Workaholics...

[Little Butch]

Just gone from having fooooookall work to working 9 days straight, having a day off then doing the same again.
Got me thinking, what's the longest some of you have worked without a break?

[shirt]

i am on my 15th day of 12+ hr days, no breaks so far and at least another 4weeks of this before we're done. i am knackered.

[Little Butch]

That's a good effort, not surprised you're f*cked!

[shirt]

doesn't help that most guys i know from the office are here and we have a healthy drinking ethic

worst for me was 48hrs onsite in africa, went to the hotel for 6hrs kip and then back for another 36. i can live with a little fatigue, but that was killer.

[Allanv]

16 days of 16 hours during an infrastructure upgrade in Hong Kong, I was fked when i got home slept for a whole day and took 3 to recover.

Enjoyed it though.

[anonymous-user]

19 days of 16 hour days is my worst. The last 4 days were extremely stressful, to the point that I was sick in my shower one morning, then sick on the street walking to the office. That was the end of that.

Never again

[Sir Fergie]

Seriously guys - you would only want to be working these amount of days and hours without a break on a short term basis.

Working excessive hours really isn't good for your health imo.

I am a lazy ct though .

What kind of work do you guys do that require these hours??.

Sir Fergie

[anonymous-user]

8 Am Thursday to 11 Pm Tuesday without going home slept in the corner of the office, putting a bid together in 1997, done loads of 28 on 28 off.

[anonymous-user]

8-2pm then back in at 9 till 11 next day as night guy called in sick.

used to work 70-80 hours @ basic money just to earn

[Jonnas]

I think someone from the farming industry will be along in a minute to tell you they have worked solidly for years.

I did about two months one harvest when I was a student and they were all long days as well.....

I'm sure you wouldn't be slowed to do it now...

[anonymous-user]

i have found working 12 hour night shifts very soul destroying.

[spikeyhead]

I did a three week spell in March of 14 to 16 hour days.

Growing a small business is hard work.

[DavesFlaps]

Twenty or so years ago I did nine weeks without a day off.

These days I'd be pissed off doing nine days (and I dont' get paid overtime anymore)

[Rude-boy]

DavesFlaps said:

Twenty or so years ago I did nine weeks without a day off.

These days I'd be pissed off doing nine days (and I dont' get paid overtime anymore)

That is most years for me between March and October.

Last year I think I had 10 days off (including weekends) from the Easter b/h through to the middle of October.

At the minute the usual weekday is 8am to 7pm in the office, home, then work there from 9 until midnight. Weekends are 8am on site (so anything from 4:30 alarm to 7:15) until 9pm ish.

Odd thing is that I feel more tired when I have a day off...

Next 2 weekends are at home though so will be spent packing for LM and doing all those jobs at home I haven't had time to do. Might buy a car as well if one takes my fancy as getting board of the Golf.

[TonyHetherington]

Do you have a plan, as it were, with those kind of hours? What I mean is are you planning on doing that for a few years and retiring early to enjoy the fruits of your hard earned labour?

[Rude-boy]

TonyHetherington said:

Do you have a plan, as it were, with those kind of hours? What I mean is are you planning on doing that for a few years and retiring early to enjoy the fruits of your hard earned labour?

I wish!

Weekday work is the bread winner and is doing okay but will never make me a rich man. Should keep me in 5+ year old Pork, a roof I like over my head, and nice but not lavish holidays (to be taken in Feb!)

Weekend work is as much a hobby as work to be fair. Ball breaking but with a job in the office all week it is great to be outside all weekend, even if sometimes it can be hateful. Whilst it is not really life and death the highs of what I do at the weekend are greater than anything most will be able to feel, the lows are as extreme though! Every minute you are working you have to be on it or over a million people might know and ‘a bad day at the office’ could be your last job. We were in the bar at Imola the other week having a chat about the job and reckon that there are an awful lot if freelancers who drink far more than they should chasing the dragon as by Tuesday you are trying to beat the buzz you had on Sunday night...

[iphonedyou]

My dad worked every day for 6 months when times were tight about 10 years ago.

[Truckosaurus]

If being On-Call counts, 90-days straight where I had to be within 20-mins of home or the Office (which are 3 miles apart).

Due to a colleague's serious illness.

[nascarrules]

I can remember my dad who is a power station fitter working 12+ hour shifts every day for 12 weeks at a time for power station outtages. Then going back to his normal shift pattern for a week before doing it all again 3 times a year. I enjoy my job but theres no way I could do that.

[Rude-boy]

Truckosaurus said:

If being On-Call counts, 90-days straight where I had to be within 20-mins of home or the Office (which are 3 miles apart).

Due to a colleague's serious illness.

Now I think that that would be as, if not harder, than what I do. At least when I am not working that is it - being on call means no drinkies, always thinking you might have to drop and run, etc.