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how many hours a week do you work?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    13 days per fortnight. Generally 60-70 hours per week. Once or twice a year will do 40 hour days. That's hard going. You'll be ready for the doss by the second night. Busy times 80-100 hours per week. Usually for a six week stretch.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 492 ✭✭Gerrup Outta Dat!


    39


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 888 ✭✭✭fmpisces


    16 hours per week as an SNA but 24/7 as a Ma!! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    I'm a teacher, I'm in front of students 20 hours a week but between class prep, corrections, meetings and paperwork I do about 50 hours a week. I also work (prep work) for a good part of my holidays.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,416 ✭✭✭sjb25


    I'm a teacher, I'm in front of students 20 hours a week but between class prep, corrections, meetings and paperwork I do about 50 hours a week. I also work (prep work) for a good part of my holidays.

    Teacher eh :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    sjb25 wrote: »
    Teacher eh :)

    I am. What makes you think I am lying?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    13 days per fortnight. Generally 60-70 hours per week. Once or twice a year will do 40 hour days. That's hard going. You'll be ready for the doss by the second night. Busy times 80-100 hours per week. Usually for a six week stretch.

    40 hour days? Working in some sort of space time continuum!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    KERSPLAT! wrote: »
    40 hour days? Working in some sort of space time continuum!?

    No. That day starts around 6 on the first morning. Everything goes to sh1t and next thing you know it's the following morning and you have another days work to get through before you can get a break. Goes with the territory. No complaints. I signed up for it. I enjoy my job.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,416 ✭✭✭sjb25


    I am. What makes you think I am lying?

    I'm joking relax you no the old story you teachers have it handy do nothing etc etc etc probably believed it until I met my other half who is a teacher and I seen for myself still slag her aswell though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,627 ✭✭✭tedpan


    sjb25 wrote:
    iv 156 contracted hours in the month My months normally go 36hrs 36hrs 36hrs & 48hrs I work 12hr shift so 3 days a week x3 weeks and 4 days x1 week so lots of time off which is good i work nights and weekend aswell tho I do a few overtime shifts aswell normally 2/3 a month they are double time so yes please but 156 are my contracted hours overtime is my choice I can say no you lot doing free overtime are mad I wouldn't do 5 min past my finish time without pay I am public service though


    One hell of a sentence!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,416 ✭✭✭sjb25


    tedpan wrote: »
    One hell of a sentence!

    Isn't it just had to take a big breath first


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    uch wrote: »
    I'm a Civil Servant, I don't work ;)

    When i was in the service, my attitude was 'if i have to pay 20-30% of my wages in tax, i'm not going to do any work for 20% of the working week (1day)'.
    Being in the CS really brought out the worst in me...but my 80% was still more than my co-workers 100%.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭qxtasybe1nwfh2


    48-60hrs a week, depending on overtime, time and a half for over 48 hours. 12 hour shifts, leave home at 4.45am and get home around 7pm. High stress at times and 50% of the weekends through the year. I'm in my late 20s with no education past leaving cert and it's a job that looks good on my CV. Packing it in soon and heading to finally do a degree.

    I'm tired.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    37.5 Hours a week as that's all I get paid for.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,586 ✭✭✭4068ac1elhodqr


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    In the future, chances are you'll be competing against a '24/7-always-on-ai-bot-drone-quantum-superintelligence'.
    Think it was the Labour party over in the UK this week that proposed a robot tax, for cases where it replaces a human.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭mohawk


    Contract says 35. I often work 38/39 hours a week. Luckily I have my son to collect in evening otherwise I would do more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    36 hours over a three day week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Stevecw


    Work 8 till 4 and with lunch hour not included. 5 days of that = 35 hours I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Timistry


    39 hour contract, 39 hours worked. Been down the road of doing 10 hours or more a week more than I was paid for with zero thanks and scowls from colleagues when you have the audacity to leave an hour early on a friday. Fools game


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,561 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    Nice one lad....im doing 55 a week, no OT or extra :(

    You must be a courier or truck driver of some kind.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭dok_golf


    50 to 70 hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,052 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    It's usually at least 48 or so. Probably 52ish most weeks and then occasionally can hit 60. Most of the time I won't clock in or clock out at the time I'm actually there, and will only clock in for 42 or so hours to avoid questions about how long I'm working.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 614 ✭✭✭notsoyoungwan


    Paid for 39 hours, reality is more like 55, with the extra not paid. Plus every alternate week I get to do an overnight on call (16 hours)which is not paid and after which I get no time off, just back into work as normal the next day. However, there's some flexibility so that if things are quiet i can duck off early without anyone really questioning it. Overall I think I still end up doing more than I'm contracted for but I'm happy enough given I have that bit of flexibility


  • Posts: 17,728 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Paid for 39 hours, reality is more like 55, with the extra not paid. ....................Overall I think I still end up doing more than I'm contracted for but I'm happy enough given I have that bit of flexibility

    It would want to be some amount of flexibility for doing nearly 2 days extra work a week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44 JollyBustard


    Work 45 hours of which I'm paid for 39. Technically there's an hour lunch break (unpaid) a day, plus shorter tea breaks to be taken. Reality is that lunch is at desk, and bring tea to meetings. Add the three hour daily commute and it's just not worth it. (ie, 62.5 hr out of the house each week, with no energy to get up to much in the evenings).

    Working my notice now, and job-hunting for something that will allow an actual quality of life.

    Agree with previous posters. Why bother working so much, if you're too tired to enjoy life?

    "Work to live, don't live to work" - Someone much smarter than a lot of the rat race mentalities about.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭Colsin91


    titan18 wrote: »
    It's usually at least 48 or so. Probably 52ish most weeks and then occasionally can hit 60. Most of the time I won't clock in or clock out at the time I'm actually there, and will only clock in for 42 or so hours to avoid questions about how long I'm working.
    I understand not clocking all the hours. I am probably a fool, but I don't clock all my hours. I feel guilty how long it takes me to do certain tasks and I worry other people breeze through it much speedier


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    37.5 - very steady 9-5 and I rarely have to work late. Salaried and my commute is around 30 minutes each way.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,709 ✭✭✭c68zapdsm5i1ru


    dok_golf wrote: »
    50 to 70 hours.

    That is a crazy number of hours a week. I hope you're very well paid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    titan18 wrote: »
    It's usually at least 48 or so. Probably 52ish most weeks and then occasionally can hit 60. Most of the time I won't clock in or clock out at the time I'm actually there, and will only clock in for 42 or so hours to avoid questions about how long I'm working.
    Colsin91 wrote: »
    I understand not clocking all the hours. I am probably a fool, but I don't clock all my hours. I feel guilty how long it takes me to do certain tasks and I worry other people breeze through it much speedier

    This is absolutely insane!

    It's a job, not a hobby.

    If you don't value your own time and effort, why the hell would you expect anyone else too? Seriously, you should both stop doing this!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    I probably clock about 40 hours a week, it used to be closer to 50 and I am so much happier and healthier since I reduced the long working hours. I will need to work the odd Saturday but I get time-in-lieu so it all evens out.


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