Hours Worked

I'll lower the average, 20 hours.

Working up more at present though in order to take extended leave in the Summer.
 
My sister owns a small grocery shop, she works 7 days a week Mon to Sat 9 to 7(8 in summer),Sun 10 to 2 (5 in summer)during which time she occasionally escapes to her house (attached to shop) to go to loo, make a cup of coffee( which she seldom gets time to finish) and put on dinner for youngest two who get home around 5ish from school.

Several evenings a week when shop closed she washes shop floor(other days she has someone to do this) and every evening she sorts out the tills. She occassionally escapes the shop for say two hours during which time she does the business banking ,visits our mother in a nursing home gets hair done. Inevitably during these hours she gets two/three calls from the shop asking her about pricing or ordering etc...

She also does all the bookwork including newspaper returns etc...(at least one hour every day) This is not included in the hours she is in the shop. She also does say 50% of housework.

So whereas I am a self confessed lazy git I think my sis can win the award for hours worked.

She has a commute time of 1 minute.
 
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The hours worked dont matter: It's what you do in that time: the old thing about working smart instead of hard. Mandangan's sister is doing the latter, IMHO. She is heading for a health crash. No lunch hour? No relaxation time? 7 days a week? She should seriously look at her lifestyle. She should pay a student to work a few hours for her and give her quality time with her family, etc.. The cost in monetray times would be nothing to what she would gain in work/life balance terms
 
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"When I were a lad..." aka Four Yorkshire Men sketch

Thought it was Peter Cook, but could be wrong - I think the sketch was written by Terry Chapman/Eric Idle before the Monty Python series came on the scene
 
Kildrought said:
"When I were a lad..." aka Four Yorkshire Men sketch

Thought it was Peter Cook, but could be wrong - I think the sketch was written by Terry Chapman/Eric Idle before the Monty Python series came on the scene
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Correct, it was first shown on the "At last; The 1948 show"
 
Work 9-5:30 five days a week (with one hour for lunch which I always take) and am on call one Saturday in 4 for which we get an on-call rate. Work in the private sector and rarely do overtime. Get 2 tea breaks (taking one now as I type) a day also.
 
She should pay a student to work a few hours for her and give her quality time with her family, etc.. The cost in monetray times would be nothing to what she would gain in work/life balance terms
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Maybe she can't afford this. Ireland isn't a cheap place to hire people, even on a part time basis. She would also have employment law and compliance to contend with, not to mention staff training etc.
 
37.5 hrs per wk in financial services. O/T of approx10 hrs per month. 10 min commute. Sweet. !
 
45-50 hours and 5 hour commute (driving)-it kills me and would love a pay cut
to do less hours.
 
Self-employed never stop working.

You have do do the work when it's there.

I was doing quotes for tenders last night till almost 12.
I don't think I could do it any other way.

I spent all day Saturday working and all bank holiday Monday working.

Went to eat my Christmas dinner this year and realized I still had my work trousers on, what a laugh!
 
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