How long is your working day?

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

7.30am to 3.30pm or 2pm till 10pm are my 'normal' shifts, as well as the occasional 8am - 8pm 12 hour bad boy. I've also worked 24 hours straight a couple of times.

Having said all that, I work in a residential home so a lot of the time I'm sat around with a cup of coffee playing PS3, so I shouldn't really moan.

 

[grummitts gloves]

No days off or breaks as such as being my mrs carer is 24/7 365 days a year. I get "cover" from mother in law to go to the Albion but that's about it. Having said that when mrs has a good day all I really do is the household stuff.

Fair play to you mate, that's got to be the toughest job of all.


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[Taybha]

8 different shift patterns over 8 weeks then a week off , hours vary nights early lates ect ,lots of weekend work as my boss is a bit of a squeaky

 

[Martin Lambert]

Start about 7.45am finish about 6pm unless I have any late appts. Never stop for lunch.

 

[Wilko]

As a nation, we really do have this work/play balance thing all wrong don't we? Especially short luches stuffing a sandwich in your gob or worse still working through your lunch

 

[Return of the Rev]

Have not got a clue? work from home

 

[Beach Hut]

As a nation, we really do have this work/play balance thing all wrong don't we? Especially short luches stuffing a sandwich in your gob or worse still working through your lunch

We do, when I was in Portugal they had two hour lunch breaks

 

[Barrel of Fun]

As a nation, we really do have this work/play balance thing all wrong don't we? Especially short luches stuffing a sandwich in your gob or worse still working through your lunch

I was talking about that the other day with a friend. Possibly a naive and inaccurate view, but our continental cousins seem to savour lunch and treat it as a social occasion, as opposed to the a pit stop.

 

[Bry Nylon]

We do, when I was in Portugal they had two hour lunch breaks

Would that be the same Portugal that is currently up el shitto creak without a paddle because the bloke with the paddle has gone home for lunch?

 

[Deleted member 18477]

I do 7.30 till 17.10 with 40 mins lunch break x 4 days a week.

 

[Wilko]

I was talking about that the other day with a friend. Possibly a naive and inaccurate view, but our continental cousins seem to savour lunch and treat it as a social occasion, as opposed to the a pit stop.

Exactly. Time spent with family and friends, conversation, enjoying the food and letting it digest. One of my fave things about going on holiday in the med is taking a good 2/3 hours over an evening meal with good company.

 

[matt_32510]

Do 4 on 4 off which is a 12 hour shift for each day/night. Get 1 hour lunch break.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Exactly. Time spent with family and friends, conversation, enjoying the food and letting it digest. One of my fave things about going on holiday in the med is taking a good 2/3 hours over an evening meal with good company.

One of the reasons I hated a previous job in Chichester was because the social aspect was zero. The company employed 30 odd people, but only 7 or 8 were permanently based in the office. Lunch was a sandwich at the desk affair, whilst working.

Sure, you could always go and sit in another room and eat sandwiches together, but that is not a vast improvement.

I do think we need to change our whole way of life.

In Europe, I think we score very badly when it comes to working patterns, commuting distance and public holidays.

I don't think I ever want to commute far again. 2.5 hours - there and back - over a period of 48 weeks (5 days a week) is a solid 25 WHOLE days travel in one working year.

 

[pauli cee]

leave home 5.50am, work bloody hard all day on building site with no break, home at 6pm. its crap. takes over your life.
thought this was tough, then saw some of the other posts on here, maybe not so bad.............

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Say 2-7 every afternoon. 6 days a week. But never such a thing as a 'set' day as a Swimming teacher as couple times a week do mornings too, couple days am later finishing, couple days do even less

Oh and lunch break? Being self employed it depends if I want to plan one into my day

 

[Paxton Dazo]

As a nation, we really do have this work/play balance thing all wrong don't we? Especially short luches stuffing a sandwich in your gob or worse still working through your lunch

0700-1430.30 minute lunch.

I wouldn't even have a lunch if I didn't have too.I HAVE to have one (health and safety gone mad etc). The reason I start so early is so I can get out of work and still enjoy most of the day.

 

[throbinson]

7am to 7pm with a 60 min break, bloody busses

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

The French have got this spot on (not a lot else mind you). Work for 3 hours, have a 2 hour lunch break, and then work for another 3. And don't even think about working on a weekend.

I got caught in Paris on their equivalent of a bank holiday and I couldn't find a shop open that would sell me a packet of fags or 'cigarettes' as they call them, for love nor money. We need to adopt a similar level of laziness in my book. Only with newsagents open on a bank holiday.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

leave home 5.50am, work bloody hard all day on building site with no break, home at 6pm. its crap. takes over your life.
thought this was tough, then saw some of the other posts on here, maybe not so bad.............

Rather naively, I turned in my office job to become a writer and expected to be able to produce some decent stuff. My work patterns were similar to yours. Coupled with the tiredness of digging and/or lugging round bricks and sand all day.

If you want to become a writer. Do not take up building to pay the bills!

 

[Ninja Elephant]

7am to 7pm with a 60 min break, bloody busses

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