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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a difference between the number of hours you bill and the number of hours you are working. Not every minute is billable work. There’s client development, admin stuff and other things that pop up every day. So, billing 60 hours a week, usually means working at least 70 hours. [/quote]

I am going off OP’s statement that as an associate her DH billed 2200 and worked 3000.  3000 is an average of less than 60 hours a week.[/quote]

Yes if you took 0 vacation. 2 weeks off would put this at 60 hours/week. It’s pretty grueling if you make life choices of spending time with your kids. Means 8am-6pm then spend 6-9pm with kids, 9-10 cleaning up, then working 10-midnight and you’re up at 6am with kids. [/quote]

Op - exactly this. We have 3 kids and while I do the majority of the work DH does try to be an involved dad. Mostly that means on the weekends he tries to work less or take a full day off so he can do stuff with the family. Then on the week day he has to work more since he didn’t work on the weekend. [/quote]

Has he considered getting a different job? This seems miserable. [/quote]

Op - I wish! But not sure a different job would be less hours necessarily. He is in litigation. He worked at DOJ before and it was just as busy there and he would make like 30% of his current salary. [/quote]

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