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03-12-2021, 09:53 AM | #45 | |
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I got married 6 weeks before I shipped out. We were fortunate enough to meet in Tokyo for my 6 days of R & R. I still have a shoebox full of the letters we exchanged while I was in Vietnam. We talked a lot about our future plans after I returned home and they all came true! We celebrated our 52nd wedding anniversary last month.
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03-12-2021, 11:27 AM | #49 |
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In my 20s I did a year long assignment in Japan as an automotive engineer. 9:30am till 10:00pm every day. And if you’re lucky, the boss invites you for drinks after, and you can’t say no. Getting home at 2am, then repeat. Sleep on weekends.
They offered me a much better salary, paid Relo for the GF, and a company car if I stayed another year. I’d turned it down. Learned a ton about the value of work-life balance. |
03-12-2021, 12:08 PM | #50 |
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So reading the posts here I realize that a lot of folks get up and grind it out, I have told my kids that this is the way you get ahead. I find a lot of younger folks just don't want to put the hours in to move up the food chain. My wife is in a senior leadership position, when she hires new employees many right out of university, they want to work 35 hours, some from home and $80K + to start.
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We traveled from the "Nard to Nagasaki with a 9-10yo boy. It was at hour 26 when we were in Tokyo, in a cab, going from international to domestic airport. I had been practicing a little bit of Japanese, and wanted to have a little discussion with him, so I starting conversing about our travel and such
in Spanish Wife had to work, son and I were just there to carry her bags. |
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03-12-2021, 02:16 PM | #53 |
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Similar to some above, I worked three days straight a few times on military deployments. You would go from your watch station to your regular job and then off to an event like underway refueling and then it would be time to return to your watch station. The military was crazy though because there would be times where you literally did nothing while still getting paid. They get their pound of flesh out of you though. That’s why the military is a young person’s game and at 40+ years old you are considered old.
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Currently working 3 jobs, one full and 2 part time for over 85 hours a week. Several 16-17 hour days.
When I was a teen in summer I'd do 60 hours of a manual labor job. College I got my bachelor's then masters while working full time |
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At the age of 19 I went to Alaska and got hired on a commercial crabbing boat. The contract was for 30 days. I have no clue how many hours I worked but you never slept more than 3 hours at a time. If the fishing was hot you would work 24+ hours non stop. After the contract was up the Captain referred me to another boat, a catcher processor for pollock and cod. This was a 4 month contract with set 18 hour days 7 days a week. I ended up extending that contract for two more months. Long story short I ended up doing several more contracts in Alaska over the next few years, but nothing like that 7 month stretch.
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12-14 hours days on a voyage to Antarctica.. onboard for 157 days .. away from the house for 163 days
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Was a contractor for game dev company for 8 years, released 4 AAA titles with them, crunch time close to title release was always brutal, 3-6 months of working 12-18+ hr days, often including weekends, no overtime pay..... gaming dev world will chew through people day in and day out.
Honorable mention, while going to night school (was married young, had to work) I had a full time day job at a tire shop, then would go to school in the evening, and then had a night job delivering pizzas until midnight, with the occasional paper delivery route 3-6am sprinkled a few days here and there. |
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I did a year of investment banking for a boutique (so not nearly as bad at a NY BB bank) while doing a full time MBA at night. ~60-70 hours a week at the job and 20-25 a week on school outside of exams.
That was a pretty messed up year. I think I took one weekend off in the summer between courses to let loose in Napa and SF with the wife. |
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