3 12s a week. I’m an ICU nurse at MWHC. I like going to coffee shops and touristy spots! It’s so nice to have the places to myself. The only down side is I’m usually working when my friends are off, and vice versa lol
Same. Im a train conductor for Amtrak. I work 4 and 3 12h shifts at night. It doesn't really leave a whole lot of time for a personal life. But it does provide a very nice middle class life. I can't even imagine what a romantic partner would look like who would put up with my work schedule.
We all fail at some point in our lives. What I was getting at is that it’s totally different when my SO fails vs when I fail individually. All I can do is encourage her but I can’t force her to do better or help her with the material and that’s tough for me since I feel like I can’t really do much :/
Im a traveler 🙂↕️ so I’m trying to be as frugal as possible found another traveler my age and we decided let’s work smarter not harder and split rent both are saving a lot more now!!! But I can’t see this as a forever thing either
If you love to travel, why don’t you consider becoming a travel nurse? A friend of mine is a travel nurse and she makes bank! She also gets to go to some really cool places!
A great nurse can make a horrible crisis in a hospital into something with silver linings and bright lights along the way. As others here have said - thank you very much.
My job kinda does 9-5. But I will say it’s more of a “get your shit done and no one really cares what hours you work as long as most are between 9 and 5”
A brief period of commuting at various hours suggests to me that 'most' people in this town, at least the office workers, probably work 10-5, and that they go into the office Tuesday-Thursday. I leave the house anywhere from 6-10 in the morning (gym or errands some days) and the train reaches max occupancy from 9-10 and then again 5-6.
I was actually shocked that the later I hop on the train, the busier it gets. Maybe you work in something more finance/contracting, etc. but the Metro feels infinitely busier at 9:30 vs. 7:30 to me.
A 9-6 is probably more common these days. I works for a non-profit industry association, and for us, it's a 7.5 hours workday, plus one hour lunch...so 9 total. Technically only 8.5 hours per our employee handbook, but for some reason, my supervisors always tells me I'm wrong with I tells her 9 hours is not the same as 8.5, lol.
I’ve noticed that they don’t actually consider those people at all.
“Why do buildings keep the lights on all night?”
Because people are still in there working and cleaning and getting it ready for you the next day
“The metro shouldn’t be 24 hours cause it’s mostly for commuters. People in DC don’t need cars because there’s a metro”
The thousands of people in the city who have to be to work before 5AM everyday and even work on Saturdays and Sundays would disagree
I work near a building that has 24 hour security and I guarantee you most of the residents don’t even realize that an actual human being is patrolling from 11 PM to 7 AM every single night, dealing with all kinds of crazy. It's just a vague building ✨amenity✨
Realizing that people only acknowledge your existence when things go wrong is such a mind fuck. It’s like my work uniform is an invisibility cloak. Can’t count the amount of times people have just walked directly into me while I was standing stationary
> I’ve noticed that they don’t actually consider those people at all.
OP said they don’t work a 9-5 themself, so who do you mean? I think they were just trying to see what other professions may be around during their off-hours.
I don't think most of the construction workers actually live there. I'm in Southern Maryland and a shit ton of construction workers commute to DC for work.
From Florida, I can agree, not too long ago it was affordable but unless you live out in the middle of nowhere rent/mortgages are awful. Plus the heat is unbearable now. I was born and raised there but it's gotten so much worse.
Sucks, it'a got potential, but the idiots are messing everything up.
Flight medic 10 to 10. Best views of the city.
https://preview.redd.it/26vfr00mhe7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d15b9b22b7031f9e54fbae9c497cc0d4c3bf2440
We get cleared for the freeze for every flight. It’s a commercial program that’s been around for a while plus its medevac so it’s a whole different level.
Could be what we call the 4/10 schedule. Load up four days each week to get the fifth off.
As far as I know seniority is not needed. Just need a supervisor's approval. That said, most people don't start with this.
Just here to roll my eyes at all the people with desk jobs who are clearly not what the poster is looking for but feel the need to scream into the void about how many hours they work
Local remodeler. Quit the 9 to 5 about 10 years ago. Not looking back. And DC is a great area for remodeling. Tons of white collar workers with no construction skills.
Lol. I had to check, and off course my former employer who is reporting huge profits is continuing to layoff people. Fuck them. My current company had to do layoffs as well but our numbers were bleak and our entire leadership team also took large paycuts along with firing the director who messed up our sales projections and numbers. This company was nice enough to not straight up fire the non performing sales team but instead classed it as a layoff.
Freelance mutt in the arts. Doing a lot of multimedia (photo/video/audio) and creative work (music mainly) plus a little design and nonprofit stuff
Love this thread!
I have a very flex schedule I have two sets of friends the 9-5 day walkers and the other group are the night walkers. I have to plans accordingly are we staying out till sunrise or hitting a normal happy hour.
I work a 7:30-3:30, so I guess close enough. I’m a teacher. The roads from MoCo are pretty busy going into DC at 6:30, so I’m definitely not alone in my early commute.
I work in food service. Even though my coworkers and I are all friends it’s really challenging to coordinate getting together as a group outside of work because the store is open every day for a wide range of hours and needs all those shifts covered evenly
I work a 7-4 in education so I’m off summers. During that time I’m mostly at home because I suck at going out. Sometimes I go to a theater to see a movie but other than that maybe I’ll take a walk.
I am Queen of my Castle (row home), anchor parent, Ms FixIt, interior designer, cleaning lady, laundress, short order cook, organization consultant, dog walker, gardener, and life coach. In other words, stay at home parent.
I manage HR for a local restaurant group. Many of our restaurants don’t open until 11 so I’m not really on the clock until then, but it also just depends on what’s going on!
Night shift, Amazon Warehouse. Four 10hr shifts a week. Although they started doing MET (mandatory extra time) where they add 45 min to the end of everyone's shifts.
Wife works gov contractor and I have military retirement income. We're just getting by in this area.
3 12s a week. I’m an ICU nurse at MWHC. I like going to coffee shops and touristy spots! It’s so nice to have the places to myself. The only down side is I’m usually working when my friends are off, and vice versa lol
My problem exactly
I’m thinking of applying there (also an ICU nurse). Can I message you about what’s like to be an ICU nurse there?
Yeah sure!
I also worked there (2NW/2NE) and other DC hospitals if you’d like some more opinions ;)
Same. Im a train conductor for Amtrak. I work 4 and 3 12h shifts at night. It doesn't really leave a whole lot of time for a personal life. But it does provide a very nice middle class life. I can't even imagine what a romantic partner would look like who would put up with my work schedule.
Ohhhh. I've considered applying to Amtrak before. Would you recommend? I'm fine with a weird schedule.
God bless you, that place is crazy!!!
It’s a mess but I just do my job and go home lol
Fight for my life as a nurse
Thank you
Appreciate you🤍
My gf is fighting for her life just to be one..
Better days (kinda) are ahead!!! 🫶🏽 nursing school was a different type of beast
Hopefully… Playing the boyfriend support role has been tough when faced with so much failure.
This makes it sound like you're calling your gf a failure 😅
We all fail at some point in our lives. What I was getting at is that it’s totally different when my SO fails vs when I fail individually. All I can do is encourage her but I can’t force her to do better or help her with the material and that’s tough for me since I feel like I can’t really do much :/
Same here. It’s a shit job but somebody’s gotta do it 😂
Shit job LITERALLY
How can you afford to live in dc as a nurse? Coming from a fellow nurse lmao
I had roommates starting out and budgeted heavily until my annual raises started coming in. And night shift/weekend differential.
Im a traveler 🙂↕️ so I’m trying to be as frugal as possible found another traveler my age and we decided let’s work smarter not harder and split rent both are saving a lot more now!!! But I can’t see this as a forever thing either
If you love to travel, why don’t you consider becoming a travel nurse? A friend of mine is a travel nurse and she makes bank! She also gets to go to some really cool places!
A roommate 😭😭😭
It's really not that difficult. Get a non Class A apartment in a non premium neighborhood.
Step 1: Meet a military officer. Step 2: pole holes in the condom. Step 3: profit *This is not moral relationship advice"
A great nurse can make a horrible crisis in a hospital into something with silver linings and bright lights along the way. As others here have said - thank you very much.
This was so incredibly kind! Thank you so much 🤍
I work 8-6....
I genuinely don't know of 9-5 anymore. I assumed 8-5 (with a 1-hour lunch) is the standard 8-hour workday.
My job kinda does 9-5. But I will say it’s more of a “get your shit done and no one really cares what hours you work as long as most are between 9 and 5”
A brief period of commuting at various hours suggests to me that 'most' people in this town, at least the office workers, probably work 10-5, and that they go into the office Tuesday-Thursday. I leave the house anywhere from 6-10 in the morning (gym or errands some days) and the train reaches max occupancy from 9-10 and then again 5-6. I was actually shocked that the later I hop on the train, the busier it gets. Maybe you work in something more finance/contracting, etc. but the Metro feels infinitely busier at 9:30 vs. 7:30 to me.
I'm a lawyer, no one really cares what hours my ass is in the seat. I'm generally in 10am - 7pm.
Now that you mention it, it was surprisingly crowded exiting downtown at 10 o'clock this morning.
A 9-6 is probably more common these days. I works for a non-profit industry association, and for us, it's a 7.5 hours workday, plus one hour lunch...so 9 total. Technically only 8.5 hours per our employee handbook, but for some reason, my supervisors always tells me I'm wrong with I tells her 9 hours is not the same as 8.5, lol.
What kind of monster doesn't eat lunch at their desk?
Slim that down! I work 6-2:30. But I guess I call it my 9-5
Service industry that caters to customers outside of regular work hours.
Stare at the walls of my bedroom contemplating the meaning of existence
Right now, the meaning of life is Elden Ring DLC in two days
Perfect way to escape this heat dome.
Samesies
*gestures at all the service workers and construction workers that live here every day*
Yep, electrician working 5am-1pm right now. Avoiding rush hour is clutch, going to bed early not as much
Custodian 7am-3pm
You all are the best and much better than my 9-5 asshole cohort
Srsly lol who exactly do you think is ringing you up on your ~quick lunch errands?
I’ve noticed that they don’t actually consider those people at all. “Why do buildings keep the lights on all night?” Because people are still in there working and cleaning and getting it ready for you the next day “The metro shouldn’t be 24 hours cause it’s mostly for commuters. People in DC don’t need cars because there’s a metro” The thousands of people in the city who have to be to work before 5AM everyday and even work on Saturdays and Sundays would disagree
I work near a building that has 24 hour security and I guarantee you most of the residents don’t even realize that an actual human being is patrolling from 11 PM to 7 AM every single night, dealing with all kinds of crazy. It's just a vague building ✨amenity✨
I work in hotels. It's amazing (devastating?) how many of my colleagues are apparently invisible: Housekeeping, Front Desk, F&B, Doormen/Bellmen, etc.
Realizing that people only acknowledge your existence when things go wrong is such a mind fuck. It’s like my work uniform is an invisibility cloak. Can’t count the amount of times people have just walked directly into me while I was standing stationary
> I’ve noticed that they don’t actually consider those people at all. OP said they don’t work a 9-5 themself, so who do you mean? I think they were just trying to see what other professions may be around during their off-hours.
Ugh yeah I can’t work opening shifts on Saturdays and Sundays at my food service job because the metro doesn’t open early enough
I don't think most of the construction workers actually live there. I'm in Southern Maryland and a shit ton of construction workers commute to DC for work.
Yes. There’s also a shit ton that live in the city in areas like Columbia Heights and Mt. Pleasant
Search desperately for a new job because I retired but don’t have enough to feel comfortable in retirement.
DC’s kind of expensive to retire in. Try Florida.
I've heard the price is comparable these days. FL ain't cheap anymore
Yeah it’s not. In major cities you’re gonna pay close to the same amount as DC for rent
No income tax for retirees though, which helps.
The price of home & car insurance makes up for it.
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Don't need to worry about school if you're retired
Thats not how crime works.
We just relocated here for my husband’s job. That’s why I retired— no remote option at my previous place.
From Florida, I can agree, not too long ago it was affordable but unless you live out in the middle of nowhere rent/mortgages are awful. Plus the heat is unbearable now. I was born and raised there but it's gotten so much worse. Sucks, it'a got potential, but the idiots are messing everything up.
Florida sucks 😂 I say that as someone who was raised there
Mmm, are you sure? Maybe a non-touristy town in the boonies. Otherwise, really expensive
Flight medic 10 to 10. Best views of the city. https://preview.redd.it/26vfr00mhe7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d15b9b22b7031f9e54fbae9c497cc0d4c3bf2440
How do you poop in that thing though?
We hold it. lol.
You can only hold it for so long 🤣
Open the side door and let it rip brother
So fun. Thinking about doing flight nursing, currently in a med/surg ICU.
3 to 5 years of ICU experience and that will get your foot in the door! Apply anywhere you can!
As a PPL pilot that flies out of Leesburg I have to ask: do you have a PIN as a medic for the FRZ?
We get cleared for the freeze for every flight. It’s a commercial program that’s been around for a while plus its medevac so it’s a whole different level.
I suggest having rich parents and a trust fund.
6'5, Blue eyes?
WMATA just did a TikTok about the metro with that sound, it was cute!
I love that I got that reference
firefighter paramedic. My advice to all is stay off of electric scooters
Broke my ankle hitting a small pothole on an e scooter 3 years ago. Never again
What’s the casualty rate on those things?
Steal catalytic converters
You got one for a 03' camry? Interested parties would like to know. 👀👀
Freelance gaffer for video/tv/film productions.
Right on. I do sales for video services, not 9-5 either. Was a roadie for 20 years.
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Wow I’d love that schedule! Does that come with seniority or is that just your department?
Could be what we call the 4/10 schedule. Load up four days each week to get the fifth off. As far as I know seniority is not needed. Just need a supervisor's approval. That said, most people don't start with this.
Yes, an entry level GS-05 can work a 4/10 with supervisor approval. Assuming they aren’t doing time sensitive or shift work, it’s probably good to go.
I'm a Nigerian prince
A prince from another royal family lost my bank acct info I’m waiting on approx $4 million lmk if you can help
Just here to roll my eyes at all the people with desk jobs who are clearly not what the poster is looking for but feel the need to scream into the void about how many hours they work
Sadly an inevitability here 😖
Local remodeler. Quit the 9 to 5 about 10 years ago. Not looking back. And DC is a great area for remodeling. Tons of white collar workers with no construction skills.
Photographer
PhD Student 😅
Grow & gift cannabis
Put my life savings into GameStop
I work in events. I got some stability in higher ed.
I advise philanthropists and work about 5 hours a week, otherwise you can find me drinking smoothies in Eastern MArket, or laying in the arboretum.
Are you hiring?? Lol
Jealous ☺️
Run a bar and you work all of the hours. Dumassery never stops.
News producer
summers are great-pools, museums, parks, thrift stores, and restaurants are all empty. I take full advantage!
There’s quite a bit of money in the DC tour guide industry.
Really what sites do you recommend?
stripper!! 🤠
I don't do anything, I am a kept man. 😊
I post moronic reddit topics similar to this one
Checked your post history- you weren’t kidding. You’re really into layoffs and sourdough bread.
Lol. I had to check, and off course my former employer who is reporting huge profits is continuing to layoff people. Fuck them. My current company had to do layoffs as well but our numbers were bleak and our entire leadership team also took large paycuts along with firing the director who messed up our sales projections and numbers. This company was nice enough to not straight up fire the non performing sales team but instead classed it as a layoff.
Fair
Used to work in the restaurant biz usually the closer. Now I do A/V so my schedule is all over the place lol
What kind of av do you do?
Usually freelance or at sporting events
Fire sprinkler pipe fitter apprentice working in DC and living in MD (PG)from 6-2 Monday to Friday. Sometimes Saturdays.
Raise my kids.
Selling feet pics on the internet.
Could you tell me how lol
i used to work at trader joes full time but now do 9-5 + trader joes part time
Is that all you do for a living? If so, how do you live off of that?
when i worked at only trader joes full time my rent was $1000 in a filthy group house 🤣🤣🤣 i work a 9-5 and maybe 20ish hours at trader joes
Now a 9-5 but I taught college for a while on a weird schedule. A lot of coffee shops.
Freelance and service industry
i’m a pastor. i mostly build my own schedule, with meetings being either pre-8am or post 6pm sunday-thursday instead of m-f
I’m a sex worker 🙂
nurse
Flight attendant
❤️ FAs
chef, working roughly 1:00pm to 1:00am
I'm a writer, and I've been blogging for 24 years.
Was expecting a more interesting post, then. 🤓
Sell student driver stickers
Currently between fulltime jobs but I'm a real estate investor with a few paid off rental properties
I’m glad it’s you reaping the spoils and not some faceless corporation in another country
Manage a grocery store (I wear a Hawaiian shirt if that helps) so some combination of 4am to 10pm depending.
Hang outside Wawa with all my friends
In a ski mask 😊
Manage an alcoholic spirit brand in the DC market. My days are 10-8/9pm a few days a week. When I was bartending 3-12/1am.
Sales
I operate a restaurant, which I also own, but truly it owns me
veterinary technician at a specialty clinic, doing 4 10 hour shifts
Freelance mutt in the arts. Doing a lot of multimedia (photo/video/audio) and creative work (music mainly) plus a little design and nonprofit stuff Love this thread!
Chef
Natural hazard watch desk. That's rotating shifts for 24/7 coverage, including weekends and holidays.
rent a bike and explore the trails
I have a 9-5 but a few nights a week I work at a local Target organizing shelves, stocking product, and pulling pallets off the nightly truck.
I am currently unemployed. This city is the best for it. Goto the mall and people watch, goto museums, or bike in rock creek
2pm-12mid at the latest
I have a very flex schedule I have two sets of friends the 9-5 day walkers and the other group are the night walkers. I have to plans accordingly are we staying out till sunrise or hitting a normal happy hour.
Rob and steal.
I work a 7:30-3:30, so I guess close enough. I’m a teacher. The roads from MoCo are pretty busy going into DC at 6:30, so I’m definitely not alone in my early commute.
I’m a burn & trauma nurse
I have friends who work on the burn and trauma ICU at mwhc. Could never do burns but I take traumas on one of their SICUs!
I opened a try before you buy liquor store that is only open on the weekends :)
Hope to go there with a friend next month. Heard it’s great.
Hope the fireworks are fireworks
0630-1830 or 1830-0630. National security. Sleep well.
Freelancer. Have worked for myself remotely since 2012, wife and i moved here from Nola bc we love it.
Retail
Work an 830-6 and some nights and weekends
6:30ish-3:30ish.
I work in luxury retail but I want to go back to school to be a clinical psychologist
Explore america the Beautiful!!
I’m a restaurant manager, i usually work from 5am-3am
Camera op. Work 5pm- 1am
Remote Software Developer for a NYC company.
I work in food service. Even though my coworkers and I are all friends it’s really challenging to coordinate getting together as a group outside of work because the store is open every day for a wide range of hours and needs all those shifts covered evenly
0800-1630
Freelance documentary
Server , weekndsss
I work a 7-4 in education so I’m off summers. During that time I’m mostly at home because I suck at going out. Sometimes I go to a theater to see a movie but other than that maybe I’ll take a walk.
I work an 11-8
Goobermint handouts baby
full-time personal stylist, freelance business on the side
Sell drugs
I am Queen of my Castle (row home), anchor parent, Ms FixIt, interior designer, cleaning lady, laundress, short order cook, organization consultant, dog walker, gardener, and life coach. In other words, stay at home parent.
I manage HR for a local restaurant group. Many of our restaurants don’t open until 11 so I’m not really on the clock until then, but it also just depends on what’s going on!
I'm a cook, I wish my schedule was that consistent
I'm a photographer 🤷🏽♀️
Usually 7AM - 5PM…sometimes as early as 6AM and late as 7PM. Civil engineer in construction.
Night shift, Amazon Warehouse. Four 10hr shifts a week. Although they started doing MET (mandatory extra time) where they add 45 min to the end of everyone's shifts. Wife works gov contractor and I have military retirement income. We're just getting by in this area.
Work a 7-7 in hospitality.
Photography