suicide? appreciating the good moments of the day without thinking about the wider hell you’re in, somehow?
I work 35 hours a week, and I go to university for around 25. Last year I had 7 day weeks all year and it was very much not fun.
I could do it if I had to for a bit, but the whole ‘being too exhausted to exist’ thing gets old fast.
I did that at 20. I had three part-time (ohai Calgary) jobs at one point, trying to perpetuate this schooling habit.
So tired. At 20 I was failing to exist. I can’t imagine that now.
Cow town has no chill. I’m tempted to take on another job, but right now I only have one day completely off and it’s just. Not. Enough. Time.
Like, I have to decide each week how much cleaning gets done or if I’m making food that week. There isn’t enough time to do cleaning and shopping, and I’m busy most days 10am-1am between work and school, assuming I sleep 7 hours a night.
There are currently no laws indicating how many work days should be in the 7 day week.
There is no reason to implement such a thing either to take work days away or add them. Work days are dictated by the employer in accordance with how much work needs to be done.
How much someone should work should be negotiated between employee and employer. I understand that this isn’t really how it works in the real world but this is how it is on paper.
I bring this up because there’s no real way to institute a nationwide “7 day work week” making this question totally pointless and nonsensical.
Stay in the union .
Small acts of rebellion. Take extra long breaks. Automate parts of my job and then don’t tell anybody that I did it. Break some shit on purpose and act like it was an accident. Steal as much stuff that isn’t nailed down as possible. The list would go on, but I’d honestly have no idea what I would actually do in that situation.
I’m certainly not giving it 100% at whatever job I’m working at. I would say form a union, but that’s hard to do when you are working for 56 hour workweeks plus commute, not including overtime. That’s assuming the 7 day workweek remains 8 hour shifts rather than moving down to something like 6 hour shifts with an unpaid lunch break.
I managed to automate one job to the point I had maybe 45 minutes of stuff to do each day. Pandemic hit and my amazingly uneducated supervisor insisted there was no way I could remotely do my job. When you only see the same 4 walls with pretty much no other human interaction for 8.5 hours a day you start to go a little crazy. If I’m being completely honest they came close to finding me at my desk the next day a couple times. I have not automated away my new job, but I am wholeheartedly debating a career shift, not because it’s difficult, because I’ve been burnt out for a few years now.
Wake up from that terrible nightmare and go to my 4-day/week job?
