I had a full time job and 2 part time jobs all summer one year, and I'm not sure how many hours that amounted to. The two part time jobs were physical labour and the summer sorta blurred it's way into time. I'd come home, fall on bed, get up when one of my parents would come wake me up and turn my alarm off that was ringing for a few minutes next to my head, go work, repeat...
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i think the thing is some ppl don't sleep much.
so they work or whatever they like to do. (write)
i take a couple naps throughout the day/night, that is what i usually do.
maybe this is why i am insane?
..it just might be! thats a very apt post, here i am at something past 1am ....maybe i should just go to bed
In academic situations I've "worked" a lot more than that though. Last spring I was getting about 4 hours of sleep a night for about 8-12 weeks and was doing absolutely nothing except work.
for my finals week this past fall i went monday-thursday on 5 hours of sleep...not in a row tho, an hour here and there
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i did 70 hour weeks for 3 months few years ago. really respect anyone who can pull that off over a prolonged period of time. you really need to like your job or have a serious coke habit to get through that
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I worked 130 hours/week as a movie extra for a few weeks in a row when I was a teenager.
I once opened a movie theater and worked about 115 hours/week for a few weeks.
But that's nothing compared to how much the docs in my office work. There are relatively new resident policies that don't allow us to schedule the resident physicians for more than an average of 80 hours/week over a 4-week rotation. They also aren't supposed to work more than 30 hours in a row without 10 hours off. But you can work them 120 hours one week and 40 hours the next without breaking any policies, since the 80-hour work week is only an average. And if you're working a 30-hour shift - let's say 8 AM one day to 2 PM the next day - and you take an hour off, you can then be required to work until 3 PM the next day.
These duty hour limitations are only for residents, though. After residency, you can work non-stop. Several of my colleagues regularly work 120 hours/week. (And I mean actually work, not counting being on call at home.)
man, i read thru this thread and........:eek: yikes! some of you work WAAAAYYYYYYY too much! no matter how much i could LOVE a job, and i have loved a couple.....i would never want to work THAT much. my life outside work is way more important to me, my personal time, no matter what....or the paycheck. eh well. i guess while i will never be *rich* monetarily, without winning lotto anyway ....i certainly FEEL rich enough that my lifestyle mostly fits my income and then some......and i am happy with it all.
man, i read thru this thread and........:eek: yikes! some of you work WAAAAYYYYYYY too much! no matter how much i could LOVE a job, and i have loved a couple.....i would never want to work THAT much. my life outside work is way more important to me, my personal time, no matter what....or the paycheck. eh well. i guess while i will never be *rich* monetarily, without winning lotto anyway ....i certainly FEEL rich enough that my lifestyle mostly fits my income and then some......and i am happy with it all.
I did all those hours when I lived in London and didn't know anyone and didn't really have enough money to do anything in spare time. I really really had so much fun though... my workmates were fantastic and we'd be dancing behind the bar, slagging the customers, making people happy by giving them drink . It was the best job I ever had by far and it more than made up for anything I could have been doing in my spare time. If I had a job like that now, I'd be doing double/triple hours again. It's not the money that would ever encourage me to do something like that, it was the fun. It was like being on the piss all day every day... except without being drunk
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I did all those hours when I lived in London and didn't know anyone and didn't really have enough money to do anything in spare time. I really really had so much fun though... my workmates were fantastic and we'd be dancing behind the bar, slagging the customers, making people happy by giving them drink . It was the best job I ever had by far and it more than made up for anything I could have been doing in my spare time. If I had a job like that now, I'd be doing double/triple hours again. It's not the money that would ever encourage me to do something like that, it was the fun. It was like being on the piss all day every day... except without being drunk
Haha, this made me google "work + pub + ireland". Now I wanna move to Ireland.
I used to work full time in a shop and part time on a bar, with overtime at the shop, I tended to average about 80 hours a week, at the same time I was quite the party man and took a lot of drugs back then, clubbing, concerts, partys. Not a lot of sleep basically hehe.:)
Then a little more recently I worked as a shop fitter and merchandiser on contract, the shifts were 12 hours long and some of the jobs were 16 shifts in a row, I could then have one day off go to another job and so on and so forth.
Haha, this made me google "work + pub + ireland". Now I wanna move to Ireland.
well that was in London... in Irish owned pubs with mainly Irish clientele though! But yeh, I absolutely loved it
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
I found myself working on an oil rig one summer. seven days on, seven days off, twelve hours a day… So that was 84 hours a week. What a sucky job that was but holy shit those guys knew how to party on those seven days off.
I’ve also done the two job thing…four ten hour shifts at Jet West, then three eight hour shifts at Alpine Meadows. Guess that comes out to 64 hours a week, although those were cushy fun jobs that were more like just hanging out with friends..
I also worked the Reno Air Races for six consecutive years. I would work my four tens during the week at Jet West, then 12 or more hours each day through the race weekend when everybody and their dog would fly into Reno…guess that comes out to 80ish a week.
These days I’m a 40 a week person in Big Pharma…until I get my own things going anyways.
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..it just might be! thats a very apt post, here i am at something past 1am ....maybe i should just go to bed
for my finals week this past fall i went monday-thursday on 5 hours of sleep...not in a row tho, an hour here and there
Coke, am I right?
I once opened a movie theater and worked about 115 hours/week for a few weeks.
But that's nothing compared to how much the docs in my office work. There are relatively new resident policies that don't allow us to schedule the resident physicians for more than an average of 80 hours/week over a 4-week rotation. They also aren't supposed to work more than 30 hours in a row without 10 hours off. But you can work them 120 hours one week and 40 hours the next without breaking any policies, since the 80-hour work week is only an average. And if you're working a 30-hour shift - let's say 8 AM one day to 2 PM the next day - and you take an hour off, you can then be required to work until 3 PM the next day.
These duty hour limitations are only for residents, though. After residency, you can work non-stop. Several of my colleagues regularly work 120 hours/week. (And I mean actually work, not counting being on call at home.)
Moral of the story: don't become a doctor. :(
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Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Haha, this made me google "work + pub + ireland". Now I wanna move to Ireland.
Then a little more recently I worked as a shop fitter and merchandiser on contract, the shifts were 12 hours long and some of the jobs were 16 shifts in a row, I could then have one day off go to another job and so on and so forth.
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
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I’ve also done the two job thing…four ten hour shifts at Jet West, then three eight hour shifts at Alpine Meadows. Guess that comes out to 64 hours a week, although those were cushy fun jobs that were more like just hanging out with friends..
I also worked the Reno Air Races for six consecutive years. I would work my four tens during the week at Jet West, then 12 or more hours each day through the race weekend when everybody and their dog would fly into Reno…guess that comes out to 80ish a week.
These days I’m a 40 a week person in Big Pharma…until I get my own things going anyways.
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