How many hours a week do you work ?

anyhting between 80 and 100 hours a week,
althhough managed 114 last week :)


being self employed I do get to pick and choose when i work but saving the pennies away at the moment so banking all my money twards the next house deposit :)
 
emailiscrap said:
Paid for 35, work at least another 15-20 unpaid.
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Sorry to pick you out, but, why?

I can't understand why people willingly do unpaid overtime. Any overtime I do I get paid for, and would kick up a stink if I didn't.

I do 35 hours a week, nothing more. Work to live, not live to work.
 
60-70hours. Being a PhD student I usually end up working weekends unless anything is particularly planned.

Looking forward to getting a normal job and actually getting weekends and evenings.
 
Mikeyboy said:
Sorry to pick you out, but, why?

I can't understand why people willingly do unpaid overtime. Any overtime I do I get paid for, and would kick up a stink if I didn't.

I do 35 hours a week, nothing more. Work to live, not live to work.
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I get paid for 40 hours a week or some such, but if you are doing a phd you are not working for a company where you don't give a damn, you are striving to do the best and be the best and as such you work for yourself. Hence you feel guilty if you don't work weekends.
 
9am - 5.30pm Mon-Fri - 1hr lunch each day, so total working hours = 37.5

all that for £12,500 a year, quite cheap eh?
 
D.P. said:
I get paid for 40 hours a week or some such, but if you are doing a phd you are not working for a company where you don't give a damn, you are striving to do the best and be the best and as such you work for yourself. Hence you feel guilty if you don't work weekends.
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Well that's fair enough if you're doing a Ph.D or somesuch. What I don't get, are the people who "stay behind at the office" for a few hours everyday, working for nothing with no eventual goal. Don't these people have homes to go to, or do they just prefer to hide behind the "I'm trying to impress the boss" excuse?
 
Contracted to work 1pm until 10.15pm on thursdays and fridays. Although as i work at a supermarket, i am prone to take as much overtime as i can. Last week i worked 35 hours in 4 days and this week i shall be working 30 in
3 days. :)

Part time until University. \o/
 
Ok so I have just worked out that in the next two weeks I will be doing 104 hours before I get a day off!!!
:eek: *cries*
 
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Over a 4 week period I work 48hours for two weeks and 36 hours the two others. If there's any chance of overtime I take it and its usually a minimum of 12 hours OT which ain't bad! Also end up spending around 30 mins extra each shift (I work day/night/rest/off shift) and most of the time there's no break! But it aint too bad
 
D.P. said:
I get paid for 40 hours a week or some such, but if you are doing a phd you are not working for a company where you don't give a damn, you are striving to do the best and be the best and as such you work for yourself. Hence you feel guilty if you don't work weekends.
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Speak for yourself! I work about 35-40 hours a week on my PhD, much of which is spent in discussion with my advisors and my friends over coffee. In a few cases where I've been particularly inspired I work frantically for a prolonged period of time (including a couple of all nighters where I felt I was really making progress) but normally it's 7-8 hours a day in the office, then home, where I do little to no work. And I certainly never work weekends.

Perhaps it's because I'm doing a theoretical subject, rather than a practical one?
 
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