How does a 60+ hour work week look like?

[Al B. Sure!]

Oh and I'd like to point out that I was working all those hours at an average wage of $9.00/hr

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

[DanS]

For the last few years, I've had a 40-hour work week. But before that it was regularly about 60 a week (which is quite doable).

1. Not a five day work week. Normally Saturdays and/or Sundays for 4 or 5 hours as well.
2. No lunchbreaks. Eat at desk.
3. 1.66 hours per week travel time.
4. 7 to 8 hours per night of sleep.
5. When doing overtime, dinner is provided on the firm. But the local supermarket is open to 10:00 if you need something. Drugstores to buy other stuff like soap, shaving cream, and the like are open 24 hours.
6. No kids.
7. Lots of hobbies.

[Maniac]

Kinda reminds me of:

QFT!

It is quite annoying IMO supermarkets are only open until 8 PM here, and half the time all the bread, meat and bananas are already gone by 7 o'clock.

[Al B. Sure!]

desk? desk? Sitting jobs? Oh come on! Man the **** up! When I've been giving desk jobs, I did everything in my power to get out them.

[BlackCat]

1) 37 hour work week 5 days.
2) ½ hour lunchbreak (part of those 37 hours)
3) 40 min a day
4) 7-8 hours
5) supermarkets close at 20 so plenty of time
6) no
7) plenty

and for that I have 4K$ a month (after tax). Overtime either free at another day or +50% pay first two hours, +100% rest.

[BlackCat]

desk? desk? Sitting jobs? Oh come on! Man the **** up! When I've been giving desk jobs, I did everything in my power to get out them.

Yup, Al "the smart guy" Bundy

[Felch]

When the pools opened this summer, I was supervising the Bethesda area. It was a very hectic opening week, and I worked 90 hours over 7 days. By work I mean that I was driving around, flirting with Ukrainians, smoking weed, and trying my best to dodge calls from the office. Very stressful.

[Flubber]

When I worked in law firms, 60 hours was a slow week. ON a slow week, I was usually at my desk by 6 and would leave at 6 or 7, eating at my desk but getting an hour at the gym during the day. On a slow week I would probably do a 5-6 hour 'day" on Sunday.

Busy weeks, all bets were off and you might leave at 2 a.m. and return at 6 for days in a row.

Since I have gone in-house my 'busy" weeks involve less hours than my old slow weeks. Now I go in at 7 and leave by 5, have many golden Fridays off and have probably worked on a weeked an average of twice a year. I find this far more civilized and don't regret choosing my life and leisure over yet more money. I have kids and hobbies.

[Hauldren Collider]

Inspired by KrazyHorse's bragging thread.

As someone living in the paradisial states of Western Europe, I have trouble imagining this.

Is that a five-day work week, meaning twelve hours per day?
Do you perhaps count your lunchbreaks among those sixty hours??
How many hours do you spend in transport between your workplace and home?
How many hours do you sleep per night?
When do you buy your bread and other stuff? Aren't the shops already closed by the time you get home??
Do you have kids?
Do you have hobbies?

Working hard ain't illegal here, princess.

[Hauldren Collider]

QFT!

It is quite annoying IMO supermarkets are only open until 8 PM here, and half the time all the bread, meat and bananas are already gone by 7 o'clock.

Lazy ****ers. I never minded working until 10 PM on any day of the week when I worked at a supermarket, and I would've worked later but they had to close the stores for a few hours each day to clean it.

Thanks to Obama, it will be impossible for minors to get full-time jobs because they will have to be provided with health insurance and who would hire a kid for 8.50/hr and then give him health insurance?

[Asher]

When I worked at a supermarket back in high school, I worked from 12am til 9am in the summer.

[Aeson]

For a while I was up at 4:30am and back to the house at 8pm, 7 days a week. But after a while, even manning the cat-o-nine-tails gets a bit boring, not to mention it's hard on the 'ol rotator cuff, and so I've resorted to delegating the morning responsibility in favor of sleeping in.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If it looks like I'm going to work over 49 hours in a week, my employer is required, by law, to send me home.

[Kuciwalker]

That doesn't necessarily tell us anything...

[onodera]

Inspired by KrazyHorse's bragging thread.
When do you buy your bread and other stuff? Aren't the shops already closed by the time you get home??

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.