How many hours do you theoretically work and what do you do?

[skywhr]

My average is 50 hours a week I am a naval architecture design specialist

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I'm a grad student, working on my PhD in physics, and I think most weeks I'm working a total of at least 60 hours per week. That's typically 11 hours of lecture, 20 hours of teaching the undergrads, and 30 hours of homework. My responsibilities are minimal, but man what a work load! Does this decrease? What's all of this talk about 40 hour work weeks?

30 hours of homework lulz. You sure you are in the right field for you?

 

[Bill Brasky]

I'm currently a PhD candidate as well (in genetics), and 40 hrs a week would be a vacation. I've heard my program gets "easier" after the second year, since research is the only responsibility left out of research, teaching, classes, and orals.

 

[anxi80]

i'd say in a given week i probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.


😉

 

[Rubycon]

7 days ~ 16 hours /day. So I work 2/3 of the time. :Q

Funny how people complain about working 40 hours a week yet get 48 hours off on the weekend. 😛

 

[chipy]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
40-44 hours of work/week. i get off every other friday 🙂

Fenixgoon - federal government worker?

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: anxi80
i'd say in a given week i probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.


😉

Ya, but you've been missing a lot of work lately.

 

[duragezic]

Well it's a 40/hr week job but I just started so got some catchup to do and also just learned that I'm suppose to be putting in an extra hour or two per day to meet this upcoming deadline, so I figure I will do at least 45 hrs/wk for the next couple of weeks. Software engineer.

Fenixgoon is probably on a 9/80 schedule. I'm on the same. So next week is only a 3 day week, w00t!

 

[LS21]

im physically at work 40 hours a week. probably put in a good 10 hours of actual work

 

[Gunslinger08]

40. Just because I'm salary doesn't mean I'm a slave.

 

[Scarpozzi]

My job flexes a lot. I can work anywhere from 35 to 60 hours a week depending on the workload and my personal schedule. For example, I was chasing corrupt database replicas this week. The corruption was being replicated across 18 servers. I had to systematically go over each one and clean the Dibsets. After working a 9 hour day, I worked on this issue from 6pm until 5am. I then got up the next day and put in another 6 hours on it.

Friday night I did a major Email system overhaul to upgrade our servers to the latest version of software....but it only took me a few hours. Next week, I'm gonna lay low...especially since it's a short week.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
40. Just because I'm salary doesn't mean I'm a slave.

Low-level exempts have been dubbed 'wage slaves.' Just make sure you get compensated for all time worked...even if you are off and answer your phone.

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I'm a grad student, working on my PhD in physics, and I think most weeks I'm working a total of at least 60 hours per week. That's typically 11 hours of lecture, 20 hours of teaching the undergrads, and 30 hours of homework. My responsibilities are minimal, but man what a work load! Does this decrease? What's all of this talk about 40 hour work weeks?

30 hours of homework lulz. You sure you are in the right field for you?

I'm going to assume you've never seen the inside of a Jackson textbook... the average turned in homework assignment is 20-40 pages. That's for only one class. It's not hard, but you do have to do a lot of work.

Trust me, I work only 3/4 of the time that some of my peers work. And I passed my qualifier on the first try, which has around a 50% pass rate. I'm pretty sure I'm doing well for myself 😛

 

[punchkin]

About 70. I'm in law school and working two legal jobs for the summer.

 

[Megatomic]

Typically 48 hours a week. I work in a power plant, I can't do anything for it from the house. 🙂

 

[L1FE]

For the past 2.5 years, I usually hit a minimum of 60 hours by Thursday, which, by the end of the week can spike up to 100 hours during busy months. I work as a consultant. Oh, and I start counting hours on Monday because I'm weird like that.

 

[BassBomb]

40 hour work week normally

I am a QA Assistant (coop/internship student at Waterloo Univ) for SNC Lavalin Nuclear

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: L1FE
For the past 2.5 years, I usually hit a minimum of 60 hours by Thursday, which, by the end of the week can spike up to 100 hours during busy months. I work as a consultant. Oh, and I start counting hours on Monday because I'm weird like that.

I am taking your week doesn't end on Friday or Saturday.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Eeezee

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I'm a grad student, working on my PhD in physics, and I think most weeks I'm working a total of at least 60 hours per week. That's typically 11 hours of lecture, 20 hours of teaching the undergrads, and 30 hours of homework. My responsibilities are minimal, but man what a work load! Does this decrease? What's all of this talk about 40 hour work weeks?

30 hours of homework lulz. You sure you are in the right field for you?

I'm going to assume you've never seen the inside of a Jackson textbook... the average turned in homework assignment is 20-40 pages. That's for only one class. It's not hard, but you do have to do a lot of work.

Trust me, I work only 3/4 of the time that some of my peers work. And I passed my qualifier on the first try, which has around a 50% pass rate. I'm pretty sure I'm doing well for myself 😛

I will agree that I never saw a Jackson text you are talking about (jackson is a common name, I don't know if I have another Jackson text in my collection 😉).

I do know in my classes many spent 20-40 hours a week or more studying / preparing when I just coasted through. The same group thought I misinterpreted my PCAT scores too, since they said it was impossible to score that high the first time 😉.

I re-thought it out though and law is a lot like history...you have to read a lot to grasp many things in that. A professor wouldn't have to try hard to require even more hours than possible in a week.

That said for my homework assignments I usually turned in more pages than stated and was told usually if this is full of filler you are screwed.

One of my papers is still brought up in my community college. I had a new hire ask if I wrote a paper on computer hacking ever at my school. I am not trying to brag as community college is nothing spectacular, but I like research and writing and that was my intent.