Working long hours
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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.
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.
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.
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!)
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!)
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?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!)
I started work in the print when I left school, straight onto continental shift pattern of 36 hours over 3 days, and would regularly work 3 out of 4 rest days on overtime, again 12 hour shifts, then when I was 25 I got made redundant and started my own business, and just carried on working at least 12 hours a day, sometime 7 days a week if it was really busy.
Got to 40 and looked back and realised how much time I'd missed living because I was working, so sold the business and now live a much more relaxed semi-retired life.
As the saying goes, no one goes to their grave wishing they'd worked more!
Got to 40 and looked back and realised how much time I'd missed living because I was working, so sold the business and now live a much more relaxed semi-retired life.
As the saying goes, no one goes to their grave wishing they'd worked more!
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