malinheader wrote: » Between painting and maintenance both inside and out I for one will be glad to get back to work for a break.
corner of hells wrote: » I'm working longer hours but in work less , its fix this , move that , paint that , we need a new one of them. She is overseeing the building of a patio at the moment, while I keep reminding her of Brookside.
NIMAN wrote: » Great point Revit Man.....your work is your work, and your home is your home. The 2 shouldn't mix. They didn't in my life for nearly 30 years, now its all blurred. Curious all, if your employer offered you a day off per week/4 day week and a 20% cut in wages, would you take it?
Trigger Happy wrote: » Most of us are working a hell of a lot less than our parents and grand parents. Less hours and less physical work.
LuasSimon wrote: » I know a couple both of them never worked much , honest enough but lazy. They collect and drop their children to school , can drop in a lunchbox if forgotten , they can go their childrens school matchs, go to early evening training etc etc , always together. Go for drives during summer holidays to local parks-beachs etc..They may not have much money but they always do a few nights away in Ireland. Contrast that with couples both working, up early to drop children in creches-childminders who then bring them to school. If teachers ring up during the day - big hassle. Parents rarely there to collect children after school or have their dinner with them. Parents come home tired after long day . All weekend catching up on housework...yes probably get a summer holiday together but thats only 2 weeks of year..children are gone to college before parents know it There must be a better way than both parents working full on ...
Revit Man wrote: » I know, but there was an element of 1 man, 1 job = mortgage paid, food on the table, run a car, and support 3 kids. That day is gone. Maybe it's because I'm in the middle of it and one of them now, but it seems that work today is more stressful than before. Even when I started working in 2007 in this line of work to now, it's a world apart. The pace has accelerated due to technology. More is expected in the same time, everything must be quicker, hurry, hurry!
Blakely Chubby Rollerblade wrote: » This is the problem. Someone has to pay for family A. Family B are paying for them to have all this free time, on the states buck. If family A did a little more then maybe family b c and d could do a little less
ELM327 wrote: » This is the problem. If more people stopped using phrases like "on the states buck" and instead "on the buck of taxpayers" then perhaps the self entitlement would stop
Blakely Chubby Rollerblade wrote: » It’s a sad fact that they’re actually better off not working. And it’s monkey see, monkey do. Some people’s sheer self entitlement is totally galling, no pride or no sense of responsibility, just what they’re owed by everyone else
Temptamperu wrote: » You can blame it on the poor but its the politician with his dirty hands in your pocket.
Revit Man wrote: » Just to add, I know part of the problem today is materialism. We all want the holiday abroad, or the nice car, or Sky TV and broadband and gadgets, which hoover up money. If we led a simpler live at home ourselves now, perhaps life would be less stressful. Some time away from all the screens.. he says, typing at a screen.
Thelonious Monk wrote: » A lot of this stuff is pushed on us by the capitalist machine. I mean if in Ireland clothes shops never opened again or furniture shops I bet we could all have enough furniture and clothes to last us the rest of our lives, fast fashion and clothes being one of the biggest polluters on the planet. Then you have phones that stop working as you can't put the latest OS on them etc. The current system is designed for us to buy more and more and more and the only goal of governments is to keep growing the economy and getting people to spend more and consume like there's no tomorrow. We live on a finite planet. The whole system makes me sick and it needs to change or we're all doomed.
