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60+, manager of a terrible restaurant
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20-30/week, self employed. HVAC duct design, repair & cleaning.
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Nov 3, 2014 17:05
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Meteorologist. We work a 5 on 3 off rotation and 9 hour days so its right about 45hr/week. Occasionally we work a 6 on 4 off which bumps that up to 54hr/week. Rarely you are asked to stay late to help catch up but that's usually if some technical issue occurred and we fell way behind.
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Nov 3, 2014 17:29
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Physician - on average 50 hours/week. Exception to this is once every 6-8 weeks will do 7 straight days of hospital call for our residency service. These end up being anywhere from 40-100 hour weeks depending on patient load and quality of my residents on service for me.
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Nov 5, 2014 16:26
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Manufacturing in the oil industry, 47.5 right now. For 3 of the last 4 years, I worked 70 on average.
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Nov 9, 2014 19:33
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I made a quick spreadsheet with all the responses that listed either the industry or job. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hW3lH95EL5e2jNTRaP5kjXXggJBOuLOe4iLvcPsSVQI/edit?usp=sharing It's also editable if you'd like to add your information as well (everyone above this post has been added at this point) Take away so far: Software devs generally stay very close to 40. Oil & gas, logistics, medicine, finance, non-software engineering, and management work a ton of hours.
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Nov 9, 2014 21:56
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65+ small business owner
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Nov 9, 2014 22:44
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I have currently worked about 30 hours so far this week since Monday at 5:30 AM.
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Nov 12, 2014 01:37
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Government contractor for a big consulting firm - currently not staffed on a project, but on my last project, I usually worked around 45 hours a week. No lunch break (usually just heated up lunch and ate it at my desk) though. Sometimes I had to travel or work weekends so it would be closer to like 55 or so, but it was never particularly terrible. Having said that, my previous project was regularly 60 hour weeks, with my record including a 13 hour day on a Saturday.
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Nov 12, 2014 02:08
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N.N. Ashe posted:I made a quick spreadsheet with all the responses that listed either the industry or job. Neato, I like data, so thanks for doing this!
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Nov 12, 2014 03:41
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Oil & Gas Extraction 60-70 hrs a week, if you remove the extremes (100+ hour weeks due to emergencies) its more like 55-60
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Nov 13, 2014 16:03
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I work in finance (boutique IB/valuation services) and I would say most weeks are about 50? It can definitely ramp up at times, but I guess being a boutique shop saves me from the crazy hours most people in this industry work.
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Nov 13, 2014 23:38
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Right around the 40 hour mark. Post Doc at one of the National labs, will probably do unpaid work when I write journal articles for publishing. It's amazing for academia.
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Nov 17, 2014 00:53
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I work in the Marketing Department for a small local grocery store chain. 40 hours (which includes a 30-minute paid lunch period), paid hourly.
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Nov 19, 2014 21:24
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Operations Co-Ordinator for a shortline railway.. in Canada. Usually 50 hours a week plus I rotate being oncall with another person, 3 days oncall, 4 days off and so on.
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Nov 19, 2014 21:58
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Now near 40 hours a week. 4 hours on normal work days plus a 24-36 hour job 3-4 times a month. Call it 45 hours a week. Oilfield is where it's at. E: was 120 for a while though Celot fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Nov 21, 2014 |
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Nov 21, 2014 20:35
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60+ was doing drat near 80 for almost 2 years. This is managing two startups, one makes great money, the other does not yet.
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Nov 25, 2014 02:23
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28.5 A week managing a grocery store because of something that has to do with ObamaCare making it so people working over 30 hours have to be offered insurance or something. Or so the bosses say.
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Nov 25, 2014 06:10
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Working IT on Wall Street. I work 40-45 hours a week. Sometimes weekends.
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Nov 25, 2014 14:23
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Corporate lawyer, 30-40 hours a week when things are slow, 60-100 when things are busy.
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Nov 25, 2014 16:46
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Taco Box posted:50-55 hours a week, time and a half overtime for anything over 40. Coordinate metrologist in precision machining. Another metrologist! I work as a calibrations technician with the Air Force. 45 hour weeks, more if we're behind. On a deployment it was 70+.
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Nov 28, 2014 22:48
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50 hrs/week, telecommunications field manager. I was in the army before, which always a minimum of 60 hrs/week up to 120 hrs/week, not including field training exercises or deployments. Really glad I got out.
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Nov 30, 2014 07:32
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DJ Sizzle posted:60+ was doing drat near 80 for almost 2 years. This is managing two startups, one makes great money, the other does not yet. I feel like I could maybe do this if I was heading a startup, but ugh. Over the summer I went from 45 a week to closer to 70 or 80 as a product manager at an early stage start-up. It just felt unsustainable -- how do you guys handle it?
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Nov 30, 2014 21:34
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RIP ZEEZ
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36 hours a week. I'm a nurse who works three 12-hour shifts a week. Anything over that is time and a half, and is usually voluntary (maybe one mandatory extra shift every three months or so). Otherwise I just enjoy my four day weekends.
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Dec 1, 2014 17:11
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I would do a lot of horrible things to work three twelves a week.
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Dec 1, 2014 19:54
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I would do a lot of horrible things to work three twelves a week. Go to nursing school... That way you only have to do one horrible thing.
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Dec 2, 2014 01:08
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Epic Doctor Fetus posted:Go to nursing school... That way you only have to do one horrible thing. Unfortunately I like my current job, think I'd make a lousy nurse, would take a significant pay cut, and do not want to go to school. Just bitchin is all.
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Dec 2, 2014 01:45
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Spadoink posted:40 I'm currently working in Canada and you guys have no idea how good you have it compared to the US. Every person I know who works at a law firm in America can't leave work before 7. Sometimes they stay until 9 or 10 PM. I'm currently working in an animation studio in Canada and working 40-50 hours a week. However the industry only exists here because of subsidies. There's some recent immigrants from China who got work at the studio and had prior studio experience in Beijing where they were working 100 hour weeks. They love the Canadian job, though because of all that practice under hellish conditions they can finish their work in half the time it takes the Canadian animators. No maternity/paternity leave or overtime pay in animation though unfortunately.
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Dec 3, 2014 04:09
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with a 1 hour paid lunch (so actually 35 hours), and we regularly get told to go home early on Fridays. Boutique immigration law firm. I love my job and office.
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Part-time librarian in a county library system. 20/40, meaning I'm scheduled for 20 hours a week but can take on extra hours to a max of 40. I end up with around 32-36 hours a week on average.
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Dec 3, 2014 04:56
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Web developer working 24 hours a week with benefits. Basically the gist was I wanted a 35% raise. I wasn't sure they could afford that on a full time basis and the higher end skills they use me for were only being used a percentage of my work time. So instead of paying me 35% more on a full 40 hours, whether I was doing server maintenance/app development or basic WordPress/CSS work, I convinced them we should hire a lower wage worker to handle a new Jr. position's tasks and pay me more for less hours of the new Sr. position work. So now I work 24 flex hours, usual a morning meeting and a 2pm-4pm remote shift. I come in for meeting maybe 2 times a month. If I work over 24 I can roll it into the next week or invoice it. I was able to negotiate maintaining my benefits too. Before anyone oos and ahhs, I'd say I only pull in about $35k pre-tax in this deal but is has benefits and it's stable. It works for me and my wife and I love working next to her every day and being able to run errands during business hours. Money or not I don't know if I could go back to an office 40hrs a week. The rub is I thought I'd use my new free time to work on amazing skill building projects and open source work. A year in and I have a 80% done game and an 80% done freelance business. New Years resolution is to kick that poo poo into gear and actually make the $70k I wanted in the first place.
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Dec 3, 2014 18:57
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Was working a boutique accounting position 50+ hrs/wk, now in dev/software QA and closer to 40.
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Dec 3, 2014 23:31
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Advertising Account Exec - less then 40 per week, ~$92k per year. My brother makes ~$110k per year in same role, different company, works ~15 hours a week.
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Dec 4, 2014 19:46
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Snatch Duster posted:Advertising Account Exec - less then 40 per week, ~$92k per year. Comma splices everywhere, mixing up "then" and "than"... Sometimes I just wonder what the gently caress 
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Jedi Knight Luigi posted:Comma splices everywhere, mixing up "then" and "than"... Sometimes I just wonder what the gently caress Don't english good, that's why I have proof readers for proposals and copy.
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Dec 5, 2014 02:23
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Engineer, 40 hours/week. Sometimes a little extra here and there. My company is actually good about properly staffing so no one is ever overworked unless they're a workaholic who does it to themselves intentionally.
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Dec 5, 2014 03:44
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Local government healthcare 40 hours a week.
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Dec 18, 2014 19:11
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Management consultant. 50 hours is the minimum, average is probably about 60, and during certain types of projects or near deadlines it's more like 75-80. I don't mind the hours themselves, necessarily, but business is not something I'm terribly passionate about, so I'd probably go a little crazy if I didn't expect to leave in a couple years and use the money / name brand to do something I'm more genuinely interested in.
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Dec 22, 2014 02:32
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N.N. Ashe posted:Software devs generally stay very close to 40. Software dev here and I'm thinking this result has more to do with the demographics of this site (skews younger and in less senior positions) than the reality of the average software developer. I've found the higher up you go the more likely it is you will be working odd hours, one reason because middle management-types love having status meetings after 5PM since it's the only clear-calendar hour they can get, but also because you spend extra time fixing the mistakes some contractor or junior developer committed. That said, I rarely go over 50 myself and mostly fall between 40-45. It's not that bad either way.
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Normally 60-70, sometimes 80-100, even higher if weekends are included. HW engineer at a startup. It's terrible, but I just got a giant raise, so more bearable. Previously, in the auto industry, 45 a week, easy as hell.
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