How many hours a week do you work and commute

[DuraAce]

35-40 hours max. Includes commuting.

Life is too short for 60/70 hour working weeks. My opinion only of course, YMMV.

[eric twinge]

7 hours a day. 4 hours a day commuting.

[thebraketester]

At the moment about 9 hours commuting and 16hrs working.

[seany87]

I spend 45 hours in work per week, with the occasional weekend overtime or overseas travel.

I only live a 5 minute drive from work so commuting is only 50 minutes of my week, if that.

[a311]

Generally 40 hours a week with a 20-30 min per day commute. I can and do work from home when it suits.

When the job is ste and/or stressful this is a good reminder it could be much worse and I've got it pretty good.

[Nick Grant]

The worst contract I had (in terms of working hours) I was on 12 hour shifts 7am until 7pm then two day off followed by 12 days on nights 7pm to 7am. Plus a one hour drive each way. So that was 84 hours a week plus 14 hours commute. I did that for nine months. Thank god for hourly rates. Then I went into a nine to five, it was like working part time

[Bullett]

I did a job with annualised hours, 12 hour shifts (day or night) on a fixed pattern. No bookable holidays, any changes had to be swapped.
I was actually living 3 hours drive away so came down before a run of shifts and went home afterwards and lodged locally in between.

So a job offering the same money for days only was a bit of a no brainer

[matsoc]

Too many...in a week without trips from 55 to 60 not including the commute which is around from 1.5 up to 2 a day. If I consider that every couple of weeks a working Saturday of 6-8 hours is needed I easily get to 75 working hours a week including commute.

When I have to travel it can get worse especially if I don't sleep out, leaving with the first flight in the morning and coming back with the last means a 20 hours day out of home. At the beginning of some projects it happened in the last 2 years that I stayed abroad for some weeks in a row often working in the weekends too but somehow far from home is less stressful because you don't wait the end of the day but the flight back...

Edited by matsoc on Wednesday 2nd September 16:51

[Johnnytheboy]

42.5 hours a week work (or 40 hours and an unpaid 30 min lunch - I hate that bks, call it what it actually is).

10 hours a week commuting, soon to be about 6.5 hours thank Christ.

[AAGR]

30 hours a week now, but it used to be 50 hours a week before I started winding down towards retirement.

But then, I work at home, so my commute is 1 minute in each direction - dining table to study.

But not all good news. Some visits to see clients mean leaving home at 05.00HR, and aiming to be clear of the M25 by about 07.30AM.

And if it's Sunday, and raining, instead of doing family things, well .... don't even ask.

[anonymous-user]

4 day week working from home for me.

So 30 hours total with 0 commuting.

Did all the long hours and long weeks in my earlier work years.

[olivebrown]

Work 8am till 5.30pm and 2 minute commute. Id never live further then a 20 min commute to work, I always relocate to the closest I can.

[chilistrucker]

DuraAce said:

35-40 hours max. Includes commuting.

Life is too short for 60/70 hour working weeks. My opinion only of course, YMMV.

I do agree but for some people its just the norm, some by choice, and some maybe just trying to make things better in the long run
I'm definetly not doing 70 hours a week average, with a 3 hour daily commute for fun.

[Djtemeka]

Work 50 hours per week on average. No lunch breaks.
Commute 12-20hours per week.

This is based on a 5 day week. Sometimes I work Saturdays and even Sunday's too.
:/

[Spud1985]

4-5hr commute per day + 9-10hrs working

so roughly 65 - 75hrs per week

[mondeoman]

Add it all up, from leaving home to stopping for the week, and what does that do to your effective hourly rate?
40 hours a week min + 15 hours a week commuting means your almost working for 3/4 of what you think your earning.

[m3coupe]

I work Monday to Friday, do 37 hours a week and would say circa 12.5 hours a week travelling too and from work.

[matsoc]

chilistrucker said:

DuraAce said:

35-40 hours max. Includes commuting.

Life is too short for 60/70 hour working weeks. My opinion only of course, YMMV.

I do agree but for some people its just the norm, some by choice, and some maybe just trying to make things better in the long run
I'm definetly not doing 70 hours a week average, with a 3 hour daily commute for fun.

I can't say I don't like my job but I would really appreciate to "have fun" just for 35 hours a week rather than 70 or more!

[anonymous-user]

6-10 hours a day, 30-40 minute commute on the tram. No weekends, so very council (although next NY trip I need to give up a Sunday, so ill spend the day sightseeing.)

But most weeks I travel so anything from Monday 6am - Friday 10pm

Not too bad travelling business and first class though, so can't really call it working ...

[chilistrucker]

matsoc said:

I can't say I don't like my job but I would really appreciate to "have fun" just for 35 hours a week rather than 70 or more!

Me too
Sadly though the job I loved was taken away from me last year after I sustained a pretty bad head injury and this was the industry I had worked in for the last 22 years.
The current setup is just about trying to rebuild things after a crappy year. I'll do anything I have to really to better myself and try and move forward again. The hours are a sod though, 90 hurt a fair bit and that's not including the commuting for that week :0