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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
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I pulled 66 working in a factory one time. Doesn't sound bad but when you have been doing 50-60 consistently for a month it gets depressing. Especially when it's monsoon season and has literally rained every single day for 15 days straight. When you start hoping that the rains cause flooding to get you a day off of work it's time to call in sick.
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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
Funny you brought this up. I just had to make a manager of one of our banners aware of one of their employees were averaging 82.3 hours a week for 2017 so far. I oversee all our banners. Why they never caught it I have no clue. The last 3 weeks he had 78.5, 92.6 and 88.2. Hell the guy should be dead working like that. I imagine he will be let go for time theft this week.
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I do 5 10-12hr shifts a week. Come home and work out, practice and then sleep.
Haven't had a day off in 14 months.
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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
Did it from 2001-2007 working 40 hours at Alltel, 24 hours at American Security, and 20 hours operating my supplement store at the White Horse Flea Market....this isn't counting my websites although I worked on those at my American Security job. It wasn't too bad but I will never do that again.
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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
if you are working that many hours, hire an assistant
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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
Yes, frequently and a lot gets done. This week will ramp up to over 90 with Hell week
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I have done 70 and 80 hour weeks in the past but there was always a goal in mind. I try to invest between 30 - 50K a year, and retire early. These days I have brought down that figure to 50 hours a week. Most people I work with are content to max out their pensions, and work until they are old and grey. It just isn't my thing. I want to retire by 50.
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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
Yep.... Worked myself into the ground doin that for over a year str8. Only way I could do it was with heroin honestly. Is get off at 12. Home by 1. Slew by 2 up byn4am and back at work by 5 or 530am.
Using heroin 24-7 the whole time. Never missed a day.. But the physical and mental toll wasn't worth it at all.
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I worked 4711 hours two years ago and 4250 last year. This year a little less.
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Most of our dept do them for a fortnight ever year during the factory shutdown, it's not as bad as people think just feels like your whole life is just bastard work as you have no time for anything wlsw
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I know a guy that has two jobs and will go 5-6 weeks without a day off. Easily clocks up 80 hour weeks. I can only think he must hate his wife
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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
I did it for most of last year...6-7 day weeks, back to back shifts...flying/driving all over the country.
You're right productivity drops massively after a certain point, as does mental clarity...but you do still get more done overall, so is it worth it? The money was great, I basically doubled an already very healthy salary for someone like me, I proved myself as a PM and as a result I always have plenty of work offers now...
But...
Everything suffered, I became distant from my g/f, only ate once or twice a day, slept 4-5 hours a night, zero socializing or recreation and my health deteriorated.
Would I do it again...probably, I like the challenges my work throws at me....would I advise it....HELL NO!
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When haze grey and underway in the Navy we stood five and dimes: 5 hours on watch, 10 hours off watch, 24/7, and worked a full workday when off watch. (The 10 PM to 2 AM watch made it work out over a 24-hour period.)
Jackball division officer (DO) tried to send me to Captain’s Mast for sleeping on watch. Thing is, he found me asleep standing, so it went nowhere.
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Pretty much work from when I wake up to sleep. Owning own business :). Even taking days off i'm on the phone to staff or doing social media/accounting etc. Then again I've saved 25K a month for the past 2 years not including cash. So I take it while it's good.
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Worked 80 hrs a week for 8 years. All I got was NO life and a $42,000 tax bill . . . FUCK REVENUE CANADA!
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Yep.... Worked myself into the ground doin that for over a year str8. Only way I could do it was with heroin honestly. Is get off at 12. Home by 1. Slew by 2 up byn4am and back at work by 5 or 530am.
Using heroin 24-7 the whole time. Never missed a day.. But the physical and mental toll wasn't worth it at all.
I did that many hours without heroin, heroin is for losers.
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I work at least 60 hours a week every week. I own a business so I am in the office at 6:30 and usually leave at 6:30 or so in the evening. I also answer emails and do a little stuff at the house after the wife and kids to bed. I'm not saying that's every single day, as being self employed allows me certain freedoms like picking my kids up early from school and things like that, but working 65 hours every week is what I do. Starting out, I was clocking 80-90 hours a week for a while. I went almost 100 days straight and worked at least 10-12 hours every day to get above water. It's not for everybody, but just like waking up early to go to the gym, you eventually get used to it.
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If you NEED to work over 40 hours week, some/all of these apply to you...
1. You are earning a low hourly wage.
2. You lack special skills.
3. You are frivolous and are living way beyond your means.
4. You have a substance abuse/gambling problem.
5. You have kids/wife to support.
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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
i dont think those who log in 70-90 hours a week are actually for example construction workers of physical labor workers doing that much work. Those are mostly jobs that "you're on the clock" . I routinely average 60-80 hours a week, but for example i might be on a 12 hour flight, need to be at the airport 3 hours before, when i land and getby the time i either get a car or go check in my hotel, thats another 2 hours, so for example in one day i "work" 17-18 hours that day. Then you have 2-3 days of work/meetings/dinner meetings which probably run from 9am-8-9 pm, so thats another 10-11 hours a day i charge. and take into account flying back, so it easily adds up to like 70 a week.
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Funny you brought this up. I just had to make a manager of one of our banners aware of one of their employees were averaging 82.3 hours a week for 2017 so far. I oversee all our banners. Why they never caught it I have no clue. The last 3 weeks he had 78.5, 92.6 and 88.2. Hell the guy should be dead working like that. I imagine he will be let go for time theft this week.
"You're fired for working too hard and collecting overtime!"
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If you NEED to work over 40 hours week, some/all of these apply to you...
1. You are earning a low hourly wage.
2. You lack special skills.
3. You are frivolous and are living way beyond your means.
4. You have a substance abuse/gambling problem.
5. You have kids/wife to support.
Elon Musk says he works 100 hours per week.
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Funny you brought this up. I just had to make a manager of one of our banners aware of one of their employees were averaging 82.3 hours a week for 2017 so far. I oversee all our banners. Why they never caught it I have no clue. The last 3 weeks he had 78.5, 92.6 and 88.2. Hell the guy should be dead working like that. I imagine he will be let go for time theft this week.
Are these people really working all these hours?... of course not. People who do this are putting themselves on the radar with some company bean counter. Eventually their hours will be cut back or they'll be fired.
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Elon Musk says he works 100 hours per week.
My list is most applicable to average, low/middle class workers, not self starting entrepreneurs.
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If you NEED to work over 40 hours week, some/all of these apply to you...
1. You are earning a low hourly wage.
2. You lack special skills.
3. You are frivolous and are living way beyond your means.
4. You have a substance abuse/gambling problem.
5. You have kids/wife to support.
Or you simply want to retire somewhat comfortably without having to choose between moving in with your kids or living under a bridge.
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Are these people really working all these hours?... of course not. People who do this are putting themselves on the radar with some company bean counter. Eventually their hours will be cut back or they'll be fired.
And the company bean counter is probably pulling the same amount of hours trying to find out who is "wasting" company money.
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Or you simply want to retire somewhat comfortably without having to choose between moving in with your kids or living under a bridge.
Yes spend all the early part of your life (the best years) working as many hours as you can so you can live comfortably in your old age and die leaving it all to your ungrateful lids
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i worked hard labor from 7 am to 2 am the next day 5 days in a row m-f than saturday from 7 am till 6 pm, two weeks in a row on my christmas vacation from college in the early 70's on sunday i lifted weights.... i shit you not...this was well over 100 hours for the week. 2 weeks straight :o :o :o :o :o
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Most I ever last was 4 months doing 80+ hard warehouse labor
Would do 3 13 hour days follow by 3 16 hour days.
Right now I'm doing about 65 a week in 5 days for the past 2 months, going to keep that up for another 2 months.
Then I'm starting my own business in the afternoons(4pm-12am) and working 5am-3pm at my current job(tue-fri)and though about doing a part time job sat-sun
I'll have my mortgage paid off by 26 then I can save for early retirement by 35ish probably as cost of living after mortgage gone will be 800 a month with food/gas/all bills
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i collect disability so thats 0 to1 hour per week
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When I started on my current business, 16 years ago, I did that kind of hours for 6/7 years without giving a fuck. It was all about making as much as I could. Now, I still enjoy working but I can work less, have some free time and make as much if not more money than I did back then. Working paid off. At one point, the greatest luxury is time. And let's face it, 80h/week is not the same if you're blue collar or white collar.
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"You're fired for working too hard and collecting overtime!"
No Parker, sorry my post wasn't clear. He was never working that much. Hell no one can. He was stealing time. If he had actually been working those hours I would have given his managers a threshold. The company becomes liable if you overwork someone and the become injure or in an accident in the company vehicle. These guys work with their hands.
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Most I ever last was 4 months doing 80+ hard warehouse labor
Would do 3 13 hour days follow by 3 16 hour days.
Right now I'm doing about 65 a week in 5 days for the past 2 months, going to keep that up for another 2 months.
Then I'm starting my own business in the afternoons(4pm-12am) and working 5am-3pm at my current job(tue-fri)and though about doing a part time job sat-sun
I'll have my mortgage paid off by 26 then I can save for early retirement by 35ish probably as cost of living after mortgage gone will be 800 a month with food/gas/all bills
Where do you live? Do you ever get laid with that insane schedule?
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i collect disability so thats 0 to1 hour per week
What disability do you have?
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Yes spend all the early part of your life (the best years) working as many hours as you can so you can live comfortably in your old age and die leaving it all to your ungrateful lids
Exactly. It's either that or enjoy the early part of your life (the best years) goofing off, partying, spending all the money you have, then move in with your kids or live under a bridge when you're no longer able to work. :)
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If you NEED to work over 40 hours week, some/all of these apply to you...
1. You are earning a low hourly wage.
2. You lack special skills.
3. You are frivolous and are living way beyond your means.
4. You have a substance abuse/gambling problem.
5. You have kids/wife to support.
6. Own a business
Fixed
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If you're running your own business and you love what you do, I would say 80 hrs per week is pretty commonplace. If it's the hourly grind, that would be murderous, even 60 would be horrible.
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If you're running your own business and you love what you do, I would say 80 hrs per week is pretty commonplace. If it's the hourly grind, that would be murderous, even 60 would be horrible.
Agree 100%
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If you're running your own business and you love what you do, I would say 80 hrs per week is pretty commonplace. If it's the hourly grind, that would be murderous, even 60 would be horrible.
100%
I work out of hours all the time.....but I dont see it as work, I enjoy designing out problems and chronicling.
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i dont think those who log in 70-90 hours a week are actually for example construction workers of physical labor workers doing that much work. Those are mostly jobs that "you're on the clock" . I routinely average 60-80 hours a week, but for example i might be on a 12 hour flight, need to be at the airport 3 hours before, when i land and getby the time i either get a car or go check in my hotel, thats another 2 hours, so for example in one day i "work" 17-18 hours that day. Then you have 2-3 days of work/meetings/dinner meetings which probably run from 9am-8-9 pm, so thats another 10-11 hours a day i charge. and take into account flying back, so it easily adds up to like 70 a week.
Absolutely, traveling is a colossal waste of time. A few months ago I flew to Manila for a meeting that lasted only 90 minutes. Three days spent traveling, just time and money wasted on something that should have been done via skype.
Actually the dinners are something I now expressly tell people I will not do. So evenings are mostly my own when abroad. I rather spend time alone on my own terms than talk about work until midnight.
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the most hours that I've worked in the last 10 years or so was about 12 8)
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the most hours that I've worked in the last 10 years or so was about 12 8)
Good for you brother, I applaud that.
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It's called "mess work" in USMC boot camp on Paris Island MCRD.
As a recruit you work in the chow hall from 4:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. for 1 straight week.
You do all the shit work in the kitchen for endless hours. It sucks ass and you walk around like
a 'f'n zombie after a couple days.
I've seen the basic staff on cruises working long hours doing menial tasks ( cleaning, serving, etc).
I always tip them good when I go on cruises and have to respect their work ethic.
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Anyone ever done one? Or many? I'm thinking most who say they are clicking such hours are full of shit! What kind of quality work can be done past the tenth hour of a work day?
I did 82 hours in one week.
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I do 5 10-12hr shifts a week. Come home and work out, practice and then sleep.
Haven't had a day off in 14 months.
Do you have a girlfriend? A wife? Kids? Friends? Anything?
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I have done 70 and 80 hour weeks in the past but there was always a goal in mind. I try to invest between 30 - 50K a year, and retire early. These days I have brought down that figure to 50 hours a week. Most people I work with are content to max out their pensions, and work until they are old and grey. It just isn't my thing. I want to retire by 50.
And you are how old now? Btw, working 70 to 80 hours a week at McDonald's won't allow you to retire by 50. Try getting a real designation, working 40 hours and making 4 to 12 times the amount of money.
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Work is for peasants
Turning pro as a bber should be the goal
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Work is for peasants
posing for old men in motels as a bber should be the goal
fixed
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fixed
Preferably at the Mirage hotel next to the ice machine
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I did 7 12's for seven weeks straight, paid for 112 hours when you work 84 hours a week. I can do that easy but the hour drive to work, hour drive back and a hour at the gym 5-6 days were a bit much. I know some guys who average 104 hours a week. :O I am sure those guys are front loading their pensions and will work like that five years straight! :o :o
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If you NEED to work over 40 hours week, some/all of these apply to you...
1. You are earning a low hourly wage.
2. You lack special skills.
3. You are frivolous and are living way beyond your means.
4. You have a substance abuse/gambling problem.
5. You have kids/wife to support.
Or absolutely none of the above, Work a helluva lot of hours because of a specialized skill that pays well above average and lets me retire before 60
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Pretty much work from when I wake up to sleep. Owning own business :). Even taking days off i'm on the phone to staff or doing social media/accounting etc. Then again I've saved 25K a month for the past 2 years not including cash. So I take it while it's good.
Like this except without your good money. :D
There are no hours. It's just my life. It's 7:54pm and just got in from repairing a roof, I need to eat, then I'm going outside to pack the truck for tomorrow. Then I'm going to shower and go to bed. If a job is more than 1.5 hours away, and I don't have to pick something up on the way home, I sleep on the building site. I haven't had a day off in about 6 months. It's fine. It's just the expectation of 'time off' or 'having a life' that makes people use phrases like "U work too much" and "You're insane."
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I averaged 90hours per week 2007-2009. It seems a bit crazy now looking back but I didn't mind it so much them but I was in my mid 20's. I was a surgical resident. Now it's illegal to work more than 80 hour week and in many European countries 48 hour is max for doctors.
I do about a 50 hour week now.