How may hours a week do you work?

I guess the best way to describe my job is Dropbox for the elderly. I back-up old peoples stuff on my servers and charge them a lot per month. If their computers die I can get all their stuff back.I will actually go to their house and restore it if something has gone horribly wrong.

And I have no wife, no kids, no car. My rent and utilities are under 400 a month. I worked about three hours this last week.

I work anywhere from 38.5 to 40 hours per week. I have to work at least 38.5 to be considered full-time at my company. Because I am paid hourly, I am required to make every effort to not work over 40 hours per week so that I do not have to be paid overtime. I am in what I consider to be a professional position, but because I am not a manager or supervisor, I am paid hourly.

Many years ago, I worked two jobs. This added up to approximately 60 to 70 hours per week, minimum. It took a while, but I finally moved into a job that allows me the work – life balance that I need for my sanity.

There are times I worked 12 hour days, five days a week, and so me more on Saturday. But in the last few years, I work from 6:15 in the morning to about 2,

My company has been taken over three times. Headquarters is back east and people are rarely around after five NY time. We do occasionally have meetings until 2:30 in the afternoon, or a meeting at 5 am, but those are not regular.

In my work history, some projects required long hours of testing and implementation. I am not in that user area any more, so my hours are more normal.

It depends on the timing, but I usually work 45 most times, but sometimes I put in over a hundred per week

At the moment I am working 40 to 45 hours per week, over five days plus the occasional voluntary Saturday. I work for a hospital and work-life balance is a big issue with management

In the past, when I was a CFO, 60–70 hours including Saturdays and the occasional Sunday was pretty normal.

This does not include the phone calls at 6 or 7 AM because this company was headquartered in Germany and some of the executives there ignored the time difference.

SRM

I put in 56 hours in 4 days, and right now get just 3 days off it used to be that and get 4 days off,
This winter I won’t do that it will have to be four on and four off if they want those kind of hours or get someone else.

I think I should add that how I got into this was around 2004. I moved back to Eugene a few blocks from my best friends parents house. I loved them since they provided me with grilled cheese and Zima in high school. Their son was long gone but I loved his parents so I would stop by have dinner and watch a movie with them a few times a month..

They got a new Dell with XP and dial-up. It turned into a mess quickly. So I helped and bought a external drive and would go over every Sunday for dinner and back-up their computer and store the drive in my bedroom. Yadda, Yadda, Recommended to their friends.

Right now I usually work 25–30. If he wanted me 40 hours a week for weeks on end I would quit.

For many years I regularly worked 50 hours a week, often more, sometimes as little as 40. I was working retail and at the time the trend was just beginning to go towards very early openings during the Christmas season. I always had said the day they open the store at 8:00am I quit. I put up with 6 days a week work with sometimes 14 hour days within that schedule, but an early opening would have been the ultimate torture. The long hours wore on me also, but because I was physically exhausted. If I had had children I never would have done those long hours.

I told my boss my max is 25 but I’ve worked more than that all but once. I used to do overtime but it was too much. I’ll probably be doing less once school starts up again.

32–40. It depends on if I do or don’t need a personal day once a week.

Currently, I work about 35 hours/week.

My job before this one was about 50–70 hours/week. Plus I taught about 10 hours/week at night. I did this for five years. Ugh.

Volunteer only.
I’m retired but some weeks it is over 25 hours for community service, including hospital van driving.

About 50 hours per week during a slow period. There are times, however, that deadlines require 80 hours.
In my job, the amount of hours worked is not a concern of my company. It’s about producing. I’m a software engineer. I could work 80 hours/week and get fired if my work was poor. Or I could get praised for a really productive 35-hour week.

35 hour workweek with one hour for lunch. I usually don’t go out for lunch, but will take the break but will answer my phone or help someone (in other words, my lunch time is not clearly delineated).

I am retired, so zero.
I worked for the phone company for 36 years. For about 20 years I worked between 60–70 hours a week average. Much more during winter. I was a wage whore, and I did pay a price on my physical health, and my kids not having me around much of the time.

Currently 46 hours. For about two years I had a six day work week where my hours were in the low- mid 50s. During past holiday seasons I’ve had one day off every two weeks for most of the time between Christmas and New Years. One of those days was Christmas itself because my workplace was closed. After dinner I fell asleep on the couch with a glass of wine in my hand.

On average I work 45 hours a week, sometimes more, rarely less.

I say no to extra hours when I can afford to but at the moment that isn’t very often.

It’s funny, I’ve never had a job as an adult where saying “no” to extra hours was even an option. It was always, “You’re working on Saturday/late tonight/etc.” There wasn’t a discussion.

I work 35 hours a week but I wouldn’t do 40.

I grew up on a farm. You worked as many hours as was needed. 16, 17, 18 hours wasn’t unheard of.

Does everyone who works over 40, who does not work for themselves get overtime pay?

I do, hour for hour and no, it’s not worth it.

Laughs, when I was growing up on the farm my mother suggested maybe they might pay me wages. That quickly ended with my father’s I ain’t paying no god damn son of mine to work. They made up for it in other ways though. It was a good way to grow up.

@jca Yes, but my question is for holidays. I worked on the fourth and didn’t get any extra pay. I thought higher pay on holidays was a thing. Guess not.

@dxs: Did you ask your boss or HR dept?

No. I’m still waiting for them to get me a check that was never delivered to me from three months ago. :)

I don’t know if it’s considered “work” since it’s so much fun but I made mid- five figures last year on the stock market. I am a one man band and have no idea how I taught myself but I don’t have to go anywhere and I can walk away from the pc at any moment. And yes; I know it’s supposed to tank badly in September. lol

Sounds like a lot of you are working part-time and reasonable hours. That’s refreshing to hear especially if you are getting benefits. I’m picking up on hints that my new job will eventually require long hours after some initial training period. If that’s the case I’m not putting up with it.

@jca I didn’t make overtime, I was a manager. When we worked 6 days during the Christmas season I got comp days. There were times I worked 6 days not during Christmas and I received nothing, but that didn’t happen too often.

50 plus most weeks and sometimes up to 80.

@Earthbound_Misfit That’s because you Aussies are criminals and deviants. You spend half the day misbehaving. :)

Lol! I wish @Adirondackwannabe.

What, you wish Aussies were deviants or were criminals? Or both?

I wish I was spending so many hours misbehaving (even if that means being deviant and committing minor crimes) rather than working. There are various levels of deviance and criminality.

Hey you two, take it to the chatrooms! I’m lonely.

Laughs, I know being a responsible member of society is a pain. If you knew me as a teenager you’d wonder about me.