If you have children in their 20's, how many hours a week on average do they work?

[thelionkim]

Just that really

Ds1 24 about 40

dd 21 about 50+

ds2 20 hasn’t started work yet

36 hours over 4 days, so almost full time.

At that age I did 37.5hrs standard (NHS) plus overtime which was typically 5-12 extra.

At the time house prices were going up faster than I was saving (2004ish) so I just dedicated 9 months to it, and absolutely hammered it working 70+ hrs a week. Normal NHS job plus my normal overtime, plus oncall, plus job in a pub. Was horrid. I was permanently run down, always low-level ill and grotty, I missed friends significant birthdays, didn't go on holiday and had no social life whatsoever. Soul destroying but worth it.

About 50 (teacher)

i am in my 20s… I work as a part time teacher so 28 - 35 hours in term time and about 5-10 hours a week in the holidays. my partner works in a hospital and works 35 - 45 hours a week 😊

Between 40 and 50. He is 21 and In his final months of an apprenticeship as a electrician.

20 yo DD works 37 hours a week, Civil Service. Doing very nicely, thank you, and saving hard for a house!

40 hours plus (pub manager) 26
40 hours (teacher In special Ed school) term time and does extra respite during holidays- 22

dd1 - 37
dd2 - out of work at the moment used to work 37 hours a week
ds - works part-time at uni anything between 4 hours to 36 depending on shift patterns and holidays. The usual is 12-18 from what I recall him saying.
dd3 At uni not currently working but actively looking for a job.

They are all in their 20s apart from dd3 who will be 20 later this year.

Mine are in their 30s now but they all had decent part time jobs while they were in full time education and apart from about three weeks when my DS was 19, they’ve all worked full time since leaving school. Contracts probably 35-40 hours a week, in practice my eldest tends to do more like 60 hours.

She has three jobs so 50 plus I think 🤷‍♀️

20yo DD working abroad. Can do anything up to 105 hours in a week, depends if she is on a charter where the guests are demanding! She's very well compensated for it though!

In my late twenties and I work 28 hours at my ‘day job’, then I work 2-3 evenings a week on a small business I run from home which can add another 10hours or so to make it up to full-time hours. I find this split keeps me interested in both jobs and I get a good professional/creative balance.

DS - early career researcher - I reckon 50-60ish but he had also been working on his book.

DD - 40/45 secondary school teacher (SEN).

Their partners, one 40/45; the other 50Ish.

One works 37.5 - although quite a lot more this month as is a particularly busy month at their work, but will get it back in lieu hours.

One - it will depend what shift they are on - they work 9.5 (ish) hour shifts for 6 days then in theory have 4 days off, but in practice, do a lot of overtime and sometimes work a double (so 18 hours). So difficult to say in a 'per week' count.

One - still a student, so depends if you mean in term time (usually about 20) or in holiday time (quite a lot more, but will take whatever is there on a zero hours so varies week to week).

Can you tell us why you are specifically asking about those in their 20s @thelionkim ?

Career dependent surely? I supervise an early career teacher in his 20s and he definitely works 60+ hours which is pretty standard. I'd assume junior doctors and other comparable careers would be similar in their 20s.

Jobs to tide them over in their 20s, until they found their career would probably be less hours.

Daughter 25, works about 20-30 hours a week - her friends all the same, they prioritise a work life balance over full time or long hours (not saying that's a bad thing, I have more than full time hours)

Son while student no paid work in term time but 40 hours per week in the summer - now 40 hours plus a bit of overtime when needed a year post graduation.

Daughter couple of hours a week while student (tutoring - good pay and easy to fit round placement). 25 hours + per week in holidays, depending on what she could get. Just graduated, currently working 37 hours a week over 3 jobs, will be 20 ish hours a week in September plus similar again volunteering - she's doing a gap year volunteering part time after uni rather than before. Of she has gone straight into a full time post it would probably be 50 hours a week plus.

DS going into final year of full time and demanding degree

40 hours over summer in temp job and been looking forna second job to save more money so he doesn’t have to work so much in final year of study

after graduating, another year of study to actually get a job which will be around 50-60 hours min a week! Crazy really

Ds1 25 works 50-60 hours per week
Ds2 24 works 50 hours per week

Oldest - 60-70
Second - 60-70
Third - 60-70
4 and 5 - students, currently working 35-40 hour p/w summer jobs.

Both mine at Uni, one works 10 hours a week, the other 15. Both have the option of more hours sometime which they take. The one working mainly 10 hours a week has a job that should benefit when looking for a job after graduation so worth keeping.

My dd 21 works 32 hrs a week. But she had some health issues and some anxiety issues during her teens and there were times I thought she'd never work, so I'm quite content for her to plod along at the moment. I know she has a good work ethic (and boy, does she love a payday!) so I've no doubt she'll increase hours once her strength and confidence increase.

Both full time

5, 8 hour shifts in holidays, 2 during term time.