Yea though damn you can eat like 1,000 more calories then I can :-p
Well, I put my proper activity level in there too. I don't have a desk job. But yeah, I do burn a lot of energy. I'm also hungry...all the time. Like, right now, I could eat all the food ever. Even after I eat a steak, I'm still hungry.
And what do you have to do that you can't do in your spare time? If you had an activity that could possibly earn you as much money or other resources as working for a month, you could find some goddamn spare time in which to do it. At least, I know I would.
And what do you have to do that you can't do in your spare time? If you had an activity that could possibly earn you as much money or other resources as working for a month, you could find some goddamn spare time in which to do it. At least, I know I would.
Rym and Scott always talk about having too much to do and not enough time to do it. I'm assuming that they don't have lazy time because if you had lazy time and still bitched about not having enough time to do stuff, well, you'd need to stop bitching. :P
I have lazy time, but I also work too much. Though now, I'm starting to gear up to fill my spare time with work, i.e. brewing. I'm one of those sick people that enjoys working, I think.
Have you see the stock market in the last several months? That's my shit. That's what I do. That crazy dip the other day? I handled that motherfucker. I'm wearing a purple dress shirt and a suit. I'm that guy. Yelling on the phone, furiously typing while things blow up around me, graphs everywhere, tons of monitors, 8 hours straight every day. ^_~
I'm lucky I get the month's vacation I do as it is...
And what do you have to do that you can't do in your spare time? If you had an activity that could possibly earn you as much money or other resources as working for a month, you could find some goddamn spare time in which to do it.
I already make way more money than I need. I pay more in TAXES than I made working at RIT. Money is not a concern, and I would gladly give some of it up for more time. I would spend that time rollerblading and biking and recording shows and lying on the beach, not making more money.
Money is nice, but I could live without the $500 or so I make on a given Friday. Having the day off is worth more than the $500.
Money is nice, but I could live without the $500 or so I make on a given Friday. Having the day off is worth more than the $500.
Every Friday for a month too? You'd lose 2 grand from your pocket to get 4 days off?
And didn't you just convince your company that you're an absolute necessity? Grow a pair and ask for unpaid leave. :P
Welcome to having a job that matters, by the way. It's fun, isn't it? Me, I have more leave time than I can possibly use, but motherfuckers keep fucking the food supply and killing kids and shit, and I have to go clean it up.
There were middle school children dying, actually dying, as part of an outbreak that I mentioned here on the forums and on which I was working, while the Governor was submitting his plans to furlough our agency because we're not essential to public health.
I already did, a whole bunch. How do you think I went to all those cons? When I started this job, I had 0 vacation days. I get 10 per year, but they don't start accruing until the second year. I used unpaid leave to go to cons the first year, and just now I'm starting to accrue paid days as I've been here about a year now. I can't ask for too much, or they'll just say no when I really need it.
And what do you have to do that you can't do in your spare time? If you had an activity that could possibly earn you as much money or other resources as working for a month, you could find some goddamn spare time in which to do it. At least, I know I would.
I don't want time to earn money or resources, I want time to SPEND money and resources. I want to get a vacation that is maybe two or three weeks long once a year, so I can actually go someplace, like Europe or somewhere else far away.
When I started this job, I had 0 vacation days. I get 10 per year, but they don't start accruing until the second year.
What WHAT? That's freaking crazy. Usually places have a "no vacation" in the first 3 months or 6 but not a freaking year. Find a better job that has better benefits stat!
What WHAT? That's freaking crazy. Usually places have a "no vacation" in the first 3 months or 6 but not a freaking year. Find a better job that has better benefits stat!
Yeah, wow, that's pretty shit right there.
This is my third "real" job, all have had similarly dismal vacation policies. In any tech job in the city I have ever seen, the vacation policies are equivalently dismal.
At cool start-up type places, they expect you to work crazy hours every single day, and almost no vacation. Since the company probably isn't profitable yet, everyone is supposed to work night and day, and on weekends, to get the company off the ground.
At established places, money might vary by skills and position, but vacation does not. Vacation only varies with seniority. I'd have to sit still in one place for many years to get decent vacation. Either that, or become a crazy executive. Every time you start a new job you're back to square one. You're only hope of avoiding it is being hired directly into an executive position where you can negotiate.
With freelance comes the risk of not eating, and all the other ass-hattery involved with that.
I really think there should just be a law that all people with full-time salaried positions must get minimum 4 weeks paid vacation. Period. Lots of European countries have that, if not more.
If anyone can find a quality job that offers a ton more vacation, I will apply and then probably just use the offer to force more vacation from my current employer. The problem is that I'll still be year 1 at a new place, and have to reset again.
Heh, I have to say I just started my new job at the beginning of the year. Everybody started with the standard 2 weeks which accrue from the second month. I negotiated when I hired in though so I started out at the 10 year level for vacations (~4 weeks) based on previous industry experience. It helped of course that I had been working with the people I was hiring into for a couple years via outside contracts.
No vacation time accrued for the first year definitely sounds shitty to me. I would not willingly change jobs unless the new employer was willing to work with me so I don't start out at such a low level. Of course, if you are jobless can't be as picky
No vacation time accrued for the first year definitely sounds shitty to me. I would not willingly change jobs unless the new employer was willing to work with me so I don't start out at such a low level. Of course, if you are jobless can't be as picky
You've also been working longer in total. You were also in a better position moving from job to job instead of no job to job. My plan is to push for more vacation days the next time there is some sort of raise/review kind of action.
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And what do you have to do that you can't do in your spare time? If you had an activity that could possibly earn you as much money or other resources as working for a month, you could find some goddamn spare time in which to do it. At least, I know I would.
I have lazy time, but I also work too much. Though now, I'm starting to gear up to fill my spare time with work, i.e. brewing. I'm one of those sick people that enjoys working, I think.
I'm lucky I get the month's vacation I do as it is... I already make way more money than I need. I pay more in TAXES than I made working at RIT. Money is not a concern, and I would gladly give some of it up for more time. I would spend that time rollerblading and biking and recording shows and lying on the beach, not making more money.
Money is nice, but I could live without the $500 or so I make on a given Friday. Having the day off is worth more than the $500.
And didn't you just convince your company that you're an absolute necessity? Grow a pair and ask for unpaid leave. :P
Welcome to having a job that matters, by the way. It's fun, isn't it? Me, I have more leave time than I can possibly use, but motherfuckers keep fucking the food supply and killing kids and shit, and I have to go clean it up.
There were middle school children dying, actually dying, as part of an outbreak that I mentioned here on the forums and on which I was working, while the Governor was submitting his plans to furlough our agency because we're not essential to public health.
At cool start-up type places, they expect you to work crazy hours every single day, and almost no vacation. Since the company probably isn't profitable yet, everyone is supposed to work night and day, and on weekends, to get the company off the ground.
At established places, money might vary by skills and position, but vacation does not. Vacation only varies with seniority. I'd have to sit still in one place for many years to get decent vacation. Either that, or become a crazy executive. Every time you start a new job you're back to square one. You're only hope of avoiding it is being hired directly into an executive position where you can negotiate.
With freelance comes the risk of not eating, and all the other ass-hattery involved with that.
I really think there should just be a law that all people with full-time salaried positions must get minimum 4 weeks paid vacation. Period. Lots of European countries have that, if not more.
If anyone can find a quality job that offers a ton more vacation, I will apply and then probably just use the offer to force more vacation from my current employer. The problem is that I'll still be year 1 at a new place, and have to reset again.
No vacation time accrued for the first year definitely sounds shitty to me. I would not willingly change jobs unless the new employer was willing to work with me so I don't start out at such a low level. Of course, if you are jobless can't be as picky