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How many hours do you work a week?

How many hours do you work a week?


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Full time student, part time @ DQ. So, unlike everybody else, I'm working less the closer we get to Christmas
 
Every hour I can get, but overtime is almost impossible to get these days. Actually the work load is so bad that I end up working "off the clock" a couple hours a week despite not getting paid... just to fricken' stay employed in this bad economy. :roll:
 
Every hour I can get, but overtime is almost impossible to get these days. Actually the work load is so bad that I end up working "off the clock" a couple hours a week despite not getting paid... just to fricken' stay employed in this bad economy. :roll:

that sucks man. you have my sympathies. :(
 
I work around 50 to 60 hours a week for a surface water treatment facility which includes 4 seperate plants. During the winter months I work less but always work a minimum of 40. There is less demand for water in winter months (less than 200 mgd) so our plants run lower flows. At lower flows things don't break as often. During the summer months when we a running close to maximum capacity our flows our over 500 mgd (million gallons per day).
 
Full time student (19 credit hours).
I work 20 hours every 2 weeks at a local coffee shop, 6 one week and 14 the next.
 
I am just curious, because a lot of times I tend to want to side with the conservatives on here because seems like a lot of you are just bitching because you have to actually work a lot to make a lot of money so...how many hours do you work on average a week?

I normally work about 60 hours a week. Lowest is 48, most is around 72. I have a baby daughter to take care of as well. I also do design and writing work here and there on contract on the side. I sleep like 4-5 hours a night. I am obviously Democrat. I support some of the ideas of OWS but as a whole think it's counter-productive (or not productive at all). Just trying to get a feel for how you all are...

It depends on the time of the year.

I'm expected to work a straight 40 hour work week for most of the year, but that can get as high as over 72 hours a week when we're really busy. Another thing is that, quite often, I also have to work 6 or 7 days a week, which is what I really think sucks. Nothing can be done about it, though.

Also, when I'm not tired, I busy myself by dabbling with writing here and there. That pretty much consists of my entire day for the most part.
 
varies wildly. some weeks, I work 100 hour plus. I'm not going to lie - those weeks suck. some weeks, not nearly so much. right now, for example, i'm at a "planning conference", and getting put up at a nice hotel for about 8 hours of work a day (that I am required to put in - I do more because A) i'm slightly obsessive and B) i have little else to do but read and pt).
 
I work constantly, it seems. If I'm not in my classroom on the weekends, I'm looking up different things online, finding new ideas for lesson plans, researching literacy programs, shopping for things for my students and/or classroom, etc.
 
Good heavens - we're busy people.
But yet - have the time to spend together as the coolest group of debaters around.
 
I am just curious, because a lot of times I tend to want to side with the conservatives on here because seems like a lot of you are just bitching because you have to actually work a lot to make a lot of money so...how many hours do you work on average a week?
I work a lot (one full-time job and a part-time job with damn near full-time hours). I average between 60-74 hours a week. As a conservative, I don't bitch about it because it's what I choose to do. I don't need the extra income from the 2nd job to survive, but it's nice to have the extra money. Your argument here is flawed, but I'll get to that later on.

I normally work about 60 hours a week. Lowest is 48, most is around 72. I have a baby daughter to take care of as well. I also do design and writing work here and there on contract on the side. I sleep like 4-5 hours a night. I am obviously Democrat. I support some of the ideas of OWS but as a whole think it's counter-productive (or not productive at all). Just trying to get a feel for how you all are...
The (Tea Party) conservatives and the OWS crowd have a few things in common, and in other areas they couldn't be further apart. For example, both are pissed off about bailing out Wall Street, but there are so many differences between the two that it's not even funny.

It seems to me that you are confusing conservatives with what the media paints conservatives out to be. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, smaller government and freedom. The OWS crowd doesn't believe in personal responsibility, doesn't believe in fiscal responsibility (at least not anywhere close to the same level that conservatives do), doesn't believe in a smaller government and they hate freedom. OWS is all over the map politically, philosophically and everywhere else.

As for your argument that conservatives are bitching because they have to work a lot to make a lot, I call bull****. True conservatives understand that it is our responsibility to take care of ourselves and our family. Times are tough right now, for everyone, but I'm not waiting on the government (at least not this administration) to do anything even remotely close to helping the economy. The mess we are on now was created by our government. Our government stuck it's nose in private business (Fanny & Freddie), has practiced crony-capitalism for years and years and has spent recklessly for decades. Why would I expect our current government to do anything to fix that when all they have done is add to it?

To sum it all up, I work to take care of me and my family. I chose the profession that I'm in and I like what I do. But until the economy turns around and the proper steps are put into place to aid in that recovery, I do what I have to do. I may complain about being tired and missing time with my family, but it's because of them that I do what I do. If I didn't love them and didn't care, I'd probably be a loony liberal camped out in a tent occupying something other than a job.
 
I work a lot (one full-time job and a part-time job with damn near full-time hours). I average between 60-74 hours a week. As a conservative, I don't bitch about it because it's what I choose to do. I don't need the extra income from the 2nd job to survive, but it's nice to have the extra money. Your argument here is flawed, but I'll get to that later on.


The (Tea Party) conservatives and the OWS crowd have a few things in common, and in other areas they couldn't be further apart. For example, both are pissed off about bailing out Wall Street, but there are so many differences between the two that it's not even funny.

It seems to me that you are confusing conservatives with what the media paints conservatives out to be. Conservatives believe in personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, smaller government and freedom. The OWS crowd doesn't believe in personal responsibility, doesn't believe in fiscal responsibility (at least not anywhere close to the same level that conservatives do), doesn't believe in a smaller government and they hate freedom. OWS is all over the map politically, philosophically and everywhere else.

As for your argument that conservatives are bitching because they have to work a lot to make a lot, I call bull****. True conservatives understand that it is our responsibility to take care of ourselves and our family. Times are tough right now, for everyone, but I'm not waiting on the government (at least not this administration) to do anything even remotely close to helping the economy. The mess we are on now was created by our government. Our government stuck it's nose in private business (Fanny & Freddie), has practiced crony-capitalism for years and years and has spent recklessly for decades. Why would I expect our current government to do anything to fix that when all they have done is add to it?

To sum it all up, I work to take care of me and my family. I chose the profession that I'm in and I like what I do. But until the economy turns around and the proper steps are put into place to aid in that recovery, I do what I have to do. I may complain about being tired and missing time with my family, but it's because of them that I do what I do. If I didn't love them and didn't care, I'd probably be a loony liberal camped out in a tent occupying something other than a job.

No I don't confuse either. I understand both are mad at Wall Street for different reasons, and I understand that both in their own ways fuel and direct the conversation as well as have a deep impact on politicians. My argument isn't towards the conservatives on the board; it is towards the liberals and democrats that seem to blindly support OWS. I am a democrat 100%. But beyond that, I am a normal person, that knows politics or not, you can't get anywhere in life just sitting on your ass and only working 32 hours a week especially if you have a family. My comments are directed towards those types that seem to believe that honest hard work is a bad thing. Someone in here posted something by a stockbroker about doing what it takes to win, and if the OWS movement took the food off their plate, they would do everything to take theirs. I 100% respect that more than any of these "I am the 99%" boo-hoo place card pictures that these people are posting on Twitter with their iPhones, that they and all 5 of their family members have (even their little kids in middle school because their assholes and give $600 phones to ****ing kids) that they pay $200+ a month to have, that they pay with for their credit card, while wondering why they can't afford to send their daughter to college.

On the flip side I think much of what the Tea Party stands for is totally misguided as well, and totally shows when the government starts talking about ****ing with Social Security and Medicare. My hope, is that both of these extremes will eventually force our two incredibly divided parties to realize they need to start working together again someday, and they both served a true purpose.
 
Depends on your definition of work.

I work for pay a total of about 16 hours a month approx. 11 months a year, plus about 40 hours a week for 3 - 4 weeks straight out of the year.

The rest of the time, I am a SAHM, so I am basically on call for my kids and/or doing housework, but I do have help from my brother. I will be helping out monetarily though starting next month just by going to school.
 
Not only do I not work I will never work again. Fact is I didn't work ever when I was on the Radio. If I were to have an opportunity tp do a radio program I believe most who post here would be a fan because I welcome view that don't match my own and they go to the head of the line, because i love to debate, and unlike others I never cut call short and they pretend they hung up.
 
I actually have it pretty good. I work whenever I want.
 
A couple of months ago at an obligatory social function. (I hate those things) Someone asked me how many people I had working for me. I said, "About half."
 
Most of them. Every waking hour not devoted to studying is one that could be devoted to it. I don't keep a tally but it probably comes out to around 50-70 hours a week. Then there's the time spent on my internships, student orgs, local civil rights stuff...

No wonder I have no time for dating. >_<
 
Good heavens - we're busy people.
But yet - have the time to spend together as the coolest group of debaters around.

Let's not generalize, I am neither too busy or a good debater.
 
I could not answer ... some random weeks 60+ yet ideally around 30. I guess you are talking about the work we all do to earn a living. Yet should we have such a defined line? ... on days of leisure I might be enjoying the physical world, working online, cooking, gardening, artistic pursuits or writing. During times of leisure I might solve a "work" issue in my mind or create ... something to eat, something of beauty or even find a solution for my "paid" work.

When I travel ... I might work one day in the middle of a few leisure days.

Reading through the posts ... people are working too much.

Check out this interview.

How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson | Mother Jones

MJ: And idleness and hard work aren’t mutually exclusive; there's just a more balanced way of approaching hard work, right?

TH: Yes. And I had that approach right from the beginning. It wasn’t exactly the old “do nothing all day,” it was just that you appreciate the value of a good portion of doing nothing in your day—for your mental health, your physical health, your relationships, that sort of thing. But also you appreciate the importance of getting out of this wage-slavery thing, more or less, and try to look after yourself, and that’s the anarchist side of it. People say, “Aren’t you going backwards?” or “You’re a Luddite.” But I think it’s good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.
 
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I work at a department store, 8 hours per day and 1 day off at week.

So, 64 hours per week.

How many days are in your week??????
 
I work 36 hours, 3 12 hour shifts. It's considered full time even though it isn't 40 hours. Pretty standard for a nurse.
 
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