How much do you actually work? (5 Viewers)

[-fish-]

Not asking how much time you're required to put in. How much actual work do you do in a week?

 

[fruity pebbles]

I officially work 28 hours a week. Of that I’m probably working half of it. That half can be intense so they get their moneys worth out of me X 2.

 

[-fish-]

I officially work 28 hours a week. Of that I’m probably working half of it. That half can be intense so they get their moneys worth out of me X 2.

So as an example the answer here is 14 hours.

 

[nirad3]

It depends. If I'm traveling it's definitely closer to 40 when you figure in the airport, driving and actual site time.

If it's just a regular work I'm probably closer to 25-30.

 

[McBokonon]

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

 

[acarey50]

Similar to @nirad3 in that it depends and can fluctuate from week to week and day to day.

First week of the month tends ot be busier as we do some month end reporting with tight deadlines. First two weeks of the year are very busy for year end. Then it depends on the timelines and deliverables for the different projects - so some days are easily closer to 10-12 or more and that can carry on for several days/weeks, but then there are some periods where there is a lull and it may only be 4-5 hours of actual work in a given day. It all seems to balance out, and I'm in a spot where I have quite a bit of flexibility on when I work, so that while I am available during normal business hours, if I have a kid's event, I can go to them and will generally work in the evening a bit if it is neccesary.

I put 30-40 as that would be my average.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

40 on the clock at least. Working 35-40 of them.
I’m one of the few blue collar FBGs

 

[urbanhack]

I'm "working" probably 40 hours a week.

But the actual work I do is probably 27 to 33 hours. I'm locked in from 6am till 10 or 11 and then sprinkle in additional work the rest of the day.

 

[belljr]

Ebbs and flows......

 

[urbanhack]

I really wanted to vote 20 to 30 hours, but the impostor syndrome in me is making me select 30 to 40.

 

[the moops]

10-20. Don't tell my boss

 

[Sammy3469]

It depends and I end up doing a week or 2 at 80+, but the normal week is 10-20 waiting for those 80+. I also have to sort of sit around and be available to put out "fires" if they pop up.

 

[Runkle]

I'm incredibly efficient at what I do. Literally questions that take my executives half a day to three days to answer, I can calculate in 5-10 minutes. So about a dozen execs offload that part of their jobs to me.

It ends up being very little actual clock time during the week for me. The largest amount of time is setting up the model that can answer the question at the start of the project. Then as the project enters day-to-day mode, it's just changing single variables and seeing what the model answers.

 

[Gatorade]

Retired so I don't do crap.

When I did work it was like 60+ hours a week in the summer and 40+ in the winter.
I took maybe a half hour for lunch and the rest was work.

 

[-fish-]

I'm not from HR. You don't need to justify how little you work. I don't care what you "officially" work.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

The worst job I ever got laid off from was the unemployment office, I still had to come in the next day.

 

[El Floppo]

At my desk or on site 40-50 hours per week.

Actually working...most of that minus 5-10 hrs. So 30-40 hrs/week

 

[snogger]

At my old job I was putting in 50+ per week. I'd basically do catchup work from 5am to 9am, then be in back to back meetings until 3 or 4pm.

New job that I started about 8 weeks ago.. 40 max.
My mornings until 11am are busy. But the majority of the people who report to me are overseas, so my afternoons are free of meetings and I get work done.

Wife noticed two weeks in my anxiety and stress levels were WAY down.
I was lucky to get 5 hours of sleep at my last job. I'm now getting 6 1/2 to 7 hours a night.

 

[Gally]

As much as I have to in order to get my work done. Sometimes that's 20 hrs a week. Sometimes it's 50 hrs a week.

 

[Riffraff]

Work = force times distance

Lots of paper and pixel pushers in the work force.

Also, anything times 0 equals 0.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

I force myself to stay around 30 when I can. Some weeks are 80. But if can do a 6 hour day and then just triage calls and emails I do it. I'm not dying at my desk like a couple of attorneys have in the past few years.

 

[NutterButter]

Do meetings where I just stare out into backyard and watch the birds while people talk endlessly count as work?

 

[WDIK2]

I honestly get 35-45 hours of actual work in per week. I feel like I did my professional career backwards. 10-20 years ago I had jobs where I did a lot less actual work (and spent a lot more time in the FFA). Now I'm 56 and do a lot more actual work. Not sure how I screwed that up. Poor life choices I guess.