I think most people who say they work 60-70-80 hours per week are lying.
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Anonymous
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My old boss, a scientist at a university doing biomedical research, worked 70-80 hour weeks. His grad student brought a SLEEPING BAG to work. A friend's husband working in a healthcare start-up works about that much. He gets home in time for dinner and his kids' bedtime, and then goes to his home office and works until 3 am. He doesn't need a lot of sleep. People like you who don't believe others' hard work disgust me. Just because *you* couldn't do it doesn't mean no one can. |
Anonymous
that's rough... hope you get to go home soon. |
Anonymous
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I think there's research showing anything longer than 6 hours / day for a knowledge worker has diminishing returns.
On days when I've needed to have my body present for long periods, I'm often mentally checked out. |
Anonymous
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I think it depends on what you mean by "work". I definitely think there are jobs where people are required to be in the office that amount of time...but I don't know of many where people are productive that amount of time. I think this has actually been studied, and it's difficult for people to be productive more than 6 hours/day at a mentally taxing job. With a lot of jobs, though, "productive" is difficult to measure.
DH easily works 60 hrs/wk, but he's in meetings a lot of that time. He has to actively participate in those meetings, but I'm sure some are a waste of time. |
Anonymous
The fact that you think working like that is laudable disgusts me. |
Anonymous
| Nanny here and I work 60 hrs a week. The parents work way more hours than I do, but stagger their schedules. |
Anonymous
reminds me of a time I was working saturday night on a proposal at a Big 8 consultancy (in 90's) and there were 8 people in office with partner, and it had been this way for many weekends, and it was night before easter and my wife's family had a special dinner for saturday night and I had to leave to go to it and the partner scowled at me. I left. it was then I realized that I did not want the life of a partner in Big 8 firms. They were puppets of their desire for money. no one in that room made partner also. |
Anonymous
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Eh. I worked for the Maryland General Assembly for 10 years. During session, which is three months long, it was pretty typical to work close to 80 hours a week. I personally could not sustain that year-round. But for three months a year, yes.
My friend from law school is a true workaholic, very passionate about her work. She easily works 60 hour weeks and is actually energized by doing so. Her husband was the SAHP for several years when their kids were younger. |
Anonymous
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My husband who's an attorney definitely does. He works in the office from 10-7, then at home from about 11p-2a. That's 60 hours. He always works about 10 hours each weekend, as well, so that's 70. Then he typically attends about two networking events a month that take place on weeknights.
A few times a year, he works on a deal that lasts three weeks and has him working around the clock, 7 days a week, getting 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night. |
Anonymous
+1 I've been there myself and it's not pleasant, but it's not way out of bounds. Working 9am to 9pm only on weekdays makes 60 hours. Without kid responsibilities, it's not fun but it's not that crazy. Billable hours are actually harder to come by, if you're scrupulous about billing. |
Anonymous
Learn to read. I didn't say it was laudable. I said you mustn't automatically think people are telling lies. Respect people's choices and their hard work. |
Anonymous
NP. It's not typically 12 hours a day straight at the office. More often, it includes working on weekends, working at home and/or taking calls after hours. |
Anonymous
| I did investment banking worked 80-100 hours/week. A few times I went home just to take a shower. It was miserable. |
Anonymous
Okay, but did you take lunch / dinner breaks? A walk around the block? A casual chat on the phone? Or was it really 9-9 all work? I'm in education, so I've had days that start at 6 am in the classroom and end at 10 pm after some event, class, or training, but it still wasn't a 16-hour day straight through. |
Anonymous
Which is funny because they don't even make that much money. |