{"id":201,"date":"2015-07-01T21:02:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T02:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2015-07-01T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T02:02:57","slug":"long-days-during-a-short-week-takes-its-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Long days during a short week takes its toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No running today, I will run tomorrow and Friday.<br \/>\nThis weekend will be nice, 3 days off is welcome. But it comes at a price when you don&#8217;t get paid time off. I&#8217;ve been working 10 hour days to make up the hours. Anyone that knows me, or anyone that&#8217;s been listening to my vlogs should know I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of the modern world. It really doesn&#8217;t make much sense to me. I&#8217;m not sure when I want to do come September, but I know I don&#8217;t want to grind out my days hoping to run as much as my work\/grind allows. I want to do something consequential, I want to do something I enjoy. Not to say I don&#8217;t enjoy my current job, certainly there are many wonderful people I&#8217;ve met through that job and it has it&#8217;s upside, but it&#8217;s not very fulfilling. I want to be focused, I want something that keeps my focus, not something where I sit and daydream about other stuff. So that&#8217;s what I thought about today.<br \/>\nThat and my poor jeep, which needed new u-joints, ball joints, and wheel bearings. Most expensive repair I&#8217;ve ever had to do to it. If I had the time, I could have done most of those things myself, except I don&#8217;t have a bearing press. I do have to do shocks soon, that is something I can do in a day.<br \/>\nAlright, I&#8217;m heading to bed, I have another long day at work tomorrow. 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This weekend will be nice, 3 days off is welcome. But it comes at a price when you don&#8217;t get paid time off. I&#8217;ve been working 10 hour days to make up the hours. Anyone that knows me, or anyone that&#8217;s been listening to my vlogs should know I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of the modern world. It really doesn&#8217;t make much sense to me. I&#8217;m not sure when I want to do come September, but I know I don&#8217;t want to grind out my days hoping to run as much as my work\/grind allows. I want to do something consequential, I want to do something I enjoy. Not to say I don&#8217;t enjoy my current job, certainly there are many wonderful people I&#8217;ve met through that job and it has it&#8217;s upside, but it&#8217;s not very fulfilling. I want to be focused, I want something that keeps my focus, not something where I sit and daydream about other stuff. So that&#8217;s what I thought about today. That and my poor jeep, which needed new u-joints, ball joints, and wheel bearings. Most expensive repair I&#8217;ve ever had to do to it. If I had the time, I could have done most of those things myself, except I don&#8217;t have a bearing press. I do have to do shocks soon, that is something I can do in a day. Alright, I&#8217;m heading to bed, I have another long day at work tomorrow. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201\">Continue Reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-201\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-201\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-201\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-201\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=201&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69TnA-3f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":642,"url":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=642","url_meta":{"origin":201,"position":0},"title":"So My Grandma's 96","date":"23\/12\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, you heard me right, scary thing is her older sister has her beat by 5 years. 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