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ondik
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Czech Republic2908 Posts
May 01 2012 19:30 GMT
#1
Hey,

Simple question, how did you deal with your first full-time job?

I'm 23 and I was never employed before. I was a student and during summer I rather worked around our house and garden than some manual part-time job others usually do.

4 weeks ago I started working full-time. Unlike usual hiring process, this went down pretty fast. Wednesday I sent CV+letter, Thursday I was invited for interview, Friday I did interview+tests and in 2 hours they called me I had the best results and asked if I can start working on Monday. They gave me 3 hours for decission. One of the hardest decissions I had to make (girl, studies, end of my basicly 2 year holidays) , but eventually I accepted.

But to my question - ever since the first day, my day consists basicly only of working and sleeping. I'm logistics planner in one of the biggest computer/electronics company and mentally it's very demanding. You have to analyse shitloads of data, make decissions, solve different problems. I wake up around 6:30am, and get back from work around 5pm. I'm so dead and brainwashed that I don't even want to talk to anyone and around 10:30pm I'm already in my bed (for last 5 years I would go to bed at 2am and wake up at 10-11am). In the last four weeks I also barely watched any starcraft. Goodbye waking up to GSL matches, eh. But it's not only matter of time, I just feel like losing all the interest I've ever had in starcraft. Normally I'd just turn any tournament or players' stream on, now I just go to TL to see if there's any interesting news (ffs, even TSL4 announcement didn't get me as before ) and to check funny pictures thread. I hope today's/tomorrow's KESPA/Blizz/OGN announcement will draw me into the SC world again.

Anyway..besides the loss of interest in SC2, did any of you had to deal with what I described? Will it get better?

*****
Bisu. The one and only. // Save the cheerreaver, save the world (of SC2)
Kralic
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2628 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-01 19:37:41
May 01 2012 19:36 GMT
#2
You will eventually get used to it, and also enjoy the weekends or days off you get, they help a lot. Once you get used to it, you will build a routine that will let you enjoy the things you used to. Sorry I couldn't be that much assistance.
Brood War forever!
OpticalShot
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada6330 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-01 19:41:16
May 01 2012 19:40 GMT
#3
Hello,

Also 23, started full-time employment since last July, so I've been in the routine for 10 months now. In the first few months it was just wake up -> work -> play a game or two (usually up to two games, three max) -> sleep (before midnight!) -> repeat, with the meals in between. All the social aspects of life got pushed to the weekends. Also, I stopped watching live events in Korea unless they were over the weekend.

The same continues today, but I've been fitting in a decent workout routine after work. Still, in the weekdays, hard to do anything else really. Try to do more in the weekends! That's what weekends are for! Catch up on VODs, read TL (unless you can do that at work like me right now), invite friends over for LAN (that's right, SCBW forever! up yours SC2!), whatever works for you.

*edit: 5/5 for the fellow full-time worker
[TLMS] REBOOT
Hemula
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Russian Federation1849 Posts
May 01 2012 20:02 GMT
#4
Do you like having money more than you enjoyed having lots of free time? I am curious as I never worked full-time and I feel like free time is the best fucking thing that can happen to you. :D
Rimstalker
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany734 Posts
May 01 2012 20:07 GMT
#5
It hit me exactly the same. For my first job, I came back from one year of backpacking in Australia to a 45 hour workweek in a very fast-paced environment with loads and loads of information to soak up. For the first two months, I'd just commute, eat, shop for food and work. It got better then, I started socializing with my coworkers a bit (we'd have one evening a week, were all of us would leave work exactly on time and meet up for some squash and beer/sauna afterwards) and I picked up my gaming habit - Diablo 2 - again .

You will also learn to prioritize things better at work, so it will be less stressful. Of course, depending on the 'depth' of the job, the time required for this will be a bit different. Working in a call-center, it might be a week, software development I have heard 3-6 months to get really productive and one of my friends builds power plants, he tells me even after three years he has to ask his senior colleagues at least once every week about something he has no clue about.
Here be Dragons
MacroPLZ
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States63 Posts
May 01 2012 20:15 GMT
#6
It will get easier, much like a game of SC, you will learn how to prepare and react accordingly to your schedule. I too work a full time job and am working on my own SC projects, and it gets hard to juggle a life (which now that you work will consist of a lot more things to want to do), a job and a hobby/passion. Once you get your sleep and energy levels balanced, you will be able to make time for other things besides eating and showering. Stick with it, it sounds like you have a good and presumably a decent paying job considering your work load.

Best of luck and Cheers
No excuses, only excellence. check out my caster page here: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=331796
denzelz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States604 Posts
May 01 2012 20:30 GMT
#7
Maybe you just have to do something that feels different from work. I imagine you are on the computer all day at work so it's natural that you wouldn't want to watch the GSL or play any games when you get home. I had the same issue so I picked up some other hobbies and that has helped me de-stress from work.
HaRuHi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
1220 Posts
May 01 2012 20:31 GMT
#8
I am with Hemula on this one.

Also makes me remember, why not split work? No more unemployment and more free time for ya'll.
Zidane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1685 Posts
May 01 2012 20:41 GMT
#9
You're probably making bank, so enjoy life on the weekends!
kfr
Profile Joined March 2011
New Zealand13 Posts
May 01 2012 20:42 GMT
#10
I am in my last year of college for my undergrad degree, not sure if I'm going to do post grad or not. Never had a job or anything in my life and I have no idea what I'm going to do after this year.
Pawsom
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States928 Posts
May 01 2012 20:51 GMT
#11
You know you are allowed to ask for more time right. If you were genuinely one of the best canidates they've seen in a long time, a reasonable company shouldn't mind if you request a few days to a week to consider this and other offers.
elagrion
Profile Joined April 2010
Ukraine422 Posts
May 01 2012 21:05 GMT
#12
Work smarter, not harder.
Everything is a remix.
antilyon
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Brazil2546 Posts
May 01 2012 21:23 GMT
#13
You get used to it, it's pretty harsh on the first 2 months but you will build your new rotine and that's it.
That's how it feels being a productive member of society.:p
The KY
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom6252 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-01 21:35:16
May 01 2012 21:31 GMT
#14
On May 02 2012 06:23 antilyon wrote:
You get used to it, it's pretty harsh on the first 2 months but you will build your new rotine and that's it.
That's how it feels being a productive member of society.:p


That's how it feels being a worker drone
Yeah you get used to it. You really appreciate your leisure time.
But every so often you get the niggling idea in the back of your head...'In the unknowable infinity of the universe, for the smallest amount of time I am alive, I am conscious, I can experience this small corner of the majesty creation. And I'm spending most of my waking moments in this fucking place for a reason I cannot comprehend.'
Luckily those moments of existential dread don't stick around for too long

For myself though, I do erratic shift work so I don't really settle into any routine and my hours very often allow me to have a daily social life. Often I do a 6am-4pm, and afterwards I've got time to go have a few drinks with friends or something before going back to bed again at 10.
It's exhausting, but it's worth it to make the time.
ondik
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Czech Republic2908 Posts
May 01 2012 21:42 GMT
#15
On May 02 2012 05:07 Rimstalker wrote:
You will also learn to prioritize things better at work, so it will be less stressful. Of course, depending on the 'depth' of the job, the time required for this will be a bit different.


That's a good point, but I want to elaborate on that. During those 4 weeks I've been working I already learnt to prioritize things better at my personal life. I used to be TERRIBLE procrastinator, not only with studies, but generally. Now I feel like even with just few hours after work and weekends I'm managing to do more things than before. You also learn to appreciate and enjoy your free time much more.

On May 02 2012 05:02 Hemula wrote:
Do you like having money more than you enjoyed having lots of free time? I am curious as I never worked full-time and I feel like free time is the best fucking thing that can happen to you. :D


It's not about money. It's about future, I already feel like I'm behind others of my age because I didn't have any working experience before. I was trying to get an internship in PWC before, I made it to last 3 persons, they told me I had the best results+others chose me as a person they'd like to work with the most, but I lack experience.

On May 02 2012 05:41 Zidane wrote:
You're probably making bank, so enjoy life on the weekends!


Oh, man, how wrong you are. They pay is extremely shitty (around average wage in my country), considering what I do for the company (I basicly optimise logistics process of LCD monitors in whole Europe). But as I said, money aren't that important to me, I hope it will open more doors in future and I'm sure If I do this job somewhere else, I will get paid much more. On the other hand, there's lot of people who can't find in my region, and the fact is I just finished undergraduate studies and have no experience, so I would hardly find a job that would pay more.
Bisu. The one and only. // Save the cheerreaver, save the world (of SC2)
Zidane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1685 Posts
May 01 2012 21:52 GMT
#16
Yeah man, I'm in the same situation as you. The job you're currently working at will no doubt open some doors for ya though. I reccomend you get up early and exercise as, believe it or not, it gives you more energy throughout the day. You can come home feeling more fresh after you have a regime that includes a light jog or something. May improve your gaming/sex life
sam!zdat
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5559 Posts
May 01 2012 22:21 GMT
#17
It is a scam. That is how they make you unable to resist the hegemony of capitalism, by wearing you down and taking all of your free time and energy alienating your labor and producing surplus value for the capitalist, in the vague hope that something will get better in the big ponzi scheme that is your life.

Turn on, tune in, drop out

shikata ga nai
Rimstalker
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany734 Posts
May 01 2012 22:29 GMT
#18
Ha, I just saw that you are in CZ. Don't take any bullshit from HR and check your work contract and every single monthly statement very, very thoroughly. Don't believe any of the bullshit they feed you about transferring abroad through some official program the company has, the only way to land a job abroad is to become good friends with ppl there.
Here be Dragons
Smoot
Profile Joined April 2011
United States128 Posts
May 01 2012 22:39 GMT
#19
You basically described the life of every working class citizen.
Silentness
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States2821 Posts
May 01 2012 23:20 GMT
#20
Current almost 25. I joined the Air Force at 19. I have little free time. Work from 9-12 hours a day depending on what type of work I have to do. Also I am trying to finish my bachelors degree while working full time. Also I am married so I spend time with my wife. A pro gaming SC2 career is nowhere in my future, but I still play a couple games if I have time.

Thank God I dont have any kids. If you are still in High School enjoy it while you can. Work really isnt that fun for me or paying bills.
GL HF... YOLO..lololollol.
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