How does a 60+ hour work week look like?

[Provost Harrison]

I have worked that many hours on occasions but it is rare, and I will always take the hours back when times are easier.

It's the great thing about City workers, they earn all that money, but due to their hours their hourly rate is probably about the same as that of a milkman

[Krill]

Some weeks I only work 32 hours If you count breaks as working, then I've fairly regularly done simple 60 hour breaks, 0815-2030, 5 days a week.

5 minutes travelling (total)
I eat on the job, because you have to eat with the patients
I generally only need to buy a loaf, some milk, cheese, eggs etc once a week and it lasts, because I eat all of the food at work, which they provide
Around 7 hours of sleep a night. Usually one night a week I sleep less because I end up doing something when I get home.
No kids
A couple of hobbies.

No social life though. Truth be told, I'd rather work 60-72 hour weeks and save the money, than have the time off, but I love my job. And obviously I'm such a sad act I have no other distractions in my life.

[Provost Harrison]

Yeah, there is a lot of travel time that goes with my job though...although being flown around business class isn't too much of a chore mind you

[Proteus_MST]

That's what always annoys me when I go to Europe: it's like the bloody USSR all over again. I know the shop assistants would also like to work a 40-day week, but how am I supposed to buy anything? Here in Moscow I have two 24x7 supermarkets within walking distance, and you can buy stuff like electric appliances and clothing 12x7, from 10 to 22.

In germany this is changing for the better finally...
shops are usually open till 8 PM, often even till 10PM from monday till saturday.
And shops at railway stations are allowed to open on sundays as well,
which is why many large railway stations nowadays resemble small shopping centers,
with suprmarkets and other shops, that are open 7 days a week

[Dauphin]

I'd probably LIVE in the office if I was getting an investment banking analyst salary of $40K or so.

$40k as an analyst? I'd spend all day (not that it would take all day) looking for a better paid job.

[Al B. Sure!]

$40k as an analyst? I'd spend all day (not that it would take all day) looking for a better paid job.

I've never made more than $13/hour in my life. That's around $26K with 40-hour weeks.

$40K would be more money than I'd know what to do with.

[Jon Miller]

40k isn't a lot, even for me.

JM

[Al B. Sure!]

It's all relative. I'm used to living on not even $20K a year.

[Jon Miller]

I was use to living on ~25k a year.

JM

[KrazyHorse]

I have worked that many hours on occasions but it is rare, and I will always take the hours back when times are easier.

It's the great thing about City workers, they earn all that money, but due to their hours their hourly rate is probably about the same as that of a milkman

No.

[KrazyHorse]

$40k as an analyst? I'd spend all day (not that it would take all day) looking for a better paid job.

The number I see floating around for first year analyst is ~75k all-in (60+15)

[KrazyHorse]

It's all relative. I'm used to living on not even $20K a year.

You don't live on Manhattan

[Al B. Sure!]

$40k as an analyst? I'd spend all day (not that it would take all day) looking for a better paid job.

The number I see floating around for first year analyst is ~75k all-in (60+15)

F********CCCCCKKKKK

That is analyst? Not associate?

[KrazyHorse]

Is that your idea of a lot of money?

[Al B. Sure!]

no wonder one of my friends who works at JP Morgan has already bought a house!