How many hours do you work per week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:36, 3 days a week. RN, picked the career in part for the hours/ 4 days off, though working the occasional holiday and weekends hurts.

If you work 7 am to the 7 pm shift, what do you do for childcare for the early morning hours?

[Anonymous]

37 hours at the workplace (I'm a teacher) and another 5-10 at home or over the weekend each week.

[Anonymous]

40 a week most of the year. Local government attorney. From March to May, though, I work about 60 hours a week. Fortunately most of that extra can be done at home, after my kid goes to sleep.

And since it's government, I get generous leave, which I'm able to take pretty much when I want to. Well, other than between March and May.

[Anonymous]

I am working two jobs.

45 hours per week day job. 20 hours a week done in the evenings. That is a scaled back schedule, hopefully going back up to 40 hours per week in January. Most of that job is done in the evenings and weekends when I can fit it in.

[Anonymous]

OP, I am on a schedule like yours, but I don't bill that much. Can you shoot for something more reasonable next year like 2200? 2800 sounds intolerable.

[Anonymous]

I work 50-55 hours a week. One day a week I work from home. One day a week the nanny brings the kids and I meet them for lunch near my office.

[Anonymous]

Projecting to end the year with 2450 hours. Plus an hour commute each way to work. I'm beat! I have two little kids who I just spent a week with and now don't have any push to get back out there and finish the year.

[Anonymous]

RN, 24 hrs a week. Although until the end of August, I have a 2 hr daily commute which sucks.

DH is a CTO and works 45-50 hrs a week.

We both lucked out.

[Anonymous]

I bill 40 hours. I work more. Much of my work is done in my head, and I am often thinking about the issues, particularly when otherwise in neutral. So, I usually know what I want to do with my 40 hours that I am billing.

[Anonymous]

15-20 hours a week. I stepped out of the full time world 24 years ago when our oldest was born. Our youngest is now in high school now. I keep waiting for a good time to go back to full time, but it hasn't happened yet.

[Anonymous]

I work 35 hours a week, which is considered full time for my private employer.

[Anonymous]

My workweek is technically 40 hours, but it's all flextime from home and I'm on salary, so I have no idea how many hours I actually work. I'm a journalist, so it's more about whether I meet deadlines and do good work than whether I put in enough clock time. The pay is absolute shit, but the flexibility makes it worth it for now. When the kids can drive themselves around, or I find another opportunity with similar flexibility but better pay, I'll move on.

[Anonymous]

OP - 2800 billable hours (billable or total?) is painful. There is a threshold where each hour gets more painful because it eats into sleep and time with the family. I did a few years of full time (~2200-2300 billable) and it was awful. Billable hours are not regular - they are groups of long days and interrupted vacations. Unless you are in the final stretch to make partner, the hours are not worth it. It is due to caseload or is your group understaffed? If it is your group culture, then I suggest moving firms. You need to figure out a way to reduce your hours and decide if you are okay with your career trajectory slowing down to do it.

Also, doing those hours does not guarantee partnership or even longevity (there was a colleague who did crazy hours, got top bonus and was laid off within the same year). Instead, maybe try to reduce hours and spend time on things that will make you valuable. I found that as long as I did a bit more than expected on hours and focused on some key business development activities to help the group, I did great. You can't always control the hours but it least it brings them down to something more manageable.

I am on a mommy track now and working reduced hours (I am scheduled for about 30 but it depends - sometimes it is 20, sometimes 60 if I am on a project). I still don't feel like I have it totally together but it is so much better than when I was full time.

The time with kids is short - OP - I would think strategically about what you want and how to get it.

[Anonymous]

50-60 as a teacher. At school 7:30-4:30, then pick up again from 7:30 when kiddo goes to bed.

[Anonymous]

I'm contracted for 42.5 hours a week (8-5 with 1/2 hour lunch)

My actual is 55, (7-6 no lunch) plus probably 6-10 hours a week checking emails and responding (a requirement).