How many hours of unpaid overtime have you worked this week? What's your job?

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Yet another weekend has gone by and I've spent the majority of it playing catch up with work instead of spending time with my family. Getting very fed up of it and again day dreaming about retraining. My friends (secondary teacher and care worker) assure me their jobs are the same.

So...

1. What's your job?
2. How many hours are you paid to do each week?
3. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week?
4. Why?
5. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours?

I'll start
Speech therapist
Paid for 32 hours a week
I've worked an additional 12 hours unpaid this week
This is because we are extremely short staffed so I'm covering some jobs I'd usually delegate or share out within the team. Also, I need to catch up on training which I haven't been able to complete in my usual working day.
Finally, I'm going to speak to my manager next week about being unable to see any more children/clients for initial ssessment as I need to block off my diary to session plan and write reports and do training for my current kids instead. I wont be taking on any more children onto my caseload for the foreseeable future and my manager needs to accept this means we will fail to see them within our usual timeframe. I'll try to make my manager understand I cannot do my job alongside jobs usually completed by 2 other staff members and they need to think of a longer term solution (as I'm not paid enough to sort that side of things out!).

Ianyone else care to share/rant? I'd love to see the jobs and careers you have where you are able to do the hours within work time and leave the stress of work behind until the next day (so I can come and work with you!)

Educational psychologist running a small private practice.
I work independently, so I don't have fixed hours. I try to work 20-25 hours a week.
I sometimes do free or extra work for the schools and families I work with, or families who need some advice but can't pay for my time, but this is completely my choice and in my control. I also do some planned pro bono work (assessments for Paralympic eligibility). It's probably about 5 hours a week in total.
When I worked for a Local Authority I was paid to work 2 days, but generally worked 3. The issue for me was not working the extra time, but about having the choice about it and about what I did with the time. I'm 100 times happier now.

So...

1. What's your job?
2. How many hours are you paid to do each week?
3. How many additional hours

1. Community mental health nurse
2. 15
3. 0
4. I hardly ever work over my hours. What doesn't get done has to wait until the next working day. Obviously if it's urgent then it's different but doesn't happen often. If it does then I take choose when to take the time back.
5. On annual leave!

1. Community mental health nurse
2. 15
3. 0
4. I hardly ever work over my hours. What doesn't get done has to wait until the next working day. Obviously if it's urgent then it's different but doesn't happen often. If it does then I take choose when to take the time back.
5. On annual leave!

1. Bid manager for commercial aviation
2. 39 hour week paid
3. Roughly another 25 unpaid
4. Because I had a deadline
5. Nothing- I get paid a lot of money to complete my work... that's it

I'm a primary school nursery nurse
I'm paid for 30 hrs a week, I don't get paid for overtime or any additional duties, so for example I do a lot of class cover but don't get paid any extra. I also regularly arrive 20 minutes early every day to get stuff done and very rarely leave on time.

And what am I going to do about it? Bugger all! It's the the way it seems to work in education and I'm also viewed as 'lucky' by other working parents. I have a term time only job and unlike other support staff, teaching assistants I'm paid more (but still not much!)

1. What's your job? - won't be too specific, but is in the public sector
2. How many hours are you paid to do each week? - 35
3. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week? - about 20
4. Why? - generally, working over your contracted hours is normal and expected in this culture. At the moment, my team is 1/3 down , owing to sickness, and there is no possibility of replacement or reducing the work, and we had a big annual project.
5. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours? - nothing much, any requests for help fall on deaf ears, so I take what opportunities there are to take back hours, work from home, etc. Now the project is completed, hours should reduce, until we get an inspection, anyway..

Lawyer.
Work 37 hours per week 'officially'.
Have worked about 10 hours overtime, not counting the extra time travelling to Court in another city.
This is pretty standard-my team is down 1 person because of mat leave and we have only a part time replacement. I have picked up most of this work in addition to a heavy caseload.
I have cut down my commute, which is long, by wfh 2 days, but am exploring other opportunities.

COO
37.5h
About 45m overtime.
Won a new contract, so doing a bit of initiation.

Will take it as flexi at some point when I need it.

-Scientist& manager of a University core facility
-36.25 suggested contracted hours but also says 'to get the job done' in contract or something like that
-last week about 12 hours unpaid overtime, this week about 3hours
Pretty standard to work through lunch, never manage to get away on time, normally 15 minutes over. Last week I was submitting a grant to required lots of extra work in evenings as the normal jobs still needs to be done and papers /grants on top of it.

• probably nothing. possibly try and manage my time better but so much of my job is firefighting/reactionary it is so difficult to plan

37.5 hours per week, Project Manager. No overtime and will never work any unless paid. My work have ‘bought’ 37.5 hours of my time and they’re not having any more for free.

1. What's your job? Clerical/Support role in Financial Services
2. How many hours are you paid to do each week? 40
3. How many additional hours unpaid have you worked this week? 0
4. Why? I refuse to do overtime. There's no real financial incentive as it's the regular hourly rate and, frankly, I don't need the money.
5. What are you going to do differently next week to ensure you work fewer unpaid hours? See above.