Hours you work?

Work as a network engineer, officially 35 hours a week (very flexible 9am-5pm with an hour for lunch). Very little evenings/weekends or oncall stuff which is rare in IT jobs and I get to manage my own time and work from home when not on customer sites. Not great money £25k but the works van means no travel costs, so more than comfortable for us as a family really.

I could easily move into a project engineer/management role or do the same job in the city centre for another £5-10k but can't be fucked with the additional commuting and stress.
 
fatbloke said:
Work as a network engineer, officially 35 hours a week (very flexible 9am-5pm with an hour for lunch). Very little evenings/weekends or oncall stuff which is rare in IT jobs and I get to manage my own time and work from home when not on customer sites. Not great money £25k but the works van means no travel costs, so more than comfortable for us as a family really.

I could easily move into a project engineer/management role or do the same job in the city centre for another £5-10k but can't be fucked with the additional commuting and stress.
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You are a network engineer.
Is it possible to incur calls to different numbers private and bussiness without ever having a phone plugged into the socket.
We are with BT and are experiancing an ongoing issue of being invoiced for calls not made.We just utilize the broadband element.
I feel sure they will rectify the matter and they have already wiped the £3.20 charges pending further investigation but how is this even remotely possible ?
 
Taxi said:
You are a network engineer.
Is it possible to incur calls to different numbers private and bussiness without ever having a phone plugged into the socket.
We are with BT and are experiancing an ongoing issue of being invoiced for calls not made.We just utilize the broadband element.
I feel sure they will rectify the matter and they have already wiped the £3.20 charges pending further investigation but how is this even remotely possible ?
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Well IT network engineer, not BT/Openreach thankfully. BT are the bane of my life. Nothing would surprise me with them, I don't see how it's possible to incur call charges without a phone plugged in as voice and data are completely separate but anything is possible with them. You'd obviously pay line rental but that should be it.
 
About 55 hours a week
About 5 hours for my 'side' job
About 8 hours a week for my degree
 
Roughly 40 hours per week. I haven't worked a weekend or later than 3:30 (ish) in over ten years.
I don't know how people can work 9 -5. I'm awake at 6:00am anyway, might as well go to work and be home by 4:00pm.
Self employed so I don't get paid for holidays or sick days but I don't care about making more money.
I work so that I can afford to go away when I want.
 
The Northern Baptist said:
Do a job you like mate and you'll never do a days work in your life
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this is me. its not work to me.
due to a change in circumstances though I have cut my hours. I now only do 6 days a week. I no longer do Sundays. I also tend to finish around 4.30 -5ish. of course if city are playing I always leave in time or maybe not even go in at all. so barring city games I do around 42 hours a week.
 
I work 24 hours - 7 days full and then get 7 days off.
I manage a kids home. I have overnight awake staff to deal with a kid who may get up in the night (and to clean the place up) but if there is a new intake at 2am or a kid needs to go to hospital, then I'm up dealing with that.
Love the job, long hours (I get up 6.30am to get the kids - 12 of them up for school and am usually in my room around 10pm) but I have half the year off..... the last few months I've been to England for 6 days, last week on a cruise for 5 days, off to see Morrissey in LA, NY and Philly in November and December. And live rent free too.....
 
37.5 contracted but often do more (normally up to 5hrs but then it all goes down as TOIL after that).
Travel time varies depending on which office I am in but do spend a lot of time commuting on the train to London/Croydon upto 3 days per week ( 3hrs each way). Don't generally mind it as I can say my day has started as soon as I get on the train and open my laptop up.
Try to balance it by working from home a bit and early finishes, which always seems coincides with when city are playing during the week :-). I even have the clients trained to realise that I won't be available when it's a midweek match after 3pm. But to counterbalance it give them support at other times.
 
Around 70 hrs per week, inc travel over six days a week. Salaried position 37.5 hrs.
 
2012 - 2015
55+ hours a week plus the work phone always on = stressed and unhappy.

2016 -2017 35 hours a week, work phone turned off and lobbed in glove box until next day - effectively given myself a 10 grand a year pay cut = not stressed and far happier home life!
 
For ten years I commuted, leaving home approx. 6:30 a.m. and generally arriving back at 7:45 to 8:00 p.m. It was quite tiring, albeit only 5 days a week and not shift-working, so more fortunate than some.

Then I went self-employed for a number of years. Hours were variable, but often more sociable, particularly when able to work from home. The downside was that many projects involved living away from home a good deal of the time. A couple of times, it paid me to take out 6-month property lets, stay all week and travel home at weekends.

Nowadays I have it piss-easy, being semi-retired. I just work the equivalent of a couple of months a year, always either from home or on day commutes.

Were the sacrifices worth it? Materially, yes, but at some obvious cost to family life. Oh yes, and I had a mild heart attack before deciding to slow down!
 
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For ten years I commuted, leaving home approx. 6:30 a.m. and generally arriving back at 7:45 to 8:00 p.m. It was quite tiring, albeit only 5 days a week and not shift-working, so more fortunate than some.

Then I went self-employed for a number of years. Hours were variable, but often more sociable, particularly when able to work from home. The downside was that many projects involved living away from home a good deal of the time. A couple of times, it paid me to take out 6-month property lets, stay all week and travel home at weekends.

Nowadays I have it piss-easy, being semi-retired. I just work the equivalent of a couple of months a year, always either from home or on day commutes.

Were the sacrifices worth it? Materially, yes, but at some obvious cost to family life. Oh yes, and I had a mild heart attack before deciding to slow down!
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This is it. Back in the day you worked longer hours for more money but now you’re older you can look back and ask whether it was worth it.

You say materially yes, but at some cost to family life and your personal health (with you linking the mild heart attack).

If you could rewind the clock, would you do the same as you did so you can have the material luxuries or would you value the family time more than the extra money?

What do people think? Work your arse off to get as much £££ as you can or relax and earn enough to get by?
 
RACHACE said:
I’m applying for a job tomorrow that’s 4 on 4 off, 12 hour shifts.

Its less money but I’ll get loads more home life than I do at the minute.
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You will appreciate the four days off.
You can really do things with four days.You can even do a mid week break abroad.
Go for it pal.
 
Taxi said:
You will appreciate the four days off.
You can really do things with four days.You can even do a mid week break abroad.
Go for it pal.
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I was chatting to my wife when I got home after a long shift yesterday and we think it’ll be miles better.

I haven’t been able to go for a midweek pint with a mate in over 6 years because I’m either away or have done a 13-15 hour shift and am simply too tired.

Lose about 6-7k in wages but I’m not arsed. I’ll make that back in modelling once I start the gym again and get rid of the overhang that’s developed since working the hours I do.
 
RACHACE said:
I was chatting to my wife when I got home after a long shift yesterday and we think it’ll be miles better.

I haven’t been able to go for a midweek pint with a mate in over 6 years because I’m either away or have done a 13-15 hour shift and am simply too tired.

Lose about 6-7k in wages but I’m not arsed. I’ll make that back in modelling once I start the gym again and get rid of the overhang that’s developed since working the hours I do.
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I grit my teeth and do my weekend stuff.
But then it's my weekend and we come and go as we please.
I have not gone to bed but know full well I can make it to tonight without hinderance......military training....
Friday night 18.00 back on so happy days.

We can go to Benidorm and do for a few midweeker breaks.
Fly early doors monday morning and come back early afternoon friday

There is nothing you can do with 2 days off.....It's horenedous mate.
Dont worry about the money..look for other ways to cut back and you will be suprised once you evaluate how much we all piss away.
Our Amazon prime man for example will be bringing our kill for nowt today because we are savvy shoppers.
Look for ways to stretch your money without doing without.

You can pull back a fiver but you will never ever pull back a day of your life.
Once you have sold it to the boss man it's gone forever...
Your time should not be for sale.

Holidays and jollies should always be booked last minute.
Thomson are good for this by clicking on deals section.
We did Crete in May for 11 nights for £110.
 
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Not enough hours in the week for me personally, take this week for instance, meant to be rendering a bungalow, if either it rains or the sun comes out I'm fucked, no work, no pay, so I have to work as much as possible to allow for weeks like this week where il probably end up doing nothing, some weeks I can do 70+ easily but that's the sacrifice I have to make
 
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