Working 60+ hours/week (srs)

[Squat2Grow]

for everyone working 70-80 hours a week i really hope you are making at least $100,000/yr (srs)

think about your hourly rate. say at even $80,000 a year if you were doing 80 hours a week (ill give you the benefit of 2 weeks vacation) then your hourly earn is $20/hr (not counting other benefits)

plus once you factor in long commute times and other misc things it goes down even more,

is it really worth it? why make all that $$ and have no time to spend it?

[Iluveketchup178]

for everyone working 70-80 hours a week i really hope you are making at least $100,000/yr (srs)

think about your hourly rate. say at even $80,000 a year if you were doing 80 hours a week (ill give you the benefit of 2 weeks vacation) then your hourly earn is $20/hr (not counting other benefits)

plus once you factor in long commute times and other misc things it goes down even more,

is it really worth it? why make all that $$ and have no time to spend it?

I may don't have the time to spend it but my wife does so it's fine.




























Just kidding

[pitbull707]

In the summer of '08 I took a construction/dock job in a small town called Naknek, Alaska. We worked and maintained a spot that housed the fishermen. It was May 15-July 31st. We had free housing/food, but had to work 7:30am-8:30 PM EVERY DAY, with the exception of getting of at 5pm of the 4th of July. After 1-2 months of this it makes you literally go crazy. I tried to get fired without going to jail, but couldn't do it. Went as far as taking beer to work and pounding them in front of the boss, but they still wouldn't send me home. It was a small island, so was no way off until the job ended. 77 hour work weeks for 10 weeks was bad enough for me, I feel bad to the people on here talking about working more, if they are true.

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Cliffs-
77 hours a week in ish-hole town for ten weeks middle of nowhere

[Squat2Grow]

This is unfortunately the case in most white-collar jobs where you make decent money. It's especially true for accountants, lawyers (private firms), and stock analysts

I read somewhere that if you take the salary these people earn and divide it by the number of hours they work, their hourly pay is often as low as a high school educated worker (because they don't earn overtime pay)

this^^ I sell car washes/details and I bet on a per hour basis at times I make the same if not more than some of these people bringing in their BMWs (the people who can barely afford them, not talking about the ballers that come in that are CEOing)

[Squat2Grow]

I may don't have the time to spend it but my wife does so it's fine.

Just kidding

lol for real though if any man is working 80hrs a week and his wife is just sitting there doing jack **** except spending all the $ then i'd go ape **** and put a stop to it asap and if things couldn't get resolved then bye bye

[rangerkid2187]

this thread is making me depressed.....got my masters in accounting and currently studying for the CPA exam, next test is tomorrow

[Reggie20x6]

So you work 10 to 12hours consecutively, you don't even take half an hour to eat something?

I have a giant cooler at my desk - I have all of my protein shakes, food and water in there. If I ever take a lunch hour, I usually spend it doing errands. I tend to take longer lunch breaks and cut back on my hours when I'm between projects.

I work for a company with about 300+ employees, but my workload is pretty self-contained. I have two titles - one involves analyzing financial data vs. financial quotes, and the other involves Inventory Control. I actually kind of like the niche I've cut out for myself, when you consider the following:

*I never have to interact with any customers. I just work with data and physical inventory.
*I don't even have a phone at my desk; nor do I need one.
*I don't have any sort of set hours - just need to put in a minimum of eight on weekdays.
*I can take lunch whenever I want, or I can walk out into the warehouse - never really "stuck" in the office.
*I have two "supervisors," but since I am literally one of only two people in the entire company who knows how to navigate the inventory software, I don't really have to answer to anyone very often.

I'm the type of guy who is extremely self-motivated, so when I'm given the freedom to be as productive as I want to be - I tend to want to work a lot more.

If I ever run a company, I'll set it up so that no one has any sort of set schedule - people can come and go as they please. Obviously, not everyone will be able to handle such a system, but I think people would work harder if you tied earnings to results - instead of locking people in for a set (prison or school) schedule and giving them 5% raises every two years.

[Buster McFats]

How do I get a job that's 60 hours a week and is bad ass?

I'd rather do that than my 40 hours a week, where 50%+ of the time is doing nothing.

[johnnyj411]

I work:
Monday-saturday 7am-4:30pm at car dealership
Sunday-friday 5pm-10pm(sometimes 11 or 12,depending how busy we are or if I'm making good tips)Papa Johns delivery

Only working this much to pay off some of my f'n loan debt!(damn me)

[jjones11]

I work 40 hrs a week minimum, Love my job though. I'm pushing my manager for 50+ but he just won't do it.

[rich_tz]

Right now I'm working exactly 55hours a week. Technically, that mean from Monday to Friday I work from 7am to 7pm and I got a 1 hour break lunch during the day. It's an office job.

Basically I do nothing but to work during the week. When I come back home I don't have the time nor the energy to do anything else but to eat and maybe surf the web for an hour.

And think it's sucks big time. So I can't even imagine how it's must sucks to work even more. Many miscer claim to work 70-80 hours a week (yet they still have the time to misc a ****load). Is that real life?

For example, if you work for a big four it is expected that you work 70 hours a week minimum. But unless you work also during the weekend I don't see how you can even do that. That's 15 hours more per week than what I do, so that mean an extra of 3hours of work per day.
So then my schedule would be something like-->
Monday to Friday:
*7am to 12= work
*1pm to 10pm=work
*repeat
Wtf??



If you work that much, can you tell us how do you handle it? Is it even possible to have a real family life if you work that much?

Welcome to the club.

I work anywhere from 50 to 70 hours a week depending on my workload. I'm running 2 businesses, both of which are going through really busy periods right now.

Important thing is to manage time effectively. I can still spend an hour or so each night and a few hours over the weekend with fiancee/kid and still hold down that ridiculous workload... one thing that suffers is my gym routine, e.g. hard to nail down the right time to go since my workload is all over the place.

Just part of starting/running a business! But if you're not getting paid to work that extra 30 hours (over the standard 40 or whatever a normal week is there) then I'd say it's time to find a new job, or demand a fat pay raise and bonus.

[TRexGAWD]

ITT: people who have never been in the military

This. Interweb winner. I think I just got used to working a 12 hour day though, doens't really bother me and it has it's benefits in the desert. SInce there is **** else to do other than go to the gym and eat.

[beerbaron105]

for everyone working 70-80 hours a week i really hope you are making at least $100,000/yr (srs)

think about your hourly rate. say at even $80,000 a year if you were doing 80 hours a week (ill give you the benefit of 2 weeks vacation) then your hourly earn is $20/hr (not counting other benefits)

plus once you factor in long commute times and other misc things it goes down even more,

is it really worth it? why make all that $$ and have no time to spend it?

you mad it was all overtime?

[DangerDan]

Last semester I worked 40 hour weeks and took 12 hours of classes. Sucked ass.

Don't know if I wanna work 60 hour weeks ever for any salary. 50 hour weeks wouldn't be that bad though.

[BrianMC88]

My normal schedule is 7-5, but I rarely ever work my normal schedule. It's usually 7-7+.

For one I really enjoy my job and two I love my paychecks. I don't get paid salary so that's another plus.

Feels good to have money in my pocket and buy things that I wasn't able to when I was a broke ass college kid.

My weekdays are just as you described: eat, work, gym, sleep, and repeat. Weekends are a different story: surf, club, bar, paintballing, skydiving, scuba diving, travelling, vegas, video games, hanging out, movies, cycling, working on my car/motorcycle, etc. are just an example of things I've done this summer.

I was told by one of my older co-workers (50+) to take advantage of the days I don't work especially when I'm young cuz when I'm old like him the only thing you're body will want to do on a day off is rest lol. I've been taking his advice so far and its been workin out great.

[Iluveketchup178]

My normal schedule is 7-5, but I rarely ever work my normal schedule. It's usually 7-7+.

For one I really enjoy my job and two I love my paychecks. I don't get paid salary so that's another plus.

Feels good to have money in my pocket and buy things that I wasn't able to when I was a broke ass college kid.

My weekdays are just as you described: eat, work, gym, sleep, and repeat. Weekends are a different story: surf, club, bar, paintballing, skydiving, scuba diving, travelling, vegas, video games, hanging out, movies, cycling, working on my car/motorcycle, etc. are just an example of things I've done this summer.

I was told by one of my older co-workers (50+) to take advantage of the days I don't work especially when I'm young cuz when I'm old like him the only thing you're body will want to do on a day off is rest lol. I've been taking his advice so far and its been workin out great.

What's your job brah?

[warbird00]

big 4 sucks ass brah

brb working 70 hrs a week making no more than 49 k lol

[jayshmo]

I work monday - friday 13 hour days and now saturday (8 hours) as well, I work 73 hours a week. I live in a hotel for the most part.

its not that bad, im single, i work with some family members and im making more money than i ever have (also more than ~80% of 21 year olds)

I have time at night (about ~3 hours to do things like misc, shower, eat, watch a movie) and i get to travel to a lot of different parts of the state.

[Roke]

Sounds intense. In for later.

[Ambushed]

Doing what?

Customer Experience Specialist (CSR) for a Internet Service Provider. Sucks getting paid monthly, should hopefully all be sorted as soon as I move up into a System Administration type job 6 months down the track.

[CLK-GTR]

My normal schedule is 7-5, but I rarely ever work my normal schedule. It's usually 7-7+.

For one I really enjoy my job and two I love my paychecks. I don't get paid salary so that's another plus.

Feels good to have money in my pocket and buy things that I wasn't able to when I was a broke ass college kid.

My weekdays are just as you described: eat, work, gym, sleep, and repeat. Weekends are a different story: surf, club, bar, paintballing, skydiving, scuba diving, travelling, vegas, video games, hanging out, movies, cycling, working on my car/motorcycle, etc. are just an example of things I've done this summer.

I was told by one of my older co-workers (50+) to take advantage of the days I don't work especially when I'm young cuz when I'm old like him the only thing you're body will want to do on a day off is rest lol. I've been taking his advice so far and its been workin out great.

what do you do? you dont know how lucky you are having access to all those things on the weekend. i would kill to live in California. Im in supposedly the most cosmopolitan city in the world and if its not museums, eating out and clubbing there's **** all here, and its at least an hour's journey to get anywhere else of interest.

for everyone working 70-80 hours a week i really hope you are making at least $100,000/yr (srs)

think about your hourly rate. say at even $80,000 a year if you were doing 80 hours a week (ill give you the benefit of 2 weeks vacation) then your hourly earn is $20/hr (not counting other benefits)

plus once you factor in long commute times and other misc things it goes down even more,

is it really worth it? why make all that $$ and have no time to spend it?

when you start out you put in the big hours and dont get paid much. you have to put your time in, then eventually it reverses and you get paid a ton for not very much work.

[CAManlet]

big 4 sucks ass brah

brb working 70 hrs a week making no more than 49 k lol

gluck brah. thats y i left. did they start you at 49k?

i started sept 2009 and quit may 2010.

[howyoudoin16]

sup brah!! i work a 50 hour week in construction then i coach soccer 10 hours a week and just have my weekends to socialise, u mad

[rotatoo]

damn, unless its your own business working over 50 hours a week is for slaves

[Day_Monster]

1/2 hour lunches and working saturdays and sometimes sundays. I was working 60-70 hours a week for a while. It sucked major ass but you get used to it. Really appreciate time off after that.

[Maestro]

damn, unless its your own business working over 50 hours a week is for slaves

yeah, I may have to agree with this.

sure its commendable that you can actually do it, but when you get to a point that you can't even even breathe and there are days where you'd never see daylight (0700-1900?) you may need to re-evaluate.

I'm serious, what are you doing it for?

-Are you just trying to work extra hours so you can buy expensive stuff.

-Do you like to live outside your means and in order to maintain it you have to work these slave like shifts?

-or are you doing it to simply keep a roof over your head?

I would be willing to search for a lower paying job with reasonable hours, if it meant having more free time.....in your case not "more" free time, just free time. I'm doing roughly 40/week and I have no idea where the time went, Think about it. Wednesday is September 1st 2010! I don't even remember what I was doing between March and June.

[Maestro]

big 4 sucks ass brah

brb working 70 hrs a week making no more than 49 k lol

There's definitely better job opportunities out there.

The Pharmacist I work with do 8-10 hour shifts 5 days a week. The newcomers make about 95k and it caps at about 130k

[Scotytri]

ive seen lawyers do days on end...finishing after midnight is a weekly occurance. a girl i dated at a magic circle firm did 5 straight days in the office once

I know a few people who have done the same whilst at city law firms, like wise some of the guys who went to the big banks. They earn a fair bit, but don't have much of an opertunity to spend it. They all used to keep spare wardrobs at work!

I regularly worked 50 plus hours a week when I was down in London and to be honest it wasn't for me. I took a very slight pay cut, sold my flat, and moved to Edinburgh. My quality of life has improved no end. I live a 15 minuite cycle from work, normaly in the office 8:30 to 6ish. Out of the office at least one day a week. Lots of long lunches. But it's taken me a while to get here.

Thinking of jacking it all in and starting up by myself though, which i expect will be even more stressful.

[Maestro]

They earn a fair bit, but don't have much of an opportunity to spend it. They all used to keep spare wardrobes at work!

Surgeons have this problem. The literally have no life...unless they are on vacation.

They are constantly "on call" we have a series of "accommodations" in our hospital we have rooms with a small TV, a closet, sink, toilet, shower, toiletries, and a mini fridge. There are doctors and surgeons that live in those rooms 24/7 because they can be called for emergencies at any given time (which is usually in the middle of the night)

They can pull about 500-750k/year but you can't even do anything with it, on top of that 25% goes to mal-practice then once the Bush tax cuts expires they'll get raped more than ever before.

Some of these guys go weeks without seeing their families and for what? To spend a two weeks at some overpriced vacation resort?

Its a miserable existence.

[Maestro]