weekends are too short

You do get stir crazy. I absolutely have to go out for lunch when I am working at home, and I tend to run an errand or two just to get out too.

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Originally Posted by animegirl

Weekends are definately too short. What sucks even more if you are in the military is that they tend to bother you on the weekends about stupid shit that could wait, but since you are in the AF is has to be done NOW. Not to mention I am a supervisor so I sometimes get calls at like two in the morning about people who got in trouble, or are in jail etc. They also like to wait until Friday afternoon to have like five fucking briefings about inane shit (durrr don't drink and drive) so you have to stay after like an extra hour.

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Yeah, I remember this. What I always hated, I think I saw this on most bases I went to, was the pencil pushing Air Force Employees, ie. Chair Force, would always get off early in the afternoon for gym time AND would get off early every Friday. So if I had to get some mandatory training or paperwork to get done around 1 PM on Friday , it probably wasnt going to happen.

The gym time thing killed me as I would work a 6 to 6 then go workout for an hour or two after and be completely depleted by the time I got home.

Oh and your commander can authorize and order you to work more than a 12. I've unfortunately seen it first hand.

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Originally Posted by ChaoofNee

He also says it seems like they take some sick pleasure in making people work these extra hours.

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They do. They even measure it. It's called "productivity". The really stupid thing is that most companies don't measure the value of the time. They just measure the time, efficiency be damned.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

You do get stir crazy. I absolutely have to go out for lunch when I am working at home, and I tend to run an errand or two just to get out too.

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What does a statstician do?

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

They do. They even measure it. It's called "productivity". The really stupid thing is that most companies don't measure the value of the time. They just measure the time, efficiency be damned.

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Truth. The people who set this shit up really are dumb, your ability to do your job plummets after a certain number of hours. I believe its 60. My company is very good about making sure people work reasonable hours and I think it makes them work better as a result. January is rough but thats part of getting shit done - if I had to work like that all year I would hate life.

I dont care what job you have, there is no need to work 15 hours a day. You can if you want (for the extra cash) but no job requires that much work. Any company that freezes salary and makes you work like that is just raping you to line their own pockets. Those people are the worst slime on the planet.

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Originally Posted by Andrew

What does a statstician do?

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Your mom.

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Originally Posted by Andrew

What does a statstician do?

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Statistics. In all seriousness, I spend most of my day making sense out of data so that managers can make better business decisions with it. The most common theme in my discussions with managers is just how worthless averages are, yet that is what most people use to make decisions at work and in their personal lives.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

Statistics. In all seriousness, I spend most of my day making sense out of data so that managers can make better business decisions with it. The most common theme in my discussions with managers is just how worthless averages are, yet that is what most people use to make decisions at work and in their personal lives.

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My sister was an S&P major, she now set's the rates for 5 states for Bristol West Insurance as a program manager.

Trust me peeps, she's two years younger than me and makes almost as much as I do. These jobs pay WELL.

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Originally Posted by Biff_Pocoroba

My sister was an S&P major, she now set's the rates for 5 states for Bristol West Insurance as a program manager.

Trust me peeps, she's two years younger than me and makes almost as much as I do. These jobs pay WELL.

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Sounds like an actuary. Yes the jobs do pay well but there's a lot of pain to get to that point.

Anything that requires higher math pays well, except teaching it.

You're right Yoshi, just thinking here:

Engineers, Investment Bankers, Chemists, etc all are paid well. Well, to much in the case of those damn engineers, but hey....