How many hours a week do you *actually* work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH (law firm partner) routinely works 9-10 hour days (9am -7pm on average) with only a brief or working lunch on his WFH days. He usually eats lunch with colleagues on his office days. This is in addition to 1-2 evening events most weeks and probably 6+ multi-day work trips per year, plus extra hours on nights and weekends any time they are closing a deal.

I do not know how he does it. But he doesn't seem to mind it apart from missing out on family time and events. Which is a big thing.

Same here. And also if client needs something right away, then it must be done. We have had to cancel vacations or he takes work on vacations. It’s a brutal life. But at least he’s not like some of the other partners or associates billing over 3000 hours

But this affords you a great lifestyle, right? Life is full of trade offs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teacher - I work a full 7.5 hours each day but never stay late or take work home.

But those 7.5 hours daily, I am working in front of students. I might take a brief couple of minutes for some personal business while the students are doing something independently, but not very often.

So 37.5 hours per week.

I’m also a teacher and I definitely have to take work home. I easily work over 60 hours each week.

I’ve been watching the snow come down this morning with a stack of essays on my lap. I’ve been grading for two hours already. I’ll take a break to shovel once the sun is up, but then back to the essays for the rest of the day.

[Anonymous]

Teacher here and I do take my 30 minute lunch, but other than that I’m working all day. And then I take work home.

[Anonymous]

You’re not gonna get honest answers, especially from people who have a overinflated opinion of themselves and their spouses. Aka lawyers.

At one point, I was in a job where I had to clock the work people did.

When people are crushing it in an 8.5 hour day, the .5 being lunch you’re not getting more than six hours of work out of a person. Work is never defined as sitting in a meeting, listening to other people or causing to think.

We know that pausing to think is very important to a job, but I don’t think that you’re talking about that with respect to working.

Sitting for more than four hours, it’s terrible on your body you will pay the price.

[Anonymous]

Feel free to work in a school. You’ll never be bored! I’m a teacher and I work my just over 7 contracted hours per day and that’s it. My brain is fried from the overstimulation of the day. I do get to school 15 minutes early but I leave just after. I occasionally work at home at night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recently started my first “real” job of really my entire life. Before I did freelance work where I could adjust my hours as necessary.

I cannot do 8 hours a day. I go crazy. I can handle maybe 4 hours of actual work. Then I’m ready to get out of the house, go do *something*, anything other than staring at a screen with a fried brain.

How many hours a day are you actually working?

when I worked at Freddie Mac, it was the highest per hour wage per actual work.

worked maybe 2 to 3 hours a day. and most of that work was managing up and creating "tickets" in the systems meant to manage the minions.

thanks to a circus of H1Bs and auditors watching the show.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH (law firm partner) routinely works 9-10 hour days (9am -7pm on average) with only a brief or working lunch on his WFH days. He usually eats lunch with colleagues on his office days. This is in addition to 1-2 evening events most weeks and probably 6+ multi-day work trips per year, plus extra hours on nights and weekends any time they are closing a deal.

I do not know how he does it. But he doesn't seem to mind it apart from missing out on family time and events. Which is a big thing.

I love how wives chime in on these kinds of posts talking about what their husbands do. 🙄 Why are you even responding? The post asked how many hours “you” work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bill 55 hours a week (yes, it sucks). And a chunk of that is on the weekend. So I bill around 10 hours per weekday on average. Then I have a 40 min commute each way. It’s awful.

There's life after Law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher - I work a full 7.5 hours each day but never stay late or take work home.

But those 7.5 hours daily, I am working in front of students. I might take a brief couple of minutes for some personal business while the students are doing something independently, but not very often.

So 37.5 hours per week.

I’m also a teacher and I definitely have to take work home. I easily work over 60 hours each week.

I’ve been watching the snow come down this morning with a stack of essays on my lap. I’ve been grading for two hours already. I’ll take a break to shovel once the sun is up, but then back to the essays for the rest of the day.

If you are in the DMV, I don't think the sun will come out. UP yes, but not out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8.5 -9 hours. Most people actually work during their scheduled work days. If you have avoided that thus far, congratulations, you are part of the privileged few from whom little is expected.

I run a small business and it ebbs and flows. So this month, I worked a few hours every day. Sept. - last month, I was slammed and easily worked 60 hours week. Before work, after work, weekends before family wakes. I'm trying to smooth that Q3 and 4 labor out more but have protesting employees.

[Anonymous]

I have about 11-13 hours of work per day and some on weekends (sometimes all weekend). But I work in big tech and make nearly $1m a year. F*****g killing me though

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teacher - I work a full 7.5 hours each day but never stay late or take work home.

But those 7.5 hours daily, I am working in front of students. I might take a brief couple of minutes for some personal business while the students are doing something independently, but not very often.

So 37.5 hours per week.

I’m also a teacher and I definitely have to take work home. I easily work over 60 hours each week.

I’ve been watching the snow come down this morning with a stack of essays on my lap. I’ve been grading for two hours already. I’ll take a break to shovel once the sun is up, but then back to the essays for the rest of the day.

If you are in the DMV, I don't think the sun will come out. UP yes, but not out.

I wrote “up.”

Were you trying to school the teacher? What’s your point?

Back to essays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta space out for about an hour.

Yeah. I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.

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It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.

It's a problem of motivation, all right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have about 11-13 hours of work per day and some on weekends (sometimes all weekend). But I work in big tech and make nearly $1m a year. F*****g killing me though

I work for a nonprofit and get paid 700K per year. I work about ten hours per week. Hopefully, the gravy train will continue rolling for the next few years before I can retire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have about 11-13 hours of work per day and some on weekends (sometimes all weekend). But I work in big tech and make nearly $1m a year. F*****g killing me though

I work for a nonprofit and get paid 700K per year. I work about ten hours per week. Hopefully, the gravy train will continue rolling for the next few years before I can retire.

Sucking off those government grant and charitable teats.