How many hours a week do you work?

[bjl584]

maybe 5 minutes a month to look at my bank account, actually last month was 10 minutes, had an air conditioner go out, anything smaller and the property manager handles it. any horror story you've ever heard about land lording does not apply to me.

Sounds like you have a good situation carved out for yourself. Congrats.

[UnknownXV]

I work 27 hours a week, but soon this will be down to only about 20 hours a week.

Time is so important.. sure I could work more, but even like this I am saving enough to retire by 55 so I am more than happy.

Hell, if I really want to, I could work 10 hours a week at my next job, and still save 387$ a month. Not much, but the idea that I can work that much and not only still survive, but actually put something away too... it's a good feeling.

[EconDiva]

Sounds like you have a good situation carved out for yourself. Congrats.

Agreed.

And yea, I'm jealous

[bethasaver]

have to work 38 hours a week and am offered as much overtime as I can stand. I work from home and my hours are pretty flexible, so can pick up hours early in the AM before kids get up and weekends when they're out playing or at birthday parties. Weeks that I really pushed it, more than 55 hours my balance was severely thrown off and I was miserable and cranky.

I try to do about 50 hrs a week, but for most of the summer I didn't do any OT and instead used up my PTO so I could have lots of time to do stuff with the kids.

Why is overtime taxed so heavily anyway, while we're on the subject?

[sagremus]

I work 64 hours every two weeks. Some weeks I only work 2-3 days, while others I may work 5-6 days. I also work rotating shifts.

[phantom]

I usually work about 40 hours per week. Sometimes I'll work through lunch or from home in evenings and weekends if I'm falling behind where I want to be on a project, but not too often. This year my company introduced a weird flexible paid time off policy that allows employees to take as much time off as they like during the course of the year. The stated purpose of the program is to allow employees to have a better work/life balance. But, supposedly, more people have been averaging over 45 hours per week since the program was introduced than when we just had normal PTO. It is nice not have to remember how much you've taken off or worry about savings or wasting days. But, it does feel a bit like a constant test to see who will try to abuse the system.

[NJDebbie]

35 hours 7:30-2:30 Monday through Friday. Most federal holiday off with pay and summers off without pay.

[asmom]

Too many!

I'm salary and I work 40-50 hours a week. 40 hours a week is okay but at 45+, I start getting cranky. I probably wouldn't mind the 50 hours a week but I also commute anywhere from 1.5-2.5 hrs a day depending on how crazy things are here and that is really a quality of life problem.

[Like2Plan]

DH works 40hrs/week
I am retired, but I try to keep normal business hours working on my genealogy research project--sometimes I get going on a lead and I work "overtime" as I lose track of the time until it's 2am in the morning! Last week, I was in Seattle visiting family but I still managed to log some research hours. I scanned in about 300 pictures that my Mom had of our extended family. (whew!)

[bdoubleu]

I agree with a previous post that it is more important WHEN those hours are, not necessarily how many you work.

I work at a hospital, with a 7-on-7-off schedule - so I work Tuesday thru Monday, 1230pm-11pm (70 hours total per two weeks), then have the next Tues-Mon off. Part of the deal for this arrangement is that I am paid for 80 hours of work.

Hubby works a "normal" M-F 9-5 (70 hours per two weeks).

But when I'm working, I don't see him much at all. So even though neither of us averages a "full" 40 hours/week, it doesn't always feel that way!!

[Jimhassel]

My office timing is 9 to 7, so approx 10 to 11 hours per day, 5 days a week. Though this leaves me with little time for my family on weekdays, I try to compensate all during the weekends.

[heyaim]

I work between 50-60 hours per week 5-6 days week....usually a 6 day work week. Hubby work about the same amount of hours. He used to work 70+ hours a week...So happy those days are behind us!!

[atomicrc11]

I work 45 hours a week on average. Working in IT if something breaks I work until it is fixed. I usually then work less the next week to make up for it.

[My Own Advisor]

About 50 hours. Add another 15 for the blog to retire early

[kv968]

My "schedule" is for 40 hrs/wk, 7-3:30, M-F, but about twice a month (give or take) I work a Saturday and/or Sunday, in which case 48-56 hrs/wk. There are also times where I go in at 5 A.M. and don't leave until about 7:30 P.M. The 5 A.M. doesn't happen very often anymore but the staying until 7:30 still pops up here and there. It all depends on the studies we have going on at the time.

The most I've ever worked was a few non-consecutive ~90 hr. work weeks (dead at the end of that). And the longest without a day off was a little over a month. Fortunately no 90 hr. weeks in that stretch. At least I get paid overtime