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24 hrs a week over 3 days including travel time. Just coming to the end of my monthly 7 day weekend.
On average, 11.5 hours a day including cycling in and back. Plus three or four hours on a Sunday too. (I'm a teacher).
About 60 hrs
35 hours flexible times and from home, reading the other replies handing my notice in may not have been a great move 🙂
I do think people enjoy commuting though, its neither work or home so time to themselves.
Usually four twelve hour shifts - 7am to 7pm.
More work available, but I need the time off to properly wind down.
Commute is 12 miles each way.
Downhill on the way in, up on the way home.
Often ride in and get the train home.
Only in the summer though - car all the way at the mo.
4 on 4 off at the moment 12hr shifts , but my commute is only 8 minutes 🙂 ... only problem is contract runs out end of month then im looking for work again 🙁
36hrs over 4 days + 20 minutes on the bike and a 40 minute lunch so call it 40hrs, anything extra is flex (limited to +/- 6hrs) or overtime...normally get 5th day in so averaging 50hrs per week but thats cash in my pocket and my decision to volunteer.
Normally a mobile worker when not stuck covering a manager role so get to be out in all weathers and up to 2hrs driving to jobs in work time so the days go quick when I'm not sat at a desk. The job is fairly varied as well with regular problems to overcome.
At 90hours a week I hope you guys and girls are on 100k plus jobs. That is no badge of pride.
50 hrs (37.5 working, the rest commuting).
Commute each way is either
15 min walk/30 min train/15 min walk - exercise and relaxing seated train journey on clean, punctual (but expensive) electric trains.
or
60 min cycle - great for exercise and problem solving time.
If I could find a job that paid almost as well locally I'd take it but that's unlikely.
Leave at 6:15, home at 17:30 same 1-2 Saturday's a month (commute by bike so less time at work). I only get paid for 40 hours.
Currently trying to relocate our workplace to a unit next to the local woods only 10min from home!
12 hour days (including 1H45 of commute) are fairly typical in the summer months - but then I only do 2 or 3 days/week. Winter - 0 hours.
Some crazy numbers on here. Priority for me is having weean/family time, bike riding, and then earning some dough. 4.5h/day at work (2 on Fridays), bike commute is 45m/day. Very occasionally WFH but prefer to keep work out of the house. So under 25h/week combined? Still seems too much.
40 hour working week, 20 mins per day in the car. If I ride in, it's 20 minutes the direct route, or 35 the more scenic way.
39 hours, although I usually arrive at 8:30 instead of 9:00. A 4 minute walk to the office.
Always leave at 5 sharp.
40/45 hrs. 4hr commute Monday morning and Thursday night. Digs 10 minutes away the other days in between. Friday off
Approx 52hrs
19-20 of which is commuting, by foot and by rail. I'm really, really looking forward to being able to cycle to work again.
Anyone want to buy a house in Dundee?
My usual working week is approx 40 hrs with perhaps just the odd hour working late or starting early here and there. My commute is only 20 mins either way.
The last 6-8 weeks have been 70-80 hr weeks with my longest shift being 32 hrs without sleep. Fortunately these busy periods come along quite rarely.
My working week is contracted to be 37.5 hours a week but regularly put in 55 hours plus a week. I cycle commute so at the quickest it's about 30 minutes a day unless I feel like cycling the long way home then it can be up to a couple of hours a day.
Ave is around 45 including commute.
Used to commute from Hove to London on the train, but the though of that makes me shudder now.
Commute is about 30 mins each way so week is around 52-53 hours a week
looks like lots of folk are taking their lunch at their work desk. 😯
Commute is a 20 minute bike ride each way. I leave home at about 8:15 and get home about 5:30, usually get 30-45 minutes in the staffroom on a lunchtime but some of that is spent discussing work. Sometimes have marking on evenings and Sundays, but much less since I switched from teaching ICT to physics so coursework marking disappeared. So, 45 hours a week all in?
Term-time only 🙂
Edit: I forgot about the evening class I teach on a Monday, when I don't get home until 8:30, so probably more like 48 hours.
42hrs hour a day on the bike and 37hrs messing around with spanners 🙂 suites me just fine.
32 hours of paid work over 4 days, about 7.5 commuting. But the company is fairly happy for working from home, flexi-time and so on.
So I quite often come in late/nip off early and do a couple of hours in the evening to make up the time after I've done whatever I wanted to do (ride, spend more time with the kids/wife, whatever).
Might go back to 90% in January, or might leave it a few months. No one much cares..........
looks like lots of folk are taking their lunch at their work desk.
Is there somewhere else to have it?
The Car is my work so the commute is about 5 seconds but will increase to 10 seconds when the council put the Double Yellows in the side street.
Seriously though, commute to first student can be 1 minute or 15 depending on who's first.
I've cut my hours back majorly since first starting so, with travelling between students etc, probably about 40 hours a week. I used to do 60 + per week but it's a life to live, not to work.
sideshowdave - Member
looks like lots of folk are taking their lunch at their work desk.
Is there somewhere else to have it?
A colleague's desk. Or the company banquet hall
35hr week plus 12 minutes a day commute (driving a the moment as I need the car when I am at work, commute increases to 25mins a day when cycling) That works out 36hrs per week. I have three young kids and I wouldn't want it any other way.
Changed jobs six months ago as my combined work day and commute was almost 12 hours depending on the m25. New job sees me leave the house at 8 back home by 5.30, 6pm if I ride.
Not really enjoying the job, but the extra bike/family time is great. I feel a lot closer to my kids as I'm around much more now.
I leave the house at 7am, ride 20 miles to work, 8 hours in the office then home between 6:30 and 7 depending on the headwind. So around 60 hours.
Been off work for the past 4 weeks recovering from surgery and it's been wonderful to gain all the extra time in the evening. Roll on retirement
Average is 50 hours a week once you factor in 20 mins ride to & from work then changing time. Pretty happy with that. Couldn't get all I need to do in less, and the riding bookends the day nicely.
Nurse here.
I currently do 1100-2330 3 days a week in A+E, 30 min drive each way, biking, I have found, is impossible due to being so knackered at end of shift.
Thinking about taking a new job in OR in different hospital, 1200-2000 5 days a week, would be 30-45 min bike each way.
Well just locked in the new office space and just need to decide where to live, shouldn't be more than a 30min walk or at least a hop on a bus or 15min ride in...problem with working on the foreshore is that it's always uphill home.
How long in the office no idea these days
12-14 hours a week. Takes me about 10 mins to drive or 20 mins to ride.
Contracted to work 29.5 hours over 4.5 days
Usually do a couple of hours extra every week as they let me roll in around 10am (should be 9)
Commute is 15 mins each way (motorway clear at that time of morning)
I'm pretty sure i could earn a little more than i do if i could be bothered - but I'm a lazy, lazy man 😆
C50 here, 42 paid for and 8 commuting. Genuine question, how does anyone regularly work 75+ and have quality of life outside of work?
Interesting related listening here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pbw9v