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 have done the odd all nighter in the past - arrived at work in the morning and worked through until the afternoon of the following day. I was temping and being paid by the hour, and got double time for overtime so got ££. Drank red bull to keep awake.

I did 8am to 3am when I was on a bill team and was in ping pong between the commons and the lords.

Our Minister opened a bottle of champagne once we got it through at 3am but unfortunately I was pregnant with DS so couldn't join in!

When I was a student I once did my own shift then covered a colleagues leave. 16 hours on a Saturday (8 hours time and a half, 8 hours triple time) 8 hours off then 16 hours on the Sunday (8 hours double time, 8 hours double double time (time x 4)). 5am -9pm both days, don't think it'd be allowed now. Happy days .

Barring a couple of school trips involving over night stays. Where you don't have much if any down time.

Also been on courses where the course is in a different part of the country so get home past 11pm

The longest day I've had at actual work is 12 .5 hours. Start at 8am to 8:30 due to an open evening.

Including travel - left home at 11am Sunday morning to travel to Heathrow, to travel to San Fran but the only flight I could get was via LA (11.5 hrs) with a 3 hr layover, 1.5 hr flight to SFO, pick up my car and drive to my hotel. By which point it is 7am UK time (8am in Amsterdam) and my team there had come online and needed help. Then UK team came online and by the time any issues were sorted it wasn't worth going to bed before getting up to go to the SF office for 9am meetings. By the time I'd get back to the hotel at 6pm SF time I'd done a 27 hr day. This was a quarterly occurrence (albeit without the layover) and one of the reasons I don't do that job anymore)

6am to 2am.
Often do 7am - midnight during summer months. Can do a fair few of these in a row if there's sunshine and rain forecast.

Dh occasionally works 7am -5pm then 9pm-4am for a few nights if there's problems.

My dad will often start at 4am then have a quick afternoon snooze between 1-4 before working on till 12am.

I'm a farmer.

Before kids I worked in Corporate Finance in The City. When closing a deal we'd start at 7.30-8am then work all day and all through the night. Working all night wasn't seen as an excuse for taking the next day off so we'd end up working until 8pm, a total of 36+ hours!

Call centre - started work at 12pm, went home at 8am the next morning.

Should have gone home at 9pm but volunteered to cover on the night shift.

8am til 2am working as a waitress/kitchen porter at a wedding when I was at uni because my relief didn't turn up. I absolutely loved it, got £££ and leftover wedding food/cake and wine!

As a house officer, I regularly did a 50 hour shift which started first thing on Saturday morning and finished mid-morning on the Monday (after the ward round). No protected break time during those 50 hours.

Up at 4:30 am in Netherlands- flew to UK, all day meeting till 4pm picked up a colleague, flew to Germany, drove till 10:30, ate in hotel restaurant with colleague , went to bed at 11:30. So not the length of day but the travel.
would not be allowed to do it now for health and safety reasons- plus am older so just too knackered to do stuff like that.

Oh I’ve just remembered school residential trips! A week of being on duty.

@Fedup21 mine is Ofsted too, got the nod that we should expect the notice any day as they were hitting schools in the area, did 11 days in a row starting at 7am and leaving between 9.30 and 11pm.

7.30am through til 4am the next day - I worked in consultancy for one of the big 4 and we were delivering a client report. I could barely see I was so tired. Cherry on the cake was boss announcing that we could all come in at 9am the next (i.e. same!) day instead of the usual 8am...

9pm start, finished midnight the next evening. Journalist doing night shift then sent to Paris on first Eurostar when Diana died. Weirdest thing was being on the train with people reading the Sunday papers who thought she was injured, not dead, as their paper was first edition.

longest ever - start at 5am, finish at 1am when I worked at events. That was working hours without travel.

Longest in current job - including travel, leave the house at 5.15am, get home at 11pm. Mainly because of train issues on way home.

Working for haven, short staffed over a bank holiday weekend. 18 hour shift Friday, Saturday and Sunday, only 2 fifteen minute breaks each day. Every time I complained to the manager for more breaks I got told ‘well no one else has had time for breaks either’, like that actually made it ok. I quit very shortly after

Same as WildWaterSwimmer - was a junior lawyer on those corporate finance deals! - 36 + hours when closing deals and 100 hour working weeks the norm. I still have a VERY warped work/life balance as a result, even though I left corporate law years ago.

I once pulled an all nighter so worked 9am through to 5.30am next day. Went home, showered, ate, straight back to office and did an all day meeting 9 until 5pm no breaks. No idea how now. My client the second day commented that I was unusually direct and seemed to be trying to chivvy everyone on to reach a quick agreement!

I started an early shift at 7am after a 5.30am wake up; worked the late shift because the late shift nurse called in sick and there were no agency available and then worked until 10.30 because the night shift nurse forgot she'd booked to work. Got home 11.30pm.

I’m a foster carer. If I have teens an a newborn it’s literally 24/7. If it’s a baby withdrawing from drugs it can be hourly feeding, waiting up till 2 am for a missing teen and managing meetings, family contact and training during the day, with no allowances made for sleep deprivation, illness or personal issues ( such as my own parent dying). In nearly 20 years I have had 3 nights off.

Regularly do 24 hour shifts in care.

27 hours was a standard 'night' at the start of my career, normal 9-5, then into A&E 5pm-9am, then 9am-12pm sitting with radiologists helping them report the films done overnight. In theory you could sleep if not busy between midnight and morning but in reality it was a very busy hospital and between ITU/CCU/NICU/theatre etc etc there wasn't a lot of sitting down.

Then smaller hospital and you worked 9-5 Friday, on call 5pm Friday - 9am Monday then 9-5pm worked on Monday. In winter when small ones chests suffer you could put a lot of hours in without a meaningful break. Happy days they were, I certainly could earn a lot of money if everything timed itself right.

As a city analyst there were regular all nighters but the worst was going into work at 7am Monday and leaving at 10am Wednesday.

Leaving for USA 5am on Monday, returning to UK 2pm on Friday. Corporate transaction went South, and was working UK, US and Far East hours round the clock; I think I had 4x3 hours sleep in the whole period. I woke up and cried to my boss that I’d missed a whole meeting, only to find my clock was on the wrong time zone.