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View Poll Results: How many hours per week do you work?
0-30 44 12.90%
30-40 73 21.41%
40-50 104 30.50%
50-60 58 17.01%
60-70 28 8.21%
70+ 14 4.11%
Whats work? 20 5.87%
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Old 03-02-2007, 02:22 PM   #91
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Old 03-02-2007, 02:36 PM   #92
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im happy when i get up to 20 hours. but lately iv had none.
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Old 11-04-2007, 07:25 PM   #93
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40 for me, I'm 19, just building myself up for the 80+ weeks.
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Old 12-04-2007, 09:42 AM   #94
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Used to work a 38hr wk plus o/t then retired now its 24/7 and on a pension its a bummer working out the day....fishing...garden...shed resto xy...watch muscle car dvds...on forum...talk to dogs....down to country club.....out for dinner....when will it end!
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Old 12-04-2007, 11:34 AM   #95
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where can i read/find info on how to do your type of work?
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Old 12-04-2007, 12:30 PM   #96
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Usually around 37.5
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Old 12-04-2007, 07:11 PM   #97
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normally 48-60 driving a hire car
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Old 12-04-2007, 07:18 PM   #98
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howmany hours do we work or how long are we at work?....
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Old 12-04-2007, 08:03 PM   #99
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howmany hours do we work or how long are we at work?....
well Im at work 3 x 12hr shifts ,36hr week.......
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Old 12-04-2007, 08:10 PM   #100
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usually 40, sometime about 45 with overtime. 4 days work, one day at tech.
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Old 12-04-2007, 08:14 PM   #101
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30 hours a week is plenty for me, enough to survive on, go on overseas holidays every couple years, and spend alot of my free time having fun. I could never work 80+ hour weeks. I have friends that do it, and they never take holidays and have fun. It's either work or sleep.

When you're old, you'll look back at your wasted youth and think, i spent the best years of my life in an office cubicle/workshop working long hours, and for what, to show off to the jones's that you have the latest car, biggest tv, flashiest home to me all the material stuff is bulldust. Be happy with what you got

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Old 12-04-2007, 11:52 PM   #102
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used to do between 15 and 35 hours a week depending on roster. my dad works somthing like

hmm.. 7-7 weekdays, gets home 7:30, works until 10:30-11. somtimes 1 in the morning every week night and some weekends.. so id say about 85 hours a week.. he earns it though(damn IT rates going down though :( )
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Old 13-04-2007, 06:42 AM   #103
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Paid to do 45
probably is closer to 50
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Old 13-04-2007, 05:47 PM   #104
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45 hrs a week MON-FRI plus i gotta work one sunday a month but i get a day off ov my choice that next week after the sunday i work.
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Old 13-04-2007, 09:53 PM   #105
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Old 14-04-2007, 02:36 AM   #106
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I'm self employed... I didn't do any work this week. Really couldn't be bothered. Slept in alot, ate lots of food, good times...

Having said that, I have had some weeks where I have done somewhere in the region of 80 hours. It all depends on how much I feel like doing (read "how much money I want to earn") and what other social commitments I have. Its a hard life. :
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Old 14-04-2007, 12:55 PM   #107
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A 38 hr week for me , and thats pleny enough ! . Earns me a nice wage and allows me to live comfortably. These's more to life than work !
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Old 15-04-2007, 12:38 AM   #108
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Went from 13hrs a week (supermarket) to 8-4 (radio) then 5-10 (bottle shop) 6 days a week, and sometimes 12-10 on a sunday if i can be bothered, thats 88 hrs i think?
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Old 15-04-2007, 07:59 AM   #109
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anywhere between 12-30.

i am also at uni fulltime as well. so i have some pretty long days. and nights.
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Old 15-04-2007, 10:25 AM   #110
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Get paid for 40 hours, usually work between 75-85 hours. And as an added little bonus I have pyschos at work who throw hammers... Time for a career change I think....
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Old 15-04-2007, 10:30 AM   #111
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50 hours min a week (10 hr weekdays). Then sometimes Sat as well.

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Old 15-04-2007, 10:31 AM   #112
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Im lucky as i own my own businesses.

So i do about 5 hours per month :P

Yeah i pay myself a fair bit as well.

I could think of nothing worse than the 9 - 5 plus overtime that gets taxed to the moon.
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Old 15-04-2007, 10:52 AM   #113
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previous job 9-6am about 80km travel per day, stuck in the office @ my desk 95% of the time for crapola money.

now 10km travel per day to work, 7am-3pm, with field work and more moola
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Old 15-04-2007, 11:04 AM   #114
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Old 15-04-2007, 12:30 PM   #115
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I was doing a 36 hour week until we were all stood down last thursday.
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Old 15-04-2007, 05:25 PM   #116
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I was doing a 36 hour week until we were all stood down last thursday.
That sux.

What was the reasoning behind it?
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That sux.

What was the reasoning behind it?
Company $5.6mill in debt and losing $80,000 a month. We currently have a 24/7 picket line in place to try to get our entitlements.
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Old 15-04-2007, 09:37 PM   #118
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What's work? Zero hours unless you count 12 hours of school :. Will be getting a part time job soon though - about 10 hours/week.
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Old 15-04-2007, 10:38 PM   #119
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It varies depending on how many projects I have going. But I've just got off a stint doing 85hrs/week with only 3 days off in three months. OH&S didn't like that too much.
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Old 16-04-2007, 05:43 PM   #120
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I do 38 during the week, but if im offered weekends, which usually happens, i take them. Love the overtime...well, the cash anyway, not so much the work.
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