How many hours do you work?

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.

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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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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

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

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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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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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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ednrgc

I hardly ever work overtime, unless we're in a pinch. I am usually far ahead of schedule, thus not needing to stay late. I will stay late when necessary, and I will stay late if a co-worker is in need also. Other than that, there is no valid reason that will keep me away from my family. They are paramount to me.