Most hours you worked in a week?

[protracracing]

I work maintenance in a foundry, and have been there for almost 15 yrs. I have been a Leadman for the last 12 years. For the last 2 yrs.(going on 3) I have been the Maintenance Lead. I have worked 300+ days, and over 3500 hrs. the last 2 years! The way things are going this year, it will probably be over 3600 hrs.!!! I also have an 80 mile commute one way! It only takes an hour & 15 min. to drive it though. It is great for the pocket book, but leaves almost no time to work on cars.
I have put in a lot of 96+ hour weeks. My longest week is 119 hours! About 9 yrs. ago I put in a killer 2 weeks during summer shutdown. I worked 114 hrs. the first week, and 98 hrs the second week. I will never do that again!!!

I think you need a vacation.LOL

 

[TurboCrazy]

No kidding!! A racing vacation would be great! I just don't get enough vacaton days. Got to figure out if I'm working to live, or living to work????

 

[longball]

3 jobs and college a long time ago....not sure of hours but busy 7 days a week. More recently - 57 straight days of work - only 8 hour days though...

 

[Instro84]

dont remember days in a week but worked 36hr straight quite a few times

 

[deezdad]

Doing 80 hrs a week now thanks to an interesting little gig.. one of our customers a pharmaceutical manufacturer is paying us overtime to be onsite 24/7 to make sure the generator kicks in if they lose street power. My share of this is 3pm til 6:30 am two nights a week and will last until the end of April when a new emergency generator will be online. So go to regular project from 7am till 3pm (wich happens to be in the same business park), then post up for an overnite 3pm till 6:30am, then return t0 reg project from 7am till 3pm, then home!... until the next morning when it starts all over again. Still try to get on an overtime job on Saturdays.. taxes be damned gotta strike while the irons' hot.. It's easy though they got internet, cable, vending, shower, and a cot.. security will wake us up if an electrical snafu shows up on their console..

 

[hiboom]

Worked 7 / 12's for 49 days straight at a airport job at kci replacing the Tarmac were they park planes at the terminal had strict dead line and penalty if not completed on time went tax exempt so gov didn't get over and double time

 

[achalmersman]

I use to manage a parking lot at a state fair. Roughly 16 hr days 10 days straight once a year. Many people have done much worse but after 160 hours in 10 days I slept hard on day 11 lol. I also got seriously dark from exposure. They called me raccoon from where my sunglasses kept around my eyes from tanning lol

 

[EVIL]

I the summers I do carpentry work with friends 50 hours a week then nights at a club another 35 hours.

It gets to the point of "why am I doing this".

Then I remember. Bills.

D

 

[deezdad]

I the summers I do carpentry work with friends 50 hours a week then nights at a club another 35 hours.

It gets to the point of "why am I doing this".

Then I remember. Buicks.

D

Fixed it for you Evil.

 

[EVIL]

Thanks bub.

D

 

[Rugby]

I work offshore so 84hour weeks are no big deal. I did 116 hours a couple months ago. I did one 26hour day but mostly 22 hours and i am done. Sleep for 2 and back at it.

Brandon

 

[Bruce Urie]

Before I retired, I had worked plenty of 90 hour weeks.....and it wasn't easy by far. Tired all of the time.

Once we had this contract with DOD that required working 7 days a week with overtime out the butt......I ended up working 7 days a week, double time on Sundays for 11 straight months! It took a real bad toll on my health and greatly contributed to the failure of my marriage........I'll never do it again.....

Those long, long hours were tough even at a young age.....if I had to do it now, I'd jump in front of a bus.

Bruce '87 Grand National

 

[ijames]

I once averaged 105-110 hours a week for 3 months but couldn't keep it up so cut back to only 90-95 or so for the next 6 months. Basically if I wasn't asleep I was in the lab or headed there or home or eating. A little startup was already into year 3 of a couple of 3 year SBIR grants to build a couple of small mass spectrometers, and realized that they were clueless and needed someone who could spell MS, right when I was looking for a new "challenge". They got extensions on both grants and after wasting about 5 months proving that virtually everything they already had was junk and never going to work I built both from scratch in 9 months. Mechanical designs, autocad drawings, electronics designs including board layout and soldering together, some of the programming (they had a good contractor for that), assembly and testing of two generations of prototypes and then the final 2 machines, and then the manuals. Basically everything but welding and machining, solo except for a couple of weeks of help from a friend of the owner from LLNL during the final assembly. Installation and training in a lab at Kennedy Space Center (got the absolute best tour possible afterwards) and an army base (got to see where they used to make nerve gases, not quite as fun as NASA ). Totally wore me out, and I was a youngster of 39 back then. Of course, I'd love to find a similar challenge today, just without the time pressure.