workingman's blues

Working from home. Just got peanut butter on the ceiling fan. Living some kind of dream, over here.

I wake up everyday between 5:50-6:20 am. I am at the bus stop at 6:40, which gets me on the 7:07 express train to the city, which puts me at Union Station by 7:45. Then, I have about a two mile walk, which typically gets me to my office at about 8:05-8:10. Once I am there, I work somewhere between 8-10 hours. All of that time is spent in a little cubicle, without windows, and I basically perform the same mentally tiring and repetitive task over and over. I am also underpaid, have no benefits, and very little job security. I leave my office at 4:15-5:15, make the same two mile walk, take the bus back to my house. Once I am home, I have to choose whether I want to go work out or make myself something to eat, but I never have time for both. Once I finish that I am already preparing myself for the next goddamn day and I am exhausted and in bed by like 8:30....

I do not know how people can do this for decades on end. It's truly incredible.

We are currently in a covert unionization effort at my office though. It is very exciting/interesting and obviously would be of enormous personal benefit. Apparently it could be the first successful unionization of legal assistants/paralegals in the entire country, which is insane...

It is really nice working in an office full of people my age. We all some actual Communists.

How can people wake up and leave the house in 20 minutes?

I need a good 40 minutes of coffee and relaxing before even getting in the shower.

I'm usually out of bed and into the car within 10-15 minutes. Gotta get as much sleep as possible.

I do my coffee sipping on the L train.

I wake up at 6 and start walking to work at 815 you guys are fucking crazy.

Also, this new job is pushing me hours wise but I actually like what I'm doing so it doesn't seem so bad. I've worked from 830 til 8 for the past 5 or 6 work days and until 7 for the week before that. If your math is any good though, you'll notice I only live 15 minutes walk from the office so its pretty niceeeee.

I wake up at 5 even though my bus doesn’t come until 6:15. I need to enjoy a cup or 2 of coffee, consider what I’m going to wear and then get ready at my own pace.

wake up anytime between 4:30 and 6:45, that's not up to me.

in shower around 6:30 or 6:45

off to work by 7:05

coffee in the car, breakfast in the office. if i'm working from home (tue/fri, usually), those things happen at home.

Generally, wake up at about 7 and leave the house at 8:10. It's a kush groove over here.

Downside is I'll be unemployed by August. Easy come, easy go.

A big part of my calculation, in contrast to at least CPoots and Nick, is that I've never really needed to care what I look like before leaving the house and so I don't.

Wake up at 630, out the house by 715ish, coffee in the car

I too will be unemployed come August

It is a small miracle that I am able to wake up as early as 6:00am everyday. Ideally, I would want more time in the morning to slowly get ready and enjoy a cup of coffee, but that unfortunately isn't possible.

Nick wrote:I wake up at 5 even though my bus doesn’t come until 6:15. I need to enjoy a cup or 2 of coffee, consider what I’m going to wear and then get ready at my own pace.

I think I may have seen you the other day on the train. How long are you keeping your beard now?

I shaved end of last week and now have a carefully grown/styled level of stubble.

My alarm is set for 7:15-7:30am. I snooze until 8 most mornings. I take a shower and brush my teeth, get dressed, pack my backpack, and am out the door by 8:35 or so. I drive to work to get there around 9am. I make an americano as soon as I get into the office and have another one around 10 or 10:30. I only have breakfast on weekends.

I also rock a mustache now.

Nick wrote:I shaved end of last week and now have a carefully grown/styled level of stubble.

Than it definitely wasn't you. If you ever want to meet up in person before I quit my job and move to Italy at the end of the year, let me know and I will buy you a beer or something.

I typically wake up 15 minutes before my alarm goes off and I honestly forgot that there was a snooze function. I haven't used it in years.

Good luck in Italy WP

This last page is phenomenally interesting to me. I wake up between 6:30-7:30 depending on the day. Mostly at 7:13. I hop in the shower while my wife wakes her way up. She feeds the infant, I feed myself, her, and the 3yo and make coffee. In-laws pick up the 3yo around 8:45 while I'm putting the finishing touches on lunch. We get out of the house at 9:00 and show up at work at 9:30. I do not dislike winery life.

Wake up at 530, shower at 6, leave the house at 7 drop off lady 730 drop off child 745, 8-930 talk with my dad about the morning bullshit usually politics. Work from 10-6

i work from home. best days of my life. im 45 and i feel retired. with no commute my cash flow is through the roof.

Marty what are you doing these days?

When I think about having decades in front of me where I get up before 6AM to commute to work and then back home I get excited for the sweet release of death.

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Nick wrote:When I think about having decades in front of me where I get up before 6AM to commute to work and then back home I get excited for the sweet release of death.

exactly

i made a shit ton of dough working downtown, but getting laid off was the best thing that ever happened to me

i worked an orwellian nightmare for 10, long, dark years

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king cake - mid may - tinley

pearl psychedelic revue - 6/17 - forge block party - downtown joliet

pearl psychedelic revue - 7/20 - tribute island music festival - kenosha WI (Janis Joplin)

creepy d - 1st saturday august - phyllis musical inn - new annual creepy d show