How many hours a week do you actually work?

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Anonymous wrote:Not believing half of these responses.

Why not? Why lie here? I'm a PP who posted I make $160 and work 5-10 hours per week. I work at a place that is very slow and am basically just "standing by" in case something happens and respond to a couple of emails here and there. I could go work somewhere that is faster paced and perhaps more challenging, but why? I worked really hard earlier in my career and don't feel like doing it again. Ever. So here I am and I'm happy.

Same federal financial regulatory attorney. Anyone who claims they’re “standing by” for consultation is in such a role. BTDT.

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Anonymous wrote:5-10 hours; Make $160k

What kind of job?

Attorney

Sounds like an attorney at a federal financial regulator. They’re pretty lazy. Their knee-jerk response is they’re “too busy” or “that can’t be done”. The only ones that can get them to work is the higher ups who basically demand cooperation.

Sounds like an outlier. At my financial regulatory agency, most lawyers are working 50+ hour weeks and expected to be available at all hours.

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I make $120k for about 5 hours of work per week. I'm supposed to be working 40 but there is never much to do. I work as a nurse in an non-patient facing job.

My husband is a federal physician in a very high position. He easily works 60 hours per week, no breaks even for lunch. It's 60 double and triple booked meeting hours. For example, he has a standing call at 5pm on Fridays (who does this??--crazy feds apparently) He makes something like 375K (clearly not on the GS scale).

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I'm similar - I do home health type work and go around to people's homes. Some cancels within my day. So maybe 4-5 hours a day, depending on paperwork.I'm guessing 20-25 hours a week. I make 125k

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Anonymous wrote:I see patients (who frequently don’t show - I’m in public health). When they don’t show I don’t have much to do. On a busy week? Maybe 15- 20 hrs. Slow week maybe 5 or 10. I make 175K.

Nurse Practitioner?

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Anonymous wrote:5-10 hours; Make $160k

What kind of job?

Attorney

Sounds like an attorney at a federal financial regulator. They’re pretty lazy. Their knee-jerk response is they’re “too busy” or “that can’t be done”. The only ones that can get them to work is the higher ups who basically demand cooperation.

Sorry you got rejected from working at the SEC. Maybe it's because they sensed you wouldn't work hard. The vast majority of folks who work at financial regulators actually work very hard.

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I make 70 and work about 50 hours a week.

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Around 20 at my main job. The tasks I have usually take around 4 hours to complete. The rest of the time is spent appearing active on Teams.

It's why I took on a second job 3 months ago. It's a very low-level menial job where I work about 15-20 hours a week. It's project-based, so as long as I get each project done by the deadline, I can work whatever hours I want. There's no appearing active online.

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10-12 hours just over $100k

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Anonymous wrote:Wow these teachers work so much. WHY? Why is it necessary to work so many hours? Something is wrong with this model. Unfortunately women like to make things more complicated than they need to be and come up with made up work. My guess is it’s a result of being a female-dominated industry.

Scenario:
I collect 150 5-page papers. I am required to leave comments. It takes me 10 minutes per paper, so that’s 25 hours of grading for that assignment alone. I am required to grade two *meaningful* assignments a week.

I get 24 minutes a day that are unstructured and away from other people. That’s 24 minutes a day to grade those papers, grade other assignments, prep my lessons, respond to all emails, etc.

I am sincerely curious: how can I make this job easier? How can I cut hours?

I’m not being snarky. I genuinely would like to know so I don’t quit.

- written on my one 24-minute break today. That’s also my time for lunch and unwinding, which I am doing now before I spend the rest of the time planning.

It’s not you. It’s whoever is requiring you to grade 2 meaningful assignments and not have time within the school day to do so. If men were teachers they would not be taking these assignments home to grade. Men love to take advantage of unpaid or lowly female labor.

To be fair though, I thought the school day ended around 2 or 3 PM. I don’t see why 2 more hours a day is sufficient for what needs to get done.

Well, for starters, teachers are not grading during the school day. They are teaching during the school day. For an elementary school teacher, 2 hours at the end of the day MIGHT be sufficient for what they need to do, if they are not participating in other things like supervising extracurricular activities or meeting with parents, both of which are pretty common after hours things for elementary school teachers to do.

For a teacher at my kid's high school, they start work at 9 and school gets out at 4. Depending on the teacher, they have 3-7 classes per day. If my kid's history teacher (5 classes per day this year, last year it was 7) collects one 5-page assignment from all 25ish kids in each class, that is 125 assignments. Each needs to be read and commented on substantively, which as the PP above says takes time. If the PP really just skims and gives generic feedback, call it 5 minutes per assignment instead of 10. That's still over 10 hours of grading for one assignment. If you are giving teachers in this situation 2 hours after school gets out (from 4-6pm), they will need to use that "grading period" all week for this one assignment. That history class has a 5 page paper and 2 shorter assignments this week.

I agree that there is a lot of gendered imbalances in education, but the history teacher I'm describing is male. My dad taught university-level literature classes and he also experienced the long hours of grading outside the hours of teaching.

Some professions just have really different structures that are not responsive to things like "just add 2 hours at the end of the day, easy!"

Sounds like things need to change. Perhaps AI will help.

How does AI solve the problem of grading? Do you want your child's high school papers to be reviewed by AI, rather than the person teaching them?

Yes. Because people would be more interested in becoming teachers. I can imagine it’s harder to attract quality teachers due to the long hours and low wages. AI could reduce the hours.

I don't think you will get a lot of teachers agreeing that their job can be done by AI. I'm not a teacher, and while you can obviously automate a lot of learning, I just don't think that this is one of them. Maybe some aspects of teaching, but not this.

As a parent, is that what you want for your child?

Ha! i teach public preschool. Make 100K+ get a lunch break occasionally, but usually work through it because the kids are three. The material prep etc is a lot, but there is no way AI will make my job easier.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers should be paid way, way more. Thank you for all you do!!!!

I think the teacher hours and salaries are misleading. They work about 180 days a year because of summers and other days off that most people don’t get. Even though they work fulltime hours when they are in school, they have way more off days.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers should be paid way, way more. Thank you for all you do!!!!

I think the teacher hours and salaries are misleading. They work about 180 days a year because of summers and other days off that most people don’t get. Even though they work fulltime hours when they are in school, they have way more off days.

Teachers are not paid during the summer.

Still, I work about 2,400 hours a year. That is considerably more than the 2,000 a 12-month / 40-hours a week job would require.

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55-75 hours/week

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers should be paid way, way more. Thank you for all you do!!!!

I think the teacher hours and salaries are misleading. They work about 180 days a year because of summers and other days off that most people don’t get. Even though they work fulltime hours when they are in school, they have way more off days.

We work far more than 180 day/year.

My contract is for 194 days/year, but I also work at least one weekend day each week. Additionally, I work a minimum of three full- time (unpaid) weeks over the summer, and as an older, seasoned teacher, I actually work less than most of the newer teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:45-50 hours/ week
Government, hybrid employee making over 150k.
I love my job and some weeks I work more than that, some less. Just depends.

This is me as well, almost verbatim! I work extremely hard.

And definitely me.

Also, with all of my telework abilities, I check and respond to work on weekends and after dinner—pre-Covid id monitor email on a blackberry; now I draft and edit documents during off hours on my computer. So I’m more substantively engaged at all hours. But I’m also happier.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow these teachers work so much. WHY? Why is it necessary to work so many hours? Something is wrong with this model. Unfortunately women like to make things more complicated than they need to be and come up with made up work. My guess is it’s a result of being a female-dominated industry.

Scenario:
I collect 150 5-page papers. I am required to leave comments. It takes me 10 minutes per paper, so that’s 25 hours of grading for that assignment alone. I am required to grade two *meaningful* assignments a week.

I get 24 minutes a day that are unstructured and away from other people. That’s 24 minutes a day to grade those papers, grade other assignments, prep my lessons, respond to all emails, etc.

I am sincerely curious: how can I make this job easier? How can I cut hours?

I’m not being snarky. I genuinely would like to know so I don’t quit.

- written on my one 24-minute break today. That’s also my time for lunch and unwinding, which I am doing now before I spend the rest of the time planning.

It’s not you. It’s whoever is requiring you to grade 2 meaningful assignments and not have time within the school day to do so. If men were teachers they would not be taking these assignments home to grade. Men love to take advantage of unpaid or lowly female labor.

To be fair though, I thought the school day ended around 2 or 3 PM. I don’t see why 2 more hours a day is sufficient for what needs to get done.

Well, for starters, teachers are not grading during the school day. They are teaching during the school day. For an elementary school teacher, 2 hours at the end of the day MIGHT be sufficient for what they need to do, if they are not participating in other things like supervising extracurricular activities or meeting with parents, both of which are pretty common after hours things for elementary school teachers to do.

For a teacher at my kid's high school, they start work at 9 and school gets out at 4. Depending on the teacher, they have 3-7 classes per day. If my kid's history teacher (5 classes per day this year, last year it was 7) collects one 5-page assignment from all 25ish kids in each class, that is 125 assignments. Each needs to be read and commented on substantively, which as the PP above says takes time. If the PP really just skims and gives generic feedback, call it 5 minutes per assignment instead of 10. That's still over 10 hours of grading for one assignment. If you are giving teachers in this situation 2 hours after school gets out (from 4-6pm), they will need to use that "grading period" all week for this one assignment. That history class has a 5 page paper and 2 shorter assignments this week.

I agree that there is a lot of gendered imbalances in education, but the history teacher I'm describing is male. My dad taught university-level literature classes and he also experienced the long hours of grading outside the hours of teaching.

Some professions just have really different structures that are not responsive to things like "just add 2 hours at the end of the day, easy!"

Sounds like things need to change. Perhaps AI will help.

I wasn't an AI fan until I read some of these responses. Clearly these lazy people don't need these jobs.

Very true. If I were paid what I make for 10hrs a week with my employer under the assumption that I was to be working 40, I’d have no self esteem or self worth left. At least I have skills and can keep them sharp via by job.

I hate to say it but I’m glad my company has actual software that measures metrics. Not much dead weight around here with all the visibility they have into our work flow.

Are you able to imagine a scenario where you’re asked to perform a very difficult task with a bunch of new concepts and reaching out to people you’ve never met?

Now imagine someone who has performed this same task for 10 years and knows all of the people to contact for assistance.

Person A might perform the task in 25 hours. Person B needs 5 hours.

Is it really a bad thing that person B takes 5 hours?

You seem to really view work as being paid for a number of hours but many employees especially subject matter experts are being compensated for knowledge and contacts.

This. People who do work in 5 hrs and get more work added get resentful fast of the people who do just the first task in the same amount. There are certainly self motivated people out there and the companies that retain them pay a premium.

+1. The slower person also can’t take on more in tough times. It takes them a full work week to do what it takes a more competent person to do in 5 hours. The fast worker is far more valuable from a managerial perspective and way harder to replace.

Also, AI can only supplement our jobs - we aren’t cogs haha.