Anyone else have 2 jobs and feel like it's not worth it?

[1987_Lakers]

I've been working 2 jobs for a little more than a month now, on one hand it keeps me busy and more money is coming in, but on the other hand I feel like a zombie, when I do get a chance to hang out with friends it just doesn't feel the same for some reason, just feel down all the time. Thinking of keeping one of the jobs for a few more months then quit and go back to school. Anyone else ever have 2 jobs and feel like this?

[russwest0]

a job + school won't be much different. for most people and most majors school requires a decent amount of out of class time spent as well.

but yeah, just quit the job bro

[Le Shaqtus]

Unless you REALLY need the money you should just have one.

You're gonna waste your life working and then wonder where all your time went.

[Bandito]

Actually keep the job and when you have a chance to go on vacation, quit the job that sucks and use the money to just travel.

[Tarik One]

You can't get overtime at your 1st job and just quit the 2nd?

[The Iron Sheik]

having 1 job doesn't feel worth it tbh

[the mesiah]

Depends how much you getting paid and what you spending the money on.

[oarabbus]

a job + school won't be much different. for most people and most majors school requires a decent amount of out of class time spent as well.

but yeah, just quit the job bro

This... for real. I worked 2 jobs briefly at one point, it wasn't worth it

[brandonislegend]

I am going to school for my masters right now and working 2 jobs at the moment, stop crying.

[Le Shaqtus]

I am going to school for my masters right now and working 2 jobs at the moment, stop crying.

Do you even have time to sleep? :lol

[1987_Lakers]

I am going to school for my masters right now and working 2 jobs at the moment, stop crying.

One of my friends dad owns a store, he wakes up at 5 am and closes at 8 pm, goes back home and sleeps then repeats the process the very next day, his store is open 7 days a week too. I have no Idea how he does it. I would be miserable.

[DeuceWallaces]

I worked two jobs and went to school. If you're young enough it's not that big of a deal.

Oh, and a MS is bullshit. Working two jobs while doing that is nothing. Furthermore, if your contract with your department allows you to work elsewhere you probably are in a joke of a program anyway.

[MadeFromDust]

I worked 2 jobs for a couple of years and it wasn't so bad for me. But the days do blend together and holidays don't mean much since it's just another day to work. Once I got one job that paid more than the other 2 combined it was nice to have a couple days off too. You need some time to think about what you want to do or what you want to spend money on. Working day in and day out robs you of that time though.

[imdaman99]

Why are you working 2 jobs? Lifes too short to wear yourself out at a young age (assuming you're young)

Are you saving for something or is it just to make ends meet?

[johndeeregreen]

I've been working 2 jobs for a little more than a month now, on one hand it keeps me busy and more money is coming in, but on the other hand I feel like a zombie, when I do get a chance to hang out with friends it just doesn't feel the same for some reason, just feel down all the time. Thinking of keeping one of the jobs for a few more months then quit and go back to school. Anyone else ever have 2 jobs and feel like this?
What if I told you you could make 6 figures without any sort of skill or education, with the parameters being you would likely have to relocate and modify your lifestyle to a certain extent?

[ROCSteady]

http://oldmoonyoga.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/morpheus.jpg

"What If I told you"

[MadeFromDust]

:applause: :applause:
dammm leaches of society :rolleyes:

[joe]

Who the hell wants to be kept busy? I'll never understand people like that. It's not worth it for the money man unless you absolutely need it, life is short and precious don't **** it up.

[johndeeregreen]

"What If I told you"
It's not a fantasy. All it requires is a genuine will to extract yourself from the situation you're bemoaning. Unfortunately, for many, unless a 6 figure job is dropped on their lap in their exact field of interest, exact location, and exact schedule, they will continue to complain and self-loathe while doing nothing to significantly alter their predicament.

[brandonislegend]

Do you even have time to sleep? :lol
barely.

[DuMa]

i used to work 60 hour work weeks for 3 months. money was great but i knew i couldnt sustain it.... i started to eat junk food for breakfast lunch and dinner.... i couldnt work out and play basketball. i couldnt do the thing i love to do most... which is doing absolutely nothing.

[MadeFromDust]

It's not a fantasy. All it requires is a genuine will to extract yourself from the situation you're bemoaning. Unfortunately, for many, unless a 6 figure job is dropped on their lap in their exact field of interest, exact location, and exact schedule, they will continue to complain and self-loathe while doing nothing to significantly alter their predicament.
Don't get butthurt he's not interested in mowing empty fields of grass and milking cows all day every day

[The Iron Sheik]

dammm leaches of society :rolleyes:

leech* ; apparently my tax dollars weren't enough to teach you about homonyms

[ROCSteady]

It's not a fantasy. All it requires is a genuine will to extract yourself from the situation you're bemoaning. Unfortunately, for many, unless a 6 figure job is dropped on their lap in their exact field of interest, exact location, and exact schedule, they will continue to complain and self-loathe while doing nothing to significantly alter their predicament.

Nah man I'm not sayin ur bullshittin, jus the way you phrased it had me reading the rest of the post in Morpheus voice. :D

Where does one have to relocate for this will-required six figure job?

[Done_And_Done]

i used to work 60 hour work weeks for 3 months. money was great but i knew i couldnt sustain it.... i started to eat junk food for breakfast lunch and dinner.... i couldnt work out and play basketball. i couldnt do the thing i love to do most... which is doing absolutely nothing.


We're soulmates sir...

[shallehalle]

One of my friends dad owns a store, he wakes up at 5 am and closes at 8 pm, goes back home and sleeps then repeats the process the very next day, his store is open 7 days a week too. I have no Idea how he does it. I would be miserable.
Probably:
1. he loves what he does
2. needs to support his family
3. get away from family
4. maybe has a meth lab

[DeuceWallaces]

Nah man I'm not sayin ur bullshittin, jus the way you phrased it had me reading the rest of the post in Morpheus voice. :D

Where does one have to relocate for this will-required six figure job?

I'm pretty sure that was his intent; are you familiar with the internet?

Anyway, for him, I believe it the Dakotas or a similar "middle of nowhere."

I'll also add that you do have to move around in order to be successful. We're on our 4th state since 2008.

[tmacattack33]

i used to work 60 hour work weeks for 3 months. money was great but i knew i couldnt sustain it.... i started to eat junk food for breakfast lunch and dinner.... i couldnt work out and play basketball. i couldnt do the thing i love to do most... which is doing absolutely nothing.

Well why'd you do that? :confusedshrug:

[Shade8780]

I am going to school for my masters right now and working 2 jobs at the moment, stop crying.
Asian detected.

[imdaman99]

Well why'd you do that? :confusedshrug:
When you're overworked and tired, food helps keep you going. Or he didn't have time to make/buy breakfast.

Junk food is usually hands food, you can eat it and continue working. I know when I used to do 10 hour days, too much junk food :facepalm

[Bigsmoke]

Good thing I don't love in the Bay Area.

2,000 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment:roll:

[johndeeregreen]

I'm pretty sure that was his intent; are you familiar with the internet?

Anyway, for him, I believe it the Dakotas or a similar "middle of nowhere."

I'll also add that you do have to move around in order to be successful. We're on our 4th state since 2008.
I work out of a town that lies 100 miles north of a city of 1 million and 100 miles south of another city of 800,000. So not really the "middle of nowhere." And while you do need to work on the road, you don't need to move around in the sense that you're relocating your permanent home. That's not true at all. Not sure if that's what you're saying or not, but ya.

To answer rocsteady's question, however, it would probably be North Dakota, Pennsylvania, or Texas, those are the states going the craziest right now.

[MadeFromDust]

Oil field trash

[pauk]

I have only one job, the 9-5 variant and already feel the same way lol, but 2? Forget it..... people who dont mind at all wasting all their time working are people who are extremly desperate for money for various very understandable reasons, even then they do kindof mind ofcourse, but its a real must, something that would alter once lifestyle/family dramatically if they didnt work like that....... but if its like they just randomly work like that and dont mind it at all, then its people who have no actual life, no real interests, hobbies, dreams etc. (one of which you would love to pursue making a career out of getting later payed for what you absolutely love to do), like if they wouldnt have any work at all they would just sit & stare at the empty sky entire day... When i work i think all the time about the other stuff i could have been doing or pursuing during that time, cant freaking wait for the hour to end so i could do it... there is work & then there is CAREER...

[JohnnySic]

You're second job should be a "fun" job - bartending, serving. Just too keep your sanity.

[oarabbus]

I worked two jobs and went to school. If you're young enough it's not that big of a deal.

Oh, and a MS is bullshit. Working two jobs while doing that is nothing. Furthermore, if your contract with your department allows you to work elsewhere you probably are in a joke of a program anyway.


Plenty of Masters programs have co-op/internship programs available... I'm not sure why you'd consider a MS "bullshit" either. I know plenty of people with a Masters' in Comp Sci and Electrical Engineering and I think they'd take issue with it if you told them their degree is bullshit. Or if you said working two jobs while they were at school would have been nothing for their joke of a program :roll: :roll:

[The Iron Sheik]

You're second job should be a "fun" job - bartending, serving. Just too keep your sanity.

waiting hand and foot on other people is fun?

[Burgz V2]

Actually keep the job and when you have a chance to go on vacation, quit the job that sucks and use the money to just travel.

this is actually really great advice. Suffer, do some overtime, and then let it all go and go somewhere nice. When I was 19 I dropped both of my summer jobs after doing a shit load of overtime and went to Cali for like 3 weeks. When you work a lot you lose the big picture, that there is a massive world that deserves exploring if you have the resources and/or organization to make it happen.

[johndeeregreen]

this is actually really great advice. Suffer, do some overtime, and then let it all go and go somewhere nice.
It's great advice if you're a kid.

Now, if you're a grown man working 2 jobs to make ends meet, saving up a bit of cash so you can quit a job and go on vacation would just be beyond immature. Guy is already strapped for cash and the advice is to blow his savings on a vacation?:oldlol: Uhh, yeah...great idea. I've got a better idea, why don't you not quit the other job, and try saving money for something that matters more than getting shitfaced in a Mexican resort for a week, like I don't know, a down payment on a home? A savings account for security in the event you lose your job?