What Is the End of Your Work Week?
@GardenGerty (160663)
United States
September 16, 2016 6:50am CST
Many people in the US work Monday to Friday jobs. The typical job is pictured 8 or 9 am to 4 , 5 or 6 pm. That does not take into account all the jobs and businesses that go around the clock and every day.
I work in a school. I work most Mondays through most Fridays, except for holidays and training or teacher work days.. Today is the end of my work week. I am at work by 7:45 and off work, if I leave, at 3:35.
I know that in some other countries the normal work week is six days or even seven. I would burn out quickly. I am having a hard time after two years not working getting used to being back at work.
I go to bed earlier, because I cannot nap, even if I want to. I think more carefully about meals and I try to get house chores done.
I think it might surprise some people how much people in other countries work, or do not work. My work week, since I have off duty lunch time, is considered thirty five hours a week. I am paid well but never for more than those hours.
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@celticeagle (166911)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Sep 16
I am retired so I don't have a 'work week' per se. I do, however, help my daughter get my grandson up and around Monday through Friday and, believe me, sometimes it is real work get that done. This morning we had to call the police.
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
17 Sep 16
Oh man, I know tht is work. It is also tiring from the emotional stand point.
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
18 Sep 16
@celticeagle We seem to have so many troubled kids these days.
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@celticeagle (166911)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Sep 16
@GardenGerty ......It sure is. Some days all my daughter wants to do is sleep.
@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
19 Sep 16
I am not posting or interacting enough. I put up a post just a few minutes ago and may do one more this evening.
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@marsha32 (6631)
• United States
19 Sep 16
@GardenGerty It's not even 11 am yet and I've gotten so many things done here this morning. Nice to get up early. Maybe I can start going to bed as soon as Steve leaves every night to give me more productive morning computer time.
@piya84 (2581)
• India
17 Sep 16
I am working as a freelancer so there is no holiday as such.I work even on saturday sunday sometime.
Job market in India is difficult as well.Many companies give very few holidays and weekly off.
Some companies give saturday sunday off but most only give Sunday off.
Companies sometime call for additional work on weekends too.
Employees have no choice but attain office in such scenarios.
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
18 Sep 16
I do not know how we would handle the mandatory overtime. Do you at least get extra pay for extra work?
@piya84 (2581)
• India
18 Sep 16
@GardenGerty
yes we get extra money for overtime.But its stressful you know.You get burned out if you do not get single holiday in a week.
Most of the service sector companies here work because of outsourcing from america and EU.That is the main reason they outsource.Rates are competitive and workers here do not complain about deadlines.My friends in IT sector sometime wait till 10 or 11 o clock in night to finish work before deadline.
If they too start complaining about work deadlines, denying over time companies wont outsource.Its simple.
@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
17 Sep 16
I was always under the impression that European countries had more time off, more acations and holidays. Maybe you do, but work longer weeks to make up for it. I learn something new all the time.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
17 Sep 16
@GardenGerty European workers have more vacation days in Summer. A young worker has 15 days, but when you work from 25 years in a place you can have as much as 4 weeks. They work more hours during the week.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
17 Sep 16
I work four tens, and thursday through sat. I am at work at 530ish in the morning
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
18 Sep 16
That is the time schedule my son is on, four tens per week, but his is Monday through Thursday. Does your husband have the same schedule?
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Sep 16
@GardenGerty nope, right now he is M-F and I hate it, we never have a day off together. his actual sch though is to be tues through sat, so we will get mondays off together, eventually.
@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
18 Sep 16
That makes it hard to plan any little getaways.
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@just4him (317041)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
21 Sep 16
@GardenGerty Yes it did, and I also worked for a company that liked to deny vacations, so getting time off was a challenge. Then about a year before they fired me they started letting up on that policy and I was able to start getting some decent time off, which I liked to take around my birthday every year.
I was in the elevator one day and one of the guys was saying how he was denied the time off to get married. He took it anyway.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
16 Sep 16
When I worked (for thirty-five years) it was always 9 to 5 with an hour for lunch Mon-Fri. I never worked more than thirty-five hours a week. But we stopped working over fifteen years ago - so I have no work weeks....all fun weeks.
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
17 Sep 16
I know you planned well for retirement. Thirty five hours seems plenty for me.
@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
17 Sep 16
I am not really working out of need for income. I need structure and new stimulus in my life. I could handle a two hour a day job if it had been offered.
@Mike197602 (15505)
• United Kingdom
16 Sep 16
I don't have an end of work week as we are open all the time.
My days off this week were wednesday and thursday...then I work another 9 days then a day off then another 3 and another day off.
I've only been there a month but it looks like you get one full weekend per month off which is fine with me as the weekend has not mattered to me for years now.
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
17 Sep 16
I do not care for the long stretches with no break, but sometimes you do what you have to because you really need a job.
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@XinfulThotz (4140)
• Singapore, Singapore
16 Sep 16
Sad to say. Unfortunately not. I work fr Mon to Fri 11am to 8pm & on Saturdays 11am to 7pm..
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@GardenGerty (160663)
• United States
17 Sep 16
I believe people with a shorter schedule do not realize how many people work extra long and hard.
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