How many hours each day do you work?

United States
July 12, 2009 8:12am CST
I work 9 hours a day during the week at my regular full time job. On the weekends I am only scheduled for 12 hours but yesterday the girl who was to relieve me said she could not make it in so I ended up working 12 hours in one day! I was so exhausted! Today at least I got 9 hours sleep. I get to go into work later this afternoon. How many hours do you put in each day?
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17 responses
@cwachid (160)
• Indonesia
12 Jul 09
I am working as Customer Service now. It really depend on customer call or trouble of our equipment. For normal working day, I only working 8 hour/day. If there are calling that I have to give respond immediately. Sometime, I received a call at 10 or 11 pm then I need to open my laptop and tried to look on what's type of equipment. After it ready, I have to call back customer and give some guide or assist. Then I have to wait until they solved their problems. One day, I have attend this problem until 5 or 6 am morning. But I have going to office on 8 am and no sleep, eye burn... Average within one month, It is happen 3 cases... If problems are solved that I am very happy and proud of it.
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• United States
12 Jul 09
I hope they pay you well for that!
• United States
12 Jul 09
That is good news! At least they appreciate your hard work!
@cwachid (160)
• Indonesia
12 Jul 09
Thanks for responds, you are remind me some thing. Recently, they already increased my salary after I was decided to quit this company. Because some customer who I already help them on past, They just give a good feedback about my service support to my Boss. Then They give some good offer as Leader/Coordinator on Customer Support Service.
@masata (408)
• Indonesia
15 Jul 09
I am lucky because I have flexibility in my work. The important thing is that as long as the job is done, it is not important how long I work. Therefore, I try to finish my tasks as fast as possible so that I can enjoy the remaining time to finish the project.
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• United States
25 Jul 09
That's great! Kudos to you on having a great work schedule!
@subha12 (18441)
• India
13 Jul 09
On working day my working time is nine hours. Plus it takes me 4 hours to go to work and return.It is huge time out of home for me.
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• United States
13 Jul 09
wow that's a long commute!
@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
12 Jul 09
i used to do eight. right now it's around four hours, six at the most now that i am myLotting again. tee hee. rest when you can. i know how hard it is to have a full time job (i used to have one, until i got fed up with bosses. i'm done with them.) so grab as much sleep as you can in order to restore your energy enough for another day of work, and of course, time with the family!
• United States
12 Jul 09
Thanks you are right you need to be fresh and ready to work. As I build up my online earnings I can start to think of reducing my other work hours. Thanks for the post.
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@kayedanda (1850)
• Philippines
12 Jul 09
good luck on that and i DO hope you increase your online earnings!
@calyxus (825)
• Philippines
13 Jul 09
I also have full time job. We work on shifts, usually from 3pm-12mn. So its basically 9hours with 1hour allotted for lunch. I sleep for about 8hours, then the rest is doing stuff earning in the internet.
@calyxus (825)
• Philippines
13 Jul 09
Indeed. It's really nice to stay online if you know you're generating income.
• United States
13 Jul 09
the online stuff is great though - it makes us more money :)
@vinslounge (1295)
• India
12 Jul 09
10.30AM to 8PM is my working hour and i have got plenty of work and sometimes it may take till 9pm for me to complete my day's work. Luckily I have no works on the weekend and Saturday's/ sunday's are off for me and I am happy for that. As I live with my parents, I never have the problem for house cleaning, cooking my own food etc., and I am happy for that.
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• United States
12 Jul 09
Yes it sounds like you are very lucky! :)
@XiaoLin (289)
• Italy
13 Jul 09
I don't have a job yet. I was a post-graduate student until a few months ago, and now I am an unemployed housewife. I don't know if it would be right to consider it a full-time work since I'm very bad at houseworks. My house is a mess, and the only thing I like doing is cooking. I hope to find a teaching job soon. Happy myLotting
• United States
13 Jul 09
Good luck finding the job. I hate cleaning too. I can do it - I just hate it and always put it off if I can. I like to cook but hate to clean up after.
@gr8life (6251)
• Malaysia
12 Jul 09
Hello TrvlArrngr, I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. My job is quite monotonous but I stick to it as it gives me a comfort zone. I always tend to look for another job but stop when I am thinking of the comfort that this job gives me...
• United States
12 Jul 09
it is hard to leave when you are comfortable and it is a routine for you. I understand completely
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@smileonstar (4007)
• United States
12 Jul 09
Humm... I work more than 12 hours a day, I start at 5am and end at 8pm and plus I have to take care my 16months old baby while im at work too. ( I know, im lucky to bring the baby to work with me) I got home and I still work for house work, such as cooking and feed the kids. Until 10pm, then everything will end. My bed time :)... I think I work almost around the clock. I a bit sound crazy about it but I have been doing this for the past 5 years and that's cuz I dont have my parents here with me to help with kids. I have only myself and my husband only. And I hope one day when they get older then they know how much time and how hard we have been done to them... :). But if you just talking about regular job, I work 14 hours a day.
• United States
13 Jul 09
wow and i thought i had it bad. I feel for you but you are doing the right thing!
@daliaj (5674)
• India
12 Jul 09
Actually I am supposed to work for eight hours a day at office. I live in a hostel. So, I don't have to do any work there. I have a maid to clean my room and cook food for me. Even though it is eight hours at work, I usually end up working for eight and half hours to nine hours a days. We are allowed to take one hour for lunch break, but we usually end up taking only half an hour for it.
• United States
12 Jul 09
Same happens to me at lunch. I get an hour but rarely take more than a half hour or any at all. Most times I just eat at my desk while working. I find I do feel better if I get outside at least once during the day. The fresh air and sunshine help to recharge me - but - then I don't feel like going back :)
• United States
8 Aug 09
WOW I am ashamed after reading everyone's post here. I will never complain again about my hours. I work 5 days a week from 9 to 5 and usually on Fridays leave at 2 or 3 but still get paid for a full day. I get a 1/2 hour lunch break each day. I never have to work weekends as our office is closed Saturday and Sunday. Working these hours is giving me some great time to build up my online presence and helps me really get my online earnings establshed
• United States
8 Aug 09
You can defnitely make money online. Last month I made over 500 dollars online!! This month however is starting off slow I think I am only up to 50 dollars towards my Sept payout.
• China
13 Jul 09
my current work needs me to work 7 hours a day, 5 days and a half a week. i think it's just ok. but if 5days a week, it will be much better,lol...
@submerryn (1304)
• Malaysia
13 Jul 09
I work 24/7 a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year! I'm a housewife that's why. Haha. But on the side, I do teach privately. And this I do 2-3 hours daily weekdays. I usually get only 7 hours of sleep every night. I try to catch up on my sleep weekends.
@Elaine77 (315)
• China
13 Jul 09
Hi TrvlArrngr, I work 9 hours a day 5 days everyweek, as I was just get this job for about 3 weeks, I was busy everyday, not only do those things that I supposed to do, but also do those things that other people regularly hand to me, but I kinda enjoy that busy life cause last job I work is too easy that I dont always have much to do, so I changed my work.
• India
12 Jul 09
I work from 9 to 6 a day and hardly take a 10 minute break for lunch. Plus I have to work weekends sometimes. Earlier I used to work at an institute where I had to work on Sundays and Mondays would be my weekends. But I never got to be used to that because Sunday really felt like a Sunday. I am relieved now that I have joined a better workplace, where I can enjoy most Sundays.
• United States
12 Jul 09
i work roughly 8 hours a day, but its physicly demanding work.....my last job i worked twelve hour days...but pushin buttons...lol....now i have to actually move 50 pound bags and its exausting....but i guess thats what i deserve for being a collage dropout.....
• China
13 Jul 09
I work 7 hours a day, 6 days a week. I just have one day for a rest a week. Though there are still many spare times after a day's work, I feel tired. In my daily work, I make some quotations and follow some purchase orders from other countries' customers, those work are just for my colleague in HK,I don't have the opportunity to contact our customers directly. Maybe the work are repeatedly everyday.