Yeah, **** that. Life is too short, I'm a big believer in work-life balance. If I make less $ because of that, so be it.
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Pay was decent and benefits were solid. You just become efficient and when you want to blast out fast you can do it most times. The 100 hours was usually a couple weeks during the middle quarters of the year. Would add a second shift for a specific project and hit Saturdays too. Work through that and then I could basically set my hours many weeks. Work a couple 12s so you can leave early on Thursday and be gone Friday.
CycloneErik
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Not our fault you don't just get 10 jobs.
CycloneErik
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Never broke 100, but had many weeks in the 80s and 90s. I was young and full of energy. Kept me out of trouble (well, more trouble).
100 hours is over 14 hours per day, 7 days a week. That's working from 7:00am to 10:00 pm every day.
I'm not saying people don't work 100 hours in a week, but that's a lot of hours to work.
Yeah, I was a young engineer on the road in strange cities. It was work 12-15 hours a day or go out and get in trouble. I chose work (most of the time). And yes, I did work Sat and Sun too, but would cut those days down to 10-12 hours. And yes, I was salary (and low salary since I was young/new to role). I was single but had a GF back home that I didn't cheat on. And this was all pre-internet, so when I was in working, I was actually working, not spending time online.
I did it for a period of time in my late 20s. Took what's called a "camp job" where you live in dorms on the construction site because it's so remote. I worked 7 days a week from 5:30am to 8pm for 21 to 24 days straight. Then got a flight home and a week off. Rinse and repeat for a year. Sucked because I basically had no personal life but they bumped my pay by 50% during that period which paid off my student loans.
I worked a million hours a week once.
Ran 2 shifts. I showed up at 7 am and left at 1 am M-F. Saturday it was show up at 5:30 am and left at 3 pm (ran one shift that day)
My worst was about 15-20 years ago. In fall I added up the hours of sleep I had one week and it totaled 14. I was hopped up (did not know a person could go that hard). I worked 20 hours days and had over an hour drive round trip to get there. The next year I sold that equipment and started hiring it done. Cost a chunk but I was going to kill myself and/or someone else if I did that much longer.
Doesn’t count if you didn’t have to walk uphill both ways to and from.
i did that at a prior job and so did my reports. that's why it is a prior job lol
If you're working more than 36 hours between pooping and eating and wandering around on company time you're doing far too much.
