What are your normal working hours?

[Marlyn]

7-5 with 30 min for lunch. Overtime common if OR is running behind. Mon-Fri for scheduled cases with weekends off unless I am on call but only go into hospital for emergency on the weekends that I am on call.

 

[JoeA]

Normal isn't a word I'd ever use to describe work hours. I work from a home office in Colorado (when I'm not traveling). My office is in TX. My responsibility is Europe, Middle East, Israel and Africa (last year it was Asia / Pacific).

I've been on the road for weeks at a time and when home have blown off days during the week. I have calls at all hours. You can typically find me in a bar with my good buddies on Friday afternoon.

Yeah, I don't know normal!

 

[S. C.]

Retired 2009, was working 4pm to 4am 6-7 days a week ... 30 minute lunch.

 

[footballmouse]

7 pm - 7 am; work thru lunch; 5 shifts a week.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Random days M-F (usually a lot heavier on the Mondays and Fridays). 7:45-3:00. I usually try to get there 7:30 just to get settled in... I am kind of funny about stuff, I always want to be early.

 

[puffkin]

I work in corporate finance and I work 8-5. I usually eat lunch at my desk. I am very good at leaving at 5 due to childcare arrangements and kids activities. Many times I need to log back in after the kids are in bed to finish something up. While I have a nice job and there is a little bit of flexibility to work from home if a kid is sick, I have to say there definitely is a mom ceiling in my job/industry. My career has definitely suffered because I don't work crazy hours all the time. I have a lot of interests outside of work plus 2 kids. I like my job and working, but it is only one part of me.

DH is in corporate job too. He works 7-4 with an hour commute. He never takes a lunch. He also logs in a lot at night or on the weekend. He does his hours mainly because of traffic and because he helps coach some of my son's activities and needs to be back in the area in time for practices/games.

Our schedules are not easy. Doctors appointments, home repairs, school meetings, etc are a huge pain to get scheduled without using vacation time. All our errands are typically run on the busy weekends. Also all our cleaning and yardwork as there is no time during the week. I would love to have 1 weekday every week to get stuff done. As I always say...Living the American dream.

Oh, and I am a parent 24/7 too

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

LOL, I never am not working. SAHM

DH is 7am-6pm Mon-Thurs and Fri 7am-noon (losing one hour for lunch during the long days). They are flexible, though, as long as he gets in his 45 a week; he can not take lunch and leave an hour early or take a half day on Tuesday and work a full day on Friday.

 

[bethy]

I don't work outside the home. But my DH works every day in some capacity. Weekdays about 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. He usually goes into his office part day on Saturdays and works a lot from home on Sunday. And then he's always online checking in with clients unless we are on vacation and I've taken his phone away from him!

 

[bethy]

I am quite encouraged to read about all the fairly reasonable 40-ish hour work schedules listed here. The media would have us believe that such schedules are rare these days.

It gives me hope for my DD's to someday have a reasonable work life balance.

 

[MickeySP]

I work 6:30a to 2:30p - lunch on the fly. Also work a 4-2 schedule so my days off change every week.

 

[DiannaVM]

9 to 5, Monday to Friday. We are technically entitled to a one hour lunch break, but I rarely take it and just eat at my desk, although I don't always work through lunch. I am lazy and feel like if I leave the office for lunch, it will make me have to rush too much to come back in.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Right now I work 8:15 - 4:45, with an hour lunch and comping 30 minutes. Sometimes I only take half hour lunch.

 

[disneychrista]

Offically I am a Monday - Friday 8a - 5p, with an hour lunch.

In reality I get there between 8 - 8:30 and leave between 5pm - 6pm. One day per week I work 8am - 8pm (split between two locations, one employer) and starting next week it could be expended to 10:30pm (due to Baseball). And for the past 2 1/2 months I have worked Saturdays 11am - 9:30/10pm. I do not get OT either - yay! for being management.

 

[star72232]

I work 9-11am and 4:30-8pm Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and 9-11am on Saturdays.

The split shifts allow me to not need a babysitter and allows me to be in the office when my patients are looking for appointments. Win-win.

 

[tvguy]

We got time off for lunch but it was paid time- that can't be illegal to pay someone while they are eating or out to lunch! The paid us while we were at lunch and paid us during break time.

I am referring strictly to California, and it is way beyond my legal expertise, but the lawyers our company uses says you have to get a 30 minute break OFF the clock. But there are as many interpretations of the law as there are employers in California. Although, I will add, my employer did have to pay penalties for not having breaks built into the schedule, many of us used to work 8 straight...basically we were getting paid to eat but the state said that was a no no.
It was an issue when Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor, he wanted employees to be able to choose to work 8 straight, but the labor unions convinced him otherwise before he was actually sworn in, so he dropped it like a hot potato.

This is the wording of the law
An "on duty" meal period shall be permitted only when the nature of the work prevents an employee from being relieved of all duty and when by written agreement between the employer and employee an on-the-job paid meal period is agreed to.

http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/faq_mealperiods.htm

 

[hedgehog2owl]

9 - 4 Monday- Sat

 

[xlxo]

9:30 to 18:15pm.... M-F. I'm grateful for the late start.

• less frost on the car in the winter. Less gas wastage trying to warm up the car/defrosting.
• less traffic congestion in the morning and evening drive home.

 

[Vicki926]

8:10-3:10.
45 minutes for lunch(though I work through lunch 2 days a week-I get paid extra for it).
My pay reflects the short hours, but I absolutely love my job! Plus my commute is 2 minutes if I drive, 5 if I walk.