OT: Sens Lounge LXXXVIV - Roman Numerals!!!!

[HoffStoneKarl*]

I do enjoy going to work, not sure I'd continue to do something I didn't want to do.

I've been working Monday-Friday (with odd weekends) since I graduated University.

I've enjoyed life immensely the last 5 years (23-27), all while working 8-12 hour days Monday-Friday. I will continue to enjoy what I'm doing, both in work and leisure.

Not sure how you can't enjoy life with that kind of schedule, I find it very easy to enjoy life. I've gotten the chance to live in different spots (Central NFLD, Saint John, Gatineau), get to play baseball and hockey, got to pickup a side job doing something I love for a year (watching hockey), loads of time for friends, girlfriend, and family, been to New Orleans/Toronto/B.C/London, etc.

More power to you if you are able to work a different, more appealing schedule, but making a Mon-Fri job out to be one that drains all the enjoyable things in life and puts you at a disadvantage is a just a negative spin on things.

Yup. It all comes down to if you enjoy your job and the people you work with. What do you do if you don't mind me asking?

One thing I really hate about only 3 weeks vacation time is that I live on the other side of the county then my family, so it seems like most of my vacation time is spent on trips back home

 

[BondraTime]

Yup. It all comes down to if you enjoy your job and the people you work with. What do you do if you don't mind me asking?

One thing I really hate about only 3 weeks vacation time is that I live on the other side of the county then my family, so it seems like most of my vacation time is spent on trips back home

I'm a safety advisor with a construction company right now, while in Saint John I was with an Oil and Gas company, and in Gatineau I was working at a bank (work term when I was 22).

 

[HoffStoneKarl*]

I'm a safety advisor with a construction company right now, while in Saint John I was with an Oil and Gas company, and in Gatineau I was working at a bank (work term when I was 22).

Nice, I'm glad you enjoy it!

 

[Babych Moustache]

I'd like to see where is that research that says night shift workers are so much more at risk health-wise than their counterparts.

I'll tell you what, having to deal with all those stuck-up "day" people who insist on everyone doing things their way is a lot more stressful, and therefore more harmful to your health, than any other lifestyle.

It's all about listening to your own body. If you are more comfortable doing night shifts, than you'll be less stressed and more healthy. There is no one right way to go about life.

I have a friend who, for his masters-level research in neuroscience, was looking at the relationship between night/shift workers and the disruption to our bodies' natural circadian rhythms... and ultimately that incidence of obesity is higher in those who are eating at times when our bodies are programmed not to be eating... not sure where his research went, but he didn't 100% continue that line of inquiry for his doctoral work...

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

Sure, if you enjoy having to work from 9 to 5 monday to friday until you are too old to enjoy life.

2-3 weeks off a year doesn't make that any more palatable.

To each their own. 9-5 offers a routine you can get into and doesn't require you to shift plans too often due to sporadic working hours.

I guess I am lucky as I get more than 2-3 weeks of vacation time a year, not that I go anywhere extravagant anyways but paid time off is always great regardless

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Kinda funny. We talk here in North America how amazing it is to get 2 or 3 weeks off a year.....but what do European countries get...something around 4 weeks or more, plus more stats during the year?

We really need to do something about the NA lifestyle. Go back to a bit of a slower pace. More family time. Less stress. More living. Before we all work ourselves to death.

 

[HoffStoneKarl*]

I'm all about the 4 day work week. I know at my job I could get my job done in 4 days. I would just need to focus more and work harder, which I'd be able to do if I had a 3 day weekend

 

[Babych Moustache]

I'm all about the 4 day work week. I know at my job I could get my job done in 4 days. I would just need to focus more and work harder, which I'd be able to do if I had a 3 day weekend

I feel this could work for me too, but I don't want 4/5ths of my pay since I don't think that I would still get paid my full salary after dropping a day...

 

[Here I Pageau Again]

The best part of being on salary, paid vacation and sick leave

Get that with non salary jobs too. Just depends on the job.

 

[Caeldan]

Kinda funny. We talk here in North America how amazing it is to get 2 or 3 weeks off a year.....but what do European countries get...something around 4 weeks or more, plus more stats during the year?

We really need to do something about the NA lifestyle. Go back to a bit of a slower pace. More family time. Less stress. More living. Before we all work ourselves to death.

When you hear quotes like 5-6 weeks a year for European countries it does include their stat days. I believe England has only 5 stat days for the year but you get minimum 4 weeks holidays. Hence 5 weeks.
You also have to use it or lose it in all those countries. No banking time.

 

[Here I Pageau Again]

I'd like to see where is that research that says night shift workers are so much more at risk health-wise than their counterparts.

I'll tell you what, having to deal with all those stuck-up "day" people who insist on everyone doing things their way is a lot more stressful, and therefore more harmful to your health, than any other lifestyle.

It's all about listening to your own body. If you are more comfortable doing night shifts, than you'll be less stressed and more healthy. There is no one right way to go about life.

There is actually A LOT of research out there. Our bodies are not wired to sleep during the day and be awake at night. Night shift workers have higher rates of obesity/heart disease/cancer/depression... they also have higher rates of alcohol and drug abuse. I can get you the articles and my paper on it if you'd like.

That said, I wouldn't give up my job that includes nights. Nights are fun! Plus there are things you can do to help the effects of night shift. Eating well/exercising will help. Ensure that you have black out blinds when you sleep during the day and it's cooler to trick your body into thinking it's night time or can take something like melatonin.

 

[Here I Pageau Again]

Yeah, that's a huge reason why I decided to switch to Nursing, and HIPA is making it even more appealing haha.

4-5 days off every week is amazing. Getting off at 5 sucks most days. Everything is closed, traffic sucks, happy hour is over by the time you get anywhere, and you're tired from work anyways. Go to the gym, make dinner and your night is over anyways.

I rather just have 4 less hours off free time a couple times a week and have a mini vacation each week and be able to actual do things with my life!

Technically it's only 3-4 days off a week if full time. And most schedules are 4 on 5 off. Mine is do whatever the hell you want to make up the hours.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

Yeah when I worked those 12 hour shifts I would spend my extra day off just sleeping the entire day, it did no good for me. Props to the people who enjoy it and do it though, I did it for 3 years and will probably never go back to it. I mean I didnt like the job very much either, so that doesn't help.

I love 9-5, I have a constant routine and the job aint too shabby either. I also enjoy being in the non-profit industry, it's nice to be at a decent place in your life for once.

 

[BonkTastic]

I worked overnights stocking shelves at a Loblaws for a summer when I was a teenager, and then worked overnights again for about a month in my mid 20's when a friend desperately needed help running staff for a tourism thing.

Just the absolute worst. Even as a teenager, my body hated me for it and I ended up putting on about 30lbs that summer, was always tired/cranky, was extra gassy all the time for some reason, brain stopped working around 4am... the list of symptoms I had both times was not worth anything short of a tremendous amount of money.

 

[Fandlauer]

I do a 3 on 3 off rotating schedule with 12 hour shifts. It sucks. I'd kill to be able to back to a Monday - Friday 9-5. I do get lots of leave, unfortunately none of it is ever granted do to "operational requirements."

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

So whose mom took a stroll down Rideau street?

 

[le_sean]

Gulp. Avoid downtown folks.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/massive-sinkhole-shuts-down-rideau-street-1.3621949

 

[trentmccleary]

If Rideau Centre's sinking, man I don't wanna swim.

 

[TheDarkSideOfThePuck]

Oh my god.. I used to take OC Transpo at that exact spot every day.

 

[YouGotAStuGoing]

What a disaster. Frankly, at an intersection that big and that well-traveled, it's a minor damn miracle that nobody seems to have been injured or swallowed up by the sinkhole. Minus one parked van, from what I've seen.

 

[BonkTastic]

Jaysus, that's a lot of water.

 

[BonkTastic]

Also: Sinkhole Eats Car.

 

[Icelevel]

Love when the earth fights back.

 

[Engineer]

Love when the earth fights back.

How one equates this to mother nature/earth is beyond me.

A civil engineer is in hot water right about now.

 

[Icelevel]

How one equates this to mother nature/earth is beyond me.

A civil engineer is in hot water right about now.

Much better story if the earth was purposely gobbling up cars and scaring people away.