Are most of you work normal 40 hours a week here?

[LookBehindYou]

I work 7-3:30 and love it. I can work overtime if I wanted, but there is no way I'm working unless it's needed. I worked 50-60 hour weeks at my last job and it got old real quick. I enjoy my time off and time with my family too much to spend it all at work.

 

[Sinsear]

7pm-5am. 4 days on, 4 days off. Rinse, repeat.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Now that I think about it, maybe closer to the 45-55 range just depending on the week. The good thing is I have a short commute so I can get to work in 10-15 minutes.

 

[TecHNooB]

I work about 45-50 per week, but with the commute, it feels like 50+ every week.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I will die before I'm 40, I just know it. I sleep 6 hours a night, the rest of the time, I'm at work, 7 days a week. I've been doing this for the past 2 years straight.

Sounds like it is time to take control of your life.

I work 40 hours per week (technically, our work week is 37.5 hours), and sometimes slightly more due to certain projects, etc. I won't work 60+ hour weeks regularly. If it comes to that, I can find a better job. My life and time with my family and hobbies is more important than work. You guys who habitually work for someone more than 60+ hours need to get a new perspective on life. I did, and I feel much better than I did a few years ago because of it. In the case of the OP, however, I'd certainly work 60 or 70 hours a week for 3 or 4 months if that meant I could have the rest of the year off.

My other exception would be if I were a business owner. I'd work as long as it would take to get it off the ground and running.

 

[Scouzer]

37.5 a week and very rarely more. When it is more, it is paid overtime. I wouldn't trade the hours for anything.

 

[soulcougher73]

Im on a 9-80 shift. 1st week Mon-Thur are 7-5 and Fri is 7-4. 2nd week is Mon-Thur 7-5 with Fri off.

So i get a 3 day weekend every other week.

 

[Riverhound777]

I work 5:30am - 11:30am (30 hours a week) and then do consulting work on the side for 0-10 hours. So usually around 35 hours a week. If you would rather work more hours because you're bored, you need to get a hobby, or a life.

 

[lokiju]

I do 8AM to 5PM if I can but tend to get in a bit early and often leave more around 6PM.

 

[Cuda1447]

Im AMAZED at all the people that work more than 40 hours a week. I work a 9-6 type job, 40 hours a week. Honestly, its to much. I wish I worked more of a 9-330 type job. Getting out of work at 6 doesn't leave much time during the week for a whole lot else. Home, dinner, hour or two with wife, sleep. No room for errands, exercise, hobbies etc...

I think the world would be a lot better place if people worked 30-35 hours a week. And I know people are going to say "you can do that, but you'll just get paid less" forget that. Corporations already underpay employees, IMO. Let them pay us the same and take less profits. They are still going to make huge profits in most cases.

I don't understand why so many people are ok with giving their lives to their jobs. A job is just a means to an end for me. It allows me to do the other things I want to do in life. I don't want to work my whole life. I want to do a shitload of other things that I enjoy waaaay more.

 

[terry107]

At my old job, from January through May, I would work from 8am to at least 7pm (although it was more typical to get out between 9pm and midnight). Outside of those months, it was typically 50 hours per week. I was salaried so I got paid for 40 hours per week.

New job is 7am - 4pm just about every day.

 

[Saint Nick]

8:30 - 5:00 M-F, don't usually eat lunch really

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Im AMAZED at all the people that work more than 40 hours a week.

Sadly, a lot of people think it is a badge of honor to work insane hours. With few exceptions, it isn't and in fact, I think people who do it are getting taken advantage of and don't see it. That was me a few years ago and I finally had enough and stopped doing it.

I don't understand why so many people are ok with giving their lives to their jobs. A job is just a means to an end for me. It allows me to do the other things I want to do in life. I don't want to work my whole life. I want to do a shitload of other things that I enjoy waaaay more.

This.

 

[shortylickens]

I dont get paid to work at all. If you count up my volunteering and school and studying at home it would still only be about 30 hours a week, and much of that is on the weekends.

 

[Golgatha]

On average, I'd say I get about 15min of real work done each day.

 

[nageov3t]

normal-ish

I work 10 hour days, 9 am - 7 pm, Sunday-Wednesday

I'd love to keep my 10 hour shifts and do Monday-Thursday, but I don't think having a real weekend (eg: Saturday/Sunday off every week) would be worth giving up my 3 days off... and I don't want to give up working Mondays, because then I'd get screwed over holidays (if you're scheduled to work on a holiday, you get the option of either double time (if you work anyways) or the day off... if you're not scheduled to work, the holiday is just part of your normal days off and you get no benefit from it).

 

[SithSolo1]

8:30-5, 2hr lunch, 3 days a week.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

On average, I'd say I get about 15min of real work done each day.

 

[yllus]

35 hours a week; overtime isn't compensated. It's a pretty good gig.

 

[OogyWaWa]

how the hell do i get one of these consulting jobs? i work ~55-60hrs a week every week... all yr. i do enjoy the work though

 

[yllus]

In my case, I decided I was willing to do the insane corporate life for about ten years to achieve other goals, and it's been hard but worth it. I have no intention of working til 60 or 65 - I'm putting in my time all upfront, getting compensated for it appropriately, and then I'm calling it quits.

I don't think I've ever asked - what's the plan for long term income? Real estate properties / landlording, pure stock, something else? I feel like I'm missing out on learning something important.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Well, 37.5, but yes.

 

[dfuze]

I currently do 6:30am to 3:30pm w/ 1 hour of OT, but that ends Monday when I get my promotion and the OT dissappears and I only stay extra as needed.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

In my case, I decided I was willing to do the insane corporate life for about ten years to achieve other goals, and it's been hard but worth it. I have no intention of working til 60 or 65 - I'm putting in my time all upfront, getting compensated for it appropriately, and then I'm calling it quits.

The problem with that approach is that you're likely sacrificing the best years of your life. It might be worth it in your 20s, but once you hit 30 or maybe mid-30s, it is time to focus on other things IMO. You have to strike a balance.

I could go back to working long hours, never going on vacations, etc, but what would it really get me? It might get me more money, but what good is that? Sure, I might be able to retire a few years earlier. However, you can't completely put all your eggs in one basket and hope you can enjoy life by retiring a little earlier, because that day may never come. One of my grandfathers died at 57, another at 67, and my dad at 63 and none got to enjoy retirement. I don't want to take that chance so I'd rather live with less money now and get to enjoy things (traveling all over the world, for example) than hope I can do it in 20 years.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ehh 9-630ish Mon-Fri normally, but on call about 25% of the time, and when I'm on call, sometimes I get stuck with another 10-20 hours or so on the weekend ...

Usually on call is not too bad, but my last rotation was pretty annoying ... was awakened sat and sun early, and had to work fri, sat, and sun late ...

Ohh, and Friday usually I leave early, around 2:30 ... and every once in a while we get a "comp day" too ...