These days or for the last like eight or nine years I’m salary staff out of choice in as per older preferences be it school or the store front theater world, this is my chosen profession and my enjoyment is in getting it done without having to worry about the clock. These days I have a crew of people under me and often at quitting time, given my department can for the most part run itself or I will get a phone
call, I try as much as possible to take my work home. Can make noise and spray painting smells there without offending anyone else and I’m home so it is TV on and food
etc. how I want it - completely different atmosphere. At home I get work done, at work every 15min on a normal day, someone interrupts me with some need or request. Got ten adaptors done in 2.5 hours last night, today at work the other ten in six hours as an example. Once home, I’m home and happy no matter if working on project for work or project for home, the same to me, in the guy zone work shop I set up thats’ for the most part as well equipped as the shop - a few things such as a brand new 1/16" to ½" plate punch, the Green
Lee punch kit - what I don’t bring home of it at least, especially the
Edison punch and the 65# anvil I don’t have at home, but for the most part all that’s at the shop is also at home.
Love the work/field, don’t matter in the end for me if work or home it’s all the stuff I love doing.
For me, that’s my life and while I would and when taking an actual weekend,
Sunday always comes too soon, not sure if I really have real weekends or if while a four day work week week seems nice in me working those many hours per day already anyway, that I can see such a concept helping me.
IN the end, for me, I suppose I would think those that prefer five days a week people having a few hours of “me” time and two days on a weekend would be for one sort of person. Personally when working shows, I more preferred working a four day week in having a day for grocerys and laundry, and two days of weekend - not that I took full advantage of it beyond sleeping in and or study and reading. Didn’t go out much in those days because I socialized all week long. Disadvantages I would think on the four day week is that for four days, by the time you get home its too late to be your self beyond getting ready for the next day. This especially with overtime that’s normal. Problem with the five day week also with over time that’s normal, it I think more screws up your social schedule when not having an extra day off at least normally or at least one day during the work week when you won’t need to stay late when working extra time. On the other
hand if normal for a 40 hour week, it’s amazing the life you can have in like the three or four hours of freedom you can have per night after work. And in being social, one often needs more than three nights a week to socialize before having to
switch off the friends for the rest of the week.
Fascinating for me this four or five day concept especially given the frowns my fiancee gives me when I tell her of my
current work schedule that as a given means I’m going to be working a lot of hours and that ain’t so healthy for us. This also if I get to take work home and she is stuck at work. Much less once she gets home, I’m still at work even if home.