How do you find the strength to go on, day in day out at work? I get up at 6:30 AM. I have a little over an hour commute each day. I work my 8 to 17 job. by the time I get home its around 18:15 so overall I am giving close to 12 hours of my day to work and coming back home I am tired and beaten all I do is shower, cook dinner, eat it, and then laze around on youtube like a zombie until I fall asleep around 21 only to start the race anew tomorrow Half of my weekend is spent on house keeping chores (living alone, I get the pleasure of doing all of them alone) the latter half is spent mostly lazing online because I neither have the strength, nor the time, to seriously indulge any hobbies at best I mindlessly play some video game but I cant say I really enjoy it because I am zoned out with the fatigue of the past week and the stress of the new work week ahead. Next week will be my 3rd year in my current job and honestly I have no idea how I survived that long, or how long I can survive in this state. Whatever this is, this aint living its being a zombie.
My job is 12 hour shifts, and I flip between day shift and night shift frequently. There’s also weekend and holiday work. The nice side of that is 7 days off in a row every 4 weeks, plus I’m paid quite well. I’m actually at the airport, about to go to Spain with my wife for a little more than a week. But I know that there are many like me working these long hours without the pay or time off I am able to enjoy. So I like to come here to make sure people know about things like the prevalence of wage theft. I didn’t know any better for a long time, and now I do. I also like to say that if my schedule doesn’t sound unbearable, I’m working in-house at a commercial power plant, and although it requires a background test and drug test, it doesn’t require more than a HS diploma, and it pays 6 figures. So definitely brush up on high school level physics and see what you can find if it’s interesting to you.
After a shift, I’m also feeling like a zombie. I find that doing a little housework frequently makes for much less of it encroaching on my “weekend” time. The stuff I do on time off is more passive if I can help it. Laundry and running the dishwasher take passive time. In the meantime, I’ll play video games or watch a movie or whatever.