Are you happy with your current situation?

[quickdodge®]

Whoa! Hold on a minute. Is it 70 hours just for drivers or 70 hours for everyone including drivers/manual labor? I am a bucket technician so I drive and work outside. I hope its not a company policy bc I would work every bit of 70 hours.

I was always told by my supervisor that I wasn't allowed to exceed 60 hours bc of DOT regulations.

This is my work time allotment:

I can work 14 hours total per day. I can drive for no more than 11 hours in that 14 hour period. Meaning I can have 3 non-driving on duty hours. If I start my log at 13:00, then I can legally stay at work until 03:00. No matter what I do, my 14 hours ticks off. I can take breaks and all during the 14, but I can only drive for 11 of those hours. After my 14 hours are up, I have to take a (at least) 10 hour break.

During my work week, I can work no more than 70 hours in an 8 day period. There is a 60 hour cycle in a 7 day period. So it works off of both. I work on 8 day cycles where you might work a 7 day one.

Do you have 34 hour restarts? Later, QD.

[SOHC MONSTER]

This is my work time allotment:

I can work 14 hours total per day. I can drive for no more than 11 hours in that 14 hour period. Meaning I can have 3 non-driving on duty hours. If I start my log at 13:00, then I can legally stay at work until 03:00. No matter what I do, my 14 hours ticks off. I can take breaks and all during the 14, but I can only drive for 11 of those hours. After my 14 hours are up, I have to take a (at least) 10 hour break.

During my work week, I can work no more than 70 hours in an 8 day period. There is a 60 hour cycle in a 7 day period. So it works off of both. I work on 8 day cycles where you might work a 7 day one.

Do you have 34 hour restarts? Later, QD.

Ok that makes sense bc we are on a 7 day period. Thanks man, now I won't go yell at my boss for screwing me out of hours.

[quickdodge®]

LOLOL!!! That would suck. Then you'd have to change your initial post in this thread to NO. Lolol. Later, QD.

[Me86Rob]

hate it and want to start all over

[ironchef]

Why is that?

[SOHC MONSTER]

LOLOL!!! That would suck. Then you'd have to change your initial post in this thread to NO. Lolol. Later, QD.

Lol!
Naw, I am happy with my job ultimately bc I make my own hours. I can go to work at 4am (which I normally do) or whenever I feel like. I like how I go somewhere different everyday. I go to Conyers alot and the Helen area also. I've seen just about every city in GA and some of them I would never live in.

[quickdodge®]

Why is that?

Why is what? Lolol.

Naw, I am happy with my job ultimately bc I make my own hours.

I don't make my own hours but my regular shift runs 6am until 6pm. And coming from an account where I worked week by week, working hour to hour is MUCH, MUCH better. Later, QD.

[Me86Rob]

Why is that?

dont wanna talk about it. long story short....ive been fvcked over my whole life by everybody ever in existance!

[ironchef]

Well that sucks.

[Turbo Terrance]

Well thats really up to you. Sometimes a job can lead to a career....

yea thats true but in some situations it doesnt...

[quickdodge®]

Please don't take this as a diss/rant/insult, but more of a wake up call:

dont wanna talk about it. long story short....ive been fvcked over my whole life by everybody ever in existance!

What the fucc is this BS!!!! While I believe in being screwed over by people and having unpleasant events transpire in your wake because of other people's actions, but you, and only you, create your own outcomes. The decisions you make with the company you keep, the job you choose, the way you spend your money are all factors that are controllable by you. It's a complete cop-out to blame all your life's woes on everyone else you've encountered. If you see something that doesn't look or feel right, you pick yourself up and move away from it and find something that is right...to you. There is NO WAY that "everybody in existence" fucced your life up.

Also, you really, honestly think you're life is fucced over? You're posting on the Internet. That tells me a couple of things. You've got a computer. Without electricity, your computer wouldn't be on. Since you have electricity, you've probably got warm meals and heat and a place to take a bath. And you wouldn't have all these if you didn't have the last part of my reasoning that your life is not fucced over.........a roof over your head. Take a hike in my Adidas. Spend a couple of years sleeping on the side of Buford Hwy. On the side of Edgewood Ave. Peachtree St. Spring St. Name a street and I've laid my head on it's sidewalk. I didn't blame that on a soul, met or not. I maintained then and I maintain now that it was 100% me. I picked myself up and carried myself out of that door and realized I make my own path. I didn't ask strangers for help. I didn't ask friends or family for help. I didn't ask God or Faith for help. That was 9 years ago.

Dude, like I said, I'm not slamming you. I'm just trying to let you see through the eyes/words of someone who really did have a life fucced over. It may help you or it may not. I hope things get better for you and I hope that your outlook on your life gets better as well. Good luck. Later, QD.

[Me86Rob]

no no like, my parents ****ed me over. they promised me ****, told me that if i did this i would get that. ect ect. like my ****ing mach 1 mustang. my dad bought it for me when i was one, and i was told that when i got old enough to drive we were gonna restore it. when i turned 16 i found out that he had sold the car. so i got my moms foxbody, and was driving it. paying for it, ect ect. i was told that i was gonna own that car when i turned 19. what happened when i turned 19? i got kicked out of the house and she took the car. dude the list goes on and on. yea, i have had plenty of time to help my self. but instead of buyin cars/savin money to get my own place, i saved up for college. made some investments in stuff, and enjoyed my teenage years. but NOW i have to use the money to start from scratch. with nothing. at all. cept the ****in cloths on my back. the laptop that i paid for and thats how im on the net.

[cornercarver78]

actually I have no money, live with my parents, have a ****y car, and don't race motorcycles anymore, So that sucks. I'm happy though because hopefully it will all be worth it when I finish school.

[tony]

no no like, my parents ****ed me over. they promised me ****, told me that if i did this i would get that. ect ect. like my ****ing mach 1 mustang. my dad bought it for me when i was one, and i was told that when i got old enough to drive we were gonna restore it. when i turned 16 i found out that he had sold the car. so i got my moms foxbody, and was driving it. paying for it, ect ect. i was told that i was gonna own that car when i turned 19. what happened when i turned 19? i got kicked out of the house and she took the car. dude the list goes on and on. yea, i have had plenty of time to help my self. but instead of buyin cars/savin money to get my own place, i saved up for college. made some investments in stuff, and enjoyed my teenage years. but NOW i have to use the money to start from scratch. with nothing. at all. cept the ****in cloths on my back. the laptop that i paid for and thats how im on the net.

Really weird post there but to each's own, I guess we all have our struggles. I'm well paid and very unhappy and cannot wait to change my situation. Sometimes starting all over especially at a young age can be a good thing.

[5thgcelica]

yeah... id say im pretty happy with it. tired of being single. but thats okay. wish i had a few more friends.. but.. thats okay too. love the job im at. i graduated h/s and college and am now in the field i wanted to be in and am making great money for being 22. looking into a new car and a house. the rest of things in life will fall in place when the time is right.

[SOHC MONSTER]

yeah... id say im pretty happy with it. tired of being single. but thats okay. wish i had a few more friends.. but.. thats okay too. love the job im at. i graduated h/s and college and am now in the field i wanted to be in and am making great money for being 22. looking into a new car and a house. the rest of things in life will fall in place when the time is right.

Well you deffinetly have the right attitude about it. Hope it all works out for man.

[5thgcelica]

Well you deffinetly have the right attitude about it. Hope it all works out for man.

thanks man.. cant completely control everything right? so why ***** and moan about it ya know?

[_Christian_]

I'm satisfied with where I am right now, but I wouldn't be a few years from now. I have bigger and better things coming.

[SOHC MONSTER]

thanks man.. cant completely control everything right? so why ***** and moan about it ya know?

You are right about that. Good things happen to good people... It may not be right away but evetually it does happen.

[SampaGuy]

I am moving to Germany on Aug 31st. I already have my ticket and everything, and I am happy as hell. College over there is going to be rough, so I decided to drop my summer classes here at GSU and just use this time taking it easy, doing the **** load of paperwork for my move, studying some German on my own, and selling just about everything I own on eBay, including my car I feel like I should have taken classes now because sometimes I get bored as hell and it feels like my life is on hold till August 31st, I'm just waiting for time to go by...

[ironchef]

Whats in Germany? Family?

[SampaGuy]

Whats in Germany? Family?

I do have family there, i was born in brazil but my dad is german and my mom is brazilian, but im not even going to be in the same city as any family members. I guess my main goal is to become fluent in german since ive been studying it for a long time and you cant really become 100% fluent in any language without ever living abroad. I am also getting kinda bored of Atlanta. Transferring over there will let me graduate a year earlier with the same degree, from what is probably a better school. Either way if I stay outside the US for longer than a year I risk losing my american greencard, which I dont want to do just yet, so I will be back next summer for at least a month, or if im not enjoying life over there I might just move back and finish at GSU. It all depends on how its goes.

[4dmin]

extemely...

i have a great new job and my wife is finally licensed and working - future is looking good.

in life you have to realize you could always be happier but it is making life work for you no matter what the situation is; if you are still breathing then the choices are endless

[PURP]

Love my JOB's money they give me but hate doing the work..... Love life after being so close to death... appreciation is whats needed in this world more... be thankful for what you do have and deal with what you don't..

[AirMax95]

Kick ass thread......+

[ironchef]

By that I mean, where you live, your job, etc? Anything you'd like to change and/or do better?

Personally, I hate my current job. Its only part time while I go to school full time so its not a huge deal, but otherwise, its boring, repetitive, not challenging, and I'm not learning anything . Though the pay is decent, and I suppose being able to watch movies and sit on IA for a while can be considered a plus.

Discuss.

Update, got an interview on Wednesday for an internship that could potentially pay twice as much as my current job, and it would be in my field of study, yay!

[Humphrizzle]

i have a **** job, **** apartment, and an amazing girlfriend..


1 outta 3 aint bad.