# What is the maximum number of hours you have worked in one week?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 5, 2014, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-hours-you-have-worked-in-one-week/697622 "2014-09-05T23:48:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-hours-you-have-worked-in-one-week/697622/61 "2014-09-09T16:02:58Z")

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I went with 70 which is the most I’ve logged as actual hours of actual work – IE, involvement with a task.

Technically I could have said 148. My boss wanted me to do a road trip that I really really REALLY didn’t want to do and that I could have refused under my contract. The compromise was that I got credit in comp time for basically 24 hour days ------ or do that week and get two free vacation weeks. But my time on task that week was more like 60-65 hours.

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**Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-hours-you-have-worked-in-one-week/697622/62 "2014-09-09T16:08:04Z")

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Over a hundred hours while at sea in the Navy. I’m not sure the exact number – we didn’t clock in and out.

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**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-hours-you-have-worked-in-one-week/697622/63 "2014-09-09T23:44:12Z")

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For two weeks earlier this year I was starting two companies. One was a consulting business where I was afraid to turn down work and the other a distillery. I was working 4 hr days getting the distillery going since I could pawn off work on my partners and 12 hr days on the consulting company. On the weekends it would switch 8 and 8 since the companies I was consulting for had lower expectations on the weekends. After two weeks I ended up quitting one of the companies I was consulting with and I haven’t gone past 12 hr days since but it’s still 7 days a week.

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