How many hours a week do you work

[chrisch]

I work from home AND I am the boss.............

Anyone who claims to WORK more than 5 hours a day is either kidding themselves or crap or both. I add (quickly) sitting in a meeting talking shite is not work....

Chris

[Scubanut]

Originally Posted by tiewrapdiver

24hr shifts arent heard of, however legal laws for working hours are unheard of. Ah the standard 65hr week!!!

Tim

S'pose I'm quite lucky, regulated to how many hours a day, max 12, with no more than 13 days in a row. But also cover on call too, so nearly always work more than 12 in one day. Average about 50, but when on call the hours can be unending!!!
Oh nearly forgot, no overtime, what you see is what you get, 37 hour salary. No I haven't worked out the revised hourly rate, too frightening!!!

Scubanut

[Mark Davies]

Contracted for a 40 hour week - always do more and rarely have a minute off. It's relentless effort from start to finish, except in the middle of the night when it settles down for 2 or 3 hours - then it's time to catch up on the paperwork.

Still, better than it was. When I was in CID I would have been ticking the 60+ box. Never knew when I was going home and sometimes just didn't - slept under my desk more than once and have done upto 27 hours on duty without a break.

Done a number of jobs before I joined but never worked this hard at anything else.

Don't get on YD at work - chance would be a fine thing!

[jamesp]

Originally Posted by chrisch

I work from home AND I am the boss.............

Anyone who claims to WORK more than 5 hours a day is either kidding themselves or crap or both. I add (quickly) sitting in a meeting talking shite is not work....

Chris

Sorry Chris, but for us non desk bound workers, thats an easy figure to achieve. For me stuck at a desk is not work(well ok it is) it is just cost, getting the swarf flying is work, because thats what we get paid for. Hence I am in work on saturday morning to do the VAT books in my own time(and looking for any excuse not to!)

[Red Barron]

Work?

Don't swear at me pig dog
LoL
Barron is back!

[Moray]

EEEEeeewwwww someone said the "W" word.....

[Helen F H]

I do as little as humanly possible. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.

My boss has NO idea. She demanded that i print off every live project off a website we use. 517 pages later (wodge of paper about 3 inches thick), she realised that what she had asked me to do was stupid.

[Gunna Do]

work, schmooey....

Not going to read any further if people insist on bringing me back to reality

[tiewrapdiver]

any way you lot, being a student is hard work. I takes a lot of effort to get up before midday and spend all day watching sh*te daytime tv. Then go out all night drinking cheap booze and getting drunk. The stamina and skills needed for such activities, require us to sleep lots to regain our energy. Also the avoidance and dodging of lectures, and financial skills needed to juggle such a tight budget create stress beyond belief. Hard cut decisions need to be made on buying food or alcohol, or how cheap the food/alcohol you buy depends on personal preferance, but even the hardest can be broken with a bad decision to buy cheap Vodka.

Those of you in the real world as you like to call it, have a very twisted view of student life, you see it as a big doss and partying all the time. All i can say is come and try it, you'll soon see how much hard work is involved in drinking yourself into oblivion and still being able to find the kebab house and get home, long days involved with minimal pay. Going without sleep for 3days+ isn't unheard of, amoungst the hardcore students.

Tim

[Brass Monkey]

Sometimes as many as 100+ in a week other times it's a big zero. I'm on call 11 months of the year and never know when the work will come or when it comes when it will end. Have been know to work for two months without a break but then again have been known to sit around for three to five weeks without doing a stroke. I'm in my second week of doing SFA now and looking forward to having another couple of slack weeks. The biggest problem is finding dive buddies who are free to dive mid week.
Thinking about it this could be called the best or the worst job a person could have it's all a question of how you look at things


Dave.