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How many 10 hour days in a row can BrownTown work? before mental breakdown

No, but srsly, are there any risks to this, I mean to people *actually* have nervous breakdowns, or is that just in the movies? ITs not like I have to work any of it, its all for the $$$s.. In other words I don't feel any stress to actually finish on time even though my boss is gonna have an aneurysm over it...
 
Are you getting enough sleep/food? Do you just automatically go home and pass out? Do you still talk to friends/family?
 
Fatigue will eventually hit hard and you'll kill somebody and yourself on your drive home at the end of the day. You just need to figure out which day and back up one.

Last Spring I worked every day for five weeks with no break, 10-16 hour days. Twenty-one 16 hour days straight in the Fall. Then I slept, a lot.
 
Yea I think you'll be okay as long as you take care of yourself (eat right, exercise a bit, keep relationships cool, etc.).
 
Working 10 hours a day isn't difficult, but I can see how the 7 days a week can get to you.
 
Nervous breakdowns do happen. Happened to me once when I was in college and working full time. I started seeing lights changing color, like overhead lights turning from white light to purple and red. I also became convinced that customers (I was in retail at the time) were laughing at me.
 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
Originally posted by: finite automaton
Um. I routinely work 10 hour days when I'm not going to school. It's not that hard.
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... the whole point was in a ROW
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also, you have to factor that in terms of actually leaving and getting back, I leave my apartment at 5:30 AM and get back at 5:30 PM due to the drive in and out, plus lunch and all. I mean I was working 6x10s, so that's working 10 hours a day 6 days a week with one day of rest, but going all 7 means you get NO day off for an entire month. Its not like the real outage though were it would be 7x12s
 
As long as you make sure you eat, sleep and get a little exercise 30+ won't be a problem. You'll start to get really burnt after the 3rd month though.
 
I did that for a summer. I got about 12 hours x 14 days in before I had to take a personal day. I think I had 1 day off in all of July of 06. But boy was I rakin' in the cash.
 
10 hour days are nothing. Try being an auditor for a Big 4 firm and working through a busy season on a large client. Working 30-35 days in a row is not unheard of. This is working 8:30 am to midnight almost every day, with the occasional "let's try to go home by 9pm tonight". Don't forget to throw in some 3-4 am crash times too.
 
One summer during college I had an internship where I worked 7x12 (6-6:30p). They were nice to me and I got 1 weekend per month off (it was on a jobsite, so I wasn't living at home or near friends or anything).

I just worked, worked out, and slept for an entire summer. I called my fam/gf nightly on my cell and spoke with my friends over IM at work since I was too cheap to pay for internet/cable TV at home.

It wasn't bad, though it was only for 3 months, so I had a light at the end of the tunnel. I raked in the cash (44 OT hours/week!) and got into awesome shape. After the first 2 weeks or so you get used to it.
 
Originally posted by: thegimp03
10 hour days are nothing. Try being an auditor for a Big 4 firm and working through a busy season on a large client. Working 30-35 days in a row is not unheard of. This is working 8:30 am to midnight almost every day, with the occasional "let's try to go home by 9pm tonight". Don't forget to throw in some 3-4 am crash times too.
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hope you get paid OT, otherwise you can find a better job.
 
I've done 45 days in row working 7x12s on refinery turnarounds...gets old, but money is good

really sucks if you get a bad set of weather for days at a time
 
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