Why Are People Complaining About 40 Hours a Week?

[Anonymous]

OP, how much time per week do you spend doing household chores, caring for your children and volunteering? Do you just work and hang out with your family?

[Anonymous]

Posters keep questioning the OP but there seems to be two different individuals that work 70 hours a week.

Other actual OP has multiple jobs and Airbnb’s.

The other person is a police officer.

There may be someone else but I’m not going back to check.

[Anonymous]

DH is at a job that pays very well and he hardly spends 15 hours a week working from home. Once in a long while he needs to put in 30-40 hours of work and he would be totally stressed out! LOL

I make about half of his pay but need to work 40-45 hours a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work well over 70 hours a week across multiple jobs, plus manage several Airbnbs. I’ve automated most of the Airbnb work, so it’s not hands-on every day.

Even with that schedule, I’m home every night. I’m married, spend time with my spouse, take my vacation days and travel, and I’m at all my kids’ events. I don’t feel overworked or burned out.

So what is it? Am I just wired differently, or have expectations for what’s considered “too much work” shifted?

Aww. Do you need a hug Rambo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH is at a job that pays very well and he hardly spends 15 hours a week working from home. Once in a long while he needs to put in 30-40 hours of work and he would be totally stressed out! LOL

I make about half of his pay but need to work 40-45 hours a week.

What kind of job does he do where he spends so little time and earn a very high salary? Some us want a job like that. That's so amazing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DH is at a job that pays very well and he hardly spends 15 hours a week working from home. Once in a long while he needs to put in 30-40 hours of work and he would be totally stressed out! LOL

I make about half of his pay but need to work 40-45 hours a week.

What kind of job does he do where he spends so little time and earn a very high salary? Some us want a job like that. That's so amazing.

It's like you are in 9th grade and your high school algebra teacher is accusing you of cheating and looking off someone else because you just wrote the answers down without showing your work, and you quip back. "But I'm the first one done how could I have cheated?"

99.9% of you won't understand that, he's doing the same work as you just that much faster.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love how some people count getting ready for work and their commute and lunch as hours spent working. Therefore, I work 80 hours a week. I’m the most productive and important and incredible person where I work, and I still make all my kids events, volunteer rescuing puppies and fly to the Mediterranean every weekend to rescue immigrants from sinking boats.

I’m hourly. As soon as I start my car I clock in with my vehicle computer. I get paid for my commute. I get paid for my hour lunch. I get paid to work out at the station. I get paid sitting in my car. I get paid when I stop at the gas station. I get paid while I get free carwashes. I get paid until I pull into my driveway and go off duty.

I’m sorry you’re a salaried employee. I can’t imagine not getting paid the moment I leave my house.

And I can’t imagine getting shot at or burned to death as a known occupation hazard! I bet I am not alone in that!

I’ve never been shot at and I certainly don’t know anyone that was burned to death. The misconceptions about law enforcement are vast. About 5 times a month I pick up a crossing guard overtime assignment. It takes 45 minutes, but it’s mandated that we get paid 3 hours minimum for each overtime event. That’s over $290 for 45 minutes. The kids really enjoy seeing police officers.

Ah. So policing is an overpaid, cushy job. I’ll definitely support candidates that want to defund the police in that case.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DH is at a job that pays very well and he hardly spends 15 hours a week working from home. Once in a long while he needs to put in 30-40 hours of work and he would be totally stressed out! LOL

I make about half of his pay but need to work 40-45 hours a week.

What kind of job does he do where he spends so little time and earn a very high salary? Some us want a job like that. That's so amazing.

+1..curious ad well. I must be doing something wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ah. So policing is an overpaid, cushy job. I’ll definitely support candidates that want to defund the police in that case.

Because they don’t all get shot or burned to death it’s a cushy job? By that definition every job is cushy. Good luck defunding the police ever again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:DH is at a job that pays very well and he hardly spends 15 hours a week working from home. Once in a long while he needs to put in 30-40 hours of work and he would be totally stressed out! LOL

I make about half of his pay but need to work 40-45 hours a week.

What kind of job does he do where he spends so little time and earn a very high salary? Some us want a job like that. That's so amazing.

It's like you are in 9th grade and your high school algebra teacher is accusing you of cheating and looking off someone else because you just wrote the answers down without showing your work, and you quip back. "But I'm the first one done how could I have cheated?"

99.9% of you won't understand that, he's doing the same work as you just that much faster.

If he is an employee and not a 1099 or independent contractor, his employer probably considers him derelict. He’s lucky he’s still remote, he should be using that other time for innovation and likely other parts of the business. He’s not 65% more efficient then his peers — they are likely doing the things he’s neglecting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH is at a job that pays very well and he hardly spends 15 hours a week working from home. Once in a long while he needs to put in 30-40 hours of work and he would be totally stressed out! LOL

I make about half of his pay but need to work 40-45 hours a week.

What kind of job does he do where he spends so little time and earn a very high salary? Some us want a job like that. That's so amazing.

It's like you are in 9th grade and your high school algebra teacher is accusing you of cheating and looking off someone else because you just wrote the answers down without showing your work, and you quip back. "But I'm the first one done how could I have cheated?"

99.9% of you won't understand that, he's doing the same work as you just that much faster.

If he is an employee and not a 1099 or independent contractor, his employer probably considers him derelict. He’s lucky he’s still remote, he should be using that other time for innovation and likely other parts of the business. He’s not 65% more efficient then his peers — they are likely doing the things he’s neglecting.

But feel free to quip he some niche tech speciality that can make his own hours, and we’ll see if it passes the DCUM expert smell test. He sure has you fooled though! Did he come up with that algebra analogy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love how some people count getting ready for work and their commute and lunch as hours spent working. Therefore, I work 80 hours a week. I’m the most productive and important and incredible person where I work, and I still make all my kids events, volunteer rescuing puppies and fly to the Mediterranean every weekend to rescue immigrants from sinking boats.

I’m hourly. As soon as I start my car I clock in with my vehicle computer. I get paid for my commute. I get paid for my hour lunch. I get paid to work out at the station. I get paid sitting in my car. I get paid when I stop at the gas station. I get paid while I get free carwashes. I get paid until I pull into my driveway and go off duty.

I’m sorry you’re a salaried employee. I can’t imagine not getting paid the moment I leave my house.

And I can’t imagine getting shot at or burned to death as a known occupation hazard! I bet I am not alone in that!

I’ve never been shot at and I certainly don’t know anyone that was burned to death. The misconceptions about law enforcement are vast. About 5 times a month I pick up a crossing guard overtime assignment. It takes 45 minutes, but it’s mandated that we get paid 3 hours minimum for each overtime event. That’s over $290 for 45 minutes. The kids really enjoy seeing police officers.

My hourly rate is $500. I don't need overtime.

Spectacular! You must have impressive degrees from top universities.

Sure, if you consider my no name university from the Midwest 'top' university. It think it might be in the top 500 😀. I do have d grad degrees from slightly more prestigious places, maybe they are both in the top 100. Schools don't make the success. It's where opportunity meets preparedness, plus a dash of luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work well over 70 hours a week across multiple jobs, plus manage several Airbnbs. I’ve automated most of the Airbnb work, so it’s not hands-on every day.

Even with that schedule, I’m home every night. I’m married, spend time with my spouse, take my vacation days and travel, and I’m at all my kids’ events. I don’t feel overworked or burned out.

So what is it? Am I just wired differently, or have expectations for what’s considered “too much work” shifted?

Yes, you are wired to not understand schedules, basic math, and what spending time with kids really means to the general population. Most of us innately are wired to understand this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DH is at a job that pays very well and he hardly spends 15 hours a week working from home. Once in a long while he needs to put in 30-40 hours of work and he would be totally stressed out! LOL

I make about half of his pay but need to work 40-45 hours a week.

What kind of job does he do where he spends so little time and earn a very high salary? Some us want a job like that. That's so amazing.

It's like you are in 9th grade and your high school algebra teacher is accusing you of cheating and looking off someone else because you just wrote the answers down without showing your work, and you quip back. "But I'm the first one done how could I have cheated?"

99.9% of you won't understand that, he's doing the same work as you just that much faster.

If he is an employee and not a 1099 or independent contractor, his employer probably considers him derelict. He’s lucky he’s still remote, he should be using that other time for innovation and likely other parts of the business. He’s not 65% more efficient then his peers — they are likely doing the things he’s neglecting.

My DH is like this and me too to a lesser extent. As long as we are reachable, it's fine from the employer's perspective.

I have coworkers that certainly put in more hours. They produce a ton of work product that needs extensive editing from those of us that are higher paid. Sometimes they will ask me to review the same draft 2-3 times. When I produce a work product, it is basically done and does not require reworking.

[Anonymous]

My boss makes a dollar and I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time.