no, this is not a set-up to a joke

[aruan]

The other night, about 8:30 in the book-in office of the Polk County Jail, I was flipping through the day's arrest reports when a preacher walked in. He asked the clerk about someone he was bailing out, then turned around toward me. He glanced at his watch, then looked back at me and said, "Thought I was the only one still on the clock."

Which got me thinking. Workaholics excluded, whose regular business hours include 8:30 p.m.? Besides the good father and I, off the top of my head: tech support, retail and food service jobs, prostitutes, exotic dancers, cops, cabbies, theater employees, hotel staff, caterers, pilots, airport personnel, bartenders, gas station attendants, truckers, tow truck drivers, chauffeurs, hospital staff, etc.

Anyway, the point is the list got long. Which is interesting, because a lot fewer people work the traditional Monday-through-Friday 9-to-5 grind pop songs love to lament (pop singers!) than I assumed. Personally, I work Friday through Tuesday, 2:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., and it's really bloody annoying to listen to the DJs on the radio cheer about how it's only a few hours until the weekend on my Monday morning.

So, what are your work hours?

Comments

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

You were willing (and able! OMG) to work those hours and they still fired you? There's no hope for the rest of us.

Also, how is political work? It's something I've considered off and on.

[a-life-verbatim.livejournal.com]

oh it's terrible! Don't do it, seriously. You have to answer to everyone, not just your boss - the media, stakeholders, residents of the electorate. It's too much pressure.

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

... So it's exactly like my job now. ;)