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My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Re: My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Post by waylandsmithers »

atwebb wrote: post #117
waylandsmithers wrote: post #92

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I've thought about this a lot before, and there definitely is some merit to it. I worked retail as a teenager, and the managers would give more hours to an older employee because she needed them (I was told this explicitly). I was fine with it at the time, because yeah, I was still mostly living on my parents' dime. Working in a corporate setting now, if I was told someone else at my company was getting a big raise o…

That's a bit different, also, have you considered that the other people were more experienced and better qualified so the manager used the age and need as an excuse to spare your feelings/morale?

That's entirely possible, but the discussion I was hoping to have was about need determining pay and/or opportunities.

Re: My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Post by hatu »

elwell wrote: post #114
yepguy wrote: post #88

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If a bike ride could replace your gym membership then you are not making very good use of the gym.

With that said, there are so many people that pay for gym membership and barely go; at least this forces him to get some exercise.

I can say from experience that most people don't get very good value out of expensive gym memberships. Me included most of the time.

Re: My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Post by hatu »

oznathan wrote: post #118
Hannan wrote: post #102

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>> Cycling is actually not that healthy. As someone who works out regularly but never cycles, this seems difficult to believe. Surely the cardiovascular benefits outweigh any negatives from "muscle shortening" (first I've heard of this) compared to no activity. Unless your point is "some types of exercise are better than cycling" in which case, sure.

Accuracy is so important in HN :) Fact - cycling creates short leg muscles, hamstrings in particular. For those of us who have tight hamstrings, which is most males (according to my subjective, biased observations), this is not good. Creates back problems later on. I agree that some cycling is better than no activity. But I would say that going to a hooker every night is also better for you health wise than staying i…

Since we're nitpicking - wearing two condoms is a terrible idea. The friction will break them.

Re: My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Post by jessepollak »

beejiu wrote: post #125
jessepollak wrote: post #16

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I've actually experimented a fair amount with my sleeping patterns. For the most part, I find that when I wake up in the morning, I feel tired no matter what (up until around ~10 hours of sleep). What I've also found, however, is that this tiredness usually doesn't translate to how I feel for the rest of the day — I feel good all day no matter whether I get 6 or 8 hours.

Do you have a sunrise simulation alarm clock? Buying a Lumie was probably the best thing I've done to make myself feel awake. Also, put an alarm clock on the opposite side of the room and leave a piece of fruit by the bed to eat in the mornings. It works wonders.

I actually haven't, I should look into that.

Re: My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Post by molsongolden »

jlees wrote: post #36
bjpirt wrote: post #9

When I first read this headline I just assumed he'd had a child. Low paying: check Early morning: check Exertion requiring: check Not that it's not extremely worth it of course.

Or adopted a dog!

Don't ever get a dog.

Re: My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Post by andrey-p »

jrlocke wrote: post #130
andrey-p wrote: post #105

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I've been trying for ages to sort out a good sleeping pattern that'll have me up and running in the morning. Weirdly enough, the best one I got was: - wake up after ~6.5 hrs of sleep, use the bathroom, grab something quick to eat and drink a pint of water - go to sleep again and wake up after ~7.5 hours - rejoice It's a hard one to do, and sometimes I can't fall back asleep after the first waking up, but when it work…

To clarify, do you sleep for another 7.5 hours after the wakeup, or just one hour to bring the 6.5 to 7.5?

Oops - one extra hour. A 14-hour-long daily sleep does sound appealing in a way, though.

Re: My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Post by nedwin »

oznathan wrote: post #94
justinsteele wrote: post #84

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"Mundane" cycling daily is all that it takes to get the majority of health benefits. No reason to downplay what he's doing.

Cycling is actually not that healthy. Repetitive short movements shorten your muscles, which causes all kinds of problems.

A list of health benefits of cycling, including peer-reviewed publications that the references come from. http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1015.html

Re: My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job

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Post by analog31 »

GrinningFool wrote: post #99

I used to landscape professionally. Which - in my case - is a fancy way of saying I cut grass, dug ditches, raked leaves and spread mulch. I picked up some useful knowledge along the way. Thing is, no matter how much satisfaction I get from a problem solved, elegant or just effective code written, etc - it isn't quite the same thing as when I could look back at a yard/park/complex etc at the end of the day and say "Y…

My side-business gives me similar satisfaction: Making things.
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