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PMK:
The Chines don't like long hair, do they? Otherwise I'd be there like a shot because, in comparison, this country just drives its workforce into the ground. Joe British is brainwashed into believing that it's not cool to take an afternoon siesta.
I'd once left the rat-race behind for a couple years, in favour of the slower, more laid-back lifestyle of a totally new job, some far-flung place in middle of nowhere called Bratten Flemming, down Westward Ho! area. In other words, a million miles removed from the usual. An afternoon siesta was part-and-parcel of the job; you were expected to have a rest/sleep before going back to the grindstone for another couple hrs toil. 'Twas sheer bliss...... Much unlike the otherwise usual work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work, work then die.

Afternoon sleep? Healthier lifestyle?
I'd say.

w3bby:

--- Quote from: tigertiger on January 30, 2010, 07:48:41 am ---What I found amusing is the in most parts of Germany the equivalent of 'half-six' is 17.30 hrs. As this refers to half before six.

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Scandinavia describe time in this way as well. Caused a few missed meetings when I first arrived. then started to describe all time as 17.30, 19.00 etc

sheerline:
When I've got a big job on, I usually start around 9am ish and go at it throughout the day with frequent tea breaks and occasional Mayhem moments, dinner is around 6-7pm ish then i doze off in the chair for possibly an hour at times. I usualy wake up cussing, claiming I have loads of work to get through and wishing I hadn't dozed off but I always find I am in total 'wideawake club' after that nap and end up working till around 11 pm each night.
Thats the beauty of being your own boss, you don't generally have to be tied to the clock and work as hard or as little as you feel. You know if you have a bad day on day one, you will probably make up for it on day 2 and there is no-one giving you grief or heavy stress over timekeeping.
The only good thing about working to exact times, as in being an employee, is that your life is a little more structured and you know when you shut the door and go home you can forget work totally until the next day, so despite the seeming advantages of being your own boss and timekeeper, work is always in the back of your mind 24-7 and in my case is only fifteen feet away from my house.

I wouldn't change it for the world since despite the workload and pressures it can bring, the satisfaction of achieving ones goals and making people happy far outweighs the time involved and the seeming lack of structured days. 

Bryan Young:
The 24 hour clock is by far the most convenient way of keeping track of the time of day/night. Easy when you get used to it.
Two examples, one good, one not so much.
When "Resource" was faily new we were detached to go very far North (in winter) to see how the ship (and personnel!) coped with rather extreme conditions during a period of 24hour night periods. Without the 24 hour clock system the only way a "normal" life could be led was by what was on the menu. Assuming the cooks got it right. After a few weeks of this I recall everyone being a bit dis-orientated.
The second was during the Falklands thing when some bright spark decreed that all operations were to be conducted in GMT although we were physically 5 hours behind GMT. Work it out for yourself. Not a good idea!. BY.

tigertiger:
An interesting case Bryan
Falklands actually has two time zones for half the year.

The islands officially have 'summer time' and the clocks are swung by 1 hour. But this is only observed in the capital, Port Stanley. The rest of the islands' population don't bother to observe 'Stanley Time'


PMK
Nobody in China cares about long hair anymore. Even some old Chinese dudes have ponytails now.
The kids are more into punk type hair now as well.

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