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I don't envy you. I love having free time. That said, I once had a high paying job and they acted like they owned me because they paid me well. (Not that it lasted long, thanks to reasons I won't go into here). Still, I *never* want to get back into a situation like that. Billable hours are the devil!
my dad is a retired mechanical engineer with a masters and an mba and this was his schedule/salary, only it was called something weird, like has a specific name for how it worked, I want to call it "four by fourty" but that sounds like an in n out burger so it must be wrong lol
I think you might be talking about what my husband did for a brief period of time. I asked him what it was called and he said "four tens." 10 hour days--4 one week and 5 the next--with lunch breaks. By putting in 10 hour days, every other weekend was a three day weekend and he loved it, though the 10 hours were rough. Maybe it is a common engineer thing. He was working as a Fire Protection Engineer at the time. He had a great salary too, but no benefits. And then the government ran out of money (subcontractor) so they let him go after almost a year. Personally, I think I liked it better when he could work 5 days a week since he wasn't so tired at night. I got to see him more often *and* the time we had together seemed to be better quality too.
Linda--I think Paul would have liked it a LOT better if he could have spent only 9 hours at work, but they were really strict about lunch breaks, I think. So he had to put in 10 hour days and that last hour exhausted him.
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I've worked with a couple of government agencies, and they both called this a 9/80 ("nine-eighty"), working eighty hours in two weeks in nine days, so there would be eight nine-hour days, one "short", eight-hour day, and a day off every other week. I liked it a lot, it's definitely easier to spend an extra day at work and having a weekday off so often was great.
Linda--I think Paul would have liked it a LOT better if he could have spent only 9 hours at work, but they were really strict about lunch breaks, I think. So he had to put in 10 hour days and that last hour exhausted him.
Gypsiemagic--Tell your dad "ppppllllllttttt" from me, lol! Paul has applied for several jobs that still have pensions. Though they are rare, he has found them mostly with power plants (monopolies here in the south) and hospitals (kind of monopolies too and certainly lots of dough. Sadly, none have come through yet. He's significantly older than me but doesn't have anything saved for retirement. I don't either. So a pension would be like a godsend for us. Without one, I fear we will be using the Jeff Foxworthy Redneck Retirement Plan--desperately playing the lottery everytime we can scrape together a few bucks!
My mom is a high school teacher, and their pension is protected by the california constitution. (plus the main manager of the investments is one of my dads oldest friends, so my mom is always checking on how its doing
she got a lot of flack from her other friends when she decided to teach right out of college and she was young, barely 22 if I remember correctly. But it was a field with job security, (her two best friends went into tech, and made higher salaries but were constantly being laid off and having to find new jobs) benefits, and retirement, plus a summer! She was much happier with her day to day work than my dad ever was despite him always making quite a bit more.
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Wow! I took that lead from your post and Googled corn starth and mineral veil and I'm off to make my own with potato starch, cocao powder and a touch of cinnanom! Thanks!
