january filers!

[KitEEgirl 0]

I work 7:00AM to 4:00PM regularly. I am on call 24/7. Holidays we typically work because the plant is shut down and the equipment is free for us to work on.... I have two installations per year, which include 4 weeks, of 80+ hours/week. I get called in in the middle of the night on average of 2 times per month, sometimes more, sometimes less... Definitely more after a new installation, etc...

I also work on average of 2 Saturday's per month (but only 1/2 days), although February was pretty calm. I get 10 vacation days / year, and we are only allowed to take 1 "week" in a row off per year.. The other vacation days can only be used at 1 at a time...

Although, I completely love my job too. I wouldn't consider a job change right now. It's really cool to see something I designed up and running...

While I understand the aggravation teachers have to put up with, you have to admit their schedule is pretty cool.

I'm an engineer for Philips and I feel like something is wrong if I have a day off!

Oh boy - I'm not looking forward to working longer hours and having fewer holidays in the US! Not to mention poor maternity leave/benefits...I haven't completely ruled out moving back to the UK at some point in the future.

I'm soooooooooooooo JEALOUS of my European friends when it comes to VACATIONS, work hours and MATERNITY LEAVE. Even my friends in Canada laugh at me.

Yep im gonna miss that for sure

Yes, we have quite a bit of "vacation"....however, most of my vacation in the summer is either attending teacher trainings (some mandatory, some voluntary) and teaching summer school for a little supplemental income (if I don't get to teach summer school, I have to find a summer job, sometimes with my own students...makes it a little awkward)...my days off during the school year are often spent with catching up on grading and lesson planning. And our "hours"...most teachers at our school (we start at 7:20 AM) get there at 6:30 (or earlier) and often stay until 4 or later (our students go home at 2:15)...I also teach night school that goes to 8 PM two nights a week...

I guess if I did the bare minimum of what I'm required to do (in regards to hours work and contracted schedule), it would be a lot of time off....

I love my job...it's demanding, but very rewarding....I wouldn't want to do anything else!!!!

[Amanda+Stephen 0]

I work 7:00AM to 4:00PM regularly. I am on call 24/7. Holidays we typically work because the plant is shut down and the equipment is free for us to work on.... I have two installations per year, which include 4 weeks, of 80+ hours/week. I get called in in the middle of the night on average of 2 times per month, sometimes more, sometimes less... Definitely more after a new installation, etc...

I also work on average of 2 Saturday's per month (but only 1/2 days), although February was pretty calm. I get 10 vacation days / year, and we are only allowed to take 1 "week" in a row off per year.. The other vacation days can only be used at 1 at a time...

Although, I completely love my job too. I wouldn't consider a job change right now. It's really cool to see something I designed up and running...

All to familiar with that. My brother used to work for Philips -- he worked very similar to what you do. He left a few years ago already. But he was working there while I was in college, and I was studying Chemical Engineering and almost spent a summer working there, until I decided that Engineering wasn't what I wanted out my career. I still have a great interest in it, but I just couldn't see myself in it for the long haul. But I do get the whole seeing something you designed up and running - nothing better than that feeling, regardless of what work you do. Makes you feel like you've made a difference!!!

Ahh, the US and vacation, all the rules and such. If they only realized that giving us more vacation might actually improve employee morale!

And given the current affairs with the US economy, we should all just feel blessed to have jobs!!

Edited March 4, 2008 by Amanda+Stephen

[dbears 1]

And given the current affairs with the US economy, we should all just feel blessed to have jobs!!

Hey guys, we have another january approval.. our first in March. .

Good luck to us all who are still waiting.

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Woo! Congrats to the mystery couple!

IrieCat - wow, that sounds absolutely ideal. If I could find a job like that - well, it'd be perfect!

[IrieCat 2]

Woo! Congrats to the mystery couple!

IrieCat - wow, that sounds absolutely ideal. If I could find a job like that - well, it'd be perfect!

Yes it can be great and it is in the travel industry....

Although it can be boring with no adults to talk to throughout the day and the kitchen so close!! LOL

I guess everything has its pros and cons!!

Congrats to the new approval!! Yeah!!!

[kommie 0]

Its sad that the USA is the only industrialized country in the world with out a law on vacation days

In Europe, after one year of labor you are entitled to twenty vacation days!!!

In my current company it takes 20 years for 20 days and I am also an Engineer.(Hopefully I wont be there that long)

[Amanda+Stephen 0]

Its sad that the USA is the only industrialized country in the world with out a law on vacation days

In Europe, after one year of labor you are entitled to twenty vacation days!!!

In my current company it takes 20 years for 20 days and I am also an Engineer.(Hopefully I wont be there that long)

Yeah it is sad and no consistency. My current company - you get 1 week your 1st year, after 1 year of service you get 2 weeks vacation, and 5 years you get 3 weeks, after 10 years, you get 4 weeks, and so on. Let alone, a lot of companies have taken away a number of paid holidays. Most banks, government institutions get them, but a lot companies don't give Easter holidays so much anymore.

I always joke with my fiance, because he's had 4 weeks vacation since he started ... I am like uh yeah, I've got 9 years with my company, and only getting 3 weeks!!! I'm just holding out for my 10th anniversary to get 4 weeks

[Amanda+Stephen 0]

Woo! Congrats to the mystery couple!

IrieCat - wow, that sounds absolutely ideal. If I could find a job like that - well, it'd be perfect!

Yes it can be great and it is in the travel industry....

Although it can be boring with no adults to talk to throughout the day and the kitchen so close!! LOL

I guess everything has its pros and cons!!

Congrats to the new approval!! Yeah!!!

LOL ... I know that feeling ... if it weren't for the dogs here and the occasional run in with the neighbors, it would be way too quiet!!! But I swear, when I have to go into the office to work, I feel like I can never get anything done!

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

Its sad that the USA is the only industrialized country in the world with out a law on vacation days

In Europe, after one year of labor you are entitled to twenty vacation days!!!

In my current company it takes 20 years for 20 days and I am also an Engineer.(Hopefully I wont be there that long)

That's what you get with a country where business is king, much to the detriment of workers (pardon me, we're starting on the Progressive Era soon, and I've been gathering materials...)

[Alex & Rachel 78]

I hardly ever talk to anyone at work!

But that's the way I like it. I work best with no distractions - no music, gossip or background noise.

I think I would find it hard being in the house, though. I'd have to have a very clearly delineated 'office' space.

[Amanda+Stephen 0]

I hardly ever talk to anyone at work!

But that's the way I like it. I work best with no distractions - no music, gossip or background noise.

I think I would find it hard being in the house, though. I'd have to have a very clearly delineated 'office' space.

Oh definitely -- in both houses I've worked from home, I have a separate office. Infact in this house, I made sure it was in the finished part of the basement. It's like its own little room ... once I leave, I don't hear the office line ring, and I don't check my emails, etc. It's work, and when I leave work, I'm done for the day. But it does have plenty of challenges -- like making sure not to sleep in, too easy to hit snooze, knowing you just have to walk to another room in the house

[IrieCat 2]

I hardly ever talk to anyone at work!

But that's the way I like it. I work best with no distractions - no music, gossip or background noise.

I think I would find it hard being in the house, though. I'd have to have a very clearly delineated 'office' space.

My office space is the living room but I do get alot of work done. After spending 6 months in St Lucia (essentially homeless in the USA) I came back to a 1 bedroom apartment I share with my daughter. Its ok though I like it and its a great school system but I had to take what I could get (or what my aunt got for me while I was gone). I am one of those people that like to move - I keep minimum things and I am lucky my daughter takes after me. When my Louis gets here we will find a 2 bedroom or eventually buy a house but he is used to sharing also and my 1 bedroom apartment will be a mansion to what he is used to!

Oh and even though I telework .. there is still juicy office gossip! LOL Can't live without it. I work for a small company and we are like a family - but like a family that is always in each others business ... Its a good thing we all like each other!!

[Amanda+Stephen 0]

I hardly ever talk to anyone at work!

But that's the way I like it. I work best with no distractions - no music, gossip or background noise.

I think I would find it hard being in the house, though. I'd have to have a very clearly delineated 'office' space.

My office space is the living room but I do get alot of work done. After spending 6 months in St Lucia (essentially homeless in the USA) I came back to a 1 bedroom apartment I share with my daughter. Its ok though I like it and its a great school system but I had to take what I could get (or what my aunt got for me while I was gone). I am one of those people that like to move - I keep minimum things and I am lucky my daughter takes after me. When my Louis gets here we will find a 2 bedroom or eventually buy a house but he is used to sharing also and my 1 bedroom apartment will be a mansion to what he is used to!

Oh and even though I telework .. there is still juicy office gossip! LOL Can't live without it. I work for a small company and we are like a family - but like a family that is always in each others business ... Its a good thing we all like each other!!

I think in the end, if the company knows you are a "good" worker, they don't care where you work from, as long as you do your work! So then it just becomes personal preference about how you want to work!

I tried in the living room when I was in Houston, but the dogs were always nosing around through all my work papers!

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

I hardly ever talk to anyone at work!

But that's the way I like it. I work best with no distractions - no music, gossip or background noise.

I think I would find it hard being in the house, though. I'd have to have a very clearly delineated 'office' space.

My office space is the living room but I do get alot of work done. After spending 6 months in St Lucia (essentially homeless in the USA) I came back to a 1 bedroom apartment I share with my daughter. Its ok though I like it and its a great school system but I had to take what I could get (or what my aunt got for me while I was gone). I am one of those people that like to move - I keep minimum things and I am lucky my daughter takes after me. When my Louis gets here we will find a 2 bedroom or eventually buy a house but he is used to sharing also and my 1 bedroom apartment will be a mansion to what he is used to!

Oh and even though I telework .. there is still juicy office gossip! LOL Can't live without it. I work for a small company and we are like a family - but like a family that is always in each others business ... Its a good thing we all like each other!!

I know...sometimes, some of my fellow teachers devolve right back into the high schoolers we teach (he said, she said....)...but mostly the younger 20ish teachers...the rest of us just ignore it...

[greeneyedgirlfl 0]

I hardly ever talk to anyone at work!

But that's the way I like it. I work best with no distractions - no music, gossip or background noise.

I think I would find it hard being in the house, though. I'd have to have a very clearly delineated 'office' space.

Oh definitely -- in both houses I've worked from home, I have a separate office. Infact in this house, I made sure it was in the finished part of the basement. It's like its own little room ... once I leave, I don't hear the office line ring, and I don't check my emails, etc. It's work, and when I leave work, I'm done for the day. But it does have plenty of challenges -- like making sure not to sleep in, too easy to hit snooze, knowing you just have to walk to another room in the house

Sometimes I wish I could work from my home...maybe working for Florida Virtual School...