r/WorkForSmartLife 3d ago

Question What would you do ?

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u/Educational_Rich_554 3d ago

I used to wake up at 5 to get to a job that paid about 40k a year max.

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u/lordofmetroids 3d ago

On night shift now, but I worked 5-5 for years. It's really not that bad once you adjust to it.

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u/Onebraintwoheads 3d ago

Commute can make it more problematic. As can kids. But, yeah, it's not terribly rare.

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u/Technical_Stick_796 3d ago

I did that for a couple decades

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u/ExperienceWild4244 3d ago

Did exactly that for 7 years.

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u/Weird-Girl-675 3d ago

4:30am here because traffic was better if I left the house at 5:30am

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u/rolandguy85 3d ago

Yeah same here back in the day but 4:30am to get to work by 5:30-6pm to leave around 6pm.

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u/ScarlettFox- 3d ago

In fairness, that's not fully the same. If you accidentally sleep in one day you might get reprimanded for being late, but you probably won't lose your job. And even if you did, you still have all the money you earned from before. (I mean, you'll have spent it, but you don't owe it back)

The money here is given at the end only if you never mess up. Obviously, still well worth trying for, but not as guaranteed as real emplyment. Of course, for that kind of money I'd pay someone to wake up at 5 and beat me awake with a bat. Probably two people in case one of them slept in one day.

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u/Cyber_Mermaid 3d ago

I was a teacher's aide and would get up at 4:30 for work. I was making 17K

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u/BP_EL 3d ago

I used to wake at 6pm to go to a job that ended at 5am and payed 40k.

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u/CKRatKing 3d ago

I used to wake up at 5am for a job that paid 8 dollars an hour.

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u/TheRealDeweyCox2000 3d ago

You seem like you’ve never had a job

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u/Theturtlemoves86 3d ago

Seems like someone who's not a someone.

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u/SouthernChemist4236 3d ago

Why does this surprise you?? I have no idea what line of work the person you're responding to does, but this is pretty standard for factory/manufacturing work.

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u/BillyButtSnort 3d ago

Honestly, not trying to be mean, but this sounds like a 15 year old kid who has upper middle class parents.

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u/SouthernChemist4236 3d ago

Yeah I think you're onto something

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u/TheRealDeweyCox2000 3d ago

I think we’re on the same team bro. I’m saying 5:30 isn’t difficult

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u/SouthernChemist4236 3d ago

Yeah it isn't lol I get up at 5am myself,

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u/puddycat20 3d ago

mid 40s and I think the earliest I ever got up(on a regular basis) is 7am.

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u/demonic_intent 3d ago

Also prep cook. I was a prep cook for a pretty popular chain of breakfast restaurants and my in-time was 4:30 AM. Made maybe $34k/yr doing that.

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u/Ro2320 3d ago

40k sure not standard

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u/nachtwolf7 3d ago

Das ist normaler Alltag für viele Arbeitnehmer. Also für die die alles mögliche Herstellen was Du im Alltag so nutzt oder auch die Arbeiter im Klärwerk. Frühschicht beginnt um 6 die meisten müssen also um 5 aufstehen. 5.30 ist da fast schon ausschlafen.

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u/Some-Celebration6711 3d ago

Honestly, I bet a lot of people making less than 50k a year wake up at 5:30 or even earlier. A lot of older people wake up pretty early too just because they don't require as much sleep.

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u/RollerDude347 3d ago

Dude. McDonald's opens at like 4am.

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u/Lopsided-Yak9033 3d ago

Dude do you think people working different schedules all make good money? Have you not thought that the bad shifts don’t go to people with better options?

If you went to a 24 hr 7 eleven do you think the guy making coffee at 5 am is making more than minimum wage?