how many hours is safe to work until your health is at risk?

theoretica

xapprenticex wrote: »

I wish we were more self sufficient (own land and food) and self employed focused but that wouldn't suit the few that own it all so here we are.

Personally, I wouldn't like to live in a subsistence farming culture - the wrong kind of hard work for me, especially in this part of the world - and value many things which self employed enterprises are unlikely to produce: computers, train services, medicines, symphony orchestras...

getmore4less

I think it cab work well if one of the jobs has some social element, bar work fits well with a lot of other jobs.

If your main job is sedentary a second that involves some exercise can be beneficial.

I am a great believer in the one day off a week so try to avoid both days every weekend.

sweetilemon

I agree, it depends on what the jobs are, what the people you work with are like, if that includes travel or if there is 2 commutes. I've worked 60hrs a week, I was tired but the jobs were all physically demanding and 2 had a paper work element so physically tiring but I had to be alert enough to concentrate. The downside I noticed was I'd give myself an excuse to buy takeaways/ bottle of wine thinking "I've earned it, made more money and i'm knackered so can't be bothered cooking". Also ended up grabbing expensive drinks and snacks between jobs. The housework did suffer as I was too tired for deep cleans when I got in. Although as a temp measure it was good for the extra cash.

I think if your second job is less responsibility it helps relieve the pressure a bit. Goodluck.

savepete

How many hours you can work very much depends on the task.

dawyldthing

I did it when i worked on 2 seperate full time jobs but it was only for a month and left me knackered. Couldn't do it long term mind

liney

I work around 60 hours per week - 11 hours Monday to Friday (10 at work and then another hour or so in the evening at home) and then around 5 hours on a Sunday at home. It is tiring, but I only have a 15 min drive to and from work, and Sundays are at home. If I ived further away I would prbably reconsider.


To ensure a break, I never work on a Saturday (only housework!) and always have one very early night midweek.

sammyjammy

From my experience it depends on your age, health, the jobs you do and how long you intend to do it for. I am now on my third second job, in my main job (which I hate). In my 20s my second jobs were in a call centre and a supermarket, 20 and 24 hours a week, on top of my main job these were exhausting but I had the luxury of free weekends to recuperate, looking back I did get a bit run down and didn't do either for longer than a year. Now I'm in my 40s and I just do a second job of 8 hours on a Saturday for which I am constantly on my feet, I couldn't do more!