Working long hours

[typer0612]

How many of you work more than 12 hours a day regularly?

[Ruskie]

I do 12 hour shifts but regularly end up doing anywhere from 15 mins extra up to a personal best of 3 1/2 hours.

[Blakeatron]

Regularly do a couple of 12hr+ days, and the rest will be 10hrs.

If I added in the paperwork, emails, catching up I do at home would probably be 12hrs, 6 days a week.

A few years back when setting up the business and really getting it going 100 hr weeks were the norm.

[harrisp]

Most days are atleast 12 hours although when I travel to and from a job (Monday and Friday) they are usually more like 16+

[dingg]

2 weeks of 12 hour shifts with a few 16 hr days/nights in for good measure


then 3 weeks off

[AC123]

During harvesting last summer regularly did 125 odd hour weeks. Long single stint was about 52 hours trying to get some bales in.

[cheddar]

AC123 said:

During harvesting last summer regularly did 125 odd hour weeks. Long single stint was about 52 hours trying to get some bales in.

18 hours a day 7 days a week, really?

[MLH]

I usually do 12 night shifts in a row then 2 off.

These shifts are all 12hrs apart from the two sunday shifts which are 16hrs.

[Jasandjules]

Not anymore. The odd day I will do 14 odd hours (depends if you say for example driving to Bristol at 3 hours, working until 10pm then starting at 8am the next day, finishing the meeting at 7pm or so then driving home for another 3.5 hours)..

But this is the exception not the rule, because I used to work 12 hours in the office plus 1.5 hours each way commute.. I decided it was not worth killing myself for a job.

[Dodsy]

cheddar said:

18 hours a day 7 days a week, really?

Possibly more like what I used to do in my youth as IT support - work 2 days straight =48 hours. Grab a few hours kip then do maybe another 2 20 hour days. Then you get a bit tired so back it down to maybe 2 further 16 hour days then just a short day on sunday of maybe 6 hours.

126 hours, that was my personal best but I used to regularly rack up 90 hour weeks.

[AC123]

cheddar said:

18 hours a day 7 days a week, really?

For a couple of weeks, yes.

Short weather window meant finishing as late as 1ish when the dew was getting too heavy and up at 7 to blow the combines down for the next days work.

[spikey78]

Regularly do 12hr days, i'd say at least 2 days a week and often do 14 or more not including commuting. If I do an 8 hour day it's feels a bit 'part time'!
I'm self employed, and charge by the hour so I'm not complaining

[red_slr]

First in last out every day for 7 years. Only 21 years till retirement.... if I make it alive!!

[handpaper]

Ask again in 'Commercial Break', OP.

My legal maximum is 71 hours (3 x 15, 2 x 13) in a 5-day week, 84 for a 6-dayer.
Theoretically, given enough waiting around with the tachograph on 'break', a 90-hour week is possible.

As someone who is effectively 'at work' from 0600 Monday to late on Friday, the more time I get paid for the better (unless I've got an assignment due, then a few hours in the services of an evening can be very useful!)

[lemonslap]

I am contracted 8am-5pm, however most days are 16 hours + with at least one day a week working from 5am - 3am and I am due to take on my colleagues work from next year while we take 2 years to find a replacement...

[ghamer]

Sometimes I do a 24hr shift Out at 0800 back home 0800.My personal best is 26hrs at work driving between jobs too.Our management think this is perfectly acceptable.Madness and outright dangerous for me and the public IMO

[fausTVR]

Most people work sitting, be it driving or driving a desk, a different matter standing for long hours. Not comparable IMHO.

[CountZero23]

Used to do web agency work, managed a 24 and a 26 hour stint at one point. Probably did 60 hour weeks at it's worst.

Moved into finance, get paid more and have 7 hour day with flexitime. Turn up at 10 and leave at 5:30. Life is better.

[brickwall]

I worked for one of the classic american management consultancies for a few years:
- on a 'good' project you averaged 60-65 hours a week
- on a 'tough' project you averaged 75-80 hours a week

I found my limit for sustainable productivity was 65 hours a week - I could manage that consistently, do high-quality work and have a life; any more than that and both my life and quality of work suffered. (65 hours generally manifested itself as 9-11 Monday to Thursday, and 9-6 on Friday).

Worse was a summer as an intern in an investment bank. 90-100 hour weeks. Not pleasant in the slightest.

I'm now a civil servant and its mega-relaxed. I barely ever work more than 60 hours, and an average week is more like 50.

[red_slr]

handpaper said:

Ask again in 'Commercial Break', OP.

My legal maximum is 71 hours (3 x 15, 2 x 13) in a 5-day week, 84 for a 6-dayer.
Theoretically, given enough waiting around with the tachograph on 'break', a 90-hour week is possible.

As someone who is effectively 'at work' from 0600 Monday to late on Friday, the more time I get paid for the better (unless I've got an assignment due, then a few hours in the services of an evening can be very useful!)

How do you get to 71 hours?