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View Poll Results: How Many Hours do you Work per Week ?
0-10hpw 22 6.77%
10-20hpw 16 4.92%
20-30hpw 18 5.54%
30-40hpw 74 22.77%
40-50hpw 85 26.15%
50-workaholic 110 33.85%
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Old 20-11-2006, 04:42 PM   #91
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40-50 hours a week
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Old 21-11-2006, 05:10 PM   #92
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50 - 60 hours a week, depending how busy we are.
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Old 22-11-2006, 09:14 PM   #93
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I am at work for around 30 hours per week, less for lunch and when I go for walks. I occaisionally get work to do and the rest of the time I am on the net or phone (not work related). I am only emplyed til the end of the year however, then I expect to be going to jail early in the new year.
?? really?
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Old 23-11-2006, 12:38 PM   #94
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Govt WOrker here......RTA main head office in NSW.......contract says 30 hours a week which includes the 2 days a week i spend at tafe...
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Old 23-11-2006, 01:06 PM   #95
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40-50hrs/week but that includes time I spend on the forums ;)
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Old 23-11-2006, 03:23 PM   #96
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close to 40hrs a week not including overtime 4 weeks off every year plus free holiday once or twice a year provided by work
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Old 24-11-2006, 03:24 AM   #97
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One job is a minimum of 48 hours a week (but that has increased to around 84 ... then add travel time).

Then I have my second (part time courier) job that can be from 0-48 hours a week ... depends how busy I have been with my first job.

Usually I do not know what day it is as weeks flow-on from each other and weekends are just normal workdays to me ... well ... depends if i do nightshift as well ... as I work many of those on a rotational day/night basis.

Most I have worked in a week that I can remember is around 96 hours.
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Old 24-11-2006, 02:39 PM   #98
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40 hours a week on afternoon shift making mufflers for the nice new Falcons most of you drive.
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Old 24-11-2006, 02:40 PM   #99
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well going by the stats somebody tell me that aussies are lazy .... way too many workaholics ... i am soooo looking forwrad to christmas holidays ... one week, 3 days summernats included
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Old 24-11-2006, 02:42 PM   #100
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?? really?
Yeah, really! And I really shouldn't have posted that, hey?
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Old 24-11-2006, 10:23 PM   #101
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What you'd get done for if you don't mind me asking??
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Old 24-11-2006, 10:46 PM   #102
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38.00 ;)
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Old 25-11-2006, 12:41 AM   #103
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im my own boss, so i can only blame me.

im a lazy sod really

im i count the hours on ford forums its like 100 hours plus.

that what i heard the PM does.

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Old 01-12-2006, 01:10 PM   #104
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i work 15- 30 per week.
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Old 01-12-2006, 03:55 PM   #105
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I used to work 13 hours a day about 70 hours aweek.God sorted me out and put me in hospital to grow a brain.Now its the fishing rod I am chasing 70 hours a week.
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Old 01-12-2006, 04:02 PM   #106
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36.25 hours....Desk job too, so its cruisy :-)
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Old 02-12-2006, 04:33 PM   #107
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Probably 50 hours a week on average at the moment. 10 hours a day, 5 days a week. Plus two hours travelling to and from.

Then there's the 3 kids! Do they count as work? LOL
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Old 02-12-2006, 09:25 PM   #108
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im 21 and work as a retail manager. i do approx 60-70 hrs a week. no permanant roster, get days off every now and then and work nearly every sunday. the joys of being salary
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Old 03-12-2006, 09:57 AM   #109
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Do you mean work or the actual hours I am there?

All jokes aside I am in the 90 hour range. I do try to get time off (for good behaviour) but tend to have a freekish sort of schedule.
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Old 29-12-2006, 05:33 PM   #110
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I work what ever mnimum amount I have to. As I am on Salary.

So I picked 40-50hpw. I will only do overtime, if I HAVE to.
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Old 29-12-2006, 08:20 PM   #111
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12-14 hours a day plus just under 2 hours travel. Very rarely take a lunch break.
Hope to reduce the hours a bit in 2007 so I can concentrate more on getting into some circuit racing (club events) and remind the hubby what I look like!! :
In a salary job so only obliged to work 8 hours a day (and no, I don't get paid for the overtime as it's all voluntary/part of the job). Now that I'm writing this I think I am starting to understand why hubby is always so annoyed and tells me I'm an workaholic idiot!! :togo:
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Old 30-12-2006, 04:25 AM   #112
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..on average I work about 15 hrs per day, atm.

I work most weekends and holidays for about 4 to 8 hrs....

No life atm! :thebirds:
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Old 30-12-2006, 04:38 PM   #113
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Then there's the 3 kids! Do they count as work? LOL
Alot of the public would say no, but most FF.AU users will agree, HELL YES.
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Old 30-12-2006, 10:05 PM   #114
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Too Bloody many!!! Would like to do less (none) but need $$$ so I can feed my family and drive a good looking ford.
Ahhh..... if only that big red ball would roll through my door. I can dream.
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Old 31-12-2006, 02:15 AM   #115
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When i was doing a first year butchers apprentiship i was doing 75hours a week for $5 and hour hence y i told them to go jump
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Old 31-12-2006, 06:09 PM   #116
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I don't work at all. I'm very lazy...
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Old 31-12-2006, 06:14 PM   #117
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I don't work at all. I'm very lazy...
If you can do that all your life & have someone support you good luck to you lol. :

I work around 45 hours a week. Plus travel :evilking:
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Old 31-12-2006, 08:19 PM   #118
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If you can do that all your life & have someone support you good luck to you lol. :
When I graduate in '09 i'll have to start supporting myself :
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Old 31-12-2006, 08:28 PM   #119
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weel,i work 15 days at a time,11hrs a day,then get a week off,all for the great wage of $16 an hr:(
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Old 31-12-2006, 09:41 PM   #120
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I do 10-14 hours a day, weekends only. I get 150$ a day, so I do not complain. I do Ikea delievery in association with kings. 300$ a week for a 17 year old high school student is tonnes. To a larger scale, the money I make is like... umm... the rich dude across the road!
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