How many hours is your work week?

1/2 the year, 44-46hours. The other 1/2, 52-54.

Weeks like this one–when I’ve got new ad books to deliver, it takes 12-14 hours to stock the route.

Weeks like next week, 40 of my busiest outlets get re-stocked, which takes 4-6.

I owe my boss 35 hours a week. When I give them is up to me: in other words three twelves and a four day weekend is fine.

I work 12 hour shifts, 3 nights one week, then 4 the next, so it works out to 36 and 48 hour weeks, respectively, averaging 42. But the nifty part is, i get 8 hours of overtime every 2 weeks, rather than 4. :smiley:

I’d really love to get rid of that extra day on the long week though, and just work straight 36s every week. 3 days completely devoted to work, then 4 days off, is pretty much a dream schedule for me.

Deployed as a civilan contractor with the US Air Force. 5 12 hour days a week standard. Once in a while I have to take calls at home, or stay for a little longer depending on what is going on.

Of those 60 hours I work maybe 5. Most of the time is just because we have to be manned 24x7 so we sit and watch TV, surf the web waiting for that phone call.

-Otanx

I clock in for 12.5 hours three times a week, with half an hour unpaid lunch. My shift differential is 11.5%, meaning I get paid for roughly 40 hours by working 36.

And yes, I do actually work at least 35 of those hours. :smiley:

I usually put in between 45 & 55 hours a week within a four day work week at the “office.” On my three days off, I’m always on call and usually field at least two 10-15 minute calls during the time. I also usually spend a few hours of my off time devising new outbound/shipping plans and running numbers (this is not required; I inflict it on myself) I’m salary, so I don’t have scheduled lunches or breaks during my live shifts. I usually end up taking smoke breaks when I can, which almost always ends up being less time than the allotted breaks + lunch time hourly employees get on a daily basis.

It depends. I currently am scheduled for 20 hours, but if I pick up a lot of extra shifts, it’s as much as 35-40 hours (can’t go above 40, though, since I’m part-time).

Another teacher here.
On paper it looks good - just a couple of classes.
However, prep time, paperwork, grading, regulations, emails and follow up, not including actual class time, tutoring, meetings, conferences, phone calls, registration, graduation ceremonies, mandatory extra curricular activities, etc. etc.
My partner calculated I am earning about 12 cents per hour.

I work about 45 hours a week for two weeks and then have two weeks off. So on average it’s a bit over 20 hours/week.

My work hours vary quite widely, I set my own schedule to a large degree but I’m also required to be available to answer telephone and e-mailed inquiries “in a prompt fashion” and the calls come in any time between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. and e-mails come in 24/7. And the volume of those also vary quite widely. Yesterday I had 3 phone calls, the day before I had 15. And the calls themselves vary, they last on average about 20 minutes, but one yesterday went to 102 minutes.

It’d be nice to nail down how much time I’m actually spent working, but since I do so much of it in my pyjamas and even while soaking in the bathtub on a few occasions, I don’t really want to dissect it too much.

I work for a production designer for film/tvs/commercials. We’re busy most of the time and I clock in at anywhere between 60 and 80 hours per week.

I’m a librarian. I work 37.5 hours a week, although I have a complicated schedule where I work every third weekend and have the Friday before that weekend and half the Tuesday after off, and I work one night.

New vehicle program launch. The office week is usually 40 hours or so, but a launch makes for a long and exhausting week. Oh, yeah, I voted for the 60+ option.

I teach in a university, and my work week varies. I work around 60+ hours a week at least one week a month; the rest of the month, I work between 45-50 hours. Grading, planning, researching, and actual lecturing–it’s taken over my life, and where I teach there’s no summer vacation, so it’s that way year-round.

8-445 with an hour lunch and two 15 minute breaks. So roughly 35.5 hours when you take out the breaks and such. Zero spent on message boards these days since my supervisor has cracked down on non-company usage of the internet.

Oilfield service hand here, my work-week is 87.5 hours (12.5 X 7).

Unclviny

Other jobs and professions also have a lot of ancillary or related tasks that may or may not be calculated in the ‘total’. There’s nothing special about teaching in this regard, yet some teachers (not necessarily DMark) seem to feel that it’s a unique aspect of their own, difficult life and tend to put on a bit of a martyr routine. We all understand that there’s more to teaching than just class time. Just as well all understand that there’s more to driving a bus, or laying bricks, or being an accountant, than is obvious at first glance. But for some reason it seems to be mainly teachers who want to raise this point. Apologies to the OP and Mods if this is felt an inappropriate comment.

My thought exactly. I didn’t vote because every week is exactly 40 for me. They’ll get mad if I claim overtime pay. I even went into work late on purpose yesterday, because I had to stay until 6:00 and I had only 8 hours left in the pay period.

It would get better results to make a poll option “35-45.”