Anyone here do 100 hour work weeks regularly?

[wavycrocket]

It frustrates me that in 2015 with all this advanced technology some managers still think you need to be in the office to do Excel docs.

QFT.

Makes zero sense. I'm much more productive when I'm comfortable in my own house, and not looking over my shoulder or making small talk.

 

[avthegod]

doing the math my work week is 6 days from 8am till roughly 9pm 

roughly 80hrs weekly. 

now as mentioned before i dont really do any back breaking work like construction and etc.

though i do work hands on in diffrent industries (i juggle a few businesses)

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

QFT.

Makes zero sense. I'm much more productive when I'm comfortable in my own house, and not looking over my shoulder or making small talk.

Bruh...my Coworkers spend at least 2 hrs a day just on small talk. **** is wild distracting. Rather be at the crib with some peace and quiet.

 

[Xennial]

Bruh...my Coworkers spend at least 2 hrs a day just on small talk. **** is wild distracting. Rather be at the crib with some peace and quiet.

2 hours is not that much.  I know a lot of people that spend 4-6 hours a day socializing in the office

 

[letsgetit22]

Should've mentioned this before, but when y'all talk about 60 hour work weeks do you mean all 60 hrs in the office?

If you have a laptop and you spend 20-25 of those hours at home, that's much more reasonable in my book. It frustrates me that in 2015 with all this advanced technology some managers still think you need to be in the office to do Excel docs.

Yeah, that might be more reasonable.

I don't take my laptop home, when I leave work, I'm finished for the day. When I do take it home, I'm probably going to work from home the next day. I don't think about work when I leave the office. Whatever I didn't finish, has to wait till the next day. My director at my last job always said... "don't kill yourself making another person's dream a reality."

 

[wj4]

Should've mentioned this before, but when y'all talk about 60 hour work weeks do you mean all 60 hrs in the office?

If you have a laptop and you spend 20-25 of those hours at home, that's much more reasonable in my book. It frustrates me that in 2015 with all this advanced technology some managers still think you need to be in the office to do Excel docs.

I did both. We had laptops. My workplace was only 8 miles away so sometimes I would go in because VPN speed is dog slow to get work done if I need to access the systems.

2 hours is not that much.  I know a lot of people that spend 4-6 hours a day socializing in the office

My team used to love doing 2 hour lunches. That would make the workday 10 hours easily.

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

2 hours is not that much.  I know a lot of people that spend 4-6 hours a day socializing in the office

Honestly, anything over 15 minutes is too much for me. I'm forced to stretch my days out, if I had a laptop and could just leave when I was "done" I'd be out by 3pm 90% of the time.

 

[wavycrocket]

Honestly, anything over 15 minutes is too much for me. I'm forced to stretch my days out, if I had a laptop and could just leave when I was "done" I'd be out by 3pm 90% of the time.

Are we the same person? . This is me all the way.

There's this older white lady that I dread seeing in the morning getting into the elevator. I'm cool with the small talk, but she will literally talk to me for 20 minutes straight about chocolate at 8:30 in the morning before we even get to our desks. Don't even get to put my bag down or turn on the CPU

And I'm always done my work by like 3pm...but have to "look like I'm working" for the renaming 2 1/2 hours. It's more work looking like your working, than actually working.

 

[dc777]

I've worked 120-130 at least twice this year. I work regularly about 55-60 hours and that's not even including my side business I do on the weekends. You get used to it but hopefully next year I can finally enjoy a 40 hour work week. #thestruggle

 

[nycknicks105]

Never understood the allure of working from home. I enjoyed walking to work and being around a team where we got to communicate and bounce ideas off one another.

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

Never understood the allure of working from home. I enjoyed walking to work and being around a team where we got to communicate and bounce ideas off one another.

Commuting.

Traffic/public transit in DC are both subpar. I spend 30-45 minutes a day and $200/ month just getting to and from work. Plus my coworkers are more distracting than helpful, especially with this new semi open office setup.

 

[antidope]

My old job used to allow me to work from home Mondays and Fridays and it was nice to get a late start to the week and early start to the weekend with the commute being subtracted.

At my current firm though I will never have that luxury, I log into VPN on the weekends and at night to take care of small things but there are two primary functions that you aren't allowed to do through the VPN that basically make it impossible to work from home.

And like nycknicks I don't really mind it. I'm better off in the office than at home.

 

[youngdoc]

Had 100 hour weeks as an intern but never averaged that. My worst month was probably 90, even though we weren't supposed to average more than 80 over a 4 week period

 

[Nujavez]

Only worked one week of 100 hours. 2 full time jobs and did overtime for one of them during the weekend.

Spoiler

Been working 7 days a week since end of May this year.
Working Fulltime for 2 jobs. One as a meter reader walking/hiking 5-10 miles a day from, Monday to Friday. Then working at a busy fast food restaurant at the airport Wednesday to Sunday. Both physical jobs.

When I work both jobs on same dayI work from 6-7am to 3pm then work my other job 5pm to midnight. Then sleep for like 3 or 4 hours.

Been crazy experience. Boutta end this week

Always wondered how people did it. But I did it..

 

[c hanna]

@gatorad3

respect that man

 

[PRIME]

I work about 18 hours a day 6 days a week. We started a company though. Me and my friend, and we run a farm together.

A farm huh?

Black angus

Peppered?

 

[mplsdunk]

I work about 18 hours a day 6 days a week. We started a company though. Me and my friend, and we run a farm together.

A farm huh?

Black angus

Peppered?

Is this nt? Of course.

 

[SHERLOCK87]

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[teegeebee]

I work about 70 hrs a week Monday thru sat I couldn't imagine workin a 100 hrs that's way to much

 

[jking0821]

No way id work 100 hours a week. A busy week for me would be 60 hours at work. But when you compute my time "not at home" its a lot.

50 min commute to work
70 min commute home
at work for 9 hours

So total time occupied by my job is about 11 hours a day. 55 hours a week.

 

[capital sb]

I work 40 hours a week currently, I could never see myself doing more than 50 hours. To the people working 60+ hours making 150K+ it should be really easy for you to retire early.

There are people retiring early on a 100K salary.

@nycknicks105  Very interesting and impressive story. I had no ideas engineers were going into IB, how did you even manage to get into the field with an engineer background?

Did you work with any other people with engineering backgrounds?

 

[gwap]

 
There are people retiring early on a 100K salary.

gotta be living in ohio for that....

in LA/the bay 100k is middle class

 

[nycknicks105]

delete

 

[capital sb]

gotta be living in ohio for that....

in LA/the bay 100k is middle class

It's all about keeping expeses low and saving/investing your money 100K won't do it in LA though. I'm confident I will retire from corporate by 40 at the latest.

nycknicks105 Wow wish I would have known this I would have really considered the IB career. As you know engineers are only told about specific career paths and IB was never mentioned lol. You are literally the first engineer I've heard about that went into IB.

 

[nycknicks105]

Never understood the allure of working from home. I enjoyed walking to work and being around a team where we got to communicate and bounce ideas off one another.

Commuting.

Traffic/public transit in DC are both subpar. I spend 30-45 minutes a day and $200/ month just getting to and from work. Plus my coworkers are more distracting than helpful, especially with this new semi open office setup.

I've always lived a few blocks from my office. The walk to work would at max be 10 minutes.

I work 40 hours a week currently, I could never see myself doing more than 50 hours. To the people working 60+ hours making 150K+ it should be really easy for you to retire early.
There are people retiring early on a 100K salary.

@nycknicks105
 Very interesting and impressive story. I had no ideas engineers were going into IB, how did you even manage to get into the field with an engineer background?
Did you work with any other people with engineering backgrounds?

It's not uncommon to see engineers go into IB. Even though the educational background is very different from someone who majored in finance, the thinking process required to succeed in IB is very similar to how an engineer thinks. When I was in my first year, we had about 4 other engineers in my analyst class.

Besides, a lot of the work bankers do is based on some form of math or numerical figure. For example, if you're looking for values such as Enterprise Value Multiples, you should be able to get a ballpark number in your head while working on a valuation model to make the job easier. You're going to struggle big time if you can't work with numbers in your head. They have time to teach you the finance side of things, but they don't have time to teach you the math.

Now don't get me wrong. You don't have to be a math wiz or have a firm understanding of differential equations to be a banker. It's just a lot easier if you're good at math.