Thread: How many hours per week do you work?

Obviously there are many successful people on here and obviously it require sacrifice. My biggest concern for my future is being able to be with my future wife and someday kids, but I also want to be successful.

Im curious then, how many hours per week that people work and how you keep your life in balance with family and free time vs work.

I'm going into public accounting and it is a notoriously long hours job, but I'm also getting married this summer and dont want to miss out on life. Your advice would be much appreciated as well.

I work 51 hours/week which i suppose are normal-ish work hours.

Originally Posted by nytrydr

I work 51 hours/week which i suppose are normal-ish work hours.

Agreed, and Im hoping thats about what I will work on average as well.

Kinda funny that 50ish is about the norm in America, and in Europe 40 is tops (at least to my understanding)

36hrs 1 week / 44hrs 2nd week = 80hrs every two weeks pay period (9/80 schedule which gives me every other Friday off) LOOVE it!

Originally Posted by digdeep0169

36hrs 1 week / 44hrs 2nd week = 80hrs every two weeks pay period (9/80 schedule which gives me every other Friday off) LOOVE it!

Sounds like a great set of hours, can I ask what profession your in?

Originally Posted by uberdrift

Agreed, and Im hoping thats about what I will work on average as well.

Kinda funny that 50ish is about the norm in America, and in Europe 40 is tops (at least to my understanding)

A good friend of mine is working at Oliver Wyman Delta in Frankfurt. You can multiply that number you mentioned at least times 2.5. But I guess it depends.
You asked about how many hours the successful guys on here work and I highly doubt they'll be in that range.

40 at the moment down from 85~

Originally Posted by Kuester

A good friend of mine is working at Oliver Wyman Delta in Frankfurt. You can multiply that number you mentioned at least times 2.5. But I guess it depends.
You asked about how many hours the successful guys on here work and I highly doubt they'll be in that range.

Yeah, 80 wouldn't be surprising. Im curious as well how people balance life tho.

^ You either do something you really love or just want to make a shit load of money and sacrifice a lot. He isn't really that satisfied at the moment, getting to work at like 7AM, getting home somewhere around 10PM and then finished some Excel sheets before heading to bed. But he's making some great money and will earn his 6 figures at the age of 31/32 and even thought that might be nothing compared to others on here, that's pretty amazing, since he competed against guys from Harvard for the job and pretty much kicked their asses. Never met anyone quite like that guys. Great drive and inspiration.

My venture hasn't been "transformed" into a company yet, but at this moment I'm currently "working" the whole day. I always post on here, but I'm constantly working on the CM/CI and overall vision, getting the business plan done and so on and forth. So I wouldn't be surprised if I end up working at least 115h a week. But I take those 115h over 70/80h any time, since I might not be making much in the beginning, but I would end up doing what I love. So I think you should always put that in perspective.

Originally Posted by Forfend

40 at the moment down from 85~

Thats quite a work week. How do u keep a life? lol. Honestly tho...