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Live to work or work to live?
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I retired at the age of 55 from the hospitality industry
Working from the age of 16 in hotels, and working my way up to general manager of a large London hotel
Many of the positions I held were live in, and at times I was on call 24/7
Looking back I missed out on a lot, in particular Christmas days and new years eves etc (busy time for a hotel)
I often worked 90 hour weeks
I missed out on so much, and have regrets about my chosen industry.
Do you work to live?
Or live to work? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am re assessing my work/life balance at the moment. I'm not getting any younger and my role is exhausting....But what to do after a lifetime of what I do is the thing
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Work to live.
I spent 15 years in hospitality wasting my life. I refuse to do it any more. I got a normal job with normal hours that pays enough for me to actually live my life and it's fucken beautiful. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Work to live.
I spent 15 years in hospitality wasting my life. I refuse to do it any more. I got a normal job with normal hours that pays enough for me to actually live my life and it's fucken beautiful."
You got out at the right age, I wish I had.....good luck to you X |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Worked to live, and now retired and loving life.
Worked on oilrigs for 30 years
2 weeks offshore/ 3 weeks home leave which was a good works rotation although courses had to be done in weeks off.
Paid into pension avc's and eventually this paid off with a healthy monthly pension   |
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"Work to live.
I spent 15 years in hospitality wasting my life. I refuse to do it any more. I got a normal job with normal hours that pays enough for me to actually live my life and it's fucken beautiful.
You got out at the right age, I wish I had.....good luck to you X "
I don't know. Taking an apprenticeship in my 30s for less than £4 an hour was a tough fucken year and I should have done it years earlier when I had more support.
It was worth it though. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Work to live.
I spent 15 years in hospitality wasting my life. I refuse to do it any more. I got a normal job with normal hours that pays enough for me to actually live my life and it's fucken beautiful.
You got out at the right age, I wish I had.....good luck to you X
I don't know. Taking an apprenticeship in my 30s for less than £4 an hour was a tough fucken year and I should have done it years earlier when I had more support.
It was worth it though."
As long as you're happy now, that's what counts. I was imprisoned by the job, although I didn't see it then |
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Bit of both. Main job is work to live, if I could I'd quit it in a heartbeat but mortgages don't get paid that way. Second job is definitely live to work, it honestly is getting paid to do my hobby and although there's times where it can be hard work the end results are always worth it! |
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"I retired at the age of 55 from the hospitality industry
Working from the age of 16 in hotels, and working my way up to general manager of a large London hotel
Many of the positions I held were live in, and at times I was on call 24/7
Looking back I missed out on a lot, in particular Christmas days and new years eves etc (busy time for a hotel)
I often worked 90 hour weeks
I missed out on so much, and have regrets about my chosen industry.
Do you work to live?
Or live to work? "
I’ve done both, OP. Sometimes, especially when single, I’ve been all about working like the proverbial. These days I try to ensure I have a good balance.
On reflection, what would you have liked to do instead? Do you think hospitality was a good grounding and you should have cut and run? Or would you like to have done something entirely unrelated? |
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I do half and half … some weeks (months even) i live to work, 60/70 hour weeks.
But then it affords me a good wage and the respect at work that other times i work to live and scrape by on the bare minimum while focussing on my personal life
Swings and roundabouts |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I am now trying to rejig what I do so that I can live more with investment and houses and that kinda thing cos life is for living eh."
Makes perfect sense |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I retired at the age of 55 from the hospitality industry
Working from the age of 16 in hotels, and working my way up to general manager of a large London hotel
Many of the positions I held were live in, and at times I was on call 24/7
Looking back I missed out on a lot, in particular Christmas days and new years eves etc (busy time for a hotel)
I often worked 90 hour weeks
I missed out on so much, and have regrets about my chosen industry.
Do you work to live?
Or live to work? "
Sometimes the choice isn't yours , being honest , most would want to be financially well off so they could enjoy the trappings of wealth ( both physical & mental Health to me is first and foremost btw ) but sometimes a person is in or after being put in a position that requires him/ her to work unsociable hours, days etc and they have to roll with the punches. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Until last year I would have said live to work, but I've made so many changes practically and in my mind in the past 12months that I'm now very happily the opposite. |
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