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20 March 2007
Work it. I'm looking at a 100-hour work week this week. Bleh. How much do you work, on average?
A 100-hour week is unusual for me, but I bill ~2500 hours a year, which works out to an average 60 hours in the office a week. 60 I can handle, 100 is definitely pushing it.
/me stores bottle of Jack in desk for use later this week.
About 45 hours a week, with a 14-16 hour day dropped in there every month or so. Also at least once a year I have several 50-80 hour weeks due to a big project or huge news event.
I work from home right now. My days are all over the place because I've become quite undisciplined over the last two months. I try to make sure to put in 40 hours.
That will all change in two weeks when I show up at HQ. It'll likely be a 45+ hour a week gig then.
I'm at work for about 36-40 hours, most weeks. Sometimes less, hardly ever more (only when there's an epidemic, usually of vacations, among my coworkers).
When I was working from home, I got my full-time job done in about 10-12 hours a week. I was in front of the computer for 40, though.
This week should be interesting. I'm scheduled for 20 hours at my part-time in-office job, need to do about 16 hours for one freelance project, probably about 20 (maybe just 15) for another freelance project, plus I have nine hours of class. So that's 65?
You people doing more than that are completely insane. And I am a therapist in training, so I know from insane. :)
I start 30 mins late, but don't take lunch and finish work 30 to 60 mins after I should. Most weeks I'll work an extra 3 hours on average on top of that. I don't work weekends.
So that works out at ((8.75 * 5)+2) hours a week.
45 hours a week - Give or take.
I do three days a week in the office and two days at home. It's like having a part-time job.
When I was in private practice, it was regularly 7am to 9pm five days a week, sometimes until 11pm, and usually at least one full day at the weekend, sometimes both Saturday and Sunday in the office.
I could probably double my salary if I went back into private practice but, hell, why should I? I earn enough to live reasonably well (although I am not extravagant and have no taste for 'designer' things, so my spending is modest) and, hey! it's 5.30pm and I've already been home for nearly an hour.
Varies hugely, as I'm freelance and suffer from the 'feast or famine' phenomenon. When I'm up against an immovable deadline I can get a huge amount done in a short time (like today) and I curse myself because if I was as productive as that the whole time I could work three-hour days for the same money. But it takes the adrenaline surge caused by a deadline to get me to do that...
To answer the question, usually about 40-45, but great variation in how much of that is chargeable. Also see above for productivity issues... far too much time not actually working but not resting/playing either (i.e. procrastinating on the internet, mostly).
40 hours. 7:00 am to 3:30 pm, five days a week. Unless it rains us out or something, like it did this morning. Or because some supply place or lumber yard failed to deliver materials when they were supposed to.
I really wish I had something I could do at home. On the computer. Partly because I simply do not enjoy a lot of what we have to do (I like the new construction fine, although I could do without the concrete work, but we do a lot of remodels and you run into too much nastiness like old building materials that could have asbestos in them, etc.) but mostly because I was sick for almost all of winter, and that happens at least every other winter. Which means missing a lot of work.
Since I'm fulltime housewife dad, it's kind of ALL THE TIME, but mostly in a good way. I get two hours when kid #3 is at kindergarten, so that's cool.
When I worked on film crews and as an editor I would easily do 100 hours a week, and it was awful. Truly awful. It's why I don't do it anymore.
My heart goes out to you.
Officially, 37.25 hours a week, but I also usually do at least some work on the train to and from work each day. Any work I do "officially" above the 37.25 gets banked and I can take it off when I want, but I can't carry more than 15 hours of banked time over from one four-week cycle to the next. This is probably the best thing about working for the government - we are not expected to work for nothing. Even though I spend three hours a day commuting, I still leave for work later and arrive home earlier than when I was in the private sector. In those days, I was also on call 24/7 to deal with emergencies, so I never really got to switch off from work.
I work a 40 hour week (in years past it was 45-48 hours per week but now they don't like to pay overtime). Then I come home and cook, clean, enforce homework and showertime, march them off to bed, and collapse. I don't have a time clock at home, so it's a rough idea, but how's about another 39 hours of "home" work?
Being salaried means I get the pleasure of working seven-day weeks with at least three 12-hour days. And then some 18-hour days. And then sometimes I come home and hop around like a frog, which is what I did last night, because I was going bonkers.
This happens to everyone else, too, right? I'm not the only one who starts acting like Frogger in the wee hours, am I?
I usually end up working about 55 hours a week but sometimes more. I work for a little start up and I knew that it was going to be a lot of work going in so I don't bitch too much. And we're all going to be millionaires when the company goes public! Well probably not, but I keep telling myself that it will be worth it in the long run.
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