What has been the longest shift you have done?

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I did 9 till 9 once , never again

6am to 2am, so 20 hours. Not a formal shift, just professional job, working away. Sometimes like that when on a work trip, for a few days in a row, which is a killer. I usually come home with an infection and a migraine.

3am to 19.30
Was back in at 06.00 to 17.00 the.nxt day too.
Was like a zombie and definitely not performing at my best.

I once worked 27 hours out of 36 - just before going on holiday for three weeks trying to get a number of contracts finalised.

Another time in lawyers office at 9am, left at 2.30am.

takeaway

10.30am - 1am

9am Friday morning to 5pm Monday night. Junior doctors always win these competitions!

14 hours, on a regular basis. Nursing. If I had 3 days on the trot I would literally not see my kids for 3 days then be so knackered at the end it'd take two days to feel normal again. I much preferred the old early and late style 7.5 hr shifts. I was very pissed off when they got scrapped in favour of long days.

8.30am until 12 midnight was pretty epic.
I work in a lab and when things go wrong and patients don’t get results the shit can seriously hit the fan!
This was during an IT disaster meaning every sample had to be booked in manually and analyses didn’t transmit.
Chaos!

My mum went into work in January 1982 for a 12 hour nightshift. We didn't see her againbfor 4 days due to a blizzard. As the day staff couldn't get there they did have to work most of it.

DH as a junior doctor regularly used to work much longer hours though. He trained himself to sleep almost standing up. Even now he can go and grab a Nanna nap at any time of day even though those days have long passed for both of us.

Row of 7 nights of 13+ hours covering o&g in a very busy hospital. Didn't stop through the night. Nearly killed me. I was so incoherent with tiredness I wasn't safe to drive home on the last morning and so instead got the (wrong) bus home. That's a mistake you really don't want to make at that point...

Once a month I do 80.5 hours a combination of clinics and on call. It is what it is I just do it. Independent veterinary practice will not survive unless people like me do this.
When I was an intern in the USA we did three weeks on call and on clinics and then three weeks off.

7:30am Saturday to 1pm Sunday so 29.5hrs. Locked dementia ward in the height of summer. I did a long day, then there was no qualified nurse to relieve me for the night shift or the early the next morning. Next qualified was due in 2pm Sunday but came in 2 hours early to relieve me and help with the lunchtime meds. The on call band 8 was less than useless throughout and because of the number of patients on eyesight / 15 min obs I couldn't even catch a quick power nap.

Not hard really, but I used to do 48 hours 'on duty' and sleeping in as an independent living volunteer. The person we cared for was interesting and nice, but there was so little to do. He had quite a lot of technology so didn't need much help. He would get irritated by specks of dirt on the carpet so you had to repeatedly pick them up. The worst bit was not knowing anyone else in the area, and house sharing with the other volunteer who did the opposite shift so we never got to have any other company (small village).

8am friday to 6pm monday
Old style junior dr

Started at 7:30 am finished at 12:30 am the next day. Back in the office for 7:30 the next day.

12pm until 8am the next day.

Teacher. Took students to New York and Washington. 7 days no break ( was fab and would do it again in a heartbeat)

Otherwise 12/ 13 hours on open evening days.

Including unpaid overtime and working from home online after getting in from the offics I regularly used to do 7am until 1am and back in the office again at 7am. I got paid from 9am until 4.30pm. The rest was unpaid

I now do 13 hour shifts which are piss easy in comparison. And I get paid for them all too which helps

36 hrs, but it was exceptional circumstances. in my youth in IT, we had an incident in the computer suite and had to invoke disaster recovery, there were around 12 of us there rebuilding systems and networks until it was done. I wouldn’t cope with even 12 hours nowadays!

20 hours - working at a festival - 5am Saturday til 1am Sunday. That followed a 9-5 Friday in my full time job, then 6-12am at the festival that Friday, then on the Sunday I was back in at 6am and worked through til 9pm, before being back in work at 9am on Monday.

Looking back now I don't quite believe how I managed It, but I just got on with it at the time and enjoyed the extra money. I was paid very handsomely for it due to being responsible for all of the security at the festival so I could set my own fee. Those 3 days paid for a fortnight in Florida.

9 am to 12 midnight
4pm to 7 am.

7am until 10pm at night. No breaks. I had just started a zero hour contract job. I was supposed to have a few hours break in the middle. My office called and said that someone else's work needed covering and if I didn't I could just leave.
I was a pushover at the time. I left a few weeks later when they continuously tried to threaten me with being sacked.

When I was cabin crew we sometimes did Istanbul there and back and the duty time was around 12 hours, sometimes 13 with delays, blurgh! At charter airlines, they seem to regularly do 13-15 hour days with delays.

I did 9 till 9 once , never again
I often do that shift and I quid like it it gets rid of a lot of hours in 1one go especially if I am doing different aspects if the job through our the day e.g. delivering training, doing a supervision, doing a 1:1 session with one of my case loads. It usuall6 means more time off in the week!

I'm in marketing and once, memorably, my boss was hospitalized, which meant I had to cover my event in Geneva and his in London the following day. Was up at 5am Monday to get the flight to Geneva, worked from landing until the event finished at midnight. Four hours' sleep, up at 4am to get a flight back to London leaving at 7am, and then working until 9pm Tuesday evening - so 36 hours 'on call' in 40.

I left after that when I didn't qualify for a bonus that year as I hadn't apparently gone 'above and beyond'.