How much of a life are you able to have outside of a full-time job?

[Scrumtulescence]

I'm about to be getting a full-time job soon, now that I'm out of college, for the first time with the exception of working a couple months for a few summers.

I'm not too thrilled about my position in life right now because I didn't exactly have what you might call "fun" the past several years.....just doing fun/exciting things, social life, etc....and lately I've been wanting to make up for that. But I often hear how once you have a full-time job, you rarely have not only the time but the energy to do extra shit once you get out of work, other than coming home, cooking a meal and reading time magazine in front of the tv until it's time to go to sleep.

Now I honestly can't remember what I did in the evenings in my old jobs, but I do remember always falling asleep on the trainride home; and recently I've taken a couple 8:00-4:00 certification classes, and maybe it was just because I was waking up a lot ealier than usual, but I was always really tired by the end.

So, how do people with full-time jobs manage enjoyable lives outside of their job? Is it possible? Not only that, but I'm worried I won't have the energy and motivation anymore to work out and exercise. God knows there's no way I'm gonna get up extra early in the morning for that, so that leaves working out in the evening, not to mention having to go to bed a lot earlier than I usually do.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

You either have the balls to do what you need to do and stay balanced or you become like the the rest of the masses. The choice is yours.

 

[American_Psycho]

This obviously depends on what type of full-time job you're going to have. There are jobs out there that are strictly 9-5, whereas in other fields (for example, investment banking) it's not uncommon to work 90+ hours a week.

 

[penkitten]

after just a little while, it all seems so normal to work full time and have a life and a family and friends and you just learn to balance it all.

 

[Scrumtulescence]

Originally posted by Francisco d'Anconia
You either have the balls to do what you need to do and stay balanced or you become like the the rest of the masses. The choice is yours.

Balls. Gotcha.

 

[Egoist]

Originally posted by Scrumtulescence
I'm about to be getting a full-time job soon, now that I'm out of college, for the first time with the exception of working a couple months for a few summers.

I'm not too thrilled about my position in life right now because I didn't exactly have what you might call "fun" the past several years.....just doing fun/exciting things, social life, etc....and lately I've been wanting to make up for that. But I often hear how once you have a full-time job, you rarely have not only the time but the energy to do extra shit once you get out of work, other than coming home, cooking a meal and reading time magazine in front of the tv until it's time to go to sleep.

Now I honestly can't remember what I did in the evenings in my old jobs, but I do remember always falling asleep on the trainride home; and recently I've taken a couple 8:00-4:00 certification classes, and maybe it was just because I was waking up a lot ealier than usual, but I was always really tired by the end.

So, how do people with full-time jobs manage enjoyable lives outside of their job? Is it possible? Not only that, but I'm worried I won't have the energy and motivation anymore to work out and exercise. God knows there's no way I'm gonna get up extra early in the morning for that, so that leaves working out in the evening, not to mention having to go to bed a lot earlier than I usually do.

dude?! 8-4? i would kill for 8-4.

try working like 80 hours a week and tepp me you can't have a social life. You'll sleep when you're dead. You're young and strong so just live your life to the fullest.

Even when i work 8 to 8 or more, i still find time for having a life.

 

[Francisco d'Anconia]

Re: Re: How much of a life are you able to have outside of a full-time job?

Originally posted by Egoist
dude?! 8-4? i would kill for 8-4.

try working like 80 hours a week and tepp me you can't have a social life. You'll sleep when you're dead. You're young and strong so just live your life to the fullest.

Even when i work 8 to 8 or more, i still find time for having a life.

That's what I'm talking about. When a DJ comes across adversity like this all he should say is "Nothing I can't handle." You do what's necessary.

 

[Ricky]

This is where being super careful about what you eat and drinkn will make the difference.

There are times when i seem to have way more energy than the people I work with.

Other times though when I push it too hard and skip the sleep for too long I crash hard.

 

[Egoist]

Originally posted by Ricky
This is where being super careful about what you eat and drinkn will make the difference.

There are times when i seem to have way more energy than the people I work with.

Other times though when I push it too hard and skip the sleep for too long I crash hard.

oh yeah totally.

eating right is a major part of having energy.

 

[Alicorn]

Re: Re: How much of a life are you able to have outside of a full-time job?

Originally posted by Egoist
dude?! 8-4? i would kill for 8-4.

try working like 80 hours a week and tepp me you can't have a social life. You'll sleep when you're dead. You're young and strong so just live your life to the fullest.

Even when i work 8 to 8 or more, i still find time for having a life.

I think maybe he's looking for something with a little more detail. "Just push through it," is probably not really going to help him

What specifically can he do, is what I believe he was asking.

 

[ethnomethodologist]

Re: Re: Re: How much of a life are you able to have outside of a full-time job?

Originally posted by Alicorn
I think maybe he's looking for something with a little more detail. "Just push through it," is probably not really going to help him

What specifically can he do, is what I believe he was asking.

Have fun while working. Alicorn, make him tell us what his job is, and what he loves and hates about it, and we can tell him to deal with what he hates, and turn it into what he loves, and he will have fun. Simple really, really simple.

He's got the balls, and he understands, but if what he is doing is making him bored, than maybe he has to do something different, until he finds what he enjoys the most. I do it in my job, it's always changing, to make me happier, if other people are sad, I try to encourage them to try harder, all that jazz.

Of course he asked about life OUTSIDE of work.

For me, it's to go out and make new friends, constantly, and to improve my relationships with my current friends.

 

[Docs]

I have a 8-4 job :woo:

 

[ethnomethodologist]

Originally posted by Docs
I have a 8-4 job :woo:

I think those are the best jobs in the world.

The government is such a ****ing waste of our money. They listen to every little complaint that people make, and than pay only their employees for it.

Government jobs are 9-5 right, same as 8-4 in terms of length, I'd rather the 8-4 if I had children, 9-5 is great being single, I can go to sleep an hour later and get the same amount of rest. I'd rather get all my work done in one day though, just like that, no questions asked.

Does anybody here get pissy during rush hour? Do you think it's horrible for the environment, and just a waste of time having to leave home an hour to two hours early, just to be at work at the same time as everybody else?

 

[So Many Ways]

It depends. Avoid shift/graveyard work if you can, I worked every weekend for 9 months last year and maintaining a social life became imposible.

If you have a typical 8-5, you're in luck. Having a social life and hobbies with those kind of hours is easy. You have time to catch a flick in the evening, hang out with friends, hit up a happy hour, take a class or exercise after work and you still have the weekends to yourself. If you have a job where you have to work 60+ hours a week or you commute 3+ hours a week, it's much more difficult. You won't have much time during the week and the weekends will be your only break.

Personally, I have more free time right now than I've ever had at any point in my life and enjoying it. I've done the 60 hour plus a week thing, working 2 weeks straight with no day off thing, working off shift which mess up your sleeping pattern thing, juggling work/school thing and I know how tough that can be. You'll just have to figure out how to make time for the things you enjoy.

 

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Originally posted by ethnomethodologist

Does anybody here get pissy during rush hour? Do you think it's horrible for the environment, and just a waste of time having to leave home an hour to two hours early, just to be at work at the same time as everybody else?

Yeah, I know what you mean. Everytime I sit in traffic, I feel like emptying a clip into the heads of people who can't drive properly and cause accidents.

Plus, you get all the dumbasses who slow down around accidents to watch and end up wasting everyone's time--- I mean, it's not like they've never seen a burning car or a burning mattress before.

 

[Scrumtulescence]

Re: Re: Re: Re: How much of a life are you able to have outside of a full-time job?

Originally posted by ethnomethodologist
Alicorn, make him tell us what his job is, and what he loves and hates about it, and we can tell him to deal with what he hates, and turn it into what he loves, and he will have fun. Simple really, really simple.

What kind of job I have?

I don't have a job yet, but the only field I can imagine getting a decent wage out of, because of my experience and whatnot, is computer support stuff. IT. Whatever. I'm not happy about it, but I'm not exactly aware of any kind of job I could get that would pay me significantly more than minimum wage, and I need to make more than minimum wage or else it's moving back in with my parents and that's the LAST thing I need in my life right now.

I wish I had the luxury of being able to do something else right now like go back to school, travel, or get a more lax job while I take some classes or whatever. But I'm a bit in the pit financially, therefor I'm kinda stuck looking for this kind of job.

What really worries me is I'll be stuck with some job I don't enjoy (maintaining computer networks and walking people through retarded Windows errors doesn't exactly thrill me) working around a bunch of people 15+ years older than me, with god knows what kind of time available outside of work to do stuff I enjoy. I'm pretty bad at meeting people as it is, and devoting the vast majority of my waking hours to something that isn't conducive to meeting people around my age is certainly not going to help. That's why I want to be able to make the most of my non-working time, and why I'm deathly afraid of being financially forced into a job that barely leaves me with any free time.

Sure I could just bite the bullet for the next few or so years and work crappy hours at an unenjoyable job to save up some money and build work/career experience, but I don't want to start having fun and enjoying life like most people do in their teen/college years at an age when the average person is getting engaged and settling into a career. I just don't know what to do.

 

[STR8UP]

I imagine if you enjoy what you do enough that you will get used to it and adapt, but personally I don't see how everyone manages to squeeze enough of a life out of their free time if they don't have much of it.

 

[ethnomethodologist]

MWAHAHA!!:crackup: :crazy: :rockon:
I knew seduction as sosuave meant more than JUST women. That's three in a row for one post. Sorry to brag, just made me happy, thanks you three, I'll respond better tomorrow, I've just got something else on my mind at the moment that I am searching for.

Plus I am tired, and I need a ciggy

 

[TheInfamousCBear]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How much of a life are you able to have outside of a full-time job?

Originally posted by Scrumtulescence

Sure I could just bite the bullet for the next few or so years and work crappy hours at an unenjoyable job to save up some money and build work/career experience, but I don't want to start having fun and enjoying life like most people do in their teen/college years at an age when the average person is getting engaged and settling into a career. I just don't know what to do.

Who cares about what other people do? Its your life...Im 22 and Ive been working full time since 18 and I was going to school parttime on and off, and later this year Im about to move away and go to a 4 year, and most people In my age group are out of school, but I dont really care, cause things happen for a reason...But honestly, if you want to go back to school, you should, who cares about other people's opinion? Its your life, do what you want, its not like you are comminting crimes or being a freeloader or anything..

 

[DrMetallica]

I work 9-5 as an accountant and I'm lucky that I work just down the street. I like to hang out with friends but after work I am so beat I just end up taking a nap and playing video games.