How many hours do you work?

[leckey 0]

At my current job around 40 hours per week. During quarter end I might have to put in a few extra hours.

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[StevenWalsh]

40 hours a week. Any more and they'd have to pay me overtime (Which happends more often then i'll admit).... so its the employees job from there. Quite possibly the only benefit of contracting.

[David Wulff]

80-90 hours in an average week + 8-10 hours travelling. I probably earn less per hour than a burger flipper, but at least I enjoy my work. ;P

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[Nemanja Trifunovic]

Methinks you should check out workaholic.org[^]

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[cp9876]

It's 11pm and I'm just stopping playing. I'm about to go and make the kids lunches for school tomorrow - now that's work.

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[NormDroid]

Same here, I no longer work for free.

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[John M Drescher]

It depends on how close we are to a deadline and if we count the hours I work at home. I never just work 40 hours but there have been times where I have gone several months in a row of 80 hour weeks and I do not get any overtime.

John

[Chris Austin]

On my consulting work, I log about 15 - 20 hours a week. I expect I am far from the norm on this site. But, I have two other businesses that generate income for me.

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[Corinna John]

My contract says 39 hours/week. Sometimes it is a little more, sometimes it is a little less, but in the average I actually work 39 hours.

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[Aaron VanWieren]

Good site, unfortunately I am certifiable by there criteria! :-D

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[Baconbutty]

36.25 Gone are the days of wondering how to solve a code problem on my way home. The door shuts, mind closes until tomorrow. I work to live and my family life is WAY more important than this place.

I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

[StevenWalsh]

norm .net wrote:

Same here, I no longer work for free.

I've realized that if i'm working for free on my personal time... it should be something that I WANT to do..

[james_dixon_2008]

You guys work so much... 80-90 hrs of work with no fun..you all must be a millionare ..isn't it ? hmm One day when you ll realize to have some fun that day you might be 60+ :-D:-D:-D So work and fun should go equally...

[John M Drescher]

Baconbutty wrote:

The door shuts, mind closes until tomorrow.

You can do that? I wish I could as the only time I feel that I am away from my job is when I go on vacation and I do not bring any electronic devices with me...

John

[John M Drescher]

james_dixon_2008 wrote:

80-90 hrs of work with no fun..you all must be a millionare ..isn't it ?

Millionaire I am in the wrong profession or I entered the field too late... As for making gobs of money I believe the problem here is I get paid for 37.5 hours regardless of the actual time I work. I like to think that without the US overtime law I would actually get paid for my time but I am not sure. As a result right now, I probably make less than $20/hr worked which makes me think of the whole discussion yesterday abort the $20/hr job...

John

[John M Drescher]

brianwelsch wrote:

Much more than that and work is cutting into my personal life.

For me it cuts into the sleep. When I worked 80hr weeks I rarely slept more than 5hrs a day. I survived by a 20 minute workout each morning on a treadmill to get the blood flowing..

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[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

Somewhere between 35 and 40 hours. Sometimes more, depending on what and how much needs to be done. I try to be efficient, so that I can take it easy. Life's too short to spend in the office. :)

[John M Drescher]

I used to be in that category but my girlfriend now prevents that so I am in the 50 to 60 category most of the time.

John

[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

Marc Clifton wrote:

Work? This isn't work. It's play.

Enlivening the adage "All work and no play makes jack a dull boy".:)

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[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

brianwelsch wrote:

work is cutting into my personal life

I strongly agree. It actually plays havoc into productivity and performance in fact.

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