Siti worked for six months--often 18 hours a day, for employers who wouldn't allow her a weekly day off--but she wasn't able to send one cent back to Blitar, her home in East Java.
People watch you all the time, your body language--you can't have an off day.
Muscle soreness, on the other hand, isn't always a sign to take a day off.
"I don't want to wake up every day pissed off, " she says sharply.
Forty-five percent aren't even entitled by law to a weekly day off.
One-third of workers have taken a day off when they weren't really sick, according to a survey of more than 6, 800 employees conducted by CareerBuilder.com.
"The majority of developers aren't making enough each month to completely cut off their day jobs, " says Chen.
"You don't deserve to get the good day unless you get up off your butt and go out and look, " he says.
"Take the day off, stay home, don't deal with the traffic, and all will be fine, and if you're so inclined, walk down to the Mall with the masses and stand there in the cold, where you will probably see nothing, " he said.
"Be mindful of it and if the soreness doesn't go away in a day or two, then take time off, " he says.
That morning in Panyu would usually have been a day off since the state power company doesn't supply the plant electricity on that day of the week.
"We are lucky in that because we are local we can decide not to go because the weather isn't conducive to a good day out and we can put it off until the next week, " he said.
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There are things I'm after and challenges I want to take on that just don't fit with my day-to-day schedule here, so off I go.
Rep. Pete Lee, a Democrat from Colorado Springs who introduced the bill in January, says businesses that choose to become benefit corporations should be allowed to "promote the public good" through one-off projects, such as a fundraising drive for a local school or a day off for employees to do charitable work, that don't hurt profits.
She texted him a few times during the day, but his phone was off, which she said wasn't unusual.
Once served mainly for breakfast, nasi lemak (meaning fatty rice, but don't let that put you off) is now eaten at any time of the day or night.
Coach Frank Vogel couldn't have asked for much more, so on Sunday, he gave his team another day off.
Its legendary operational drill entails everything from training drivers to hold their keys on a pinky finger so they don't waste time fumbling for them in pockets to asking employees to clean off desks at day's end so they can be clear for takeoff in the a.m.
No more "voluntary" off-season workouts that aren't actually, or forcing the players into day after day of full-contact practices throughout the season.
Steps are taken to prevent repeated automated entries, and the brackets are downloaded and protected before tip-off on the first day of the tournament to make sure they aren't changed, said Lori Shaw of the Entertainment Practice Group at insurance broker Aon Corp.
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On Monday night, the day before the CTIA show officially kicked off, Nokia unveiled its latest entry, the T-Mobile Astound.
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' In fact, I have a day job too, so I run back and forwards, because you certainly couldn't live off Lords expenses.
"For a coach, you couldn't ask for a better situation, " Julien said on Friday, when his team took the day off to rest up for Sunday's Game 2.
"I don't think they should have called us off the course, " McIlroy told gathered reporters after his difficult day.
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They hadn't lost a set in Olympic competition until the other day, when they dropped one to Austria ("Pissed me off for a day and a half, " Walsh Jennings cracked later.).
"I didn't expect anything else--Daimler leaves and the pressure comes off, " he told reporters Tuesday, one day after DaimlerChrysler announced plans to sell all but 19.9% of the American car company to Cerberus.
Perhaps they weren't so different from the drivers who had paused at a rest stop off Florida's Ronald Reagan Turnpike the day before to have their picture taken with the Ryder truck coming up from West Palm Beach.
"I didn't expect anything else--Daimler leaves and the pressure comes off, " he told reporters Tuesday, one day after DaimlerChrysler (nyse: DCX - news - people ) announced plans to sell all but 19.9% of the American car company to Cerberus.
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