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Working full time - how do you do it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've just finished my first week at a new job. I like the job, but it's the first time in several years that I've had relatively standard 8 hours a day, 5 days a week as my schedule. The last time I did was in 2019 or so, and then I went and got back into graduate school for the interim.

Now that I'm back to standard hours, the commitment of time and energy seems to be quite a lot, more than I remember from prior ft experience(It could well be that this job is actually mentally demanding, whereas my prior full-time job was pretty brainless) and I'm not sure how I will make room in my life for anything else.

I like the job I'm doing, and I don't feel as if I'm being unreasonably pressured at work (Boss even said to go out of our way not to work overtime, and it's a salaried position so I know they're not trying to skimp on hourly pay), so I guess I'm mainly wanting to ask how the rest of you full-timers do it.

And does it get easier to manage as you start to get used to it and make a routine?

Maybe it feels like quite a basic or rudimentary to ask... But these are things I've forgotten in the interim since last working 40-hour weeks.

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's culture shock and then hopefully you settle into the idea that this is your life now.

[–] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is how it worked for me. Followed by just fucking get up. Tired? Slept like shit? Don't want to go? Just fucking get up and go, I don't want to be late or lose my job, I'll be homeless. I don't recommend this attitude as you'll burn yourself out but it's how I get up.

My problem is everything else. Where do you find time to tidy the house, clean, do laundry, shower, brush your teeth, now the lawn, etc, etc and then have energy for hobbies?

[–] Antagnostic@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is the part I can't wrap my head around. I've been a productive member of thr workforce for over 20 years but the idea that this is what the rest of my life consists of horrifies me.

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I should mellow this a bit.

Right now you're experiencing some degree of culture shock so that's going to take ~6 months before that is fully settled. "This is weird." "Yes, that's something people experience in a variety of contexts".

But outside of that in the long run you really have to think about what's important to you and carve out time for that or you will be lonely and miserable. Something with regularity. I play board games with friends once a week. Sometimes I can't make it and they do it without me. But there's still way too much of my time that ends up being me staring at Lemmy or the TV, thinking that I really should . And you can end up like that whether you are single or in a relationship. School was simpler.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

School wasn't simpler. It rewarded you for efficiency and intelligence by returning time back to you for completing the work quickly and correctly.

There is no reward in the corporate world. You slave away endlessly and the reward is you either get to slave away more or sit there for your 40 hours + commute.