How much time do you put in at work?

[ModSocks]

I'm a 27 year old male, and im starting to realize that this is my time, it's now or never. Right here, right now, i need to make a future for myself. If im ever going to be where i imagine myself being when im 50, then i gotta get my ass in gear and find the motivation to do what it takes to succeed. I have to change.

Clocking in/out everyday depending on some one else to pay me.....that's not going to cut it. My wife lost her job a month ago for cost saving reasons, and i need to make some damn money. Just getting by doesn't cut it anymore. I have to grow the **** up and create some opportunities for myself or risk being 50 years old, renting out of an apartment and living off of Social Security.....and struggling paycheck to paycheck from now until then.

**** that.

I just had a real emotional realization that....this just isn't good enough and nothing is going to change unless i step it up and change it. I need to put in more work. For myself.

So how much time do you put in in a days worth of work?

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by Strongside

Invest in a time machine.

But I need money to invest in that. I the time machine to make money sports betting. I need money from the sports betting to invest in a time machine. But I need the time machine to know what to bet...and round and round the circle goes.

I have always found cirlces like this to be quite pointless.

[Strongside]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

But I need money to invest in that. I the time machine to make money sports betting. I need money from the sports betting to invest in a time machine. But I need the time machine to know what to bet...and round and round the circle goes.

I have always found cirlces like this to be quite pointless.

In the future, after you've made enough money to invest in a time machine, take said time machine back to the past and give your younger self enough money to invest in a time machine at an earlier period of time, thus increasing your potential wealth. You'll return to the future richer than when you left. Or dead, one of the two.

[R8RFAN]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

But when you were trying to buy your house, trying to get the point that you are at now, how much time did you put in?

Alot.... I worked my ass off and saved all that I could....

When I work less, I just go into spend less mode

[stevieray]

8 ....working with my hands....keeps me young.


....at least for now.

[Nzoner]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

But when you were trying to buy your house, trying to get the point that you are at now, how much time did you put in?

Too many to count.

As a business owner I will tell you this,just because you close the doors and go wherever for the evening you're never off work.You want to build your business you take every opportunity you can to pass out business cards,meet potential customers,hell sit around the bar(if you do that) and talk to strangers about it.

[EagleRob]

Truth #1: You never get rich working for someone else.
Truth #2: If you do work for someone else, you are expendable and you will be worked to the bone then discarded when no longer needed.
Whatever your goal is, start today, write down your vision, create the architecture, and start building.

[R8RFAN]

Originally Posted by EagleRob

Truth #1: You never get rich working for someone else.
Truth #2: If you do work for someone else, you are expendable and you will be worked to the bone then discarded when no longer needed.
Whatever your goal is, start today, write down your vision, create the architecture, and start building.

That all depends on what you consider to be rich .

[KCUnited]

Fake it til you make it, mang.

[Gadzooks]

Originally Posted by R8ers

That all depends on what you consider to be rich .

[BlackHelicopters]

Define " work".

[hometeam]

I put in 6 10s one week, 5 10s the next. Used to be 4 12s and a 10 every week.

[Brock]

You're thinking right. If you aren't making your own decisions, you are living with someone else's.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by loochy

I don't mean to be Mr. Grammar Nazi here, but you put a whole bunch of incomplete sentences in that response. I don't know if I'd want you as a writer and editor.

made enough money to travel around the world despite my butchering of the English language.

[R8RFAN]

Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny

[Iowanian]

I work the required amount meaning, the amount required to get whatever is on my plate completed on time.

My hours now are routinely 45-50hrs...which is a huge improvement over 2-4 years ago. Then again, 3 people are now doing what I was, so that helps cut down on the 70-80+hr weeks.