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Depends on your family situation and how much you enjoy your job. I used to work 55 hours a week before I had a family and it was fine because I was paid OT. Now I'm at the office 30 hours a week and then do some more work from home. Some of it is luck and some of it depends what field you are in and the quality of your company boss.
My wife and I could work another 10 hours a week each and make more but we are choosing quality of life. Very nice to have that option.
Depends on your family situation and how much you enjoy your job. I used to work 55 hours a week before I had a family and it was fine because I was paid OT. Now I'm at the office 30 hours a week and then do some more work from home. Some of it is luck and some of it depends what field you are in and the quality of your company boss.
My wife and I could work another 10 hours a week each and make more but we are choosing quality of life. Very nice to have that option.
Are you salaried?
I keep seeing people say they can work overtime, used to work overtime..., etc. Do you get OT as a salaried employee or are you hourly?
I was hourly. It was at an investment firm that treated workers well. Only senior managers and above were salaried.
Nice! Where I worked we were salary and I worked 60 hours a week..EVERY week...it was expected of us. One of the reasons I'm moving into the healthcare field..at least I'll get paid for OT.
General rule: If you are regularly being expected to work without pay, you are being used. This is why in career planning, its a good idea to find a career that pays on an hourly basis. REality is that for most of us, its better to be one of the indians than one of the chiefs, cause the chiefs normally are the ones working all the extra hours, taking all the responsibilty and the ulcers, and not making a lot more money. (Sometimes less calculated on an hourly basis) The hourly guy gets to put in his time and when his shift is done, he goes home, and forgets his job and has no reason to lose sleep. This kind of a job is good also in that it usually means that you have a marketable skill that you can take with you. EG: Nursing, machinist. Management can be the worst.
General rule: If you are regularly being expected to work without pay, you are being used. This is why in career planning, its a good idea to find a career that pays on an hourly basis. REality is that for most of us, its better to be one of the indians than one of the chiefs, cause the chiefs normally are the ones working all the extra hours, taking all the responsibilty and the ulcers, and not making a lot more money. (Sometimes less calculated on an hourly basis) The hourly guy gets to put in his time and when his shift is done, he goes home, and forgets his job and has no reason to lose sleep. This kind of a job is good also in that it usually means that you have a marketable skill that you can take with you. EG: Nursing, machinist. Management can be the worst.
I wasn't in management....yes I may be slow but I figured I was being used..I knew more than my manager so I knew it was time to find another career..I was killing myself for what? Subpar benefits and crappy pay.
Trust me I wasn't making much and after doing the math...well let's just say I was making peanuts factoring the ot or lack there of. We also never recevied bonuses...
One of the wost aspects? I was told 'I just be happy I have a job." That was when I decided to obtain a marketable skill
I work for a Big 4 firm and their response to the long hours hasn't been less hours, but A LOT of flexibility. There's a lot of BS about work life balance that was thrown at us, but one thing that has rang true is that they are extremely flexibile as they said they would be. As long as you are a good performer and you communicate, you can do nearly do nearly whatever you want in regards to flexibility. I'm OK with long hours so long as the trade-off is flexibility.
I work for a Big 4 firm and their response to the long hours hasn't been less hours, but A LOT of flexibility. There's a lot of BS about work life balance that was thrown at us, but one thing that has rang true is that they are extremely flexibile as they said they would be. As long as you are a good performer and you communicate, you can do nearly do nearly whatever you want in regards to flexibility. I'm OK with long hours so long as the trade-off is flexibility.
That is a very good point. To me, there is nothing more frustrating than being expected to work until 1 AM, and then getting yelled at the next morning for being 5 minutes late!
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