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.

36 hours with no sleep getting a diy store ready to open. I was a lot lot younger.

There are a lot of nurses and doctors on this thread 🤔

I doubt there will be any longer than the shifts done by the older doctors on here.
Years ago I would work 8am Friday until (supposedly) 5pm Monday. I remember one particularly brutal job I did where I never got more than 2 hours sleep each night and then had an endoscopy list on the Monday which would routinely go on until 8pm. You would get some sleep, but no protected sleep/ breaks. I also had a baby at home. That job almost broke me.

Thankfully, things have changed a lot and those conditions aren’t allowed any more. I am sometimes working all day and night now, so may be awake 24-36 hours, but then that’s it, I go to sleep and if elective activity can’t be covered by someone else, it is cancelled.

8am-5.30am not including travel. Setting up for and then running an event. An 87 hour week of hell I repeat yearly.

Frequently did all nighters in the 90s
Can't imagine doing that now

8am -11.30pm without travel, 30 mins each way. Working in A&E way before working time directive etc

An AFD, starting at 09.00 and finishing at 03.00.

Incredibly complex software deployment. Started 11am Saturday and finished 4pm Sunday. Had 2 x 90 minute breaks in that. Back in work at 5:30am the following day for testing something that was at a fixed time.

Work in IT, so have done a lot of all nighters - either for projects or on call.

Can remember 3 months into first proper job - started 7:30 am in office (so left house 7am), worked through to 5:30am next day (only breaks for toilet) back in office at 9:30 (shouted at for being late!!!) and continued to 11pm.

All for a standard on call rate - you were winning if there were no issues, losing if there were!

One memorable day as a trainee lawyer I worked about 32 hours straight. All-nighters were fairly frequent. Thankfully any mistakes were ultimately not my responsibility and there was no way I could end up killing someone.

@GinnieHempstock - less of the "older" thank you. 😂 Although I agree that anyone who did pre-2003 rotas will have read the title of this thread and thought to themselves "Well in my day..."
It can easily end up sounding like the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

Left at 7pm home 2 pm next day due to snow, nurse on night duty.

[quote Faircastle]@GinnieHempstock - less of the "older" thank you. 😂 Although I agree that anyone who did pre-2003 rotas will have read the title of this thread and thought to themselves "Well in my day..."
It can easily end up sounding like the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.[/quote]
😀
Sorry, I do include myself in that , if it’s any consolation.

I do sometimes have to bite my tongue not to say “well, when I was a junior...”

AFD (all fucking day) double shifts when I was waiting tables at weekends and during the holidays in my student days. We would start setting up the restaurant at 10am, service from 11 to 11, cash up after the last table had gone, then finish clearIng down. The shif5 would usually end after midnight at weekends.

It was bloody hard work, but I could double my wages in tips, so it was well worth doing. We would compete to have tables of ‘suits’ in our sections, as they were always the best tippers.

12-14 hour days standard. 7am - 7pm then an hours or so before bed.

Have worked through the night - so probably longest day was about 18 hours.

I work longer days working from home, my office closes at 8pm, and once it’s all packed away I didn’t open the laptop back up every night.

Now it’s always on🙁.

In the late 1990s I was working a 1 in 4 (on top of normal working hours you work through the night every 4th night and through the weekend every 4th weekend). My husband was working on a different firm in the same hospital, so also a 1 in 4, but the opposite rota. We conceived a child during that time, so there must have been at least one occasion when we were both at home and awake.

All night (24 hours). I used to work in publishing and once in a while had to go to see the mag coming off the press.
When we worked trade shows it was a minimum 12 hour day.
My sister used to work regular 30 hour shifts as a junior doctor.

As a junior lawyer I once started at 6am Monday morning, went home 2am Wednesday morning. Back in the office 7am Wednesday.

That was fun.

First day of a supposedly 9-5 job. Asked me to meet at 5.30 for induction, didn't get home till last 11 at night.

I didn't stay there long.

I regularly (when I was young) worked from 8.30 am Monday through to about 9pm Tuesday (and then go out!) or 8am Friday until 11pm or later Saturday.
I struggle to stay awake past 10pm now!

Harvest - started work at 7am, got on the combine at 11am, finished final field just gone 4am the following morning, so worked 22 hours and was pregnant at the time. No breaks other than getting off for an occasional wee.

Emergency Dept. Started at 8am, finished at 2am the next morning. That was exceptional but a 2230 or 2300 finish after an 8am start was not unusual.

During lockdown, regular 5am starts that finished around 10pm.

I almost had a breakdown somewhere around Easter.

When in office, I've done 7am starts finishing at 9-10pm. Thankfully live 5 minute drive from the office.

Possibly a bit outing if read with other posts but mine was an industry event that I was involved in hosting last year. 4 hour drive so left home at 5am. Full day hosting guests before quick change for full evening of hosting and events topped off with midnight party. Finally got to bed at 3am after 28000 steps in heels and formal wear. Then up at 6am to say goodbye to the guests. Absolutely exhausting but one of the best days at work I've ever had

Junior doctor - Saturday 8am til Monday 5pm. Colleagues used to cover for us on the Monday though as we could be like zombies if it had been a bad weekend.