working 30+ hours.

[lowtech1]

I'm officially am at work for 30 hours now & will be here for another 3 hours or more then go home for 4-5 hours & come back for an additional 10+ hours day.

We took this opportunity to roll our database over from Pervasive to MS-SQL & 9GB of data take so much time for the roll over...it is killing us IT people here.

Has anyone elses done what I am doing?
How do you stay awake & alert?

 

[Anubis]

most ive done is like 3 8 hour shifts in a row

coffee and lots fo it.

sweet overtime tho

 

[Chaotic42]

I was at work for 33 hours once. Trying to get DOS, a music scheduling program, Windows 98, extended memory and Lantastic to all live in harmony.

 

[KeyserSoze]

I do 12 hour night shifts, and I find THAT hard enough. Mad props to you.

Are there other people there with you? Can you take shifts, and little "Power Naps?" (Like 10 minutes or an hour or something real short?)

That's gotta be killer.




KeyserSoze

 

[boyRacer]

my friends mom is a registered nurse and works 48 hours shifts sometimes... 24 being almost every other day... she basically doesn't tell her employers how long her shifts were at her other job. :Q

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Over the last week I started work at 5:30AM, left at 2:30 (add in 30 minutes traveling each way to get the away time), and then at about 5:30 left to help my dad on a side job, this went every day for 9 days straight. Typical time to come home: 10:30PM.

 

[lowtech1]

most ive done is like 3 8 hour shifts in a row

coffee and lots fo it.

sweet overtime tho

We are on salary (OT go into paid vacation time), and there are 2 others with me & they have been here for 15 hours (I'm the head cheese therefore I have to be here for the troop)

Are there other people there with you? Can you take shifts, and little "Power Naps?" (Like 10 minutes or an hour or something real short?)

I don't think I can try that...will not be able to getup if I shut my eyes.

 

[lowtech1]

my friends mom is a registered nurse and works 48 hours shifts sometimes... 24 being almost every other day... she basically doesn't tell her employers how long her shifts were at her other job.

What kind of drug is she doing to stay awake?

Over the last week I started work at 5:30AM, left at 2:30 (add in 30 minutes traveling each way to get the away time), and then at about 5:30 left to help my dad on a side job, this went every day for 9 days straight. Typical time to come home: 10:30PM.

9 days is crazy......during my schooling days I would leave for school at 7:00am & don't get home till 2:00-2:30am from work , and it almost kill me (did it for 6 semesters & lost 30lbs - went from 165lbs to 130lbs @ 5'11")

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: lowtech

my friends mom is a registered nurse and works 48 hours shifts sometimes... 24 being almost every other day... she basically doesn't tell her employers how long her shifts were at her other job.

What kind of drug is she doing to stay awake?

i dunno... but when my mom was working with her one time as head nurse... she told her to go to one of the empty rooms and sleep because she was falling off her chair.

when i go over to their house sometimes... no noise is loud enough to wake her up. :Q

 

[zer0burn]

im sorry but Im glad Im not near that hospital. No way would I want someone working on me not having slept in two days. That should be aganist the law...

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: zer0burn
im sorry but Im glad Im not near that hospital. No way would I want someone working on me not having slept in two days. That should be aganist the law...

lol... thats what i thought... but shes a deskjob nurse... but i think its still illegal to work that many hours in succession right?

EDIT: Don't doctors do just as much hours though?

 

[amdskip]

I've worked 14 hours straight and that was long enough but nothing as crazy as you.

 

[SilentZero]

I once worked 24 hours, slept 2 hours at work, then worked another 36 hours. Althought this was when I was in the military, where 18-20 hour days isn't that uncommon. As for staying awake, id intake as much caffine as I could, and stay busy (minimize breaks).

 

[Ness]

I just got home from working open to close at work (7am to 1 am) had one 30 minute break. I work close enough that I came home, grabbed a sandwich and played on the internet to relax for a while. [read, came home and spent my 30 minutes posting on ATOT because I'm a nerd.]

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: ness1469
I just got home from working open to close at work (7am to 1 am) had one 30 minute break. I work close enough that I came home, grabbed a sandwich and played on the internet to relax for a while. [read, came home and spent my 30 minutes posting on ATOT because I'm a nerd.]

I worked O-C 4 times in a row once. That was a great paycheck. 112 hours overtime.

 

[norcalhiker]

how much of that time was spent on ATOT?

 

[BurnItDwn]

stupid question ... but why MS Sql??? why not a real SQL db like Oracle, Mysql, or Postgresql???

(I still have the "anything by microsoft is not to be taken seriously" mindset. I also believe MS should not be trusted for ANY server related software. Though times have changed since windows 95 ...)

 

[BoberFett]

So MS SQL is not a real RDBMS, then you go on to suggest that MySQL is? How're your stored procedures doing in MySQL? Whoops, don't have them.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: norcalhiker
how much of that time was spent on ATOT?

about 5 min
The data convert took over 10 hours on a set of 0+1 raid....click and wait.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
stupid question ... but why MS Sql??? why not a real SQL db like Oracle, Mysql, or Postgresql???

(I still have the "anything by microsoft is not to be taken seriously" mindset. I also believe MS should not be trusted for ANY server related software. Though times have changed since windows 95 ...)

The front end dictate what we use at the backend....unless you have 250K that you can spare us for the front end ++ much more to retrain users.

 

[Aharami]

you guys are crazy! i could never work that much. couple summers ago i was workin in a night shift position (had summer classes during the day). shift was from 5pm to 1am. after classes ended, i started workin 12pm to 1am....but that killed me. 13 hr days + 6 hr saturdays was a killer. i think the most i worked in a week was 80 hrs. i'd always feel soo tired and out of it. good thing i dont have to do anything like that anymore!!

 

[Kev]

Originally posted by: BoberFett
So MS SQL is not a real RDBMS, then you go on to suggest that MySQL is? How're your stored procedures doing in MySQL? Whoops, don't have them.

i smell a nerdfight brewing.

 

[Kev]

i'm not sure i'm understanding this right. how are you working for 10 hrs if you're just waiting for the computer to do it for you? can't you do something else while the comp. is running

 

[WhiteKnight]

I once did a 36 hour video shoot. It sucked big time and my shoulder was killing me by the end because none of it was tripod work. Those Sony DSR500s don't just look heavy, they are.

 

[Mark R]

In my last job I would do 32 hour shifts once a week - some nights I would manage to get an hour or two's rest, but rarely more than that.

My current job is a bit more civilized, but with a couple of colleagues off on holiday, someone has to do their work - so I'm looking at a total of about 94 hours this week (only about 80 hours is 'officially' recognised, the other 14 is additional unpaid time simply because there isn't enough time in the day to do all the work).

Still, one of my superiors had it bad a few years ago - a typical working pattern for him would have been:

Monday 0800-Tues 1700
Wed 0800-Thurs 1700
Fri 0800-Mon 1700
Tue 0800-Wed 1700
Thur 0800-Fri 1700