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.

If we’re counting from leaving home to arriving back - both my parents as junior docs in the 80s / 90s has separate incidents where they pulled over on the drive home as they were too tired to drive safely, slept a few hours in the car then back to work.

Recently - 4am start for a flight, day trip to Europe for conference and then bastarding stuck thanks to Ryan Air. Didn't get home until gone midnight and I only live 20 min for airport

In my 20s - I used to work 2 jobs and go straight from a 10 hr night shift to an 8 hr day job. I used to sleep on the bus and in my breaks but don't remember it as that awful.

56 hour shift. Also regular 28 hour shifts. Never been so tired and hungry due to lack of breaks!

Not including travel.

School journey.
Arrived at school at 8am on Monday, left the premises on Friday at around 5.30pm, and pretty much 6.30am until midnight every day inbetween - with a few night-time skirmishes as well.

I've never really had a super long day at work, because I'm self employed so manage my time so that I don't have days like that. But sometimes projects take longer than expected and I've spent 12hrs solid at my laptop - not recommended, but absolutely nothing in comparison to some on here!

Used to regularly do a breakfast shift (6:45am start) and then work the close (11:30pm-1am depending on how busy it was) with a couple of hours off to eat/smoke 800 cigarettes and then back in for breakfast the next day. Good old hospitality!

Just thought of another time when I did a night shift (8pm-7am) and one of the day staff didn't turn up so I stayed until they could get cover. Which was about 1am IIRC.

Routinely - out of the house 7am (or 6 if I was super keen to get the first bus), usually not back until last bus that got in at 10.25pm. I rotor for this 2 or 3 days a week.

In my current job I do 15 hour days at no notice a few days a year. The longest was 8am-7pm, home to write up and got called out again 8pm-10am.

1pm that should say

Many years ago I used to do overnight on calls (no facility to sleep there, had to it from home about 25 min drive away)

I worked an ordinary day 8am-4pm

Got home and called back at 6pm. Finished about 9pm. Called back 1am for about an hour then back home. Called back 3am, home 4am. Called back 5am-7am.

Not worth going home again so had an hours doze on a staff room chair until the day shift arrived at 7:45am. Went to my usual ward to start an ordinary day. Crashed out at 2pm and had to go home.

I used to be cabin crew and regularly did 10+ hour flights.

Travel to work (car) - 2 hours
Pre check in brief/safety checks - 1.5 hours
Flight to Singapore - 13 hours
Airport- hotel - 1.5 hours

Factor in jet lag and vile passengers and it definitely feels like double that 😂

I once worked a 17 hour day when working behind a bar at a festival. Got up a few hours later and repeated it all over again.

Hostess for a coach company that did overseas holidays. 22 hour journey between London and French Riviera. Sometimes there was a seat available to take a quick nap while the passengers were sleeping. But inevitably one of them would want a 4am pot noodle.
Back in the 80s.

I'm a nurse so 12.5 hours is standard. Occasional working over, not as much as when I first qualified. Mixture of a well run unit and my better time management over the years.

I have done a few 24 hours shifts when night staff haven't turned up, usually due to shitty weather.

I also do 12.5 hour shifts. Only 3 days a week though. It suits me well

Worked in senior support (back office) role in investment banking....all nighters....leaving early evening the next day

Once a month or so 745am til 10pm, which is a school day plus an evening meeting. Once a year school residential 8am Monday to 4pm Friday-you are on duty all the time, often very enjoyable, but huge responsibility too

If travel counts, then last year I left home at 4pm, drove 2 hours to the airport, 3 hours later got on a plane, 14 hours later off plane, 2 hour wait, on next plane for 10 hours, arrived hotel at 7am, had a shower, went to work, finished at 11pm. After a couple of weeks of meetings in various places I got up at 6, worked till 5pm, changed, to airport and back again.

Without travel, conference days are mad. Get up at 5.30, full face of makeup, bombproof hair, 6.30 breakfast meeting, 8am on the booth, talk to customers till 6 (some it is 7-7), then more meetings. One day I was still having technical discussions at 1am, and then back up the next morning to do it again

Nurse using public transport
Left at 5am, worked until 9, got home around 10.30. I walked about eight miles at work!

24 hours working. Noon to noon. Plus commute. So 26 hours. Supposedly we could sleep in the middle

Homeless shelter.

Been out of the hotel industry for a long while now, but used to work in a central London hotel and do 12 noon 'till 12 noon Duty Manager shifts, then go into own department 'till 5 or 6pm. Lucky if we got a snooze in an office chair. Regularly did late onto early shift too. Hopefully it's changed.

I did 3 months solid of 8am til 11pm M-F. 3 meals a day in the office: taxi home every night. That was really shit as I literally had no life at all.

But worst was I think being in the office 48 hours straight and sleeping in the floor for an hour.

My husband once went to work on a Monday and didn’t come home til Friday night. They had beds in the office but he rarely got more than 3 hours. Both lawyers in private practice in the 2000s.

Life has calmed down but I still occasionally do 15-18 hour days and my external lawyers will frequently work til 2-3am to close a deal for us.

Polling clerk, 6.30am to 11pm

About 4 weeks ago.

Left the house at 6am, got home 6pm. Carried on working, went to bed 2am.

Back in work at 7am. Ugh, that week was awful.