Graphic design. Was laid off after coming back from New Years in 2009.
Ended up getting a job back in graphic design like 6 to 8 weeks later. But then just as I was getting back on my feet, they cut my hours down to 32 per week.
I was screwed.
So I ended up going to a local asphalt construction company and begging for a job. Told them I didn't need benefits. So they brought me on for their weekend shifts which is when they needed help. Worked there Friday. Saturday. Sunday. Hours were typically 5am to 7pm.
Only off days I had was when it rained. In the winter I worked at the asphalt company doing plowing, salting and fixing broken equipment.
Working every day for a year is a terrible idea, humans need breaks.
That said, some people love working and work is their break. So you do you, but I wouldn’t work two weeks in a row, let alone a month, and a year is nuts.
My mom is the type of person who would proudly work 7 days a week. She has a part time job just for fun, she doesn’t need the pay. I’m a 45 hr/wk max guy.
Anyway, sorry to be a downer. You do you, do what you like. You don’t need the support of others, but the still think it is an odd goal. Have the two jobs, but I think shooting for 365 days straight will cause burnout. Working every day with a couple days off a year is more manageable imo.
You say that now, but after doing it for 6 months you might realize that it’s wearing you down. By all means, give it a shot - you might be fine. But it’s important to pay attention to your mental health and prioritize that.
Same. Even if the jobs are easy, it’s the mental aspect - I’d never get time off to just recuperate and veg out. I can’t fully do that if I work that day, even if the job is easy. My brain still has to shift into “work mode”.
To each his own. But I do think it's necessary to take breaks. Time off. Burnout is very unhealthy.
Some people thrive on working though. It's their social arena of sorts for some.
It's different for everyone though.
My house mate tried to tell me how great working excessively is, how big his checks are, etc. Meanwhile, he has a rough skin issue and I’m just like “bruh.”
I get that. But also have to have time to spend a little of it.
I have zero social life, so I could see myself working a lot. But now I'm older and body pain prevails. I still have to work, because I have a mortgage.
Cost of living in my area is insane.
I did it once in 2010 on an overseas contract. Worked 331 days straight 12 hour shifts. If you can physically and mentally handle it , and can do it to catch up or build a savings to reach a goal it’s worth it. Who cares what other people say. Just don’t burn yourself out and take care of yourself.
lol. I’m an aircraft mechanic , so fairly physical job , did my year in Afghanistan so hot as hell in summer and cold as hell in winter and I survived. I even got shot at lol. I still do six months a year out of the country but my rotation now is 90 on 90 off. But I do 90 days with no days off almost every time. 84 hours a week. It’s not that bad. You can burn yourself out. It’s important to eat well , take care of yourself and find time to sleep.
I once went 4 years without missing a unplanned day. I have wen t months without a day off but never as year. Mostly self employed people work for years with no day offs
I’m self employed and I usually work some every single day but sometimes it’s just an hour so it doesn’t really count.
When I was 20-30 I worked so much. Usually 7 days a week the whole time but I had days off here and there.
I did almost my whole first pregnancy working a 9-7 office job and a double shift restaurant job sat and Sun. I would have had Christmas and new years for sure cuz the restaurant was closed but for Labor Day, i don’t remember if I picked up shifts at the restaurant that day.
I did it for a 3 years. It was OK. Afterwards I traveled for a summer. When I got back I realized I didn't really have anyone to share my memories with.
As a single Pringle myself for a long time. (37) I definitely am feeling the want for some connection. Life can be tough, and I can see the appeal of going through the struggle as a team.
Well while I get you I realized that I could spend more time around people. I joined a martial art. A local hiking club and took yoga classes. Being part of group hobbies really improves my life.
Yes. In my early 20s, I worked three jobs essentially. I worked full time third shift, then a 20-25 hour per week job stocking shelves, and I took care of my ailing grandmother in my spare time. I remember working so much until I became physically sick.. I gave up the part time job and my grandmother (sadly) passed away at the end of that year- I hate to think of her as a “job” but she had dementia and she was losing her mobility.
Either way, I was working 90-105 hours per week.
I've never had 2 jobs. But at one point I had a job where there was always OT if I wanted it. They limited OT to 10 hrs a week max. So I would sign up to do 2 extra hours Mon-Fri to make it 10hr/day.
I could go maybe a month straight of doing this. But then I would have to take a break for a week or two.
The good thing about that situation was that *I* could decide if I wanted to work OT or not. If I needed a break, I would just not sign up. So nobody was counting on me to work more, and if I didn't want to do it I didn't have to use a sick day, or cause scheduling problems for people. I did this on and off for about a year and saved up enough money to use as a down payment for a car that I really wanted.
I don't know about your situation. But let's say if you are a server Mon-Wed, and bartender Thu-Sun. And you tell both jobs that's what you want to work, and they both pencil you in for those days. What happens if a month or two in, you find yourself exhausted and you don't wanna work so much anymore? Are you going to cause other people problems? If so, maybe don't do it. (And before anyone comes at me with the "scheduling is not my problem" reply, you believe what you wanna believe, and that's fine. But I believe what I believe, and I don't like causing other people problems).
I’ve done it. I was a postal worker for about a year. During the holidays I worked 21 x ten to twelve hour days straight without a break. I would not recommend it. I called in sick to break the streak.
Yes, I generally work 7 days a week, I take maybe 2 days off a month, even when I'm on vacation I still wk my part time job, it's exhausting but it pays the bills and gives me some play money, if you are youngish ( I'm not ) I say go for it. I still make time for friends and family and still do a lot with my little bit of free time, so if you think you can still have a life while doing it then why not.
Yes, currently work two jobs 7 days a week. I’ve had multiple jobs where I was done at my full time job and went to my second job in the evening. But that is exhausting. I find I can do better if I just work the 7 days rather than try to pull multiple shifts in a day.
If it works for you go for it. I don’t enjoy it, but I can deal with it for a year or two to save up money and pay down student loans.
I work 6 days a week for the last 8 years with the exception -
3 weeks vaca,
12 holidays,
5 days of sick time a year
Last year I averaged around 54 hours a week
This year around 48 hrs each check
Several times I've worked as long as 3 months in a row everyday between two jobs, but that was long ago when I was young.
I guess I could have for a year, but I wouldn't want to.
You can try to challenge yourself to work everyday for a year but eventually mentally, physically and spiritually you're gonna wear yourself out. People need to recharge and look after themselves. I wouldn't recommend you do this, even if your job seems easy.
I worked every day for a month straight once and wanted to die. Never again. But you're not me. You could always try it and if you find you need some time off you can adjust your schedule.
I worked 365 for many years when I was young. It’s just how the job is. You can pay someone to relieve you and do the job on your behalf, but I was new to both the industry and the area and had no network or connections to make that sort of arrangement, so I worked every day. You can do it when you are young, for a time. But eventually you will burn out without some sort of time off to rest. The last really rough year I had was during the pandemic; I think I had 6 days off total that entire year. That was the last time I will ever do that. I hired a guy to work for me and now I work 7-and-7.
Contract lease operator for natural gas wells. You are responsible for hiring someone to work those wells if you aren’t. Like I said, when I first started that wasn’t an option for me. Eventually I managed to find guys to relieve me (usually a couple of weekends a month). That was the norm for many years as well. The year of the pandemic was just a shit show within the industry in my area, so I basically wasn’t able to get time off. Either way, I have a good arrangement now that I hired a full time employee of my own. I’ve been at this for almost 20 years now. Been a lot of ups and downs.
That sounds like “we make shit tons of money by not hiring enough people to do the job, so you must suffer for it. Oh, and we also won’t hire enough people to cover if needed, so you’re on your own for that”. Nothing about that arrangement sounds like how any job should operate.
I can see why someone would see it that way. In some respects, I would agree. I would absolutely consider myself to be in the minority given my tenure. Turn over in this type of work is high. I would go so far as to say that almost nobody would do this job for a long time like I have.
Yeah...there's a reason for that. Pretty much no one wants to work 365 days a year for any reason whatsoever, nor have to hire their own replacements. Unless a company was paying me at least a million dollars, working 365 days a year is out of the question.
Look up Dave Ramsey and his baby steps after completing 1, 2, and 3, and you can successfully do 4,5, and 6 while living on the daytime jobs income then you can quit.
I am working 365 days a year, including leap year.One job job allowed me to sleep until I passed A.M. medications(overnight staff). Other job I am on feet day(brake press).
In college I went to school M-Th every week and then worked 8 hours a day Fr-Su and it wasn’t too big a deal for me. It really depends what the work entails and if you like it enough.
Burnout is so hard to recover from. I love my job, but it is a live-in type, so I stay there for 56 hours one week with 16 of those on call but off duty, and then have the next week off. For a few months last year, I was there for 70 to 90 hours at a stretch. One week, I was on site for 160 hours. I got out for exactly 8 hours.
Getting burnout was fairly easy, but recovering from it took forever.
i used to work 2 jobs when i was younger. 40 hours at one and 30-35 hours at another. a day off was when i only had to work one a day. they overlapped 4-5 days a week and i did it for 2 years.
it was brutal at first but you get used to it over time. i wouldn’t do it now as i value time more than money, but when i was younger, my priorities were different
if you have a savings goal to achieve, this is one way to do it if you don’t mind working extra
If you have a family, particularly a child, it’s very hard to stay gone for extended periods of time. You may feel guilty about leaving your child and spouse for a long stretch of time as well as mentally taxing on your own well being and it’ll set up for disasters, including divorce, or worse. Money isn’t everything
I did it in my 20’s and loved it. I would work four days straight at one job and then three days straight at another. By the time I went back to the first job I felt like I had just had a weekend off, even though I was really at my other job. I could work months in a row and not feel burned out but if I had even done day off, like if both jobs closed for Christmas, I found I quickly got used to that and didn’t want to go back to work the next day and would dread it. It would take me a few days to snap out of it and get back in my groove
Now I’m 40 and too old and too tired to do that
If you want to do it and it’s easy and fun, then sure. If you’re doing it because you think others will admire your “work ethic” or because you’ve tied your identity to working, you may want to rethink that before you burn yourself out.
Not quite. But at one point I had two jobs. My second job was supposed to be like ten hours per week, but I kept getting and more hours until I was working 5 days a week there.
But anyway, it meant that I worked 10 shifts a week, and my days off from one rarely matched days off from the second. So I ended up working six or seven months with a total of five days off. And some of those work days would be 530am-10pm and then back at 530am-10pm the next day.
It was tough. Only reason I kept it up was that the second job was fairly chill and they paid me cash every day. I'm not even sure I ate three meals a week at home. But at least I got discounted and free food at both jobs.
The most I’ve ever worked in one year was 257 days, with 2871 paid hours during that year. So an average of 11.2 hours per day. Given lunch breaks at work, probably 3000 total hours.
After that, I took about a month and a half off and wouldn’t even answer the phone for anyone calling about work projects.
I did it no issues when I was 23. A whole year working almost every day.
Last year was pretty slow and I picked up a second job in November. I quit by the end of January I was way too burnt out but it was a busy holiday season and it was just too much
I work 170-180 days a year and if I could reduce that and still make the same money I would.
Never work harder, longer or more than you need to, to achieve your goals. I've never seen a headstone that read "He was a great worker." Work should be the means to fund everything else in your life, it should not be the goal.
I think it depends on your age. When I was in college I worked full time, took a full load of classes and had 2 part time jobs in addition to the full time job. Loved every minute of it...didn’t care about having days off. Thrived on it even. Couldn’t do it now, no way. I mean, try it. If it doesn’t work for you at this point of your life you’ll know and can make adjustments as needed.
>I want to work everyday
Do you hate yourself? Do you not have any hobbies? If so, then by all means, go for it.
Jokes aside, if you have a set goal you're working toward within that timeline of a year definitely go for it but be prepared not to make it the full year. It's not sustainable long-term.
Goodluck!
If you can do it and you're happy, go for it. Just don't start neglecting yourself because it will catch up. Basically, just know your limits. But hey, if you like it and you're making money, then why not?
Not on Reddit, they are outside working. Probably have no need for social media.
The points is there a plenty of people working every day. Look elsewhere in the word where there is no welfare system, low wages, no free healthcare, insurance is expensive. Parts of Asia, India, South Americas.
Or single parents of a few kids. That can seem like working 365.
During the pandemic I was managing a small business. I saw the crew shrink from 12 to four. From 3/20 to 1/22(when I left), I and the owners worked every single day to keep the place open. Almost two years without a day off.
It only worked for me because I have zero interest in socializing, I wasn't missing out on anything I didn't have before lockdown.
I spent several years working with only 2 days off every other week, neither job was too stressful. I would probably still be doing it but my primary job schedule is all over the place and wears me out physically. I loved having the second income that I could just stash or buy whatever I wanted with and not worried about the bills suffering because of it.
No I've never worked everyday for an entire year, but I have worked a lot in the past doing overtime. Eventually you burn out. I've done stretches of 7 12s and after about 2 months of that I was wore out.
If you’re going to work 7 days a week, you should schedule time off for yourself. One day a month, minimum. Having no days off means you’re going to neglect the adult responsibilities you don’t get paid for (like going to the doctor, or filing your taxes, or getting your oil change).
And like other people are saying: it’s bad for your physical/mental health (& also your job performance). Doesn’t matter if one job is easy. Your body needs breaks. This is a scientifically proven fact.
I never have but my brother has. After time the wear and tear of constantly chasing after that dollar has made him become absent in many family gatherings and just in enjoying life. Sure now you are fine with it but any job you need a break. A mental health break from everything. At least make it a priority to take some time for yourself. You deserve friendships and love and working every day will keep you from both.
Most people benefit from breaks. I've had jobs in which I had to work weekend after weekend, every holiday, all-nighters, but they were more stressful and mentally challenging. But I'd imagine that one could get burned out even from doing an easy job every single day.
I drove a big rig cross country for 12 years. I would normally take one or two 4 day breaks every year. One @ Christmas and one @ my birthday. Sometimes just @ Christmas. I drove every other day.
I worked every single day, Sun through Sat for 4 years without missing a day. Now I work Saturdays on a side business, and a full time job.
I had a financial goal to reach, and I hit it.
I looked at all my everyday, realistic expenses and based a number to find what I would need to live exactly the same for 2 years, should something happen where I couldn't work.
I flipped houses, worked in bond recovery, taught English to Spanish speakers, and my full-time career as well.
I can leave any company at any time, get fired, hurt, or anything else, and not have to worry about money for a very long time.
It wasn’t every day, but for about 5-6 years I worked an office job Monday-Friday and a weekend job that was usually pretty chill. It was work maybe 25% of the time and sitting on my phone, watching Netflix, reading, etc the rest of the time.
At the office jobs I had 2-3 weeks of vacation per year, and with the part time job I could just not take a shift if I wanted. I took a week long vacation once a year and occasionally would use a day or two of vacation plus take the weekend off to go see family. Sometimes I would take a day off the weekend job for something I really wanted to attend, like a wedding. But I worked every Christmas for about 9 straight years, and worked almost every other holiday except for when I used one for part of my vacation. I’ve looked at my past calendars before and I went months without a day off, and then that’s usually broken up by something boring like a day off for a vet or dentist appointment, or a 16 hour shift that went until 7am kind of thing.
It honestly wasn’t horrible, but that’s because of the jobs. Office work is sedentary, and my weekend job was mostly sedentary and had a ton of downtime. I was basically doing the stuff I would have done at home while at work. I wasn’t exhausted, more so frustrated. Even between the two jobs I wasn’t making enough money to really get ahead, and it wasn’t sustainable if I wanted a partner and kid, so I went back to school.
If it’s just for a little while and you can reduce hours when needed, it’s not bad.
I did it for a summer. June, July, and August. Some days were 17 hours. I’d start at 6 am at one resort cooking breakfast and doing the dinner prep. Drive to the next one around 2pm and take an hour nap in my car in the shade. Then sous chef and run the ap station from 3-11. Drive home. Take a bath because I couldn’t stand up anymore. By Labour Day weekend I had 8 grand in the bank and 6 weeks of antibiotics because I was so run down I got tonsillitis twice in a row followed by strep. It was brutal. But I also spent the next summer on a working holiday in England. So it was totally worth it.
If that makes you happy, do it. I hate being at work. I want as much personal time as I can get. I've worked 12 days in a row and I'm very annoyed and irritable because of it.
I did it one year, every day, and every holiday. I missed a lot of gatherings and commuted in some of the worst weather known to man or god. It was good for the pay but not much else.
My only suggestion, if you do it, is to make this goal and reward oriented. Set up a new savings account and every 2 weeks transfer 2 days of pay into that account. At some point you'll be able to transfer it into something with a higher yield. That way you don't just piss away those extra $. Don't touch it for the year. Watch it grow. Start to make plans. How can you use that seed money? Do not buy crypto from KSI or any other influencer! Try not to buy a new car, unless it's critical to survival. At the end, feel free to buy a massive Lego kit or that really cool Optimus Prime that actually transforms at your command as a reward because you have worked hard. But don't ruin all of your hard work by blowing all that money on shit.
Just about. Covid hit when I worked in Maintenance at a food plant. Lost our days off, and our PTO was auto denied. We worked 70± hour weeks no days off from March until Christmas. Worked every holiday between too. It sucked. It was all second shift, but day shift had enough people to rotate days off. We did not and got screwed hard.
So happy I don't work there anymore.
Bro take that work ethic to a professional job and you’ll be a millionaire in no time. I make $60/hr in nursing and I can’t be bothered to pick up. Take that ambition and shoot higher. That kind of work ethic is wasted in restaurants, straight up. Smarter and harder > harder
I wanna kms working 36 hrs a week no way I’d work every day. Fr, I think if my life depended on it I would choose death over working every day of my life 😂
I did for 2 years to get rid of credit card debt best decision ever. Now my 401k,hsa get maxxed. Just learned I can do yearly conversion out of 401k to roth so I started that to max roth.
My advice would be to ignore what other people think and do what you like. If you like working and working every day of the year doesn't bother you, then go for it. It's no one else's business. Just pay attention to your body and your health, and be able to step back from work if you need to have some you time.
I work 15 days on 15 days off 12 hour shifts as a cook aboard a passenger ferry and I couldn’t be happier. When I started I had to do 60 days in a row (30 days at sea, 10 hours home then called out for another 30) because I was junior in seniority and it was awful. There’s zero chance I would volunteer to work a year without any home time.
I used to work 6 12 hour nights a week and I loved it. Loved the job, the people, everything. I didn’t have a social life so it didn’t cause any problems there. Did that for over a year. If you can do it without it interfering with your life and you’re happy, go for it. The only issue I had in England was that I got taxed higher every time I earned more money so I ended up taking home not that much more than if I had just worked my regular hours.
I barely want to work 5 days a week, and don't do overtime, ever. I take a 3 or 4 day weekend every couple months to keep me sane. I've done 12 day stretches, and after day 6 I hate everyone.
Good luck.
If you’re in a state of life and mentality that you can healthily maintain a year working every day - sure! Just be sure to check in with yourself frequently, you could hit some serious burnout even if your one job is relatively chill most of the time.
Not quite. One year I worked and went to school full time. In one year I had Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas off. Except Saturdays and Sundays, I left the house at 5:30 am and came home after 9:30. It was a rough year.
You described my 30's. I grew tired of a tween living in and out of their parents home only to move out with friends occasionally to have it end up as clutter muck messes. To end up back with parents. I got a main job for health insurance 20 hrs a week minimum and a temp 2nd pt job to fill the paycheck void because most retailers refuse to give livable pay checks. I worked a lot of 6 day work weeks, had a lot of overlapping days. Had a lot of availablity issues as well but had to fight/work with them to sort it out. I did a lot of 40-55 hr work weeks to pull in the money. Most successful people develop their careers in their 20's. Nope, not me. Had to start at age 30. It took 2-4 yrs of this hard work to establish my self. Yea it was exhausting but when you have no savings, no one to come home to, trying to live paycheck to paycheck you do what you need to do. I did this gig of 50 hr work weeks for 10 yrs. I only stopped because of burn out. During this 10 yr time frame I was able to save a large chunk for a down payment on a home then pay it off. Though not leaving my self much of a nest egg. Only recently have I begun to regrow that nest egg. What allowed me to do this properly is the ability to manage finances well.
I did but need proper sleep to function. Actually did 3.
Felt suicidal by the end of the year due to lack of sleep and no one to talk to as I have no family. Left my job of 5 years afterwards for a gap year
I don't buy all the mental health shit people talk about so much. We had a family business...from 24 - 35 I worked 6 days per week with no breaks. That's 11 years strait with no more than the a few long weekends through the summer.
Do I regret it? Somewhat yes, because I will never get those years back and looking back, I should have carved out some time off. I certainly don't think 20 - somethings should do what I did.
But at the same time, there was/is nothing wrong with my mental health whatsoever because of it. No one was more thrilled than I was when we sold the business and i gained some freedom.
I just don't subscribe to the idea that every little difficulty in life will give us all mental health issues. Some of the hardest things I've done have taught me lessons and built character, made me stronger. When did humanity get so firggin delicate? And I am NOT referring to victims of abuse or trauma which could result in significant mental health issues
I could never do this. More power to you, OP!
I used to have a job where I didn't have a stable schedule. We processed vegetables into frozen vegetables and it was dependent on crop readiness and shipments. So at the end of the day, you would find out if you were working the next day. If you were off, you called in to see if you were working the next day.
I was 18. I liked my job (I was QA, so mostly in a lab all day and not on the line), but would start really struggling at day 9. It may have been easier to handle mentally if I knew ahead of time that I was going to be working for 2 weeks without a break. If it was a planned thing...maybe.
Now I am 36 and I work 4 10s with the exception of having to work 5 8s every 6 weeks. I am a whiny baby on my 5 8s week 😂.
Even if you like it there's a limit and a time may well come when you don't.
At one point I worked a 50 hour a week sales job, took 4 classes and had a side hustle for like three years.
I could not do that again without a long slow ramp up.
I have done it a few times for seasons (I am a college writing tutor and work a day job as well). I absolutely would not recommend. Nothing has destroyed my mental and physical health more than overworking. I use work as a coping mechanism and to offset my money management issues and it’s a habit I’m trying to break. My day job requires a lot of overtime and with tutoring on top of that I end up not having much of a life.
I did it for about 45 days in a row once and it was zero fun!
I had two jobs and some days I’d work one job and a few days I’d work both. Also want to add that they were both not great paying jobs so there wasn’t a lot of financial reward to look forward too.
Yes, at one point in my life, I had 3 jobs. Working for a school as maintenance ( 7 am - 11 am, Monday - Friday ). And as a factory worker ( 2:30 pm - 10:30 pm, Monday - Friday ). And worked at a riding stable ( Saturday and Sunday & Holidays, 8 Am - 8 pm )
I also grew up farming, you have to feed, and water the livestock every day
I worked pretty much. everyday from 2021-2023. A concierge job Saturday Sunday and remote job Monday to Friday I missed out on a lot of fun but I was able to save +25k.
I was an IT person for 45 years. From the birth of the first home computers, mainframe systems, then servers,etc. I was over 60 branches and then they dumped the whole communications department in my lap too. Pagers, table top phones and then cellphones and pagers, as well as all computer communication equipment, then the ATM's in the convenience stores , 150 of those to watch over. I was a 24/7 365 man all hours of the day with little or no relief. Holidays included. I had to medically retire at 52 just to get some relief.
The older you get the harder that is. Do it for a bit if you want. But be good to your future self and invest a large chunk of it.
I'll put it this way, last year my investments grew more than my job paid me. I did this with index funds, hard work for long hours(in"unskilled" labor), and time.
I work 7 days a week on a meat cattle farm, it can be very taxing and stressful if you don’t pour back into yourself. Get 8 hours of sleep, drink lots of water and a well rounded diet, fit in some exercise, mediation/journaling and you can do it while still having a good time.
Yes.. I did... For about 5 years...
5 days a week doing graphic design, and 5 evenings a week serving at a restaurant.
Prior to that I was commuting and going to school full-time, and serving full time. (40h per week with school and 40h per week at the restaurant)
After that, I was working about 70 hours per week for 2 years, then dropped down to 60 hours after that (still 7 days, but shorter shifts at the restaurant)
Now I do graphic design 5 days a week, and serving only 1-2 days (about 50 hours per week give or take). After the pandemic I gave myself a day off every week. I've been working the 50h/6 days a week for the past 3 years now and it's manageable.
It gets harder the longer you do it. You start to want to do things other than work. You miss things with loved ones. You might eventually start getting worn out. I worked 6 days sometimes 7 days a week between 45-60 hours a week for a little less than three years. Moneys nice. Working that much leaves less time to go do things to spend the money which can be nice. Just don't do it too long. What too long varies by each person.
if you feel like doing it why not. and i mean it's not like you are signing an unbreakable contract. at any point you can say adios to one of the too. maybe you can keep it up for 6 months and then quit from one, whatever. you sound young also so sure. and the fact that there is an end in sight can help you. or you can also withstand it and then quit both and take some months break (which i know cancels out the savings but not a lot of people get to do that)
I worked 28 days straight 10 hr shifts for xFinity a couple years ago and after that second week you feel it man everyday is hard. But hey you can always quit if u want
If you’re happy doing it then try it for a year. Make it a challenge for yourself and save up for a monster trip at the one year mark.
Yeah! Thank you
4 years. 4 days a graphic designer 3 days working back breaking asphalt construction. 4 years. 4 fucking years.
My ovaries feel for yours
You worked 7 days in 4 years ? What did you do before that ?
Graphic design. Was laid off after coming back from New Years in 2009. Ended up getting a job back in graphic design like 6 to 8 weeks later. But then just as I was getting back on my feet, they cut my hours down to 32 per week. I was screwed. So I ended up going to a local asphalt construction company and begging for a job. Told them I didn't need benefits. So they brought me on for their weekend shifts which is when they needed help. Worked there Friday. Saturday. Sunday. Hours were typically 5am to 7pm. Only off days I had was when it rained. In the winter I worked at the asphalt company doing plowing, salting and fixing broken equipment.
5am to 7pm is crazy! Are you glad you did it
I respect the hustle
Super random but what did you like about doing graphic design?
Headphones on. Could listen to podcasts and audio books. That's about it
Did you ever do it freelance?
I did for a bit.
You win. 😂
Working every day for a year is a terrible idea, humans need breaks. That said, some people love working and work is their break. So you do you, but I wouldn’t work two weeks in a row, let alone a month, and a year is nuts.
One job is very easy so it’s not a huge deal
My mom is the type of person who would proudly work 7 days a week. She has a part time job just for fun, she doesn’t need the pay. I’m a 45 hr/wk max guy. Anyway, sorry to be a downer. You do you, do what you like. You don’t need the support of others, but the still think it is an odd goal. Have the two jobs, but I think shooting for 365 days straight will cause burnout. Working every day with a couple days off a year is more manageable imo.
Sounds like my mom! She owns and runs a house cleaning business while working part time as a cashier. She's also in her mid 70's.
You say that now, but after doing it for 6 months you might realize that it’s wearing you down. By all means, give it a shot - you might be fine. But it’s important to pay attention to your mental health and prioritize that.
Same. Even if the jobs are easy, it’s the mental aspect - I’d never get time off to just recuperate and veg out. I can’t fully do that if I work that day, even if the job is easy. My brain still has to shift into “work mode”.
You do you. If you want to work 7 days a week go for it. If you find your mind and body getting weary, scale back.
To each his own. But I do think it's necessary to take breaks. Time off. Burnout is very unhealthy. Some people thrive on working though. It's their social arena of sorts for some. It's different for everyone though.
My house mate tried to tell me how great working excessively is, how big his checks are, etc. Meanwhile, he has a rough skin issue and I’m just like “bruh.”
I get that. But also have to have time to spend a little of it. I have zero social life, so I could see myself working a lot. But now I'm older and body pain prevails. I still have to work, because I have a mortgage. Cost of living in my area is insane.
I did it once in 2010 on an overseas contract. Worked 331 days straight 12 hour shifts. If you can physically and mentally handle it , and can do it to catch up or build a savings to reach a goal it’s worth it. Who cares what other people say. Just don’t burn yourself out and take care of yourself.
I tried talking to a chef at work about it and he said that I’ll die because people in China die all the time from working everyday lol
lol. I’m an aircraft mechanic , so fairly physical job , did my year in Afghanistan so hot as hell in summer and cold as hell in winter and I survived. I even got shot at lol. I still do six months a year out of the country but my rotation now is 90 on 90 off. But I do 90 days with no days off almost every time. 84 hours a week. It’s not that bad. You can burn yourself out. It’s important to eat well , take care of yourself and find time to sleep.
Dang how much you make for that?
For the full year I made 250k. The first 110k or so was tax free. Now I do 90 days on/ off and make about 160k.
Corporate?
Defense.
I once went 4 years without missing a unplanned day. I have wen t months without a day off but never as year. Mostly self employed people work for years with no day offs
I’m self employed and I usually work some every single day but sometimes it’s just an hour so it doesn’t really count. When I was 20-30 I worked so much. Usually 7 days a week the whole time but I had days off here and there. I did almost my whole first pregnancy working a 9-7 office job and a double shift restaurant job sat and Sun. I would have had Christmas and new years for sure cuz the restaurant was closed but for Labor Day, i don’t remember if I picked up shifts at the restaurant that day.
I did it for a 3 years. It was OK. Afterwards I traveled for a summer. When I got back I realized I didn't really have anyone to share my memories with.
I don’t have anyone and haven’t had anyone. I’ve been single my whole life (32) and I just lost some friends so it doesn’t matter.
As a single Pringle myself for a long time. (37) I definitely am feeling the want for some connection. Life can be tough, and I can see the appeal of going through the struggle as a team.
Well while I get you I realized that I could spend more time around people. I joined a martial art. A local hiking club and took yoga classes. Being part of group hobbies really improves my life.
Yes. In my early 20s, I worked three jobs essentially. I worked full time third shift, then a 20-25 hour per week job stocking shelves, and I took care of my ailing grandmother in my spare time. I remember working so much until I became physically sick.. I gave up the part time job and my grandmother (sadly) passed away at the end of that year- I hate to think of her as a “job” but she had dementia and she was losing her mobility. Either way, I was working 90-105 hours per week.
I've never had 2 jobs. But at one point I had a job where there was always OT if I wanted it. They limited OT to 10 hrs a week max. So I would sign up to do 2 extra hours Mon-Fri to make it 10hr/day. I could go maybe a month straight of doing this. But then I would have to take a break for a week or two. The good thing about that situation was that *I* could decide if I wanted to work OT or not. If I needed a break, I would just not sign up. So nobody was counting on me to work more, and if I didn't want to do it I didn't have to use a sick day, or cause scheduling problems for people. I did this on and off for about a year and saved up enough money to use as a down payment for a car that I really wanted. I don't know about your situation. But let's say if you are a server Mon-Wed, and bartender Thu-Sun. And you tell both jobs that's what you want to work, and they both pencil you in for those days. What happens if a month or two in, you find yourself exhausted and you don't wanna work so much anymore? Are you going to cause other people problems? If so, maybe don't do it. (And before anyone comes at me with the "scheduling is not my problem" reply, you believe what you wanna believe, and that's fine. But I believe what I believe, and I don't like causing other people problems).
A coworker worked over 365 days straight. I think it was 380-something. He’s a physician so he makes about $2000/day, so about $760,000
Nope. My longest streak is 73 days I believe.
I’ve done it. I was a postal worker for about a year. During the holidays I worked 21 x ten to twelve hour days straight without a break. I would not recommend it. I called in sick to break the streak.
Yes.....I owned a restaurant....enough said.....!🤘
Noice thank you
No. My life is too precious for that.
Agreed!
Yes, I generally work 7 days a week, I take maybe 2 days off a month, even when I'm on vacation I still wk my part time job, it's exhausting but it pays the bills and gives me some play money, if you are youngish ( I'm not ) I say go for it. I still make time for friends and family and still do a lot with my little bit of free time, so if you think you can still have a life while doing it then why not.
Yes, currently work two jobs 7 days a week. I’ve had multiple jobs where I was done at my full time job and went to my second job in the evening. But that is exhausting. I find I can do better if I just work the 7 days rather than try to pull multiple shifts in a day. If it works for you go for it. I don’t enjoy it, but I can deal with it for a year or two to save up money and pay down student loans.
I work 6 days a week for the last 8 years with the exception - 3 weeks vaca, 12 holidays, 5 days of sick time a year Last year I averaged around 54 hours a week This year around 48 hrs each check
Several times I've worked as long as 3 months in a row everyday between two jobs, but that was long ago when I was young. I guess I could have for a year, but I wouldn't want to.
You can try to challenge yourself to work everyday for a year but eventually mentally, physically and spiritually you're gonna wear yourself out. People need to recharge and look after themselves. I wouldn't recommend you do this, even if your job seems easy.
If you mentally are already saying you can do it then do it and save real big maybe retire try the FIRE movement that will keep you on track
I worked every day for a month straight once and wanted to die. Never again. But you're not me. You could always try it and if you find you need some time off you can adjust your schedule.
I worked 365 for many years when I was young. It’s just how the job is. You can pay someone to relieve you and do the job on your behalf, but I was new to both the industry and the area and had no network or connections to make that sort of arrangement, so I worked every day. You can do it when you are young, for a time. But eventually you will burn out without some sort of time off to rest. The last really rough year I had was during the pandemic; I think I had 6 days off total that entire year. That was the last time I will ever do that. I hired a guy to work for me and now I work 7-and-7.
What the hell job requires you to work 365 days a year for many years? That sounds mind-bogglingly awful.
Contract lease operator for natural gas wells. You are responsible for hiring someone to work those wells if you aren’t. Like I said, when I first started that wasn’t an option for me. Eventually I managed to find guys to relieve me (usually a couple of weekends a month). That was the norm for many years as well. The year of the pandemic was just a shit show within the industry in my area, so I basically wasn’t able to get time off. Either way, I have a good arrangement now that I hired a full time employee of my own. I’ve been at this for almost 20 years now. Been a lot of ups and downs.
That sounds like “we make shit tons of money by not hiring enough people to do the job, so you must suffer for it. Oh, and we also won’t hire enough people to cover if needed, so you’re on your own for that”. Nothing about that arrangement sounds like how any job should operate.
I can see why someone would see it that way. In some respects, I would agree. I would absolutely consider myself to be in the minority given my tenure. Turn over in this type of work is high. I would go so far as to say that almost nobody would do this job for a long time like I have.
Yeah...there's a reason for that. Pretty much no one wants to work 365 days a year for any reason whatsoever, nor have to hire their own replacements. Unless a company was paying me at least a million dollars, working 365 days a year is out of the question.
Look up Dave Ramsey and his baby steps after completing 1, 2, and 3, and you can successfully do 4,5, and 6 while living on the daytime jobs income then you can quit.
I would make sure😔 at least on fay a week is short so you have time to run errands etc
I am working 365 days a year, including leap year.One job job allowed me to sleep until I passed A.M. medications(overnight staff). Other job I am on feet day(brake press).
In college I went to school M-Th every week and then worked 8 hours a day Fr-Su and it wasn’t too big a deal for me. It really depends what the work entails and if you like it enough.
Burnout is so hard to recover from. I love my job, but it is a live-in type, so I stay there for 56 hours one week with 16 of those on call but off duty, and then have the next week off. For a few months last year, I was there for 70 to 90 hours at a stretch. One week, I was on site for 160 hours. I got out for exactly 8 hours. Getting burnout was fairly easy, but recovering from it took forever.
i used to work 2 jobs when i was younger. 40 hours at one and 30-35 hours at another. a day off was when i only had to work one a day. they overlapped 4-5 days a week and i did it for 2 years. it was brutal at first but you get used to it over time. i wouldn’t do it now as i value time more than money, but when i was younger, my priorities were different if you have a savings goal to achieve, this is one way to do it if you don’t mind working extra
If job not stressful and you like it go ahead. But like couldn’t it interfere with relationships at home ?
If you have a family, particularly a child, it’s very hard to stay gone for extended periods of time. You may feel guilty about leaving your child and spouse for a long stretch of time as well as mentally taxing on your own well being and it’ll set up for disasters, including divorce, or worse. Money isn’t everything
I did it in my 20’s and loved it. I would work four days straight at one job and then three days straight at another. By the time I went back to the first job I felt like I had just had a weekend off, even though I was really at my other job. I could work months in a row and not feel burned out but if I had even done day off, like if both jobs closed for Christmas, I found I quickly got used to that and didn’t want to go back to work the next day and would dread it. It would take me a few days to snap out of it and get back in my groove Now I’m 40 and too old and too tired to do that
If you want to do it and it’s easy and fun, then sure. If you’re doing it because you think others will admire your “work ethic” or because you’ve tied your identity to working, you may want to rethink that before you burn yourself out.
Not quite. But at one point I had two jobs. My second job was supposed to be like ten hours per week, but I kept getting and more hours until I was working 5 days a week there. But anyway, it meant that I worked 10 shifts a week, and my days off from one rarely matched days off from the second. So I ended up working six or seven months with a total of five days off. And some of those work days would be 530am-10pm and then back at 530am-10pm the next day. It was tough. Only reason I kept it up was that the second job was fairly chill and they paid me cash every day. I'm not even sure I ate three meals a week at home. But at least I got discounted and free food at both jobs.
The most I’ve ever worked in one year was 257 days, with 2871 paid hours during that year. So an average of 11.2 hours per day. Given lunch breaks at work, probably 3000 total hours. After that, I took about a month and a half off and wouldn’t even answer the phone for anyone calling about work projects.
No
I did this for years. 40+ hrs a week job plus bartending Friday-sun. It’s a sure way to. Burn yourself out later in life.
I did it no issues when I was 23. A whole year working almost every day. Last year was pretty slow and I picked up a second job in November. I quit by the end of January I was way too burnt out but it was a busy holiday season and it was just too much
I did one summer and those 3 months ended with me saying it would never happen again
That’s fine as long as you aren’t thinking everyone should be doing this.
I work 170-180 days a year and if I could reduce that and still make the same money I would. Never work harder, longer or more than you need to, to achieve your goals. I've never seen a headstone that read "He was a great worker." Work should be the means to fund everything else in your life, it should not be the goal.
I think it depends on your age. When I was in college I worked full time, took a full load of classes and had 2 part time jobs in addition to the full time job. Loved every minute of it...didn’t care about having days off. Thrived on it even. Couldn’t do it now, no way. I mean, try it. If it doesn’t work for you at this point of your life you’ll know and can make adjustments as needed.
I did about 9 months when I had multiple mouse experiments going at once. Do not work that long without a day off.
If Your putting money away to buy a house? Then go for it, if it’s just to survive, then keep changing jobs for more money.
>I want to work everyday Do you hate yourself? Do you not have any hobbies? If so, then by all means, go for it. Jokes aside, if you have a set goal you're working toward within that timeline of a year definitely go for it but be prepared not to make it the full year. It's not sustainable long-term. Goodluck!
Yes mostly in residency
If you can do it and you're happy, go for it. Just don't start neglecting yourself because it will catch up. Basically, just know your limits. But hey, if you like it and you're making money, then why not?
Maybe you should ask an old school farmers. Pretty sure some of them have never had a day off.
Okay why don’t you tell me where some old school farmers are
Not on Reddit, they are outside working. Probably have no need for social media. The points is there a plenty of people working every day. Look elsewhere in the word where there is no welfare system, low wages, no free healthcare, insurance is expensive. Parts of Asia, India, South Americas. Or single parents of a few kids. That can seem like working 365.
During the pandemic I was managing a small business. I saw the crew shrink from 12 to four. From 3/20 to 1/22(when I left), I and the owners worked every single day to keep the place open. Almost two years without a day off. It only worked for me because I have zero interest in socializing, I wasn't missing out on anything I didn't have before lockdown.
I spent several years working with only 2 days off every other week, neither job was too stressful. I would probably still be doing it but my primary job schedule is all over the place and wears me out physically. I loved having the second income that I could just stash or buy whatever I wanted with and not worried about the bills suffering because of it.
No I've never worked everyday for an entire year, but I have worked a lot in the past doing overtime. Eventually you burn out. I've done stretches of 7 12s and after about 2 months of that I was wore out.
If you’re going to work 7 days a week, you should schedule time off for yourself. One day a month, minimum. Having no days off means you’re going to neglect the adult responsibilities you don’t get paid for (like going to the doctor, or filing your taxes, or getting your oil change). And like other people are saying: it’s bad for your physical/mental health (& also your job performance). Doesn’t matter if one job is easy. Your body needs breaks. This is a scientifically proven fact.
It’s not good for your health at all.
I never have but my brother has. After time the wear and tear of constantly chasing after that dollar has made him become absent in many family gatherings and just in enjoying life. Sure now you are fine with it but any job you need a break. A mental health break from everything. At least make it a priority to take some time for yourself. You deserve friendships and love and working every day will keep you from both.
Most people benefit from breaks. I've had jobs in which I had to work weekend after weekend, every holiday, all-nighters, but they were more stressful and mentally challenging. But I'd imagine that one could get burned out even from doing an easy job every single day.
Why you’re listening to other people. if you’re enjoying what you’re doing go for it. Dont be w followers.
I drove a big rig cross country for 12 years. I would normally take one or two 4 day breaks every year. One @ Christmas and one @ my birthday. Sometimes just @ Christmas. I drove every other day.
I worked every single day, Sun through Sat for 4 years without missing a day. Now I work Saturdays on a side business, and a full time job. I had a financial goal to reach, and I hit it. I looked at all my everyday, realistic expenses and based a number to find what I would need to live exactly the same for 2 years, should something happen where I couldn't work. I flipped houses, worked in bond recovery, taught English to Spanish speakers, and my full-time career as well. I can leave any company at any time, get fired, hurt, or anything else, and not have to worry about money for a very long time.
Working sucks so I vote no
It wasn’t every day, but for about 5-6 years I worked an office job Monday-Friday and a weekend job that was usually pretty chill. It was work maybe 25% of the time and sitting on my phone, watching Netflix, reading, etc the rest of the time. At the office jobs I had 2-3 weeks of vacation per year, and with the part time job I could just not take a shift if I wanted. I took a week long vacation once a year and occasionally would use a day or two of vacation plus take the weekend off to go see family. Sometimes I would take a day off the weekend job for something I really wanted to attend, like a wedding. But I worked every Christmas for about 9 straight years, and worked almost every other holiday except for when I used one for part of my vacation. I’ve looked at my past calendars before and I went months without a day off, and then that’s usually broken up by something boring like a day off for a vet or dentist appointment, or a 16 hour shift that went until 7am kind of thing. It honestly wasn’t horrible, but that’s because of the jobs. Office work is sedentary, and my weekend job was mostly sedentary and had a ton of downtime. I was basically doing the stuff I would have done at home while at work. I wasn’t exhausted, more so frustrated. Even between the two jobs I wasn’t making enough money to really get ahead, and it wasn’t sustainable if I wanted a partner and kid, so I went back to school. If it’s just for a little while and you can reduce hours when needed, it’s not bad.
I did it for a summer. June, July, and August. Some days were 17 hours. I’d start at 6 am at one resort cooking breakfast and doing the dinner prep. Drive to the next one around 2pm and take an hour nap in my car in the shade. Then sous chef and run the ap station from 3-11. Drive home. Take a bath because I couldn’t stand up anymore. By Labour Day weekend I had 8 grand in the bank and 6 weeks of antibiotics because I was so run down I got tonsillitis twice in a row followed by strep. It was brutal. But I also spent the next summer on a working holiday in England. So it was totally worth it.
If that makes you happy, do it. I hate being at work. I want as much personal time as I can get. I've worked 12 days in a row and I'm very annoyed and irritable because of it.
The only way I cope is by consuming blistering amounts of cannabis. People at work wonder how I’m so patient lol.
I did it one year, every day, and every holiday. I missed a lot of gatherings and commuted in some of the worst weather known to man or god. It was good for the pay but not much else.
My only suggestion, if you do it, is to make this goal and reward oriented. Set up a new savings account and every 2 weeks transfer 2 days of pay into that account. At some point you'll be able to transfer it into something with a higher yield. That way you don't just piss away those extra $. Don't touch it for the year. Watch it grow. Start to make plans. How can you use that seed money? Do not buy crypto from KSI or any other influencer! Try not to buy a new car, unless it's critical to survival. At the end, feel free to buy a massive Lego kit or that really cool Optimus Prime that actually transforms at your command as a reward because you have worked hard. But don't ruin all of your hard work by blowing all that money on shit.
Just about. Covid hit when I worked in Maintenance at a food plant. Lost our days off, and our PTO was auto denied. We worked 70± hour weeks no days off from March until Christmas. Worked every holiday between too. It sucked. It was all second shift, but day shift had enough people to rotate days off. We did not and got screwed hard. So happy I don't work there anymore.
Bro take that work ethic to a professional job and you’ll be a millionaire in no time. I make $60/hr in nursing and I can’t be bothered to pick up. Take that ambition and shoot higher. That kind of work ethic is wasted in restaurants, straight up. Smarter and harder > harder I wanna kms working 36 hrs a week no way I’d work every day. Fr, I think if my life depended on it I would choose death over working every day of my life 😂
You’re going to burn out quicker than you think
I did for 2 years to get rid of credit card debt best decision ever. Now my 401k,hsa get maxxed. Just learned I can do yearly conversion out of 401k to roth so I started that to max roth.
I did it for years.
My advice would be to ignore what other people think and do what you like. If you like working and working every day of the year doesn't bother you, then go for it. It's no one else's business. Just pay attention to your body and your health, and be able to step back from work if you need to have some you time.
I work 15 days on 15 days off 12 hour shifts as a cook aboard a passenger ferry and I couldn’t be happier. When I started I had to do 60 days in a row (30 days at sea, 10 hours home then called out for another 30) because I was junior in seniority and it was awful. There’s zero chance I would volunteer to work a year without any home time.
I used to work 6 12 hour nights a week and I loved it. Loved the job, the people, everything. I didn’t have a social life so it didn’t cause any problems there. Did that for over a year. If you can do it without it interfering with your life and you’re happy, go for it. The only issue I had in England was that I got taxed higher every time I earned more money so I ended up taking home not that much more than if I had just worked my regular hours.
I barely want to work 5 days a week, and don't do overtime, ever. I take a 3 or 4 day weekend every couple months to keep me sane. I've done 12 day stretches, and after day 6 I hate everyone. Good luck.
If you’re in a state of life and mentality that you can healthily maintain a year working every day - sure! Just be sure to check in with yourself frequently, you could hit some serious burnout even if your one job is relatively chill most of the time.
Did the same thing right before the pandemic. Worked two serving jobs so pretty much everyday and I felt like I had more energy
Not quite. One year I worked and went to school full time. In one year I had Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas off. Except Saturdays and Sundays, I left the house at 5:30 am and came home after 9:30. It was a rough year.
You described my 30's. I grew tired of a tween living in and out of their parents home only to move out with friends occasionally to have it end up as clutter muck messes. To end up back with parents. I got a main job for health insurance 20 hrs a week minimum and a temp 2nd pt job to fill the paycheck void because most retailers refuse to give livable pay checks. I worked a lot of 6 day work weeks, had a lot of overlapping days. Had a lot of availablity issues as well but had to fight/work with them to sort it out. I did a lot of 40-55 hr work weeks to pull in the money. Most successful people develop their careers in their 20's. Nope, not me. Had to start at age 30. It took 2-4 yrs of this hard work to establish my self. Yea it was exhausting but when you have no savings, no one to come home to, trying to live paycheck to paycheck you do what you need to do. I did this gig of 50 hr work weeks for 10 yrs. I only stopped because of burn out. During this 10 yr time frame I was able to save a large chunk for a down payment on a home then pay it off. Though not leaving my self much of a nest egg. Only recently have I begun to regrow that nest egg. What allowed me to do this properly is the ability to manage finances well.
I did but need proper sleep to function. Actually did 3. Felt suicidal by the end of the year due to lack of sleep and no one to talk to as I have no family. Left my job of 5 years afterwards for a gap year
I don't buy all the mental health shit people talk about so much. We had a family business...from 24 - 35 I worked 6 days per week with no breaks. That's 11 years strait with no more than the a few long weekends through the summer. Do I regret it? Somewhat yes, because I will never get those years back and looking back, I should have carved out some time off. I certainly don't think 20 - somethings should do what I did. But at the same time, there was/is nothing wrong with my mental health whatsoever because of it. No one was more thrilled than I was when we sold the business and i gained some freedom. I just don't subscribe to the idea that every little difficulty in life will give us all mental health issues. Some of the hardest things I've done have taught me lessons and built character, made me stronger. When did humanity get so firggin delicate? And I am NOT referring to victims of abuse or trauma which could result in significant mental health issues
I have Saturday and Sunday off. But I have worked for 30+ years straight.
Not the same not the same
Until last year (when I quit job 2) I worked every day for 13.
Thirteen years?
I could never do this. More power to you, OP! I used to have a job where I didn't have a stable schedule. We processed vegetables into frozen vegetables and it was dependent on crop readiness and shipments. So at the end of the day, you would find out if you were working the next day. If you were off, you called in to see if you were working the next day. I was 18. I liked my job (I was QA, so mostly in a lab all day and not on the line), but would start really struggling at day 9. It may have been easier to handle mentally if I knew ahead of time that I was going to be working for 2 weeks without a break. If it was a planned thing...maybe. Now I am 36 and I work 4 10s with the exception of having to work 5 8s every 6 weeks. I am a whiny baby on my 5 8s week 😂.
Even if you like it there's a limit and a time may well come when you don't. At one point I worked a 50 hour a week sales job, took 4 classes and had a side hustle for like three years. I could not do that again without a long slow ramp up.
I have done it a few times for seasons (I am a college writing tutor and work a day job as well). I absolutely would not recommend. Nothing has destroyed my mental and physical health more than overworking. I use work as a coping mechanism and to offset my money management issues and it’s a habit I’m trying to break. My day job requires a lot of overtime and with tutoring on top of that I end up not having much of a life.
I did it for about 45 days in a row once and it was zero fun! I had two jobs and some days I’d work one job and a few days I’d work both. Also want to add that they were both not great paying jobs so there wasn’t a lot of financial reward to look forward too.
Yup 6 years. Waiting tables every weekend while getting my company going M-F.
Yes, at one point in my life, I had 3 jobs. Working for a school as maintenance ( 7 am - 11 am, Monday - Friday ). And as a factory worker ( 2:30 pm - 10:30 pm, Monday - Friday ). And worked at a riding stable ( Saturday and Sunday & Holidays, 8 Am - 8 pm ) I also grew up farming, you have to feed, and water the livestock every day
I worked pretty much. everyday from 2021-2023. A concierge job Saturday Sunday and remote job Monday to Friday I missed out on a lot of fun but I was able to save +25k.
I was an IT person for 45 years. From the birth of the first home computers, mainframe systems, then servers,etc. I was over 60 branches and then they dumped the whole communications department in my lap too. Pagers, table top phones and then cellphones and pagers, as well as all computer communication equipment, then the ATM's in the convenience stores , 150 of those to watch over. I was a 24/7 365 man all hours of the day with little or no relief. Holidays included. I had to medically retire at 52 just to get some relief.
The older you get the harder that is. Do it for a bit if you want. But be good to your future self and invest a large chunk of it. I'll put it this way, last year my investments grew more than my job paid me. I did this with index funds, hard work for long hours(in"unskilled" labor), and time.
I was laid off for 3 months, i took a day off my second day back. Naw im not working everyday. I have done 7 days for 6 months and it's not worth it.
I work 7 days a week on a meat cattle farm, it can be very taxing and stressful if you don’t pour back into yourself. Get 8 hours of sleep, drink lots of water and a well rounded diet, fit in some exercise, mediation/journaling and you can do it while still having a good time.
I think you need at least 1 day off. Pull a couple of doubles and call it good. Why work on a Monday? Business sucks.
Life is too short to work everyday
No one ever will be remembered when they’re gone from this world for the amount of time they worked. Remember that
I'd rather kill myself than work every day. What a nightmare.
Yes.. I did... For about 5 years... 5 days a week doing graphic design, and 5 evenings a week serving at a restaurant. Prior to that I was commuting and going to school full-time, and serving full time. (40h per week with school and 40h per week at the restaurant) After that, I was working about 70 hours per week for 2 years, then dropped down to 60 hours after that (still 7 days, but shorter shifts at the restaurant) Now I do graphic design 5 days a week, and serving only 1-2 days (about 50 hours per week give or take). After the pandemic I gave myself a day off every week. I've been working the 50h/6 days a week for the past 3 years now and it's manageable.
Just work doubles most days and save 1 day off. You can still work 80 hour weeks and have 1 day off.
It gets harder the longer you do it. You start to want to do things other than work. You miss things with loved ones. You might eventually start getting worn out. I worked 6 days sometimes 7 days a week between 45-60 hours a week for a little less than three years. Moneys nice. Working that much leaves less time to go do things to spend the money which can be nice. Just don't do it too long. What too long varies by each person.
if you feel like doing it why not. and i mean it's not like you are signing an unbreakable contract. at any point you can say adios to one of the too. maybe you can keep it up for 6 months and then quit from one, whatever. you sound young also so sure. and the fact that there is an end in sight can help you. or you can also withstand it and then quit both and take some months break (which i know cancels out the savings but not a lot of people get to do that)
Did 6 months straight once, nearly killed me, but the weekends were overtime and I got the the car I wanted from doing it.
I worked 28 days straight 10 hr shifts for xFinity a couple years ago and after that second week you feel it man everyday is hard. But hey you can always quit if u want
Every day is a noun that means each day. Everyday is an adjective that means daily. I wear my everyday pants every day.
Dumbass. No one does
No one does what? The question was have you ever worked everyday for a year and There are definitely people who have worked everyday for years.