How many hours a week do you work?

[Mr_Wizard]

I am maxed out at 30 days

[lendaddy]

Man, I need to stop working for myself.

[Moses]

I work about 80 hours/week, but I take a lot of time off. I take at least 4 week-
long vacations and lots of 3 and 4 day weekends. It's a work hard/play hard thing.

[Dave L]

My schedule is flexible and I work from home / the road / and one day in the office each week. Many days are standard 8 hour days, but when I travel I typically go from 8 to 8. I have tried my best to keep around 40hr/week. In the weeks where I travel or have after hours events I typically take Friday afternoon off.

After 3 years I have;
Vacation time - 15 days
celebration days (?) - 2 days
Personal days - 6 days
I also carried over 5 vacation days from last year.

Pay isnt great but relatively stress free and good family time. I work for a US based company BTW

[mattdavis11]

None at the moment.

The best stretch I had was compiling 460 comp hours over the course of 140 calendar days. We only had to work Saturday and Sunday twice during that time, so in reality it was 106 days and 460 hours overtime. Most days were 9-10 hour days, several were 16-17, three or four were 20-21 hour days.

When it is over, you shut down mentally and physically for a few days.

[azasadny]

40-50 hours plus 10-20 hours commuting.

[Scott R]

Exempt, probably 20 real hours of work each week. The rest is spent golfing and entertaining folks. even with that I don't really ever work past 3, and never get until around 9. I do however get my work done, and that's all that really counts here. I do travel a lot, and I don't count "airplane hours."

4 weeks of vacation
9 floating holidays
2 weeks of sick time.

[72doug2,2S]

Salary = no over time here
40+ not including 1 hr for lunch. Sometimes it's 10hr days, but in the summer every Monday we leave at 3:30 and play 9 holes of golf with the managers/owners. Good exposure at high levels.

10 days until 5 years then 15 days.

8 -paid holidays
2- personal days

I lost 5 days of vacation moving to the latest job, but the people are much better to work with and that I think is the key to enjoying your work.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Start getting ready for work about 7AM, usually not home until about 8PM or so - six days a week usually, sometimes seven.

That doesn't even begin to consider a couple of side projects I'm doing.

NOT a complaint either. I've seen this industry from both the "boom" and "bust" perspectives. I'd MUCH rather be too busy (like I am now) than not busy enough. You'll never hear me gripe about it. When I hear younger guys in our office complaining about it, I usually scold them and caution them to "be careful what you wish for - you just might get it". Being too busy is infinitely better than sitting around unemployed with no way to pay the bills.

[masraum]

Now--

Salary

8-5 or 7-4 or 9-6 5 days a week. Occasionally I work a little extra here and there. EXCEPT when I'm on call. Then it could be an extra 8-25 hours in a week, but we are compensated for being on-call.

Back in the day ('94-'95)

I used to manage an auto parts store that was a lot like Autozone or Advanced Auto. Folks in Florida are probably familiar with Discount Auto Parts. Then I was making $21k a year plus bonuses (about $4-5k a year) and was working anywhere from 60-->90 hours a week. The norm was usually 65-70 hours a week. As a manager we had a minimum of 50 hours a week, but we were told that the minimum wasn't really attainable by 99% of the managers and so they expected 60 hours a week.

[masraum]

Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Start getting ready for work about 7AM, usually not home until about 8PM or so - six days a week usually, sometimes seven.

That doesn't even begin to consider a couple of side projects I'm doing.

NOT a complaint either. I've seen this industry from both the "boom" and "bust" perspectives. I'd MUCH rather be too busy (like I am now) than not busy enough. You'll never hear me gripe about it. When I hear younger guys in our office complaining about it, I usually scold them and caution them to "be careful what you wish for - you just might get it". Being too busy is infinitely better than sitting around unemployed with no way to pay the bills.

Here, Here!!!

At my last job they hadn't handed out raises in 3 years. Everytime someone complained about that I told them to be glad they still had a job at all. It never seemed to matter, they still complained.

[livi]

Work 30. Payed for 40.

[Dave Nordhoff]

0. I quit my job a month ago. I do work alot more around the house now. I'm now a house dad and my wife supports me. I am fortunate to be in this position. Plus I get more mid-week track days.
Dave

[NICKG]

i work in the automotive parts business...we get hardly any days off..personally, i will not work over 40 hrs...not worth the investments as there is no loyalty in the business.

[Burnin' oil]

Sun-up to sun-down. Sometimes it's work-work, sometimes it's work-work-work, and sometimes just work. It's all work. Even not working is work. Work is a wierd word. Work WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork WorkWork Work

[masraum]

OK, Burnin' oil is off his meds again. Or maybe he's found some new, improved, better meds. Hard to say really.

[pwd72s]

Zero...

[72doug2,2S]

Thought burnin oil was going to start

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY. ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY.

[Hugh R]

Usually 40, but for example, they're doing some serious stunt work on National Treasue 2 and crew call is 7:45 PM tonight, so I'll probably work late and take some or all of tomorrow off. Same thing tomorrow night and Friday night. I'm salaried so no overtime. Overall, I don't feel like I get screwed. Where I do get short changed is when I travel, then I miss out on being at home evenings and weekends to catch up on projects.

[legion]

All I have to say is this:

Look at my post count.