Alone time

connundrum

Hey,

I'm in an office on my own, all day, 5 days a week. Add to that the +/- 7 hours sleep a night I might get of an average night. So that makes roughly 89 hours per week where I'm totally on my own. Holy God! Thats a little over half my week like.

The work situation is actually doing my head in, but luckily I'm switching jobs where I'll be on a floor with 10+ people. I was just wondering if its actually healthy to have so much alone time.

Are many people in my situation? I can imagine that night shifts might leave you on your own a bit. How long can (or have) you spend on your own before you go bananas?

xzanti

That your bird I saw on the Irishjobs.ie ad??

User45701

Me ? i love alone, work wise anyway.
I have never had a great working relationship that has lasted. either the company in question closes down or myself or the other friend from work would be fired or it was only temp contract whatever.

I would not like alone 9-5 but i was working alone i the records section of Crumlin hospital 4-12 and that was brilliant i didn't even take a lunch break. No reason to because there was no boss being a bucket of stress and no moronic co-workers.

BTW my current job will be finishing up in a 1-3 weeks would i be able to take yours off your hands?

cornbb

You're not that alone, you're here talking to us.

I wouldn't let it wreck my head, alot of people would love to be working alone. Depends on what sort of a person you are I spose.

Hang on, this isn't the PI forum... I should be slagging you off or something...

connundrum

cornbb wrote:

Hang on, this isn't the PI forum... I should be slagging you off or something...

Lolz, ah no - its doin me head in, but it isn't a PI like. If I were tied to the office with chains and had no realistic chance of freedom.. then it might be a PI

tbh

I know what you mean, I'm in Norway teaching a course, and apart from the 8 hours a day I spend talking ****e, I've no-one to talk to either. Except my missus on the phone. Ah, it's not that bad really

Kolodny

I have my own office in work in a quiet part of the building. Occasionally someone might pop in during the day but I can often go a whole day without much interaction with colleagues. I tend not to use the staff canteen for lunch - I prefer to go out for a walk. Add this to the fact that my housemates all work strange hours and I'm sometimes in bed by the time they get home, I probably spend an unhealthy amount of time on my own. I kind of like that though. Weekends are for socialising (if I feel like it)

Terry

xzanti wrote:

That your bird I saw on the Irishjobs.ie ad??

answer the question, damn it.

to answer yours, I quite regularly go a week without any human contact other than the person serving me in the supermarket commenting about the weather. I'm slightly insane.

cornbb

connundrum wrote:

Lolz, ah no - its doin me head in, but it isn't a PI like. If I were tied to the office with chains and had no realistic chance of freedom.. then it might be a PI

I said some people would like to work alone... but some people would KILL to be tied up with chains in the office :cool:

I'd say just go with it man, listen to music over the internet all day, write emails, enjoy the independence and freedom. Cause next time you work alongside people, you'll probably miss the alone time.

There's some times when I just love it

connundrum

julep wrote:

answer the question, damn it.

Yup, doing irish people with jobs proud

The building's janitor came in there and we discussed the pro's and con's of electronic keys as opposed to normal keys.. for 23 minutes. Its the small things y'know

Terry

cool.
which ad?

Faith

She's in one of the Irishjobs.ie ads, and apparently connundrum is in another! How cute!

Anywho, I chose to spend a fair bit of time alone. I'm with my friends during college hours, then I see them socially some nights, so I like my alone time. I don't really enjoy spending time with my flatmate either. I'm happy though. I'm generally a pretty solitary person.

I'd hate to work alone, though!

The Sweeper

I work on my own. I can often go days at a time without seeing anyone other than himself. (And these days I often spend a good bit of time working when he's home too.) I talk to my family and friends using IM services and IRC. I speak to people on the phone. I don't feel isolated or lonely as a result. And there's no way I'd go back to working with other people.

You can choose your friends, you can't choose your work mates. Subsequently, nearly all of the contact I have with other human beings is with people I like because it's discretionary contact.

There is a LOT to be said for that.

miamee

I'd spend a fair bit of time on my own too. I share an office with sales reps but by the nature of their job they don't spend much time in the office...and when they do I can't wait for them to leave!
Also it measn that the rest of the staff come in to 'visit' me when everyone else is doing their heads in in the main office...I'd rather be me going to talk to them at their desks when I feel like a chat than them surrounded by head wreckers with no chance of escape, lol

On the home thing...I live on my tod & have no problem spending time on my own.

And I really don't think you can count sleeping as alone time!!

Trinity

What i wouldnt give for just an hour to myself

24 hours a day, there is someone around me. In work and at home.

I used to love my alone time.

Rb

Faith wrote:

She's in one of the Irishjobs.ie ads, and apparently connundrum is in another! How cute!

Anywho, I chose to spend a fair bit of time alone. I'm with my friends during college hours, then I see them socially some nights, so I like my alone time. I don't really enjoy spending time with my flatmate either. I'm happy though. I'm generally a pretty solitary person.

I'd hate to work alone, though!

Lol, I thought it was him I saw in that other ad.

Regarding the thread topic, its not very often I'm alone. Most week nights I either go over to a friends or have them over here, then will be awake after I've gone home or they've left for a few hours and then its sleep time, when I wake up theres always someone around the house.

Nightwish

For 2 years of my college life I lived with people I didnt really get on with, was in a course with people I didnt know and would go for at least 4 days at a time when the only person I would talk to was my bf on the phone, and also to people in shops that served me or the bus driver. How sad

lilrayosunshine

working alone would drive me crazy.. I need to have people around me all of the time..
It was even an issue that there be more than 200 people in the company I work for when I was last looking for a job.. I need to chat to people a lot..

But each to their own.. Some people prefer it.. but if it's getting to you, you may want to look at that before it gets you down.

biko

I work by myself. Can get very lonely but I'm used to it and also I can keep my concentration up longer than if I have people talking around me or coming over to ask questions. I do go for lunch with other people and share house so at least I see others now and then during the day but it can get a bit "cabin fevery", maybe that's why I go to pubs so often? Nah, I just like beer :-)

nesf

I'm quite happy to spend long periods of time alone. I prefer to spend less time in a week chatting to people I get on with then more time chatting to people who don't really interest me all that much. Quality over quantity and all that.

Ruu_Old

I have always been comfortable alone so I am just used to it at this stage working for myself over a year.

shamblertine

connundrum wrote:

Hey,

I'm in an office on my own, all day, 5 days a week. Add to that the +/- 7 hours sleep a night I might get of an average night. So that makes roughly 89 hours per week where I'm totally on my own. Holy God! Thats a little over half my week like.

The work situation is actually doing my head in, but luckily I'm switching jobs where I'll be on a floor with 10+ people. I was just wondering if its actually healthy to have so much alone time.

Are many people in my situation? I can imagine that night shifts might leave you on your own a bit. How long can (or have) you spend on your own before you go bananas?

A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the person is, as long as they're with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

Guys like us, that work in branches of AIB or in PWC, are the loneliest guys in the world. We got no family. We don't belong no place. . . .