How long is your working week + commute?

But they don’t seem to do they. Plenty of directors worth that where I work, working till late 60’s etc… after having spent countless hours/weeks jetting round meetings, working till 11pm… I just don’t get it.

Fair point – I guess a significant number of those working into 60s have had to cope with at least one divorce which will affect the retirement planning.

I once got chatting to the CEO of a $400billion (thats $400,000,000,000) turnover company who said he ‘only’ works 65 hours a week, and when he broke that down it didn’t seem too bad (secretary filters his e-mails so he gets the important ones sent to his phone and read them over breakfast, 1st class travel so can actually work productively on the train, 8 hours in the office, plus an hour lunch meeting, work on the commute home and do his organizing for the next day on his phone whilst there’s nothing on TV).

When you look at it like that it’s not a difficult day at all.

Doesn’t sound difficult. Just a good way to waste your life.

Doesn’t sound difficult. Just a good way to waste your life.

Maybe, but the extra 20 hours in a normal week would be 10 commuting, 5 working lunches, 30min morning/evening checking e-mails form the throne.

He also had things like a private jet available for travel, which meant he could for example go skiing straight from work on friday night, get two solid days skiing, fly back late on Sunday and still be up for work on Monday. He was probably able to squeeze more

I suspect he actually had a lot more time to do fun stuff than most people. How many hours will you spend cooking/cleaning/watching TV/on STW this evening?

Leave house before 0730, back at 1930-2100, on emergency duty 1 weekend in 4 and 1 night per week.
Too much, not enough time for family let alone bike or board!

I suspect he actually had a lot more time to do fun stuff than most people. How many hours will you spend cooking/cleaning/watching TV/on STW this evening?

I’d have to spend 20 hours a week cooking and cleaning for that to make sense. I can assure you that I don’t*. The watching TV and STW time applies to him just as much as everyone else. I have an airport just up the road, I can go skiing on a friday night, fly back sunday and still be up for work on monday. I’m sure his is more convenient and his resources oviously mean that he can make the most of his leisure time but I’m not convinced…

*Even if I did though, cooking is one of the many pleasurable things you can do with your time when you’re not working.

Still doesn’t sound like fun but, each to their own. The guy obviously enjoys that way of life, and yes, I can see there are benefits.

The guy obviously enjoys that way of life, and yes, I can see there are benefits

Some people just function that way. They’re probably not laid-back mountain bikers though!

I’m on a service contract rather than hours, which states something like I am ‘to spend primarily all of my time in the service of the company’. What this means is I have more flexibility than a regular office job, and often mix work and leisure to an extent – ie checking calls / emails early/late/at weekends and responding as necessary to keep things happening whilst doing other stuff.

If I were to add up the hours I actually spent working (ie in office/meetings), travelling to offices/meetings, time spent resolving issues outside work hours, plus planning for the following day/week (even if just thinking stuff through sat on the bog) – it would add up to quite a lot. But I can do some of that while I’m watching telly / playing with the kids / out on the bike. And I can manage my time to be where I want fairly well, so I’m generally home by 6pm on a thursday to make the thursday night ride (and not an early start on friday, as we are often in the pub a bit late!)

I was approached by a local competitor recently, and had a chat with them last week. Whilst the work would be closer to home, I’d be more office-based, and less flexible with hours. Overall work time would be less, but more routine. Thats not really attracting me. The final nail in the coffin was the interviewers passing shot – ‘I’m a morning person, usually in the office well before 7am’ – I really cant be doing with the More Hours willy waving as noted above.

37.5 hours/week, fifteen minute walk either way.

Mon & Tue 0700 – anytime between 1600 and 1900. Roughly 20 hours per week. About 2 hours commute total over the two days. Also another 7 hr shift on random days. Total average around 30 hours work and travel time over 3 days.

Good thing is the random extra shifts are on a zero hour contract so I just say no anytime I want Wed – Sunday off.

As a freelance consultant I spend time at other peoples offices, between an hour and three hours to get there, then a two hour meeting. But that’s only a few times a month.

I live in a commuter town and don’t envy those who travel into London every day, on overcrowded and often delayed trains. I’ve avoided such a destiny like the plague and am happy to earn less and do my own thing.

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.

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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