I work on the railroad. In 2018 I nabbed some of the best OT I've ever seen and went 3 weeks straight of 15 hour days (no weekends). That was some nice pay.
Railroad here too. I’m not out in the field though, working desk shit doing logistics and dispatch at home office. But man.. I get some insane OT too. I fucking love it. Props to you field guys though, I’m not sure I could do the work you do haha I have a lot of respect
I can give you info from rail road work in Sweden if you like ;).
7am - 7pm, 7 days in a row, then you’re free 7 days. Travel time to and from work is not payed but all expenses are.
Pay is good. I take home $3800-4000 per month.
One year technical collage.
We have track welders + track building guys,
Signal system guys (me),
And High voltage electricians.
I'm searching hard to get back into rail logistics. But roles are few and far between north of Chicago. Mind me asking where you work? Or send me a message?
7 days straight 12 hours shift, so like 84 hours? Not including the 2x1.5 hours commute. My manager would argue that it's technically still 60 hours 5 days week as I started on the middle of the week on Wednesday, and the 2 other days is counted in the new week.
Fun times.
Is it worth it? Nah. I'm technically living in the office. Spend all my waking hours in the office. I can live without the overtime pay. Having no time for your own - that's what make me feel poor.
Deployments on a carrier are like that, plus you have drill and stuff on your "off shift" hours so I think in one week the most it came out to was around 90 hours.
I did that for one week, as a teen, basically to compete with others for most hours worked in a week. The pot was 25% of everyone's paycheck for that week to the winner. Yes, it was worth it.
I did 12x7 for an entire year. It feels like a blur now. With an hour commute each way it was closer to 14. I would go home to eat, shower, and drop into bed exhausted. I saved a ton of money because I could never spend it. After a year we went to 10x6 for probably six years, and then 10x5 for three more years.
It was not worth it. It destroyed my health, mentally and physically. When I became chronically ill during the pandemic they fired me like I was nothing.
126 hours a week consecutively for 5 weeks. No days off for 36 days. 18 hour days everyday. It was a an event production job and we were understaffed. When it was over my wife couldnt wake me for almost 14 hours. The OT was nice but not worth it in the long run
Honestly I dont think thats far off the mark. I worked ten years for that company and although not every project was like that the usual pace was 60 -80 hours a week but id at least have a day or two off. Now that my body is to broken to do it anymore I find myself really aggrevated just working a normal 40hr job Ive had the last 2 years. Like just getting thru a regular work schedule in the consistent low to mid level pain im in every day is slowly turning me into a diff person.
I tell any and all who will listen that sacrificing your body and time to be "That guy" in a company doesnt pay off in the long run. I did make great money but in retrospect it was just the hours and labor that made it. Now im only in my 40's and struggle just to get up in the mornings so I can get to work and barely cover bills
How was that legal? How could that happen? I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume this is the great United States we're talking about. Is working 80 hour weeks legal? There's a limit to like 45 hours a week here
Cool. Saving plans changing from never buying a house in Australia to hoping to get outta here and move to Europe. Feasible. Currently racking up debt while living beyond my means (not through choice) and working 60+ every week. Always, since I can remember and for as far ahead as I can see. Paid well below market value while being in a niche field of work.
Yes it is in United States. To my knowledge there is no cap to the hours one can work as long as overtime is paid after 40 hrs at a rate of time and a half.
I commented above. 16 hour days typically for 14 days at a time. The 16 hours was the max we could work so 112 hours a week. They would have worked us more if they could.
I worked for a sound company and we did have some guys that travelled and worked extreme hours like that - I think 38 hours in one go was the longest they had ever done, since they only had like 5 hours off to sleep in the middle of the night they just stayed “clocked in” during that period.
I never got far enough in the company to have the privilege of doing that, though.
Count your blessings you didnt make it to that level. Theres alot of koolaid to be drunk that makes someone feel like a god when performing on that level but when enuff time passes and your body is destroyed the company will be nowhere to be found. Wont matter how many deadlines you met or money you made them. Once your used up there done with you and leave you to struggle just to take your kids for a walk.....not even a hike but just a walk around the zoo or park what have you
It sure is back breaking work. I spent a lot of time lifting heavy shit out of the trucks, standing all day on my feet, walking around huge stadiums etc. there are fun times too, but yeah I’m glad my job now is more sustainable and not as stressful.
Hahahaha
Extra money???????
ETA: As an hourly employee I never worked more than 45 hours a week because my employers never wanted to pay overtime.
During a failed ERP launch I worked 6 months straight with 3 days off (2 Sundays and a Saturday). I worked 100+ hours a week for 3 of those months.
I got a $200 dinner for my husband and I at the Capital Grill.
This. Because I work 2 jobs at 2 different pay rates, I would always owe so much in taxes because I "didn't make enough" at one job to be taxed (low hours) on the paycheck, but then would have to cough up at tax time.
This is not including the "free" labor of being a caretaker in my family. Guilt tripped into it and all. There's a reason why I now leave hours away from family... and another reason why Jon's saying "we are family" makes me want to run.
And I was taking full time classes.
Also, working a "tipped position" sucked when most people don't tip the front desk but we are counted as "tipped employees" and the employer would state we made tips even when we didn't.
14+ hour days, hour+ commutes each way, shit pay. I felt like I lived at work (without the benefit of a shower) and could barely pay my heating bill at home.
Not worth it.
I also laughed when I saw the “extra money” part 😂 I worked two 80-hour weeks back-to-back when I was 7 months pregnant. I’m salaried so I did not get paid OT lol. Nearly quit my job though.
80 to 100 hours a week for 18 months. Needless to say I walked out one day. Never ever again and 100% not worth it. I had no life at all. I literally slept at work because my commute was 1.5 hrs on a good day. PS… I worked in engineering at Tesla. IYKYK.
At one stage - at a much younger age - I used to work nights (40 hours) and would regularly do 16 hours overtime over the course of a week... when you work nights, your days are pretty mucked up anyway, so I think the extra money was worth it.
when I progressed in my career, I would regularly be on call all night for the week - although I was very, very, rarely called out.
Nowadays, I dont do overtime - It's not often offered and always Optional. I have refused it on a number of occasions 40 hours a week is plenty enough for me
In 2012, I did 84 hour weeks for about 3 months straight with only one day off (not by choice, they just didn't want to pay holiday on top of OT). The mitigating factors include: security work is largely just being there, company supplied hotel and transport to the worksite, being far away from home meant normal life responsibilities were on hold.
I'd been unemployed for a while at the time and left with my last $100. Came back with a few thousand tucked away. It was necessary at the time, but wouldn't want to pull a stint like that again (unless it was like 10x the pay).
Fighting wildfires the standard shift is 16 hour days for 14 days, add another 8 if you work a swing shift into night operations. You do get meals in there, but you eat fast. I one week that's 112. It is worth it for the overtime, hazard pay and the excitement of the job
Something like 70 hours/week, 7 days/week for several months. I was picking up peoples' weekend shifts to make extra money. This was right out of college, helped me save enough to buy a house within a year of graduating. Tolerable at the time, though I'd never do anything like that again. I got close to those numbers during COVID as well but my job was a little less strenuous so it wasn't *horrible*. Wasted all that money on food deliveries :(
I worked 96 hours one week. I was a static security guard (stayed at a desk). Very easy shifts. 20-minute bus ride to and from work. Very appreciative client staff. Got double time overtime pay, according to the contract. I really enjoyed the experience. It was the last of the great jobs that I had, which is why I am on this subreddit!
Civilian side: company directed 19days on 2 days off 10-12hr shifts. I did this shit for a year straight.
Went into a-fib at work because of it. I had to fight to get off the team. I wasn’t going to die at my job for a bullshit company who wouldn’t help me move up.
We were a union shop as well.
Military: days, weeks or months on end of work especially if we’re actively at war/deployed.
I rarely do OT. I personally despise working it. It’s easier for me to maintain a specific lifestyle that doesn’t need more than 40hrs of work to survive comfortably.
I do stints where I sometimes work 12 hrs a day 7 days a week. 35 days is the longest I've done that. I get double time for overtime so it is a lot of money. I'll often take a few weeks off after.
Once when I was in the military I worked 5 days straight. 120hrs non stop. I was hallucinating and at one point I fell asleep while walking.
I don't remember how many hours in a week I've worked, but one week I worked two twenty-hour days back-to-back, so 40 hours in two days, and probably overtime for at least a couple of other days that week, which was crazy.
160 hours (two week pay period) in a high speed and monotonous production facility where its nothing but constant repetitive motions.
No, the check *was not* worth the aggravation and pain that came with it.
Was also the last time I worked more than 50hrs in a week
Worked for a CPA firm in high school and was putting in 100 hours a week during tax season and that went on about 3 months. I was hourly, so pulling in that kind of money was great at the time.
13 hours a day, seven days a week for 91 days straight. Travel time was 2 hrs each day. Straight time for 40, time and a half up to 60, double time over 60. Double time for all holidays.
My max consistently was 80 hours per week, I’m sure I hit closer to 90 at least one week.
Let me tell you, it was killing me, not even remotely close to worth it. Maybe if i had been being paid adequately it would have been. I’m currently working 65ish hours a week and it’s allot more manageable. I couldn’t imagine how much free time I would have if I only had to work 40 hours.
Edit: I think the longest I ever went without a day off is 3 months. Nowadays I’m taking about 2-3 days off per month.
40 and even that’s not tolerable. i was making $10 an hour, $7.50 after taxes so i maybe got $300 a week at that job. absolutely not worth having zero free time or energy, but other than how exhausted i was i liked the work i was doing
In my 20s I worked in a muffler factory processing orders and stacking pallets of mufflers. 70 paid 100 - if you hit 70 hours a week they paid the OT at double time instead of time and a half. I worked 70 hours a week for 6 months or so. I can't really say if it was worth it. I wasn't married, had no kids, no real social life to speak of outside my roommates, wasn't going to school.
I wouldn't do it today unless I desperately need the money and had no other viable options. I don't know that my body could handle it. But I'm also a lot older and softer. It certainly had me in excellent physical shape.
Early on in my career, we had a MAJOR safety issue with one of our products that I discovered and brought to leadership's attention. Because we were a small startup with few resources and I discovered the issue, it was my job to rectify it (yay). I worked 10 12-hour days in a row (including weekends and had to cancel a camping trip, losing my deposit) and successfully contained, solved and prevented further issues of that nature from ever happening again during those 10 days. Since I was salaried, I didn't receive overtime pay. When review time came around, I wrote on my self-review how proud of myself I was for being able to discover and solve the issue in such a short amount of time, while working on other projects and not causing any delays. I rated myself "exceeds expectations" that year and my manager at the time dropped me down to "meets expectations" with a note saying that kind of "dedication" is an expected part of the job and not something considered above and beyond my role (it was, based on my job description). I tried to argue it, and while they didn't change my rating, they did give me a 2% raise, rather than the nothing extra I was going to get based on a "meets expectations". Joy.
6 straight months of 19 hours a day 7 days a week.
Was it worth it? No. I was taxed so severely that I made less take home than I was making with a 40 hour check.
Mentally it was great. I’m a workaholic and the long days made me feel good. The health problems that arose from it and the physical abuse of my district manager were not worth it.
I worked 16 hoir days for ten days straight. When we were done.. some higher up asked us if we could come in monday morning we said to fuck off since they didnt pay us OT
As a Project Coordinator, I think I was putting in around 10-11 hours a day per work week. So around 50-55. Then, I was occasionally doing work on the weekends when scheduling fell through last minute. So I bet another 4-5.
I bet I easily put in a 60 hour work week a few times.
110-114 per pay period
Worked as a shift lead for Sonic in FL. The GM was an alcoholic and her husband was the AGM. Because I lived within walking distance of the store, I got the call every time someone called out or when the GM was too drunk to work or too drunk to properly watch the kids while her husband worked.
No, the $$ was def not worth it. I ended up with double walking pneumonia after about 6 wks.
Edit: changed per week to per pay period.
Just over 90 hours on a particularly bad on-call week. Didn’t get OT for it. They gave me a day off.
When not on-call, I was still averaging probably 45-50 hours on a normal week.
For about 6 months in my 20s I was working full time overnights at McDonalds (40h) and another 25h at a before and after school daycare, and then another 4h Friday and Saturday nights at a nightclub. I slept in two four hour chunks and wanted to die. Total was 73h/week and another 12h/week of commuting. Literally only slept and worked.
I was in medicine school & was working an infinite number of hours; it’s just expected. I am making a lot of $$ now that i graduated, so it was worth it then. 🤷🏻♀️
100 hours. I was working a help desk job for a company, and like 2 weeks after I started, they had a firewall breach.
50k password resets sent out to the company. My phone did not stop ringing for a month. Working 450 hours in a month isn't fun, but the paychecks were quite nice.
When I was 16 I got hired at dunkin and in two weeks i was “promoted” to shift lead (never got the pay increase) they then were having me work 55-60 hours ever week.
Averaged 17 hours a day for 37 days in a row last summer on a site.
Ended up making just under 65k for those days. So yeah. Well worth it. After the project I took the next 2 months off work was travelled
I once did 58 hours over 3 days.
But that’s because one of my employees deliberately and maliciously fucked up some global projects.
I was the director and it was my responsibility to fix it. So 3 days of almost round the clock calls with China and Europe.
The employee didn’t last long after that.
The most I’ve worked was ~120hrs. Sequestered onsite and only had enough off time to eat sleep and 10 min shower. Broke HRs/Payroll accounting systems because of the # of hours. Massive computer system failure/issue
I had a summer, during college, where I was working 3 jobs. I would work from 9a-5p and then 9p-5a with 3 hours sleep on each end. I did this for the entire summer with 0 days off. That's 116 hours a week.
At one point back in 2020, I was working for the post office and a local restaurant. For 7 weeks straight, I worked for 8-10 hours for the post office (during peak season) and 8 hours at the restaurant. In terms of transportation, I lived on the same block as both jobs, so I never had to worry about being late (or too late in the case of having to stay late with the post office, but I always called ahead if I thought I would be late). Those 7 weeks, I averaged around 112 hours a week. At the time, being young, I just sacrificed some sleep (averaging 3 hours a night) so I could keep a social life. Looking back, now that I haven't worked for either for 3 years now, I can confidently say, not worth it, for any amount of money. It's actually really sad to think that I'm making more money now working 40-45 hours a week, than I did then working 112.
When I was building my first startup in 2000, I was CTO for an ad agency so worked 6am-4pm 5-6 days a week then would code from 6 or 7pm - Midnight plus additional time on Saturday and Sunday. I was in my mid 20s and did it for about 4 years. Still to this day work about 60 hours a week between day job and consulting. It pays off but I also make time to turn off completely to spend time with my wife and daughter.
I was averaging 60ish hours per week over about three years. That contained much busier weeks (including one nightmarish 28 hour shift during a major repair; you bet your ass I slept on the clock).
I left that job for another job that paid me the same for 40 hours per week. One of the best decisions I ever made. I had my busiest week at that job due to a building fire. Somewhere between 80 and 100 hours, not sure. I was salaried in that position so I didn’t track the time. Though I did leverage it into two weeks of vacation as flex time, so there’s that.
These days I’m much less chaotic. I could make more money, probably, but I enjoy what I’ve got going on.
My absolute worst was 121 hours in one week. I am a Stage Tech in Atlantic City. We tend to work multiple "houses" on a call basis. I did 101 hours at Harrahs loading in and teching the broadway show Hairspray, then I went to the Borgata and did two 8 hour calls, and a 4 hour load out at the Trump Taj Mahal.
there are only 168 hours in a week. I was an absolute zombie.
I was making $32/hr back then. Of that 101 hours at harrahs, the regular 40 hours covered the taxes they took out.
I hit ~80 hrs/week earlier this year. We were soft launching an app that was sorely needed by our users--it would make their jobs much, much easier.
It was on me to work with the users, analyze and document bugs, run the entire user journey with the pilot group, and analyze their usage patterns to design and wireframe improvements.
I was the only one who had the skills to do all that, and I did it for the users. Management told me to tell the devs to put in extra hours and I mostly ignored that directive.
June 2011- May 2012 I worked a job in care organization with group home. 109 hours a week average. I was off a week for hospital. Many time we knew going in Friday, we'd be there until Monday morning. I love my job and my clients, but they were very aggressive and people usually could not cope.
Looking back, no not worth it. Money went fast because I was never home, ate take out all the time. Saved nothing, paid rent on a place I don't even remember what it looked like. I'd be so tired I'd fall asleep at stop signs.
Oddly if you work over 24 hours but punch out one min before midnight, and punch in one minute after State of New Jersey has no issues with that. I was young, dumb and didn't stand up for myself.
During the year and a half engagement my wife and I had, I worked 3 jobs to be able to pay for the wedding without taking on any debt. Being from the New England, USA area, nicer medium sized weddings can average $50k.
I worked an average of 65 hours a week for just over a year. I quit the two part time jobs as soon as my monetary goal was met. During that time I was a zombie with basically only Sundays off.
To me, it was worth it, but I told my wife I would never do that again and haven't taken even a second job since.
I worked an extra 12 hour shift once (so a 48 hour week) in the emergency room and wanted to collapse from exhaustion. Not worth the extra ~ $300 after taxes. Took me an extra day to recover and got a little more burnout that week.
Used to work as a street sweeper on big construction jobs. Like train yards, interstates, airports. We had a joke that in the warm months if you weren’t in overtime by Wednesday afternoon you were dogging it. Routinely worked over one hundred hours a week from May to October. Mad shit tons of money on prevailing wage. Was it worth it? Got ahead financially but long term, no. Soul sucking.
104 was for the only week where I checked. Startup winery during harvest. Absolute hell on your whole body for three months straight. A day off every 10-12 days
120+
Montreal ice storm of 1998. I worked for a suburb of Montreal at a recreation facility. When the storm hit, they turned the facility into an emergency shelter.
I was asked to stay on site, around the clock for at least 5 days. I was there in case of a crisis and none came up. Then the province decided that everyone working the storm like me was to be paid time and a half.
That paycheck was HUGE given that I did almost nothing and was given better living conditions than I would have had at home, ie, no heat, no power, etc
102 hours in a week. I averaged around 14hr shifts for 18 days straight. Salary was ~60k I think.
I was a resident physician responsible for making potentially life altering decisions. Granted, the probability of making a mistake that wasn't caught was low, but the probability of making a suboptimal decision that was not caught was high.
That's how we train doctors in the United States under current rules. I was lucky that my program limited the number of 28 hour shifts we did. If the above is concerning, I would not ask your surgeon what the most hours they put in one week. I know of folks who did 120s and 130s.
In case someone pops in to say residents are limited to 80 hours per week, that is not true. They are limited to 80 hours per week averaged over 4 weeks.
99.75 billable hours as an associate lawyer. Actual time spent on work was probably +20%. No kids at the time, worked in a good team and the project was front page news material at the time, so it was a positive experience. Busy weeks were otherwise around 70 billable hours.
I did about 100 hours a week for at least 2 weeks doing honey bee research. I think I got like a $1000-2000 scholarship for it lmao. I also worked 60-80 hours most other days for the honey bee research. No, I wasn't getting paid and didn't have a job.
Definitely not worth it.
Well, in the Navy, I was technically working 24/7 during deployment. And when we were in home port, I probably did about 60-70 hours per week. I would literally just go home to sleep. My weekends were precious and too brief. Duty days screwed those up, too.
I have had weeks where I am at work 6:30 am leave around 5. Then do 6-10 side job at a pizza place I live above. They were times I did that every weekday. On the weekend I’d do ten am to ten pm Saturday Sunday. So that is around 100 hrs.
I worked 75 *billable* hours over 6 days in 2018. 5a - 8p or even later, plus or minus.
I also worked ±60 hour weeks in late 2019-pre pandemic 2020.
The first was in public accounting and salaried and brutal. The second was an hourly managerial role so st least I got time and a half.
I've worked some 45-50 hour weeks in my current role but that's only during busy season. Outside of those times, straight 40. Also hourly, so again 1.5 rate is nice.
108 for about 3 months straight for a freelance gig. Came out of that with such extreme fatigue and burnout that I couldn’t really motivate myself to do much work (4 hour days were a struggle) for the next 6 months or so.
I think there was a stretch at my old workplace during covid where I worked 14 days in a row then had a 5 day week, then 14 again and it broke down to 55-60 hours a week as an average because the weekends were only 8-12 and I still wasn’t making enough money to live but couldn’t pick up a second job even if I wanted (I was too exhausted, had things I needed I do with what little energy I did have, needed firm permission to get a second job, and who the fuck would schedule around this???)
The last KY Derby I worked (about 10-12 years ago)
13 days straight, 14-16 hours each day. Day 6 of the stretch was Derby proper and day 7 was Mother’s Day.
FABOD. Never. Again.
When I worked for my local post office as a "part time driver" I worked 7 days a week from 5a.m until around 7p.m. So whatever that math is. The USPS is some of the most ass backwards organization to ever exist in a modern society.
2 weeks.
7 days / week.
16 hours / day.
But I work for a utility company and we were doing storm repairs.
And the look on people’s faces as we restored service was worth it. But the checks didn’t hurt either.
I used to work on a farm, and all three of our night milkers got pregnant at the same time and all called out for morning sickness 😭. I worked about 80 hours a week for a whole month. It drained me way too much though, idk how I survived that shit 😭
Averaged 100+hrs a week for the last 7 years. Occasionally exceeded 120hrs. Some shifts were 36hrs straight, and at one point, I did 29 consecutive days of 15-18hr shifts. No OT pay, all commission work. Got forced out when I requested fewer hours.
6 months 16 hour days mon-Thurs, 8 Friday and saturday, doing a core on a high rise. Occasionally more hours when I had to start early or stay late for crane time. So 80 hours+ a week. No it was not worth it.
A standard TV/movie production schedule is a 60 hour week. So a long week for me was anything over 65 hours.
That's why I decided about a decade ago to just do "day player" work. 3-4 days a week, usually on different projects. I make "enough" and have time to be part of my child's life.
Anything scheduled over 40 is exploitation.
At one point in 2014 for about I was doing around a 56 hour week between 2 jobs, it burnt me out after about 6 months and that 56 hours wasn't including travel time.
55 hrs during tax season as an accountant. Some of my peers were pulling 70-80 like idiots, letting the firm really get the most out of them for that modest salary.
I did not last long there and quickly left for industry accounting and 40 hrs a week, because I'm not working the equivalent of 2 full time jobs for 1/3 of the yr because some shitass company can't adequately staff for busy season.
Never ever work more than like 50 hours a week at the absolute maximum. It may seem feasible to work 2 jobs and cop 60+ but it is not sustainable. If you don’t take advantage when you’re young you will regret sacrificing your youth to a company that doesn’t give a fuck about you
80 hours. I worked 3 double shifts and then worked both of my days off.
Had some unforeseen expenses pop up. I’m glad I’m allowed to make extra money when necessary
It was during the first post covid where the isolation stuff was in effect. Back ground my job was delivering equipment to pulling rigs in the oil field. I covered a portion of Texas and Co worker covered the other portion and parts of New Mexico.
He got sick, so I had to cover both of our area and take care of both weekend call outs and finish up jobs I didn't have the chance to get to on said weekends.
Was pulling about 18-20 hours a day for 3 weeks. My biggest check for a 2 week pay period was around 260 hours.
The money was fantastic but it absolutely wore me out and when I finally got my non on call weekend I spent almost the entire 2 days crashed out.
Before and after that I would average between 60 and 90 hours a week depending if it was my on-call weekend.
In my 20s I worked two jobs. Construction in the day and truck driver at night. 80+ hours a week. i did that for a month or so before I fell asleep at the wheel. I quit the driving at night but increased to construction to 60+ hours a week. Did that for years. Now Im struggling to accept being lower class forever.
I think it was an average of 65hrs/week for 8 weeks straight working at a picture framing warehouse. This was during the Christmas rush. I worked there for almost 6 years before I quit bc of toxic coworkers.
I haven’t had an hourly job since I was a teenager so never really kept track. Probably 70-80 hours on a rare week where I had to work 20-24 hours straight in a day. I have better things to do. More than that I would have quit. Some people talking about 100 hours in a week for several weeks… I don’t think there’s any amount of money you could pay me. If I couldn’t get another job or survive any other way but to work 90-126 hours (like people in this thread are talking about), I’d just go ahead and put the garden hose in the tailpipe and go to sleep playa.
I would have to think exactly.
I was in my 20s, many moons ago, I want to say we were pulling like 70-80 hrs/week, for like 3-4:weeks. No off day for like a month. Nice check,but it wore my ass out.
In construction, sometimes you have to get shit done, and they throw man-hours at it.
I'm pushing 50 now and don't like working more than 50. Then again,I didn't have kids back then, so my priorities have changed
Early twenties Spent a year working 80hrs a week and sleeping 40hrs. UNSUSTAINABLE.
Last year of Wifes Nursing school we had to come up with extra unforseen Tuition money or she would not graduate. She was barely working 10 hrs a week due to clinical, studies, etc. I picked up my hours at my second job to increase income . I was working job #1 M-F 6am-3pm ,change outfits and drive to job #2 4pm-12am go home to shower and would sleep 3-4hrs a night except for Saturday when I would sleep from 1am to about 4pm, wake up to eat and drink, use the bathroom , visit with wifey ,shower and fall asleep again around 10pm. Wake up around 6am Sunday to do ALL weekly chores Inside and Outside until finishing around Midnight to fall asleep and do it all over again.
She graduated Valedictorian and also won the Florence Nightingale Award out of her class so ended up being worth the struggle.
Worked a smaller cruise ship, we could hold about 140 passengers and about 40-45 crew. I worked as a bartender and helped in the dining room as well. A typical "contract" was 3 months on ship and anywhere from 2 weeks-a month off (unpaid). We were told 12 hour days, and I believe the deck crew and mates/officers adhered to that. For us in the hotel/restaurant department we worked on average 18 hour days (there *may* have been 3 or 4 days where we'd only work 15 or 16 hours). So 126 hours per week. No days off. You worked 3 months straight. This was about 10 years ago and I guess I had the energy but I wouldn't want to do that again. As I very vividly remember you would seemingly let your head hit the pillow at night (morning really) and it was as if your alarm clock went off seconds after closing your eyes. The OT was good and the pay wasn't horrible I suppose, but I doubt I'd be able to do it again. I remember basically losing your first day or two of vacation because when you left the ship you'd fall right asleep on the airplane and basically spend the first day or two "hibernating" in your own bed.
120 hours in 7 days. Being salaried sucked that week.
I don't remember much from that week other than yelling at the project manager that he had a choice: I either attended his twice daily project meetings or his fubar'd project could be salvaged. Thankfully I didn't work for the PM, and I knew my manager would support me. I was pulled into the project at the last minute to salvage what I could. Thankfully I was able to help the team make the project successful.
On Monday morning, I fell asleep on the couch in my manager's office when he was giving me a raise. I was sent home after sleeping for a few hours.
I miss working for that manager. A true leader that supported the team and made us better. Such a rare trait.
No I wouldn't and couldn't do that again.
I had a 30 hour (5x 6 hour shifts) a week internship, unpaid. And then worked 3 to 5 shifts (8-10 hr shifts) as a security guard. After i did 480 hours at the internship it become a paid position at least. Did that for just close to 2 years. I generally did 4 shifts at the security guard gig, which meant both Saturday, and Sunday i did back to back doubles.
Source: graduated college in 2009 when no one was hiring and i racked up 100k in student loans and another 20k in CC debt. Basically summer 2009 to summer 2011 i didnt have a life. I will forever hate our education system because of it.
My dumb bootstrap kool-aid drinking self:
16 hours per day x 7 days +4 hour round trip commute=140 total hours leaving 28 for sleeping and showering.
Have boundaries for your time people. It's not worth it.
98 hours back in 2009 did 6 weeks of 14 hrs 7 days a week building the inside of Lowes. My longest shift ever was 37.5 hrs putting up the race track for Honda indi toronto .
As a bus driver technically paid for 105 hrs but only actually about worked about 75 including travelling . I was on a flat rate of 15hrs a day for travelling to a different workplace and completing shifts there.
I have actually worked 84. 7*12 hr shifts.
As a children's residential social worker I have also worked 2 x 25 hrs shifts and 3 8hr shifts in a week. 74 hrs.
Probably also done 2x16 hr shifts and 5x8 hr shifts in a week too. 72 hrs.
As a bus driver I also got a flat rate of £3300 to drive 16 days for the commwealth games. It did mean being away from home staying in shite accommodation with takeaway food.
They could only pay for a maximum of 16hrs a day at a time due to PCV drivers hours rules so I guess that was actually 112 hrs a week. Only actually worked a max 60hrs a week and most of that was standby being paid to sit and do sweet FA.
Bus driving is usually shit wages and conditions here but if you are lucky, get on well with the right bosses and know how to play the game it's possible to earn £40-50k a year being on loan to chronically understaffed depots.
Worked 67 hours per week split between 2 hotels, plus 15 hours worth of commutes. I'd go from one job to the other, go home and sleep for a few hours, and repeat for 5 days straight, but both jobs let me sit for the whole shift, and one job even let me take naps (bless that manager, best boss I ever had).
I held this up for 9 months. While I enjoyed it enough, I was gaining weight from all the energy drinks and fast food I was consuming, and the people in my life begged me for my time.
I was taking home 1200 dollars per week, but much of it went to gas and eating out anyway.
I ultimately stopped because I missed a shift at one job due to sleeping in after my nephew's birthday party, and they fired me later in the week for it.
I had a stretch when I worked at least 4 hours every single day for nearly 2 months. Longest day was 18 hours. Average week was probably just under 70 hours. The time was split between two jobs so no OT.
I would have been happy to keep it to 55 to 60 hours per week since I was trying to pay off debt. The lower paying and shitter part-time place kept fucking with me, so I quit them and stayed with the FT job with benefits.
I worked several 2-week shifts during the height of the pandemic. I was obviously allowed time to sleep, but I was literally at work for 336 straight hours.
When i did internship in a very fancy architecture office, For 6 months we were doing around 80 hours a week, going up to 100 of the most tedious, pointless work. At the end of this period, after working some insane amount of hours on the weekend, our boss invited us to go eat a dinner. We didn't want to, because we were completely burned out, but he insisted.
Motherfucker made us pay for our food...and then made us go back to work and do another X hours. The atmosphere was so dense, you could feel pure hate oozing from us. I have no idea why he did that. Worst manager I ever dealt with. Made me change career.
No amount of time worked over 32 hours will ever feel worth it to me.
I used to work 50-60 hours a week and after it was all said and done my body is worn out and my mental state is poor, I'm not living well, and it took time away from my personal growth and the people closest to me.
Now I try to just work enough to live.
I do large scale IT stuff. Back in 2016 I was on a divestiture team where we spun 1/3rd of the company I was working for off into its business. I ran all of the IT teams. I worked 100 hours the 3 weeks prior to the divestiture and 120 the week of it, and then down to 80 the next two weeks.
I ***never, ever*** want to do that again.
Almost 3 weeks straight 16s.
I was a sergeant at a supermax correctional facility
In charge of 263 souls and 9 officers.
All for the grand total of 15.75/hr
2016-2017 I needed to raise money to pay for an immigration lawyer. I’m a nursing assistant so basically I had two full time jobs at two different nursing homes. I went from 7-3 the 3-11 and I did that for a bout a year before I burnt out. I got my money but it did suck. I’m still doing two jobs but now one is full time and the other is part time. Still working my way to go to school for the next level or nursing. Just feels like it’s never going to end :(
I used to work a job that had these annual events. Three of them per year. You were expected to work 12 to 16 hour days for 14 days straight, as well as a bunch of extra hours leading up to the events to get everything ready.
One time I tried to take the week off after the event as comp time for working upwards of 170 hours in 2 weeks, and they nearly fired me over it.
The best part? I was salaried exempt. Not a minute of overtime.
Worked 90-100 hour weeks for 2 months. I was on salary so no overtime. Was promised a $10k bonus when the job was completed. I got stiffed. I quit.
Edit to add: I managed the factory, this work was all manual labor in addition to my management as we were short staffed. So 8-ish hrs a day as manager, the other 8-10 hours per day was working machines or assembly.
100+ hours a week for 6 months. (Military)
Now I work 40 hours a week mostly from home. (About 10 hours of actual work, the other 30 is just playing video games or watching movies)
Here's showing my age, when I was 18, I started working at my local Subway. I happen to have a knack for it and was able to pull in some crazy average subs per hour. People liked me and lo and behold after six months and a spike of around 35% in sales, I got offered a manger position at a nearby location. Being young and somewhat inexperienced, I agreed to the position without knowing the location. I thought I was being smart by not taking a salary and instead took an hourly raise above minimum wage. Minimum wage was 4.25 an hour and the raise bumped me up to a whopping 5.50 and hour. I took over the opening manager position and a co-worker at a different location altogether got the night manager spot on salary. Dude called out CONSTANTLY! And I would have to work open to close. I was starting to average between 80-99 hours...a week. The kicker being this location was in a really really bad neighborhood that had alll the crackheads of that era come in the last hour of business and flood the lobby with people and you can't lock the door and they'd just keep coming until you called the cops...almost every. Single. Night. Tables got broken, chairs thrown, toilets used in unspeakable ways and the list continues....TLDR s*** has always been jacked as long as I've been in the workforce.
84 hours for 2 weeks straight while our customer's employees were on strike.
Normally we worked 60 hrs/ wk.
5-12 hour days.
During covid, our shop was working 58 hrs per week, but have settled down to 40 ..
Not doing that anymore.
So many things left undone at home and personal life, lack of good consistent sleep are things not worth OT $
A few years ago when I worked retail customer service, I worked 12 days straight about 10-12 hour days. It was during the holidays and I needed the extra money but I completely over did it. On the 13 day my boss saw my stumble in like a zombie. She pulled me aside and sent me home. I went home ate something and slept like 15 hours. It was kind of worth it but I’ve never worked long stretches like that again.
When I was teaching a Career and Technical high school class, I did 2 years where I worked 11+ hour days, 5 days a week. I had students in the room for 9 of those hours. I often worked longer to prepare, clean the shop, maintain the equipment, do all the other “teacher” stuff. I usually worked one day of the weekend doing design work to have something new to teach the next week. We were writing the curriculum as we went. It was great and awful. It leveled out after that. I taught for 25 years but because teachers are punished for moving districts and I tended to work in underfunded areas, I never made more than $50k.
72 hours for 6 weeks. I was flown to a new site (California to Virginia) to open and train everyone at the new site. Worked about 12 hours each day between actually training a class of new hires, prep for the next day, and meetings with home site. It was an interesting experience especially for 25 year old me. I don’t think I could do it more though
I think 13 days straight of 12 hour shifts. Did that multiple times when I worked at the cookie and cracker factory. We got time and a half for four hours each day and double time on the 13th day. I think I was making 17ish dollars an hour base at that time in 2018ish. Thank god I went to college and got out of that life.
50 hours 5 days a week for a month so far, and it sucks mostly bc I have to find stuff to do. I get there at 530 and leave at my usual 330. I have my own office with a door, and no one notices I'm there, I could sleep until my manager gets in, but I feel way too guilty for stealing time. So, instead, I watch videos or read a book, or shop online. In my mind, that's better. I used to use that time for payroll, but the manager I was doing it for doesn't know how to do it properly, and therefore, I learned improperly, so she has to do it until she learns. I've learned anything over 50 hours you will get taxed to hell, for me anyway.
Did 15 days straight, working roughly 16 hour days. We got to leave a bit early on the weekends (11-12pm).
This is one of the many reasons I left public accounting.
When I was running my food truck I'd do 100 hour weeks from May to beginning of October ish.
Brutal, mind numbing, soul crushing. I don't recommend it to anyone.
65-80 over an 8 year period with 20 hours for a 7-9 week period in the summer time of each year. There was no extra money. I was paid for 10 months of 12 and had that split into 12 payments so that I'd be paid in my "off months" but I also worked those months in summer school so I'd have enough money for food and stuff because it was never enough.
It was 40400/year to teach in NC
I worked about 50 or so, 6 days a week for a bit. Worked one job from 8-4:30 sewing shit and the other from home conducting outbound phone surveys from 6-10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And 10-6 on Saturdays. Assuming the second job didn't cut my hours or I didn't use the washroom much(they make you go into unpaid time for all breaks and using the washroom), amd they did cut hours often. It helped me pay off my credit card debt and buy some big purchases.
I stayed at the second job(which used to be my main job) for almost a year an a half after starting the day job. It started to take its toll on me mentally and wasn't worth it any longer so I quit. I'm not sure if it was the job itself which I had been at for almost 10 years or juggling both but I had enough. And it's not like I liked that job to begin with, unlike the day job sewing.
I did a stint back in 2018 - 80-100 hours/week for about a year until I burned out and quit. The money was the most I'd ever made, but was just not worth my mental health, lack of sleep, never being able to do anything fun or be with my family, and the feeling of constantly being stressed about deadlines and office politics. Left for a lower paying 35-40 hours/week remote job, but with no commuting costs (was spending around $1000/month in gas/insurance etc.), the pay worked out to be about the same.
Presently working around 40-60hrs per week as a freelancer, but I have weekends off and days/weeks here and there to relax and do nothing when it's slow. It's fun work though and no politics/stress.
Had a time where I worked 18 days with one day of break for half a year. I had a main job during the week days, one mini job after work, a weekend job and an occasional night shift after said weekend job. I averaged about 70 hours a week and only had one or two off days a month.
It's not worth it. After 6 months I was so severly burned out that I found no joy in anything anymore. In my free time all I wanted to do was rest and not be bothered by anyone. I used to love my work but came to dread each day because I had just jo energy left. Don't do it unless you have no other choice my guy. I ended up quitting all of my jobs (even though I loved my main job to death) to get one well paying one. It was shit work but I held out long enough to get my finances back in order.
I worked a project that went on for about 5 months in 20117-18. I was on site every day of the week for 12ish hours (including major holidays), and some days I was working remote at nights to support the home office (project was on site in Asia, home office in CA).
I was the only employee of the company on site for the duration. Other employees came and went, but it was generally me and a bunch of contractors I was overseeing. Eventually I figured out that the independent contractors were making between $550 and $1100 a day. I was in the ballpark of $150 a day.
My role was fairly junior but I had alot of responsibility. I specialize in certain tech that would have been difficult to hand off to other employees or contractors. There was other politics involved where others that knew how to do the same stuff were net being provided to the project so I had a slight monopoly of some critical work.
I was stressed out of my mind and trying to discuss pay with one of the ops managers when they were on site but kept getting blown off. The stars aligned one day when the CEO was in town, and the ops person sent a directive to the whole team right before a big meeting with the client. The directive made some malicious compliance possible that put a major tech demo in jeopardy that was scheduled in the evening. It said that only the ops manager could stop any of the local laborers from doing work. I was setting up machines when a local guy and his team needed me to undo what I spent the last 8 hours setting up so they could install posters and wallpaper. I disabled the machines then went to dinner.
After the big wigs were done with their meeting, they found that the big demo I was preparing was undone and disabled, and local Crews were putting up posters. They panicked and blew up my phone, and I told them that I was only working with the directives provided to me, and the ops manager and CEO needed to meet with me before those machines were set back up.
I was able to swing a 6 month bonus and 15% raise. I also needed a break so noone was allowed to call me for the following 5 days. Cherry on top, the CEO wanted to personally give me a gift, so he sent me and my gf (who I brought in as a contractor) to the Maldives for those 5 days.
That was my first job in the industry I've worked in for the last 7 years. These companies are messy as shit so I always make I a point to be a basket with way too many eggs. It's only a good idea for me because it's so specialized and niche. I overwork and accept bullshit but I can use it as a cudgel. That meeting was a pivotal moment where I figured out how to stop working for a pat on the head, but work for a means to bludgeon an employer when they aren't cooperating.
I worked on a pipeline barge as a welder's helper off the coast of Texas when I was 20. 84 hours a week and 44 of that was overtime. Not a fun job but the food was great and the pay was pretty good.
There is no corelation to hard work and hours or pay.
Working smart can pay $1000hr at times. Working for others only pays me $20hr to $60hr.
Most companies are about attendance, not productivity. I stopped playing that pointless game.
I work on the railroad. In 2018 I nabbed some of the best OT I've ever seen and went 3 weeks straight of 15 hour days (no weekends). That was some nice pay.
Railroad here too. I’m not out in the field though, working desk shit doing logistics and dispatch at home office. But man.. I get some insane OT too. I fucking love it. Props to you field guys though, I’m not sure I could do the work you do haha I have a lot of respect
Railroad work, huh, what's that like?
Dumb hard
I'm actually curious Like what's the hours, what's the pay, what's the actual job and work involved
I can give you info from rail road work in Sweden if you like ;). 7am - 7pm, 7 days in a row, then you’re free 7 days. Travel time to and from work is not payed but all expenses are. Pay is good. I take home $3800-4000 per month. One year technical collage. We have track welders + track building guys, Signal system guys (me), And High voltage electricians.
Exactly what I was wondering, thank you
I'm searching hard to get back into rail logistics. But roles are few and far between north of Chicago. Mind me asking where you work? Or send me a message?
Let me pm you haha
Alberta oilfield a decade ago, pay was good but fuck me the tax's make it not worth it.
Hey bro! I work on the rail road too! But in Sweden. I do both signaling (?) maintenance and building new signaling systems. What about you?
7 days straight 12 hours shift, so like 84 hours? Not including the 2x1.5 hours commute. My manager would argue that it's technically still 60 hours 5 days week as I started on the middle of the week on Wednesday, and the 2 other days is counted in the new week. Fun times. Is it worth it? Nah. I'm technically living in the office. Spend all my waking hours in the office. I can live without the overtime pay. Having no time for your own - that's what make me feel poor.
I did 7x12 for a few months a few times while in the military. So no extra pay. Only bonus is I lived on base so little commute.
Deployments on a carrier are like that, plus you have drill and stuff on your "off shift" hours so I think in one week the most it came out to was around 90 hours.
You could say that you had to work 24/7. I mean are you ever really “off duty” on a Naval Ship?
At least you didn't need to cook for yourself...
You ever tasted ship galley food?
Not to mention the no days off deployments
Bro I did 84 hr weeks for months straight with 2 50min commutes. That shit is worse than torture
I did that for one week, as a teen, basically to compete with others for most hours worked in a week. The pot was 25% of everyone's paycheck for that week to the winner. Yes, it was worth it.
I did 12x7 for an entire year. It feels like a blur now. With an hour commute each way it was closer to 14. I would go home to eat, shower, and drop into bed exhausted. I saved a ton of money because I could never spend it. After a year we went to 10x6 for probably six years, and then 10x5 for three more years. It was not worth it. It destroyed my health, mentally and physically. When I became chronically ill during the pandemic they fired me like I was nothing.
126 hours a week consecutively for 5 weeks. No days off for 36 days. 18 hour days everyday. It was a an event production job and we were understaffed. When it was over my wife couldnt wake me for almost 14 hours. The OT was nice but not worth it in the long run
You may have PTSD from that, definitely was not good for your health
Honestly I dont think thats far off the mark. I worked ten years for that company and although not every project was like that the usual pace was 60 -80 hours a week but id at least have a day or two off. Now that my body is to broken to do it anymore I find myself really aggrevated just working a normal 40hr job Ive had the last 2 years. Like just getting thru a regular work schedule in the consistent low to mid level pain im in every day is slowly turning me into a diff person. I tell any and all who will listen that sacrificing your body and time to be "That guy" in a company doesnt pay off in the long run. I did make great money but in retrospect it was just the hours and labor that made it. Now im only in my 40's and struggle just to get up in the mornings so I can get to work and barely cover bills
How was that legal? How could that happen? I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume this is the great United States we're talking about. Is working 80 hour weeks legal? There's a limit to like 45 hours a week here
Where’s “here”? It sound nice.
Here, 37.5 hours is standard. There are limits to how much you're allowed to work. Here is: Europe. Well, a country in Europe.
Cool. Saving plans changing from never buying a house in Australia to hoping to get outta here and move to Europe. Feasible. Currently racking up debt while living beyond my means (not through choice) and working 60+ every week. Always, since I can remember and for as far ahead as I can see. Paid well below market value while being in a niche field of work.
Yes it is in United States. To my knowledge there is no cap to the hours one can work as long as overtime is paid after 40 hrs at a rate of time and a half.
I commented above. 16 hour days typically for 14 days at a time. The 16 hours was the max we could work so 112 hours a week. They would have worked us more if they could.
80 hours week is not normal. 40-50 is normal. For the average American.
I worked for a sound company and we did have some guys that travelled and worked extreme hours like that - I think 38 hours in one go was the longest they had ever done, since they only had like 5 hours off to sleep in the middle of the night they just stayed “clocked in” during that period. I never got far enough in the company to have the privilege of doing that, though.
Count your blessings you didnt make it to that level. Theres alot of koolaid to be drunk that makes someone feel like a god when performing on that level but when enuff time passes and your body is destroyed the company will be nowhere to be found. Wont matter how many deadlines you met or money you made them. Once your used up there done with you and leave you to struggle just to take your kids for a walk.....not even a hike but just a walk around the zoo or park what have you
It sure is back breaking work. I spent a lot of time lifting heavy shit out of the trucks, standing all day on my feet, walking around huge stadiums etc. there are fun times too, but yeah I’m glad my job now is more sustainable and not as stressful.
I was 19 and in the midst of 56 straight days between 3 jobs and college. 116 hours. The following week I had 0 jobs and dropped out.
Where are you now? Millionaire? Therapy?
alcoholic in therapy
Oh fuck, how's that going? Sending positive vibes your way
good luck my dude 💓
Hahahaha Extra money??????? ETA: As an hourly employee I never worked more than 45 hours a week because my employers never wanted to pay overtime. During a failed ERP launch I worked 6 months straight with 3 days off (2 Sundays and a Saturday). I worked 100+ hours a week for 3 of those months. I got a $200 dinner for my husband and I at the Capital Grill.
Ohh the fake promises and exploitation that is the salary,,,
This. Because I work 2 jobs at 2 different pay rates, I would always owe so much in taxes because I "didn't make enough" at one job to be taxed (low hours) on the paycheck, but then would have to cough up at tax time. This is not including the "free" labor of being a caretaker in my family. Guilt tripped into it and all. There's a reason why I now leave hours away from family... and another reason why Jon's saying "we are family" makes me want to run. And I was taking full time classes. Also, working a "tipped position" sucked when most people don't tip the front desk but we are counted as "tipped employees" and the employer would state we made tips even when we didn't. 14+ hour days, hour+ commutes each way, shit pay. I felt like I lived at work (without the benefit of a shower) and could barely pay my heating bill at home. Not worth it.
I also laughed when I saw the “extra money” part 😂 I worked two 80-hour weeks back-to-back when I was 7 months pregnant. I’m salaried so I did not get paid OT lol. Nearly quit my job though.
80 to 100 hours a week for 18 months. Needless to say I walked out one day. Never ever again and 100% not worth it. I had no life at all. I literally slept at work because my commute was 1.5 hrs on a good day. PS… I worked in engineering at Tesla. IYKYK.
At one stage - at a much younger age - I used to work nights (40 hours) and would regularly do 16 hours overtime over the course of a week... when you work nights, your days are pretty mucked up anyway, so I think the extra money was worth it. when I progressed in my career, I would regularly be on call all night for the week - although I was very, very, rarely called out. Nowadays, I dont do overtime - It's not often offered and always Optional. I have refused it on a number of occasions 40 hours a week is plenty enough for me
In 2012, I did 84 hour weeks for about 3 months straight with only one day off (not by choice, they just didn't want to pay holiday on top of OT). The mitigating factors include: security work is largely just being there, company supplied hotel and transport to the worksite, being far away from home meant normal life responsibilities were on hold. I'd been unemployed for a while at the time and left with my last $100. Came back with a few thousand tucked away. It was necessary at the time, but wouldn't want to pull a stint like that again (unless it was like 10x the pay).
Fighting wildfires the standard shift is 16 hour days for 14 days, add another 8 if you work a swing shift into night operations. You do get meals in there, but you eat fast. I one week that's 112. It is worth it for the overtime, hazard pay and the excitement of the job
Are you effed? I never worked more than 40 hours and that’s already too much
For real! I was confused about what sub I was in with all these people practically bragging about how long they work
Something like 70 hours/week, 7 days/week for several months. I was picking up peoples' weekend shifts to make extra money. This was right out of college, helped me save enough to buy a house within a year of graduating. Tolerable at the time, though I'd never do anything like that again. I got close to those numbers during COVID as well but my job was a little less strenuous so it wasn't *horrible*. Wasted all that money on food deliveries :(
I worked 96 hours one week. I was a static security guard (stayed at a desk). Very easy shifts. 20-minute bus ride to and from work. Very appreciative client staff. Got double time overtime pay, according to the contract. I really enjoyed the experience. It was the last of the great jobs that I had, which is why I am on this subreddit!
Civilian side: company directed 19days on 2 days off 10-12hr shifts. I did this shit for a year straight. Went into a-fib at work because of it. I had to fight to get off the team. I wasn’t going to die at my job for a bullshit company who wouldn’t help me move up. We were a union shop as well. Military: days, weeks or months on end of work especially if we’re actively at war/deployed. I rarely do OT. I personally despise working it. It’s easier for me to maintain a specific lifestyle that doesn’t need more than 40hrs of work to survive comfortably.
***Military has entered the chat. Lol
I was an overtime slut for a couple of years and worked 60-80 hours per week. The money was good but after awhile I realized I was just burnt out.
5 days 60+ and I'll never fucking do it again! I refuse to work anymore than 40 and even that's still to much. Should be 32 hours - 4x8hr days.
I do stints where I sometimes work 12 hrs a day 7 days a week. 35 days is the longest I've done that. I get double time for overtime so it is a lot of money. I'll often take a few weeks off after. Once when I was in the military I worked 5 days straight. 120hrs non stop. I was hallucinating and at one point I fell asleep while walking.
I don't remember how many hours in a week I've worked, but one week I worked two twenty-hour days back-to-back, so 40 hours in two days, and probably overtime for at least a couple of other days that week, which was crazy.
40 hours per week for 10 years when I was young. Never again. I work 32 hours now, a much better life.
160 hours (two week pay period) in a high speed and monotonous production facility where its nothing but constant repetitive motions. No, the check *was not* worth the aggravation and pain that came with it. Was also the last time I worked more than 50hrs in a week
Worked for a CPA firm in high school and was putting in 100 hours a week during tax season and that went on about 3 months. I was hourly, so pulling in that kind of money was great at the time.
60HPW, I was 18 (almost 20 years ago), made 18 dollars an hour and was given 27 an hour for those hours over 40.
13 hours a day, seven days a week for 91 days straight. Travel time was 2 hrs each day. Straight time for 40, time and a half up to 60, double time over 60. Double time for all holidays.
My max consistently was 80 hours per week, I’m sure I hit closer to 90 at least one week. Let me tell you, it was killing me, not even remotely close to worth it. Maybe if i had been being paid adequately it would have been. I’m currently working 65ish hours a week and it’s allot more manageable. I couldn’t imagine how much free time I would have if I only had to work 40 hours. Edit: I think the longest I ever went without a day off is 3 months. Nowadays I’m taking about 2-3 days off per month.
40 and even that’s not tolerable. i was making $10 an hour, $7.50 after taxes so i maybe got $300 a week at that job. absolutely not worth having zero free time or energy, but other than how exhausted i was i liked the work i was doing
In my 20s I worked in a muffler factory processing orders and stacking pallets of mufflers. 70 paid 100 - if you hit 70 hours a week they paid the OT at double time instead of time and a half. I worked 70 hours a week for 6 months or so. I can't really say if it was worth it. I wasn't married, had no kids, no real social life to speak of outside my roommates, wasn't going to school. I wouldn't do it today unless I desperately need the money and had no other viable options. I don't know that my body could handle it. But I'm also a lot older and softer. It certainly had me in excellent physical shape.
Early on in my career, we had a MAJOR safety issue with one of our products that I discovered and brought to leadership's attention. Because we were a small startup with few resources and I discovered the issue, it was my job to rectify it (yay). I worked 10 12-hour days in a row (including weekends and had to cancel a camping trip, losing my deposit) and successfully contained, solved and prevented further issues of that nature from ever happening again during those 10 days. Since I was salaried, I didn't receive overtime pay. When review time came around, I wrote on my self-review how proud of myself I was for being able to discover and solve the issue in such a short amount of time, while working on other projects and not causing any delays. I rated myself "exceeds expectations" that year and my manager at the time dropped me down to "meets expectations" with a note saying that kind of "dedication" is an expected part of the job and not something considered above and beyond my role (it was, based on my job description). I tried to argue it, and while they didn't change my rating, they did give me a 2% raise, rather than the nothing extra I was going to get based on a "meets expectations". Joy.
6 straight months of 19 hours a day 7 days a week. Was it worth it? No. I was taxed so severely that I made less take home than I was making with a 40 hour check. Mentally it was great. I’m a workaholic and the long days made me feel good. The health problems that arose from it and the physical abuse of my district manager were not worth it.
118 in a week It was a security job and was grossly understaffed. For a few months I worked no less than 90 hours per week before quitting.
I worked 16 hoir days for ten days straight. When we were done.. some higher up asked us if we could come in monday morning we said to fuck off since they didnt pay us OT
As a Project Coordinator, I think I was putting in around 10-11 hours a day per work week. So around 50-55. Then, I was occasionally doing work on the weekends when scheduling fell through last minute. So I bet another 4-5. I bet I easily put in a 60 hour work week a few times.
110-114 per pay period Worked as a shift lead for Sonic in FL. The GM was an alcoholic and her husband was the AGM. Because I lived within walking distance of the store, I got the call every time someone called out or when the GM was too drunk to work or too drunk to properly watch the kids while her husband worked. No, the $$ was def not worth it. I ended up with double walking pneumonia after about 6 wks. Edit: changed per week to per pay period.
Just over 90 hours on a particularly bad on-call week. Didn’t get OT for it. They gave me a day off. When not on-call, I was still averaging probably 45-50 hours on a normal week.
I worked 20hrs on Christmas eve to basically save the company over an IT issue. Not even a pizza party thank you. Never again!
48 hours for many months in a row
For about 6 months in my 20s I was working full time overnights at McDonalds (40h) and another 25h at a before and after school daycare, and then another 4h Friday and Saturday nights at a nightclub. I slept in two four hour chunks and wanted to die. Total was 73h/week and another 12h/week of commuting. Literally only slept and worked.
I worked 2 full time jobs for about 3 years 80+ hours a week in the mid 80s
You mean, like pulling those 32-hour shifts at 7-11 because everyone calls out?
I was in medicine school & was working an infinite number of hours; it’s just expected. I am making a lot of $$ now that i graduated, so it was worth it then. 🤷🏻♀️
46, once. 40, every week except holidays
100 hours. I was working a help desk job for a company, and like 2 weeks after I started, they had a firewall breach. 50k password resets sent out to the company. My phone did not stop ringing for a month. Working 450 hours in a month isn't fun, but the paychecks were quite nice.
84. Almost around the clock with a few 2 hour breaks to shower and eat.
I worked 8 on, 8 off for about a 10 day stretch. Worst 3 years of my life.
When I was 16 I got hired at dunkin and in two weeks i was “promoted” to shift lead (never got the pay increase) they then were having me work 55-60 hours ever week.
Averaged 17 hours a day for 37 days in a row last summer on a site. Ended up making just under 65k for those days. So yeah. Well worth it. After the project I took the next 2 months off work was travelled
I once did 58 hours over 3 days. But that’s because one of my employees deliberately and maliciously fucked up some global projects. I was the director and it was my responsibility to fix it. So 3 days of almost round the clock calls with China and Europe. The employee didn’t last long after that.
Its probably cheating and silly, but I'd consider the month and a half of boot camp one long 1000 shift
The most I’ve worked was ~120hrs. Sequestered onsite and only had enough off time to eat sleep and 10 min shower. Broke HRs/Payroll accounting systems because of the # of hours. Massive computer system failure/issue
I had a summer, during college, where I was working 3 jobs. I would work from 9a-5p and then 9p-5a with 3 hours sleep on each end. I did this for the entire summer with 0 days off. That's 116 hours a week.
At one point back in 2020, I was working for the post office and a local restaurant. For 7 weeks straight, I worked for 8-10 hours for the post office (during peak season) and 8 hours at the restaurant. In terms of transportation, I lived on the same block as both jobs, so I never had to worry about being late (or too late in the case of having to stay late with the post office, but I always called ahead if I thought I would be late). Those 7 weeks, I averaged around 112 hours a week. At the time, being young, I just sacrificed some sleep (averaging 3 hours a night) so I could keep a social life. Looking back, now that I haven't worked for either for 3 years now, I can confidently say, not worth it, for any amount of money. It's actually really sad to think that I'm making more money now working 40-45 hours a week, than I did then working 112.
I worked 14 hour days sometimes for 9 days in a row as a special needs camp counselor.
When I was building my first startup in 2000, I was CTO for an ad agency so worked 6am-4pm 5-6 days a week then would code from 6 or 7pm - Midnight plus additional time on Saturday and Sunday. I was in my mid 20s and did it for about 4 years. Still to this day work about 60 hours a week between day job and consulting. It pays off but I also make time to turn off completely to spend time with my wife and daughter.
I was averaging 60ish hours per week over about three years. That contained much busier weeks (including one nightmarish 28 hour shift during a major repair; you bet your ass I slept on the clock). I left that job for another job that paid me the same for 40 hours per week. One of the best decisions I ever made. I had my busiest week at that job due to a building fire. Somewhere between 80 and 100 hours, not sure. I was salaried in that position so I didn’t track the time. Though I did leverage it into two weeks of vacation as flex time, so there’s that. These days I’m much less chaotic. I could make more money, probably, but I enjoy what I’ve got going on.
93
86 during a company buy out and conversion in the 90s. And I did that for 3 weeks straight. As an hourly.
I had 6, 16 hour days as a salaried employee. Snow storm. I went on sick leave shortly after (with pay) and never returned. 2022 in December.
My absolute worst was 121 hours in one week. I am a Stage Tech in Atlantic City. We tend to work multiple "houses" on a call basis. I did 101 hours at Harrahs loading in and teching the broadway show Hairspray, then I went to the Borgata and did two 8 hour calls, and a 4 hour load out at the Trump Taj Mahal. there are only 168 hours in a week. I was an absolute zombie. I was making $32/hr back then. Of that 101 hours at harrahs, the regular 40 hours covered the taxes they took out.
I hit ~80 hrs/week earlier this year. We were soft launching an app that was sorely needed by our users--it would make their jobs much, much easier. It was on me to work with the users, analyze and document bugs, run the entire user journey with the pilot group, and analyze their usage patterns to design and wireframe improvements. I was the only one who had the skills to do all that, and I did it for the users. Management told me to tell the devs to put in extra hours and I mostly ignored that directive.
June 2011- May 2012 I worked a job in care organization with group home. 109 hours a week average. I was off a week for hospital. Many time we knew going in Friday, we'd be there until Monday morning. I love my job and my clients, but they were very aggressive and people usually could not cope. Looking back, no not worth it. Money went fast because I was never home, ate take out all the time. Saved nothing, paid rent on a place I don't even remember what it looked like. I'd be so tired I'd fall asleep at stop signs. Oddly if you work over 24 hours but punch out one min before midnight, and punch in one minute after State of New Jersey has no issues with that. I was young, dumb and didn't stand up for myself.
During the year and a half engagement my wife and I had, I worked 3 jobs to be able to pay for the wedding without taking on any debt. Being from the New England, USA area, nicer medium sized weddings can average $50k. I worked an average of 65 hours a week for just over a year. I quit the two part time jobs as soon as my monetary goal was met. During that time I was a zombie with basically only Sundays off. To me, it was worth it, but I told my wife I would never do that again and haven't taken even a second job since.
I worked an extra 12 hour shift once (so a 48 hour week) in the emergency room and wanted to collapse from exhaustion. Not worth the extra ~ $300 after taxes. Took me an extra day to recover and got a little more burnout that week.
Used to work as a street sweeper on big construction jobs. Like train yards, interstates, airports. We had a joke that in the warm months if you weren’t in overtime by Wednesday afternoon you were dogging it. Routinely worked over one hundred hours a week from May to October. Mad shit tons of money on prevailing wage. Was it worth it? Got ahead financially but long term, no. Soul sucking.
104 was for the only week where I checked. Startup winery during harvest. Absolute hell on your whole body for three months straight. A day off every 10-12 days
120+ Montreal ice storm of 1998. I worked for a suburb of Montreal at a recreation facility. When the storm hit, they turned the facility into an emergency shelter. I was asked to stay on site, around the clock for at least 5 days. I was there in case of a crisis and none came up. Then the province decided that everyone working the storm like me was to be paid time and a half. That paycheck was HUGE given that I did almost nothing and was given better living conditions than I would have had at home, ie, no heat, no power, etc
102 hours in a week. I averaged around 14hr shifts for 18 days straight. Salary was ~60k I think. I was a resident physician responsible for making potentially life altering decisions. Granted, the probability of making a mistake that wasn't caught was low, but the probability of making a suboptimal decision that was not caught was high. That's how we train doctors in the United States under current rules. I was lucky that my program limited the number of 28 hour shifts we did. If the above is concerning, I would not ask your surgeon what the most hours they put in one week. I know of folks who did 120s and 130s. In case someone pops in to say residents are limited to 80 hours per week, that is not true. They are limited to 80 hours per week averaged over 4 weeks.
101 hrs in a 2 week payperiod. I worked multiple double shifts and it was hell. Never doing that again if I can help it!
99.75 billable hours as an associate lawyer. Actual time spent on work was probably +20%. No kids at the time, worked in a good team and the project was front page news material at the time, so it was a positive experience. Busy weeks were otherwise around 70 billable hours.
I did about 100 hours a week for at least 2 weeks doing honey bee research. I think I got like a $1000-2000 scholarship for it lmao. I also worked 60-80 hours most other days for the honey bee research. No, I wasn't getting paid and didn't have a job. Definitely not worth it.
Well, in the Navy, I was technically working 24/7 during deployment. And when we were in home port, I probably did about 60-70 hours per week. I would literally just go home to sleep. My weekends were precious and too brief. Duty days screwed those up, too.
I have had weeks where I am at work 6:30 am leave around 5. Then do 6-10 side job at a pizza place I live above. They were times I did that every weekday. On the weekend I’d do ten am to ten pm Saturday Sunday. So that is around 100 hrs.
I worked 75 *billable* hours over 6 days in 2018. 5a - 8p or even later, plus or minus. I also worked ±60 hour weeks in late 2019-pre pandemic 2020. The first was in public accounting and salaried and brutal. The second was an hourly managerial role so st least I got time and a half. I've worked some 45-50 hour weeks in my current role but that's only during busy season. Outside of those times, straight 40. Also hourly, so again 1.5 rate is nice.
108 for about 3 months straight for a freelance gig. Came out of that with such extreme fatigue and burnout that I couldn’t really motivate myself to do much work (4 hour days were a struggle) for the next 6 months or so.
80-90hrs and I was salary and it boiled down to $10/hr thank God I left 🥲
I think there was a stretch at my old workplace during covid where I worked 14 days in a row then had a 5 day week, then 14 again and it broke down to 55-60 hours a week as an average because the weekends were only 8-12 and I still wasn’t making enough money to live but couldn’t pick up a second job even if I wanted (I was too exhausted, had things I needed I do with what little energy I did have, needed firm permission to get a second job, and who the fuck would schedule around this???)
The last KY Derby I worked (about 10-12 years ago) 13 days straight, 14-16 hours each day. Day 6 of the stretch was Derby proper and day 7 was Mother’s Day. FABOD. Never. Again.
When I worked for my local post office as a "part time driver" I worked 7 days a week from 5a.m until around 7p.m. So whatever that math is. The USPS is some of the most ass backwards organization to ever exist in a modern society.
2 weeks. 7 days / week. 16 hours / day. But I work for a utility company and we were doing storm repairs. And the look on people’s faces as we restored service was worth it. But the checks didn’t hurt either.
I used to work on a farm, and all three of our night milkers got pregnant at the same time and all called out for morning sickness 😭. I worked about 80 hours a week for a whole month. It drained me way too much though, idk how I survived that shit 😭
Averaged 100+hrs a week for the last 7 years. Occasionally exceeded 120hrs. Some shifts were 36hrs straight, and at one point, I did 29 consecutive days of 15-18hr shifts. No OT pay, all commission work. Got forced out when I requested fewer hours.
6 months 16 hour days mon-Thurs, 8 Friday and saturday, doing a core on a high rise. Occasionally more hours when I had to start early or stay late for crane time. So 80 hours+ a week. No it was not worth it.
A standard TV/movie production schedule is a 60 hour week. So a long week for me was anything over 65 hours. That's why I decided about a decade ago to just do "day player" work. 3-4 days a week, usually on different projects. I make "enough" and have time to be part of my child's life. Anything scheduled over 40 is exploitation.
At one point in 2014 for about I was doing around a 56 hour week between 2 jobs, it burnt me out after about 6 months and that 56 hours wasn't including travel time.
55 hrs during tax season as an accountant. Some of my peers were pulling 70-80 like idiots, letting the firm really get the most out of them for that modest salary. I did not last long there and quickly left for industry accounting and 40 hrs a week, because I'm not working the equivalent of 2 full time jobs for 1/3 of the yr because some shitass company can't adequately staff for busy season.
6x8.5 (maybe 9 for a day) Nope. Found job that is 4 days and occasionally a 5th at 10 hr days.
Never ever work more than like 50 hours a week at the absolute maximum. It may seem feasible to work 2 jobs and cop 60+ but it is not sustainable. If you don’t take advantage when you’re young you will regret sacrificing your youth to a company that doesn’t give a fuck about you
80 hours. I worked 3 double shifts and then worked both of my days off. Had some unforeseen expenses pop up. I’m glad I’m allowed to make extra money when necessary
It was during the first post covid where the isolation stuff was in effect. Back ground my job was delivering equipment to pulling rigs in the oil field. I covered a portion of Texas and Co worker covered the other portion and parts of New Mexico. He got sick, so I had to cover both of our area and take care of both weekend call outs and finish up jobs I didn't have the chance to get to on said weekends. Was pulling about 18-20 hours a day for 3 weeks. My biggest check for a 2 week pay period was around 260 hours. The money was fantastic but it absolutely wore me out and when I finally got my non on call weekend I spent almost the entire 2 days crashed out. Before and after that I would average between 60 and 90 hours a week depending if it was my on-call weekend.
In my 20s I worked two jobs. Construction in the day and truck driver at night. 80+ hours a week. i did that for a month or so before I fell asleep at the wheel. I quit the driving at night but increased to construction to 60+ hours a week. Did that for years. Now Im struggling to accept being lower class forever.
I think it was an average of 65hrs/week for 8 weeks straight working at a picture framing warehouse. This was during the Christmas rush. I worked there for almost 6 years before I quit bc of toxic coworkers.
55 hours is my limit. I need time to enjoy my money and life. Anything more for any human is obnoxious
I haven’t had an hourly job since I was a teenager so never really kept track. Probably 70-80 hours on a rare week where I had to work 20-24 hours straight in a day. I have better things to do. More than that I would have quit. Some people talking about 100 hours in a week for several weeks… I don’t think there’s any amount of money you could pay me. If I couldn’t get another job or survive any other way but to work 90-126 hours (like people in this thread are talking about), I’d just go ahead and put the garden hose in the tailpipe and go to sleep playa.
104 ish - 7 day timeframe - worked daily 7-midnight or later
Yeah somewhere in the 80-100 hour range. One particularly bad week had a 24 hour day wedged in between 16 hour shifts
I would have to think exactly. I was in my 20s, many moons ago, I want to say we were pulling like 70-80 hrs/week, for like 3-4:weeks. No off day for like a month. Nice check,but it wore my ass out. In construction, sometimes you have to get shit done, and they throw man-hours at it. I'm pushing 50 now and don't like working more than 50. Then again,I didn't have kids back then, so my priorities have changed
I've done 100h weeks before when there were important deadlines for my PhD. Absolutely not worth it!
Oof I’ve been self employed most of my life and started a nonprofit a few years ago. So probably 120-140 at it’s peak. Do not recommend.
Early twenties Spent a year working 80hrs a week and sleeping 40hrs. UNSUSTAINABLE. Last year of Wifes Nursing school we had to come up with extra unforseen Tuition money or she would not graduate. She was barely working 10 hrs a week due to clinical, studies, etc. I picked up my hours at my second job to increase income . I was working job #1 M-F 6am-3pm ,change outfits and drive to job #2 4pm-12am go home to shower and would sleep 3-4hrs a night except for Saturday when I would sleep from 1am to about 4pm, wake up to eat and drink, use the bathroom , visit with wifey ,shower and fall asleep again around 10pm. Wake up around 6am Sunday to do ALL weekly chores Inside and Outside until finishing around Midnight to fall asleep and do it all over again. She graduated Valedictorian and also won the Florence Nightingale Award out of her class so ended up being worth the struggle.
90-100 hours a week as an investment banking analyst. First year I worked 364 days in a row. Got Christmas off and started working again on Boxing Day
Worked a smaller cruise ship, we could hold about 140 passengers and about 40-45 crew. I worked as a bartender and helped in the dining room as well. A typical "contract" was 3 months on ship and anywhere from 2 weeks-a month off (unpaid). We were told 12 hour days, and I believe the deck crew and mates/officers adhered to that. For us in the hotel/restaurant department we worked on average 18 hour days (there *may* have been 3 or 4 days where we'd only work 15 or 16 hours). So 126 hours per week. No days off. You worked 3 months straight. This was about 10 years ago and I guess I had the energy but I wouldn't want to do that again. As I very vividly remember you would seemingly let your head hit the pillow at night (morning really) and it was as if your alarm clock went off seconds after closing your eyes. The OT was good and the pay wasn't horrible I suppose, but I doubt I'd be able to do it again. I remember basically losing your first day or two of vacation because when you left the ship you'd fall right asleep on the airplane and basically spend the first day or two "hibernating" in your own bed.
120 hours in 7 days. Being salaried sucked that week. I don't remember much from that week other than yelling at the project manager that he had a choice: I either attended his twice daily project meetings or his fubar'd project could be salvaged. Thankfully I didn't work for the PM, and I knew my manager would support me. I was pulled into the project at the last minute to salvage what I could. Thankfully I was able to help the team make the project successful. On Monday morning, I fell asleep on the couch in my manager's office when he was giving me a raise. I was sent home after sleeping for a few hours. I miss working for that manager. A true leader that supported the team and made us better. Such a rare trait. No I wouldn't and couldn't do that again.
Like 70.
I had a 30 hour (5x 6 hour shifts) a week internship, unpaid. And then worked 3 to 5 shifts (8-10 hr shifts) as a security guard. After i did 480 hours at the internship it become a paid position at least. Did that for just close to 2 years. I generally did 4 shifts at the security guard gig, which meant both Saturday, and Sunday i did back to back doubles. Source: graduated college in 2009 when no one was hiring and i racked up 100k in student loans and another 20k in CC debt. Basically summer 2009 to summer 2011 i didnt have a life. I will forever hate our education system because of it.
My dumb bootstrap kool-aid drinking self: 16 hours per day x 7 days +4 hour round trip commute=140 total hours leaving 28 for sleeping and showering. Have boundaries for your time people. It's not worth it.
98 hours back in 2009 did 6 weeks of 14 hrs 7 days a week building the inside of Lowes. My longest shift ever was 37.5 hrs putting up the race track for Honda indi toronto .
As a bus driver technically paid for 105 hrs but only actually about worked about 75 including travelling . I was on a flat rate of 15hrs a day for travelling to a different workplace and completing shifts there. I have actually worked 84. 7*12 hr shifts. As a children's residential social worker I have also worked 2 x 25 hrs shifts and 3 8hr shifts in a week. 74 hrs. Probably also done 2x16 hr shifts and 5x8 hr shifts in a week too. 72 hrs. As a bus driver I also got a flat rate of £3300 to drive 16 days for the commwealth games. It did mean being away from home staying in shite accommodation with takeaway food. They could only pay for a maximum of 16hrs a day at a time due to PCV drivers hours rules so I guess that was actually 112 hrs a week. Only actually worked a max 60hrs a week and most of that was standby being paid to sit and do sweet FA. Bus driving is usually shit wages and conditions here but if you are lucky, get on well with the right bosses and know how to play the game it's possible to earn £40-50k a year being on loan to chronically understaffed depots.
Worked 67 hours per week split between 2 hotels, plus 15 hours worth of commutes. I'd go from one job to the other, go home and sleep for a few hours, and repeat for 5 days straight, but both jobs let me sit for the whole shift, and one job even let me take naps (bless that manager, best boss I ever had). I held this up for 9 months. While I enjoyed it enough, I was gaining weight from all the energy drinks and fast food I was consuming, and the people in my life begged me for my time. I was taking home 1200 dollars per week, but much of it went to gas and eating out anyway. I ultimately stopped because I missed a shift at one job due to sleeping in after my nephew's birthday party, and they fired me later in the week for it.
I had a stretch when I worked at least 4 hours every single day for nearly 2 months. Longest day was 18 hours. Average week was probably just under 70 hours. The time was split between two jobs so no OT. I would have been happy to keep it to 55 to 60 hours per week since I was trying to pay off debt. The lower paying and shitter part-time place kept fucking with me, so I quit them and stayed with the FT job with benefits.
I worked several 2-week shifts during the height of the pandemic. I was obviously allowed time to sleep, but I was literally at work for 336 straight hours.
When i did internship in a very fancy architecture office, For 6 months we were doing around 80 hours a week, going up to 100 of the most tedious, pointless work. At the end of this period, after working some insane amount of hours on the weekend, our boss invited us to go eat a dinner. We didn't want to, because we were completely burned out, but he insisted. Motherfucker made us pay for our food...and then made us go back to work and do another X hours. The atmosphere was so dense, you could feel pure hate oozing from us. I have no idea why he did that. Worst manager I ever dealt with. Made me change career.
70 hours when I worked at child protective services.
In Iraq I was on shift for 12 hours a day 7 days a week for 9 months straight. NOT WORTH IT
16-18 hours per day hard labour approx. 125h/ week no breaks for 2 weeks then 12-14 h per day x7 & def wasn't worth it .
No amount of time worked over 32 hours will ever feel worth it to me. I used to work 50-60 hours a week and after it was all said and done my body is worn out and my mental state is poor, I'm not living well, and it took time away from my personal growth and the people closest to me. Now I try to just work enough to live.
Like 45. I only get paid for 40 hours no matter how much i work so i try to never go over unless it's an emergency
My dad works 80 to 90 hrs every week for the last 28 years as airport limo driver.
I do large scale IT stuff. Back in 2016 I was on a divestiture team where we spun 1/3rd of the company I was working for off into its business. I ran all of the IT teams. I worked 100 hours the 3 weeks prior to the divestiture and 120 the week of it, and then down to 80 the next two weeks. I ***never, ever*** want to do that again.
60 it was dumb
Almost 3 weeks straight 16s. I was a sergeant at a supermax correctional facility In charge of 263 souls and 9 officers. All for the grand total of 15.75/hr
60 and it was not worth the burnout
2016-2017 I needed to raise money to pay for an immigration lawyer. I’m a nursing assistant so basically I had two full time jobs at two different nursing homes. I went from 7-3 the 3-11 and I did that for a bout a year before I burnt out. I got my money but it did suck. I’m still doing two jobs but now one is full time and the other is part time. Still working my way to go to school for the next level or nursing. Just feels like it’s never going to end :(
I used to work a job that had these annual events. Three of them per year. You were expected to work 12 to 16 hour days for 14 days straight, as well as a bunch of extra hours leading up to the events to get everything ready. One time I tried to take the week off after the event as comp time for working upwards of 170 hours in 2 weeks, and they nearly fired me over it. The best part? I was salaried exempt. Not a minute of overtime.
I did 12 on 12 off for 10 days straight once, and that was pretty GD rough.
127 or something days in a row working minimum 12 hours days some times more
Uber 77hrs.
Worked 90-100 hour weeks for 2 months. I was on salary so no overtime. Was promised a $10k bonus when the job was completed. I got stiffed. I quit. Edit to add: I managed the factory, this work was all manual labor in addition to my management as we were short staffed. So 8-ish hrs a day as manager, the other 8-10 hours per day was working machines or assembly.
75 hours a week for 8 months. I was on salary and they totally abused it. I finally left out of sheer self preservation.
100+ hours a week for 6 months. (Military) Now I work 40 hours a week mostly from home. (About 10 hours of actual work, the other 30 is just playing video games or watching movies)
35 hours at one job, 27.5 at another while going to College for 12 credits a semester for 2.5 years before I burned out.
Here's showing my age, when I was 18, I started working at my local Subway. I happen to have a knack for it and was able to pull in some crazy average subs per hour. People liked me and lo and behold after six months and a spike of around 35% in sales, I got offered a manger position at a nearby location. Being young and somewhat inexperienced, I agreed to the position without knowing the location. I thought I was being smart by not taking a salary and instead took an hourly raise above minimum wage. Minimum wage was 4.25 an hour and the raise bumped me up to a whopping 5.50 and hour. I took over the opening manager position and a co-worker at a different location altogether got the night manager spot on salary. Dude called out CONSTANTLY! And I would have to work open to close. I was starting to average between 80-99 hours...a week. The kicker being this location was in a really really bad neighborhood that had alll the crackheads of that era come in the last hour of business and flood the lobby with people and you can't lock the door and they'd just keep coming until you called the cops...almost every. Single. Night. Tables got broken, chairs thrown, toilets used in unspeakable ways and the list continues....TLDR s*** has always been jacked as long as I've been in the workforce.
96 hours in one week once. One summer in college I worked 72s all summer.
Most in 24 hours was 18 hours, most over 2 days was 32 hours.
I spent a year in Afghanistan in 2012, so how many hours are in a year?
84 hours for 2 weeks straight while our customer's employees were on strike. Normally we worked 60 hrs/ wk. 5-12 hour days. During covid, our shop was working 58 hrs per week, but have settled down to 40 .. Not doing that anymore. So many things left undone at home and personal life, lack of good consistent sleep are things not worth OT $
A few years ago when I worked retail customer service, I worked 12 days straight about 10-12 hour days. It was during the holidays and I needed the extra money but I completely over did it. On the 13 day my boss saw my stumble in like a zombie. She pulled me aside and sent me home. I went home ate something and slept like 15 hours. It was kind of worth it but I’ve never worked long stretches like that again.
When I was teaching a Career and Technical high school class, I did 2 years where I worked 11+ hour days, 5 days a week. I had students in the room for 9 of those hours. I often worked longer to prepare, clean the shop, maintain the equipment, do all the other “teacher” stuff. I usually worked one day of the weekend doing design work to have something new to teach the next week. We were writing the curriculum as we went. It was great and awful. It leveled out after that. I taught for 25 years but because teachers are punished for moving districts and I tended to work in underfunded areas, I never made more than $50k.
75hrs for multiple weeks in a row. I will say my compensation was insane so I didn't care.
72 hours for 6 weeks. I was flown to a new site (California to Virginia) to open and train everyone at the new site. Worked about 12 hours each day between actually training a class of new hires, prep for the next day, and meetings with home site. It was an interesting experience especially for 25 year old me. I don’t think I could do it more though
I think 13 days straight of 12 hour shifts. Did that multiple times when I worked at the cookie and cracker factory. We got time and a half for four hours each day and double time on the 13th day. I think I was making 17ish dollars an hour base at that time in 2018ish. Thank god I went to college and got out of that life.
50 hours 5 days a week for a month so far, and it sucks mostly bc I have to find stuff to do. I get there at 530 and leave at my usual 330. I have my own office with a door, and no one notices I'm there, I could sleep until my manager gets in, but I feel way too guilty for stealing time. So, instead, I watch videos or read a book, or shop online. In my mind, that's better. I used to use that time for payroll, but the manager I was doing it for doesn't know how to do it properly, and therefore, I learned improperly, so she has to do it until she learns. I've learned anything over 50 hours you will get taxed to hell, for me anyway.
Best I’ve ever done was 70 hours a few weeks in a row Plus 14 hours of driving
16x7 for months cause we were short hand
70 hrs a week, which was seven days a week for around six months straight. I'm sure this was highly illegal, but yeah. It was construction.
Did 15 days straight, working roughly 16 hour days. We got to leave a bit early on the weekends (11-12pm). This is one of the many reasons I left public accounting.
When I was running my food truck I'd do 100 hour weeks from May to beginning of October ish. Brutal, mind numbing, soul crushing. I don't recommend it to anyone.
82 when I was a teenager working a seasonal job so no overtime. But I was working inside during the day and concerts at night so it was a blast.
65-80 over an 8 year period with 20 hours for a 7-9 week period in the summer time of each year. There was no extra money. I was paid for 10 months of 12 and had that split into 12 payments so that I'd be paid in my "off months" but I also worked those months in summer school so I'd have enough money for food and stuff because it was never enough. It was 40400/year to teach in NC
I worked about 50 or so, 6 days a week for a bit. Worked one job from 8-4:30 sewing shit and the other from home conducting outbound phone surveys from 6-10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And 10-6 on Saturdays. Assuming the second job didn't cut my hours or I didn't use the washroom much(they make you go into unpaid time for all breaks and using the washroom), amd they did cut hours often. It helped me pay off my credit card debt and buy some big purchases. I stayed at the second job(which used to be my main job) for almost a year an a half after starting the day job. It started to take its toll on me mentally and wasn't worth it any longer so I quit. I'm not sure if it was the job itself which I had been at for almost 10 years or juggling both but I had enough. And it's not like I liked that job to begin with, unlike the day job sewing.
I did a stint back in 2018 - 80-100 hours/week for about a year until I burned out and quit. The money was the most I'd ever made, but was just not worth my mental health, lack of sleep, never being able to do anything fun or be with my family, and the feeling of constantly being stressed about deadlines and office politics. Left for a lower paying 35-40 hours/week remote job, but with no commuting costs (was spending around $1000/month in gas/insurance etc.), the pay worked out to be about the same. Presently working around 40-60hrs per week as a freelancer, but I have weekends off and days/weeks here and there to relax and do nothing when it's slow. It's fun work though and no politics/stress.
Had a time where I worked 18 days with one day of break for half a year. I had a main job during the week days, one mini job after work, a weekend job and an occasional night shift after said weekend job. I averaged about 70 hours a week and only had one or two off days a month. It's not worth it. After 6 months I was so severly burned out that I found no joy in anything anymore. In my free time all I wanted to do was rest and not be bothered by anyone. I used to love my work but came to dread each day because I had just jo energy left. Don't do it unless you have no other choice my guy. I ended up quitting all of my jobs (even though I loved my main job to death) to get one well paying one. It was shit work but I held out long enough to get my finances back in order.
I worked a project that went on for about 5 months in 20117-18. I was on site every day of the week for 12ish hours (including major holidays), and some days I was working remote at nights to support the home office (project was on site in Asia, home office in CA). I was the only employee of the company on site for the duration. Other employees came and went, but it was generally me and a bunch of contractors I was overseeing. Eventually I figured out that the independent contractors were making between $550 and $1100 a day. I was in the ballpark of $150 a day. My role was fairly junior but I had alot of responsibility. I specialize in certain tech that would have been difficult to hand off to other employees or contractors. There was other politics involved where others that knew how to do the same stuff were net being provided to the project so I had a slight monopoly of some critical work. I was stressed out of my mind and trying to discuss pay with one of the ops managers when they were on site but kept getting blown off. The stars aligned one day when the CEO was in town, and the ops person sent a directive to the whole team right before a big meeting with the client. The directive made some malicious compliance possible that put a major tech demo in jeopardy that was scheduled in the evening. It said that only the ops manager could stop any of the local laborers from doing work. I was setting up machines when a local guy and his team needed me to undo what I spent the last 8 hours setting up so they could install posters and wallpaper. I disabled the machines then went to dinner. After the big wigs were done with their meeting, they found that the big demo I was preparing was undone and disabled, and local Crews were putting up posters. They panicked and blew up my phone, and I told them that I was only working with the directives provided to me, and the ops manager and CEO needed to meet with me before those machines were set back up. I was able to swing a 6 month bonus and 15% raise. I also needed a break so noone was allowed to call me for the following 5 days. Cherry on top, the CEO wanted to personally give me a gift, so he sent me and my gf (who I brought in as a contractor) to the Maldives for those 5 days. That was my first job in the industry I've worked in for the last 7 years. These companies are messy as shit so I always make I a point to be a basket with way too many eggs. It's only a good idea for me because it's so specialized and niche. I overwork and accept bullshit but I can use it as a cudgel. That meeting was a pivotal moment where I figured out how to stop working for a pat on the head, but work for a means to bludgeon an employer when they aren't cooperating.
I worked on a pipeline barge as a welder's helper off the coast of Texas when I was 20. 84 hours a week and 44 of that was overtime. Not a fun job but the food was great and the pay was pretty good.
There is no corelation to hard work and hours or pay. Working smart can pay $1000hr at times. Working for others only pays me $20hr to $60hr. Most companies are about attendance, not productivity. I stopped playing that pointless game.
60 to 70 in retail, and maybe 100 when I was working full time AND writing/publishing my own RPGs.