How many hours a week do you work?

I'm lucky to get away with under 50 hours of work a week. I'm also a full-time student working toward my MBA. My life right now is pretty much, wake up, go to work, go to school, do schoolwork, sleep, repeat. Yes, sometimes I do wonder if it is worth it. Fortunately I'm getting a free ride through school though my company, unfortunately they are making sure they get their money's worth out of me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shin

40 hours seems long for a full time working week, are you including lunchbreaks in that? The EU working time directive makes it illegal for anyone over here to do more than 45 hours in a week unless you opt out of it first. My mate who's head chef in a resaurant often does 100+ hour weeks but then he also gets paid a fuckign fortune.

We're entitled to a 30 minute lunch after six hours of work in the US though we can also produce a written agreement with employers to forgo a lunch if we so desire.

But 40 hours is the 'typical' US work week 8am-5pm Monday-Friday with an hour lunch. However, a 50+ hour work week is actually more normal for your typical person on salary than a 40 hour work week these days in the US. Plus even then a lot of people bring their work home on top of that 50+ hours. There are also no laws here which set a maximum amount of time a person can work over here.

How ya doing, buddy?