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> no matter where you work, as a professional you'll spend 50+ hours a week working This is false. There are plenty of companies that respect the 40 hour work
by JDiculous 11y ago
> no matter where you work, as a professional you'll spend 50+ hours a week working
This is false. There are plenty of companies that respect the 40 hour work week (and many where you can get away with less).
- guelo 11y agoWake up, get ready, commute both ways, lunch, happy hours, etc. 50 hours is on the low side.
- Armisael16 11y agoAre you seriously considering waking up and putting on pants to be working?
- seivan 11y agoJob requires pants, it should be included, but you're obviously not paid for it.
- vonmoltke 11y agoSure, if you include all that I've been working 50+ hours a week for virtually my entire career. I don't generally count all that other stuff as "working", though, because I have some control over how much or little of that I have to deal with.
- cobaltblue 11y agoIf you include thinking about work, then even work-from-home people could reach the 50+ figure relatively easily since you include weekends and trying to get to sleep. But then you might easily get into low numbers of hours per week, 15-30, if you subtract things like spending some large % of your time doing non-productive non-work (happy hours, lunches not at your desk, watercooler talk, browsing HN) even though you're at work. Work time should generally only be the time between clock-in and clock-out. For professionals that are freed from clock-in-clock-out, I think they would still clump around that 40 hour figure if you made them clock-in-clock-out for the data rather than for the pay.
- softawre 11y agoI work 9-5 M-F, live 5 minutes away, and love my job. Keep looking, they are out there.
- Apylon777 11y agoI manage a software team at a Fortune 20 company, and my developers have a ton of freedom. They can work from home any day they please, and I'm honestly surprised when I tell them, "You don't have any meetings for the rest of the day, go home." By no means am I an exceptional manager, but that statement is taken as suspect by most of my staff. Good software can't be coerced. They also own houses instead of renting flats in SF with roommates.
- seivan 11y agoThose jobs are few, not plenty. They also tend not to be tech companies unless they are bodyshop/ad-agencies in which case you'll find 60 hour work weeks.