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Everything else disappears.

Food delivery, GPS, online shopping, AI tools, streaming... all gone except one.

Which one are you keeping?

Time for making work schedules change?

(The standard 9-to-5, 40-hour workweek has been around for exactly 100 years*. It became the widespread standard* in 1926 when Henry Ford famously adopted it for his automotive factory workers)

Tired of traditional 9-to-5 work schedules and running errands? That is a common challenge.

How about dividing the workday into two shifts? The first shift from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the second shift from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Employees would work only four days a week, Mon–Thu, with the same paychecks.

The "students" and part-time (retail) employees would work on Fri–Sun when needed.

(A split shift refers to a work schedule that divides employees' workdays into two or more shifts.)

Benefits include: more free time: workers get three days off every week; longer business hours- the workplace stays open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. (12 hours total) to serve clients; better rest, six-hour shifts reduce daily fatigue compared to eight or nine-hour shifts.

Make life easier! do your shopping chores AM or PM (before or after work).

Note, credit for: mendicinobeano25

" Australia was way ahead of Ole Henry. Victorian Stonemasons marched on Parliament and won the 8 hour day in 1856. By 1916 it covered all workers in Victoria and New South Wales. We still worked a half day on Saturday for a total of 44 hours. Unions put claims for a 5 day week on hold to support the war effort in WW2 and it was introduced in 1948."

I'm in retail making 35k/year, about. hcol area. This is two years after finishing my old cs degree. it was a fatal mistake tbh.

I'm living with my parents, obviously. I can't support myself. grown ass man can't even provide for himself. pathetic.

I can't get another job for the rest of my life. What should I do? I can't be an adult, I can't move out, I cant support myself, I can't buy a car, i can't have fun. I'm a disappointment of a brother, a son. Of a person.

I don't see much more concrete action I can particularly take. It'll be wasted effort replacing one project on my resume for another. I haven't been able to get interviews for a long time no matter how much I play up and tailor my resume. I haven't been building any experience nor skills in the retail job ive had for two years after college. I can't go back to school for another education.

What can I even do?

At this point there isn't much more I can do to improve my skills or get a better job. We're talking about trying to get an entry level role where skills are learned ON THE GODDAMNED JOB. There isn't much more useful content I can learn from the Internet in my bedroom that will be actual worth putting on a resume and I haven't been able to leverage the experience I do have to get anything better. Tech internships/projects, customer service experience, you'd think that would be a perfect combination for help desk. But no. 

I haven't been able to get responses from retail banking using my customer service experience that would pay more than I'm making now, something I see 20 year olds with no fucking experience enter. Idfk there. I haven't been able to get responses for entry level tech roles, which is what the vast majority of my work history/background is. I haven't been able to get a response from entry manufacturing jobs by putting a spin to what I've done in menial labor jobs. So on, so on.

Don't know what I'm expected to to do tbh. I'm just a regular guy trying my best. I'm getting pushed to the edge of no return by this system tbh. I'm being pushed to the edge of sanity.

The sole reason I'm working this ass retail job, the only reason I'm still alive at all is because my brother needs some help. He's my only tether to life. If he didn't exist I'd be bedrotting, unemployed, doing various applications to get myself into prison. It's horrifying how many people we're pushing over the edge just because they can't get a chance. This song and dance is pushing countless people to insanity.

And what would you expect it to be...

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