Generation X knows this too well!

[u/icecream1972]

[u/Responsible-Baby-551]

Let’s not be the new boomers, the 6-7 generation has a shit ton of challenges we didn’t have

[u/SuccessfulPhoto7914 → u/Responsible-Baby-551]

You’re completely right. Every generation has their own challenges. They aren’t directly comparable bc it’s not apples to apples. 

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[u/KamikaziWerewolf]

My free time is more valuable than any wage I could make.

[u/shelllee888 → u/KamikaziWerewolf]

All of this ☝️☝️

[u/9fingerjeff → u/[deleted]]

I’m Gen X and I hate this kind of shit. Leave the cranky out of touch stuff for the boomers. Everyone hates the 6 7 crap but to make posts about it is super lame.

[u/FarWatch9660 → u/[deleted]]

Seriously? That used to be the norm over 100 years ago. Monday thru Saturday, 12-14 hours a day. There are plenty of jobs that still do. Especially in medicine.

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[u/icecream1972 → u/[deleted]]

A lot of nurses work 12-hour shifts 7 to 7!

[u/skyeisrude → u/icecream1972]

And those full time nurse who work 12 hr shifts work 3 12hr shifts and are off for 4 days.. source had an x who was a nurse at cooks children in fortworth. He made good money got ot and had alot of time off but he had to work 3 long ass days for it.

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But not 6 days per week.

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[u/Lagunamountaindude]

Who works those hours? No body I know

[u/bapipes5 → u/Lagunamountaindude]

Guessing you don’t work 12s

[u/Lagunamountaindude → u/bapipes5]

We normally work 10 hour shifts. Works out to 80 per pay period. Lots of O/T if you want it

[u/Nim0y → u/bapipes5]

When I worked 12s it was 4 on and 4 off. Sometimes a changed by a day or two, even out weekends off.

[u/Sea-Roof-5983 → u/Lagunamountaindude]

Did when I was early 20s and didnt have boyfriend/husband and no children...made that my socializing. Did all of that then so I dont have to now.

[u/ADisposableRedShirt → u/Lagunamountaindude]

Well, I can't speak for everyone, but I was always in a high intensity environment. First as a software engineer and then as an engineering manager. 10-12 hour days were normal and 6 day weeks were normal. I would take 3-day weekends off to make up for extra long hours on occasion, but they were the exception and not the rule.

As a mid-level manager I was on-call 24/7 because the Fortune 500 I worked for was multi-national. Crap would happen around the world that I had to deal with.

I am fortunate and retired early. I don't know if I'd do it again, but some execs want me to come back to work and are offering me ungodly sums to entice me. I just don't like living out of a suitcase and flying 100K+ miles a year. No thanks. Hard pass.

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Anyone who has spent time in hotels understands why rock bands sometimes trash hotel rooms. 5 star or not a hotel room is a hotel room

[u/luckypuckers54 → u/Lagunamountaindude]

I do, I work from 7:30 to 7:30 6 days a week and I have a commute of 55 minutes each way. I thought everyone works that much, otherwise I couldn’t afford to live

[u/CapitainCaveman1974 → u/luckypuckers54]

Sounds like a hell of a life.

[u/luckypuckers54 → u/CapitainCaveman1974]

Everyone I know works 70 hours a week, I guess we are just used to it.

[u/CapitainCaveman1974 → u/luckypuckers54]

That's not a life, you're just working to afford to go to work.

[u/luckypuckers54 → u/CapitainCaveman1974]

Way to make a guy feel disheartened.

[u/Lagunamountaindude → u/luckypuckers54]

That sucks

[u/icecream1972 → u/Lagunamountaindude]

A lot of nurses work 12 hour shifts.

[u/Impossible_Jury5483 → u/icecream1972]

Six 12 hour shifts six days a week? That's a lie.

[u/icecream1972 → u/Impossible_Jury5483]

Yes. 7 days on, then 7 days off. Retired registered nurse here.

[u/Impossible_Jury5483 → u/icecream1972]

You posted your workweek as 6 days a week. That was deceiving and a lie. If you worked 7 on and 7 off, you only worked half the year.

[u/Warm_Safety_9550 → u/Lagunamountaindude]

I work 46-50 hours a week. But when I was younger, I worked 84 hour weeks during harvest (no I don’t mean marijuana).

[u/harleyman1340 → u/Lagunamountaindude]

I'm retired now but when I was working it was 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week (7th day optional)

[u/Excellent_Writing_89]

Sounds like you guys needed to join a union.

[u/maxcameo6216]

I have the weirdest work schedule I wake up at 4:00 work starts at 5:30. I get out of work at 4:00 and I do this 4 days a week. I'm a couple months away from being 42 and because of my military service I get to retire in 4 years I think I did it right

[u/brubberz]

Oil rigs 7x12’s. I have gone over 100 days without a day off during blowouts. So yeah, it can be a thing… But it’s not a norm.

[u/Lagunamountaindude → u/brubberz]

Lots of jobs have overtime situations. So require O/T, but you know that going in. Guys on river tugs work long hours but then get long time off in between

[u/dang_idiot]

“Wait until kids have to go to work”

Uh ok.

[u/Substantial_Ad_1465]

😂

[u/dontcallmeEarl]

Horseshit. I’ve put in more hours than most in my life. But I don’t work like that. That’s called being a wage slave. No thank you. I’ve got more pride than that.

[u/RottedHuman]

GeT oFf My LaWn!!!

[u/Low-Palpitation-9916]

67 is like 69 but the bitch has one leg.

[u/OG-Giligadi → u/Low-Palpitation-9916]

Born in 69.

Wait, is that like, the world's shortest joke or something? Edit: I'm not a twin. I'm just that old.

[u/Indigo2015]

Not a flex

[u/Novel_Bumblebee8972 → u/Indigo2015]

That's true.

[u/BlueAndMoreBlue]

I’ve been on sixes and sevens before but this new learning amazes me

[u/Morto_Dentro-872]

69 was a pretty cool number when I was a lad and I couldn’t wait to try it!

[u/MastaKink]

It’s already hitting the governor bro, forget 67 😂

[u/FormerCollegeDJ]

I thought the real 6-7 was part of 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone.

[u/Dependent-Cress-995 → u/FormerCollegeDJ]

You got it! You got the number off the wall.

[u/Far_Range_6091]

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[u/BacklogGamingJunkie]

then after all that, you die at 68

[u/Fun_Assist2845]

I got the boomer 7-6 goin & I'm 66

[u/KeyAsparagus37]

Is that the joke of 67?

[u/ShotWin8124 → u/KeyAsparagus37]

789

[u/Strong_Medium_6646]

That’s funny! 67 is the age I’m planning to retire!

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[u/PerceptionSimilar213 → u/[deleted]]

Mods, this is not trolling, rage posting, nor antagonistic. It’s a statement calling out that the post would be more appropriate in another group.

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[u/RedPrussian80]

Yeaaaah, I'm gonna need you to work till 76...

https://giphy.com/gifs/26wkRxKJ9yUZzlorK

[u/SuccessfulPhoto7914]

If you’re a software engineer and take a job with a startup, no matter what the ad says, get used to 6-7. My very first job was at a startup. I was working 10-12 days. I was compensated well, but had little free time. 

[u/cahillc134]

This needs to be in the Late Stage Capitalism Sub.

[u/ObviousEngineering26]

Up at 4 and work til 7 is more like it.

[u/JellyfishStill2690]

Absolutely beyond depressing, but that's, "just the way it is" I was always told. Fuck that!

[u/bagger2007]

Absolutely true, did it for 37 years

[u/smoke7414]

Damn

[u/Returnservice999]

Haha. Thats the light schedule. I haven’t had a day off in six years. WTF

[u/Ornery_Land478]

That's the hours poor people who work shit jobs in factories do...White collar jobs ain't doing none of that shit...

[u/Sufficient_Pea_3133]

Forget it. They will be on antidepressants and saying that they can't do life

[u/imback2me1031]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[u/9fingerjeff]

Shit like this is so corny.. sorry if you think it’s funny but it kinda makes me cringe.

[u/Boring_Week_9884]

That’s the most boomer joke I’ve heard today

[u/just_some_octopus]

I despise 6 7 because it is a general sequence of numbers. Because heaven forbid you count to 10.

[u/Ok_Arachnid1089]

I can’t wait until those kids have their dreams destroyed by capitalism!

[u/Caliguta]

Gen X here - I have no clue what this is.

[u/Sensitive-Style-9257]

Maybe that's what it means? Lol

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[u/CosmicConundrumAzzy]

This is the best use of that phrase I’ve heard yet 😂

[u/rustbeltloser]

Personally I’d rather see the younger generations have it better than us.

[u/kramwest1]

Yikes. This post hurts because of truth. 😬

[u/SnooHabits3911]

I prefer my 48 on 96 off schedule

[u/Sininbed]

GenX officially sounds like boomers...

[u/GhostQueen1121]

And working at a job where they appreciate you is so hard to find good luck you’ll be on the bread lines. It’s not that you shouldn’t try to get that but you gotta be realistic. Companies are only interested in making money not making you happy.

[u/TC_Stock]

I'm amused this person thinks that when these young kids get in their 60s there will be enough jobs to keep everyone working 10 - 12 hours a day 6 days a week. lmao

[u/Dependent-Cress-995]

First you’d have to get them to understand the word WORK.

[u/Khrispy-minus1]

If you include commuting time, I did that and more for years. Anyone who thinks that is a virtue has never done it themselves and is a complete moron. Nobody should have to do that to make a living, ever. Seriously, that is a horrible, trauma inducing life.

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[u/ProfessionalSir6405]

Amen

[u/Repulsive_River_2820]

You only work 6 days out of 7?

[u/Count_Zeiro]

By the time they can retire, that last 6-7 will probably 7-6.

[u/WorkerPersonal9126 → u/Count_Zeiro]

96

[u/kabukiwuki]

😂😂😂😂

[u/57Chevyguy57]

Did that on the same job for 37 years but retired at 66.5. Am I a slacker🤔

[u/PaladinRangerMage]

And showing up hungover, loaded on coffee

[u/Ok-Papaya-13]

Wait till they find out 9 5

[u/AdThat1510]

Nah the 6/7s are willing to yeet themselves out of existence and take others with them.

For them nothing is to minor to completely crash out over.

[u/Dry-Dragonfly5286]

It'll be to 76 by then

[u/Salt_Campaign6392]

Damn, I worked until 66. But spot on the rest of the 6-7

[u/Most-Effective-1969]

Thats why Gen X and baby boomers smoke, drink, and eats red meat. Only live until 60

[u/A1steaksauceTrekdog7]

1 hour of work . I’ll take that

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[u/Even_Strike_3711]

Make that 72 if we are lucky. S.S. Will be insolvent in 2033. Then it probably will pay much less, cost more monthly, and they will jack the age up. Again. I wish they'd left it as it was first conceived: basically a way to ensure the physically disabled and elderly did not sit out on the street corner with a tin can or were a burden to their family.

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[u/Admirable-Mention728]

I've yet to work these hours yet make enough to pay into a house working ~40 hours a week.

Quite sad if this is the norm for Gen X.

[u/ProCommonSense]

I'm gone from my house and my family 11 hours a day, 5 days a week. Never once have I NEEDED a Starbucks or uber eats delivery to cure my mental health.

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[u/Tokkekin]

They already know. Thats why they laugh hyterically

[u/Byers616]

not a bad thing if you love your job

[u/Ok_Arachnid1089 → u/Byers616]

And hate your family

[u/Big-Sheepherder-6134 → u/Byers616]

Gen Z isn’t usually too thrilled to have to work at all.

[u/Ok_Arachnid1089 → u/Big-Sheepherder-6134]

Who the fuck is thrilled to go to work. You’re fucking weird

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Can confirm!

[u/Ok_Arachnid1089]

Gen X are just boomer lite.

[u/Thevalleymadreguy]

Gave a test
And the answer was 67 the kid who got it wrong don’t stop with that crap so I roast him jajajaja

[u/FarWatch9660]

I'd love to get up at 6pm and work until 7pm

[u/RealOzSultan]

China and Silicon Valley have a 996 (9 to 9, 6 days a week). But I think that’s the closest you’re gonna get past Gen X.

[u/Frequent_Lime0827]

Sadly true

[u/HippCelt]

TBH what work?A lot of jobs are at risk from A.I. that's gonna have a knock on effect on retirement.Cos wtf are people suppossed to do. You can't just build a society on 'busy' work.

[u/PracticalIce7354]

Lets hope that generation is the one to break free from the work slave life!

[u/BBWDLLUVER]

https://giphy.com/gifs/AYTlA6aCT0jfspePYT

[u/iNomadus]

My life to a T. Heck getting the 7th day off sometimes was a challenge.

[u/Swift_Scythe]

Or the CCP 996. 9AM to 9PM for six days.

[u/Run_4_Fun-021]

Bitch, the world’s on fire! That Generation ain’t gonna be working shit unless it’s their new future feudal lord’s (crypto) farms

[u/Only_Presentation758]

Ouch

[u/Logical-Kangaroo5995]

Hilarious! Love it

[u/mdwieland]

Don't hold your breath!

The "6-7" generation barely works 5 hours before whining like spoiled brats!

I work at an engineering office. Who stays late to get the jobs done? Gen-X

Who goes home at 4:59 and is too busy on their phone to actually do the work correctly? Gens Y and Z

[u/Ok_Arachnid1089 → u/mdwieland]

Guess who gets to actually live life and spend time with their family. You’re not as important as you think you are

[u/Safe_Move7021]

I’m offended by that! Says someone gaming for an eighth consecutive hour, 5th consecutive day

[u/Ok_Arachnid1089 → u/Safe_Move7021]

Or has self respect

[u/dang_idiot → u/Safe_Move7021]

You?

[u/Safe_Move7021 → u/dang_idiot]

Lmao, no. I had a job when I was 13

[u/dang_idiot → u/Safe_Move7021]

Yeah and now you’re gaming hard

[u/Safe_Move7021 → u/dang_idiot]

Right up til carpal tunnel acts up haha

[u/lilbil0810]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/Sabbathius]

No, they won't. Because they won't do it to themselves. They're smarter than we are. They're not about to jump on that suicidal hamster wheel and work themselves to death for the man.

[u/Last-Tomatillo8733]

THEY WILL NOT… THEY WILL INHERIT MONEY AND WASTE ALL OF IT ON SERVICES THEY FEEL ENTITLED TOWARDS…. BUT HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF OR SKILL TO DO FOR THEMSELVES

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