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What's your hours working all in including travelling to work?

175 replies

ssd · 12/09/2019 23:11

If you work, when do you leave the house and when do you get home and we what age are your kids?
Asking for a friend

OP posts:
toomanypillows · 12/09/2019 23:40

Leave at 7.30

Work
Mon/Thurs 8-4.30
Tues/Weds 8-4
Fri 8-2.30
Back home half an hour after I finish work (in time to do one school pick up on a Friday)
37 hours a week (full time)
One DS 10.

Biffsboys · 12/09/2019 23:40

Leave 8am home 2pm . Dc - 22 & 11

LBOCS2 · 12/09/2019 23:43

Leave at 7.30am, home at 7pm. Unless I have an evening meeting in which case I'm not home until anything up to 11.30pm.

London91 · 12/09/2019 23:45

I leave at 7 and get home anytime from 7 to 7:30pm. Although depending on the day it could be later than that. No children atm.

LBOCS2 · 12/09/2019 23:45

I don't think my working hours are unusual though. I leave at 7.30, drop the DC at the childminder, on a train to work at 8.09. At my desk by 8.45. Leave work between 5.30-5.45, pick up DC from childcare at 6.30, home by 7.

lavenderbluedilly · 12/09/2019 23:46

I leave at 23.30 and get home at 08.30 - I work night shifts 2-3 nights a week. I sleep when DC at school. It’s probably most people’s idea of hell but it works well for me.

moomin11 · 12/09/2019 23:46

8.45am-3.30pm 2 days per week at the moment as DD has just started school, plus 8.45am-6.30pm one day a week. I live really close to my work and school so am really lucky I have no commute

plominoagain · 12/09/2019 23:47

For early shift , leave home at 4.25am , in for 6.35 , official start at 7 but often earlier . Work until 1900 , unless I have to stay on , then if I leave at 1900 , will be back by about 2100 .

If on nights , about the same but the other end of the clock . Leave at 4pm , get there to start at 7pm , work till 7am , home for 9.30am . Mixture of the two shifts over 5 days . Work full time and have done for the last 20 years . Kids are now 24 , 21, 20, 14 and 12 . Three oldest are at uni and work , two youngest still at home .

StinkyWizleteets · 12/09/2019 23:47

I’m very flexible but my partner works nhs 13hoir shifts leaving the house at 6am and not getting home until 9pm because of public transport. My period of flexibility is coming to an end but it’s a real nightmare with kids having to fit around his shifts.

lastqueenofscotland · 12/09/2019 23:49

Leave at 8 (or I claim to) back for around 6:30/7

diege · 12/09/2019 23:52

Leave the house 7.15am, drop at childminders for 7.45, then start public transport commute getting into work at 9.50am (2hrs each way) Back home around 6.30 having collected dcs from childminder en route. 6 Kids, Work 4 days a week. Collapse on day off 🤣

NoSquirrels · 12/09/2019 23:52

DC ages 1-4/5: left between 7.30-7.45am, worked 9-5, back at 5.55-6pm (at childminder) and then 20 minute walk back home.

Currently (juniors primary age): WFH, school hours plus extra evenings/weekends to make up the requirement. No commute, very lucky to have flex, sucks arse in many other ways e.g. DC apparently don't remember when I wasn't at their beck and call for after-school activities (& I strongly suspect neither does DH). Time not your own and work bleeds into everything.

Be careful what you wish for!

Expressedways · 12/09/2019 23:52

When I’m in the office I the house 8-8.15am, at my desk for 8.30. Leave at 4.30, home by 5 including daycare pick-up (DH does the morning drop off). I have 1 contracted day per week from home but unofficially I usually do more. I have one DC who is 2.

bettythebutterfly · 12/09/2019 23:53

Leave the house at 7, start work at 7:30 (DH does morning drop off). Finish at 3:30, pick up kids on way home, home around 4:15-ish.

GlamGiraffe · 12/09/2019 23:55

Working both office based and at home. Completely variable.
Kids aged 17 and 2 years old.
Can be starting work ( at home at 4.30am or leaving for office at 6.30) may get home from office any time up to 9pm, will work up until 2.30am at home often.
Its horrendous at the moment.
I also travel for work.

blaaake · 12/09/2019 23:56

Leave at 9:30, get home around 5 (generally though as I own my business so can work when I want to). Kids are 17, 15, 11 and 9.

Frequency · 13/09/2019 00:06

Various jobs, mostly shift work, some self-employed, some employed. I leave and come home at various times day and night. I work morning shifts (6am-2pm) Day shift (8am-6pm) Evenings (4pm-10pm) Nights (8-pm to 6am or 10pm-8am or 10pm-9am) or I work self-employed 11am ish-3pm ish or in my ex-job 5pm-midnight. I regularly do double shifts or split shifts.

I leave approx 30 minutes before I start and get home 30 minutes after I finish. My kids are 12 and almost 16. I have a shit-tonne of family support. When I'm on nights my youngest sleeps at my mums, my oldest sleeps at my sisters. When I'm on lates my mum pops around at 9-ish and checks doors are locked, kids are home, curtains are closed etc. They get themselves up for school when I'm on earlies and I call to check they're up if I get chance.

Episcomama · 13/09/2019 00:11

Leave at 7:45, back by 5:00.

HomeEdRocks18 · 13/09/2019 00:23

On a Sunday I leave my house at 08.40am and arrive at work at 08.45am.
I leave at 15.05pm and arrive home at 15.10pm.
On a weekday I leave my house at 14.40 and arrive at 14.45pm.
I leave work at 21.05 and arrive home at 21.10pm.
Children are 16,15 and 7.
The 15 yr old looks after the youngest on weekdays until their Dad is home from work at 18.30pm. He gets paid for babysitting.

TooManyPaws · 13/09/2019 00:30

Just over 7 hours per day; flexi working so core hours are between 1000 and 1600. Thirty-five minute drive each way door to door. I could start at 0800 and finish at 1600 or start at 1000 and finish at 1800.

ssd · 13/09/2019 09:17

I'm in awe at some of the long days a lot of you do with kids.
My friend has a baby and is considering a job with a long commute, but going by a lot of these answers her day would be normal.

OP posts:
Singlebutmarried · 13/09/2019 09:20

4 days 10-2 but out of the house 8:30 - 3:30

Am increasing my hours but unsure whether to do a couple of longer days or give up my ‘day off’

Youngandfree · 13/09/2019 09:28

I leave the house at 8.15 to drop my dc to school at 8.30 and then I go to work and arrive for 8.45. Work (I’m a teacher) starts at 9 for me and finishes at 2.40. I leave school at 3.15 most days and collect dc for 3.30. Home for 3.45. Sometimes I leave at 3.30 and we’re home for 4.00

StrictlyComeMarie · 13/09/2019 09:30

6:15 I leave the house
20:00 I get home

DC are 16, 9 and 4

Fatted · 13/09/2019 09:37

I work flexi time so it's not always the same. I do longer days when it's needed, so will go in earlier when DH is off work and he picks up the kids a couple of nights a week too. Kids are 4 and 6, youngest just started school. We have a childminder who does school pick up and tea after school.

Typical day is
8.45 drop kids at school
9ish leave the house
9.30 ish get to work
5ish leave work
5.30 ish pick kids up
5.45 ish get home
If I do a longer day, earliest I leave is 7.30 am and latest I get home is 7.30 pm