How many hours a week do you work?

I'm going to a Linux Sys Administrator interview tomorrow. Today, the recruiter called because I had a query about hours. Apparently the role is 8am-5pm and other weeks it might be 9am-6pm. This seems like a long working week (with an hour for lunch, so it's a 40 hour week)

How many hours per week do you work? Would you consider hours like this?

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dustervoice

I do 9-5:30 . I would consider it if the job pays well and I enjoy what i'm working on a daily basis.

UncleB

A 40 hour week is about the norm for private sector jobs like this - public sector / government jobs are more likely to be 35 hours but they pay proportionally less on average.

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TheFORCE

si20 wrote: »

I'm going to a Linux Sys Administrator interview tomorrow. Today, the recruiter called because I had a query about hours. Apparently the role is 8am-5pm and other weeks it might be 9am-6pm. This seems like a long working week (with an hour for lunch, so it's a 40 hour week)

How many hours per week do you work? Would you consider hours like this?

40 Hours is the normal in US, not sure what the number is in Europe and UK but if you say thats too much then clearly the number might be lower. US however normal week hour is 40, 8 hours per day X 5 days a week = 40 hours. This includes 30 minute lunch break, some companies though do allow their employees 1 hour break, bringing the total hours of work down to 37.5 hours. Overtime though is considered any hours over 40. For example if 4 days a week you worked 8 hours with 1 hour lunch(7.5 x 4) and the 5th day you worked 9 hours, you will not get paid OT because it's not over 40 hours.

wtrwlkr

56, but that's mandated by contract.

CyberSecurity

40 with a Friday off
Week 1: 7-4 Mon-Thu (Friday Off)
Week 2: 7-4 Mon-Thu (7-3 Friday)
Basically 8 Nine-Hour Days, 1 Eight-Hour day, 1 day off every 2 weeks.
I'm a cybersecurity analyst for a Gov Contractor.

636-555-3226

40 hours a week. On call weekends every once in awhile, but in my line of work security being "on call" doesn't amount to any work for us

joelsfood

40 hours here, standard work week

jeremywatts2005

Well I think I have the sweetest schedule you could get. I work 7 AM - 2:45 PM and I do not have to record my lunch. I work a straight 7.75 hours a day. It was something I negotiated. If you take my lunch out I work 7.45 hours a day. I always tell folks negotiate everything and not just the salary. Maybe the salary is a little low then ask them to adjust your work week to compensate. I also get more vacation and sick time that way so I record 7.75 hours of vacation or sick. Figure it up a 1/4 hour does not sound like a lot but that is 1.25 hours a week difference and we work all 52 weeks in a year excluding holidays and vacation. It really adds up fast. Some companies will jump all over the lower hours to save a couple of thousand a year. I work no overtime or on call either that was part of the deal. If I do have to work over then I adjust the next day for it. Work 4 hours more one day then I work 4 hours less the next.

whiteskies

80hours a week minimal. I have two jobs one job 8am-about 430/5pm the next job is from 10pm-630am.I sleep between jobs when I am not driving back and forth and on breaks.I personally know two people (not me) making over 200K a year with that technique. You have to make a small sacrifice for a big reward. I seen an article a few weeks ago about people who only need 4hrs of sleep at night. I guess either I am one of those people or I am making myself one of those people.

In the N. Virginia/DC area doing such is definitely possible if you're more in the Med-Senior role. It might be hard finding a 100K a year Help Desk Role. This is actually my second time working two jobs. The first time was a 12hr night on Quantico the second a day job was on Ft. Belvoir. I want to work hard now, so I live easy in 30 years. ...but that's just me

danny069

About 35

hurricane1091

I work 8-5...not really that strange.

CyberSecurity

whiteskies wrote: »

80hours a week minimal. I have two jobs one job 8am-about 430/5pm the next job is from 10pm-630am.I sleep between jobs when I am not driving back and forth and on breaks.I personally know two people (not me) making over 200K a year with that technique. You have to make a small sacrifice for a big reward. I seen an article a few weeks ago about people who only need 4hrs of sleep at night. I guess either I am one of those people or I am making myself one of those people.

In the N. Virginia/DC area doing such is definitely possible if you're more in the Med-Senior role. It might be hard finding a 100K a year Help Desk Role. This is actually my second time working two jobs. The first time was a 12hr night on Quantico the second a day job was on Ft. Belvoir. I want to work hard now, so I live easy in 30 years. ...but that's just me

Seems like a good financial strategy. Are you still able to take vacation?

bpenn

CyberSecurity wrote: »

40 with a Friday off
Week 1: 7-4 Mon-Thu (Friday Off)
Week 2: 7-4 Mon-Thu (7-3 Friday)
Basically 8 Nine-Hour Days, 1 Eight-Hour day, 1 day off every 2 weeks.
I'm a cybersecurity analyst for a Gov Contractor.

Lot of guys in my office do that here on base. I cant do FLEX since I am hourly but its a sweet deal.

scaredoftests

I work 7:30 - 4. Once or twice a month, work until 7pm for updates/change requests to servers.

markulous

40 hours. M-F, same shift every day. Once in a while I'll work 6 days, but it's ultimately voluntary.

gespenstern

exactly 40, almost never get overtime

kohr-ah

Usually 45 hours.

advanex1

LOL.. 40 hours is long now? Sheesh.

I work at least 72 hours a week. Pretty close to 80 on most weeks.

whiteskies

CyberSecurity wrote: »

Seems like a good financial strategy. Are you still able to take vacation?

Being that I am a Sub Contractor (for both) and one of them is 6 month contract to hire, yes. I went to the Dominican Republic for a few days over New Years. One job is a 24/7 and I only work Sunday-Thursday. Which is a great, I have weekends off. The other one the contract to hire position I only get paid when I am at work, no leave days whatsoever (I negotiated an extra $5 an hour for that outrageous commitment). So taking off isn't really a big deal to the Company/My Boss since they know I get 0 days a year paid. Even when Christmas/New Years was here and people were off getting paid. I was off........loosing money. I can't complain though.

Dakinggamer87

40-45 hrs/week on average

josh.armentrout1

About 50 hours. Give or take a few. Just depends on what's going on.

networker050184

Probably around ~30 on an average week. More when needed.

E Double U

40 - 46. I put in OT by choice.

Gess

CyberSecurity wrote: »

40 with a Friday off
Week 1: 7-4 Mon-Thu (Friday Off)
Week 2: 7-4 Mon-Thu (7-3 Friday)
Basically 8 Nine-Hour Days, 1 Eight-Hour day, 1 day off every 2 weeks.

9-5/4

Same here, except my lunch is unpaid. So I work 0700-1630 except for my short Friday.

I also get 3hrs (in 1hr sessions) of paid leave to go to the gym per week.

TLeTourneau

40 hours a week for me on average. Maybe a bit more or less depending on what projects I'm working on but I'm salaried so it doesn't impact my income.

techfiend

9-3 M-F and whatever is needed after hours but I'm on call all the time and telecommuting right now. I average maybe 32 hours a week, I'm salaried. I also have 4 weeks of PTO and 12 holidays I'd be surprised if I put in 1500 hours this year. Work to live!

Brain-D

37.5 hours per week

Danielm7

advanex1 wrote: »

LOL.. 40 hours is long now? Sheesh.

I work at least 72 hours a week. Pretty close to 80 on most weeks.

I'm curious, why? If you're working double the standard hours you're either grossly understaffed, not very efficient or they're paying you more than double a normal salary.

advanex1

It was me poking fun. I'm in the military, that's why

gorebrush

I work 44 hours over an 8 day period (shift)