How do people get use to working routine?

DevLit · 11-07-2018 08:17AM #1

How do people get use to working everyday and the early mornings. I just started my first post college job, and I enjoy it, but doing this day in day out for life sounds tough.

I'm up at 7 daily. Not exactly early. And I think how do people do it everyday for 50 years. I work 9-6. I'm gone from 8-7 at best.

I work in a nice office, and previous generations and plenty of people today have it much worse. I have it easy in comparison. I enjoy the work, its just the switch from college (where I didn't have to be in), to work (where I do have to be in is tough)

whiskeyman · 11-07-2018 08:28AM

Pay day.

amcalester · 11-07-2018 08:30AM

You just get used to it, those Hollister jeans won't pay for themselves.

screamer · 11-07-2018 08:32AM

You get used to it like anything in life. Think of people who also have to get kids up and out to crèche school etc.... Up at about 6 then, and for sure none of us are used to it, but bills to be paid and needs must.

ELM327 · 11-07-2018 08:33AM

Avocado toast is the main motivator these days

sparksfly · 11-07-2018 08:36AM

Im up at 5am and in work at 6. I have gone from hating early mornings to loving them over the last 20 years.
I feel fresher on a work day than if I have a lie in at the weekend.
Hopefully early mornings will grow on you too.

11-07-2018 08:37AM

Why do you have to stay till 6 sound a bit long usually it would be 9 to 5.30 could you take a shorter lunch break and finish early, could you start at 8 finish early, any flexibility to work up time and take the odd Friday off.

retalivity · 11-07-2018 08:38AM

Suck it up princess, cant stay in college forever

PokeHerKing · 11-07-2018 08:39AM

I'm doing it 10 years and I'm still not used to it. Hence I live for my weekends and holidays and do the lotto religiously.

I like nice $hit though so it's a necessary evil unfortunately.

amcalester · 11-07-2018 08:40AM

sparksfly wrote: »

Im up at 5am and in work at 6. I have gone from hating early mornings to loving them over the last 20 years.
I feel fresher on a work day than if I have a lie in at the weekend.
Hopefully early mornings will grow on you too.

I'm up at 6, in work for 7:30 and home by 5:30.

The early mornings are easier in Summer and the longer evenings are great too, but getting up at 6am in January is a pain.

weemcd · 11-07-2018 08:43AM

Depends on the type of person you are. I'm full time working ~11 years or so and I still can't get up in the morning.

The secret is going to bed and waking up at set times every day, even when you're off. I've never had the discipline to go to bed early, but I'll sleep when I'm dead.

readyletsgo · 11-07-2018 08:45AM

I'm lucky in that I like my job and the people I work with, but nearly 20 years in, I still hate getting up early and the travel going in. Once I'm in though, I'm grand.

11-07-2018 09:24AM

It all depends on what is going on around you as well, I live near a beach so people go swimming after work I have seen someone go straight from the Dart to the beach after work, I am presuming the person had come from work by their clothes.

If your commute is not to bad it helps.

Liking your work helps, you don't have to love it just like it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 11-07-2018 10:06AM

It's called growing up and entering the real world. You'll get used to it and may even get to like it. The payslip helps too.

11-07-2018 10:12AM

Im working for years and still look at people getting up crazy early like 7 and don’t know how they do it regularly. Lucily my jobs have always been very flexible so can head it when I want to more or less, rarely up before 8:30am for work (and often later, weekends far later) so that helps a lot worth the mornings and no issue strolling into the office at 10am. Don’t mind working on a bit longer in the evenings at all to have the flexibility of not being stuck in a rigid 9-5 with fixed start and finish times.

I do get into my own routine though which I like, I’m a very routine type person. Like I get very annoyed if I have a meeting at 1pm and 12:50 - 2 is the time I take my lunch everyday and I’m put out for the day if I’ve to take it later or worse earlier).

PandaPoo · 11-07-2018 10:18AM

Some days I do 12 hours standing at a customer service desk, and even then I think how much I would hate an office job. I love my job so that makes it easier to get up early and go in, and get shouted at by angry customers dozens of times.

I guess if you enjoy your job it's not too bad.

Feisar · 11-07-2018 10:20AM

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Wanderer78 · 11-07-2018 10:22AM

DevLit wrote:

I'm up at 7 daily. Not exactly early. And I think how do people do it everyday for 50 years. I work 9-6. I'm gone from 8-7 at best.

Try do bloody shift work!

pgj2015 · 11-07-2018 10:28AM

you don't have to do anything but die. do not listen to all the people who will tell you to suck it up, it is part of being an adult, you have to do it to buy things etc, they are just people who haven't the guts to quit these kind of jobs and strike out on their own and they want everyone else to feel as miserable as themselves. i had a similar job op, had to get up at 5, i quit and set up my own business, i now work double the hours i did but it doesn't bother me as i am working for myself, i can take a day off whenever i like.

Wanderer78 · 11-07-2018 10:33AM

pgj2015 wrote:

you don't have to do anything but die. do not listen to all the people who will tell you to suck it up, it is part of being an adult, you have to do it to buy things etc, they are just people who haven't the guts to quit these kind of jobs and strike out on their own and they want everyone else to feel as miserable as themselves. i had a similar job op, had to get up at 5, i quit and set up my own business, i now work double the hours i did but it doesn't bother me as i am working for myself, i can take a day off whenever i like.

Society has put strange 'musts' on people, being happy is critical in life, unhappiness requires change, sometimes this requires a change of working conditions, if this is a major factor of your unhappiness, change it, but be aware, someone elses method of change may not suit you or work for you, and in fact may make you more unhappy, it's a trial and error process. Best of luck in your business

doolox · 11-07-2018 10:35AM

At least with shift work you avoid the worst of the traffic that the 9-5, 5 day week office workers have to put up with.

Also night shifts help you avoid direct contact with toxic senior management and your supervisor can take all the fire when things go wrong. As one colleague put it "I love night shifts, no office politics, no bloody meetings and no interference".

Getting up early is not for everyone. I started work-life as a milkman, in those days a 7 day week job, up at 4am and on the route by 5am so as to be finished before the 8.30 am rush hour. If things went well I was usually back in bed by 9am. It did not do much for any kind of nightlife but at the time I did not mind.

When I started in a factory job with 8.30 am starts it seemed like a holiday in comparison.

One dream I always have is of placing a lump hammer beside the bed on my last morning before retirement and smashing the alarm clock to bits when it gives it final ring.

Now that smart phones are more in use as alarm clocks, that dream is now obsolete.

Lackey · 11-07-2018 10:48AM

I read recently having a robust BMI helps

Picks up coat

pconn062 · 11-07-2018 10:55AM

When did 9-6 become the norm instead of 9-5? Or I've seen 8.30-5.30 bandied around a lot. It's so much time of your week to give over to a company and I admire anyone who can do that year in, year out.

5rtytry56 · 11-07-2018 10:57AM

Hold on to that cushy number with both hands OP :

One more piece of advice: Don't overly rest assured on your college info on your CV - replace this with solid work experience as soon as you can.

Put your Head Down.

Hector Bellend · 11-07-2018 11:10AM

PandaPoo wrote: »

Some days I do 12 hours standing at a customer service desk, and even then I think how much I would hate an office job. I love my job so that makes it easier to get up early and go in, and get shouted at by angry customers dozens of times.

I guess if you enjoy your job it's not too bad.

I couldnt hack that.

I'd deck the first moany oul one who even looked at me wrong.

c68zapdsm5i1ru · 11-07-2018 11:12AM

I've never ever got used to it. I hate routine and find it really difficult. Sorry, that's probably not what you want to hear.

Pompous · 11-07-2018 11:19AM

OP you will get used to it and it becomes very easy after a while.

The truth is it will completely consume your time and the pursuit of material wealth will never make you happy. Eventually you will retire and wonder where your life went. You will have sold it, and only afterwards you will realise that no amount of money can ever buy it back.

This is the biggest mistake that everyone makes with their lives and nobody realises it until it is too late. Your time is the most valuable thing you have.

I would rather be a happy bum than be "successful".

11-07-2018 11:29AM

I'm grand with routine but haven't worked a 5-day week in years.. It's usually 3.5 days and now I'm trying my hand at business so that could change.

It's all about pay day and not blowing it. The only thing that makes it ok for me is a growing bank balance. Turn life into an RPG.

Chaos Tourist · 11-07-2018 11:31AM

Moses Prickly Visitation wrote: »

It's called growing up and entering the real world. You'll get used to it and may even get to like it. The payslip helps too.

It doesn't necessarily have to be that way. It's not a commandment written in stone sent down from the gods or anything. If you want to go the full hog with family life and the costs that entails, then yeah there's not much room for flexibility there.

sideswipe · 11-07-2018 11:34AM

Two words OP-

Post Grad

HydroTendonMan · 11-07-2018 11:41AM

You'll become accustomed to it although I would say it takes about a year. Getting your first pay rise/promotion/slap on the back helps.

Personally I have come to value work/life balance and flexibility more than a high income.

How do people get use to working routine?

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