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M.J.H
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Work hours Thu, 08 July 2004 13:57 Go to next message

How many hours a week[ 83 vote(s) ]
1.0-10 3 / 4%
2.10-20 10 / 12%
3.20-30 8 / 10%
4.30-40 17 / 20%
5.40-50 25 / 30%
6.50-60 9 / 11%
7.60-70 5 / 6%
8.70-80 3 / 4%
9.80+ 3 / 4%

Just curious what hours a week you do at work.
ATM i'm in the 70-80 bracket but it goes up or down depending on wether the other drivers are working or not.

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Re: Work hours Thu, 08 July 2004 15:12 Go to previous messageGo to next message
was 70 to 80 but not anymore Sad i get 0 a week now wohhoo Sad
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Re: Work hours Thu, 08 July 2004 23:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
how much does 24h/d 7 days a week add up to????? does that count tho?? Rolling Eyes
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Re: Work hours Thu, 08 July 2004 23:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I work 70+, but I only work 3 out of 4 weeks, so it equates to 55hrs/week
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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 00:19 Go to previous messageGo to next message
For those poor guys working long hours, do you get paid well, or paid crap? And what sort of jobs require these long hours??
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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 00:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Working 3 jobs, starting most mornings at 6.30am and finishing 11pm most nights.

More if I include the landscaping I'm doing at home.

Mortgages Suck
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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 00:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
you people are crazy! Need spare time to work on the car Smile
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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 00:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Sigmeister wrote on Fri, 09 July 2004 08:19

For those poor guys working long hours, do you get paid well, or paid crap? And what sort of jobs require these long hours??

Do I get paid well? umm, I'd like to think I do
Engineering, Minesite... says it all
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CrUZsida wrote on Fri, 09 July 2004 10:37

Sigmeister wrote on Fri, 09 July 2004 08:19

For those poor guys working long hours, do you get paid well, or paid crap? And what sort of jobs require these long hours??

Do I get paid well? umm, I'd like to think I do
Engineering, Minesite... says it all


Engineering Drafting Awaaaaaayyyyy down the other end of the scale Embarassed Not bad just seems to be.

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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 02:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Engineering Drafting also if the boss offers work i take it to greedy i guess Very Happy
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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 02:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I'm in a pretty much 2 drafty office with several multi storey buildings having just started or are about to start. Need to keep on top of the faxes and RFI's = long evenings preparing for the next day.

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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 02:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Typically varies quite a bit, but usually lands in around the 60 hours.

Paid well, and paid overtime as an Engineer in the Auto industry.

Mortgages do suck, but at least spending some of it on cars is rewarding Very Happy
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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 03:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
38.75 per week.

no weekends

[Updated on: Mon, 12 July 2004 01:09]

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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 05:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Lambolica wrote on Fri, 09 July 2004 12:48

I'm in a pretty much 2 drafty office with several multi storey buildings having just started or are about to start. Need to keep on top of the faxes and RFI's = long evenings preparing for the next day.





We just have too much work Razz
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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 07:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
36 hrs a week, 9 day fortnight, the pay isn't bad, im still only a 1st year apprentice electrician tho.
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Re: Work hours Fri, 09 July 2004 07:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I'm usually working around 60 hours in a 5 day week... Monday to Friday only...
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Re: Work hours Sat, 10 July 2004 03:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
On uni holidays, working 40-50hrs/week. When uni is on i manage to get in about 15-20hrs a week. Rolling Eyes

As for engineering jobs, there are well paid jobs in the industry. Dad's working down in the gong gets sub 105K Razz

[Updated on: Sat, 10 July 2004 03:45]

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Re: Work hours Sat, 10 July 2004 12:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
38hrs+ a week can be more but I am gurrented a 38hr week unless holiday or somethhing like that
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Re: Work hours Sat, 10 July 2004 14:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
damn at current on uni holidays too, working about 25hrs a week, i do atleast 13hrs a week plus full time uni. engineering beta pay well
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Re: Work hours Sat, 10 July 2004 15:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
DunkyMonkey wrote on Sun, 11 July 2004 00:07

engineering beta pay well


I hope so too! I do about 15-20 with full-time uni. In the holidays, its whatever i can get.
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Re: Work hours Sat, 10 July 2004 18:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
47 hours during the week at telstra, 5 hours on sunday morning at tennis

add in 8 hours of uni, and I got a pretty full life Razz
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Re: Work hours Sun, 11 July 2004 00:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
i do 36 hrs a week.. thats way too much
i wanna get payed more and work less
cutting down to 24 hrs soon so i can get a real job by doing portfolio
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Re: Work hours Sun, 11 July 2004 01:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I worked from 9am monday morning till 6.30am tuesday morning last week

then slept for 2 hours then worked for 6 hours, then drove to Albury


I was tired
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Re: Work hours Sun, 11 July 2004 01:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
you're a nutter rob Nod
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Re: Work hours Sun, 11 July 2004 04:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hmmm. i only work about 41 or so hours a week. But if you add on travelling time i leave home at about 7.45 and get back at the earliest about 6.45. So that is a minimum of 55 hours a week. But I only work for about 42. Sad Sucks. Dont know how you guys who work 70+ can handle it.
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Re: Work hours Sun, 11 July 2004 09:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
if the pay was worth it i would work 70+ hours a week, sadly its not worth the effort.
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Re: Work hours Sun, 11 July 2004 11:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message


I don't have to travell to get to work.I walk out the front door and get in ther car and presto i'm at work.Drive around all day and get paid for it Smile Only down side is i have to put up with the general public,old poeple and drunks Sad
12+ hours a day 6 days a week soon adds up but thats what i have to do at the moment to pay the bills.

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Re: Work hours Mon, 12 July 2004 00:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
40 h most likely .... i start tomorrow.

the long hour jobs are in construction.

working 12h a day , 6 days per week for 5-7 months straight,
plus travel time to the worksite ...
pay is good to excellent.... 60k + a year is easy.
but it destroys ev EVERYTHING else... so i didn't stay at it.

but , looks like i may have the good job now. right on .
high tech metal fabrication...likely nice equipment at my work

my boss

http://www.price-hvac.com/html/index.asp
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Re: Work hours Mon, 12 July 2004 01:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
40-50 unless there is a need (project delivery or something) which case it can ramp up to 80+ but then i get time in lieu or overtime (my choice).

Pay is outstanding...


As an employer - if you work people much harder than 40-50 on a regular basis, you end up getting less out of them than if you make them take a break and come back refreshed... morale suggests that a well paid employee will do as much in 40-50 hours as a low paid employee will do in 80.
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Re: Work hours Mon, 12 July 2004 01:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
M.J.H wrote on Sun, 11 July 2004 21:45



I don't have to travell to get to work.I walk out the front door and get in ther car and presto i'm at work.Drive around all day and get paid for it Smile Only down side is i have to put up with the general public,old poeple and drunks Sad
12+ hours a day 6 days a week soon adds up but thats what i have to do at the moment to pay the bills.




what do you do? Are you one of those people with a moving billboard type thing. Or one of those sponsored cars covered in red bull graphics or something...
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Re: Work hours Mon, 12 July 2004 10:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
RobST162 wrote on Sun, 11 July 2004 11:07

I worked from 9am monday morning till 6.30am tuesday morning last week

then slept for 2 hours then worked for 6 hours, then drove to Albury


I was tired



i can maybe beat that
not the weekend past, but the one before
went out friday night, no big deal
went out saturday night, got home at 6am, up at 10 am, at work by 12:30(had to drive about 100km's to get to work that day :/)
finished at 6:30 that night, up at 4 the next morning to get to work by 5:30
finished 7:30 that night

On average, during the cooler months, i work about 42 hours a week(this will increase as the weather warms up and we get more breakdown calls), get paid for 38 get 2 hours a week RDO acrual and i usually spend half an hour at the end of each day doing paperwork for the days work. Most days i dont take either of my entitled smoko's and rarely get a full lunch break(lunch is usually me eating in the ute on the way to a job...or if i crack the shits and get too hungry to keep working Razz) But thats mostly my choice...alot of the time i tend to slow down if i have too long a break, or that its not really convenient to take a break halfway through something. I like to keep busy, makes the day go faster.
Travel time is usually 45-60 minutes each way and i average 600km's a week in my own vehicle...sucks on a shitty 5m-e and bugger all pay, not including other driving i do during the day in one of the tradesmens vehicles...which isnt usually that much)

Pay...well its pretty bad, but most first year apprentices get paid shit, perhaps it will go up a bit when i finally go dual trade apprentice...perhaps not Razz
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Re: Work hours Mon, 12 July 2004 10:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
i currently do 40 HPW, but i have a feeling in my new job ill be working more like 50-60
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Re: Work hours Mon, 12 July 2004 14:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Benjamin wrote on Mon, 12 July 2004 11:27


what do you do? Are you one of those people with a moving billboard type thing. Or one of those sponsored cars covered in red bull graphics or something...


my guess is that he means taxi driver.


personally i'm doing about 40 per week at the moment, just finished my uni degree so i'm doing extra hours at my shitkicker job. i'm considering dropping back tho cos the pay doesn't justify the effort.

as with most people, if the pay DID justify the effort, i'd do 60 per week.
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Re: Work hours Tue, 13 July 2004 04:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
IM stuck between job decisions atm..ive got a job on offer from an auto shop, dogin 56HPW, and getting a similar rate to my 40HPW job per hour.

The 40HPW job is shit, and i work for absolute cunts!

The 56HPW job is clean, and it seems they are nice people...But saturday working from 7.30-4 really sux balls.

Im going for another interview at repco to see what i like most today Razz


WHat would you guys do?

Btw this it to keep me going until i start uni next year...

its a case hours vs temprament Confused
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Re: Work hours Tue, 13 July 2004 05:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
I work 35 hours a week, in IT.
What does everyone do?
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Re: Work hours Tue, 13 July 2004 07:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hi,

Used to work in IT, but we got outsourced by a bunch of cocks and they didn't like me, so they retrenched me. I was pretty pissed for an hour or two, until I did the maths on the payout - which closed my mortgage off totally and with some left over.

So, I do 0 hours work now, but at least 2 or three a day looking for a new job. I need the money to do some work on the car, work on the house, work on the landscaping.. big screen TV.. new computer.. new war game stuff... crikey, the list goes on...

The wife still works, so I'm trying to get her to get a better job so she can keep affording me Smile

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Re: Work hours Tue, 13 July 2004 07:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
river...

You could sell a certain car for some extra cash... Rolling Eyes
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Re: Work hours Tue, 13 July 2004 08:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hi,

Lambolica wrote on Tue, 13 July 2004 17:45

river...

You could sell a certain car for some extra cash... Rolling Eyes


Ahh... is this the fabled GT you're waiting for?

It'd break my heart to see it rusting away in your mums backyard with a dozen other hulks Sad

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Re: Work hours Wed, 14 July 2004 09:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
River, I see who is the man in the relationship, When I get married, I want to be like you, stay home, work on the car, while the mrs brings home the grover!
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Re: Work hours Wed, 14 July 2004 11:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hi,

KOFFEE-BLACK wrote on Wed, 14 July 2004 19:41

River, I see who is the man in the relationship


Absolutely! I wear the pants around here (when the wife lets me) Smile

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Re: Work hours Thu, 15 July 2004 01:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
well i work 24/7 I'm a mum Cool
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Re: Work hours Thu, 15 July 2004 02:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
37.5 for me, and i work a 9 day fortnight too
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Re: Work hours Thu, 15 July 2004 06:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
HSV_gal wrote on Fri, 09 July 2004 09:35

how much does 24h/d 7 days a week add up to????? does that count tho?? Rolling Eyes

my oath it does....... Very Happy
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Re: Work hours Thu, 15 July 2004 09:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
thug_immortal wrote on Thu, 15 July 2004 12:31

37.5 for me, and i work a 9 day fortnight too



hard life Rolling Eyes
and you still get paid more than me Razz

although this week it looks like a 55 hour week, hooray overtime!


*calculates*
after tax...thats still under $300 Razz
sooo cant wait for second year to come around
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Re: Work hours Thu, 15 July 2004 10:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
well i quit my 40hpw job to go to a 56hpw job....ill probably regret it - but the job seems to be a LOT better Rolling Eyes

Although im not looking forward to handing in my resignation tommorow. Sad
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Re: Work hours Thu, 15 July 2004 12:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Working in IT has its ups and downs.
I've spent entire months sitting around twiddling my thumbs (and posting on the forums), but I've also had some crazy times.

Worst I've done is a 120h week. That's including a 26h Sunday.

Most of the time it's around the 40-50 mark I'd say.
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Re: Work hours Thu, 15 July 2004 22:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hi,

What this poll should ask is "How many hours a week do you actually do work?"

Being unemployed I can sit on the net all day, but some of you guys are chatting and posting while you should be working. Tsk Tsk Tsk.

So, I can see responses like... "I am employed and paid for 50 hrs a week, but I do 20 'cos the rest of the time I'm on the net and looking/posting/checking out Toyotas!" Smile

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Re: Work hours Sun, 18 July 2004 05:18 Go to previous message
anyway.....

i guess is does not matter for me....

my union agreement is 50-60 pages.....

my benefits are amazing......

job security for life .... for me...

for my kids ....

for my grandkids .....

great grandkids .....

etc etc ... on and on ... for all eternity.

now THAT'S a great job.
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