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!

 

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

 

40 at the moment down from 85~

 

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

 

Work anywhere from 50-70 hrs /week , somewhat manual labor at times
In the food/restaurant bussiness . self employed like being married all in itself
takes alot time away from my marrige plus my wife is RN n works nights so gotta be able to give a little /take a little ..
you will be ok .. just give it 110% in all apsects , work, marrige ,life ..
took the day off today since its my b-day tho lol

 

25 hours because I go to CSULB. Holidays/summer I push it up to around 30 and once in a great while to 40.

 

Right around 80/week. Needless to say I make up for it in the night life.

 

Before retirement I'd guess 55-60. Now, about 20, but that's counting golf as work

 

For my day job, I work 37.5 paid hours per week (40hr schedule, half hour unpaid lunch).

For my business, I put in maybe 10 hours a week into it.

I've got a 4.5yo son and the wife is prego with our daughter whom is due in June.

My son is in preschool, so when he leaves at noon, I've got a few hours to work on the business before I head to work from 4-12. Wife works day shift. Father in law watches the kid after school for about an hour until my wife picks him up. I take lunch at 8pm and see family for dinner, then leave for work again. Come home wife and kid are asleep and I get a couple more hours to work on business stuff before I go to bed myself.

It's all about time management. There is a balance. I'm a one man operation at this point and it doesn't take much time. I spend about 8-10 hours a week building the product and packaging it for sale. My margin is 41.75%. I sell 7 units a month and make the same amount business-wise as I do with my day job. Generally I spend the first week of the month making everything, then spend the rest of the month selling it. This allows me to spend more time with family during the 3 weeks than the one week.

 

i was doing a normal 9-5er for monday-friday, i just started to pick up freelance design again so i'd say ill do about 50 hours a week now

 

New employment , the money was always at the old job but so was the hours.

 

I think about 60-70hr a week depending on the work load.

 

Somewhat of a subjective question for me. Hours a week, I don't know. I don't keep track of hours per week. I don't get paid to work hours. And I'm not a wage earner in that sense. I get paid when we put deals together. If that takes an hour, I get paid. If it takes 100 hours, I get paid the same. so, my typical work day starts around 6, and ends around 11 or 12, with a break for dinner. Sometimes I knock off at 5 or 6 and don't open my laptop after dinner.

I can tell you what days I do work, or better yet, which days I don't work. Friday's are family days. Time spend with my kids, and Wife. Zoo, library, hanging out at the house, day trips here and there, sports, community functions, volunteer work, hobbies, projects around the house, running errands, visiting Grandpa and Grandma, take a drive somewhere with the kids, kick off a long weekend, head to the boat, etc. I'm very hard and fast on that. Friday's are family day. I don't take business calls, open my laptop or hover over the blackberry at every chime unless it is a mission critical issue. Monday's I try not to work, but usually end up putting in a half day starting late morning, and trying to knock off late afternoon.

When I was in the bay area, I would regularly work 70 to 80 hours a week. I paid my dues, earned a few stripes, got married and had kids. Now the more important is just that. Family.

 

When I was in the bay area, I would regularly work 70 to 80 hours a week. I paid my dues, earned a few stripes, got married and had kids. Now the more important is just that. Family.

Very interesting schedule, but it sounds like it'd be nice, despite the long days.

Would you (or others) say that they "paying dues, and earning stripes" is typical in many industries?

For me, going into public accounting, I've heard it compared to a fraternity; you start at the bottom, earn your keep, and eventually you get the "payoff" if you will.


I love all the feedback folks, keep it coming.

 

If i'm awake during the week i'm working... weekend means i'm working on my non ADV.1 projects...

That being said, I love what I do and feel fortunate to do it so it's fun and I don't really consider it "work".

 

amen. loving what you do is the only way to survive.

 

How many hours are in a week? Because I work about that many...

 

Maybe 10 hours a week

 

70-80 hrs a week. Depending on the week

 

i'm currently pushing 80hrs/wk as i attempt to launch my own thing. otoh, that's not really enough; otoh, productivity goes down considerably after all-nighters and/or 80hrs.


- chuck

 

I have not been on the clock for a few years now. The past few months, I have been "working" 65-75 hour weeks. Doing different things and working on different projects, about 4 different jobs. I've been working my ass off with no pay at all for what's been almost 1/2 year. This circumstance certainly allows for "no lifestyle".

 

I can honestly say that since mid '09, I've worked M-F 16 hrs a day with 2 days off (in total) and a few Saturdays also. So around 80 / week and I love it! (yes, I have a mental problem)

 

My paid job right now is 40 a week, but I spend the rest of my time working on multiple ventures, some that pay and some that don't. You can probably say between 70 and 80 a week in total.

 

I don't have typical weeks but I try to take Sunday mornings off when I can to go to church and have a nice meal with some of my friends and family. Other than that, if I'm awake, I'm usually working

 

The other important thing, at least for me, that I'll mention is that I've never looked at a work week (since working for myself, or not for someone else) is that I don't look at a week of how many hours I work, but what I get done. I don't start my day with "I've got X hours in front of me". I open my book, prioritize tasks and business matters that need to be done that day / week / month / quarter, etc. and work to get them done and until they're done. I'm not of the mind set that just because I worked (large number of) x hours this week, I got a lot done, or worked hard. I look at it and ask myself, did I get done what needed doing? If I did, it was a productive week. If I didn't, I didn't do my job.

 

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.

My wife worked for one of the Big 4 firms (PWC) for about 4 years when fresh out of school. The hours were brutal! January to May she worked 7 days a week, usually 90-100 hours/week, and would get chewed out if she took an hour or two off to go to church with me on Sundays. They got basically no recognition for it and treated the associates like cattle. She ended up switching to a smaller local firm afterwards, but the Big firms are a definite resume booster that are good to do for a few years.

We're both entering a new field now and are both switching career paths entirely (Foreign Service/International Business).

I currently work 45-50 hours on an average week, and 60-70 hours/week when projects near their deadlines or I'm traveling. I enjoy the traveling through since it's usually to testing facilities - being an engineer for a specific defense field means that I get to see some pretty kick ass tests

Edit - Sweet! I can post in the business section now!

 

Was she a tax associate? If so I've heard that's about what they do to you, and thats disgusting. I'm going into assurance so I've heard its more evenly disbursed over the year. Also just curious, which state was that in? I'm in a smaller office (~400) so I'm not sure if thats a good thing or bad thing.

Thank you for that insight though, I appreciate it.

 

i work for myself
so when im not sleeping, im working.
and i love every minute of it.