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9-5 Jobs are better!

O-JO-J Posts: 18,851
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Some do more, depends on the job, but I hate mine, so 8 hours 5 days a week is enough for me, I need 8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, and the spare time I have left, is to do other stuff.

Plus, it's good, when you have wife and kids to go home to.
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    Evo102Evo102 Posts: 13,630
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    I prefer 7.30am to 3.30pm, missing most of the rush hour traffic.
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    Sorcha_27Sorcha_27 Posts: 138,869
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    Monday to Friday on flexible time. Suits me.:D
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    greenyonegreenyone Posts: 3,545
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    I preferred shifts and working weekends to have time off in the week
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    EbonyHamsterEbonyHamster Posts: 8,175
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    Night job for me
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    gdjman68wasdigigdjman68wasdigi Posts: 21,705
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    EbonyHamster wrote: »
    Night job for me

    Babestation?
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 11,133
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    Spent the last two years doing 12 hour shifts days and nights .

    Ready for a normal 9-5 job
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    EbonyHamsterEbonyHamster Posts: 8,175
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    gdjman68wasdigi wrote: »
    Babestation?

    Eewww no!
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    Welsh-ladWelsh-lad Posts: 51,925
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    I do miss the defined certainty of 9-5.

    Since becoming a teacher I find term-time so hectic - there are simply not enough hours in the day. However the holidays compensate for it, so it's swings and roundabouts.
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    gdjman68wasdigigdjman68wasdigi Posts: 21,705
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    Welsh-lad wrote: »
    I do miss the defined certainty of 9-5.

    Since becoming a teacher I find term-time so hectic - there are simply not enough hours in the day. However the holidays compensate for it, so it's swings and roundabouts.

    just think of your six weeks in the summer;-)
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    Ollie_h19Ollie_h19 Posts: 8,548
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    8.30 - 4.30, and I walk to and from work so no traffic problems. Spot on.
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    EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 22,016
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    I worked shifts for many years - evenings, weekends, nights, public holidays. I'm now in a position with 9-5 hours and it's great. I don't care that I'm losing out on unsocial hours payments now because it's so much better for my general health and stress levels to know I can have all my evenings and weekends off (even though most days I work around 8.30-5.30 and don't get paid for the extra hour...)
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    O-JO-J Posts: 18,851
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    sorcha_healy27 wrote: »
    Monday to Friday on flexible time. Suits me.:D
    klendathu wrote: »
    Spent the last two years doing 12 hour shifts days and nights .

    Ready for a normal 9-5 job

    What job you got Klen and Sorcha?
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    KieranDSKieranDS Posts: 16,545
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    I've only ever worked 12 hour shifts. They are so normal for me now I think standard working hours are too short!
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    O-JO-J Posts: 18,851
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    Eraserhead wrote: »
    I worked shifts for many years - evenings, weekends, nights, public holidays. I'm now in a position with 9-5 hours and it's great. I don't care that I'm losing out on unsocial hours payments now because it's so much better for my general health and stress levels to know I can have all my evenings and weekends off (even though most days I work around 8.30-5.30 and don't get paid for the extra hour...)

    Hi, what do you mean you don't get paid for the extra hour?
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    O-JO-J Posts: 18,851
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    KieranDS wrote: »
    I've only ever worked 12 hour shifts. They are so normal for me now I think standard working hours are too short!

    That's no life, working 12 hours, might as well live there.
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    Sargeant80Sargeant80 Posts: 1,413
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    4x10 hours shift a week.

    Can be tough those last hours but 3 days off a week is worth it.
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    BanglaRoadBanglaRoad Posts: 57,592
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    Used to do fourteen days of ten hour shifts then fourteen days off when I was on the rigs, Bloody horrible existance
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    O-JO-J Posts: 18,851
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    Sargeant80 wrote: »
    4x10 hours shift a week.

    Can be tough those last hours but 3 days off a week is worth it.

    My days off are Wednesday and Sunday, I don't work Sundays, Neither does my whole family, so its a family day basically.
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    EraserheadEraserhead Posts: 22,016
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    benbenalen wrote: »
    Hi, what do you mean you don't get paid for the extra hour?

    We don't get paid overtime. We're expected to work our contracted hours. I'd only get extra if I negotiate to work, say, an extra day but that would have to be by prior arrangement with my manager.
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    Harper_MilneHarper_Milne Posts: 2,854
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    Yeah I do like the 9-5 life actually, so simple.
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    KieranDSKieranDS Posts: 16,545
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    benbenalen wrote: »
    That's no life, working 12 hours, might as well live there.

    No it's fine. I work 5 days, have 5 days off, work 5 days, have 5 days off etc.

    Although having 5 full days off regularly does become quite boring.
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    bluebladeblueblade Posts: 88,859
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    Evo102 wrote: »
    I prefer 7.30am to 3.30pm, missing most of the rush hour traffic.

    Me too. I usually start at 7am.

    In fact on nice Summer days, I'd be in at 6am if I could. I'd then leave at 1:30pm, and spend the rest of the day in the garden.
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    scooby76scooby76 Posts: 403
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    in my current job when i started almost 14 years ago i was on the nightshift 10pm-6am monday - friday but about 5 years ago i transferred to the day shift which is 6am-2pm & 2pm-10pm mon-fri a week of each shift pattern.

    it's what you get used to i suppose but getting up at 4:30am isn't such a great thing but leaving work that day at 2pm to glorious sunshine makes it a little bit better; conversely having a lovely sunny morning and having to go to work for 2pm is a bit "meh".
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 11,133
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    Love my job . Or at least I did. 12 hour shifts nearly everyday recently because we are short staffed .

    Night shifts are the worst because I wake up at lunchtime and then just wait to go to work
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    Pumping IronPumping Iron Posts: 29,891
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    benbenalen wrote: »
    That's no life, working 12 hours, might as well live there.

    I do 12 hour shifts. You can basically discount doing anything on the days you work, but you do get a lot of time off. I only work 15 out of 35 days and that averages out at full-time hours (although I have a second job so work more).
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