re: Most Hours In A Week That You Worked

For many years I took care of someone at home who was very, very ill. I had caregivers for about forty hours a week while I was at the office. The rest was on me. Between rendering medical and personal care, raising my sons, and running the household, I had about six hours a day off to sleep. That was interrupted at least once by the need for care during the night. This was seven days a week.

I routinely put in over 120 hour workweeks. Looking back, I still don't know how I did it.

I know it took years off my life.

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What is the most hours in a week that you have worked? I’m in the middle of a long work week myself and wanted to see what the record is for you baws.

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did a special project for MTV one time and i was working out of the airport hangar in santa monica. i worked 72 straight hours over a 3 day period taking a 1-2 hour catnap when i couldn't keep my eyes open any longer but the pressure to finish by the time they loaded everything up kept the adrenaline flowing.

one of the best experience of my life tbh. i was slinging code for a bunch of interactive exhibits that had to be linked to a giant screen for voting purposes that pushed the most popular video from all the workstations every hour onto the big screen. 2 of us; a 3d artist/creative genius which made everything look insanely good and me.

i even had time to build a rudimentary admin app which they didn't ask for but would give them a report of all the videos that made the big screen every hour over the 2 week tour.

ah to be young and full of energy again.

Yeah. I took a team lead position for a project in south Texas that had me working 12-14 hour days for about 5 months with only a handful of days to go back home.

My boss at the time promised me "an offer that will make you never want to leave here (the company)" if I took the project.

At the end of it, he gave me a 4% raise...

I left the company shortly after.

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Probing pipeline first year out of college for TBakerShit in Venice.
Wook up at 3am to get to jobsite at the mouth of the river on the east side for 5am. Stayed at jobsite until 6PM. Literally did nothing the entire time but sit in a hot arse flat bottom aluminum barge boat and watch a pipeline get laid into the marsh. Was back to our shitty "hotel" trailer by about 830pm after eating dinner. took a bath and went to bed. Did that for 14 days straight. It was miserable.
Was paid for 17 hours a day for those 14 days. 119hrs a week. I think i was making like $6.50/hr.
That first summer after starting college helped reinforce why i was going to college.

Including on call? All of them, for 9 months straight. I was the only person capable of performing certain procedures and training others under my management took 9 months.

On Call required me to be no more than 45 minutes away from the facility 24/7. Given the traffic situation in Ft. Worth Mid Cities area at the time, with all the road work, that meant being no more than a few blocks away from work in order to have time to change clothes and get there.

There were several weeks I worked with like 7-8 hours total sleep all week.

116. School construction remodel. Happens every fricking summer. This year's been the worst though.

Today is day number 42 straight of 16 hours. 5:45A-10P. I've lost almost 20lbs in a little over a month.

When the oilfield was booming
80hrs slow week
100hrs average
120hrs good week
After that Uncle Sam . . . . .

7x13s

Quite a few times, a lot actually.