How many hours do you work each week?

mikee31

37 hours contracted, although this can be more when busy. Am quite lucky as its generally a Monday to Friday 9-5.30 environment.

gingerdad

50-60 most weeks....

DKLS

50-70, the motivation is there when somone else isnt taking a cut.

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bumpoowee wrote: »

My contract says 35 hours, but the unwritten convention is you should be working 10% more than this at least. At the moment I am doing about 38 a week but i'm starting to find the job very easy and boring and am not particularly busy as a result. A few months ago when I was busier and still learning I was doing 50-55 hours a week.

Unwritten convention - working for free.

You must be mad I can tell you. Theres no way I do that anymore.

Having worked in the IT industry for 20+ years and been made redundant 3 times, I can tell you that doing stuff for free makes no difference at all. Company wont even notice your doing it. If redundancies are on the cards, no-one will care how much personal effort you've put in.

You can still be professional and only work contracted hours. These days if something needs doing, I get PAID overtime authorised.

And dont start me on work-life balance. Work doesnt even come in the top 10 of my priorities these days. Many things like familly, friends, cat etc come above my employer.

Welshwoofs

Angel89 wrote: »

Back from last year easter till easter this year when i was self-employed it was roughly 90hours per week.
(Sunday night to Friday evening only though, no weekends)

Ahh this would be that famous self-employed work day trading and importing goods for sale on eBay.....neither of which you reported to the tax man.

BigAndy_79

35 hours a week pour moi.

Angel89_2

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Ahh this would be that famous self-employed work day trading and importing goods for sale on eBay.....neither of which you reported to the tax man.

Not quite,
i stopped selling on ebay 2years ago as soon as ebay banned sellers leaving neagtive feedback and when they started forcing sellers to accept paypal.

I wouldnt call it ''famous'' though... :rotfl:

And im not sure why you think importing items from china and selling them on ebay,
and then trading crude oil futures on the stockmarket through a brokerage website/SB website,
is some sort of ''glamorous'' thing that you have to be a multi-millionaire beforeyou can start doing it?? :rolleyes:



You want to sell on ebay go to tradekey.com, type in the product you want to be selling (gucci shoes for example), you get alist of 1000s of chinese wholesaler factories who sell that product.
You then just get their msn addresses and product display websites,
talk to the sales reps and choose what styles you want to buy.. ect

And then just stick them for sale on ebay, give a nice professional looking item description,
if you are abit creative you can even create you own ''gucci receipts''.

(Although everyone whos buying 'gucci shoes' or anything designer on ebay for £30/£50, when in the gucci shop they cost £300/£500, knows that they are replicas, and is fine with that).


Sell 4 t 6 shoes per week, making £25/£30 profit each, and thats very very nice easy money for not much work or time spent.




And you want to trade on the stockmarket go to a SB firm website like EtxCapital.com, get an account with them,
put a few hundred - few thousand quid into it,
and just start trading.
(You should use the demo account for a few months though to practise though or you'll likely lose all your money within weeks)


And currently due to loopholes in the law you dont have to pay tax on any profit made through trades or investements made through an SB firm, as you pay ALOT in spread comission.

If you instead trade through a brokers webiste like interactivebrokers.com you will have them same layout trading account and platform.. ect
Will pay ALOT lower comission per trade, but will have to declare and pay tax on earnings. :A

Emily1990_2

Alcmene wrote: »

That sounds about right, some mornings I go in about 7 as it is the only time I can do stuff in the office without being disturbed by students.

Do you not have prescribed office hours where students can come to you for questions?