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I had a friend that got laid off of his welding job of $40k a year.
He has a back burner case come up and he was looking at doing 6 months in jail and with 6 months until check in time he figured he'd just sit and wait on his ass playing Grand Theft Auto multiplayer for 6-8 hour stretches at a time.
On unemployment he was making roughly the equivalent of $10 an hour for a 40 hours work week. Why bother to get another job? He didn't feel like working 2nd shift again. He got up to 240 pounds and this was only at 5'5". When he got out of county jail he weighted 160.
The longest clocked work week I've ever done was 73 hours. They wouldn't let me work more than that but there was one stretch where I went into my welding job for 40+ days straight.
What got depressing was going into work at 7pm, getting out at 7am then going to sleep at 10am and waking up at 6pm and realize in an hour you have to be at work.
Tears began rolling down my eyes because the only social life I had were the breaks permitted with the other people who were pissed off because they were stuck there for life.
It's so important to map out your day and figure out what you want or you'll just be an old, angry, and grumpy man like the rest of that bunch in that shop (which wasn't even union btw).
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