I guess I have to get back in line and get another life…although it seems that I am already living 2-3:
A normal weekday is 10-11 hours in the office; Of this anywhere between 8 and all 11 are real work.
When I travel to a client, this can easily be longer, even excluding travel time.
And then there are the “holy %#$#” days on which 14 hours is not unusual. Happens about once a month. My record is 36 hours straight, but that was under really unusual circumstances and I don’t ever want to repeat it.
I try to keep my weekends completely work free, and so far it has worked pretty well. Oh, and I have 4 weeks of vacation, although I cannot take all of them at once (max 2 weeks)
Well, as a SAHM, my hours are long, but of course I’m not actually “working” for all of them. My kids are ages 4, 13 and 17, so the wide age disparity makes for some interesting days! I’m up by 7:30, and go to bed about 10:00; I don’t go to sleep that early, I watch TV, read, etc. until about 11 or so.
I’m actually “working”, that is, doing something for a kid or the household, about 5 or 6 hours out of any given day; but of course, I’m “on call” 24/7. At least a couple of times a month, I get woken up in the middle of the night by one of the kids needing something (usually my 17 year old, starring in The Drama That Is Her Life™).
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I have a friend who works at Home Depot. She has a masters degree in architecture, but she said that, after interning then working full-time at an architecture firm, she actually prefers to work at Home Depot. She says she likes the people she works with, enjoys answering customers’ questions, and gets good benefits. She works in the paints section.
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My future sister in law has worked for our local store since they opened 2 years ago. She totally loves it. She started in Garden and now works in Electrical. I’d prefer kitchen design but I’ll take anything but cashier. The best part though…I could garage my car and ride my bike to work.
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I used to spend 3 months working 9-10 hour days and 9 months of the year working 10-12 hours a day but I wasn’t appreciated and the idiots who *think * they run state government dissolved my position. (It now takes 6 people to do what I did.)
I now work in a different job - for the same pay, I “work” 8-5 answering people’s questions. Busy days, it’s a full 8 hours of never ending phone calls. (Like the man who called 15 times in 10 minutes yesterday, until I told him no matter how many times he called, my answer wouldn’t change.) Today, the phone hasn’t rung once. I love my job.
I work 10-hour days most of the week. I get in at 7, and out at 5:30 or so, with a half hour for lunch. But quitting time depends on what position I’m working at the clinic on that particular day. Some jobs finish sooner, some later.
Most of my time is spent actually working. There aren’t too many slow moments during the day, and if things do manage to calm down, there are still labels to make, paperwork to do, and files to archive.
But I’m not complaining. This is my first job in my field, and I worked very hard to get it. I like it, I’m good at it, and I’m learning a lot.