griffinchicken53 Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 If you work 12 hours a day 5-6 days a week, how can you even hope to meet someone
Surrealist Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Probably some time during the other 12 hours on those 5-6 days per week or on the 7th day off. Hey I understand your predicament though and I work less hours, so understand it wouldn't be easy. Best of luck.
Els Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 To be honest, if you work 12 hours a day 6 days a week, it will be difficult for you to maintain an exclusive relationship anyway, unless it's very casual or the other person is very understanding/shares the same work schedule. So if I were you, I wouldn't start trying to meet people til my hours settle down some.
kdark Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 Im having this same problem. Between being a full time student, my internship, and my job, I have zero time until after 10 pm on six out of seven days of the week. I just met a very interesting and attractive woman, but she works 9 to 5 monday through friday, and is in bed by 11, so I know scheduling is going to be hard. This is the first time I've had to consider things not working out because of solely my busy schedule, and it's frustrating.
denise_xo Posted December 1, 2010 Posted December 1, 2010 I'm on that kind of schedule and it's definitely not a plus for my R...
Author griffinchicken53 Posted December 1, 2010 Author Posted December 1, 2010 Hey elswyth, unfortunately that is THE schedule for all the time, all the jobs I've been applying for state you must work any and all overtime. Guess I have to get used to being single
Els Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 Are you honestly happy with working 72 hour weeks all of your life, relationships aside?
denise_xo Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 Are you honestly happy with working 72 hour weeks all of your life, relationships aside? To me, it really depends on the extent I am in the driver's seat of the process. If I have to tire myself out because I need to make enough money to cover basic expenditure such as rent and electricity, or because I've had too many external deadlines imposed on me (although I appreciate that it eventually filters down to 'choice'), then no I'm not so happy. But when it's more about really diving into productive processes through which my horizons are extended and through which I'm learning and discovering a lot of new things that I am curious about and enjoy doing - or - if I know that putting in those extra hours means that I will reach a goal that I have always wanted to achieve, yes then I'm pretty happy. But I need it to be something that goes in phases. I need chunks of time where I have time off or more normal working hours when I can focus on tending to social relationships and others parts of my life.
Els Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 Yup. In the OP's case, though, he stressed that it wasn't a phase.
denise_xo Posted December 2, 2010 Posted December 2, 2010 Yup. In the OP's case, though, he stressed that it wasn't a phase. Well, it isn't for me either in the sense that I have 'always' been like that. So the 'phases' is actually more the 'time off'. So, I work pretty heavily year round, but make sure that I have weeks or months where I focus on reducing the number of hours and achieving a better balance.
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