re: How much work at work do you actually do?

Ebbs and flows. I'm in IT..sometimes I'm basically paid to just sit around and be available in case anything breaks, but sometimes I have several months of working extra, and getting up in the night of the night to do work that is service affecting, etc. Right now I'm in the middle of a stretch of lots of work.

Average week 35 hours. Bad week 75

I work from 7am until about 7pm on average, sometimes later, and am literally nonstop busy the entire day. When I took the position I was one of 3 employees that did my job at a decent sized company.

2 years later and the company has gone gangbusters and expanded/grown by 30-50% in size and business, while the 2 others that did my job have both quit and haven't been replaced. It's nice being the only person in a company of about 200 that can even BEGIN to do my job (job security is basically a given),but it's a MASSIVE burden that leaves me nonstop stressed and busy with 10+ things to do at any given time.

Most jobs have "slow days" or downtime every so often, I honestly don't even remember what that feels like anymore. I've lost about 20lbs and was maybe 175 to begin with so I look like I'm dying, and the stress/burnout carries over into my outside life where all I want to do outside of work is sit around and sleep off the exhaustion.

The company has named me a "manager" and given me all the perks that come with it including a hefty raise, but I've been thinking about going to battle with them to convince them to let me absorb one of the two former employee's pay in full as well. It helps my cause that I have their nuts in a vice and nearly the whole place would come to a screeching halt if I wasn't around now. It's not a position that anyone in the current staff could train a new hire for, nor could any current employee remotely fill-in for me.

So what say the OT, would asking for a raise that equals one of the two former employees salaries be asking too much?

Nice trap boss. I work hard all day.

I work from home.

I don't do a whole lot.

When I'm bored, I roll up to the Target in Hammond Square. It's a nice place. I like to hide in the clothing racks, wait for people to approach, and whisper "pick me, pick me".

I work 5 10's, 1 week of 7 10's a month. My productivity rate is probably around 80%.

I walk out the job trailer at 6:45 and don't usually walk back in until lunch at 12. Come back at 1 and don't walk back in the trailer until 4:30.

I run a temp labor crew (basically adult babysitting), coordinate where subs need to be working, and deal with any QC issues or deficiencies in building plans that we come across.

Usually afternoons are reserved for updating the schedule, writing my daily reports, and ensuring that whatever had to be done that day by the subcontractors was done.

The flip side is field management pays damn well.

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To those who work a few hours a day, what the hell is your job and how much do you make?

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Cybersecurity. Well north of six figures.

I'm not paid so much for what I do as for what I know.

I work the way I get paid....once every 2 weeks.

I’m wondering if the posters claiming they barely do any work during the day are the same ones that would call teachers lazy, overpaid pieces of shite for having summers off.