WOOHOO. It's Thursday!!!
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|MadMaz wrote:There was a time when I didn't have work on Thursday, then there was a time when I didn't have to work every thursday. Now I have to work "half" a day on Thrusday... I can see where I'm going from here...
Yep.. the writing is on the wall 
I'm lucky (I guess) because where I work, we put in longer weekday hours but have Thursday's and Friday's off (still a 44+ hour week).
I was luckier in the States--35 hour week!!
However, the way I've got it figure it is that that 'extra' day I work each week amounts to annual leave time, so looking at it that way, it's all good
||||I look at it this way.聽 I am always busy so it goes fast and you don't mind so much.聽 Kinda like when it's 45C outside but hey, its a dry heat.
Now that is what I call positive thinking! or was it wishful thinking?!
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While I was an HR Director it was not unheard of to work 65 hrs in a 5 day period!聽 Sometimes on the weekends too.聽 But I enjoyed the work and my kids were grown.聽 In the Military there were many months when it was 12hr days with no time off AND I had 3 kids (and Hubby) to raise, their activities and a house to keep (with no family who lived close)!聽
聽 It got interesting at times!!!聽 So guys, those that are here alone, consider yourself fortunate that you only have yourselves to take care of!聽 Your biggest difficulty will be staying out of trouble!聽
To those of you who work, raise children, cart them to their activities, go to school, and keep house (with no domestic help) I applaud you!聽 聽
聽 You are super beings!聽 Not sure how I ever lasted through those years...聽 But there is hope - Im here to prove it!聽 
|, for the first time in my life after many years of riduculous hours in Corporate Cities in various locations, cancelling holidays due to deadlines, not seeing new neighbours for over a year because I left for work in the dark and came home from work in the dark etc etc ... 
So, the Riyadh opportunity for Ian made it that my work options are very limited so for now because of what I do, I can't even call myself a housewife as the house is taken care of and our daughter is all grown up and not at home with us.
How long this will last is another story as anyone who knows me well will know I will go mad within a few months, so for now let me enjoy this.聽 Every day is a Thursday for me
|Here in Riyadh, for whatever reason (the weather?), I find myself depleted after 10 hours on the job and that's enough!!聽 My joke is that it's against my religion to work unpaid overtime
聽 (although I did end up working much of last weekend, to my chagrin 
)|gowiththeflowUK wrote:Well, without any shame I am very pleased to share with you that I do not work at all in Riyadh
Every day is a Thursday for me
I used to work real hard until 2008 when I decided to call it a day and hang my boots for my regular day job. After that it has been a comfortable run with work still on my hands but at my own free will and pace.
I know many men of my vintage here in KSA who think and believe that should they have another chance of being reborn into this planet they would wanna be dependent wives, like Maxine, in Saudi Arabia... enjoying their coffee mornings and daily Thursdays....
|I would like to quote this interesting read which I came across.
In his 1987 essay, "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race," anthropologist Jared Diamond discusses the amount of leisure time that was available to people more than 10,000 years ago when they lived in tribes of hunter-gatherers. After studying modern hunter-gatherer societies, Diamond found that they work between 12 and 19 hours per week. The rest of their time is dedicated to leisure.
Another interesting "prophicy" that seems like it's not gonna happen is this one:
Economist John Maynard Keynes is credited, along with Adam Smith and a few select others, with founding modern economics. Keynes provided the foundation for macroeconomics, the study of economies on the whole, including interest rates, employment, budgets and many other factors. Keynes revolutionized economics and its forecasts, and when he made the predictions in his 1930 essay, "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," people listened.
In "Economic Possibilities," Keynes posits that by 2030, developed societies will be wealthy enough that leisure time, rather than work, will characterize national lifestyles. He uses a realistic estimate for growth -- 2 percent per year -- and pointed out that with that growth the "capital equipment" in the world would increase seven and a half times. With a world as wealthy as this, he said, "We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day [sic], only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines" [source: Keynes].
If Keynes was to see how people live now, not so far from 2030 he would be wondering where his calculations went wrong...
|| but I bet Dr. Phil will be unhappy with it... "looking for a job is a full time job!" that includes overtime I suppose ||
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Hang wrong part of the world
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||nonz wrote:My weekend was awesome,played UNO and survived somehow with the bunch of cheater friends....They have just left and my house look some Garbage bag:lol:
You didn't invite me
|My guest is still in the land of ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
|jillndave wrote:It's Friday morning, not too bad considering. Thursday - worked in the morning, then a bit of shopping, made a pizza, watched a film, played snooker and drank tooooo much apple juice.
My guest is still in the land of ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.
Thanks for the pizza party and enjoyed snooker, though you won but i bet i will sure win next time.
Its always fun around you.
Thanks for a very good weekend.
Anil
||Alliecat wrote:nonz wrote:My weekend was awesome,played UNO and survived somehow with the bunch of cheater friends....They have just left and my house look some Garbage bag:lol:
You didn't invite me
Next time i will and if you make an excuse i will chop u
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