In fact, in my employee handbook, it states that my salary is based on a fifty hour work week and that is what I should average throughout the year. Typically, I'm over, but it doesn't always feel like.
Until it does.
I can always tell when I have been working too many hours. There are two very large signs:
- It's summer and the days are longer however I still leave for work as the sun rises and get home after the sun has set.
- My time awake, at home, is less than my total time at work including my commute.
- Example given: I commute and work from 7:15 to 9:15 (14 hours), am awake at home from 9:15-11:15 (2 hours), sleep from 11:15 to 6:45 (7.5 hours) and wake up and repeat.
I can relate. I am a teacher so my job is literally never over. I could work every hour of every week and not finish everything I would like to accomplish. Alas. Signs that I am doing too much: snap at my students, realize I haven't spoken to my FI all day even though we live together, and making it home after he has gone to bed. The sunrise sunset thing happens to me almost everyday but that is because I teach mostly in the winter!
ReplyDeleteGood luck at keeping the balance - it is such a struggle!
that's great that you love your job, but wow that schedule is intense!
ReplyDeleteHoly...! I have never loved a job enough to work those kinds of hours. Maybe one day!
ReplyDeleteGreat that you love your job! (If you HAD to work long hours, at least it's something you find value in) :)
ReplyDeleteMy husband is the same way! He works about 15 and is home for around 8. I don't know how he OR YOU does that!
ReplyDeleteYou stay up until 11:15?! Whoa, way past my bedtime.
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