Shoreham Gull
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I leave home 5am, start work 6am till 3ish, home by 4.30pm...
9 to 10 hour shift 5 days a week!
9-5pm sounds like a dream too me
9 to 10 hour shift 5 days a week!
9-5pm sounds like a dream too me
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Working 9 to 5
- Thread starter banjo
- Start date
- Apr 5, 2014
- 23,597
Until my company unceremoniously closed it doors without notice 3 weeks ago I had been having one weekday evening off for about 17 years. 9 to 5 would seem quite strange now.
The dole office have told me they expect me to spend 35 hours a week looking for work. At least I get to choose them. Inevitably I use the evenings were possible. Force of habit.
The dole office have told me they expect me to spend 35 hours a week looking for work. At least I get to choose them. Inevitably I use the evenings were possible. Force of habit.
southstandandy
WEST STAND ANDY
- Jul 9, 2003
- 5,646
For the last 5 years have worked 4 days per week reducing my hours to just 30 now. Paid off the mortgage a few years ago and now want a better work/life balance as I do find my job fairly tedious although well paid. A few investments in property and planning to retire at 55. Best decision I made going to a 4 day week, although easier for me as I don't have children to support.
Grombleton
Surrounded by <div>s
- Dec 31, 2011
- 7,356
Having two jobs, my days vary.
Self employed: Depends on the workload but can be 10-12 hours a day, as something may pop up or a client want something urgently. I try to split my day up and do a fair bit of work late at night (website moves, go lives etc).
Retail: I work 16 hrs a week so all day Sundays and two evenings a week, usually 6pm-10pm, so a day CAN be 7am-midnight (though not solid, I may find the XBox magically turns on and a controller appears in my hand...)
Self employed: Depends on the workload but can be 10-12 hours a day, as something may pop up or a client want something urgently. I try to split my day up and do a fair bit of work late at night (website moves, go lives etc).
Retail: I work 16 hrs a week so all day Sundays and two evenings a week, usually 6pm-10pm, so a day CAN be 7am-midnight (though not solid, I may find the XBox magically turns on and a controller appears in my hand...)
Lecture 12-3 Fridays, October- March, have office hours earlier that day. Arrange tutorials half a day a week online so can do that from home. Put in an appearance occasionally for meetings and marking exams. Media interviews take up a bit of time as need to be researched but overall I'm very lucky. Run a consultancy in my spare time so pick and choose the hours.
Meade's Ball
Well-known member
9-5, but am waiting for the time to change it to 4. I don't earn much money, but if i can work less and have a bit more energy, it'll be worth it. I tell myself that i'll start a course and expand out of the role i am already in, which doesn't require an enormous amount of IQ, but really i know i will spend that day without company catching up with what is on my tivo, or heading to the cinema. I'll feel bad at the end of it, knowing how little i'll've achieved, but film's film and i cannae do without it.
Loosely 9.00 - 5.30, but with just a 10 minute 'commute' so work / life balance pretty good. Leave the house at 08.30, breakfast in Waitrose (free coffee) on the way and at my desk by 9.00. Meet my wife for lunch, and home by 18.00. Could earn more elsewhere, I'm sure, but not fussed. All good.
I aim for 08:30 - 17:30 and take an hour for lunch. Reality is I often do a few extra hours during the week but usually balance it out with a shorter Friday. Commute is a 10 minute cycle ride...or tram ride if I'm going somewhere after work. I'm happy with this and wouldn't like shifts; I prefer to know where I stand with evenings and weekends. Also, after years of getting up too early and/or silly commuting, me and the wife now have a 7am rule-we don't get up before 7am for work. This works well and means we have a life during the week. It has limited where we can live though.
dadams2k11
ID10T Error
I'm supposed to work 8 - 4:30 but it more like 9:30 - 3:00. My boss is pretty relaxed and working in IT, I can always connect the laptop up and sort any issues remotely that might crop up which rarely ever do. Oh and work 5 mins from home. Work/life balance is great.
DarrenFreemansPerm
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Seriously hard core industry to work in, it makes me shudder when I think of the blood and sweat I've lost to cooking, the relationships that have ended and the friends I've lost touch with, all because it's such a demanding job that consumes you.
Hampster Gull
New member
- Dec 22, 2010
- 13,462
Work as many hours as the job needs. Very rarely 9-5
matthew
Well-known member
You all need to buy 'the four-hour work week'
boik
Well-known member
Retired at 55 and no way do I want to go back to 9-5. I panic every time I hear about a "back to work scheme"! 
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