The difference between 5on/2off and 4on/3off feels insane.
You get 1 day off for 1.33 days of work, instead of 1 day off for 2.5 days of work. But you still get 80% the money 
I’m doing this since 3 years now (on of the best decisions I ever made)
most of the people I know understands how amazing it is. but no one even asked their boss if this is possibe for them…
I work in cybersecurity marketing. Every morning I wake up and want to slowly rip each fingernail out. By the end of the day I want to stab myself in the throat. But I just got a new puppy so it all evens out I guess. Yay, puppies!
I have a sneaky suspicion you also like apples
Electrical engineer with specialization in analog and digital chip design. Currently working in a start up, developing ASICs for driving a new kind of MEMS speaker. Have worked in the audio electronics industry since my first degree 16 years ago, so easy for me to get into synths and electronic music.
Have a strong desire to design my own synth, but I never have the spare time for it. Could be fun though.
what’s that?
Seo specialist. I work in a web agency
I’ve done theatre sound (both design and execution), some live mixing here and there and tried a “real job” by working for an independent record label for several years.
Then I burned out. Twice. The first one was pretty bad. I was so exhausted that I had to do simple tasks step by step. Putting on clothes, eating and getting out of the door felt like complicated puzzles.
The second was really bad. One evening I just snapped. I went out to run an errand, hopped on a bus, then forgot where I was supposed to go. I rode around aimlessly on local buses, called a crisis hotline and asked if I could meet with someone. They told me it’s not possible.
So I just kept on sitting in buses until I catched one that passed by the regional hospital and I hopped off there. From the hospital lobby I called the hotline again and told them that I’d really like to meet with someone right now or else I’m going to lose it.
So they sent a guy down and he kindly persuaded me to check in at the ER. After maybe an hour of waiting I got to talk to a nurse who just straight up told me that “if you’re not going to slow down, you’ll be dead”, and my messed up head was like oh yeah? Well what if I want to die? How’s that? And then it clicked – I was running from something. I was keeping myself busy so that I wouldn’t have to confront myself, my feelings and my calling.
I’ve been on sick leave for a year but during that year I’ve played my first solo gigs and I’ve enjoyed it immensely. I’ve applied to a school to study music technology. Not because I don’t know music technology (although I’ll be looking into the blind spots I have). But going to a school like that means you get access to all kinds of equipment and meet all kinds of people and get opportunities to experiment without financial pressure.
The past year has forced me to look in the mirror and what I eventually saw was an artist. One who had been dismissing their calling despite having the skills and the opportunities for the most of my life. What I’ve been lacking was the audacity to just do it instead of ruminating over what people might think.
So what do I do? I am an artist.
I am a registered nurse in the recovery room. Lucky I like the job, because my music won’t allow me to quit my day job anytime soon 
I make hotdogs.
I wish I had your resilience. But maybe not all of the denial
Stay strong 
I know what you mean. I did this is a volunteer once a week for several years, working one on one with adult immigrants trying to learn English. Fascinating stories and very rewarding (but, right, no pay).
I burned myself out in my previous advertising job. Not as bad as you apparently, but I started getting panic attacks which I had never previously experienced. Out of the blue, on the city street I felt awful, couldn’t breathe and thought I had a heart attack and would die right there on the sidewalk. Phoned my girlfriend and luckily she had experienced panic attacks and instantly knew what was happening and calmed me down. They started coming often in grocery store etc. and I knew I had to get the hell outta that work situation.
Nowadays I’m an entrepreneur and it’s kinda stressful but having experienced work fatigue I can now recognize those marks and react if I ever start feeling the same way again.
I’m glad youre figuring things out. I’ve felt super burnt out, too, though I havent been through what you have.
MEMS is an acronym that stands for Micro Electro Mechanical System, and it is a technology that uses the same fabrication methods that are used for fabrication of chips. But instead of fabricating electronics it is mechanical systems with electrical properties. It is in widespread use for microphones in mobile devices/phones and headphones, and also employed in accelerometers, gyroscopes, and pressure sensors among other devices.
Using MEMS technology for speakers is fairly new, but there are some companies working on this. The main problem for widespread application has been the problem of reproducing bass in a small device that can fit in your ears.
In general a reason for using MEMS technology is the possibility of high volume production with very uniform performance for each device and mechanical stability.
ah so that’s cool, so there’s no moving membrane as with traditional speaker? it’s like bending material?
and you’re telling me soon my iphone will be able to play sub bass?
There is a moving membrane, but it is moving at ultrasonic frequencies to generate the audio signals. And more bass in a headset is one of the benefits of the technology.
I work in 3rd sector discharge support. Never a dull moment.
I’m about to finish a postgraduate diploma after dropping out of school 3 times. I have a job lined up the week after I graduate. Feels really good.
Before this I had a ~10 year career in the blackmarket cannabis industry. It paid well but there was zero job security. Feels like I got out at a good time.
Mark, Nashville, TN.
My day job since 1992 has been playing electric and upright bass, touring, sessions, producing, occasionally mixing records. Occasionally get songs as background music for tv and film. Serious high and lows but I wouldn’t trade it for anything I can think of
Just bodyweight pushing and pulling really. And I have a spinning bike at home which I ride 3 times a week
