14 hour Saturday is almost over!
By maezee
@maezee (41988)
United States
September 15, 2019 2:05am CST
I seldom work over 12 hours, as I feel like after 12 hours I am pretty useless and exhausted, but as a favor to a co-worker I took an additional two hours on top of my 12 hour day. At least I can sleep in for a little bit tomorrow, but a 4 am end time is a rough one for me. Luckily I packed a Kick Start (one of the lighter-on-the-caffeine) energy drinks. I will definitely be drinking it but am holding off until about 3 am at least.
I have decided going forward the next couple of months I will be trying to get in A BIT of overtime on my days off. This "weekend" I have signed up for 10 hours, and next weekend 20 hours. Plenty of my coworkers work a lot of overtime like this, but I haven't really been financially in a pinch. Now that I am thinking about the next trips I want to take....Things I want to buy....and Debt I would like to consolidate, I am really going to make my best effort at making this extra money. It's available, so why not?
But I struggle with that work-life balance sometimes. Sometimes even just working about 45 hours per week is enough to drive me bonkers and I just need a break, mentally and physically. But I am going to give it a try to start working extra.
Do you work overtime at your job? How do you manage the work-life balance?
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9 responses
@jnrdutton (3144)
• United States
15 Sep 19
Everybody manages differently I'm sure, I couldn't imagine working 14 hours in a day at any job, jeez that'd be a killer work day. It's great if you are a strong/driven worker but just don't work so hard you keel over.
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@maezee (41988)
• United States
15 Sep 19
I think maybe it helps that my job is not a physical one - not hard manual labor. But I still start to go bonkers / get extremely tired after the 12th hour. It's the be-witching hour! I need to take advantage of overtime opportunities, since I am lucky in my job to have them - not everyone does.
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@Juliaacv (51109)
• Canada
15 Sep 19
You sound like a very strong worker.
I work part time, and there is never an opportunity to increase my hours.
When I did work part time in the past, I would work 4 hours extra here or there if I needed something extra. I found that anything beyond 4 hours was taxed too heavily and wasn't worth the effort.
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@agent807 (751)
• United States
16 Sep 19
I have been working 60-70 hours a week since February because we are so shorthanded and the workload has been increasing. Someone decided that we didn't have enough work and threw more at us while we are losing people to quitting and transfers. Our job has also relocated very far away so working 12-14 and sometimes 15 hours a day with a two hour drive round trip has taken its toll on myself and my car. At first I didn't mind because I wanted to catch up on bills so I can live, but then the job moved and what money was saved up was eaten away by the frequent gas fill ups (I was refilling my gas tank once every three days). I ended up moving closer to my job to save on the wear and tear on the car but now I have to start over working the overtime to recoup from the expenses of moving and the draining of bank accounts from the gas fillups. Add to that I have decided to go back to school as I don't see any potential to move anywhere with this company. It has been taxing mentally, physically, financially, and emotionally (just this past Friday I went to the hospital for what I learned was an anxiety attack). And yet, I cannot stop because I am working to pay off these classes and the workload keeps increasing while we are still losing people. And they have offered no compensation for any of this. I learned I only need two classes to get my Associates and I will go from there.
@stringer321 (5644)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
15 Sep 19
it happens rarely when once I worked 6 hours and then I had to go for the rest of the day to work at an event, that was a lot more than 14 hours, I was 25 hours on my feet in total. It is rare though. Sometimes it is 12 hours of work, then 12 hours of rest and then another 12 of work. It can be the same with 8 hours of work, and it can last for 5 times sometimes.
