Job hours

[fletcherfam]

If you work full-time salary, how many hours on average do you work? Curious.

JT

[HNSB]

It depends... anywhere from 25 - 80.
It averages out to about 45 or so.

[Slartibartfast]

what he said. i was up from a little before 04:00 to about 06:00 this morning working on a problem.

No overtime for slart.

At the same time, no one gives me crap about leaving early for a dentist appointment and stuff like that.

It depends... anywhere from 25 - 80.
It averages out to about 45 or so.

[Stubear]

I guess I probably average about 45 - 50 at the moment. My company is pretty bad at giving you slack elsewhere, though my boss is pretty good. So as long as I run stuff through him, I'm usually good to go...! If I go above him though...

Back when I was studying (CIMA), I had a row with one of the VP's because she was making comments about me leaving "early" (It was half five btw...) to go to class. This at a time when I was getting into the office at 7.30 to make sure I had enough time to get my work done and go to class, which was two nights a week and all day Saturday.

In the end I told her that I was still working when I left to go to class, it just wasnt at my desk, and that she could judge the quality of that work on my exam results. Fortunately I passed both exams and then promptly moved out of her department..!

[Otto]

37 - 60+ it depends. On average 45 I "guestimate".

[LX_Emergency]

40, it's in my contract and anything more than that the customers don't like because then they'd have to pay for overtime.

[smokelaw1]

50-60 depending on how busy I am. Occasionally more, during the slow times it can be down close to 40.

[welshwizard]

Average 50-55hrs

[JimmyHAD]

In tattoo shops long hours are the rule rather than the exception. For years I worked 10 to 12 hours 6 days a week. The shop I've been in for the last 15 years used to be open noon to midnight but we've cut the hours down since we're all getting old. Now I work 4 days a week for 9 hours on three of the days and 11 hours on Saturday. I've worked every Sunday for the last 20 years in every shop I've worked in.

[majurey]

Contracted hours per week: 35. But I usually rack up another 10 on top. It takes me 4 hours per day commuting to and from work, so you can usually find me sitting on the train, laptop out, 3G stick connected, doing almost the same thing as if I was at my desk. 10 years ago that would not have been possible.