Brielle, who lives in New Jersey, shared that she was struggling to find time to have a life outside of her four-hour round commute and her long work days.
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She's whining about a 9 to 5 desk job? With a paid lunch? In my entire working life, I had ONE short term job that was an 8 to 5 job. I've never had a desk job, much less any job that didn't involve sweating and a sore back.
For the first few years I worked at the ammo plant, I put in a 40 to 50 hour week throwing steel all damned day, then doing day labor on the weekends if I needed extra cash for whatever. After we got a grenade contract I immediately went to an 87 hour work week. The physical labor got easier but the hours were a real killer.
If I had something planned for the evening, I would get off at 3:30 PM, shower, take a 2-3 hour nap, go out and have fun, then come back home and try to grab a couple more hours of sleep so I could crawl out of bed at 2 in the morning to do it again.
At the Safeway warehouse, I worked four 10 hour (minimum) days loading anywhere from 16 to 22 trucks a day, with an hour commute each way.
Yeah, no sympathy here.
