Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity

Odds are that you’ve been doing this for months, if not years, probably at the expense of your family life, your exercise routine, your diet, your stress levels, and your sanity. You’re burned out, tired, achy, and utterly forgotten by your spouse, kids and dog. But you push on anyway, because everybody knows that working crazy hours is what it takes to prove that you’re “passionate” and “productive” and “a team player” — the kind of person who might just have a chance to survive the next round of layoffs. This is what work looks like now. It’s been this way for so long that most American workers don’t realize that for most of the 20th century, the broad consensus among American business leaders was that working people more than 40 hours a week was stupid, wasteful, dangerous, and expensive — and the most telling sign of dangerously incompetent management to boot. ’s a heresy now (good luck convincing your boss of what I’m about to say), but every hour you work over 40 hours a week is making you less effective and productive over both the short and the long haul. And it may sound weird, but it’s true: the single easiest, fastest thing your company can do to boost its output and profits -- starting right now, today -- is to get everybody off the 55-hour-a-week treadmill, and back onto a 40-hour footing.

Hawaii 2012

I'll start to post some photos from our recent Hawaii trip here over the next few weeks as I get them processed out.  Once I get them all done I'll have a gallery then to get them all into one place.

Here is a hand held pano shot with the Fuji x100.  I shot exclusively with that camera on this trip and it and was a treat.  I have not had this much fun shooting since I was in college.  To remove all the headache of DSLR's and just focus on the image is a really freeing thing for me.  Looking forward to shooting more with this camera moving forward.

Getting old

Just realized I have been working in the photo biz for 22 years now. Yikes. First assisting gig for a local Mall (remember malls?) was that long ago. It was where I first learned to call duct tape "Gaffers Tape" to make it sound fancy. LOL!

The Doors? Really?

"And while a thousand bands have artfully ripped off Pavement, everyone looks absurd imitating the Doors. They are the rock equivalent of "Don't try this at home.""  

I have not thought about The Doors in years, but the other night a buddy brought them up and then I read this yesterday.  The above quote is one of the best descriptions of them I have ever read. The write up is a interesting read about the 40th anniversary of L.A. Woman.

Generation X is sick of your bullshit.

"Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone. It just wants to sit here quietly and think for a minute. Can you just do that, okay? It knows that you are so very special and so very numerous, but can you just leave it alone? Just for a little bit? Just long enough to sneak one last fucking cigarette? No? Whatever. It’s cool.

Generation X is used to disappointments. Generation X knows you didn’t even read the whole thing. It doesn’t want or expect your reblogs; it picked the wrong platform.

Generation X should have posted this to LiveJournal."