Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for October 13, 2022

as long no children shouting and screaming (and people arguing with you for everything you say), then I guess I’ll be ok there (but alas, I had to retire)

They say there is no rest for the wicked. I must be exceptionally evil.

Dang I’m tired.

That was me on 12-hour shifts for months at a time. And always doing some hard rush job in hot weather that Upper Management got the credit for getting out on time. Those were the days (and nights), my friend. I thought they’d NEVER end.

That reminds me of when I worked for a pharmaceutical company. When we were close to submitting our data to the FDA, I worked after 1730 (and the company had dinner delivered) and sometimes until 2100. My cats missed me. (Igualmente.)

I used to do that. When you are in the military, you wind up doing things like that. I’ve had stretches of 12-hour days where we got every other Sunday off.

When I got in the civilian world, I started taking jobs where quality of life was important even though salary and the prospect of “climbing the corporate ladder” were less.

I still put in the long hours sometimes, but it’s usually because I am in pursuit of a project that interests me, not because I’m directed to do so by higher management.

I’ve been lucky in that I’ve usually managed to find positions where I could manage my own workload. I will brag: I’m good enough at what I do that my bosses don’t know how I get it done. They just leave me alone and let me do it.

When I interview, I look for bosses whose minds I can read so I can anticipate their needs and satisfy them before they ask for them.

i work from home… sometimes…

Sometimes… I work :D

I never took work home and even put my phone on silence after 9 pm

Question of the day: What is the best birth control method for the paper that is continually spawned on a desktop?? Every day, I’m going to clear it off and get down to paperless, but there’s always a letter, always a note, always. . .even my computer “desktop” has icons for things i don’t want to lose or misplace or will need to know in 50 days. . .

She needs to get one of them work from home jobs.

I sometimes worked up to 20 hours in a day, and then still had to show up at 8a at my desk. I did field work most days, so I could have been any where in the county or adjacent counties until emergency situations were completed. Sometimes I didn’t even make it into work at 8a because I was still working in the field. Those hours were not at all predictable, so it was never boring.

Between my time at home and the bar, I have no time for work. But then I’m retired anyway.

Aunty, you just explained many of the mental/emotional issues that Americans have.