What’s your job?
How much do you work?
How much time off do you get?
To lead off:
Geologist.
In office 11 hrs/day Mon-Fri and 1-4 hrs/day 2-4 weekend days/month. On-call 24/7, usually resulting in 30-50 night and weekend hrs/month logging in from home.
10 days off for major holidays (Christmas, etc.), 15 days vacation/year, 4 sick days/year.
The on-call thing isn’t as bad as it sounds, if you want to go out of town without being bothered, you can usually find someone to cover for you. The only difficulties are on major holidays, when everybody wants to go someplace, which usually results in everybody taking care of themselves.
Duty hours are 7:45am to 3:05pm 5 days a week. I’m the Speech/Debate coach, so add to that afternoon practices 3 days a week and 22 Saturdays/Sundays a season.
The school year is 185 teaching days. I also get 10 days sick leave and 5 days Personal Necessity Leave per year, said totals for which are cumulative.
Assistant to the Associate Dean
I’m scheduled for 7 hours a day, Monday - Friday - I usually put in about 10 hours of overtime a week.
I get 4 weeks of vacation a year, plus 10 days at christmas, plus 4 flex days, plus a half Stampede day plus a bunch of other days thrown in for shits and giggles.
Gov’t atty.
Work 44 hrs/week.
Accrue 8 hrs annual leave and 4 hrs sick every 2 weeks, so 26 days vacation/year.
Can use vacation whenever wanted in 1/4 hr increments.
Also get pretty much every major holiday off.
Marketing analyst
8-5 M-F with “summer hours” from Memorial Day to Labor Day which is 8-6 M-Th and 8-12 on F
4 weeks PTO, which is vacation and/or sick time to use however you want
6 holidays plus 2 floating holidays, which can be used just like vacation time
Naval Flight Officer
Currently work for a Treaty Agency, going around the U.S. and into Russia and other European countries.
Work 0730-1630 M-F at home. Out and about, usually work around 0700-2100 every day, weekends included (although technically, we’re on the clock 24/7).
30 days of leave per year, plus, if not deployed, federal holidays. You can’t always take your full amount of leave, though (especially if you’re deployed), so we’re allowed to keep 60 days in the bank (I think this recently got increased to 75 days). Right now I have 60 days of leave stored up, in addition to another 15 or so that I have to take by the end of the fiscal year.
8-4 Monday, Wednesday, & Friday
11A-7P Tuesdays
7A-3P Thursdays
One Saturday 8-4 per month (I get the previous Friday off)
Extremely rare overtime (like, it’s happened once in the 16 months I’ve worked here)
I’m expected to work holidays, or take it out of my vacation time (one of dozens of reasons why I’m in the market for another job)
I get vacation time according to a complicated schedule that I can’t understand (and that our payroll lady is “too busy” to explain to anyone), but at the end of the day it works out to about 3 full weeks per year
Project Manager.
Leave home @ 0430am Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri go to gym from 5-6. Drive 10 minutes to office and work until 10am. Work from home rest of day. Wednesday is no workout so I go to the office from 0700 - 10am then work from home rest of the day. As long as I have my Blackberry I can pretty much be anywhere I want.
Vacation = 3 week per year. All major holidays off. 6 sick days per year, which I never take.
Salaried, so whatever it takes to finish my work. Usually 9-6 and occasional weekend days. More with closing the books.
I get 22 days vacation and then sick and personal days one at a time as needed without abuse. We get about ten holidays, and usually have the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day off as well.
What’s your job? * Consulting Civil Engineer. Specialty: hydrology & hydraulics. I’m self-employed, have my own one-person company.
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How much do you work? That’s hard to say. In the mornings, I work out of my home office so my work is mixed up with housework & errands. I also sub-contract from another company, this work is done between 1 and 5 at my “downtown” office. After 5 I return to the home office and again mixed up work/housework/cooking etc. until about 10 pm. On weekends it’s mixed up work/housework/errands all weekend.
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How much time off do you get?* Whatever I want, it’s just unpaid. No paid vacations, no paid sick leave. OTOH the boss is a real cool lady.
I work in broadcasting. I won’t be more specific than that.
I work 8a-5p Mon-Fri, although I am frequently here by 7:45am at the latest.
I’ve been at the company for 10 years, so I have four weeks of vacation, three float days, eight flex days (which I get paid for if I don’t use them) as well as various national holidays.
Web-based Application Developer, usually for Engineering/Earth Science/Environmental consultancies & related Municipal/Provincial Departments, but also NGOs. Also studying again - geocomputing degree.
Mon, Wed, Fri - 9-12, Tu Thurs, 9-5/6 so figure 25 hours a week? Then there’s around 30 hrs a week on varsity work.
I can take off as and when I want to (own company), but generally around 40 days off a year, not including sick days and public holidays (of which we have I think around 20)
Lead designer at my own Web site & Web-based software company
I roll out of bed around 9:30 and work until 5:30 or until I’m finished (which may not be until 5AM).
Some weeks it’s 40 hours some it’s 100, or anything inbetween. It goes in spurts.
I take 5-10 days off per year plus national holidays. Haven’t been on a vacation since 2004. There’s only 3 of us that work for my company and we try to make sure there’s at least 2 of us here at a time. We basically work around our clients’ schedules, not ours.
Project Scheduler - I work for a major contractor working for a Gov’t Agency (civilian - none of that killing/spying stuff)
40 hours, something like 7-4. I might put in a couple of extra hours in weeks I’m busier.
I get the standard 2 weeks vacation, some sick/personal time, the standard holidays and a couple of floaters.
Oh, and I front a rock band for no money or fame to speak of.
