Hours you work?

37 hours + 10 hours travel time . Consider my self lucky as never need to work overtime
 
bluethrunthru said:
EDF energy milking uk bill payers - rail companies owned by various foreign nationalised railways - Dutch/German etc - all taking money out of our system and using it in their companies at home to keep costs down - why do you think they flock here to buy these things? Altruism?
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Eh? What does this have to do with Scandinavia countries having better living conditions? Haha. Have I missed your point? Also don't really understand what you mean anyone re Dutch and German.
 
Contracted to work 37, but I basically have a job where the expectation is you work what’s needed to get the job done. Work in IT transition so it can mean doing an 80 hour week at busy big go lives to 25 hour weeks when quiet. Luckily it’s an environment and boss who lets us just get on with it so long as we deliver what he expects. Working from home as well so no commuting so get plenty of family time and doing things like school drop offs and pick ups.
 
37.5 hours but work 10 min drive away. 17.7k a year

I did have a job on 21k a year but it was over 40 miles away in Birkenhead and any extra money made was spent on fuel and car maintenance from clocking up 400+ miles a week and some days the commute ther and back would take over 3 hours.

So even tho I’m on 3k less it still feels like the same money and I don’t leave the house til gone 8.30am and home for 5.15. Much happier
 
37.5hrs, commute is 10 mins to the office, but I do most of my work on sites all over the UK, so a fair few stop outs. When I'm in the office my hours are 7:30 until 16:00 Monday to Friday. The job is a piece of piss, and 99% of the people I work with are a great bunch. Also get to see some great places, west coast of Scotland and outer Hebrides are amazing, do have to do London though which is an absolute shit hole of a place.
 
40 to 45 hrs + at least 1.5hrs per day travelling

(but 10 hrs of that is spent surfing the internet !!!)
 
Officially 36.75 hrs a week, 7pm-7am. 3 nights one week, 4 the other so is calculated as 36.75 hrs.
Easy compared to my wife . Works in Manchester, 8:30- 4:30. Leaves the house at 06:40, home for half 5, 6pm if lucky, 5 days a week.
Don't you just love commuting.....
 
Taxi said:
Thirty hours and far too many for my appetite.
If I could climb off that hamster wheel right now then I would.
The old adage of work to live don't live to work comes to mind.
I am now a rampant part time "weekend socialist" seeking enlightenment and release from the shackles of modern day oppression.
Here is a quick tale comrades concerning perspective.

A businessman was standing at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The businessman complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish.

“How long did it take you to catch them?” The businessman asked.
“Only a little while.” The fisherman replied.

“Why don’t you stay out longer and catch more fish?” The businessman then asked.
“I have enough to support my family’s immediate needs.” The fisherman said.
“But,” the businessman then asked, “What do you do with the rest of your time?”

The fisherman said, “I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life, señor.”

The businessman scoffed, “I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds you buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats, eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats.”

“Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to consumers, eventually opening your own can factory. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.”

The fisherman asked, “But señor, how long will this all take?”

To which the businessman replied, “15 to 20 years.”

“But what then, señor?”

The businessman laughed and said, “That’s the best part. When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”

“Millions, señor? Then what?”

The businessman said slowly, “Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos…”
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That is brilliant.
 
Interesting topic. My circumstances are slightly different. I was very lucky (or unlucky,whichever way you look at it) to inherit enough money when I was 20ish to pay for a house, so I have no mortgage.

Therefore I only have to work between 16-20 hours a week to cover my every need. This is because of my lifestyle. Don't smoke, don't drink, never having kids, the wife has a full time job by between us we prob earn about £25k a year, plenty for the life we lead. I do not envy people working 50-60 hour weeks even if it is for decent money.
 
Used to wirk all over the country money was really good but did atleast 60 hrs a week.
Just started wirking for a new firm leave the house at 7 and home at 5.30
About 5k a year less but much happier
 
Work for myself on an 'eat what you kill' basis. Don't get sick or holiday pay, but on the flip side get to set my rates of pay and can turn down work if I don't fancy it, which I did last week.

I'm on call at weekends (got a meeting this afternoon) and frequently work until the early hours to meet deadlines, followed by 3-4 hours sleep and go again the next day. I've done a couple of 20 hour working days this year. On the other hand, I have had numerous days where I've tossed it off, stayed on my sofa and been on here for far too long, where I simply couldn't be arsed that day. Which is nice to be able to do from time to time, if you can get away with it.

I've been away five times this year and I don't have to put a holiday request form in. I'd like to get to a point where I worked three days a week and went away ten times a year, but that will be several years away, if at all.

Overall, including working weekends and time on the phone, I reckon I work about 60 hours a week. It rarely feels like a chore when I do.

Work hard, play hard. Great work if you can get it.
 
40ish hours a week, half 8 start and 5pm finish.

Customers all over Europe and the Middle East, fairly interesting, I don't have to take work home with me and considering it was my first job since I moved to Ireland, i'm well paid too.
 
42 hours per week 22 paid holiday and about 6 public holidays. Flexi time as my schedule varies day to day. Travel time doesn't count unless i'm flying in which case it's 1 hour before check in to 30 minutes after arrival. Overtime rates for pre 6am or after 10pm and all day Sunday.
 
I can work as little or as much as I like, but the reality is if I was doing less than 37 hours they'd bin me off and the max I can do is probably around 75 ish due to the times I am allowed to work. Work from home so no travel time. Every hour I work I get paid for, none of this working till midnight and not getting paid for it. usually do about 60 hrs a week, but some weeks Ive done 75hrs

TBH, a 12 hour day at home is like a 9-5 in the office, probably better in fact. I don't know how ppl do these commutes to work, every so often I'll visit a client on site and it is a nightmare out there.
 
The Northern Baptist said:
I can work as little or as much as I like, but the reality is if I was doing less than 37 hours they'd bin me off and the max I can do is probably around 75 ish due to the times I am allowed to work. Work from home so no travel time. Every hour I work I get paid for, none of this working till midnight and not getting paid for it. usually do about 60 hrs a week, but some weeks Ive done 75hrs

TBH, a 12 hour day at home is like a 9-5 in the office, probably better in fact. I don't know how ppl do these commutes to work, every so often I'll visit a client on site and it is a nightmare out there.
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Does prostitution count as work?
 
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