meal timing debate

cwolfman13

Christine_72 wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

Therealobi1 wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

One thing I've always wondered is who are these people who can have their last meal at 6 or whatever...and what do they do? I don't remember the last time I was home from work anytime before 6...sometimes I'm just leaving the office.

I am one of those people
I have an office job. Pick my daughter up from after school club before it closes at 6PM. Get home few mins later have dinner.

I'm often still at the office or just leaving at 6 and then 3x per week I have a 2 hour round trip commute...so basically out the door in the morning at 7 AM and getting home around 7 PM..the other 2 days I work in an office closer to home which is how I get my after work gym time in.

I'm executive level management in the finance department and while my hours are technically 8-5...yeah, that rarely happens. Supposedly I don't work weekends or nights when I get home either...at least not officially. The legislative session will be starting here in another week or so which means I'll basically not have a life or be getting home until well after my kids go to bed for a couple of weeks...usually don't get home until 10 PM or so during the session...

I'm an exempt salaried employee as well, so no OT...that said, I still spend a far cry less time working than when I was with the CPA firm...never mind that I don't have to travel 25 weeks out of the year anymore...certain times of year are crazier than others...most of the spring will be fairly mellow and I'll probably work mostly the standard 8-5 for the spring.

That kind of schedule would do my head in.

Compared to what I used to do, it's a cake walk. Unfortunately, my chosen field of accounting can be a pretty brutal workload and pretty much everything is an emergency, at least where the higher ups are concerned. All in all though I'm provided quite a bit of flexibility...like cutting out a little early on a Friday...and Tuesdays I work in the office closer to home and work through my lunch hour and they let me out of here around 4 to hit the gym...Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday kinda suck though.

I had to get out of the CPA firm when my oldest was born because that life would have killed my family. I typically worked 80 hours per week and traveled out of town 25 weeks out of the year, so I would never see my kiddo doing that...The most I've worked where I'm at is 60 hours, and that doesn't happen all that often...45-50 is more typical with a straight 40 at slow times of the year...