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- nephari, on 01/22/2009, -0/+38Hm... I don't think working 38 hours a week as opposed to 40 hours is enough to make me want to change professions.
- chicagojack, on 01/22/2009, -3/+35Stripper?
- lovemorgul, on 01/22/2009, -3/+33But I actually never work more than 20 hours a week.
- bhuntsbarger, on 01/22/2009, -0/+28Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. - oo7evan, on 01/22/2009, -1/+20If I surf Digg about 3 hours a day at work, does that mean I have job that is less than 40 hours too?
- michaelpinto, on 01/22/2009, -0/+17Desktop publisher! Are there still people in 2009 who do that alone for a living?
- Bruceleo, on 01/22/2009, -3/+17You forgot 'Homeless'
- DirtPile, on 01/22/2009, -1/+15Most of those jobs blow chunks.
- gizram84, on 05/30/2009, -4/+16they're talking about real adults; not grown up children who still mooch off mommy and daddy
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+12correct me if i'm wrong but i think altough pilots work 20hours/week they are rarely at home.
- joshuaer, on 01/22/2009, -0/+11General manager of Phishing scams 10 hours a week - 30,000,000 a year!
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+10My wife says she works 100 hours a week and it is me who pays the price :S
- yuanzhoulu, on 01/22/2009, -0/+9time for me to start flight school
just kidding, a pilot spends 23 hours a week actually flying, but then spends about half their work month in hotels away from home, so even though you're at the job less, you still aren't at home to have fun/do anything else, rather you're exhausted, tired and jetlagged trying to get rest in some random hotel. - TheObviousChild, on 01/22/2009, -1/+10I'm surrounded by people who only work hard enough to not get fired. Office Space is like a corporate philosophy.
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -1/+9Unemployment.
- Hillsfar, on 01/22/2009, -0/+8Actually the 40-hour typical week was FOUGHT for by unions. If you read Strike!, a book that documents the history of strikes and unions from the 1800s, you'll realize that people were working 12 to 16-hour days, 6 to 7 days per week. For example, in the early 1900s, bakers in San Francisco went on strike for Sundays off, because they were working 16-hour days and 12 on Sundays.
- richmomz, on 01/22/2009, -0/+8$26K is the median U.S. income?! Are half the people in this country living in a trailer?
- weatherlsp, on 01/22/2009, -0/+8With the exception of pilots that was a pretty lame list. Most of those professions were barely under 40 hours a week and the pay was so low that (in many parts of the country) you wouldn't be able to spend any money during your extra leisure time.
- inigomntoya, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6That's a full-time job, buddy!
- thegreatsam, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6Very true. The might be working for 4 hours on a flight, but they might be staying overnight at a different city.
- cubicledrone, on 01/22/2009, -1/+7The average starting salary for a college graduate would currently be roughly $82,000 a year had wages kept up with inflation from 1972 to 2008.
Wages have been stagnant in this country since Nixon was President.
Most people have no idea how they've been dicked on their paychecks.
Most people have no idea how chicken-***** most employers are. The running sores that manage businesses in this country are too immature and irresponsible to employ professionals. - theartfuldodgr, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6I'm an insurance underwriter and I would love a 38 hour work week. I'm supposed to work 40 hours a week but when all is said and done I wind up putting in about 55 hours a week. The boss doesn't like it much when you leave and have clients to rate that are due the next day and they aren't complete.
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6I think that they wrote this assuming that everyone is married or something. There are plenty of areas in this country where if you aren't stupid with your money you can do quite well with two incomes in the low 30s or even in the 20s.
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6You might only "work" 23.5 hours a week, but much of your week is going to be spent away from home and the hours you do work are going to suck (back to back flights and such).
- ScottMitchell, on 01/22/2009, -0/+619
- Hillsfar, on 01/22/2009, -0/+5Considering the current national high school graduation rate is something around 60%, and many high school graduates were socially promoted, how many actual educated workers do we have here?
- captainanndor, on 01/22/2009, -0/+5Both of my parents made/make around that. We always lived very comfortably.
Not every person/family lives in expensive, urban areas.
But like jmantra said, that's median salary, not median household income. - captainanndor, on 01/22/2009, -0/+5My parents only ever had a max income (total) of like... 55k. Throughout my childhood and still today. Maaaybe a max of 60k.
But, we never hurt for anything. We went on family vacations every year (Disney World, Yellowstone, weekly camping trips to Hershey, PA or Alleghany State Park, Busch Gardens every Easter). We ate well, we got new school clothes every year. We had heat and hot water (even if the heat was never allowed above 65). We had a nice house.
We were in a smallish city, not a big urban sprawl, so housing was more affordable, but even when my dad got laid off (twice that I remember), things got tight but we got by.
I don't think it's your salary that's hurting you, I think it's your standard of living. We didn't go to restaurants very often (even Taco Bell or McDonald's was a 'special treat') and we almost never went to see movies in the theater (preferred to rent 1 get 1 free from the local store or the library).
It's perfectly possible for families to get by on less money (although if a HOUSEHOLD was bringing in only 26k, then that would be a struggle, but still possible in some areas), but you have to make sacrifices. Go for the cheaper groceries, store-brand stuff, no fancy name-brand clothes, no frivolous expenses on movies or restaurants all the time. - inactive, on 01/22/2009, -3/+8Salaries are pretty low. Would be pretty tough to live on those amounts depending on where you live.
- UselessTrivia, on 01/22/2009, -1/+5There was a local panhandler who admitted on the radio once that he makes over 40,000 a year doing nothing but asking for change at stoplights. And he only did it a few hours a day when it was nice outside.
- Zippo, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4I'd assume anyone who helps create a book, magazine, or newspaper would fit under that category.
- rocor, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4And shagging flight stewardesses.
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+414 hrs a day, 7 days a week?
Ouch. - CurrentALL700, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4anyone else think these jobs r lame?
- moothemagiccow, on 01/22/2009, -1/+5My work week's 0 hours right now
- Snoosy, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4Dugg for insurance underwriter. I'm a Junior Broker and you guys are our best friends.
- feebes, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4I don't see how pilots constantly make these lists. Its ridiculous and shows people have no idea what a pilot's lifestyle is like. The average pilot at my company is away from home 300 hours per month, and is paid for around 80 of that.
That and pilots make nowhere near 100k for a long time into their career. It would be like saying that all artists make a million dollars per year because they only polled the top 2%. - TheUngod, on 01/22/2009, -2/+5I work 35-39 hours a week. I work 4 days a week, 9-10 hours a day, from home half of each day, and I do tech support and make over 50k. Lots of jobs, if you do them well, can lead to nice benefits like that.
- bzaks, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3ba zing!
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3exactly!
- inactive, on 01/22/2009, -1/+4I never said the government should fix it, not sure where that came from.
Obviously 99% of employers feel that 40 hours is okay when ... it's really not.
So if they can all adapt to that train of thought, why can't they collectively adjust to something lower? - Richandler, on 01/23/2009, -0/+3Yes most people are not engineers or doctors.
- korvan504521, on 01/23/2009, -0/+34 10s is just an excuse for them to tell you thursday you need to come in Friday to catch up.
- whoreable, on 01/23/2009, -0/+3So apparently I am not the biggest loser on the planet.
- captainanndor, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3Depending on what your job duties are, 4 day work weeks are the absolute worst things ever.
I used to work the phones as tier 3 tech support for the local corporate monstrosity cable/phone/internet company. I worked 4 day weeks (3 11 hour shifts and a 7 hour shift). It was the most soul-crushing, exhausting schedule ever.
Maybe not being screamed at by angry retards over one channel missing would make a difference, but I am permanently turned off from wasting a full 3 days a week. 3 days off is nice, but one is spent recovering from the long week, and the 3 long shift days were always a complete wash. Wake up > work (eat lunch and dinner there) > go home to bed. - Foxcow, on 01/23/2009, -0/+3Airline pilots work a helluva lot more than 40 hours per week unless you are very senior. I should know...
- ORD2FRA, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3Not to mention the $100K in training and the $22K job waiting for you at a regional airline in the right seat of an RJ, based in an east coast hub. If you ARE a pilot, it's a decent job. BECOMING a pilot these days is setting yourself up for a long, hard life.
- stonebear, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3I aspire the Kung! lifestyle: 12 - 20 hours a week of easy to moderate labor to sustain an entirely green lifestyle which is valued by the quality of its social connections, rather than material goods. As recently as the 70's, before they were corrupted and corralled; they lived in small, roving democratic groups which valued freedom above all. They were a people happy and at peace in one of the most hostile environments on earth. Shall we talk fitness? Hunting parties routinely chased large game to exhaustion in marathons of up to 8 hours in 120 degree heat.
- feebes, on 01/22/2009, -1/+4I have been a pilot at a regional airline flying a jet for over 2 years. My girlfriend made more money than me as a first-year unlicensed public high-school teacher before she quit. The job future looks bleak and moving forward into a captain position looks a long way off. Working for a larger airline looks even farther off.
People, I am a commercial airline pilot who is 50k in debt just from the flight training who makes 35k a year and probably will make that much for a while. I work a lot and do not have a good lifestyle. The future of this career looks bleak. I am not complaining to a random crowd of diggers, I simply want people to stop assuming we all make a lot of money and work only a few hours a week. It doesn't work that way and I can't stand these idiotic journalists who keep reporting this bunk. - emoment, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3true, but its a job you would enjoy.
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