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If they (or you, or anyone) want a 4 day work week, then why not pick a profession that allows it? Most healthcare related fields work in 12 hour shifts, so wor
by SamuelAdams 3y ago
If they (or you, or anyone) want a 4 day work week, then why not pick a profession that allows it? Most healthcare related fields work in 12 hour shifts, so working 3-4 days a week is the normal standard.
Not every professional job is an office job 9-5.
- DangitBobby 3y agoNo sweat, let me just go back to school and learn to be a healthcare professional.
- SamuelAdams 3y agoI never said it would be easy: most things in life that are important are not easy. The point is that there are many different types of jobs with a variety of benefits, including non-traditional scheduling. If that is something important to you, why not work towards it? Healthcare is just one example. It’s not perfect either, there are problems for sure. But that is ok for some people who value something like a 3-4 day work week. No job is perfect, it’s all about what trade offs make it worth it to the employee.
- Paul-Craft 3y agoThere's "not easy," and there's "so costly and difficult as to be nonviable." Stop conflating the two.
- TwoFerMaggie 3y agoWhat point does this argument hold besides "it's what we do now so we don't change it"? Same thing could be argued when five-day work weeks were first proposed.
- Clubber 3y agoI think his point is you can have a 4 day week now and not have to wait for corporations to comply (good luck with that).
- culopatin 3y agoI think this should be a common sense rule: If your statement starts with “why don’t they just” or some sort of variant: Think about it twice. You’re suggesting that 92% of the young workforce concentrates on the few jobs with extended shifts. 92% of the next gen of workers will not be working a 9-5 in your scenario.
- Mashimo 3y ago> why not pick a profession that allows it? > Most healthcare related fields work in 12 hour shifts I don't know, but I guess working 12 hour shift has something to do with it. Around where I live healthcare workers are also often on strike because of low wage and poor working conditions.
- datavirtue 3y agoOil fields. Seven days on, seven days off. Per-diem alone is enough to buy all your food and a nice RV.