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Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by Berteau
There’s no way your career takes up so much time that you can’t date. That’s just an excuse. Do you sleep 12hours a day and work 12hours a day everyday?
As someone who did this grind for the past year while in school., let me tell you how this works.
A weekday:
Wake up at 7:30am shower and be out the house at 8:15 and drive to work.
Work at 9am until 7pm.
Commute home and on a good day (which don’t happen often in DC) get home at 7:30.
Gotta eat right? Be done with that at 8:15.
The reading and studying for grad school is insane and usually I tap out at 11pm from exhaustion with only enough energy left to get all the crap off my bed then ass out.
Saturday: either 8 hours of class after pulling an all nighter to get an assignment done or 5 hours of work. With either one I somehow make it home without passing out, then nap for 3 or 4 hours. After that, I have to keep the house clean somehow so that takes up the rest of my day Saturday.
Sunday: Either studying, cleaning, or resting (sleeping) since it is the only day I have to myself.
Would you want to have a partner that that hard schedule? From the sources of women here I’ve tried to set up dates with with very little free time the answer is no. They aren’t that patient from experience. Replace school with extra hours at work and it’s the same thing.
You should really not date if your schedule was as busy as mine was the last year. There is being able to do it nd being able to do it right. BIG difference.
As someone who did this grind for the past year while in school., let me tell you how this works.
A weekday:
Wake up at 7:30am shower and be out the house at 8:15 and drive to work.
Work at 9am until 7pm.
Commute home and on a good day (which don’t happen often in DC) get home at 7:30.
Gotta eat right? Be done with that at 8:15.
The reading and studying for grad school is insane and usually I tap out at 11pm from exhaustion with only enough energy left to get all the crap off my bed then ass out.
Saturday: either 8 hours of class after pulling an all nighter to get an assignment done or 5 hours of work. With either one I somehow make it home without passing out, then nap for 3 or 4 hours. After that, I have to keep the house clean somehow so that takes up the rest of my day Saturday.
Sunday: Either studying, cleaning, or resting (sleeping) since it is the only day I have to myself.
Would you want to have a partner that that hard schedule? From the sources of women here I’ve tried to set up dates with with very little free time the answer is no. They aren’t that patient from experience. Replace school with extra hours at work and it’s the same thing.
You should really not date if your schedule was as busy as mine was the last year. There is being able to do it nd being able to do it right. BIG difference.
If you’re in grad school that is an exception. The title of the thread should be career AND GRAD SCHOOL vs dating if this were the case, but the title is CAREER vs grad school. That’s why you don’t work and do grad school at the same time. Otherwise if you’re home at 8:15, that leaves you about 4 hours a night of free time, plus weekends.
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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Originally Posted by Berteau
If you’re in grad school that is an exception. The title of the thread should be career AND GRAD SCHOOL vs dating if this were the case, but the title is CAREER vs grad school. That’s why you don’t work and do grad school at the same time. Otherwise if you’re home at 8:15, that leaves you about 4 hours a night of free time, plus weekends.
One could easily replace school with work or even a second job in this scenario, a boat a lot of my friends are in.
One could easily replace school with work or even a second job in this scenario, a boat a lot of my friends are in.
You don’t have a career if you have to have a second job. You can’t have two careers if your trying to build a single career. you aren’t going to be an accountant during the day and a waiter at night.
You don’t have a career if you have to have a second job. You can’t have two careers if your trying to build a single career. you aren’t going to be an accountant during the day and a waiter at night.
There are many people who are trying to become successful in a career, but who need a second job in the process to support themselves.
You don’t have a career if you have to have a second job. You can’t have two careers if your trying to build a single career. you aren’t going to be an accountant during the day and a waiter at night.
Not true.
I was a software developer and a disaster recovery specialist for a couple years at the same time. Both were contracts to different clients within the same data recovery scope..
If your career of choice is as a business owner, there is no such thing as "hours"..... for startups especially... you work a lot more than the typical 40 hours. A LOT more. As a few have posted, there are situations in which a career pursuit can result in a single (long hours) job, multiple jobs, jobs with school, etc...
You don’t have a career if you have to have a second job. You can’t have two careers if your trying to build a single career. you aren’t going to be an accountant during the day and a waiter at night.
What about all those high career tech men and women who teach at community colleges after leaving work?
There’s no way your career takes up so much time that you can’t date. That’s just an excuse.
Unless you work 70/80 hours per week.
Or you start work at 5 am and don't get off until 11 pm
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