NationStates Jolt Archive

...You'll notice I stared posting around 8 or 8:30. It's now nearly 10:30 PST. So I'm going into hur # 15 at work. I work both days this weekend and worked both days last weekend. If I get next Saturday off that will be my first day off in 19 days. Does anyone else work like this?

...You'll notice I stared posting around 8 or 8:30. It's now nearly 10:30 PST. So I'm going into hur # 15 at work. I work both days this weekend and worked both days last weekend. If I get next Saturday off that will be my first day off in 19 days. Does anyone else work like this?
Yeah, but I think we work in the same industry.

...You'll notice I stared posting around 8 or 8:30. It's now nearly 10:30 PST. So I'm going into hur # 15 at work. I work both days this weekend and worked both days last weekend. If I get next Saturday off that will be my first day off in 19 days. Does anyone else work like this?
I worked like that when I was an editor for a design firm. After 1 year, I forced them to give me a promotion, massive raise, private office, and power to hire freelancers. After the second year, I had the first symptoms of an ulcer. I quit. You should too. They don't appreciate you. Fuck them. Take their money and fuck them on your way out.

Yeah, well not really... lol, I'm still at school but this weekend im working 3 days (public hol. on Monday) so that's all my days busy...

I like school better... but you don't get paid for going there...

...You'll notice I stared posting around 8 or 8:30. It's now nearly 10:30 PST. So I'm going into hur # 15 at work. I work both days this weekend and worked both days last weekend. If I get next Saturday off that will be my first day off in 19 days. Does anyone else work like this?
Nope, it would be too Psychotic for me Dan!! :p

...You'll notice I stared posting around 8 or 8:30. It's now nearly 10:30 PST. So I'm going into hur # 15 at work. I work both days this weekend and worked both days last weekend. If I get next Saturday off that will be my first day off in 19 days. Does anyone else work like this?

If I had an arrangement where I could spend 15 hours posting to online forums... I'm not sure I'd have the gall to refer to it as 'work'...

kinda. i work from about 10am till about 7 or 8pm most days, including the weekends generally. worked for about 3 and a half weeks without a day off at the beginning of the year - that was fun. but now i have a girl to go see i take days off :)

edit: and i can (and do) post here when i'm 'working'... *cough*

edit: and i can (and do) post here when i'm 'working'... *cough*
ah, much like my "studying". i got alot of posts around exam time...

Yeah, but I think we work in the same industry.
What do you do?

If I had an arrangement where I could spend 15 hours posting to online forums... I'm not sure I'd have the gall to refer to it as 'work'...
Well my work is eiother to grab digitized files and bring them into LA or to digitize them and send them out of LA so when I'm digitizing an hour long tape there's nothing to do during that hour except wait. So I post.

That's nice but who cares?

That's nice but who cares?
aside from the other people who posted in this thread, your mother cared. She misses me getting over there to tap that ass! ;) Tell her I miss her and my dog does, too. :p

Well my work is eiother to grab digitized files and bring them into LA or to digitize them and send them out of LA so when I'm digitizing an hour long tape there's nothing to do during that hour except wait. So I post.

I am so in the wrong business....

I am so in the wrong business....
Well, its obviously not physically hard, but there is a major drawback. You have to dedicate yourself. By that I mean they you haveto be willing to get to work usually at an early time and have no idea when you're gonna be off. You have to be willing to carry a cell phone with you where ever and be ready to get that call that you have to come in. Then there's learing how to do it. there are a million formats and you have to understand them and you have to be able to make sure the clienst get what they need to do their jobs and with all the cross formatting problems and such it can get very tangled. You have to always go above and beyond. That means finding problems and fixing them. Its not like there's someone telling you to put peg A in hole B. You have a clients that says "We're shooting in 1080i and need to get HD dailies into Los Angeles for MediaSonic viewing as well as 8 SD DVDs delivered to such and such as well as Avid files... blah blah blah. Lastsly, you have to not fuck up. One fuck up in this business and that could be your job and maybe your career. These people are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to your post operation. You better do it right.

There are people who worked like that, Psychotic Dan, but they did finish those pyramids a long time ago…

My roommate pulls huge overtime hours with IBM to meet deadlines. It’s pretty inhuman. If they just hired more people they wouldn’t put so many projects at risk.

Well, its obviously not physically hard, but there is a major drawback. You have to dedicate yourself. By that I mean they you haveto be willing to get to work usually at an early time and have no idea when you're gonna be off. You have to be willing to carry a cell phone with you where ever and be ready to get that call that you have to come in. Then there's learing how to do it. there are a million formats and you have to understand them and you have to be able to make sure the clienst get what they need to do their jobs and with all the cross formatting problems and such it can get very tangled. You have to always go above and beyond. That means finding problems and fixing them. Its not like there's someone telling you to put peg A in hole B. You have a clients that says "We're shooting in 1080i and need to get HD dailies into Los Angeles for MediaSonic viewing as well as 8 SD DVDs delivered to such and such as well as Avid files... blah blah blah. Lastsly, you have to not fuck up. One fuck up in this business and that could be your job and maybe your career. These people are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to your post operation. You better do it right.

All of which I appreciate, and most of which counts exactly the same in my career field... except, it has to be said, you are living my dream of being involved (at some remove, perhaps) in the creative art of film.

Now, my employer (a municipality) isn't LIKELY to be hundreds of thousands out of pocket if I fuck up, but they could be tens of thousands out of pocket, and people could die if I fuck up BAD... THEN they'd be hundreds of thousands in the hole... if nothing worse.

But then... mine doesn't pay THAT well, and doesn't give me hour upon hour of free time to play on the internet... :)

All of which I appreciate, and most of which counts exactly the same in my career field... except, it has to be said, you are living my dream of being involved (at some remove, perhaps) in the creative art of film.

Now, my employer (a municipality) isn't LIKELY to be hundreds of thousands out of pocket if I fuck up, but they could be tens of thousands out of pocket, and people could die if I fuck up BAD... THEN they'd be hundreds of thousands in the hole... if nothing worse.

But then... mine doesn't pay THAT well, and doesn't give me hour upon hour of free time to play on the internet... :)
Yeah that's pressure. I don't mean to complain. I like my job and am glad I'm in it if for no other reason as it keeps me in contact with others who, like me, got into the business to be in the craetive part of it. I get to get together with people at my work and make short filmsm write scripts, etc...

If you really want to do that, you should. It's not as hard to get into as you think. You just have to be willing to work for shit wages for two or possibly three years and then you'll do pretty well if you work hard and prove yourself. Then you'll find yourself around a bunch of people who share your interest.

Yeah that's pressure. I don't mean to complain. I like my job and am glad I'm in it if for no other reason as it keeps me in contact with others who, like me, got into the business to be in the craetive part of it. I get to get together with people at my work and make short filmsm write scripts, etc...

If you really want to do that, you should. It's not as hard to get into as you think. You just have to be willing to work for shit wages for two or possibly three years and then you'll do pretty well if you work hard and prove yourself. Then you'll find yourself around a bunch of people who share your interest.

There's the rub... I have a family to support, so I can't just drop everything and relocate to the other side of the country... especially not for shit wages... although, I guess my wages aren't entirely UN-shit, now... :)