How many hours do you work per week?

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I'm doing around 40, but I know hardly anyone who works 40 or fewer. Most do around 50.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Work?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

30-ish. Sometimes more, sometimes less.

ps I'm poor.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard of it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

The four-day workweek is easily the best part of my job.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

around 45-50

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Do you mean "how many hours a week do you spend at work"?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm salaried, so no matter what I actually work, I get 37.5 hours of pay.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Depends on where I am in the production cycle. Sometimes 60+, sometimes 2-3.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I get paid based on 40 hours, but I usually work slightly over that (41 - 45), and usually spend slightly less than that doing actual work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

At one time, when I worked in film, I used to work at least 70 hours a week and very often more.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hold on, do you mean ACTUALLY WORK or like "be present at work?" If the latter is the care, then I'd say around... oh... say... Shit, I'm bad at maths, especially drunk on Cubra Libre, so let's see... Seven times eight is? 56, right? Oh shit, I realize it's actually more. 63 hrs per week. But I do include lunches and I sometimes go out for an hour. Shit, I don't know.

PS Rhum tastes oh so yummy.

PPS If mean like actually work, then fuck it I can't calculate it.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

37.5

― oops (Oops), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

As many as they make me.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

42.5

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 8 September 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

24 waged, probably another 20 freelance.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 8 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

About 38 I guess. I'm supposed to do 40 but they're very lax about lunch breaks and punctuality as long as the work gets done.

I do occasionally have to work from home for an hour or 2 at weekends which I guess would make it up but since I'm in the process of changing broadband providers I don't have to do that at the moment. Although actually I did say I'd do it this weekend since my connection seems to be working now.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 September 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I work 40, by which I mean that's what I mark on my timesheet. There's been the occasional week where I've worked an hour or two a week overtime, but the idea of working more than 43 hours a week makes me want to claw my eyes out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 September 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

by which I mean that's what I mark on my timesheet

Actually, it's an automated timesheet, so I should've said "...that's how much time I'm in this office, not including lunch."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 September 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

20:)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 8 September 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Don't rub it in, Surname.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Depends on where I am in the production cycle. Sometimes 60+, sometimes 2-3.

mee too - currently waiting for the burning dvd that symbolizes the fruition of a 60+er (logged 16 yesterday). then it's off to the fedex box then it's off to the frozen mojito and grilled corn spot huzzah!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

44+, lunch included

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Currently - 37.5 For the first five months of this year - between 85 and 90.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I guess about 45-50, varying from week to week.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

37.5 is what I get paid for, but considering how early I get in, how late I leave and how short a lunch break I have, it's more like 45. I work like a dog, generally speaking, but subtract the pressure-relieving ILX scanning, personal emailing, Flickr browsing and that, and I suppose it's down to about 40.

I don't do the 65-hour weeks any more or the weekends, like in my last job, because, although I remain a bit of a mug, I no longer wish to be in the running to be the biggest fucking mug in the world. (My reward for such diligence [and I'm sure this happens to everyone] - a promotion to a position where I got to work like that routinely and no longer got paid overtime).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

10, but it's teaching, so that doesn't count all the prep-work, marking, and office hours.

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I can't imagine working any job where I wouldn't mind working over 40 hours. But surely there must be some out there, because I don't think I'm that much of a layabout. It's just that 8.5 hours sitting in the same position in front of a computer makes me really tired. I'm leaving an hour early today and making up an excuse.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

huzzah!

I'm on the upswing this week, making sales calls. I probably worked 30 hrs. this week, and will work a little bit Sat. and Sun. It's almost like a lunar cycle over two months instead of one, waxing and waning, lather rinse repeat.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mary I think you ought to count skool hours, too, which I'm sure puts you far above 20.

Me, I am salaried so I'm paid the same no matter what. My work-related hours go something like:

5 hrs/wk commuting (seems like an awful lot, although probably below average for my city)

40 hours billed

Vast majority of weeks: 30+ hours of actual work, plus various fucking around on the internets

Occasionally: 50+ hours of actual work. But this is only a handful of times a year, and it makes me grumpy and alcoholic.

― quincie (quincie), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

22, for the same amount of money I until very recently got paid for 37.5! And amn't I happy about it!?!

― Ricky Willmsenman (gatinhathree), Friday, 8 September 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

14, but i am a student and lucky enough financially that part time is ok

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 9 September 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Since April, 42, since I now work Saturdays as well as Mon-Fri.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 9 September 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

These days I average about 22 hours which makes me the househusband around here. I lke that, but it's a little too soon for semi retirement. :(

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 9 September 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

45/50 odd, not counting the time I spend thinking about work, or working at home, or being called whilst on holiday/at the weekend. That's solid days too, not once have I had lunch away from my desk and not been working, unless of course I've been out of the office, which rarely happens. And it's constant too, downtime is a rarity, in fact the only time I look at the net etc is when I'm on hold with a supplier or whatever.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 9 September 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I am contracted for 37 hours. I probably do about 10 hours work in that time. I am super-productive and efficient, and this gives me lots of time to mong about on teh interweb, email my pals, and get really good at minesweeper.

This is about to change, I think, as my caseload picks up. But it's been a nice few months.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 9 September 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

about 45 a week at my salaried job (pays only 40), and anywhere between 10 to 25 additional hours a week doing contract work.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 9 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

These days I average about 22 hours which makes me the househusband around here. I lke that, but it's a little too soon for semi retirement. :(

Whenever anyone asks me what I do and i say househusband they STILL say but what do you do for a job. So now I say i'm semi-retired and as I work about 10 hours a week for actual money this seems to satisfy them but I sure don't feel semi-retired. I reckon I do at least another 40 hours on child rearing/"housekeeping" for which my lovely lady gives me nineteen shillings and sixpence a week, and i'm ever so grateful for it I am.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Saturday, 9 September 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Nathalie, are your home and shop on the same premises? Do you ever get an actual for-real day off away from the shop?

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 September 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

LOL this thread

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 9 September 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot I started this thread!

Jobs and hours I have worked:

Grocery store cashier: 32-40

Florist: 70-80 every week for a year, then around 40 at a diff. place.

Waiter: 30, though at one job usually 65 (lucrative)

Organizer (current job): 40 now that I don't have a boss in town or coworkers. With a boss, usually around 50.

Other organizers work around 60-80, paralegals I know work around 50, folks at my org's office in Chicago do around 50 at the office plus travel time, time spent messing around with work while at home and time spent on the phone with work. Plus travel time, which is a lot.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and photo lab manager: 50, though I took 3 hour lunches when I wanted to. (I worked

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ooops. Htmlness happened.

Oh, and photo lab manager: 50, though I took 3 hour lunches when I wanted to. (I worked < 1/2 mile from home and I had a boyfriend, so I would go home, eat a leisurley lunch, have some afternoon delight, a nap and sometimes a shower.)

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Workday nooners = best sexx ever.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

regular work week - 40hrs
during trial (I do multimedia litigation support) - 100+/week

it's so not worth it

― Will (will), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

At the bare minimum, around 35-40. Going flat out: 55

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Workday nooners = best sexx ever.

I don't know if I agree. I find that I'm sort of shaky and rubbery when I go back to work.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

And sweaty. But I guess if followed by a shower, they're good.

....

One time I had a nooner and no shower. When I returned to work I noticed something crusty on my temple and my sideburn. Upon investigation in the bathroom mirror I discovered that sure enough....

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Saturday, 9 September 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

45, pretty much spot on, although I don't really do anything between 9 and 10 in the morning so you can probably shave about five hours off that.

In my last job, I was doing around 70 on an average week, even more when we were short staffed (which was most of the time, given that people kept leaving due to the workload). Back in the archives there's a thread where I start crying all over ILE about it.

I am being paid more now :)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

35 salaried. I'm compulsive about being early, though, so I actully put in probably 38 hours a week. It's a government job, though, so I get paid shit.

― Pork Cheops (willpie), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Usually about 21 hours in the office, sometimes less. I do about 5 hours freelance (average) a week also.

(I do study full time though.)

― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

About 60, I reckon, though it's difficult to work out exactly as a lot of it's done at evenings and weekends.

On the upside, being a teacher I get 13 weeks off (though, again, some of that's spent working).

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Saturday, 9 September 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

i only work about 24 in one job, 4 in the other

but i also spend about 40-50 hours a week with university stuff

― splates (splates), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

I can't imagine working any job where I wouldn't mind working over 40 hours. But surely there must be some out there, because I don't think I'm that much of a layabout. It's just that 8.5 hours sitting in the same position in front of a computer makes me really tired.

The thing is that most of the people I know who work 50+ hours don't spend all of it behind a desk. Even I don't spend all day at a desk, instead I go to meetings, drive around paying visits, attend functions, attend the occasional protest or whatever.

In other jobs I was developing photos, taking flower orders, making said orders, meeting with clients, delivering orders (I was the ONLY employee for a couple of the busiest months at the flower shop), waiting tables, etc.

Even 40 hours of pure desk work would be annoying.

― The Pig on the Stairs (hanging in a groovy purple shirt) (unclejessjess), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

Out of my 38ish hours I probably only work about 10 hours at the moment. I've only been there a couple of months, and I was apparently hired because they were having a lot of problems with data feeds which subsequently got fixed just before I started so there's not a lot to do.

The upside is although I was hired to do SQL Server stuff, since there's been hardly any to do I've been doing Python scripting instead so I now have a bit of programming experience which should help when I'm looking for my next job.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 10 September 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm salaried at the average 38 hours or whatever it is. But at one point, I was pulling a double shift each 4 weeks on a rotating 24/7 helpdesk roster - so I'd start at 3pm, leave the office at 11pm. but then be on call and have to do work most of the rest of the night (ie taking pages at 4am).

This killed me so I quit. I now average about 40-45 hours and it is all desk work but a lot of the time I zone out if it isnt busy.

My bf's last job found him routinely pulling 60+ hour weeks, doing all-nighters and working 12 days straight without a break. Thus is the nature of crunch time in the games industry though.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 10 September 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

35 at the factory (but get paid for 40, yay!), 6 teaching dance lessons, and probably about 4 prepping the dance classes = 45

― Rodney doesn't dance, he boogies. (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 10 September 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

36, work to rule.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 10 September 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

0. This might change soon.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Sunday, 10 September 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

I work for myself these days so I pretty much don't ever stop.

― I'm down for runnin' up on them crackers in the city hall... (papa november), Sunday, 10 September 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

35: 9 to 5, Monday to Friday with an hour for lunch. Like Ailsa I can do the job in less time than that which allows me a little ilxing. If I've got some kind of big deadline I'll work a 40-hour week,, flat-out but in the last 9 months (since I started this job) I've only had two weeks ilke that.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 10 September 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Varies, I work shifts so each week is different, conditioned hours are 42 per week. Last week I worked 52 hours but this week I'll be working 36 hours.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 10 September 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'll easily work 50-60 hours in the average week but I love my job, so it's all just peachy.

― Lara (Lara), Sunday, 10 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

37 1/2, on paper.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 10 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

40-60. no counting stuff i have to go to for work. and not counting freelancing. i fear the actual amount may be closer to 80.

― john cougar thornton melloncamp (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 10 September 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

35, and my manager is very strict about us taking TOIL if we're owed it. which is nice. like madchen and ailsa, i can do my work in much less time than i spend in the office, so there's other things in there filling up that time.

― colette (a2lette), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

It averages out to about 30-32 hours a week here. But they're all at night.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

i can do my work in much less time than i spend in the office

I wish I had a job like this. For me, there's always more to copy edit. If the project I'm working on dries up, someone else has a project they need help on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 10 September 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

35, and my manager is very strict about us taking TOIL if we're owed it. which is nice.

In my old place, this was a cunning way for the senior management to get the project managers to work way beyond EU norms and then let them take half-days here and there during quiet periods without having to pay them overtime. However, certain people seemed to be constantly at +90 hours on the TOIL roster.

When the missus and I delivered B0urne Supr3m4cy in 30-odd languages inside three weeks, I got a stack o'cash for my efforts (being a lowly subtitler merely on emergency secondment to the translation dept) and she got to take half-days for a whole month, leading into maternity leave. I think we felt it was just about worth it but, equally, never wanted to go through it again.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 10 September 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm contracted to do 40 hours, but most weeks I end up doing about 41.5 just because it's my job to open the building every morning, so I always have to make sure I'm here slightly early. Plus, I don't usually go out for lunch, so I'm at my desk for about 46.5 hours a week in total.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 11 September 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

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