Author Topic: How much free time u get with ur job (Read 732 times)

BUG_EAF322 · « **on:** August 09, 2002, 03:40:35 PM »

Ok i work 7 days 5 days of 7days 5 days of and 7 days 4 days of

and that is the work loop i have it's shift work (5 shifts)

2 mornings 0600-1400 3 day 1400-2200 2 night 2200- 0600 5 days free
2 m 2 d 3 n 4 days free
3 m 2 d 2 n 5 days free

after that i can spend 25 days on holidays

I hear americans work a lot more and only have 20 days to spend every year

btw i work for an american company Owens Corning but we have a dutch working agreement

ok what's the thruth

Maverick · « **Reply #1 on:** August 09, 2002, 03:49:04 PM »

Hehehe I'm retired. neener neener neener!

I am, however enrolled in a full time excellerated school for aviation mechanics. I'm still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up.

Wlfgng · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2002, 03:52:22 PM »

I'd bet the majority of Americans work the 40 hour week.

Staga · « **Reply #3 on:** August 09, 2002, 04:34:01 PM »

5 days a week; sometimes all 7. Usually 8-9 hours per day but my longest shift ever was 24h and in this summer 20 hours.
Longest shift my friend did was 32 hours and this week he did work 5 days, 16-17 hours/day + this weekend, 8 hours/day.

Good thing is you don't need any sleeping-pills after that...

Greese · « **Reply #4 on:** August 09, 2002, 05:16:45 PM »

My best ever work schedule

Wed-Fri 6a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sat- Show up 6 a.m. in the morning, check in, leave.
Got paid full time (80 hours every two weeks) and got paid overtime fro every hour worked over 8 (four hours a day)

man, those were the days. Triple time for holidays, and I only really needed to be on-call, so I still basically had the time off.

My company is a lot more responsible now, and I work a standard shift. That was about 4 years ago.

Boroda · « **Reply #5 on:** August 09, 2002, 07:03:17 PM »

I work as a support engineer in a big (in fact - biggest in Soviet times) institute of Russian Academy of Science.

Network that we support is working w/o any maintenance for the last 7 years. So I have to be at work only at pay day, to get my ridiculous 1300 rubles.

But, to have some money for cigarettes and beer, I have to work on "private orders" and for contract to solve problems for VIPs in the Academy. So, it turns out to be a funny job where I can drink beer every day after 18:00, but must be ready to run somewhere anytime. And when I have a large order - I can spend a few days at work w/o going home at all. I can sit on my arse for 3-4 weeks only to wait for the time when I should tear the above mentioned arse to a British flag.

Paradox. When you have work - you earn money but don't have time to spend it. When you don't have work - you have time to spend money, but don't have any money to spend

So I'll sum it up as 35 hours of work in an "average" week, while it can be from 2 to 120 hours a week

capt. apathy · « **Reply #6 on:** August 09, 2002, 08:54:14 PM »

I usually work from late march to june (sometimes 40 but usually 12 hrs a day up to 7 days a week) then. do camping, rafting , ect. for july and august, then early sept. to late november I'm back to work on over time. in the off time I usually only work 1 out of 5 weeks but some years(maybe 1 in 7) I get on a project that is long term and I work all winter or summer.

on an average it works out to usually 8 months of work and 4 months off

Eagler · « **Reply #7 on:** August 09, 2002, 11:50:57 PM »

the average US worker has a 40 hour work week (Mon - Fri 8 hr day) usually 10 days off a year vacation. Sick time and company holidays vary job to job. Yes we work more in the US compared to the average worker in Europe

Gman · « **Reply #8 on:** August 10, 2002, 12:44:38 AM »

I work in the Air Quality monitoring field and the Law Enforcement supply field when I'm not doing that.

I work about 100 days a year on avg in the first proffesion, and a weekend or so a month in the other.

You get the idea

.

I spend 3x more time than both right here, on my PC.

SC-Sp00k · « **Reply #9 on:** August 10, 2002, 01:00:58 AM »

Gman. Do you sell these things by any chance? The site I found them on has sold out or something.

1 work 7-10 days straight 8 hours standard but can work to 16 when busy. 2-4 days off depending on the roster. Every 5 weeks Nighshift comes around for 7 days then 6-7 days off. 6 weeks Leave a year.

Shifts 6a-2p, 7a-3p. 9a-5p, 10a-6p, 2p-10p, 3p-11p, 8p-4a, 10p, 6a, 11p-7a.

In no particular order

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #10 on:** August 10, 2002, 03:37:27 AM »

Flight instructor, 6 days a week of duty if lucky, else 7 days.
Spends from 8am to 6pm minimum, not uncomom to finish at 9pm.
Makes between $20 and $150 a day.

senna · « **Reply #11 on:** August 10, 2002, 03:44:54 AM »

Hey well watdoya know. I got a whole collection of thoese rings also. Bout ten of them.

Gman · « **Reply #12 on:** August 10, 2002, 03:45:30 AM »

Wowsers Frenchy. I always said I'd push a broom if it let me live in the USA, but if that's all you make being a flight instructore, maybe I'll reconsider that train of thought.

Creamo · « **Reply #13 on:** August 10, 2002, 03:54:19 AM »

Makes between $20 and $150 a day.

Beans and Franks.

Forget the fart jokes, fuk man, you need electricity. I just don't know how you do it. If you can get local cheese, that's a sweet lunch.

Now ask me why I aint a pilot. (besides falling to sleep with engine noise)

Good luck Frenchy.

(I mean in getting laid. $2 is a squeak of a budget to impress anyone, even yourself for Gads sake)

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #14 on:** August 10, 2002, 03:56:13 AM »

CFI sucks money wise. A HUGE amount of time spent at the airport for little money in return.
But it's a step, you make hours and 2 years later you hopefully make it to cargo/commuter where u make $1,500, maybe $2,000 month.
After some times of twin/turbine you can make it to the airline/corporate... start $2,500/month and end up at $20,000 a month at 60 year old with a fat belly and a mustache if you are lucky.

Of course, there are always the lucky ones who are at the right place at the right moment and earn a "shortcut". Aviation is a squeak, you spend a LOT for your training and need to live like a bum for a couple of years before having a reward.
It's not like regular BS, or BA graduates who study 4 years and start to make $$$ as soon as out of school.

I'm pretty lucky, I make $25/h as a CFI, the national average is more like $15/h.