Longest hours you have worked

Rabies

What is the longest hours you have ever worked?
I often go weeks without a day off. Moving from event to event gives little time off.

Longest I have gone without a day off was 6 weeks. Kinda hits you hard after that.

Up until last week the longest I did was 120hrs in 8 days. Thought I could never beat that. Well, I was wrong. While working at the K Club for the Ryder Cup I did 144hrs in 8 days. I was staying onsite so pretty much worked all hours. Only got about 3-4hrs sleep a night. When I came back I did another 14hr day on a different site.

After all that I needed to call in sick yesterday and today. My body is about to fall apart from tiredness.

What is the most you have worked in one week, or what is the most you would work.

My ex used to tell me all I did was work. Even on days off I couldn't sit around and do nothing. Would think nothing of driving a 200mile round trip just to pass a day.

lostexpectation

you have problem,

whats it like working a 12 hour shift, anybody?

EdgarAllenPoo

I work an eighty four hour fortnight consisting of seven twelve hour shifts. Five in one week and two the following week.

junii

I hate sitting around doing nothing but I need my time to relax after the day and destress. What age are you? You will get burned out in a few years and then will be able to do nothing at all. Im only 21 but from what ive heard this is what happens. Its great to be busy, buzzing around all day balancing tasks, delegating and making decisions and of course looking important! It sure makes work alot of fun and gives you great job satisfaction. I bet your that type that is on the mobile every 5mins!!!

You sound like a very focused and career minded person. Not many people are like you. Its a gift and you are lucky. Take care of that gift though and look after yourself first and your health. Without that you are nothing.

What kind of events do you do? Im currently looking to change my job completely. I need something where im really busy all the time or doing something quite important so I feel as though im not wasting time and that im actually making a difference. That is just as important as money for me.

Rabies

Junii, I'm only 26 and already feel that burnout is approaching very fast. That is why I have taken today and yesterday off work. Physically couldn't get out of bed.

My job takes me to England a few times a year, but most of the work is concentrated in Ireland. I look after certain aspects of sporting events, concerts, festivals and trade shows/exhibitions

Ya, my mobile and walkie talkie are rarely away from my head when on site. The moblie is never switched off, at most it is put on silent.

Working on this area isn't for everyone Junii. You can forget about a social life during peak times of the year. When the general public is enjoying a bank holiday off from work, it means that I'm working.

Forget about Christmas and New Year. I get christmas eve and christmas day off. Work through until after the New Year. Think I has been 5-6 years since I had a full christmas with the family.

Wishbone Ash

GDM wrote:

I work an eighty four hour fortnight consisting of seven twelve hour shifts. Five in one week and two the following week.

Nothing particularly long about that. (Are you a nurse?).

The longest official shift I've done is 24 hours but I occasionally work double shifts (for different unsuspecting employers) .

Rabies

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Nothing particularly long about that. (Are you a nurse?).

That is what I was thinking. Good few days off. Pretty good if you ask me.

Budd

I don't think I have ever actually worked a full 40 hour week. Maybe just about 40 hours once or twice in my 8 years of working. Thats how I intend to keep it. Cash middling, time rich.

Stark

There were 2 weeks where I worked from 9am-10pm on the Monday-Friday and 11am - 5pm on the Saturday and Sunday. Those were the last two weeks of a project I felt strongly involved in and really didn't want to see fail. I never made a habit of the long hours

I've heard nightmare stories from people living in London. There's no ****ing way I'd do that. 40 hour week is more than enough for me. Work to live, not live to work, to quote a cliché that suddenly seems apt again now.

Goldfinger

Longest shift I ever worked was 34 hours in one go (no sleeping half-way through before you say it!), on my feet for most of it.
I could hardly see by the time I was finished , I was so tired.

It was 8am on a Monday to 6pm on the Tuesday, doing security.
I'd agreed to do a double shift, and when someone didn't turn up on the Tuesday morning, I just thought I'd keep going. Mad. I'd never do it now though.

englander

I 'worked' 36 hours straight with no sleep.

The real p!sser was that the head office of the security firm I worked for, wouldn't pay me it as they said those are illegal hours and there is no way I could have/should have worked them !

Eventually got the local supervisor bloke to sort it for me after weeks of to-ing and fro-ing. Left the company after that. Cheeky b'stards !

Stephen

Longest shift I ever did was 19 hours, also security. Longest week was about 70 hours. Made a fortune in overtime and night shift allowances

That was great money for a student!

Claasman

last year, i worked all of june and 1 week in july during the silage season. I think i worked out something like 32 days straight, i averaged about 95 hours a week.
I was drained after it.

parsi

Longest straight through was 8.30 am to 4am (19.5 hours) on a network migration.

DublinWriter

Back in 198*cough* I did a 36 hour security shift starting 6pm Christmas Day ending at 6am on the 27th December without sleep in a deserted freight warehouse.

For why? To buy a Commodore Amiga.

Sad, I know.