Posted on 10/24/2023 1:08:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
This girl won't last long at anything she tries.................
VIDEO AT LINK.......................
Wait until you are getting your hubby up at 4:00 a.m., fix his lunch, and get him out the door to drive 1 1/2 hours away to his job. Then, do a bit of housework before getting the kids up for school, packing their lunch and getting them out the door at 6:45. Next, get yourself ready for work and arrive at the office 20 miles away by 8:00 a.m.
In the afternoon, use your lunchtime hour time to run get the kids from school and take them to day care (no time to eat), then back to the office to work until 5:30. After work, don’t forget the kids, and arrive home at 6:30. Get kids some snacks, make sure they do homework, then get dinner started so hubby can eat when he stumbles into the house filthy, hungry, and tired. If there is enough daylight left, maybe you can get two hours work done on the house you are building by yourself in your spare time.
Next, get up in the morning and start over again! Oh, and do all this while poor as church mice and the house-building project progresses based upon how much money you have saved for supplies by not eating that restaurant lunch each day.
The poor child! Bless her sweet little heart!
It’s enough to drive you
Crazy if you let it
If I didn't personally know people like this, I would wonder as well. But this is not out of the ordinary. 50 years ago my French teacher who was very well traveled told our class that people in the United States were much harder working than people in other parts of the world. Things have changed since then.
Wow. Working suuuuucks. And the fun part is she isn’t bitching about her job—but the commute.
So, arrange your life so it’s easier, move closer with a roommate, or suck it up buttercup. I used to go to the gym at lunch. I would cook on Sunday and freeze dinner for the week. Friday nights were fun. Saturdays were planned fun. And Sunday was relax and prep day.
I would also go in earlier. The fastest way to get promoted…is to be around.
Oh well…she isn’t coming here for tips.
FFS, I was working 40 hours a week during the Summer at 14 and umpiring two games a night 4-5 times/week.
I was getting into work by 7:15am, leaving at about 7:00pm (commute time was shorter then as well). Ate dinner. Then did paperwork most nights until 10:00pm or so. I usually came in on Saturdays to do IT work when it was quiet. I was one of 5 executives and the others had no idea I worked this hard. When money got tight, I got voted out because I was administration and not a “producer.” They hired 5 people to replace me. Geniuses. They were out of business 5 years later.
All that to say...you do what you have to do. Suck it up, buttercup. I own my own business now. Doing fine, thank you.
I do suggest you try to find something you LIKE to do. Nothing worse than spending your life doing a job you hate. Life is too short for that. But work IS work...it takes time and sacrifice, especially at first.
FYI, many of these are skits so not real. It’s an attempt to get site hits
She will be fine; she is cute and even these days will find a man to take care of her. She is going through the process that will convince her that this would be the best way for her to live life the way that she wants. Some guy will find out that having a cute wife has its downsides, when she divorces him, he might find different priorities when choosing a mate.
Like - Boo Frickin’ Hoo - Like suck it up - Like welcome to the real world - Like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like............sheesh!
As a very broad statement — jobs have changed over the past 5-10-15 years. People in management often have no training in management. They can be toxic and ineffective. Older adults who can do the work and who want to do the work, can be stymied by bad managers who just get in the way. This can be frustrating to experienced workers.
Younger people didn’t get the summer jobs, haven’t had to struggle, have spent a lot of time “quarantined” during COVID — and the standard difficulties of commuting time and 40-hr work weeks really hits them hard.
Also, dating these days is 100% social media and breeds all kinds of awful behavior. Finding a partner and going through life as a team is harder for young people today than it was when most of us were young.
Also, the American dream is gone. You want to buy a starter home? In much of the country, your starter home may cost you $700,000. So, you’re not buying that. And wages haven’t kept pace with inflation over the past 40 years. And we’re heading into a recession. And the stock market is going to crash.
Older people say “It was tough when I was young too” but I think that misses the essence of what is going on. America has changed. Dramatically after 9/11 (but you could see it under Clinton too). The changes are bad and they keep accelerating.
If I were young, I’d cry too.
Ditto. And my last semester was 22 credit hours so I could get finished ... while still working two jobs. Sleep is overrated. At least it was when I was young.
Thanks to foreigners buying all the houses and driving up the prices. Folks in China and India want that safe haven in the US for when the STHF in their countries, and are willing to pay top-dollar for whatever they can get.
That happened, believe it or not, at the church we left. I was the office manager/bookkeeper (treasurer)/Music tech/taught Sunday School/web page person. I am probably missing a few jobs. Some of it was paid, some of it was not. It was NOT a super small church. People just did not step up for tasks.
They had to get five people to do all those jobs and some took a few years to find.
“I always have doubts that these things are true and not put-ons, for clicks and views.”
...she’s pretty convincing. I must say, you have to be damn stupid to post something like this and not expect repercussions. Like getting fired.
Whether the video is fake or not, the story line has is the same for many graduates that take their first job in a big city. Commute or find roommates.
I once had a “manager” talk about how he worked for “two straight hours” on something.
This was in my Big 6 days.
Most of us were doing 60-70 hours each week including travel time.
One two week period it was 175 hours. I slept on the floor at the client’s office one night.
Same. I have no idea how nieces and nephew will be able to afford homes, even with the property itself gifted to them.
I did it for 50 years. Long commute and all. Get up early. Exercise at 5 AM. Eat at 8 PM. Get a helmet buttercup.
Yes. There are a lot of solid reasons for what is going on. This is all real stuff. Lots and lots of problems. I’m very close to retirement so to an extent “I don’t care” but I have real sympathy for young people trying to start out.
Yes, plenty of them are annoying, and woke, and all of that. But this coming generation has just about everything stacked against them. The Global Order is going to ruin their lives.
People who talk about how tough they had it in 1980 really don’t understand that this isn’t the same country today. At all.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.