What do you do, how much do you work, how much time off do you get?

In My Humble Opinion
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What do I do? - I’m an account planner for an advertising agency. That title doesn’t tell you very much about what I do. I do a lot of consumer research (interviews, focus groups, surveys, etc.), sit in a lot of meetings, and fly too much.

How much do I work? - This varies wildly. Some weeks are 35-40 hours, in at 9, out by 5:30, very predictable. If there’s a big project going on, the hours can be much longer, and weekends become involved. If I’m out at focus groups, those often go until 9 or 10 pm. And, if I have to go to a meeting at one of my clients (none of them are local), I might be up at 4am, and not home until midnight.

How much time off? - Quite a bit, as long as I don’t get sick (we have “PTO days”, and sick days come out of the same pool). I’ve been at the agency for 8 years, so I get 23 PTO days a year, plus 3 “summer days”, plus about 13 holiday days.

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Head bank teller. I’m the one you give your money to.

I get paid for 40 hours although I don’t really work that many. 8.30ish to 4.30ish with an hour or half-hour lunch.

I get every federal holiday off (I think there are 12), 3 weeks a year vacation time, 2 days personal time, 7 days sick time, and 3 days emergency time. All are paid time off except emergency days.

43

Paramedic

1900-0700 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and every other Wednesday.

I get 3 weeks of vacation per year.

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My response is essentially the same as Jennshark’s, with a shorter Spring Break and a Fall Break. The only thing I’d add is a research and publishing tasking. At first glance it seems as if my schedule is almost “part-timish”, as I choose when my classes will be and don’t answer to anyone regarding where I am otherwise. But, as I expect Jennshark will attest, the “job” tends to bleed over into the rest of my life and time. Being an academic, if one does it properly, is not easy to compartmentalize in terms of time and effort invested.

Hawk

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I’m a firmware engineer.

I work 40 hours a week, usually M-F, 8-5, but it’s slightly flexible.

Right now I get 4 weeks of paid leave per year. In August it will go up to 4.5 weeks.
I get 10 paid holidays per year.

46

I’m a translator. My workload fluctuates wildly; in April I was working twelve-hour days, clattering out as much as 40 pages some days. This month things have calmed down significantly and I’ve only worked a few days.

47

Machinist/shop owner with a partner.

Hours a week, ewww. I’m here a minimum of 100 hours a week, up to 168 sometimes. Then again, me and my partner both have bedrooms here. We each do usually 3 nights a week at the shop, work late, up early, keeps things going. It won’t always be like this(been at it for about 9 months, a lot of initial capital expense).

Time off. As needed, or forced by the other partner. We pay ourselves a salary, regardless of vacations or holidays, or forced time off. I take about 3 days off a month.

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What’s your job?
Database Administrator by day, Taekwondo instructor in evenings

How much do you work?
Day job is full-time. Evening job is about 15 hours a week.

How much time off do you get?
Not enough. :smiley:

I just converted from contract to full-time at my day job, so I'm in the 3 weeks vacation a year group.  After three years, it goes to 4 weeks.

I can close the school pretty much anytime if I give the students enough notice, and I do when we are going out of town for major tournaments or training.
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Retail Sales, assistant manager.

I work 40 hours a week, and since my mall has shorter hours than most, I vary between a 9-5:30 shift and an 11-7:30 shift, and I have to work weekends in rotation with my other managers.

I get (after 10 years with the company) about 4 weeks off a year in PTO…paid time off, that includes vacation and sick time, to me used as I wish and as my manager agrees to…sometimes I take PTO just to help keep our hours in line with grid if slaes are bad.

50

I’m in IT - my title is ‘Senior Systems Administrator’. I spend 50 hours a week in the office, plus I work from home a little either before I go in or after the kids go to bed, and I’m on call every third week. One of my colleagues completely blows off being on call, so I average one late night call per week. I don’t have any big projects that require additional hours, but last summer I did and averaged 60 hours a week in the office plus the extra stuff I described. I’m lucky that I’m in a stable environment because in years past I could also count on about one all-night crisis per month.

I get fifteen vacation days, two personal days, ten sick days and ten legal holidays. If I put in a lot of OT, they give me a “comp day” but I never really use them. They used to be flexible about letting me work from home or work flex shifts, but I had a debilitating knee injury last fall and then two surgeries over the course of the winter. As a consequence I took some sick time and worked from home and now I’m on double secret probation and have to be careful about getting my hours in.

51

Freelance professional liar.

Iwork mostly at the high end of the market usually being called in to lie to the Crowned Heads of Europe though I have on occasion been called in to lie to the POTUS and the President of Russia when their own liars were on vacation.
Due to the nature of the job the hours are varied,some weeks I have had to lie more or less continuosly for over three hundred hours over a three day period but usually its nowhere near that intensive.

Why do these world leaders need my services I hear you ask?
Well its quite simple really, politicians of all ranks lie to each other all day every day and so their psyches adapt to this .

But what happens when they’re on holiday or even sometimes out of hours during the working week?
Well they’re OK with the pro active side of lieing ,they can lie to their families and staff but the other side of the coin is not so easily dealt with.

When it comes to glib,smooth PROFESSIONAL lies their families and staff being amateurs just cant deliver the goods no matter how hard they try.

The politician bereft of being lied to starts feeling disturbed and uneasy and quite simply thats where I come in …

I am much too active a person to enjoy holidays in the conventional sense but I am very religious(Not surprisingly as not only am I a close personal friend of the Pope but have been having a long term on/off sexual relationship with the Archbishop of Canterburys wife)

I am in fact a convert to "Multi Faith"courtesy of my old mate Harrison Ford and so I indulge myself by making a pilgrimage to Mecca every year,taking six weeks out to visit India to waylay travellers and sacrifice them to Kali(usually work out at the gym for a few weeks prior to that all that strangulation is just hell on the wrists)

I’m also a Druid of the highest order so they’d have my guts for garters if I didn’t make it to Stonehenge for Summer Solstice every year and on top of that I keep a couple of weeks by for self flagellation and fasting.

As we’re talking about religion here (or at least I am anyway) I’ll tell you this because Dopers are like the family I never had(I am in fact Jack Kennedys illegitimate son by Greta Garbo,but the Kennedys never recognised me,short sighted bastards that they are)

Usually I try to keep this quiet but the Catholic Church wanted to actually make me a saint WHILE I WAS STILL ALIVE !amazing huh?

Of course they expected me to go through with being crucified for forms sake but basically it was a shoo in.

As you can guess by nature I am basically a shy,modest sort of person with simple tastes so I politely declined,I said I was flattered but when it comes down to it I am a very private person and it was just not for me.

Funnily enough I had to say more or less the same thing to a primitive tribe who wanted to make me their god ,I am not being egotistical here, when I say primitive I mean VERY,VERY primitive,uncouth savages conversing in grunts,wearing animal skins and living in their own squalor.

Or as we call them over here “People who live in the North of England”

I could keep them fascinated for hours by demonstrating" little sticks that make fire" or matches as we humans call them.

But anyway you all know more about me then my own missus does(Jennifer Anniston,yes I know but we kept it out of the news,I get so sick of her going around bragging to everyone that shes using me for sex theres no way I was going to put up with the general publics intrusions into my privacy)

I’ll just finish with one of the biggest compliments paid to me on my professional expertise and one of which if I wasn’t so intrinsically humble I’d be very proud.

I was doing a job for the Chinese Premier(Only a little one,had to lie to him during a state dinner and at a Party Congress)when all of a sudden he said to me L4L you are incredible at your job,I wouldn’t be surprised to see you as Prime minister of Great Britain one day!

Do you know I get more pleasure from his compliment then when Gwynith Paltrow,Sharon Stone and two of their film starlet friends ,who for discretions sake will remain nameless said ,and I quote L4L you are totally the best shag we’ve ever had,a living sex machine,if ever you want us to be your sex slaves just call.

I think thats sweet but it would hurt Jennys feelings too much.
But now I must finish ,identity theft is always a real risk and I’ve said too much already.

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What do you do, **
Drilling Engineer, (lead the design of oil wells, work with the service companies to get stuff done, figure out ways to do it all better with new technology)
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how much do you work,
Supposed to be 5 days a week, but about once a month I spend a week up in Canada or the US with suppliers or out in the back end of no where at a rig site, often extending across weekends

how much time off do you get?
Supposedly 4 weeks a year plus national holidays. Although we are very flexible, I dont think anyone actually counts, and after a long truip will often take a day working from home. Which is not so much work.

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What’s your job?

Im a part time car rental operator.

As well as my job I am also a full time law student

How much do you work?

I usually cover anything between 25 and 30 hours per week at my job.

Uni is a lot of hours lecture wise. In terms of revision and coursework (when i get round to it!) it can be over five hours a night when need be.
How much time off do you get?

I get a couple of days off a week at my work and I weekends and typical uni hoildays otherwise.

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  1. Stockbroker.
  2. Usually 40 hours per week. 6:45-3:15 Central time
  3. 3 weeks a year, not including market holidays.
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  • I work at a Credit union Full time and work PT at a drop and go bottle redemption.

  • I average about 65 hours a week between the two jobs.

  • Where I work my FT job M-F and my PT job on the weekends, most times I go months with a day off. The longest being 3 months, though I was a wicked bitch. I have earned 2 weeks vacations and 10 hours comp time each quarter.

I have taken July 3rd through July 11th off from both jobs and have no clue what I am going to do. Though I wanna take a road trip some where.

56

Merchant sailor, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Comms dept…
4 months at work (half days at weekends) 8h - Long hour days depending on tasking of the ship…
10 weeks off work on full pay…

57

Foreign aid worker based in Aceh, Indonesia.

Aceh is considered a hardship post so I get one week off every two months. Per the benefit, I’m supposed to actually leave the province, but I’ve used it so stay here and do some snorkeling. I don’t use even half of the R&R benefit in practice though because of work schedules.

I also get 20 days regular vacation per year.

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Lead Pharmacy Technician
I work 35-40 hours a week and I make my own schedule, which right now must revolve around my school schedule. I prefer long days so I typically work four 10hr days and get 3 days off. I get as much sick time as I want, and 70 hours of paid vacation a year that I can take in any increments. I can pick up shifts at other stores if they are willing to pay me OT, and depending on their desperation I can work as much as I want.

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What do I do? I’m a software engineer at a pretty large developer that does shrink-wrapped application sales to end users. I’ve been there (with interruptions) about 16 years.

How much do I work? Well, I work from home, so the line between working or not is fairly elastic. I generally work at least a little every day of the week, either analyzing my next bug fix or module to write, responding to requests/questions from other developers, or researching something for later. It also depends on the phase of the product I’m working on – during planning, it gets pretty intense, and my group and others have meetings and planning to fill out and agree on. During execution/writing code, its fairly relaxed because we have several months to write code and get it working with other groups’ modules. Approaching release of the code, it varies from not-bad to godawful long hours. I’m in the latter stage of one of those phases, so I’ve been putting in 60ish-70 hours a week these past couple months, and expect to do so for probably the next 8-10 weeks.

How much time off? I theoretically get about 4.8 weeks of vacation + sick time a year. I also have the option to cash out up to 3 weeks of vacation a year as pay. I’ve cashed out two weeks so far this year, and expect I’ll cash out another. I also earned a 3 week sabbatical that everyone at my company gets after every five years of service, and I had 2 years to take it or lose it. I’m 14 months into that two years, and I’m still not sure when I’ll take my sabbatical or what I’ll do.

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Police officer.

I work 12-hour shifts, three days on, three days off. I also work a fair amount of overtime and court time.

I get 11 holidays a year, but I can’t really take those days off. We get paid for them, which is banked and paid to us in one check in November. Makes a great Christmas bonus.

I earn 8 hours of sick time and 17 hours of vacation time a month. With 21 years in, I have over 9 months of sick time on the books. By the time I retire, they will owe me well over a year’s worth of pay when I cash out my sick bank.