How hard do you work?

[Badgers]

I work my arse off because it's my own business

This is not strictly true as the industry I work in has 'peak' periods in the year.
My workload at the moment is mental and simply do not have hours in the day to fit it in.
Once December 1st rolls around I can get away with a couple of hours a day pretty much.

(am working now as well as posting on U75)

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I'll do the graft when its needed and slack when there is not much on. Since my flat is next to work, it can quite easy to disappear, drink tea and post on urban when not on session.

It also depends on what you consider work, I think if your enjoying it makes a huge difference.....canoe session on a lovely day earlier in the week, I sat there thinking I can't believe I'm being paid for this....next day its pissing down with rain and I'm orienteering, I'm thinking I don't get paid enough.

 

[gentlegreen]

Sometimes I look at poor sods my age (50) tarring roofs or the like - quite likely for less than I make ... while I choose when and where I take my physical exercise - and cycling / energetic dancing / mucking about in the surf hardly compare ...

I'm hoping to semi-retire at 55 to 60 - hopefully well enough to do all the same activities, plus maybe even run a smallholding .for quite a few years ...

My job is a nice mix of inspiration and perspiration and I'm fairly careful to pace myself with the physical side these days - being older than I was ...

On balance I think it's set about right - I'm not paid a "professional" salary, but by the same token I don't get the chop if I have to pass it on to someone cleverer than me ...

 

[kittyP]

I voted for the first one but that's not really true.

I am somewhere between one and two.

I work my arse of because I am passionate about what I do but driven is not the right word.

 

[Bajie]

I get incredibly focused and intense which means I do even complex work very quickly.

Then when I have done it I loaf about making shit jokes and drinking green tea.

 

[phildwyer]

Pretty much every waking second that I'm not on here.

 

[Crispy]

just enough to get by, so I can "really pull my finger out" by making a reasonable effort. this only works cos I'm faster than my colleagues
*polishes fingernails*

 

[Roadkill]

I've been described by a colleague recently as 'exceptionally focused and hard-working.'

It's not a comment I merit all the time. I go in phases. When I've a big project on that I'm enthusiastic about I put in strings of fifteen-hour days; at other times I do a lot less. I still read a lot of relevant (or at least semi-relevant) stuff at those times, though.

On average I'd say I work something like 50 hours a week.

 

[oryx]

I do around a 36 hour week. If I work more one week, I work less the next.

I enjoy my job, I get my work done, and though I have mini-breaks on the net between tasks, it's usually work-related stuff or at worst the BBC website. I'm tired by Friday.

I wouldn't go on Urban at work, nor would I make lengthy personal phone calls, but I wouldn't dream of working a 50 - 60 hour week either.

I had a very good friend over from the US last week, who went on about working a 50 - 60 hour week as if it was a heroic thing to do. My first thought was 'Why?'.

 

[gentlegreen]

"Net breaks" is a sticky one.

I have a slight fear that someone's going to dig out the weblog at an appraisal at some point ...

(a far more detailed record of what I do at work than anything I could put on paper about what I actually do ...)

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I work very hard when I'm working. There is no way that I can keep that up, though - six hours a day is about my limit for productive work, and four is more common if it's not particularly interesting work, or if I really burn myself out. I'm old enough now to realise that the rest of the time, I might as well spend doing something else, or asleep, or in the pub.

Office 9-5 doesn't fit in with that, and I got sick of having to pretend that I was working slowly and steadily regardless of what I actually produced, just in case a line manager wandered past who didn't know me very well. One good thing about being self-employed and working from home is that I don't have to do the whole childish "alt-tab away from twitter or urban" thing any more. If I'm tired and unproductive I will go out for a walk or to the park or just do what I want, and as long as I get things done - which I do - whether I spent forty unproductive hours or four productive ones on them isn't the issue.

 

[6_6]

it's hard to vote.
i work my ass off when it's my projects, the one that i lead and manage as well as being hands-on.
but i avoid doing overtime and thinking about work when i step out of the office.

 

[EastEnder]

I work very work because I'm stupid and have got stuck in a rut that I lack the initiative to escape from. If I were able to seek my own council I'd remonstrate myself for such spineless defeatism, but of course it's never easy to take ones own advice.

 

[Part 2]

I've spent about 7 years doing the bare minimum.

Recently we got a new boss and I've had a few days where I've worked my arse off. Today and last Friday were probably the most demanding days of my last 14 years in work.

Oddly, my job actually feels quite fullfilling again. Given the way I felt about it for those 7 years it feels pretty fucked up, especially given the suspicion I had of the methods of my new boss.

 

[RubyBlue]

I do my basic hours on a normal week but when it's busy with events / conferences / travelling I can quite easily rack up a lot more - not complaining though - prefer when it's hectic

 

[softybabe]

24/7 expect holidays

 

[Ceej]

I work like a dog most of the time - there's just so much to do, increasing every day and loads of stuff which just comes up. Resigned to the fact that my job is a series of interruptions with short breaks for work, rather than the other way around. I work about 50 hrs a week for a 35 hr pw salary - but I do get most of the school hols. The time flies by..never a dull moment. It's a cool job.

 

[Sgt Howie]

I work fucking hard. At skiving.

 

[Jenerys]

I am a natural born slacker but have been working really hard at and it's really paid off - funny that. But I've recently got iller than I have in a long long time, just cos I've been too busy to eat, have found I'm staying up later and haven't looked after myself.

Lessons have been learnt about the life of a proper grown up

 

[Roadkill]

I'm still working.

 

[EastEnder]

Lessons have been learnt about the life of a proper grown up

Have you learnt that you're not a grown up, or not a proper grown up?

 

[mentalchik]

I work bloody hard, have no choice especially now as we are under threat of short hours/redundancy........


have a very physically demanding job though quite mentally tedious......work to pay the bills not because i enjoy it...it's not a career and i work in a dept that's bottom of the pile in the place i work !

 

[turing test]

I have worked to hard to think of a good post

 

[Jenerys]

Have you learnt that you're not a grown up, or not a proper grown up?

Proper

Wisdom not just (a few) wrinkles (cough) and fucked a liver should come with age, apparently

 

[pinkmonkey]

I work my arse off because it's my own business

This is not strictly true as the industry I work in has 'peak' periods in the year.
My workload at the moment is mental and simply do not have hours in the day to fit it in.
Once December 1st rolls around I can get away with a couple of hours a day pretty much.

(am working now as well as posting on U75)

Me too, fashion, it's seasonal. Right now it's utterly bonkers, but everyone I work with is the same. Last night I was still emailing and skypeing the factory agent at 11pm. I've been at my desk at 6.30am a couple of times this week. I don't know when I'll next get a day off, but I need to do and invoice as much as I can while the work is there.

I never worked as hard as this when I was an employee.