What is a "normal" work week?

[fesler]

The Norm is no longer these days.

Being a business owner with lots of employs is very difficult, we work our guys 45 hours a week some do a little more to get caught up but for the most part we don’t ask any more of them because they have families. Now on the other hand I could not tell you how many hours a week I work but I am OK with it because I get to do something that I love every day and I also get to work with my wife and son so the hours don’t affect me as much and the other person. Everyone expects more and more for less, even in what we do. The good o days as we know them are gone for a while and maybe forever.

You defiantly have to work for your money now and with the economy the way it is it’s a fight.

[toy71camaro]

40 hrs here... with the expectation to get 45hrs worth or work done in the 40hr allotment. heheh.

[OLDFLM]

Originally Posted by fesler

The Norm is no longer these days.

Being a business owner with lots of employs is very difficult, we work our guys 45 hours a week some do a little more to get caught up but for the most part we don’t ask any more of them because they have families. Now on the other hand I could not tell you how many hours a week I work but I am OK with it because I get to do something that I love every day and I also get to work with my wife and son so the hours don’t affect me as much and the other person. Everyone expects more and more for less, even in what we do. The good o days as we know them are gone for a while and maybe forever.

You defiantly have to work for your money now and with the economy the way it is it’s a fight.

Sounds like you need a talented HR Manager who is also a car guy Chris!

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by Beegs

I am a business owner, no employees....I work until the work gets done. Never have kept track of how many hours a week I work, don't know, don't care.....I am happy and that's all I care about!

I like this answer.

[214Chevy]

I'm a firefighter and I work in 24 hour increments. So, I'm easily pushed to or past the 60 hour work week if I work 2-3 days a week. But hey, I got the only job in America where you won't get fired for sleeping on the job. As long as that bell doesn't ring, we are at the station chilling..."sittin on our nuts" as we like to call it.

[Ron in SoCal]

Thank you Marcus for risking your life for others. Please be safe Brother...

[andrew5]

i run a chevy service dept.i'm all in for 55 plus.

[214Chevy]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

Thank you Marcus for risking your life for others. Please be safe Brother...

No, thank you for appreciating the work I do Ron. It's good to know others are praying for us. Like I said before, we sit around the station alot doing nothing, but when that bell hits and it's time to work, trust me...it's time to work. Battling a fire at over 1500 degrees while holding a hose pumping out 150-175 lbs of pressure is not for the faint at heart.

[toddshotrods]

I voted for more than 60, because that's what's realistic to me. As my ex used to say I , "never stop working - never." Maybe I'm wrong but this 40-hour work week stuff seems to have started with the industrial age because many of the jobs became factory type, do this for eight hours, tasks. Go way back and it was people farming their own land, building stuff one at a time - by hand, etc. People probably also tended to love what they were doing more, and gained a better sense of self-worth, satisfaction, and contentment, from it, so there wasn't so much of a need to get away, rest, and relax. I think the farmer or rancher is the ultimate example because that isn't so much work, as it is life. You wake up and live it; eat-piss-poop, and sleep, to have the energy to do it another day...

I think that's what's so addicting, for me at least, about hot rodding. It's a lifestyle, not a job. You live, eat, sleep, piss, $#!+, and breathe, it. I don't end my week thinking, glad that was over, I need some rest and relaxation - I really never stop, don't want to stop, until there's no air and blood flowing in and out of my body. It's not a money thing either (my wallet and bank account will confirm that), it's passion. I've noticed that when I stop to "relax", I am usually preoccupied with getting back to my "work" (physically, because mentally, I never stopped).

[booah]

When I'm at work its a 84 hr week, 12 hr shifts plus study after that. Thats for 3 weeks at a time, on a production platform, middle of the ocean. Its high stress, high production dollars and lots of experience around me for support.

I've been a part of the management team for the last 6 years and the key is delegation as stated above. If the swing offshore starts off hectic and you forget that 1 key word, "delegation" it makes for a long 3 weeks. The experience and knowledge is there its just knowing how to get it out of the people when and how you need it. In Australia you can't just let someone go, in fact the employee has all the rights and almost impossible to get rid of. When you hire someone its almost as expensive and stressful as a divorce if you want to get rid of them. Hire once and hire right.

The upside is that I only work for 21 weeks of the year, the rest is spent doing the things I enjoy, family,renovating and of course anything that moves.
When at work, I'm at work, when at home, I'm home. 2 different lives both satisfying for different reasons.