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What's your longest shift?

What's the longest shift you currently have to do per week at your job?

Tomorrow I have to work from 8am - 7pm! But it's really two shifts with a 3 hour break in between :p:

And while we're on the topic, your longest shift/day at work ever?

I remember in the 2003/2004 Chrissie holidays when I was holding down two jobs, I would start work on some Friday mornings at 8.30am, work until 5.30pm then close shop at the clothing store I worked at then trot off to my waitress shift! This is where I would work from 6-9pm!!! :eek:

Only *some* Fridays thought, got too much after a while!!! As you can imagine :wink:

Must have a life as well :cool:

Anyway back to the study for me :rolleyes:

big day tomorrow,

DB_xox

Reply 1

sassy_j85*

7

Once at my part time job i did 7am-9.30pm ......i was dead afterwards! And i had uni the next day!

But i only do every other weekend now, 12-9.30 on a sat and 7am-4pm on a sunday

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Reply 2

danni_bella

OP

17

sassy_j85*

Once at my part time job i did 7am-9.30pm ......i was dead afterwards! And i had uni the next day!

But i only do every other weekend now, 12-9.30 on a sat and 7am-4pm on a sunday

x

Woah talk about long shift!! Ok you take the prize this time :p:

Am on a break now, so I shouldn't really be here but meh it's a 3 hour long break and I don't know anyone else on my shift (it's just promo stuff, well paid but you get grouped with people you've never met :frown:

) so yeah :/

Where do you work? I think having a different job every so often is as good as a holiday, a change of pace :smile:

Next week I'm over at a shopping center that practically nobody here (except Mockel :biggrin:

) would have been to, but hey it's a change and that's all that matters :cool:

Reply 3

bikerx23

1

when doing field work i go out at 6 in the morning and return between 8 and 10 at night....
except when i work in the arctic, in which case we tend to push for 20 hour days (theres about a 4 hour walk in and out of the field area last time i went) so that gives us 12 hours to work.

Reply 4

danni_bella

OP

17

bikerx23

when doing field work i go out at 6 in the morning and return between 8 and 10 at night....
except when i work in the arctic, in which case we tend to push for 20 hour days (theres about a 4 hour walk in and out of the field area last time i went) so that gives us 12 hours to work.

What do you do?

Anyhow woo I finished work :biggrin:

*Goes to have dinner, lol I'm at my friends house now and she has the internet, but I was meant to be checking movie times :redface:

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Reply 5

SciFi25

1

I have done a 10am to 11:30pm shift before. With the legally required one hour break in the middle of course.

Reply 6

bikerx23

1

danni_bella83

What do you do?

Anyhow woo I finished work :biggrin:

*Goes to have dinner, lol I'm at my friends house now and she has the internet, but I was meant to be checking movie times :redface:

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I was assisting on a trip to greenland to map the geology.
Hopefully though when I start my Volcanology pHd that will mean spending most of the time in a chopper! (of the flying variety that is :biggrin:

)

Reply 7

twiga

15

I did three 17 hour shifts in a row, thus resulting in me working 51 hours in 3 days. I worked 8 - 6:30 at a sports shop, and then did 7 - 1 at my bar job.

Never again.

Reply 8

dave

bikerx23

Hopefully though when I start my Volcanology pHd

That sounds really interesting.

Reply 9

bikerx23

1

bodhisattva

That sounds really interesting.

It should be great! just think though...no volcanoes in britain therefore foreign travel is a must :biggrin:

I might get lucky and even get sent to study mt. erubus in the antarctic or, even better the Kamchatka-Aleutian-Alaskan volcanic arc - so many more eruptions :biggrin:

Reply 10

xXMessedUpXx

15

I only ever did 5 hour shifts :biggrin:

Reply 11

acoustic-angel

2

once i worked from 9 am through to 7 pm without a break, i was not impressed.

Reply 12

belis

17

24 hours straight (no break), long day at care home followed by what supposed to be a sleap over but turned out to be a waking night as my client developed staus epilepticus and I ended up in AE for the whole night with him. I was tired as hell but when I got my payslip with 250 for only this one shift it was definitely worth it. I do 14 hours shifts quite regulary and I do not mind realy, I have an easy job, most of the time I just watch TV with service users or do some arts and crafts.

Reply 13

cloudofcalm

1

Urgh. My longest shift was yesterday. I started at half twelve doing the football rush in the restaurant - finished at ten thirty. I'd been working ten hours straight. Had ten minutes to dash down food at around six, but other than that....

No break. I came home and fell asleep. Then woke up... and went to work.

Reply 14

xXMessedUpXx

15

You do know that by law for every 6 hours you work you're entitiled to a 20 min break?

Reply 15

Saffie

11

my longest shifts are 8 hours (every saturday), and that's quite enough, I've never worked more than that (well give or take 20 mins) 30 min break in the middle, unpaid- of course! :rolleyes:

Reply 16

danni_bella

OP

17

acoustic-angel

once i worked from 9 am through to 7 pm without a break, i was not impressed.