To think working 64 hours in a week is too much?

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Concerned about a good friend who is doing this.

Are there laws against it?

Aibu to think it is too much and worry she'll make herself poorly?

I think with travelling it is pretty normal. 5 x 12 hour days plus catching up at weekend with emails etc

I work 7 days a week. This weekend I didn't for the 1st time in ages. Felt odd. Did no VAT and accounts though

I have worked these hours before dcs.
Since dcs the maximum i have done was 40 hrs pw and i was very tired. I dont know how so many of you do it tbh.

Most weeks I work 70hours. Teaching.

I generally work a 50-60 hour week. I'm paid for 37.5. My job simply isn't doable in these hours. It's acknowledged, but everyone does it. I'm senior Professional Services in a University. It's standard for the sector, sadly. I regularly don't see the kids awake. We only manage because DP is a teacher, and works shorter contact hours, and catches up once kids are in bed. Wouldn't mind so much if either of us got megabucks!

5 12 hour days and catching up with emails at the weekend.

For minimum wage? Riiiight.

For what it's worth I don't think it's standard and nor do I think it's right. We are all entitled to a work life balance and some downtime. 5 eight hour days sounds about right to me.

OP said the friends daughter works for them to. So this isn't a young twenty one year old saving for a flat, is it? She's at least forty, I'm guessing?

Up until recently, I was working between 80 and 112 hours per week- starting at (officially) 8am but generally there before and finishing at (officially) midnight but often there later.

I have 1 child.

Sounds like poor work balance to me. When did you get to see your child?

I'm contacted 39 hrs week
Do more like 55
Previous role more like 65, or more which is why I changed
Only since changing do I realise how ridiculous the hours are, but they were honestly what was required to do the job...
Many people have no concept of how normal it is!
Well paid yes, ££ per hour no...

I think there's a wee but of exaggeration going on here

OP has said her friend works a 64 hour week. From her description, that is time physically spent at work. She's not there, she's not paid (I think.)

But we have teachers (like we always do) insisting they work much harder than everybody else and they do 70 hour weeks eaaaaasily.

Typical teaching day is less than eight hours. Yes, teachers have marking. Yes, teachers have planning. But you have the option of taking it home. As someone else said up the thread, there is a big difference in doing some marking at a warm kitchen table in a onesie to standing behind a bar or sitting at a checkout or whatever.

I think a lot of these 'well I work for twenty four hours a day every day with power naps' are people taking work home with them. The OP means literal contracted hours, not farting around laminating cards at home.

I work anything between 40 and 70 hours a week, cant do more than 2 weeks in a row on 70 hours as am so tired I just come and sleep, but my kids are older and as long as there is food in the house they deal with everything else. Also its my choice if I do extra hours, money is handy at the end of the month and i get paid per hour not much more than minimum wage.

You people working such silly hours need to stop doing it! You are spoiling it for others who want to have a good life work balance. Employers are now expecting everyone to sign their life away, we need to change this trend.
Work to live NOT live to work

I don't know how it is possible to 'work ' for over 50 hours a week.
How much of that time is spent actually 'working' and how much time is spent drinking tea and surfing the Internet.?

I used to work in excess of 70 hours a week when teaching, I was far too lazy for that nonsense and therefore I don't work now.

I used to work non stop , aside from eating my dinner from 7 am until 6pm in school five days a week. There was no faffing on the Internet or lounging about. That is 55 hours before the marking at home.

I think some people on here need to work smarter, not harder

As long as a person is strong enough then its ok. Not great for anyone who wants to have any relationships outside of work.

"60+ hours a week isn't a lot tbh" = one of the more vacuous comments I've read on Mumsnet.

My DH is paid a salary equivalent of 44 hours per week. Last week, he put in close to 70, some (rare) weeks he works closer to 30. In the long run, it mostly balances out, but he went into this position knowing that the hours could be high.

I wouldn't want to work 64 hours every week, but if it is necessary, then it is necessary...

I couldn't imagine a contracted position that high, though.

All the way through the school holidays too philosothy? Dedication indeed.

what on earth were you doing

Looking back and counting up the hours, yes.
As a teacher I worked 8-6 at school plus 2 hours 4 evenings a week and approx 4 hours at the weekend.
However that was usually term time only so in blocks of 6 weeks, then much fewer hours each holiday.
Couldn't do that now however, not at 58, despite no pension for years to come!

Ps I do know the total is less than the poster.

Why did you do that SilentBob? We need more info.

No I didn't work in my holidays . No need for the cross out, why not just ask what I was doing.

As I said, I am quite lazy and did not do anything that I did not need to. I worked less than many of my colleagues

Teaching is ridiculous. Teachers always try to outdo each other with hours worked, for some reason. A doctor who took 3 hours to write a prescription would be deemed a shite doctor but for some reason teachers think the more hours they put in the more it proves - what? Dedication? How hard it all is? Not sure.

I never worked stupid hours even as an NQT when apparently you're supposed to!

Timetoask, well said, I agree. Teachers are afraid to be seen to be the first to leave the premises in several of the schools I do supply in.