that would have made for one epic poll!
Listen to our music!jack wrote:heather is the hardest working mom on songfight (in addition to being arguably the rockinist chick....).
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Thanks, whoever you are!
Listen to our music!jack wrote:heather is the hardest working mom on songfight (in addition to being arguably the rockinist chick....).