I run the teen section of a public library. I work an hour or from where I live. This makes quite a dent in my potential training time! I have to be out the door by 7:30 am most days, and don’t get home until after 7 pm most nights. By the time I get home, get changed, and get into the gym (we have an awesome home gym setup) it is often 8 pm or later. This is frustrating, because at the end of a long day I am already pretty tired and hungry. I have been trying to eat a protein bar on the way home at night, and have a late afternoon high protein snack, but I am still hungry by the time I get home. After we train, eat, walk the dogs, and do dishes, it is time to fall into bed and do it all over again.
Luckily for me, I have a live in trainer, who knows how to set up a program for me, so that takes a LOT of the guesswork out of it for me, and saves me a ton of time. He tells me what to do, and I do it! We spend about 1.5-2 hours in the gym 4-5 days a week, and I do cardio on the other nights.
I look forward to when the snow if FINALLY off the ground in the high country so I can resume hiking–my surgeon told me to avoid some of the extreme hiking I have done in the past due to my cadaver graft not being quite 100% yet. But hiking is soooo much more fun that the treadmill and the elliptical. I live in fantastic hiking country and usually spend quite a bit of time hiking and backpacking. I just moved to a new area, near Glacier Park in Montana, and have not yet learned all the drainages and dangers. I don’t want to take the dogs with me into grizzly territory! We will see if my lungs can handle the elevation, after my pulmonary embolism last fall. I still am not quite up to 100% lung capacity.
So, long answer to the short question–I am a librarian, and I make time to train by sleeping less. Not ideal, but reality.
I am a sales rep for a certain cutlery company. I graduate high school this June and plan on going to a technical college to get an AA degree in mechanical drafting/design.
Student, and until a little while ago I had a great job at a sawmill part time, now I’m done the semester and unemployed.
Lots of training time now I guess
[quote]malonetd wrote:
In 1972, I was sent to prison by a military court for a crime I didn’t commit. I promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, I survive as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find me, maybe you can hire…me.[/quote]
Department Manager for Lowe's. I'm not surprised to see that I'm one of only a few people working full time retail posting. The schedule is impossible to predict. I work at 6 AM tomorrow, and until 11 PM the next day. The hours suck, the pay is lousy, most of the people I work with are high school dropouts/GED educated and to top it all off, the customers are some of the most irritating people I've encountered in my life.
Not a single day goes by that some asshole with too much free time gives me a hard time because he’s managed to mangle his house so badly it’s close to beyond repair. The senior management in the store are blind to what’s actually happening both in the store and out, and couldn’t be bothered to look. I actually heard a 20 minute long lecture from the Ops Mgr. because I was 7 minutes late coming back from my lunch, literally. Never mind that it’s the first time in 8 months.
I’ve been in this worthless industry for 6 years and I can say without a single moments pause that big box retail jobs are the worst possible option for anyone, whether as a student or someone looking for a career. The hours are horrifying. Most stores are only closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas. This past year I worked New Years Day, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, and Christmas Eve. Not short hours, either. I did not go home on Christmas Eve until 11PM.
I could vent on and on for hours, but the bottom line is, if you work in retail, take a good look at your life and see just how many of your problems, mentally, physically and financially could be solved by getting out.
High school math Teacher/Bartender/Landlord/House Rehabber. Have a small amount of time to train but I fit it in.
Can’t wait till Summer to actually have some free time though. Going to try to drop to 308 class or might try to go hard and get down to 285. Train Thurs after teaching and before Tending Bar. Sat early AM then Nap and too the Bar. Monday and Tues work in the Weight room at school and help out a few kids while I get my workout. Just did my first PL comp last weekend. So now just getting ready to train for the next one.
Any other teachers?
The law experience will be extremely valuable if you decide on an accounting career. Not so much in a bigger firm, but in a small firm, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the other first year staff you get hired with.
[quote]Jeffe wrote:
Department Manager for Lowe’s. I’m not surprised to see that I’m one of only a few people working full time retail posting. The schedule is impossible to predict. I work at 6 AM tomorrow, and until 11 PM the next day. The hours suck, the pay is lousy, most of the people I work with are high school dropouts/GED educated and to top it all off, the customers are some of the most irritating people I’ve encountered in my life.
Not a single day goes by that some asshole with too much free time gives me a hard time because he’s managed to mangle his house so badly it’s close to beyond repair. The senior management in the store are blind to what’s actually happening both in the store and out, and couldn’t be bothered to look. I actually heard a 20 minute long lecture from the Ops Mgr. because I was 7 minutes late coming back from my lunch, literally. Never mind that it’s the first time in 8 months.
I’ve been in this worthless industry for 6 years and I can say without a single moments pause that big box retail jobs are the worst possible option for anyone, whether as a student or someone looking for a career. The hours are horrifying. Most stores are only closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas. This past year I worked New Years Day, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, and Christmas Eve. Not short hours, either. I did not go home on Christmas Eve until 11PM.
I could vent on and on for hours, but the bottom line is, if you work in retail, take a good look at your life and see just how many of your problems, mentally, physically and financially could be solved by getting out.[/quote]
My husband feels your pain, he has your exact job right now, with Lowe’s even. He’s been there for less than year, took the job as a temporary thing because he got laid off. The hours SUCK. It’s almost impossible to plan ahead. The people are MORONS for the most part. I don’t know how you’ve done it 6 years, it’s a wonder you’re not insane.
My god, I would think this was an engineering website with all of the engineers out there. I am a Registered Dietitian that is working on getting in Physician Assistant school
hey, who invited the NASA guy? thanks for making the rest of us look bad.
You obviously havent met many people from NASA, sure, some really are rocket scientists, then again, some probably couldnt tie their shoes…
This guy however does more then calculate things so I wont group him in that category…
haha I know a few people that wear Velcro shoes over here…[/quote]
When I worked for the department of energy I knew 2 people who wore Velcro shoes and I met 3 more last fall during a trip to NASA to talk about materials research… Driving somewhere with those guys for lunch made me scared for my life… might be a brilliant scientist but no common sense what so ever… Thatâ??s why I know I will never have trouble finding a job, being the go between guy for research and production is a niche’ where you can always find employment…
