How many hours do you work in a typical week?

[zetta]

The question on how much people made in different careers got me wondering about the diffence in working hours. What field are you in, and how many hours do you work in a typical week? SAH parents might wish to count the number of hours your kids are awake and require your direct supervision (ie not at school), and subtract part of the time your SO is home and able to help.

[Ima saver]

My husband is a builder, he generally works 50-60 hours a week.

[zetta]

As a SAHM, my 18 month-old son is awake 9 hours per day (63 per week), but my mom typically babysits for 4 hours. DH is usually home an hour before bedtime during the week, and we'll count his time at 50% during the weekend -- call it 13 hours. So I'll call it a 45 hour week, which is about what it feels like to me.

[MonkeyMama]

Typically 40 hours, and the kind of job I never think about on weekends or vacations. I have had the latter - 80 hour/weeks - never getting away. I Also telecommuted a lot and I HATED it. I enjoy having a fine line between home and work.

During tax season which is 4 months of the year I work 50 hours, but that is pretty good for the industry, I get paid overtime, I don't mind. It has been a little more crazy this year for various reasons, but my boss values not working too much and balancing home life which is nice. I am very saddened he will retire in a few years. My goal is to be able to support us on a part-time job by then. Can find a decent PT government job with benefits to boot.

During the summer it is easy for me to cut back to part-time. I am aiming for 36-hour weeks this summer. I am lucky to have a job in very high demand and pays well even if you don't want to work so much or be on the fast career/management path.

Accounting is nice - like I said - we do need more people. Then again this is really not the norm. Too many colleagues who never see their family. The lack of qualified accountants is really crunching the work hours as a whole. I am getting pushed into way more responsibility than I ever wanted, simply because of high turnover and lack of number of people to do the work. Making myself too valuable, but getting paid well, I don't mind so much. Job security out the wazoo. Small price to pay.

I could make another $20k/year easy if I wanted to be worked to death - just not interested.

Being a mom feels like a second FT job. I like both my jobs a lot.

I'm in the convenience store business. I typically work 60 hours as a manager but worked 80-90 per week as the district manager.........60 feels almost part time now!

[PrincessPerky]

lessee...awake is only from 6 or 7am to 8 pm (I have 3kids, 1yo, 3yo, 5yo, one up 'bout 6ish, different one abed 'bout 8ish)... that is avg 13 hours...times 7, because since you would prefer two people with a kid rather than one I don't see my husband home as not working, I see it as having much needed help. (ever work your job short staffed? you like the help when they come in, you don't call it time off)

so where was I?

13ish*7days = 91 hours......

Now we get to subtract 1 hour for Sunday school, (except last Sunday, I worked the nursery for both church and Sunday school....I missed my one hour break)

so only 90 hours....

Course the work I do online after they are abed....it is work...not paid, but important work. some totally kid related, like hunting up worksheets, some just family like budgeting. and some goofing, like this

if BTW you want to completely discount my husbands time here subtract almost 4 hours each week day and no weekends 9 * 5 = 45 (he goes in early to be home early and see his kids) )oh and at 50% when he is here = 45 'workday'+ 23 weekend = 63 hours)

Of course that is assuming he doesn't work overtime...(which he always does some weeks 10hours most 5 or less, though he tries hard to make it in early, or up late, work form home, or through lunch so he doesn't miss any kid time)

Anyway the short version is a lot

[Snoopy2645]

Well I am a sahm/wahm my kids are awake from 7am tell 10pm everyday of the week 2 are in school ft & one is in preschool so that is 5 hrs a week I am not with her & then I work sometimes outside the home never more than 15 hrs a week then I work inside my house never more than 15hrs a week so not sure between the 2 what you could say but I can tell you this its never caught up!!! And its all on me dh is now working 16hrs 7days a week so hes either gone or sleeping I sure hope he dont kill himself over his stupid job!!

[Hez]

I only work about 10 hours a week part-time because I'm a student, I work in marketing.

[tabbycat31]

I worked about 60 hour weeks until this week, because I just quit one of my jobs (20 hours and that was all I could take of it).

I'm up in the air.

[PRICEPLUS]

I shoot for between 40 and 50 but sometimes I work more if extra work appears!

[Ima saver]

My husband got in 66 hours last week. He has worked 7 days this week too.

[rduell]

Our work week is 35 hours.

[PrincessPerky]

I thought about his overnight....see just cause my husband is only paid for 45 he is also working when he is home, so either he gets the 50% of his time here, or the 100% depending on how you look at it.

And the same for all parents...unless you have a babysitter for a date (5 more days till ours!) or for time alone or you send them to school, you are working 24/7....so I don't think we should include our parent time in a state like this unless we really want to scare the non parents into staying that way!

[jodi]

20 hours at my state job
anywhere from 1-10 hours selling real estate
Total away from home work: 20-30
(of course, being a mom takes up way more time than those two!)

[th_tan]

Between all the work I do, anywheres from 70-85 hrs a week. Matter infact, I've had 2 hours of sleep in the last 2 days and I'm a truck driver, scary.