8-5 M-F

I drive an 18-wheeler. I don’t live in it full-time though, my employer calls me “regional”. Meaning I stay relatively close to home, rarely more than half a day’s drive.

I work Monday thru Friday, exact hours each day depend on what loads I’m hauling. Unless I have an early appointment, I don’t leave my house before noon on Mondays. Whatever time I get home on Friday depends on how work goes. Sometimes I’ll do some Saturday driving as well, but that’s almost always because I couldn’t make it home Friday night for some reason. Going to my house during the week happens sometimes, though that’s rare.

I’m legally limited to 11 hours of driving per day; most trucking companies see that as a target. My current employer favors a different approach: plan for 7-8 hours per day, so drivers can theoretically work as many days in a row as they want, without being forced to take a day off.

I generally push myself anyway. I’m not paid by the hour; the sooner I deliver my load, the sooner I get to go home.

I did the math… 48% of my time is pre-scheduled meetings.

Mostly WFH with “when I’m needed” as my schedule. Very flexible, and pretty chill. In the morning I usually catch up on my inbox, check that everything is running as it should. Then a few phonecalls. I usually have another hour in the evening to catch up with coworkers in different timezones.
When I’m doing field work it’s usually 10-12 hours days, weekends included.

I got promoted to this position after doing 12 hour shifts offshore, five weeks on, five weeks off, for ages.

2-2-3 rotation, 12 hours shifts, 3PM-3AM

So I’m on 2, off 2, on 3 (so work Monday and Tuesday, off Wednesday and Thursday, the work again Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)

Then the next week it flips, so I only work Wednesday and Thursday and I’m off the rest of the week

I think it’s just about the greatest work schedule in the world, only bummer is that our PTO is based off of 8 hour shifts since most of the other employees work that and they didn’t make any special exemption for us. It mostly pretty much averages out since we work less days overall, but it would be nice to have that work out exactly.

Default 9-5 with extreme crunch time during critical launch windows and key phases of up to a week of 18 hour days. 4-6 hours sleep, sometimes in a quiet client site room under a desk with tears in my eyes. If the launch crunch lasts more than 1 week, it goes up to 3 weeks 12-16 hour days. If it lasts more than that mutiple people critically fucked up, folks are getting fired and rollback plans, corrections new launch dates are made. Sometimes lawsuits but very rare.

Edit: time off en lieu for crunch time.

Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. My ADHD thrives on a normal fixed schedule. Emergency field work is always a mental exercise.

Effectively Fri-Tues 0000-0730 (Though the schedule reads Thurs-Mon 11pm to 7:30AM). Grave security. Easy money, first union gig I’ve had, which is nice.

what’s your job?

I work 4x10s. My typical schedule is Tuesday -Friday 7-5:30 (unpaid, forced lunch). But I tend to jump my days around to take advantage of holidays and get 4 day weekends whenever possible.

I work a 2 week rotating schedule. 6 nights on/8 night weekend. My 6 days are all in a row, Thursday - Tuesday. I work 2 - 16 hour shifts and 4 - 12 hour shifts which gives me 40 hours in 3 days and 80 hours in 6 days for my 2 week work week. I can pick up 2 16 hour shifts on my “weekend”, get 32 hours of OT, and still have 6 days off. It’s exhausting but I love it. When I’m really short money I’ve worked as many as 7 of my days off and really killed the OT. The downside is that when I work 16 hour shifts I only have time for about 3-4 hours of sleep between shifts what with commuting and showering and eating and getting ready for work and all so it can sometimes be brutal if I pick up too many back to back (I’ve done 3 or 4 in a row and by the end I just want to die).