[Closed] Wouldn't you like 9-5

7 - 4 for me !

No it's not the best example of a Saab 😆

A couple of friends work this way and have loads of family time, and even quite a few family members, family events I tend to find im at work (not a bad thing!!) sometimes and yep during the summer I find the evenings are a lost time as im and my OH are at work, even the early shifts we get once a week at most tend to 7-6.

Go self employed? I usually work 10-5, 5 days a week.

I have worked very hard over the years to get a job where I don't need to work hard.
I wised up to the whole work life balance thing ,long before it became a trendy buzz phrase.
As Renton said "Choose life" .

Self employed FTW. 9-5 would be awful! 😛

I work bang on 9-5 as standard, with a bit of flexibility either way for me and the company. Works well for us both, lots of holidays, nice long evenings, short commute. Could do with more money mind!

I worked Monday to Friday and now work shifts (16 years) would hate to go back to Monday to Friday.

8-4 for me

8 till 4.30 on quiet sites.
The 8 is always met but the 4.30 is flexible so longs I don't take the piss. Was pedalling in the woods by 5 pm tonight 8)

The same old shit every day would destroy me, that's why I'm a consultant. Sucks to be away from home though similarly.

I was a contractor for the first four years of my marriage, at the same place doing the same job. I can hardly remember those years - they just trundled by in a haze, because they were just so samey. The next 4 years seems to have been packed with adventure and eventfulness.

I'll get up at half 8 tomorrow, start at half 9 finish at 5 and be home for 5.15! Tis quite good I must admit. I'm not that well paid mind. But I'm not that fussed either, I earn enough. 🙂 I'd work less if I could!

I work between 7am and 5:30am.
Anything between 4 and 17.5hrs.
I don't mind, but having a minimum number of hours a week would be nice.

8-3.30, but I don't bother with a lunch break as such.

I wouldn't mind it sometimes but my shifts have their perks. For example I'm working this bank holiday Monday and worked the previous one, but I've just had 4 days off (without booking any extra time off) and will also have 3 days off this coming weekend. Bank holidays are normally crap anyway. I'd rather have the day off in lieu.

Whats going to work?

Working from home for yourself FTW, though next week I am away for 3 days but at least it's somewhere nice.

I'm self employed but one of the jobs I'm on is run by a clock watcher, so, even of I finish everything he's asked me to do that day, I still have to sit there until 5.30.

It hardly makes me want to crack on, more just like plod on, I don't get it.

I'd rather a 6.30 til 2 with a 30min paid lunch.

Ta.

How'd about a [s]spell[/s] rest at HMRC ?
Almost no chance of being sacked
Short hours
Incompetence expected
Interpersonal skills not required
Decision making and personal accountability not tolerated

How hard can it be ?

I'm definitely doing something wrong! I'm Self employed and seem to work 7:30-5 most days!

Simple, become a teacher, 9 - 3:30. Or a close second, a public servant, 9 - 4:30 with a guaranteed pension. 🙂

i do 7 - 15:30 mon to thurs and 7 - 12:30 fri 8)

means i'm up at 5.30 every day but i don't mind that - i'm also in bed about 22:00 though!

rebel12 - Member
Simple, become a teacher, 9 - 3:30. Or a close second, a public servant, 9 - 4:30 with a guaranteed pension.

Why stop there, unemployed! Just make sure your up for Jeremy Kyle (or Sky+ it)

Simple, become a teacher, 9 - 3:30. Or a close second, a public servant, 9 - 4:30 with a guaranteed pension.

Aye very good 8-6 days then 6-8 nights no extra payments for weekend night work and pay £400 a month into my non guaranteed pension

I do 10-5 but have to work 4 days a week.

7am - 5pm Mon - Fri.
No weekends, home by 5.10pm.
No worries, sleep at night.
Paid holidays and bonus.
Was self employed, worked my nuts off, could never relax.

Working from home for yourself FTW

Not for me, wouldn't be happy shitting where I eat. I'm much happy on 7-4, 7-11.30 on Fridays then being able to completely ignore work till it starts again

maybe legend but work is always in and out of my head regardless of where I have been so being able to nip out for a 2hr ride at lunchtime works well.

No ta!

28 days of varying hours, up to 12 in every 24.
Followed by 28 days of zero hours.

😀

I work 9-5 for 3 to 4.5 weekdays, no weekend work. Always work a Friday though as the office closes at 4.
My jobs give me no stress, with no requirements or expectations to even think about them outside of working hours.

Finished at 2 yesterday and had a nice bike ride.

I worked 7.30-15.30 Mon-Fri, retired now and still get up about 6.00, always liked to get going early

[i]Simple, become a teacher, 9 - 3:30.[/i]

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my wife does absence cover for her school. Absence reporting mobile goes on at 06:30, usually 2 or 3 calls by 7 o'clock. Leaves home at 7.

Yesterday there was a team meeting after school and she got home at 7. she then did an hours work after tea.

Day before that it was 6:30 due to staff meeting and a call to a social worker.

Today is parents evening, she'll be home by 9 I expect although she didn't leave until 7:15 this morning so we got a lie in.

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8.30 till 5.00 in the office, with lunch breaks of an ever increasing length. Site work, 6.00 till 6.00 at least, if you include flying days more like 4.40 to 1900ish. Saying that I can usually blag a few midweek riding days after a site trip.

9.45-5.30 here, people in my office aren't good at mornings.

8:30 to 5:00 for me. Sometimes need to work over to get stuff done, did bit if weekend work but do get the odd early finish it I'm out if the office. It's kind of accepted that you win some and you lose some.

I tend to do more hours in twhe winter when the weather is crap. I try and get out in time in the summer for riding or just getting out and doing stuff outdoors.

Smug civil servant here, flexitime usually working 8-4 to miss the worst of the traffic.

Today I'm working in Stoke so just pulled up round the corner from my first call, last call booked for 3.45, should be home by 5. Tomorrow I have to pick up the kids from school, will only do 7.30 till 2.30.

Haha I'll bite too. My gf is a teacher, she's at work 7.30 till 5.30/ 6 most days, some days alot later plus working at home in the evening and at weekends, and replying to emails, parents evenings, exam prep after school etc.

it's such an easy job!

I work a random shift pattern where any hour between 5am and 2am is considered fair game. 2 in 5 weekends. Time off through the week when no-one else has time off. Compulsory OT on days I'm supposed to be off.

Working from home alleviates the worst of it but I can't say I'd recommend it.

Best shift is 6-2, especially in the summer. Still light when you get up and feels like a day off once you've finished.

8.30 - 4.30 for me, 5 days a week.
Rarely work much over when i'm in the office, but when i'm travelling or out on site anything goes - day trip to Glasgow for a meeting can be a 16 hour day.

Pay is reasonable for the job, and I get a company car/laptop/iPhone/bonus/healthcare/reasonable pension

My wife is a teacher - she works many more hours than me, for less money, and gets next to no perks.

as a publican, the 9 - 5 sound sounds pretty appealing! But, after a couple of years, things are now starting to swing slowly in favour of life, rather than work work work.

Generally get a few hours to kill in the afternoon, so do get some time for recreation, but the arrival of our daughter has pretty much stopped that for the moment!

I work 9-5 on the dot. I realised a few years ago that I'm not more productive working longer hours and probably only have 6 productive hours a day in me, so any more time spent at work is merely for show.

10 - 3 for me, but obviously not every day, and definitely not in school holiday time 😀

The tedium of 9-5 would do my brain in. I work when I have to and usually a 10-12hr day on a shoot day but about 8-9hrs when sat in front of computer editing/retouching unless there's a deadline.
Currently still under the duvet typing this on ipad as I'm slacking today but happy to get up 5-6am and do a long day when needed. Been very busy and working most weekends so I still do a 50-60 hr week