42.5 working hours?

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Hi, i am wondering if it is normal to work 42.5 hours a week ( 8 - 5:30)?

 

Almost every job I've had, has made my working hours longer... used to be 8 hours a day, then it went to 8 hours and 15 minutes, and now I'm at 8 hours and 30 minutes per day (i.e. 42.5 hours). But technically some Swiss laws (not necessarily the same in your location) forbid working longer than 45 hours a week (but we techies tend to do it anyway).

 

I work 42.5 hours a week as well, and I tend to work through most lunches (today being the exception), I guess work around 56 hours in reality. But ive known IT techs work a lot more......


Strange really, looking back Ive always worked more than my contracted hours in virtually any job Ive done and done it quite happily even unpaid. But when someone states your contract is actually 42.5 hrs...........but when its statedd you have to do 42.5 hrs, it just dosnt feel the same:|

 

I usually work through my lunches and recently I have been working at least 30-60 mins over my finish time which puts me at nearly 45 hours a week. Of course i am not forced to take it and I choose to but it is expected I feel.

If your earning peanuts though doesn't really make you want to do more time than you get paid for.

 

I regularly work about 65-70 hours a week. Comes with the territory. I could probably get by if I worked less, but things wouldn't be organised, I'd look like a chump if I had to do out of hours stuff in the office and I enjoy it anyway. Would I like to be paid more? Yes - who wouldn't - but I get enough of a salary to consider that the extra mile is worth going.

 

I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah

Monty Python's Flying Circus
"Four Yorkshiremen"

What bloke said that "if you love what you do you never have to work a day in your life?"

I normally put in around that same as Sparky, but I enjoy it so it does not seem so bad.

 

LOL!

I believe it was Confucius that quoted this - and so true it is!

NB