About how many hours a week do you work?

[Connonym]

Just wondering what the "average" really is

[Mollis]

1. I work part time

and go to school full time, so I work about 20 a week. Depends on how busy it is.

[Guava Jelly]

2. 56-60 hours a week

40 at my day job and 18-20 at my stagnant little plastics company.

[lizerdbits]

3. Usually 40

We get comp time instead of OT so if I do 45 in a week, I'll have to take the 5 off at some point.

[lukasahero]

4. Now - usually 35

6 months ago - 60+. Hence the new job where we work 8 hours a day with an hour off for lunch except for installs and production outages.

Oh, and I reduced my commute from 110 miles/2+ hrs/day to 22 miles/40 minutes/day. :)

(So that 60+ hours? Add 10+ hrs/week for the drive time. In case you're wondering, it paid well.)

[kentauros]

5. Usually 40

We do get overtime, and that's going to be the norm for the next couple of weeks, then back to forty again. I never know what it averages out to by the end of the year, though. We have many different pipeline projects going on at once, so plenty of opportunity for OT.

[TZ]

6. Thats pretty much the case here too.

40 normally but different projects have different needs. We have a HUGE project on the near horizon that probably require some overtime if they don't hire the temps they have promised us in time.

[MissMillie]

7. I've been at my job for 23 years, it has always been a 35 hr/wk job

they have become very inflexible about my hours, and they are about to find out that this will bite them in the butt. I have no time other than my schedule hours to give them this term. None.

[hippywife]

8. I cut my own hours down to 35/wk.

Was working 40+ but nothing was getting done around my house, especially after we added the gardening and chickens to the mix.

I live in a rural area so I use that extra half day in town to do my errands so I have the entire weekend to work around the house without running into town for groceries and other stuff.

Works really well. :hi:

[Chan790]

9. About 30. (and another 15-20 writing or workshoping)

My new job is a free-lance though and is tied to entertainment media (TV, film and rarely video games. I'm a Production Asst...that's a fancy term for Hollywood slave labor.) so sometimes it'll be 60-80 a week and sometimes it's 10 depending on whether there is something shooting. I actually shouldn't complain...I get paid really well, although I am technically self-employed so I have to pay for 100% of all my benefits and am ineligible for social security so I am the sole pension-funder for my own retirement as well. (All that eats up about 35% of hourly-wage pre-tax.)

After all that, I'm trying to write or writing-workshop 15 hours every week. I majored in politics and minored in English (creative writing track); I think I should be using at least one of those since I spent $120,000 on my education.

I love it though. I wouldn't move to the private sector for a 40 hour stable workweek, benefits and better pay.

[Iggo]

10. 40...every week.

[LynneSin]

11. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work

Bob Slydell: You see, what we're actually trying to do here is, we're trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work... so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

[JimGinPA]

12. One Of My Favorite Movies

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[TZ]

14. I'm thinking

Nobody here is really surprised by that...


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[guitar man]

13. 60-80+

I have a full time job for 40 plus side projects I work for extra money. Depending on what I have going on the side, it can vary quite a bit.

[bigwillq]

15. 35-40

Full-time is listed as 37.5 hours per week. Sometimes I work a little less, sometimes a little more.