Bring Work Home with you

[Castro_bigdog]

Do you bring prob from work home with you, or do you forget every thing.
I stress out at work too much and dont know how to forget about it somtimes.

Man it sucks!!!!!!

 

[nycgirl]

Why stress out about something that doesn't stress out about you? Why be loyal to a company that isn't loyal to you? My mental, emotional, & physical health is more important than work (I stress out about personal stuff).

No, I don't bring home work. I will stay late if I have to do. My evenings are either occupied with school or a side project, so I dedicate my thinking to things that will directly benefit me.

 

[foreigngirl]

Why stress out about something that doesn't stress out about you? Why be loyal to a company that isn't loyal to you? My mental, emotional, & physical health is more important than work (I stress out about personal stuff).

No, I don't bring home work. I will stay late if I have to do. My evenings are either occupied with school or a side project, so I dedicate my thinking to things that will directly benefit me.

nicely put, girl. No need to take that home and feel miserable for no reason

 

[bigbair]

Yes, I do. I don't just bring the stress home, but the work itself a lot of time. That probably explains why I couldn't sleep last night and finally gave up at 3:30 am and came on in to the office.

BB

 

[KillahBee]

Yes on all counts. It will be my ultimate demise, as it is with my father.

 

[SoKlueles]

Why stress out about something that doesn't stress out about you? Why be loyal to a company that isn't loyal to you? My mental, emotional, & physical health is more important than work (I stress out about personal stuff).

No, I don't bring home work. I will stay late if I have to do. My evenings are either occupied with school or a side project, so I dedicate my thinking to things that will directly benefit me.

I agree, you shouldnt take work home with you because it dont make just you miserable but everyone around you.

 

[powerslave]

Why stress out about something that doesn't stress out about you? Why be loyal to a company that isn't loyal to you? My mental, emotional, & physical health is more important than work (I stress out about personal stuff).

Very well put!!! Plus, I usually go straight to the gym from work so by the time I get home any work frustrations have been taken out on the weights.

 

[KillahBee]

Why stress out about something that doesn't stress out about you? Why be loyal to a company that isn't loyal to you? My mental, emotional, & physical health is more important than work (I stress out about personal stuff).

No, I don't bring home work. I will stay late if I have to do. My evenings are either occupied with school or a side project, so I dedicate my thinking to things that will directly benefit me.

If I had this attitude in kmy industry (or anyone for that matter), I would be nothing more than an average at best worker and would accomplish nothing in my work life to be proud of.

 

[Delinquent]

If I had this attitude in kmy industry (or anyone for that matter), I would be nothing more than an average at best worker and would accomplish nothing in my work life to be proud of.

yet it will cause your demise?? Doesn't sound like a very fair trade off. -1 for the corporate robot

 

[KillahBee]

yet it will cause your demise?? Doesn't sound like a very fair trade off. -1 for the corporate robot

But it is a fair tradeoff cause I take a TON of pride in my work. I enjoy it immensely and feed off the tremendous amount of pride and respect I feel when I accomplish something, especially when it is something that others failed at or didn't have the balls/will/mind to succeed at. I say it will be my ultimate demise, not because of choice, but because it is something inside me that is difficult to control. I am working on it though - I don't want to give up my life for work, but on the flip side, I don't want to just mindlessly walk through my work and not be proud of it, especially considering the time we spend on it.

 

[KillahBee]

And that whole "corporate" cliche thing is useless. Once you start looking at it as a battle between you and your employer, where your employer is trying to ruin your life by pushing you too hard and you are trying to pull back and "fight the man" so much that you are miserable all the time - you might as well kill yourself cause you're already dead.

 

[rudeboyja]

have to. I'm on call 24/7

 

[Raina]

I don't see anything wrong with someone throwing themselves 200% into their career if it's their passion. I know that once I'm an RN that's how I'll be and even now, my job is just a job to me but I go over and above all the time. I always say I fuck off a lot but the only reason I have so much downtime is because I'm organized and efficient.

 

[nycgirl]

If I had this attitude in kmy industry (or anyone for that matter), I would be nothing more than an average at best worker and would accomplish nothing in my work life to be proud of.

I guess working in legal is different. Also, my company encourages people to work hard, but to also have fulfilling lives. I don't have the attitude that Corporate America is against me. I have that attitude that I am loyal to me and not my company. I am a knowledge based worked (Peter Drucker) that choses to expand my knowledge about what I do, but not be tied to a company. I will look for a new job/position when things get stagnant in lieu of sitting here 20 years and getting nothing out of it (like those that bring their work home everynight and do nothing but stress).

That said, I'm currently working to launch something of my own. I will work 20 hour days for this because its for me and its something I'm passionate about.

 

[Delinquent]

But it is a fair tradeoff cause I take a TON of pride in my work. I enjoy it immensely and feed off the tremendous amount of pride and respect I feel when I accomplish something, especially when it is something that others failed at or didn't have the balls/will/mind to succeed at. I say it will be my ultimate demise, not because of choice, but because it is something inside me that is difficult to control. I am working on it though - I don't want to give up my life for work, but on the flip side, I don't want to just mindlessly walk through my work and not be proud of it, especially considering the time we spend on it.

Very few people have that determination which I give ya props for but are you living to work or working to live?

 

[seizer]

When I work for anyone that isnt related to me, I haul more ass than 98% of the people there. If I gotta work for a relative, I dunno, inside I feel like the only reason I'm doing the work for them is because my genes are similar to theirs and that to me just doesnt give me that drive to survive.

 

[rudeboyja]

Funny, but at my company you can tell the married executives. They work 60+ hours a week to avoid their families. They have boats and million dollar homes and spend Saturday and Sunday at work not doing much.

 

[KillahBee]

Very few people have that determination which I give ya props for but are you living to work or working to live?

Living to work.

 

[Delinquent]

Living to work.

I guess we can agree with disagree then

 

[*MissFit*]

i try not too and for the most part i don't.. but i work in marketing and corporate sponsorships.. my work day is 9-5, but sometimes i have events i have to attend..

I don't call it stressful but they do require my time.

Overall thought i work to live.. not live to work

Do you bring prob from work home with you, or do you forget every thing.
I stress out at work too much and dont know how to forget about it somtimes.

Man it sucks!!!!!!

 

[KillahBee]

I guess we can agree with disagree then

Not sure on what though? I assume you believe that people shouldn't live to work? All I know is that for me, I get a ton of enjoyment out of working. I love it. I look forward to work almost every day and when I am on vacation I miss it.

 

[seizer]

Not sure on what though? I assume you believe that people shouldn't live to work? All I know is that for me, I get a ton of enjoyment out of working. I love it. I look forward to work almost every day and when I am on vacation I miss it.

Then work to you is play. It doesnt get much better that. No staring at the wall watching the clock, wishing the seconds would tick by faster, no. You are the type that wishes there was more on your plate - more challenges. That is fuckin dude, I seriously gotta give you props for that, KahBlack.

 

[Delinquent]

Then work to you is play. It doesnt get much better that. No staring at the wall watching the clock, wishing the seconds would tick by faster, no. You are the type that wishes there was more on your plate - more challenges. That is fuckin dude, I seriously gotta give you props for that, KahBlack.

I agree to some degree. I just don't agree with work being the center of someone's life. Maybe it's because I don't have any true interests when it comes to work like some have. I can't say for certain that if I do find such a career, I won't be like that but I value living life more and to me, life isn't some 40+hour a week job. I would rather work to save up enough money to travel, buy material items, go to concerts, etc but if that job ever conflicted with these things, I would gladly look elsewhere for a job that would allow such things. I just think that work and personal life shouldn't intertwine(sp?) as much as they do nowadays.

Look at Europeans for example. Italians get a 2 hour break during the day. Other Euro's take months off for holiday rather than having to accumulate weeks of vacation pay. Vacations and experiences outside of work are encouraged whereas they are looked downupon in the US as employers want you to work more and more and become one with the system.

 

[nycgirl]

I agree to some degree. I just don't agree with work being the center of someone's life. Maybe it's because I don't have any true interests when it comes to work like some have. I can't say for certain that if I do find such a career, I won't be like that but I value living life more and to me, life isn't some 40+hour a week job. I would rather work to save up enough money to travel, buy material items, go to concerts, etc but if that job ever conflicted with these things, I would gladly look elsewhere for a job that would allow such things. I just think that work and personal life shouldn't intertwine(sp?) as much as they do nowadays.

Look at Europeans for example. Italians get a 2 hour break during the day. Other Euro's take months off for holiday rather than having to accumulate weeks of vacation pay. Vacations and experiences outside of work are encouraged whereas they are looked downupon in the US as employers want you to work more and more and become one with the system.

I agree with you. You have to find the right balance.

 

[bigbair]

have to. I'm on call 24/7

Your avitar is the most beautiful thing I've seen in a long time

BB

 

[wootoom]

try workin in the oilpatch and lookin after oil rigs. my brother is already bald

 

[seizer]

I agree to some degree. I just don't agree with work being the center of someone's life. Maybe it's because I don't have any true interests when it comes to work like some have. I can't say for certain that if I do find such a career, I won't be like that but I value living life more and to me, life isn't some 40+hour a week job. I would rather work to save up enough money to travel, buy material items, go to concerts, etc but if that job ever conflicted with these things, I would gladly look elsewhere for a job that would allow such things. I just think that work and personal life shouldn't intertwine(sp?) as much as they do nowadays.

Look at Europeans for example. Italians get a 2 hour break during the day. Other Euro's take months off for holiday rather than having to accumulate weeks of vacation pay. Vacations and experiences outside of work are encouraged whereas they are looked downupon in the US as employers want you to work more and more and become one with the system.

I agree with this. However, I see it like this, if I was a professional hockey player in the NHL, doing a job that I love to do, it is merely play. It's not quite the same comparison to killah, but the same concept. What he gets outta work, someone else might get from playing sports...and with that said, if he or anyone wants to devote hours of their time to do that because it makes them happy, then it makes complete sense regardless if it makes them "seem" like a work-a-holic. You know what, we need more workaholics, everybody in north america is fuckin lazy and excepts the world to care for them. I gotta give killah mad props if he means his word.

 

[Razorguns]

If i'm working for someone else. No.

Unfortunately, in most work environments Staying at work > taking work home.

You look much more important and get much more credit staying late and doing the work - then going home.

Even if the output and end result is exactly the same. You get little respect by doing stuff at home. Even if you stayed up til 3am. No one knows, and u get no credit.

And since so much of corporate america is ass-kissing and making yourself look good, and doing everything u can to keep your job security -- the first option is better for your career. If you need to still do work -- just stay at work.

 

[ceo]

I don't see anything wrong with someone throwing themselves 200% into their career if it's their passion. I know that once I'm an RN that's how I'll be and even now, my job is just a job to me but I go over and above all the time. I always say I fuck off a lot but the only reason I have so much downtime is because I'm organized and efficient.

till you burnout. sorry, its just VERY common in that field. So many RN's jump from say Med/Surg, to ER, to ICU, to Cath lab, to traveling and doing the same thing in a diff place, to clinical lead to administration...ultimately they try to pursue something else like real estate or whatever and just work per diem on the side so they can always "fall back" on their nursing.

But, it's GREAT job security. You can go anywhere in the world pretty much and have work. There's such a shortage that you can pretty much call your own shots and almost never be fired for being a lazy ass. You can demand double time when they call you to cover a sick call, and you'll get it.

All in all not a bad deal...especially if you just have it as something to fall back on.

 

[Razorguns]

But, it's GREAT job security. You can go anywhere in the world pretty much and have work. There's such a shortage that you can pretty much call your own shots and almost never be fired for being a lazy ass. You can demand double time when they call you to cover a sick call, and you'll get it.

It's good job security til everyone figures it out that it's good job security.

Then a plethora of people enter schooling and then there's a gluttony of nurses. Lowering wages and rising unemployment.

On the other hand, IT is in a great shortage now. So many people got frustrated after dot-com bust, and left -- that there's now a huge shortage. Many new companies have been sprouting up, and few americans are left pursuing IT as a career. Hence the plethora of indians that have to be brought here.

 

[HiDnGoD]

I don't get stressed from work much anymore, but when I did I found it helpful to have a buffer between work & home. I would hit the gym. Stop at the rippers for 1 beer. Get a coffee & sit in a park & watch children play. Just a decompression zone so I wouldn't bite wifey's head off, or lose sleep.