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Depends on how much I'm getting paid and how enjoyable the job is. I've done 60-80 hour weeks for months straight (I took weekends off, just worked long days) and it wasn't sustainable and led to burnout. I've found I'm able to get more done on shorter weeks anyway, but this is job dependent.
I've done ten hour days, usually including weekends, for years. Whether or not it is sustainable largely depends on everything else--how long is your commute, do you have children you need to care for, or other obligations?
I've always found it odd the people who insist that they can't work ten hour days and yet spend an hour+ commuting. Is it not the same thing?
Delivering groceries, my average workday is 10-12 hours; average 55+ hours/week. I love what I do but I'd like to work 50 or less per week. But that ain't gonna happen in this job...
How did it ever get to be that it was acceptable to work more than 40 hours per week? I guess if money is your only value, then go for it. If health is any concern, you might want to consider alternatives.
Ya, but once they open a practice they work about 25 hours a week.
Here's your typical phone machine message at a doctor's office:
"Hello, You've reached Dr. Golf N. Cheatinonspouse's office. If this is an emergency call 911 now [now they've released themselves from any liability]. Our normal office hours are Mondays through Thursdays 9 to 4 with lunch from 11 to 1. Friday's 9 to 11. We are taking our next appointments [three months from now] in April. Our latest appointment is 3PM. If arriving for your first appointment, please arrive 45 minutes early [so you can fill out 19 forms which release us from any liability and guarantee we'll get paid. The forms always ask both your age and your DOB because we're too stupid to figure out your age from your DOB. We also need your SSN nine times because we couldn't care less about your risk of identity theft. Finally we ask the same information each time on each form because we are still using 1950s technology in this office and we can't transfer information from one form onto multiple forms - so you need to enter the same information over and over and over.]. If you can't make an appointment please let us know three weeks in advance or we will charge you $150. [We double book so there's a 95% chance you'll be sitting around in the waiting room for 90 minutes.]"
Absolute bull
The average doctors works 51-55 hrs/week. I know countless of physicians and not a single one of them knows someone who runs a practice and works less than 40 hrs a week. In medicine, 40 hrs/week is considered "part time".
The only possible way I can conceive a doctor working 25 hrs/week is a part time ER physician or hospitalist working two overnight 12 hour shifts (which would be quite unusual).
Obviously, you have a vendetta against physicians. 95% of your post was just doctor bashing.
No doctor works 25 hours/week. Many operate in multiple practices.
I don't know anything about lawyers. I only know corporate america.
Many of those people, though, are working during lunch (meetings over meals) and working/reading material late into the night. Work is more than just the time you spend at your desk.
Uh, my boss sure was conducting "meetings" during his long lunches, but they didn't involve work...
You should have seen the lawyers I worked for. For the ten years I worked for them, this was their typical day: In at 9:30, leave for lunch at 12:00 noon; come back 1:30 or 2:00, leave at 4:00. Plus take one or two afternoons off a week for golf when the weather was suitable. I don't think they gave much though to "changing the world", but my boss had an office full of golf trophies.
I guess what is defined as work.
There are days when I leave at 4:00pm. Of course, days like tomorrow I am putting in a half day even though it is a company holiday.
Tuesday and Thursday I will be traveling early in the morning (6am flights), not to mention driving to different offices. So yeah-- on Wednesday I will probably leave a couple hours early.
Golfing may seem fun, but in past industries where I worked, golfing was another vehicle for business contract negotiation. Same thing as dinners like the 3 I had to go to last week while traveling. Seems fun, seems not like work, but I can assure you it is work. Time spent in the office is not necessarily the only thing that counts as work. There are times I would LOVE to not have to review and respond to emails during the weekend, late at night, etc. (A good portion of my team is international-- the UK, North Africa, India, and Western Europe).
My best friend is a paralegal. Her attorney's schedule seems similar to what you are saying, but he also does a lot of conferences, talks, articles, etc. He travels quite a bit to discuss certain aspects of the law he practices. He is an expert in a certain field of military law.
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