What are your work hours like?

This is easy for me Reyn...
I work Monday, Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:00am until 1:30pm teaching music at a preschool. It is perfect for me. I leave after my three boys go to school, get home before they get home from school and have enough time in the evenings to get homework done and supper on the table. I even have a couple of days to take care of things around the house.

I didn't work from the time I was on bedrest with the twins up until last year. We have always run a pretty tight ship since putting the twins in a daycare would have taken most of my salary from my previous job. We chose to live off of one income...so this extra money I am making now is basically just being funnelled into a college fund for the fellas.

I have the greatest schedule possible. 8 AM to 12 Noon. My wife is still job hunting, but she has always worked from early in the morning. I have plenty of time to unwind, and in cool weather, to work outside on my house.

My work hours are about like yours. I don't get as much done every day as I used to, but the transition was easy. One morning I just slept late.

I work 8am -5pm currently although being the night person that I am, have real trouble getting to sleep early enough to wake up without needing an alarm clock.

The best shift for me I have found is from 2pm-11pm. I had no trouble at all staying up till 3 or 4 in the am and sleeping till 11 am. I'd wake up without an alarm and had time to do some things before going to work. Bonus was that I got paid 5% more as a shift differential. I'd consider going back to that schedule but the position I am in now, I have to work by phone with people in the eastern US. Don't think they would prefer working those late hours seeing as I am already 3 hours behind them in time zones.

Those are pretty much my most efficient hours, too. Even swallowing food in time to be at work by 7:00 a.m. was enough to provoke a gag reflex.

7;30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Monday to Friday.

I teach the Electrical Trades Programs at a large public Technical Institute. There are different years representative of the different apprenticeship levels, plus a number of night school courses (I'm not inclined to teach).

Ever since I took this teaching position my employment as a musician has been on hold, simply not enough time should I try and do both given that the Electrical Trades Programs is big on math and physics.

office job, M-F, 9:30ish am - 6:30ish pm.

we have flexible hours -- they ask only that we work the 'core hours' of 10a-2p.
i'm slow getting going in the morning, so this is perfect for me.
i also avoid rush hour both ways.

when i work @ home (on occasion), i can start much, much earlier...

being retired and having "worked" for the government is not much of a change.

office
technically 8 - 4, usually more like 7:30 - 4:30 - 5:00+
I need to remember to take my lunch break more often

I work from home, generally from 8 - 8 with breaks during the day for this, that, and the other thing. This is my 17th year and it was ideal when my kids were in school because I could drop whatever was going on to attend school functions, pick up a sick child, etc., and still get my work done. I bill hourly on a project by project basis. The downside is that I work alone --- A2K is my cube mate, water cooler, cafeteria gathering place. Now that the girls are grown (the youngest is a senior in HS) and we're looking to become empty nesters I'm considering making a significant change and getting a 'real job' simply to have a reason to get out of the house.

Mr B has a "day job" with typical benefits. The combo has worked well for us for many years. He would now like to do something more risky on his own. We're thinking about some role reversals.

The first Mr B worked evenings for a long time and then nights for even longer. We're divorced.

Things are somewhat slow at the Widget Factory so I'm working your basic
8-to-5, Mon-to-Fri work week. When things pick up, the days could go to
10 hours and include some weekend work.

My kids are grown so work meshes pretty well with home life.

Oh yeah, almost forgot -- the general type of job is "engineering" I guess.

Hi Reyn:

Well, currently I wake up at 4:00 a.m., get up at 4:30, and start breakfast No. 1 at 5:00 a.m. I serve breakfast at 5:30, 7:00 and 8:30 a.m. I serve dinner at the same times, in the p.m. In between, I bake, prep, do some paperwork and nap. This split shift is a beyotch. So is the three meal thing at every meal. I go to bed right after the third dinner and read till I fall asleep, then get up and do it all over again.

Hey, thanks to all that have posted so far. Everyone has their own neat story.

It seems that the majority work daytime hours, with some extending a little into the evening.

Interesting reading JPB's story on being currently self-employed. I'm sure that has it's own pluses and minus, as you alluded to.

MM's comment that your preference would be a 2pm to 11pm shift is intriguing. I guess it depends where you feel your interests and strong points are.

I would be really keen to hear from someone who has worked graveyard and what that has done to your life.

Also, folks who have shifts that rotate. For example, 7am to 3pm; 3pm to 11pm, etc.

Edit:
Just caught your post, Mame. Yes, the split shift! Yuk! I had forgotten about those.

8-5, Mon-Fri, no weekends.



Office work - I spend money on behalf of my company. All day. It's very, very fun.

Cycloptichorn

I have pulled graveyard on occasion.

your life mostly becomes about your job. (kinda like truck driving)

I work the dinner shift (5ish to 9ish) as a formal job, with the occasional late night (till 2:30)

and work informally from home on days when I get up and am functional enough to face the world.

When things got really crazy here, I worked 3 PM to midnight. I liked having
the early part of the day free, but I felt out-of-sync with the world. Got to be
good friends with the security folks.

It must be tough to get decent sleep during the day, with noise, etc. I often wonder how people can do this kind of work long term. I've heard that it can shorten one's life expectancy.

i don't know about all that.

my closest neighbor is a night waitress at the bar, so she is on the same schedule as me, more or less. (and I am noisier than her...)

In the big city, there is a whole world of folks up doin' the stuff no one else wants to do while the good folks sleep.

it's life