9-5 life anyone?

[felfirez]

Currently I work at E&E doing installations of AV/IT equipments. A stepping stone for me to learn more about sound equipments. I can say I'm very lucky to have this job. Although it has low pay, I'm learning a lot and with colleagues and bosses that look after one another as if we're a family, I find it hard to go anywhere else.

The work's tiring, the pay is low. But the working environment, let it be at a dusty construction site or in a school where babes flock around, is great because of the people, my colleagues. I think a job doesn't necessarily have to be something you love to do to be interesting and fun. Its the people around you that makes a whole lot of difference. You can be working a 9-5 or 12-12 job earning 10k or just 1k, if you have great company, it doesn't feel like you're working. It feels more like meeting up with your buddies to do some stuffs.

Work's been great and I received other tempting offers that double my salary but turned down. The positive attitude of my colleagues just makes me forget the tiredness and stress combined with my love for sound are more than what I can ask for.

My working hours starts at 845. It can last till earliest 5pm or latest 3am. And when we, the coolies, worked late, our supervisor will be there with us with his "no man left behind" motto. Very lucky indeed.

 

[ebenex]

always good to enjoy what you are doing.

 

[cheesegrater]

the only time you really need to be earning alot of money, is when you have a family to support. until then, pursue your music. Life will be alot more fulfilling.. success isn't measured by how much money you have. I think it's better to have a low paying job and enjoying what you're doing than getting a 5 figure income and hating your life.

 

[Resetti]

you just need to find the job that you love and stick with it. If not, just keep on finding it.

I used to be extremely stressed and unhappy (9-5 life) and my personal life suffers because I am grumpy and friends wouldn't want to hang out with a grumpy guy, and it has even affect my family life because of it.

Then a great opportunity came along, i jumped onto it into another 9-5 life (i even had to take a pay cut for the job), and I'm doing what i love right now and I always look forward to Mondays to go back to work. It's great, work life, personal life and family life couldn't be better now.

Well, it's not really 9-5 coz sometimes you need to work late and into weekends to meet deadlines, but they are always reasonable and they respect your work, so it's no problem.

So what I learned from this is to never stop looking until you find the job that you love and stick to it.

 

[bockscar]

i saw construction workers working on a sunday evening

i think i realise, i'd take a 9-5job instead.

 

[XLayaR]

Haha, I guess the whole concept of ejoying your work with a low pay kinda stops when you start a family.

But then again everything kinda changes when you start a family....

So maybe a better question would be

'Would you give up your dream and become 9-5 for your family?'

 

[bockscar]

yes i would

i dont want my kids to suffer cos their father couldn't let go his rock star dreams and then the kids no proper upbringing and have a bad future

(no offence to anyone)

 

[van_halen]

used to have a job whereby i had to work weekends and into the night. but i loved it. then stupidly i left that job which i loved.

i found another job right after and hated it and quit after just 1 month. i found a 3rd job which i stuck with for quite sometime though i hated it. i just kept telling myself "aiya every job also sian one lar, go elsewhere also the same, just do it for the money" but in the end i quit that job too.

moral of the story: if you are already in a job that you love, just stick to it. don't quit or look for other jobs even if got better prospects/money cos happiness is priceless. cos its easier to find jobs with better pay/prospects than a job that gives u happiness.

 

[van_halen]

yeah and to answer the threadstarter: working in jobs i hate really contribute to my bad temper and issues

 

[Resetti]

'Would you give up your dream and become 9-5 for your family?'

I don't see why they have to be mutually exclusive.

If you have set yourself up to be in such a situation, then I guess you may not have planned it out well enough.

btw, not intended to offend anyone. my point is that they don't necessarily have to be mutually exclusive.

 

[gutturalpiss]

If you wanna have an unorthodox life, build a base of an orthodox one first, then continue. Either that, or be apt in a few things, be a jack of all trades & master of none until you are stable, then master whichever trade you woulda killed for when you were a teenager.

It is sickening to hear of such common man's whining, to hear of how being a musician is a bad idea, or working as x is not an ideal life, and so on. Don't start a family if u can't afford it. If 9 - 5 am OR pm gets you a base, so be it. After that base has settled from Old Portman's cement mix to hard concrete, you can fsck /dev/null & pick up that guitar to shred for eternity and have 10 babies with that sweet girl from your school days you used to date until you had no life. For an unorthodox (wo)man, time is not money; time is life, life is passion. So build a life with whatever limited time God/Baphomet has granted you, if time does run out (God forbid), you know it wasn't meant for you but for someone else (maybe your 11 month-old son who you left on Earth).

 

[barefoot]

9-5 arent that bad

my close uncle was a fishmonger as well as a pancake seller. he need to go the wholesale market at 2am in the morning to collect fish, and from late morning to noon, he sell pancakes. tough life, but no choice he got a family to feed. Got no idea how much he earns although

 

[rottenramone]

the adam road nasi lemak store makes $120,000 gross a month
the curry puff guy who was sent to jail for tax evasion makes $65,000 gross

still, there are a million other hawkers who still live day-by-day.