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There's not that much of a difference between an 8-hour day and a 9-hour day. So that wouldn't be a big sacrifice. However, there's a huge difference between a 5-day week and a 4-day week.
The 4-day/week option is a no-brainer.
This. Also, the fewer days you work, the less total time you waste commuting.
I would love to do 10x4 splits. Meaning, working M-T, Wed off, then Th-F, then Sat-Sun off. That, to me, would be sheer perfection from a work schedule standpoint.
I had that, didn't love it. Makes for 2 Mondays a week!!
I currently work 10 hours a day 4 days a week. There’s pros and cons to this. I start at 7:30, and I get off a 6. I hate getting off at 6, it feels too late when I have to get up at 5:30 the next day. I have a field job, which makes 10 hours a bit more tiring than the normal desk job. On my day off, Monday’s, I normally do errands or cleaning but I miss out on events and happy hours during the week. I’d rather be able to wind down effectively after work each day than a whole day off. It does make it easier for doctor’s appointments, when I do have them.
If I’m lucky (cross my fingers) I will be transferring to a division with 5/8s. But they are considering the 9/80 schedule in that division. They can’t do 4/10s there due to a lack of people and the size of our jurisdiction. I think the 9/80 is best based on what I know about it.
We need to do move to 3 days a week. No work Mondays and Fridays. Because most people are only productive between Tuesdays and Thursdays so why waste time on Mondays and Fridays.
I once had a job that was 7.5 hours a day, 5x/week. That worked for me.
Now I have a friend who hates his job, which happens to have an option of 10 hours a day, 4x a week.
He'd love to be off three days a week, but can't bare to even think about being on the job one minute more than the 8 he's doing now. (With 8.5 hours including lunch that he's actually at work.) He'd be at work two additional hours a day...but the job doesn't provide any additional break time in exchange for the two extra hours he'd be working. He just doesn't think he could mentally handle the two additional hours, even if it meant only working 4 days, and being off 3 days.
I worked six days and got 40 hours a week for about six months and it is tougher than I would have thought. First, it is still six days a week every week. You're still getting up and going to work and then getting off. My shirt was 4 p to 10 M-F and then 9 a to 8 p on Saturday with an hour for lunch on Saturday, My only off day was Sunday, but it never really felt like it was an off day. And working that shift on weekdays meant I missed so much time with my kids and my then-wife, time I never got back.
In my late teens and early 20s, I worked four tens at a grocery store which always seemed to work out pretty good. I rarely worked three days in a row
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