What is the longest working day you have had

[JasonHHA]

Including travel etc

I would say from 7am set off , only got back at 11pm.

I worked for a London design agency in the 1990s and frequently did an all nighter. Start at 10am, finish at 7am the next day kind of thing.

I'm sure there will be hundreds of posters who can beat that.

First day of Ofsted a few years ago. In work at 6.30am, left at 9.30pm, ate and worked at home till 11.30.

Not including travel; 08:00 'til 22:45 with a half hour break, was supposed to finish at 16:30 and had to be back at 8am next day.

18 hours including 1 hour travel each way. Got home at 11pm and had to be back on shift at 6am the next morning

72 miserable hours - junior doc.
Regularly 12 hrs - GP

I did about a week of leaving home at 5.30/6am and not getting home until 10.30/11pm. Couldn't really take much of a break either.

As a senior sister in a busy A&E I once started at 8am & left at 11.30pm due to poor skill mix on the night shift (no one could safely takeover) and a busy department.

Back in my days working on a ward as a nurse. Night shift started at 9pm, massive incident during the night. Finally finished at 12pm the following day.

13.5 hour shifts were standard in my unit & given we never finished on time or got breaks I would regularly work 15/16 hour days.

Similar to @Fedup21 - Ofsted

Got in at 7am, left at 9pm. Ate dinner and showered before continuing to work well past midnight.

Then got up at 5am to do it all again.

When I first started out, arrived at work at 7 am one day and eventually crawled home at 4 am next day. Then the bastards didn't let me come in late next morning!

Started work at 7am, I was on a long day anyway so was supposed to finish at 9.15. But due to an emergency situation I ended up at working until 4am. That was a very long day.
I was supposed to be back in again at 7am the next day but thankfully got the day off.
I haven’t done a day that long since and don’t plan to do it again but regularly I regularly do 7.30-9.30 shifts.

10 hours, but on my feet, continuous physical work. Temperature in the high 30s.

When I was younger and working with horses I once did a 20 hour shift. We were at a big show, had to leave super early and the classes ran very late. Started at 4am, fell into bed on the lorry at midnight.

Add 40 minutes travel and half an hour lunch, so 11 hours.

Left at 6:30AM, home 10:30PM was my worst I think, but I had fairly regular days of starting work at 5am, going to work for 7:30, leaving at 7:30 and then working again at home. I left that job.

Someone I know in the police sometimes used to get put on a late shift ending at 2-3am and then also the day shift the next day, starting at 8am. Always seemed mad to me, I wouldn't be fit for anything after a night like that.

8am - 11:30pm as an NHS admin. There was a crisis on at the time and it was all hands on deck.

17 hours - 8am-9pm shift as a junior doctor on the medical team in A&E, the evening team was understaffed and it was busy so we stayed until 1am ish. That was in the middle of a stretch of 12 days over valentines 2016 my first year qualified. My mum used to do 36 hour shifts routinely on site though so I can’t complain!

Started at 6am (plus 45 min commute) and finished at 9.30am the following day. So 27.5 hours plus 90 min commute.

Frequently, frequently, frequently: 19 hour days and then been back in 4 hours later to do an 8 hour plus day.

Telly. It’s ALL glamour (when it’s actually being made #excludedUK #forgottenfreelancers).

Set off at 1.30pm for a 2.30pm start (woke at 6an with dc). Got a call at 10.30pm at work to say the next shift lead was ill. As I was to handover to them, protocol was that I would stay until a new shift lead could come in. Contacted shift leads, best I got was 7am. 24hour operation (hotel).

I worked til 5am when a member of staff came on duty (early to support me) then took myself off to a bedroom to nap til the 7am shift lead started. Handover took 30 mins. Drove home. Arrived 8.30am.

I have done from 7am to 10;30pm, no night nurse to take over. I was anticipating a 24 hour shift when someone stepped in at the last minute.

Never get a break on any shift and do 12.5 hour shift as standard.

Last week. 8am to 6pm the next day.

Should add, the 8 hour day on 4 hours sleep would be 8 hours minimum and we’d be doing a live TV show.

A lawyer friend just did a 25 hour day working from home with her husband bringing food to her desk.
As a junior doctor my 12 hour shifts would often be 14 but it was the 9 hour shifts routinely being 12 hours which wore me down.
Glad to be on GP now where the days can still be long but no night shifts and I can work set days.

24 hours straight, in the rag trade

As a junior lawyer lots of all nighters

More recently plenty of international travel that means 28+ hrs on the go .