Officially 40 but the actual "work" part varies a lot by the project I'm working on. In the last 2 months I've been quite busy but for several months before that I spent a lot of "work" time on Reddit because my workload was not all that much. I do keep definite boundaries with my job and it is very rare that I would ever work more than 40 hours. I know a lot of people think it's a flex that they work 60+ hour weeks but making your job your entire life is honestly just sad.
It only destroys the brains of those who can't keep themselves entertained. I could live in solitary confinement just fine, even though the UN I'm pretty sure codifies it as a form of torture.
Agreed! I just left a job like this last month. It's cool for a minute but it becomes painfully mind-numbing as time goes on. It def didn't help that I was alone at the office 3 days a week. So much happier at a job where I'm actually busy most of the time now.
You're right. And it's hell on your body if you don't find physical activity elsewhere. I had one sit down job one time and I was ready to quit after 3 days.
Not to mention being stressed out constantly that you're easily laid off/replaced.
of course my job is easily replaced/sent overseas, but it's not a constant fear I live with like I've seen with office type workers.
Technically I work 40 every week. I’m salaried. But sometimes projects hit super demanding patches and I’m answering emails at 11pm and then in a 9am meeting. On the other hand, sometimes what I really need to do is think hard about a thing, which is best accomplished by working in the garden or trying to explain to the cat.
40 hours. But I feel like I don't have enough time to live life and get things done. So I'm thinking about going to gig work, which might up my hours, but also allow me more time at home and allow for emergencies.
It seems a lot of people in office jobs don’t do much. I worked in a warehouse and you had to be working every minute or you would get in trouble. Always moving, always working.
Then you would see the office workers chatting and laughing. Going to the break room for the 4th time for coffee.
I honestly don’t know how these people get away or can stand not doing much for such a huge chunk of the day. I’ve never had an office job where I wasn’t busy the entire time aside from breaks and lunch. Everywhere I’ve worked, there were either daily or weekly check-ins and updates, tangible goals and sometimes reporting requirements. Never been able to sit around and do nothing.
My job is entirely project based and there's a lot of hurry up and wait. I'm not getting away with anything, it's just the nature of the business I'm in. There are days that I'm slammed from the moment I get in the office until the moment I leave, but there are also days where I've done my part of the project and I have to wait on something or someone to arrive, complete, analyze, etc.
My job is also project based but we work on multiple projects at a time and will start prepping for the next one if waiting for people to get back to us on one. I get that it depends on the role, but some people here are saying they don’t work more than an hour a day every day.
Idk. The effiency expert at my factory job spent about 30 minutes berating the head quality guy on the floor in front of us all including the plant manager. If that happens out in the open, I'd hate to see what happens in the cushy offices.
I'll take back breaking labor for not constantly being bitched at any day.
I'll admit it was pretty interesting to watch though. Quality guy tried his best to deflect and throw us all under the bus, but effiency lady wasn't buying his bullshit.
Basically, there's not a process in written form on how to lift these heavy AF 90 feet long steel beams other than to lift one side with an unlatched hook with the overhead crane, then using a block of wood to keep it suspended before being able to attach the eyelets and lift it for real with the crane and chains. Efficiency lady was horrified to see that particular process (nice to see someone giving af about safety).
There's still not a solution, but I imagine whatever is worked out will be tedious and a pain to execute.
Yeah! I hated that shit. They would come up with different procedures and extra steps for "safety" without having any idea of how it's done out on the shop floor.
You always ended up extremely impractical steps that made the job harder, take longer, and end up not even being safer in the end. Then, they'll bitch that everything takes longer.
It looks great on paper, so it must work just as great, right? /s.
Engineers are really good at making this point. The pieces might fit, but there isn't always room to use the tools needed to install those pieces.
45 with no benefits because they’re both part time and I make too much to qualify for any government assistance but not enough to actually afford to do anything other than survive
Work work, physically at a place designated as a workplace, or time being productive for business that pays us? Do we count domestic chores for our own domisciles?
60-90 hours a week is a lot, I’ve seen a lot of older gentleman even in there 80+ that keep working and it’s honestly what keeps them going, able to stay out of bed and healthy. Good for you man
After 40 I'm out the fucking door. It took me a long time to get there. No on call, no "salaried," no bullshit. I'm here to do psychology and get the fuck out.
Currently? I put in about 6-8 hours a day fishing or tying flies or doing stuff on my truck. Before I moved to Rhofe island and started job hunting I was working 6 days a week. Weekdays and I would go in on Sundays. I couldn't turn down all that double-time knowing I may not have a job for a while.
Reminder that most teachers don’t actually get paid over the summer so a lot of us also work summer jobs. I work 7:30-4:30 M-F during the school year then 7:30-5:30 over the summer as a camp counselor.
a lot of people have the option to stretch out their paychecks over the summer, which is very helpful, that fools the ones who say teaching is so easy because they get summers off. Teachers do not get paid for work over the summer, they are contract paid for hours worked and many have to get second seasonal jobs.
In PA, a buddy’s brother was a teacher and he was given the option of a 9 or 12 month pay cycle. He chose the 12 in case he wanted to do nothing during the summer.
Lol definitely don't want to move to grade school from the community college where I work. We are open for summer classes also, so hours are steady all year round, except that we get 2 paid weeks off every year for the christmas vacation time. Plus spring and fall break weeks (we work 2 days and get 3 days off on those).
Working in a vaguely IT role it changes week to week depending on what tasks pop up. I can work over 40 on rare occasions. But ive had weeks with barely anything to do.
Well...I come in around 9....I use the side door so Lumbergh can't see me. And then I just sorta space out for about an hour. 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 say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
35-42.
I used to have a stronger work ethic, but wasn't rewarded for it. If I worked 80, I still couldn't get all of my work done. Instead of burning out, I pulled back. If it's that important, the company will find a reason to hire another person. If not, then what I don't get done isn't important.
Last year I worked 75+ hours a week. This year I'm chillin and working 45 a week. I'm a mailman and we sign up for overtime quarterly, last year was for making money and this year is for resting lol
40 hours a week (or 42.5. I'm not sure if people are including lunch)
And I'm envious of people who regularly have downtime during their workday...we held an annual conference last week, and this week is the first time since July or August that I haven't had more than enough to do to fully fill every single workday.
My department runs 56 hour average scheduled per week. Depending on the specific schedule, it’ll be 48 hours, or 72, or whatever to average out. Three shifts, 24 hour shifts.
I'm a stay-at-home parent (oldest has a disability, so I left the workforce following his diagnosis). My partner works in automation. He's salaried as is expected to work 45 hours a week, with the understanding that he will put in additional hours when absolutely necessary. The great thing about his company is they do half-days on Fridays. So, even though he puts in more than the "standard" 40 hours a week, he'd always home by 10 am on Fridays.
I’m scheduled for 37.5, but we can get sent home early a fair bit (and miss the pay or use PTO). I work a fourth shift a week pretty often though because they’ll offer emergent extra staff bonus of 150 on top of the OT pay and you only have to work 8 hours, not the full 12. So 49 hours sometimes.
I'm at work for 8 hours. I only have 3-4 hours of actual work a day that I need to do. But that's because it's designed so that older people can get it done within the 8 hours. And because I'm union and it's based on a square footage basis, they can't give me more work without giving everyone else more work.
I'm a SAHM, but my husband works 40 hours or less on a bad week, 50-60 on a great/busy week. Road Construction. Hes gone from heavy equipment operator to Foreman although he's practically acting superintendent currently. He loves his job. He had downtime at his job the other day, so he went and hung out at another job site from a different company for 2-3 hours before coming home. His brothers also work in the same field and when they get together it's all they talk about.
50-60. I'm a lawyer. A few weeks of the year I do 80 hours because i'm in trial. I also get as much vacation as I want and usually do about 3 weeks a year
60 as 12 hr days for 5 days a week year round. I used to do 50 h across 6 days, but I gotta be real 60 h over 5 days is much much better. Saturdays are great.
36 hours for the first week in the is period, 44 in the second. We like it, we work 9 hour days, every other Friday off, work 8 hours on the Friday we do work. Overtime every once in a while. Actual time working varies by employee, some spend a lot of time screwing off, some of us stay busy. I like to stay busy for the most part, working is more interesting and fulfilling than standing around bullshitting or playing on my phone.
I'm 21 years old and don't have a job, but to my understanding, a lot of people work 40 hours each week with 8 hours being spread over Monday through Friday.
about 48hrs per week at a minimum. 12hrs per day at a minimum. Two 15min breaks(usually opportunistic) and 1 30min lunch(kinda optional, but sometimes they will enforce it if they start getting fined enough about it).
Used to be more but we had a change in management and the new management wants as ineffective a product as possible as they let us know how much they hate us and want to make our lives miserable. Year end bonuses? Gone. Training? Gone. FFS we can't buy pens! The head of HR is on tape saying we want to make our employees wake up dreading going to work. So fuck them. They get no extra effort
As little as possible. Less than 20 hours lately. I did a few years of 60 hours per week but I recently inherited a paid for house, made.money when selling my house and decided I wasn't going to kill myself working if I didn't need to.
Sometimes more. My normal working week…as in the hours i get paid for is 7.5•5. Anything further is OT. I work 5 days a week and on call every other weekend. My days are 8 hours long during the week and 12 on weekends. I’m a a nurse educator so my hours differ a little from my colleagues. I only do direct patient care on weekends…sometimes.
After years as a VP in tech and dealing with endless bullshit due to understaffing, I quit and took a creative contract job with less hours. Sure, less pay, but more free time is nice.
It’s unbelievably inconsistent. Sometimes I have 10 days where I work 10 hours each. Sometimes I’ll have two weeks where I work 10 hours total. I’m a farmer. Winter can get slow. I’m also doing school currently so I’m working less than usual.
I really don’t work that hard. I have a team of 14 that do. When there’s a problem I lead, otherwise I advise and mentor. I probably “work” 18 hours a week from home. Travel overnight about once a week, sometimes I’ll travel every other week.
I’m 35 years in. I’ve worked very hard. At the end of the day, I earned my role.
same. I'm salaried and will work over 40 hours VERY VERY rarely. But 99.9% of the time, I'm shutting down as soon as I can. No one at work has my phone number and I don't have my work shit (like Outlook or Teams) on my phone. When I clock out, work is over.
Same. I gotta get a new job (mine isn't paying me nearly enough to survive in Maryland, I hate that I'm being priced out of where I've lived my whole life but it's expensive here) and part of me wants to go salaried, but another part is apprehensive about giving up being hourly. I like that I go to work, clock in, and when I clock out, I go tf HOME and don't think about work. It's the weekend and I am not expected to even think about work, let alone check Teams or emails. That ain't for Sunday's me, that's some Monday shit!
Depends I'm a wood artist. Some times non-stop for days on end some times I take a week or 2 off. My art isn't cheap and I really only need to sell one or two pieces a quarter to make ends meet. Plus my wife has a job and we're childless so. It works. And no we aren't rich together we make like $175k for an ok year to $220k if I have a good year.
It wildly varies and you’d have to define work. Time actually doing my job… 5 or 6 hours a week average. Time spent away from home, sometimes a week or more at a time.
Today, I spent 10 hours at work but only actively worked for around 3 hours. Today was the first day I had to work in nearly 2 weeks. I only worked 1 day in the precious 4 weeks. I only have 1 day scheduled in the next 4 weeks.
40-45 on average, can reach up to 50-55 on "busy" weeks.
I have a few major events that occur outside of regular hours, so I'll leave the office early a few days after the event to balance out working until midnight those nights for the event.
Used to work over 60+ hours every week due to an accident that happened at our work place. Yes, in a way I was punished for something that was not my fault
Anyways I left that job after finding another one, but I'm now unemployed 🙃
40 hours overnight retail freight. I enjoy it enough I'd love to work more, but I'm right on the line of keeping my physical and mental health in check.
It has been 80 hours/week between 2 jobs for decades. Next week it'll fall to 0. I'm truly concerned about being totally bored and having not much to do, other than play on my phone.
On paper I'm salary and expected to "be available" 40 hours per week. In reality I have about 3-4 months where I might work 40-45 hours per week. The rest of the year I might work 20 hours a week but I just have to be available during those regular business hours to take urgent calls from a client or my boss.
I write code from home. Depending on how efficient or successful I am, and how many technical difficulties I'm having, probably 30-50 hours of ACTUAL work. I'm pretty
Like 60-65. Depends a lot on what is going on at work. I’m on salary so I’ll have days where there isn’t much going on and I leave at 2, and days where I work 12-15 hours.
I work about 35 hours a week, which is still full-time for my company. I used to work 40 hours but had to adjust and cut back when I got sick. I go to dialysis treatment three times a week, which is four hours each session, in addition to working. So it's like I have two jobs I go to now. I do qualify for Disability, but I have the ability to continue to work and wish to do so while that's an option.
I'm in a feast or famine industry, lately not many maybe 25 hrs a week as I think we are good if out of business and as clients replace us with AI. I've not had a raise in 5 yrs but consider my hourly rate good at this point
Right about 40.5 a week. Clock in early every day so I have time to read emails and change into uniform and still got the floor on time. 10 hour days off standing and watching screens to react when different systems need washing it sterilizing. Lord of hard work between standing. Have about 10 screens I watch and cycle through systems on top watch about 30-40 systems a day. On non production days standing in one spot rebuilding valves for 10 hours is fun too.
Benefits are good. Took care of wife's cancer without bankrupting us.
Typically 9.5 hrs a day, plus 3-4 hr commute 5 days a week. So I'm working or commuting 60, with about 48 being work, including lunch. About an hour a day I'm not productive (goofing off).
I only have one part time job, which has a cap of 30 hours a week, though we usually average 20-29. Sometimes less, but we are never scheduled for more than 29.5, so we have a bit of a buffer.
40 hours without over time. That’s 8 hours per shift on the weekdays. Sadly, my 30 minute lunch break is not included in those hours because it’s unpaid. That means I spend an extra 30 minutes at work each shift to make up for my lunch break. So in total, I’m at work for 42.5 hours per week.
Management has been fucking us over — firing or chasing off veteran employees and leaving us chronically understaffed for over 5 months now, so I regularly work 50-60 hours in a labor-intensive position. They won’t pay wages competitive with the factories in our area, so they can’t get enough applicants to make up for the workers they’ve pushed out. And as the workload continues to take its toll, more veterans are leaving for better pay and better hours, increasing the load on those left behind.
I work 5 8 hour days through the week and every other weekend, usually just Saturday, for 12 hours. Sometimes both Saturday and Sunday. So 40 hours on the week I have the weekend off and 52-64 hours on the week I work the weekend.
I work exactly 40 hours a week, but I work a production job (producing images, basically) with unpaid lunch breaks, so every one of those hours (except for two 15-minute breaks per day) is spent working. None of that "I show up for 40 hours but don't have to be busy the whole time" stuff for me unfortunately 🙁
Right now it is 40-45 hours per week. Though, there are slow weeks where I may be at work 40 hours but only have 30 hours of actual work to do. Have had jobs where it was 50 hours every week and sometimes more during deadlines.
At my current position I do a good job of keeping it between 40-42 per week unless something very big is up. My previous position was typically 45-50 per week and people called and texted my personal phone at all hours of the day or night.
32 scheduled hours (4-8hr shifts) every week, 32 on call hours overnight (I take call 3pm -7am Monday and Thursday) every week, plus on call 3pm Friday until 7am Monday every 4th weekend. Usually I pick up extra call during the week and on the weekend. That could mean I don't get called in at all, it could mean a 16-hour shift. I'm an OR nurse.
Ideally it is 56, but it can go way higher depending on what is going on.
Meetings up the wahoo, trades, vacations, injuries, illness can screw things up.
We aren't supposed to work more than 48 without a day off, remind me of that when I am ass deep in a 96, or once In a blue moon a 120.
I farm and have livestock. So it depends on the season. During the busiest times of the year 120-140 hours a week. In the dead of winter maybe 30 hours a week.
37.5 is a typical week, but it is standard in my industry to have some morning or evening conference calls and periodic work travel. In those cases, more hours are the norm.
42-45, usually. A bad week is close to 50. Way, way better than the first 20 years of my career, which was largely spent working 60 weeks, ramping up to several bad years of 70/80/90 hour weeks.
45 is comfortable. I get a bit cranky if I hit 50. I'm not 20 anymore, I don't want to work those kinds of hours regularly. As a VERY occasional thing, ok. But not every week.
Used to work more like 50 and 35, but I cut back when I had cancer a few years ago and liked working less, so I kept doing it. I also got a promotion at job 1 so I’m making more, which makes that possible.
I have to work exactly 40 and I get paid for lunch. I have 240 hours of PTO every year which covers all holidays and sick time and everything else but between PTO and what I work it always has to be 40 hours, it can’t be even 15 minutes more or less.
lol I’m a stay at home mom who homeschools so I feel I work every waking hour 😜. But my husband works approximately 80 hours a week. He’s in the trucking industry where long hours are the norm. He’s limited by federal law but does other random things to equal out at about 80.
…as many as I can and still enjoy family time and exercise. That means 5-6 days per week depending on what’s going on and usually I’m there by 7:00 AM and home by 19:00. …so I guess that’s 60+ hours per week.
Up until a few months ago, I worked between 45 and 60 hours per week at my salaried office job. I quit when they refused to get me help or compensate me for the additional hours. I’m on the hunt for a new job with either more reasonable hours or fairer pay.
We’re not allowed OT. I put in about 45 on some weeks because I just need to get stuff done or I’m in the middle of something and it’s not really feasible for me to take an hour lunch break.
Retired not long ago, but averaged 45 - 50 for years. When I was in a union we were restricted to 40 hrs, but even then we frequently had to work an extra hour or so on occasion.
40 hours is the typical work week. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Anyone working more than that is likely a salaried employee where you’re kind of just expected to work until you get the work done.
Same, a lot of my job is waiting on an answer/time to go over something. Also because of time zones, most of my coworkers are still asleep in the morning here. Usually I have quiet mornings where I can ease in and take lunch early to exercise, then after that and a shower I have lunch and do actual work from 1-4:30 PM
I have the opposite routine. I usually wake up to some shitshow because everyone else has had three hours to get spun up on something, but then everyone disappears around 14:00 and I can actually focus on what's important.
lol one of my older jobs was like that. I was in the US along with one teammate, while my boss was in London and rest of the team was in India.
I went out of the way to log in at 6:00 or 6:30 and see what the heck happened overnight and get help with my stuff….then by lunchtime here it was dead and as long as my stuff is done i could sneak off haha.
It depends on how many concurrent projects we are working and what phase those projects are in, but usually between 20 and 60. Two weeks ago, I had six or more hours a day each day of just meetings which meant I had to work longer to do the actual work.
That’s dependent upon subject, grade level, time teaching the above, and admin requirements. I try my best to stick to 40 a week, but when I taught English and had to grade essays I usually had to grade on on nights and weekends.
all depends on what kind of project I am working on. I've worked 70 hour weeks and I have worked 10 hour that have made me 3 times as much money as a 70 hour week.
Technically 56 is the average I guess. I work 48hrs on 96hrs off, but when I'm at work I spend most of the time hanging out, studying, or sleeping and those 20 full days off per month just can't be beat.
I’m salaried and work in a job that has lulls and spikes and has a lot of reactive work during “emergencies”. Some weeks I probably only work 20 hours a week and others I put in 60.
If all my work is on track for its deadlines and I don’t have any meetings or pressing incidents, I don’t feel a need to sit at my desk for 8 hours a day.
I work 40. My work doesn’t allow overtime. My wife works a minimum 55 hours and averages 75 hours per week (Small Business Administration). It’s brutal.
40 hours, genuine work is... still 40. I work in healthcare, so there is no such thing as downtime unless it's a major holiday. We clock in and then it's "go go go" until we clock out, otherwise we fall behind and patient care gets delayed.
40 hours per week, 4 weeks paid vacation, plus company shutdown Christmas through New years and 10 company holidays. So 40 hours per week when not on holiday, or an average 34.6 hours per week over the year when you consider time off.
40 plus whatever extra (unpaid because I'm FLSA-exempt) tome I might be willing to put in to make the 40 run more smoothly - like checking my work email after I get home from work (I start and end earlier than most) and responding to things that could turn into a bigger mess for me to deal with if it was left until I got back to work.
About 25 in an average week. 10 in a light week and maybe up to 35 if I'm really grinding. I could make more if I worked more, but I make plenty and prefer the flexibility and free time.
40-45 mostly but some weeks we have a lot to do so overtime options are available to those of us who want it. Some jobs pay you overtime by the day. Some jobs require you to reach 40hrs first before they'll allow the 1.5x pay rate to happen.
40 hours a week. Probably only 25-30 of it is real work going my actual technical skill. The other 10-15 is teaching other how to do what I do, admin bullshit, and meetings.
My highest paid job, I was at work for 50-60 hours a week, which only 10 hours of actual working, and around 1 hour a week of truly important work. But that 1 hour was typically worth a month’s salary to my employer’s bottom line.
Being on hand to make a very important decision in case a very important decision needs making is the gist of a lot of highly paid jobs. The rest of the day is killing time waiting for the next decision they need you for.
I am a (very small scale) landlord and am/was a SAHM who does some freelance reporting on the side, so it depends on what you count as work. I'd say less than ten hours a week of actual income-producing labor.
45-50 hours per week, more when traveling. I have a lot to do and spend almost every minute of that time actually working, but that includes attending meetings and mentoring/coaching. I’m a senior subject matter expert in my company, so my job is a mix of working on my own projects, helping other people with theirs, and advising management.
Depends on the season and what you consider work. Is work only when we're hauling gear and banding lobster/making bait or is it all the time spent aboard?
If we're only talking actively working the boat/gear work and the like, rhen probably about 60 hours if we're counting time on the boat, including down time like at night when we're laying-too then probably about 100-110 depending on weather.
40 to 45. Actually working? More like 24 to 30. Lot of window time driving from site to site. During hurricane season it jumps to 80 to 90 hours a week.
cksjsjlfl@reddit
The whole time
sneeds_feednseed@reddit
I have a remote data entry job. On paper, typically 40, sometimes closer to 50. But in reality? It’s like half that lol
jermthesquirm@reddit
Depends: sometimes 30 sometimes 60.
Dizzy_Description812@reddit
35 hours a week. Minus 30 paid days off a year.
Suzy-Q-York@reddit
Depends on the week.
Only1nanny@reddit
40
nancylyn@reddit
32 hours per week
QueenScorp@reddit
Officially 40 but the actual "work" part varies a lot by the project I'm working on. In the last 2 months I've been quite busy but for several months before that I spent a lot of "work" time on Reddit because my workload was not all that much. I do keep definite boundaries with my job and it is very rare that I would ever work more than 40 hours. I know a lot of people think it's a flex that they work 60+ hour weeks but making your job your entire life is honestly just sad.
TheRealJim57@reddit
Now? Zero, because I'm retired.
When I was working, 40 hours per week with occasional OT. Monday-Friday, with federal holidays off.
Commercial-Catch-615@reddit
I’d say 10 on average
ayebrade69@reddit
40 but genuine real work equals about 45 minutes total
IWantToBuyAVowel@reddit
Lucky. I want one of those jobs lol.
Dr_Watson349@reddit
You don't.
You think you do, but you don't
It slowly destroys your brain.
TopHatGirlInATuxedo@reddit
It only destroys the brains of those who can't keep themselves entertained. I could live in solitary confinement just fine, even though the UN I'm pretty sure codifies it as a form of torture.
Most-Silver-4365@reddit
Agree, the hardest task I've ever had to do is "look" busy for hours. I dreaded it every time I had to do it, I would rather actually work.
Meggiekayyy@reddit
Agreed! I just left a job like this last month. It's cool for a minute but it becomes painfully mind-numbing as time goes on. It def didn't help that I was alone at the office 3 days a week. So much happier at a job where I'm actually busy most of the time now.
IWantToBuyAVowel@reddit
You're right. And it's hell on your body if you don't find physical activity elsewhere. I had one sit down job one time and I was ready to quit after 3 days.
Not to mention being stressed out constantly that you're easily laid off/replaced.
of course my job is easily replaced/sent overseas, but it's not a constant fear I live with like I've seen with office type workers.
jayzisne@reddit
What kind of job is that?
whats_a_handle@reddit
The email factory
ayebrade69@reddit
You ever see Office Space (1995)
thehoagieboy@reddit
I wouldn't say I've been missing it Bob
xczechr@reddit
Good luck with your layoffs. I hope your firings go really well.
xczechr@reddit
Good luck with your layoffs. I hope your firings go really well.
Obvious_Arm8802@reddit
When Americans say the work 40 hours a week does that include or exclude lunch etc?
Like if you worked 9am-5pm 5 days a week would that be a 40 hour week for you?
ayebrade69@reddit
Generally we include lunch in that 40 hours
Old_Promise2077@reddit
Oh you're a project manager as well?
Former_Ideal6078@reddit
I got that kind of job too 🤣
Makeup_life72@reddit
Approx 45
Capital-Meringue-164@reddit
50-60 except for a large chunk of July off completely, as well as 2 weeks at winter holidays.
VisibleSea4533@reddit
Anywhere from 40-55
F1DrivingZombie@reddit
40, I’m not permitted to work any more than that per company policy
aznsk8s87@reddit
84 hours every other week.
MunchAClock@reddit
40 hours most of the time with the occasional OT
Chiomi@reddit
Technically I work 40 every week. I’m salaried. But sometimes projects hit super demanding patches and I’m answering emails at 11pm and then in a 9am meeting. On the other hand, sometimes what I really need to do is think hard about a thing, which is best accomplished by working in the garden or trying to explain to the cat.
omggallout@reddit
40 hours. But I feel like I don't have enough time to live life and get things done. So I'm thinking about going to gig work, which might up my hours, but also allow me more time at home and allow for emergencies.
Ladefrickinda89@reddit
Between 40 and 60. Management Consultant
Significant-Owl-2980@reddit
It seems a lot of people in office jobs don’t do much. I worked in a warehouse and you had to be working every minute or you would get in trouble. Always moving, always working.
Then you would see the office workers chatting and laughing. Going to the break room for the 4th time for coffee.
EarlyBirdWithAWorm@reddit
I worked in an office for 14 years. Did probably 3-4 hours of real work in a 9 hour day.
Once I was WFH during covid I took a nap and played Xbox most of the day and the company reported a rise in productivity.
Choice_Philosopher_1@reddit
I honestly don’t know how these people get away or can stand not doing much for such a huge chunk of the day. I’ve never had an office job where I wasn’t busy the entire time aside from breaks and lunch. Everywhere I’ve worked, there were either daily or weekly check-ins and updates, tangible goals and sometimes reporting requirements. Never been able to sit around and do nothing.
easy_Money@reddit
My job is entirely project based and there's a lot of hurry up and wait. I'm not getting away with anything, it's just the nature of the business I'm in. There are days that I'm slammed from the moment I get in the office until the moment I leave, but there are also days where I've done my part of the project and I have to wait on something or someone to arrive, complete, analyze, etc.
Choice_Philosopher_1@reddit
My job is also project based but we work on multiple projects at a time and will start prepping for the next one if waiting for people to get back to us on one. I get that it depends on the role, but some people here are saying they don’t work more than an hour a day every day.
werdnurd@reddit
Same. I always have something to do, and if I don’t it’s time to grab a new project from the queue.
IWantToBuyAVowel@reddit
Idk. The effiency expert at my factory job spent about 30 minutes berating the head quality guy on the floor in front of us all including the plant manager. If that happens out in the open, I'd hate to see what happens in the cushy offices.
I'll take back breaking labor for not constantly being bitched at any day.
I'll admit it was pretty interesting to watch though. Quality guy tried his best to deflect and throw us all under the bus, but effiency lady wasn't buying his bullshit.
Basically, there's not a process in written form on how to lift these heavy AF 90 feet long steel beams other than to lift one side with an unlatched hook with the overhead crane, then using a block of wood to keep it suspended before being able to attach the eyelets and lift it for real with the crane and chains. Efficiency lady was horrified to see that particular process (nice to see someone giving af about safety).
There's still not a solution, but I imagine whatever is worked out will be tedious and a pain to execute.
jivens77@reddit
Yeah! I hated that shit. They would come up with different procedures and extra steps for "safety" without having any idea of how it's done out on the shop floor.
You always ended up extremely impractical steps that made the job harder, take longer, and end up not even being safer in the end. Then, they'll bitch that everything takes longer.
It looks great on paper, so it must work just as great, right? /s.
Engineers are really good at making this point. The pieces might fit, but there isn't always room to use the tools needed to install those pieces.
Optimal-Bass3142@reddit
Do you really want the existential dread of knowing that your function in society is completely extraneous?
Gardener4525@reddit
This is so true!!!
EarlyBirdWithAWorm@reddit
15 or so. Depends on the time of year. In our busy season more obviously
Valuable-Election402@reddit
Otherwise-Loquat-574@reddit
40 hours at a desk job and 5-10 hours at a front desk on the weekends
briktop420@reddit
37.5
parrotia78@reddit
80+/7 days maxing @ 110 hrs
ALWanders@reddit
\~36 3 12ish hour shifts
reflectorvest@reddit
45 with no benefits because they’re both part time and I make too much to qualify for any government assistance but not enough to actually afford to do anything other than survive
G-kid5@reddit
This is a crappy truth for a lot of people, I feel. I hate it.
KAIMI01@reddit
This year I’m hoping to average over 50 per week
SnarkyTaco@reddit
37.5 to 40
dancinghobbit81@reddit
Fine dining server, 25-30 hours
helloitsmehb@reddit
Including my commute. 60
Canvasbackgray@reddit
Average 50-55 Plus side gig of 10-13 hrs a month
Big-Red-7@reddit
40
GenXrules69@reddit
Work work, physically at a place designated as a workplace, or time being productive for business that pays us? Do we count domestic chores for our own domisciles?
Swift_Stroke@reddit
40-45.
Chemical-Drive-6203@reddit
20 a week max. Then panic and work 100 for a few weeks. Then 20 again
Sad-Bake-7631@reddit
37-40. 38 is the sweet spot for me
Pandemic_Username_@reddit
I found my group!
AdmirableZebra106@reddit
60-90 & I'm 70 yrs old
Perc30AndAPenjamin@reddit
60-90 hours a week is a lot, I’ve seen a lot of older gentleman even in there 80+ that keep working and it’s honestly what keeps them going, able to stay out of bed and healthy. Good for you man
Perc30AndAPenjamin@reddit
I do tree work, work by job, some days were off by 1pm, some days were off by 7pm. Every days a mystery lol
Acceptable-Remove792@reddit
After 40 I'm out the fucking door. It took me a long time to get there. No on call, no "salaried," no bullshit. I'm here to do psychology and get the fuck out.
Jealous-Oil-5692@reddit
16 and it’s enough
Houndhollow@reddit
18 to 20. Semi retired
patty202@reddit
44 to 45 every week.
Dangerous_Wear_8152@reddit
35 usually. Law firm.
tzweezle@reddit
36
StrongArgument@reddit
My hospital offers 32-hour weeks (4 8s) as well as the traditional 3 12s. It’s nice to have the option to work OT and still be under 40 hours 😂
10RobotGangbang@reddit
3 or 4 day week?
tzweezle@reddit
3
10RobotGangbang@reddit
Same here. Couldn't go back to a "normal" schedule.
DeniseReades@reddit
Every time I think about switching fields I'm just like, "How do people ruin 5 entire days a week by going into work?!"
Grouchy-Donut-726@reddit
40 hrs a week, real work is probably 20 hrs
UncomfortableBike975@reddit
40 since COVID. No opportunity for OT.
BC-K2@reddit
40-60 depending on how much extra money I feel like making
Appropriate_Tea9048@reddit
40
padall@reddit
37.50 hrs per week paid, plus a thirty minute unpaid lunch each day, which works out to 40 hours per week in total.
Don_Q_Jote@reddit
50-60 hours for 9 months of the year. 0-20 hours over the other 3 months
notyogrannysgrandkid@reddit
CPA?
ProfessionalAir445@reddit
That’s definitely a teacher.
Djsimba25@reddit
Currently? I put in about 6-8 hours a day fishing or tying flies or doing stuff on my truck. Before I moved to Rhofe island and started job hunting I was working 6 days a week. Weekdays and I would go in on Sundays. I couldn't turn down all that double-time knowing I may not have a job for a while.
ProfessionalAir445@reddit
Did you mean to reply to me?
Djsimba25@reddit
Oh weird, I definitely didn't reply to you or even on this sub.
Lobotomized_Dolphin@reddit
Or a landscaper in a northern latitude. I work 50-70h 10mo out of the year and then 0-15 the other 2 in the mid-Atlantic.
Don_Q_Jote@reddit
Yes, Professor.
Money_Display_5389@reddit
minium 40, but usually 50-60 a week, all year long.
Successful-Safety858@reddit
Reminder that most teachers don’t actually get paid over the summer so a lot of us also work summer jobs. I work 7:30-4:30 M-F during the school year then 7:30-5:30 over the summer as a camp counselor.
Derwin0@reddit
Luckily in Georgia they pay teachers on a 12-month pay cycle, so my wife gets regular checks throughout the year.
Successful-Safety858@reddit
a lot of people have the option to stretch out their paychecks over the summer, which is very helpful, that fools the ones who say teaching is so easy because they get summers off. Teachers do not get paid for work over the summer, they are contract paid for hours worked and many have to get second seasonal jobs.
Derwin0@reddit
In PA, a buddy’s brother was a teacher and he was given the option of a 9 or 12 month pay cycle. He chose the 12 in case he wanted to do nothing during the summer.
Derwin0@reddit
My wife is the same way, she’s also a teacher. Though for her it’s 10 months as they do a longer year here with more frequent breaks.
AnastasiusDicorus@reddit
Lol definitely don't want to move to grade school from the community college where I work. We are open for summer classes also, so hours are steady all year round, except that we get 2 paid weeks off every year for the christmas vacation time. Plus spring and fall break weeks (we work 2 days and get 3 days off on those).
Wild_Pomegranate_845@reddit
Same
AKASetekh@reddit
Teacher here - this is close to what I do, but instead of 3 months of very little work, it's 2 months (July and August).
Dicedlr711vegas@reddit
My last year of teaching we went back to work on August 3rd. We did get out in the middle of May.
Martothir@reddit
Damn, I too am a teacher and you beat me to it.
Dicedlr711vegas@reddit
I’m a retired teacher. Sounds like what I did all those years.
Gorewuzhere@reddit
35-92 depending on the situation. Salary is fun when things are going right
OrionX3@reddit
Salary, but I work about 20 hours a week
pretzie_325@reddit
The standard 40 (I'm salary but almost never expected to work extra hours). 27 days paid time off each year (can roll over up to 400 hours)
Heideish81@reddit
34-42 depends on the week
petty_witch@reddit
1 week 66 next week 60, and just repeat until this job is over.
CakeKing777@reddit
micmea1@reddit
Working in a vaguely IT role it changes week to week depending on what tasks pop up. I can work over 40 on rare occasions. But ive had weeks with barely anything to do.
Maximum_Pound_5633@reddit
45
Available_Honey_2951@reddit
Zero
7empestSpiralout@reddit
32 and 48 alternating
MindSoggy146@reddit
72 average. Main Job is 56 and side job fluctuates a bit but about 20.
shelbyishungry@reddit
Usually 36 in 3 12 hr shifts
NeverDidLearn@reddit
Legitimate 40 hours a week. I’m a contracted employee.
Best-Cycle231@reddit
28ish a week at my real job. 25ish a week at my play money job.
TheGreenicus@reddit
Well...I come in around 9....I use the side door so Lumbergh can't see me. And then I just sorta space out for about an hour. 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 say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
i_hate_cars_fuck_you@reddit
40 on paper but in reality I maybe do like 10 hours of actual work a week lol.
akgt94@reddit
35-42. I used to have a stronger work ethic, but wasn't rewarded for it. If I worked 80, I still couldn't get all of my work done. Instead of burning out, I pulled back. If it's that important, the company will find a reason to hire another person. If not, then what I don't get done isn't important.
patchedboard@reddit
40-45
asoep44@reddit
Technically 40 hours, but we get an hour lunch so you're logged in for 9 hours each day or 45 hours a week.
It is work from home though which does make it better
utaee1992@reddit
40-50 hours a week as a network project manager.
CaptainFresh27@reddit
Last year I worked 75+ hours a week. This year I'm chillin and working 45 a week. I'm a mailman and we sign up for overtime quarterly, last year was for making money and this year is for resting lol
KrispyAvocado@reddit
50-80 most weeks
NinjaKitten77CJ@reddit
Around 30ish, sometimes more. 5 nights a week as a bartender. I don't make tons of money, but I do ok, because I live very simply in a LCOL area.
Happy_Confection90@reddit
40 hours a week (or 42.5. I'm not sure if people are including lunch)
And I'm envious of people who regularly have downtime during their workday...we held an annual conference last week, and this week is the first time since July or August that I haven't had more than enough to do to fully fill every single workday.
PObox3@reddit
Worked 40/week for thirty years. Occasional OT. Retired now and work 28/week on a part time basis.
Polaris44@reddit
30-40
Joliet-Jake@reddit
locke314@reddit
My department runs 56 hour average scheduled per week. Depending on the specific schedule, it’ll be 48 hours, or 72, or whatever to average out. Three shifts, 24 hour shifts.
Roman556@reddit
Dude I wish. My department is running non stop.
the-hound-abides@reddit
That’s a position you hope has a lot of downtime.
queefymacncheese@reddit
from april to november, anywhere from 50-80, from december to march, 0-30.
queefymacncheese@reddit
from april to november, anywhere from 50-80, from december to march, 0-30.
ComfortableAd2936@reddit
50-60, though I ought to work less hours since I’m salaried and not getting any type of extra income for my time. 😑
ieataislopforlunch@reddit
Too many 😔
WorkerEquivalent4278@reddit
35 or so, but I’m in the smaller minority as many people at my job work 10 hours per day. I don’t as there is 0 overtime pay.
tkecanuck341@reddit
15 minutes of actual work
Any-Concentrate-1922@reddit
Studies show that most people overestimate the number of hours they actually work. They may be AT work for long hours, though.
Inevitable_Channel18@reddit
50+ hours minimum
Better-Sail6824@reddit
I’m a registered nurse in an outpatient oncology clinic, I work 32 hours/week. 10/10/12 hour shifts, it’s wonderful. Full time benefits
gayshouldbecanon@reddit
Anywhere from 0-36 while a student
McCrankyface@reddit
Nominally 40
actually 4
MakalakaPeaka@reddit
Too dang many!
Actually not so much anymore, I work very close to 40, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less, depending on what is going on.
Unhappy-Sea-5418@reddit
I’m a salaried employee at a tech company. I probably pull 40-45 per week, but honestly I don’t keep a great track of it!
Baldude863xx@reddit
I work 30 but I could do 40 if I wanted to but, as I get closer to retirement I’m cutting back.
NaughtyLittleDogs@reddit
I'm a stay-at-home parent (oldest has a disability, so I left the workforce following his diagnosis). My partner works in automation. He's salaried as is expected to work 45 hours a week, with the understanding that he will put in additional hours when absolutely necessary. The great thing about his company is they do half-days on Fridays. So, even though he puts in more than the "standard" 40 hours a week, he'd always home by 10 am on Fridays.
General_Radon@reddit
I’m scheduled for 37.5, but we can get sent home early a fair bit (and miss the pay or use PTO). I work a fourth shift a week pretty often though because they’ll offer emergent extra staff bonus of 150 on top of the OT pay and you only have to work 8 hours, not the full 12. So 49 hours sometimes.
Tiny_Thumbs@reddit
50 or so.
Hopelessly_romantic2@reddit
Hours have been cut at my job, so I've been getting like 32 hours. I might have to pick up a second job.
TheDireOctopus@reddit
40-45 hours a week
LuckyStax@reddit
3/12's one week and 4/12's the next
Firm_Accountant2219@reddit
About 40-45, average close to 45. Sometimes more when the job demands it.
Derwin0@reddit
40-45, “salaried exempt” so don’t really keep track.
jaypl99@reddit
35 is what I bill but some weeks I work less than 35 hours and other weeks I work more. It depends on how busy things are at work.
juiceman730@reddit
Around 35.
HarveyNix@reddit
45 to 80
ThrowRA_72726363@reddit
40, very occasionally i’ll pick up a shift but 90% of the time just 40
Different-Set4505@reddit
105
hagglethorn@reddit
Anywhere from 36 to 72 hours.
LiveArrival4974@reddit
40, my longest week was 42. Mostly because my work is against overtime unless you're management on salary pay.
Small-Gas9517@reddit
37.5 but I don’t get OT until 56 hours worked. Wild.
MossiestSloth@reddit
I'm at work for 8 hours. I only have 3-4 hours of actual work a day that I need to do. But that's because it's designed so that older people can get it done within the 8 hours. And because I'm union and it's based on a square footage basis, they can't give me more work without giving everyone else more work.
SimplyPars@reddit
36 over 3 days every single week.
OldDestroyerSnipe@reddit
Sometimes as little as 36, sometimes as much as 84.
Generally either 36 or 48. More when I'm covering someone else's vacation
museworm@reddit
20-35 depending on availability.
sardoodledom_autism@reddit
50 hours a week sometimes more because people call me on my day off to solve their problems instead of following procedures
Malt_and_Salt@reddit
50-55
Necessary_Pace_9860@reddit
I'm a SAHM, but my husband works 40 hours or less on a bad week, 50-60 on a great/busy week. Road Construction. Hes gone from heavy equipment operator to Foreman although he's practically acting superintendent currently. He loves his job. He had downtime at his job the other day, so he went and hung out at another job site from a different company for 2-3 hours before coming home. His brothers also work in the same field and when they get together it's all they talk about.
yulpisme@reddit
40-50
TheLonelySnail@reddit
45-60 depending on the week
Then-Ticket8896@reddit
20-28 hrs a week
SSJGCarter@reddit
I average around 25 hours
Why_Me_67@reddit
40-50 typically.
BuffLazyWorkaholic@reddit
Full Time Desk: 40
Part Time Physical: 28
Part Time Fun Job: 16
Total Hours Paid: \~84 a week
Total Hours Working: 🤐
Egnatsu50@reddit
35-40...
Occasional 56 hr weeks but get doubletime for most of the hours past 40.
OKCPANDA@reddit
45-50ish. They just turned paid OT on so that’ll be 70-80 to catch up on things and pay for a car
CapitalG888@reddit
30ish
AggravatingBobcat574@reddit
Worked three 12s for 28 years. Since January, two 12s a week
wvtarheel@reddit
50-60. I'm a lawyer. A few weeks of the year I do 80 hours because i'm in trial. I also get as much vacation as I want and usually do about 3 weeks a year
Scav-STALKER@reddit
50-58
sactivities101@reddit
26-35
AnastasiusDicorus@reddit
40 regular job 25 doordashing
Evil_Space_Penguins@reddit
Ancarn@reddit
60 as 12 hr days for 5 days a week year round. I used to do 50 h across 6 days, but I gotta be real 60 h over 5 days is much much better. Saturdays are great.
ForeverIdiosyncratic@reddit
35-40
nice_things_i_like@reddit
4 days a week, 32 strict hours total. No commute time.
Psyko_sissy23@reddit
I work 36 hours a week unless I pick up overtime. I do three 12 hour shifts a week. Its nice having 4 days off a week.
GorggWashinggmachine@reddit
35-55
Sparkle_Rott@reddit
Around 40. But my commute is 15-18 hours a week.
vegansoprano3@reddit
40-50. I'm taking advantage of the overtime opportunities since we are short staffed at the moment.
redneckcommando@reddit
48 a week. I'm thankful I'm not working as many hours as most of you l.
NumerousGarbage9032@reddit
36 hours for the first week in the is period, 44 in the second. We like it, we work 9 hour days, every other Friday off, work 8 hours on the Friday we do work. Overtime every once in a while. Actual time working varies by employee, some spend a lot of time screwing off, some of us stay busy. I like to stay busy for the most part, working is more interesting and fulfilling than standing around bullshitting or playing on my phone.
TheNerdofLife@reddit
I'm 21 years old and don't have a job, but to my understanding, a lot of people work 40 hours each week with 8 hours being spread over Monday through Friday.
Distinct_Chair3047@reddit
about 48hrs per week at a minimum. 12hrs per day at a minimum. Two 15min breaks(usually opportunistic) and 1 30min lunch(kinda optional, but sometimes they will enforce it if they start getting fined enough about it).
Also, no, I do not work in the Medical industry.
MachineOrnery@reddit
55-60 but that's between 2 jobs, I still get at least 1 day off every week, but sometimes 2 days off.
Havok1717@reddit
Around 40-50 hours a week
LowCress9866@reddit
Fearless-Distance119@reddit
As little as possible. Less than 20 hours lately. I did a few years of 60 hours per week but I recently inherited a paid for house, made.money when selling my house and decided I wasn't going to kill myself working if I didn't need to.
capsrock02@reddit
40-45
Laurenn_D_0819@reddit
I’m a motha so 24/7 😂 but I also run our small business so I’d say 20-30 hours a week (mostly when the baby naps )
Tina-Talks-Alot@reddit
48-53 depending on whether it's my Saturday to work or not. That happens about once a month.
FilipinoRich@reddit
CroweBird5@reddit
It'll range anywhere from 30-50 hours a week (my side gig can be wildly inconsistent)
primordialpaunch@reddit
On weeks I'm scheduled to work, probably 45-50. If I'm on vacation, usually 4-8.
Odd-End-1405@reddit
50-60 during high need times, which unfortunately has been going on since last spring.
The joys of being salary!
Blitz-Drache_Author@reddit
47
disgruntledhoneybee@reddit
Forty but the first few months of the year is our busy season. So between fifty five and sixty for those months.
RX3000@reddit
40
United-Kale-2385@reddit
Around 60. I hate it and if I had a choice I wouldn't.
cat_knit_everdeen@reddit
About 45, juggling my “real” job that pays the bills, and two side hustles that are enjoyable.
beat_of_rice@reddit
24-36. Per diem RN
Ciscodalicious@reddit
15-20
nikkychalz@reddit
36hrs one week, 48 hours the next. 12hr shifts. 3 on 4 off, then 4 on 3 off.
Pitiful_Bunch_2290@reddit
Anywhere from 40-60, but if I work over I am allowed to regain that time later on (block my calendar without using a day off).
Federal_Pickles@reddit
I’m in the office 30-55, sometimes supplemented by WFH.
necrobeans@reddit
60 hrs. i choose to pick up 20 hrs overtime though.
quixoft@reddit
30-35 for the most part. An occasional 50+
Grow_money@reddit
10
thingsithink07@reddit
3
skateboardnaked@reddit
I work a 48-hour week, a 72-hour week, a 48-hour week, then off the last week.
Mr_emachine@reddit
I’m at work 50-60 per week. $43.17/hr with 1.5x with OT. I actually work maybe 35-40 of those hours. I’m a lead CNC machinist and programmer
New_Needleworker_473@reddit
lupuscapabilis@reddit
CODENAMEDERPY@reddit
It’s unbelievably inconsistent. Sometimes I have 10 days where I work 10 hours each. Sometimes I’ll have two weeks where I work 10 hours total. I’m a farmer. Winter can get slow. I’m also doing school currently so I’m working less than usual.
mofugly13@reddit
40 most weeks. Some jobs 50, some 66...sometimes more.
helloimhobbes@reddit
40-50
Avionix2023@reddit
Normally 40hrs. Occasionally, I will push it out to 48 - 50 hrs.
Wskytwn@reddit
Minimum of 70
KatrynaTheElf@reddit
37.5
No_Angle875@reddit
38.5 and summers off
Vivid-Fennel3234@reddit
About 45/week in an active labor job
catastr0phicblues@reddit
joemamah77@reddit
I really don’t work that hard. I have a team of 14 that do. When there’s a problem I lead, otherwise I advise and mentor. I probably “work” 18 hours a week from home. Travel overnight about once a week, sometimes I’ll travel every other week.
I’m 35 years in. I’ve worked very hard. At the end of the day, I earned my role.
virtual_human@reddit
Exactly 40 hours, no more, no less.
anneofgraygardens@reddit
same. I'm salaried and will work over 40 hours VERY VERY rarely. But 99.9% of the time, I'm shutting down as soon as I can. No one at work has my phone number and I don't have my work shit (like Outlook or Teams) on my phone. When I clock out, work is over.
whoocanitbenow@reddit
I bought a separate flip phone with a cheap plan in case I want to keep my smart phone off and disconnect from everything.
Dee_Vee-Eight@reddit
I work 40 hours but get paid for 48. I'm on call one week every 2 months.
DanceClubCrickets@reddit
Same. I gotta get a new job (mine isn't paying me nearly enough to survive in Maryland, I hate that I'm being priced out of where I've lived my whole life but it's expensive here) and part of me wants to go salaried, but another part is apprehensive about giving up being hourly. I like that I go to work, clock in, and when I clock out, I go tf HOME and don't think about work. It's the weekend and I am not expected to even think about work, let alone check Teams or emails. That ain't for Sunday's me, that's some Monday shit!
Ok_Inflation531@reddit
37.5 hours.
TrickyShare242@reddit
Depends I'm a wood artist. Some times non-stop for days on end some times I take a week or 2 off. My art isn't cheap and I really only need to sell one or two pieces a quarter to make ends meet. Plus my wife has a job and we're childless so. It works. And no we aren't rich together we make like $175k for an ok year to $220k if I have a good year.
Nihilistic_River4@reddit
Too many
Thunderdoomed@reddit
80-90 half the year
Regular_Team8917@reddit
1000 at home for nothing
OGMom2022@reddit
About 50-55. I work as much OT as I can so I can pay rent and eat.
LizaBlue4U@reddit
On salary for 40. Actually work 34-35. My boss allows me to include my commute time.
Iforgotmypwrd@reddit
Independent consultant. Some weeks just a few. Other weeks 80. It used to be pretty consistently 50 hours for my primary job plus a side gig.
Now that I’m semi retired, I average about 20 per week. Plus about 5 hours per week caring for dogs and 15 hours cooking and cleaning.
Magoo6541@reddit
It wildly varies and you’d have to define work. Time actually doing my job… 5 or 6 hours a week average. Time spent away from home, sometimes a week or more at a time.
Today, I spent 10 hours at work but only actively worked for around 3 hours. Today was the first day I had to work in nearly 2 weeks. I only worked 1 day in the precious 4 weeks. I only have 1 day scheduled in the next 4 weeks.
Annually I spend around 60 nights in hotels.
DarthCroz@reddit
40 in the office. I spend another 12-13 hours in the car commuting so that I can be on zoom calls that could be done from home.
ColorblindCabbage@reddit
40-45 on average, can reach up to 50-55 on "busy" weeks.
I have a few major events that occur outside of regular hours, so I'll leave the office early a few days after the event to balance out working until midnight those nights for the event.
Redbillywaza@reddit
60-70 every week.
frank-sarno@reddit
About 40 hours work, excluding breaks/lunch.
Tenos_Jar@reddit
40
SanchosaurusRex@reddit
44 one week, 36 the next. Its a 9/80 schedule.
Suspicious_Plane6593@reddit
45
ggwing1992@reddit
42
ImportantSir2131@reddit
36 hours alternating with 44.
International-Sea262@reddit
35
Fire_Mission@reddit
Roman556@reddit
Firefighter/EMT, 48 hours a week
Side job 15-20 hours a week.
I'm tired boss.
Careless-Parsnip1318@reddit
24 hours a week with benefits
iamshifter@reddit
45 hours a week most weeks. Up to 47 is common - never less than 40 or more than 50 though
I’m on salary and not eligible for OT pay, and work through lunch most days, or eat while driving to the next job/supplier
CarlsbadWhiskyShop@reddit
28 or so. I work 6 days. Self employed.
Avery-Hunter@reddit
Day job (IT): about 15-20 hours but I'm on call 40 hours Freelance art: varies wildly from 10 to 40 hours a week depending on what I'm working on.
Ok_Bathroom4986@reddit
Used to work over 60+ hours every week due to an accident that happened at our work place. Yes, in a way I was punished for something that was not my fault
Anyways I left that job after finding another one, but I'm now unemployed 🙃
Optimal-Bass3142@reddit
Somewhere between 40-55 depending on how froggy I'm feeling
NatashaHoffman1@reddit
Some weeks 35, some weeks 50, mostly around 40 though.
Ryvick2@reddit
48
Goodlife1988@reddit
Somewhere between 35 and 60. Depends on project task completions and project conference calls.
BeckQ47@reddit
40 hours overnight retail freight. I enjoy it enough I'd love to work more, but I'm right on the line of keeping my physical and mental health in check.
Punky921@reddit
Between 30 and 40.
Back_To_Pittsburgh@reddit
Feoygordo@reddit
42-54 depending on the week.
Forever_Nya@reddit
25-40 depends on how I’m feeling
davidm2232@reddit
40-45 at my job and probably 5-10 for my own business
Carlito2393@reddit
40 to 45 hours a week. Occasionally more if we have a special project that needs to get done ASAP.
Avocadoavenger@reddit
36-40
EstrangedStrayed@reddit
40
I'm union
lilaccowboy@reddit
Roughly 20ish
PracticalBreak8637@reddit
It has been 80 hours/week between 2 jobs for decades. Next week it'll fall to 0. I'm truly concerned about being totally bored and having not much to do, other than play on my phone.
Critical-Bank5269@reddit
About 50.
LostInPH1123@reddit
On paper I'm salary and expected to "be available" 40 hours per week. In reality I have about 3-4 months where I might work 40-45 hours per week. The rest of the year I might work 20 hours a week but I just have to be available during those regular business hours to take urgent calls from a client or my boss.
Interesting-Buy-1675@reddit
I write code from home. Depending on how efficient or successful I am, and how many technical difficulties I'm having, probably 30-50 hours of ACTUAL work. I'm pretty
Booty_Gobbler69@reddit
Like 60-65. Depends a lot on what is going on at work. I’m on salary so I’ll have days where there isn’t much going on and I leave at 2, and days where I work 12-15 hours.
montanalifterchick@reddit
45ish
Appropriate-Win3525@reddit
I work about 35 hours a week, which is still full-time for my company. I used to work 40 hours but had to adjust and cut back when I got sick. I go to dialysis treatment three times a week, which is four hours each session, in addition to working. So it's like I have two jobs I go to now. I do qualify for Disability, but I have the ability to continue to work and wish to do so while that's an option.
PuzzleheadedLemon353@reddit
Independent...so it varies. I have a happy balance of setting my own work hours.
Familiar_Fan_3603@reddit
I'm in a feast or famine industry, lately not many maybe 25 hrs a week as I think we are good if out of business and as clients replace us with AI. I've not had a raise in 5 yrs but consider my hourly rate good at this point
Tall-Measurement3795@reddit
Right about 40.5 a week. Clock in early every day so I have time to read emails and change into uniform and still got the floor on time. 10 hour days off standing and watching screens to react when different systems need washing it sterilizing. Lord of hard work between standing. Have about 10 screens I watch and cycle through systems on top watch about 30-40 systems a day. On non production days standing in one spot rebuilding valves for 10 hours is fun too.
Benefits are good. Took care of wife's cancer without bankrupting us.
Peekazoo@reddit
9*5=45 hours including breaks. Excluding 3 hours of travelling everyday.
Affectionate_Love229@reddit
Typically 9.5 hrs a day, plus 3-4 hr commute 5 days a week. So I'm working or commuting 60, with about 48 being work, including lunch. About an hour a day I'm not productive (goofing off).
thefanhit@reddit
45-55 depending on work load with meetings or events. I'm salaried at 40hrs so it sucks sometimes
ryuranzou@reddit
Lately only like 36. Once the rain stops pouring it'll be hopefully 50 or so.
alwaysboopthesnoot@reddit
50-60 hours some weeks. 20, in others. Not really sure. I don’t keep track really, because we don’t get paid for any of it as volunteers.
Temporary_Fig789@reddit
35-45 a week and 186 days a year.
McDiscage85@reddit
QueeeenElsa@reddit
I only have one part time job, which has a cap of 30 hours a week, though we usually average 20-29. Sometimes less, but we are never scheduled for more than 29.5, so we have a bit of a buffer.
DemeaRisen@reddit
42
ButtholeSurfur@reddit
Usually about 30-35.
steathrazor@reddit
40hrs~ a week depends on if we have a truck or not every night
EmuPsychological4222@reddit
Anywhere from 40 to 60, depending.
Harlowful@reddit
40-45 hours per work depending on season and workload. I work for city public works in engineering.
Longjumping_Event_59@reddit
40 hours a week. 10-hour days Monday through Thursday.
HydraHamster@reddit
40 hours without over time. That’s 8 hours per shift on the weekdays. Sadly, my 30 minute lunch break is not included in those hours because it’s unpaid. That means I spend an extra 30 minutes at work each shift to make up for my lunch break. So in total, I’m at work for 42.5 hours per week.
tygramynt@reddit
60 one week and 24 the next
KingTechnical48@reddit
Around 24
Snoo_36048@reddit
Sometimes 48 sometimes 40 sometimes 36. It rotates. I also could do overtime and do 72 a week if I wanted.
thee-watchman-615@reddit
32
mythxical@reddit
Typically around 40, occasionally more
ArmOfBo@reddit
52 per week. But then I get a long weekend.
crispyrhetoric1@reddit
I average around 60 I’d say. During July it goes down a lot, but picks up the second week of August.
God_Bless_A_Merkin@reddit
Management has been fucking us over — firing or chasing off veteran employees and leaving us chronically understaffed for over 5 months now, so I regularly work 50-60 hours in a labor-intensive position. They won’t pay wages competitive with the factories in our area, so they can’t get enough applicants to make up for the workers they’ve pushed out. And as the workload continues to take its toll, more veterans are leaving for better pay and better hours, increasing the load on those left behind.
The company is BERMEX. Avoid it at all costs!
CaptainAwesome06@reddit
40, officially.
I typically spend an extra hour or two each day at my desk but I'm not consistently working the whole time. I WFH full time.
Accomplished-Guest38@reddit
At my high paying W-2 job: about 4-6 hours a week (I've automated a lot of my daily tasks).
But at my own company I'm trying to grow into something: about 40, sometimes less sometimes more.
Oscar-mondaca@reddit
45
SouthernStatement832@reddit
Sometimes like 30. Sometimes 90-100. This last week was the latter.
RevolutionaryRoom495@reddit
50-60 half the year, then 32-40 the other half. I work at a company that makes custom patio enclosures.
Big-Proposal4129@reddit
40-50, 12-15hrs of actual work.
InviteOk1@reddit
40 to 45
whitecollarredneck@reddit
40-70 hours is the range. The average is usually around 55-60 hours though.
Aggravating_Plantain@reddit
I assume from the username and hours that you're a lawyer?
whitecollarredneck@reddit
Yep. Appointed criminal defense in a rural area. The few lawyers that were out here are ancient or retired, so the rest of us get spread pretty thin
_S1syphus@reddit
30-40. Id like to work 40 minimum but I was lucky to even get the hours I do have
GOTaSMALL1@reddit
On the extremes… sometimes 80, sometimes 0. Averages out to about 40ish a week probably.
zakaby@reddit
What do you do to have such extreme hours?
GOTaSMALL1@reddit
I’m a construction superintendent… and I travel.
Some weeks on the road are seven 12 hour days… and some weeks there’s nothing to do and they pay me to sit at home waiting for a new assignment.
river-running@reddit
Between two jobs, 50-60
Froggirl26@reddit
Between 70 -90
Unusual_Soup@reddit
Usually around 45, anything over 40 is overtime rate
Comrade_Lomrade@reddit
40ish
TorturedChaos@reddit
50 - 60 hours or so, but I run my own business so it kinda comes with the territory.
Top-Temporary-2963@reddit
About 40 on the clock, but honestly unless I've got a lot of patients to see I usually work about 20-30
moonwillow60606@reddit
40 - 45.
OmnivorousHominid@reddit
I work 5 8 hour days through the week and every other weekend, usually just Saturday, for 12 hours. Sometimes both Saturday and Sunday. So 40 hours on the week I have the weekend off and 52-64 hours on the week I work the weekend.
AardvarkIll6079@reddit
On average around 35. 5 days a week.
Local_Hope_6233@reddit
45
Karamist623@reddit
Once a year, I will work 60ish hours per week. Otherwise, I do a standard 40-50 depending on deliverables.
Slash3040@reddit
I work a typical office job. I work 8-4 Monday to Friday for the grand total of 40 per week.
I do work in IT so it isn’t unheard of for me to either come in after hours or on weekends for maintenance or get called in for a critical outage.
Novel_Willingness721@reddit
I average about 42 over the course of 52 weeks
twcsata@reddit
RosieHarbor406@reddit
I work 50, husband works 50-60
DanceClubCrickets@reddit
I work exactly 40 hours a week, but I work a production job (producing images, basically) with unpaid lunch breaks, so every one of those hours (except for two 15-minute breaks per day) is spent working. None of that "I show up for 40 hours but don't have to be busy the whole time" stuff for me unfortunately 🙁
Fluffy-Friend-4248@reddit
None
Inevitable_Unit_937@reddit
Typically 39-40 hrs.
Trick-Caterpillar267@reddit
Too many, yet not enough.
Flux_Inverter@reddit
Right now it is 40-45 hours per week. Though, there are slow weeks where I may be at work 40 hours but only have 30 hours of actual work to do. Have had jobs where it was 50 hours every week and sometimes more during deadlines.
confusedrabbit247@reddit
35ish-45ish usually, sometimes more than that.
BowenoftheLore@reddit
45-50
DrMindbendersMonocle@reddit
40
Odd-Software-6592@reddit
Slight_Literature_67@reddit
50-60, depending on if there's overtime.
Sad_Internal_1562@reddit
43ish 60 when I'm on call
jonesda@reddit
between 40 and 50 depending on volume and if anything goes wrong/shuts down/miscommunicates w the server/blows up. i work in a medical lab
Guy2700@reddit
40 hours and not a minute more. I graduated college a year ago and refuse to work more than 40
dopefiendeddie@reddit
I’m physically at work 40 hours a week, with maybe 4 total hours of work per week lol
zaneparsec@reddit
This is just bizarre compared to the work worlds I’ve been in. What is it you do for those 4 hours?
Outisduex@reddit
At my current position I do a good job of keeping it between 40-42 per week unless something very big is up. My previous position was typically 45-50 per week and people called and texted my personal phone at all hours of the day or night.
Unicornllamamama_jrb@reddit
32 scheduled hours (4-8hr shifts) every week, 32 on call hours overnight (I take call 3pm -7am Monday and Thursday) every week, plus on call 3pm Friday until 7am Monday every 4th weekend. Usually I pick up extra call during the week and on the weekend. That could mean I don't get called in at all, it could mean a 16-hour shift. I'm an OR nurse.
jackfaire@reddit
33 hours. I'm an exception not the rule. My night shift splits with the other guy he does 40 hours. I do 33 because I only work 3 nights.
Acceptable_Floor3009@reddit
40 at one job and 15-20 at the other job
Bright_Ices@reddit
0 (I’m disabled). Spouse works 18 hours most weeks, 48 hours some weeks, and 0-12 hours a few weeks.
Most_Window_1222@reddit
I seem to work a lot more now that I’m retired?
ShadowKat2k@reddit
40 (4 x 10 hour days Mon-Thur) and if I work extra, I come in late or leave early the rest of the week to make up for it.
Master_Pattern_138@reddit
Far too many, and I live abroad in a culture where I look like a real weirdo working all the time and late
Master_Pattern_138@reddit
Far too many, and I live abroad, where I look like a real weirdo doing it. (At.least 50, more like 60)
OptimistSometimes@reddit
50-55. I'm a school principal.
AutofluorescentPuku@reddit
Zero. Retired, often known as a pensioner to many Europeans.
EmploymentEmpty5871@reddit
Ideally it is 56, but it can go way higher depending on what is going on. Meetings up the wahoo, trades, vacations, injuries, illness can screw things up. We aren't supposed to work more than 48 without a day off, remind me of that when I am ass deep in a 96, or once In a blue moon a 120.
Danieljoe1@reddit
37.5 one week 50 the next.
It's a 5/5/4 rotation, 12.5 hrs shifts. Kind of a bitch to get used to, but not bad. Miss the super 7 rotation.
Meagan66@reddit
68 this week. I’m PRN so I get to pick my hours. I usually go for 40.
RunnerGirlT@reddit
40, I’m salaried and can’t be compensated over 40 hours a week, so I only work 40 hours a week
Corn-fed41@reddit
I farm and have livestock. So it depends on the season. During the busiest times of the year 120-140 hours a week. In the dead of winter maybe 30 hours a week.
Real-Psychology-4261@reddit
Paid for 40. Realistically work closer to 38.
dararie@reddit
35
mandn92196@reddit
Usually 41.whatever.
wintersicyblast@reddit
50
Alternative-Quit-161@reddit
40 at work. 20 chores and cooking.
socalfishman@reddit
50-60 going on 25 years
ManufacturerSecret53@reddit
35-40, salaried so I don't have a set schedule as long as my work is done.
Irresponsable_Frog@reddit
I work 40-50 hrs a week.
xyzd95@reddit
I used to do 4 10 hour shifts give or take an hour or so
Now I do 3 12 and a half hour shifts if not 13 or 14 hour shifts
It gives me more time to work my other job or have time to be a miscreant with friends
Mrsericmatthews@reddit
Like 50-60 recently 😫
Ok-Needleworker-4481@reddit
36
Interesting-Section1@reddit
53 or so hours a week but compensated in time or cash for anything over 40.
07ufarooq@reddit
Probably 25-30 max.
messibessi22@reddit
40 my last job it was 60 minimum tho don’t miss those days
CinderRL@reddit
37.5 is a typical week, but it is standard in my industry to have some morning or evening conference calls and periodic work travel. In those cases, more hours are the norm.
WinterRevolutionary6@reddit
35-38 hours a week. I’m salaried making 38k. Management is chill and I get all my work done
bellesearching_901@reddit
40
osteologation@reddit
clocked for 40 but more like 20 actual.
chunky-flufferkins@reddit
55
windowschick@reddit
42-45, usually. A bad week is close to 50. Way, way better than the first 20 years of my career, which was largely spent working 60 weeks, ramping up to several bad years of 70/80/90 hour weeks.
45 is comfortable. I get a bit cranky if I hit 50. I'm not 20 anymore, I don't want to work those kinds of hours regularly. As a VERY occasional thing, ok. But not every week.
AleroRatking@reddit
35 exactly. 7 hour days.
MaxnCheese01@reddit
32, usually. Sometimes less. Hourly + commission
r2k398@reddit
Usually 35.
Threeboxerlover@reddit
35 full time salary so sometimes I work more and sometimes less, but usually 35.
sluttypidge@reddit
37 or so sometimes a little more sometimes a little less.
JessicaGriffin@reddit
Job 1 - 40 to 45. Job 2 - 20 to 25.
Used to work more like 50 and 35, but I cut back when I had cancer a few years ago and liked working less, so I kept doing it. I also got a promotion at job 1 so I’m making more, which makes that possible.
infinite_five@reddit
40.
No_Outcome2321@reddit
Anywhere between 36-40+ depending on the week.
Unusual_Season_7196@reddit
40-60
Commercial_Picture28@reddit
About 38 hours
GSTLT@reddit
37.5. 7.5 hr days.
Heuristicrat@reddit
32
holiestcannoly@reddit
Around 34
Princess_Wensicia@reddit
One-Possible1906@reddit
I have to work exactly 40 and I get paid for lunch. I have 240 hours of PTO every year which covers all holidays and sick time and everything else but between PTO and what I work it always has to be 40 hours, it can’t be even 15 minutes more or less.
_iusuallydont_@reddit
40 but I work from home and I’d estimate I work actually about 30-35 hours a week.
DDL_Equestrian@reddit
I average 50-60. In the coldest months we push 70. I work for a utility company
Responsible-Fun4303@reddit
lol I’m a stay at home mom who homeschools so I feel I work every waking hour 😜. But my husband works approximately 80 hours a week. He’s in the trucking industry where long hours are the norm. He’s limited by federal law but does other random things to equal out at about 80.
DisclosE2020agency@reddit
60 plus..landscape maintenance. It's landscaping season now
Papa-Cinq@reddit
…as many as I can and still enjoy family time and exercise. That means 5-6 days per week depending on what’s going on and usually I’m there by 7:00 AM and home by 19:00. …so I guess that’s 60+ hours per week.
CombinationClear5672@reddit
this current pay period? i’m on track for like 55 hours for the average of the 2 weeks
msennello@reddit
60-80.
In the winter it's a little less.
yozaner1324@reddit
In theory, 40. But in reality probably a bit less than that, but close enough.
Miss-Tiq@reddit
35.
Superb_Mistake8771@reddit
40+ but 50 counting commute.
soulmatesmate@reddit
40 hours with an occasional hour or 2 of overtime.
BeRealzzz@reddit
20-25 hours a week. With 7 weeks of vacation time I always use. I’m currently in the middle of taking 2 weeks off work.
funsk8mom@reddit
35hrs at job number 1 and 15hrs at job number 2, sometimes more
annissamazing@reddit
Up until a few months ago, I worked between 45 and 60 hours per week at my salaried office job. I quit when they refused to get me help or compensate me for the additional hours. I’m on the hunt for a new job with either more reasonable hours or fairer pay.
CAAugirl@reddit
Asylus72@reddit
70 im a trucker
iuabv@reddit
9-5 M-F on paper, so that’s 7x5 but…not really.
KittyBackPack@reddit
My partner 10-25 myself 34.
Jefffahfffah@reddit
It varies from the low 30's to the high 50's.
Forsythia77@reddit
40 at my main job and 10 at my side job. I don't actually do 40 full hours of work at the main job or 10 full hours of work at the side job.
KJHagen@reddit
Retired not long ago, but averaged 45 - 50 for years. When I was in a union we were restricted to 40 hrs, but even then we frequently had to work an extra hour or so on occasion.
Pugilist12@reddit
On paper, 42.5. In terms of real, actual work? 10-15
Ok-Water-6537@reddit
50 to 60 hours. Nurse Practitioner.
10RobotGangbang@reddit
36 paid for 40.
Mountain_Aire@reddit
Timesheet says 40.
Former-Discount4279@reddit
25 to 30
Potato_Octopi@reddit
About 42 but WFH.
kamakazi339@reddit
43-50ish more during peak
HisTreeNut@reddit
50-60 hours per week, but I am salaried, and that amount of hours is in my contract.
mshepard222@reddit
I’m an hourly employee, with no opportunity for overtime. 40 hours a week, exactly. I’m getting that full paycheck every 2 weeks.
Living_Molasses4719@reddit
37.5
DummyThiccDude@reddit
48 hours. Im a security guard, and all i do is watch cameras and remotely open gates, its super easy.
Sergeant_Metalhead@reddit
0 I'm retired
_Roxxs_@reddit
About 10-15, semi retired
poopable_unit@reddit
40 to 47
HotButteredPoptart@reddit
Between 45 and 50. I need the overtime.
qu33nof5pad35@reddit
35 hours I think
Shruuump@reddit
26 on average but it's anywhere from 7-42 in any given week.
Roboticpoultry@reddit
50-60, sometimes more. The joy of the auto repair industry
HarveyMushman72@reddit
68.
Kenstaa@reddit
168 for 14 days 0 for 14 days Then 60 hours a week in the winter
tenehemia@reddit
33.
gioraffe32@reddit
I'm at work for 40hrs/week, barring being sick or taking vacation.
But actual work? Closer to 20-30. Some weeks, feels like even less. And this has been true over most of my career, even at different companies.
foozballhead@reddit
40
Hatweed@reddit
42-44 hours
Stimpisaurus@reddit
32 most weeks. Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.
thedawntreader85@reddit
About 55 to 65 hours a week.
SucculentMeatloaf@reddit
About 45. On call one week/month that can take it close to 60.
djwiggles75@reddit
According to my paycheck, 40.
QuercusSambucus@reddit
25-55 depending on what's going on. I'm salaried but also do oncall work, and my workload goes up and down a fair bit.
Low_Attention9891@reddit
40 hours is the typical work week. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Anyone working more than that is likely a salaried employee where you’re kind of just expected to work until you get the work done.
Edithasburglar@reddit
Typically, 50-55. Eat lunch at desk while working, get in well before 8 and leave between 5-6. Salaried, just lots to do.
Bitter_Face8790@reddit
60-65 hours/week. Developer in a start up.
Lakerdog1970@reddit
55-60-ish.
Total-Improvement535@reddit
45 on a regular week, 53 if it’s my Saturday to work, and then 36 the week following because I get a day off for working the previous Saturday.
msspider66@reddit
40 hours mostly
redrosebeetle@reddit
36.5/ week on average. Three 12 hour shifts, plus 10 mins early.
jessper17@reddit
37.5 to 40 hours a week. Rarely more than 40.
dobbydisneyfan@reddit
nagurski03@reddit
Somewhere between 38 and 42
captainstormy@reddit
I'm at work 40 hours per week. I probably only legit work 20.
Rarewear_fan@reddit
Same, a lot of my job is waiting on an answer/time to go over something. Also because of time zones, most of my coworkers are still asleep in the morning here. Usually I have quiet mornings where I can ease in and take lunch early to exercise, then after that and a shower I have lunch and do actual work from 1-4:30 PM
Drew707@reddit
I have the opposite routine. I usually wake up to some shitshow because everyone else has had three hours to get spun up on something, but then everyone disappears around 14:00 and I can actually focus on what's important.
Rarewear_fan@reddit
lol one of my older jobs was like that. I was in the US along with one teammate, while my boss was in London and rest of the team was in India.
I went out of the way to log in at 6:00 or 6:30 and see what the heck happened overnight and get help with my stuff….then by lunchtime here it was dead and as long as my stuff is done i could sneak off haha.
Providence451@reddit
57 last week. Average is 58 - 65.
Drew707@reddit
It depends on how many concurrent projects we are working and what phase those projects are in, but usually between 20 and 60. Two weeks ago, I had six or more hours a day each day of just meetings which meant I had to work longer to do the actual work.
Emotional-Chipmunk70@reddit
32 hours one week, the next week is 45 hours. Repeat 32 then 45.
eyeroll611@reddit
50 at least. Teacher.
ForestOranges@reddit
That’s dependent upon subject, grade level, time teaching the above, and admin requirements. I try my best to stick to 40 a week, but when I taught English and had to grade essays I usually had to grade on on nights and weekends.
docthrobulator@reddit
About 50 hours a week. 10 of those are a second job i like with some nice perks. I dont need it, but the extra money is nice.
RevenueOriginal9777@reddit
45-50 but very flexible hours. Get paid for what I do. Some week much less
TrueInky@reddit
40-46. I try to avoid over-working for health reasons.
Jeans_609@reddit
Bro that's just a normal job. Like 30-35 is for health reasons hours. 😂
Jeans_609@reddit
40-45
Heathen_Crew@reddit
50+
Odd-Guarantee-6152@reddit
Zero
Aggressive_Onion_655@reddit
40 hours
ColumbiaWahoo@reddit
Low 40s now. Upper 40s 6 months ago. At least I get paid OT.
ProfessionalAir445@reddit
Hour-Watercress-3865@reddit
40-ish now.
When I was retail management, closer to 60
When I was retail crew, it was closer to 75-80. Or 20-25. No in between.
Misstucson@reddit
38ish
whisperingcopse@reddit
40-50 hrs
soggysocks6123@reddit
I work about 50 with only about 4 hours if that being considered overtime. Some places here find pay exceptions And can do silly things.
deltagma@reddit
40-50 (US Military)
I’m in a full time training situation for 14 months though, so currently it’s closer to 70-80 hours a week…. Feel bad for my wife haha
hydrated_purple@reddit
I don't work more than 40 at my current job, so the normal amount. Realistically probably 30.
bonzai113@reddit
all depends on what kind of project I am working on. I've worked 70 hour weeks and I have worked 10 hour that have made me 3 times as much money as a 70 hour week.
No-Profession422@reddit
36 to 48 hrs. 3-4 12 hr shifts.
Naive-Direction1351@reddit
Work 40hrs...real work done like 2 hrs. Sit in maybe 10-15 hrs a week in meeting
Adjective-Noun123456@reddit
I'm at work for 40. I work probably a little more than half that.
RedSolez@reddit
35
tacmed85@reddit
Technically 56 is the average I guess. I work 48hrs on 96hrs off, but when I'm at work I spend most of the time hanging out, studying, or sleeping and those 20 full days off per month just can't be beat.
Extra-Connection8394@reddit
38.5 hours a week, 4 days of 9.5 hours. Plus a few minutes before after to milk the clock
Mustang46L@reddit
37.5
Xcalat3@reddit
32-40 (depends on weekly work load and if i can work from home)
sportsdude1991@reddit
cormack16@reddit
45-50, sometimes 60-65 for special projects
wwhsd@reddit
I’m salaried and work in a job that has lulls and spikes and has a lot of reactive work during “emergencies”. Some weeks I probably only work 20 hours a week and others I put in 60.
If all my work is on track for its deadlines and I don’t have any meetings or pressing incidents, I don’t feel a need to sit at my desk for 8 hours a day.
Ok_Panic7256@reddit
40-50
spareribs78@reddit
I’m at work 40 hours a week, the amount of work I do varies
TheCarzilla@reddit
Anywhere between 7 and 24 depending on the week.
zornan66@reddit
I work 40. My work doesn’t allow overtime. My wife works a minimum 55 hours and averages 75 hours per week (Small Business Administration). It’s brutal.
Appropriate_Swan_233@reddit
48 to 60.
jjj-thats-me@reddit
I work 20-35 hours a week depending on the time of year. My husband works 50-60 hours/week.
LoriReneeFye@reddit
Probably 20 hours a week, none of it paid because I'm helping out a local, non-profit community center.
Otherwise, I'm retired.
mechanixrboring@reddit
40 most of the time, 48 every third week.
IWantToBuyAVowel@reddit
48 hours lately. But add in the 30 minute unpaid lunches each day then I'm at work for a total of 50.5 hours.
SnapClapplePop@reddit
40 hours, genuine work is... still 40. I work in healthcare, so there is no such thing as downtime unless it's a major holiday. We clock in and then it's "go go go" until we clock out, otherwise we fall behind and patient care gets delayed.
stellalunawitchbaby2@reddit
40 hours theoretically. I’m “on the clock” for 40 hours, at least.
Actual time spent working is like maybe, 6 hours per week.
MeepleMerson@reddit
40 hours per week, 4 weeks paid vacation, plus company shutdown Christmas through New years and 10 company holidays. So 40 hours per week when not on holiday, or an average 34.6 hours per week over the year when you consider time off.
martlet1@reddit
30-35
androidbear04@reddit
40 plus whatever extra (unpaid because I'm FLSA-exempt) tome I might be willing to put in to make the 40 run more smoothly - like checking my work email after I get home from work (I start and end earlier than most) and responding to things that could turn into a bigger mess for me to deal with if it was left until I got back to work.
bibliophile222@reddit
I work in a school, so it's about 40 hours a week, but I get about 3 months off a year with school vacations.
mdsram@reddit
About 25 in an average week. 10 in a light week and maybe up to 35 if I'm really grinding. I could make more if I worked more, but I make plenty and prefer the flexibility and free time.
Far-Egg3571@reddit
40-45 mostly but some weeks we have a lot to do so overtime options are available to those of us who want it. Some jobs pay you overtime by the day. Some jobs require you to reach 40hrs first before they'll allow the 1.5x pay rate to happen.
HayTX@reddit
60-70
machagogo@reddit
Somewhere between 30 and 45 a little longer sometimes a little short other times.
Falcom-Ace@reddit
Like 50-80, depending on how busy my second job is.
notthegoatseguy@reddit
40 exactly. Overtime is really rare, but I'm hourly so if it ever comes up I'll take it
wcpm88@reddit
50-55 hours but I co-own the business with my dad, and I have complete responsibility for two of our 5 departments/ business units.
dangleicious13@reddit
I get paid for 40, but I'm rarely at work for a full 40 hours. I usually use at least a little leave time each week.
ZimThunder@reddit
45-50
DOMSdeluise@reddit
35-45 usually
Roadshell@reddit
40
Dry-Tomorrow8531@reddit
Between 60 - 80ish
I work a full-time job Monday through Friday that requires minimum 10 hours a day. Sometimes I have to do overtime on Saturdays.
I also run a business that is a farm which requires a lot of my time. Sometimes it ebbs and flows.
I drink a lot of coffee 😞
distrucktocon@reddit
40 hours a week. Probably only 25-30 of it is real work going my actual technical skill. The other 10-15 is teaching other how to do what I do, admin bullshit, and meetings.
freshly-stabbed@reddit
My highest paid job, I was at work for 50-60 hours a week, which only 10 hours of actual working, and around 1 hour a week of truly important work. But that 1 hour was typically worth a month’s salary to my employer’s bottom line.
Being on hand to make a very important decision in case a very important decision needs making is the gist of a lot of highly paid jobs. The rest of the day is killing time waiting for the next decision they need you for.
Gladyskravitz99@reddit
I am a (very small scale) landlord and am/was a SAHM who does some freelance reporting on the side, so it depends on what you count as work. I'd say less than ten hours a week of actual income-producing labor.
TheBimpo@reddit
15-45. It just depends.
BreakfastBeerz@reddit
My official work week is 37.5 hours
TheFacetiousDeist@reddit
33, give or take an hour.
HaphazardFlitBipper@reddit
At least 50, sometimes up to 70.
TrappedInHyperspace@reddit
45-50 hours per week, more when traveling. I have a lot to do and spend almost every minute of that time actually working, but that includes attending meetings and mentoring/coaching. I’m a senior subject matter expert in my company, so my job is a mix of working on my own projects, helping other people with theirs, and advising management.
Top_bake-345@reddit
40
ShakarikiGengoro@reddit
35 at one job around 20 to 30 at the second job.
Pernicious_Possum@reddit
On the clock about thirty hours a week. Probably work twenty
Various-Fun-36@reddit
37.5
GulfofMaineLobsters@reddit
Depends on the season and what you consider work. Is work only when we're hauling gear and banding lobster/making bait or is it all the time spent aboard?
If we're only talking actively working the boat/gear work and the like, rhen probably about 60 hours if we're counting time on the boat, including down time like at night when we're laying-too then probably about 100-110 depending on weather.
BouncingSphinx@reddit
80 over two weeks, 10 days working in a row and 4 off in a row.
IvanBliminse86@reddit
At which job?
__The-1__@reddit
Used to be 70 now it's 0
morosco@reddit
Between 30-60 depending on what's going on.
AdamOnFirst@reddit
Average is like 45, but it’s sales so it varies from 25-30 up a shit ton depending on how busy I am.
505backup_1@reddit
55-65
Agamemnon66@reddit
40 to 45. Actually working? More like 24 to 30. Lot of window time driving from site to site. During hurricane season it jumps to 80 to 90 hours a week.
jreashville@reddit
About 44-50.
WeakAfternoon3188@reddit
40 plus. sometime over 70.