June 29, 2008
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Days Working
I have worked every day including today since last Monday. I will not get a day off until Friday of this week. That will be 11 straight days without a day off. I think one time I did 13 days straight.
What is the most days you have worked in a row without a day off?
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2 days working 24 hours each day and i quit- with a break was 3 weeks
11 days! last summer when it was super hot (i work at a smoothie shop)… yeah.. crazyy.
It couldn’t be more then twelve… Sorry you aren’t getting a break.
Although since I work for myself, if I am not careful I can work everyday… of course it goes in reverse too… I could not work at all… for days.
you know, i don’t remember. i try to block out the bad
i’d say 7… but i’m sure the road up ahead holds a number much higher than that.
17. But now I set my own hours.
Well I have been working since last Monday too, and I don’t get off till Tuesday at least. I think 14 days the first time I rolled out a lab image in 2002. It was a real grinder, I had to start over so many times. I can barely see straight anymore.
Oh, and these are 10-14 hour days.
I’m a mom. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, no vacations for 18 years and no paycheck. I have a feeling you’ll get more than one answer similar to this.
Not many…I’m a slacker really.
Gotta agree with SaintVI….
Mom’s are never off!! We even sleep with one eye open…just in case!
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my job is only 2 days a week.
Might have been 13 back when I loved my work, and didn’t mind so much.
@saintvi - Ha! Yes. I forgot about that one career. Best of luck to you.
…. and yet you can post on xanga 50 bajillions times a day
nice job.
i dunno,,,, 6 months maybe.
dont have that problem anymore tho,,,,,
resting.
yea,,, hahahahahaha,,, mom answers,,, well,,, ive been a mom too,,, hahahahahahaha,,,, not really a mom i dont guess,,, single dads do the same time tho,,,, id expect.
been there done that,,, didnt count the time tho,,,, not included in my above answer.
@saintvi - If there’s no paycheck then it’s not really a job.
I know your’s is an honest and clever answer, but it seems to defeat the purpose of the query.
It was nearing 20. I worked in a nursing home for Alzheimer’s Patients, and we were extremely short-staffed. I was working 12 hour days, and I never got days off. 20 was my max with no day off, though. Ugh.
@huginn - I disagree. It’s just not a paid job. And are you a mother?
@XINERGY - Oh, my 18 years were up 5 years ago. I’m still on call 24 hours a day, but the bulk of my job is successfully concluded; at least unless grandkids come along.
13!
do you count kids that go to school work at fast food restrausts and are in the band? that would be many days in a row and i couldn’t count them all together. just remember it could be worse.
@huginn - Oh dear, silly me. I didn’t realize there was a “purpose to the query.”
Almost ten years. My son is nine plus nine months for baking time. I’ve never been away from either of my children except for one night (they were away from me).
As for a leaving-the-house-paying-job: 16 days. Retail bites the big one.
you should contact the labor board. in california, you are allowed to work 11 days in a row. over that, your employer can get in DEEP poop.
Just 5. Mon- Fri typical 8 hour shifts, some days over time. Nothing severe or too abnormal
Stay at home mothers don’t get days off… not even for holidays.
@huginn - Yeah, if I actually paid my mom I’d owe her hundreds of thousands of dollars. Being a mom is definitely a job.
Oh, and I can’t remember how many days straight I worked. Maybe 8, but I always ended up leaving the water park early, so it wasn’t that bad.
Actually 19 days of 10 to 12 hours…………….one week a few years back I worked 98 hours….how dumb I was for this……………now then if we could only get the lazy asses in Congress to put in a real weeks worth of fixing our economy
.. i think it was 21 days, when i was doing my hotel attachment. those were the days when i value money more than my sleep.
i haven’t had a day off since the 20th, so i guess i have you beat by a few days…and i’m the same as you…my first day off is July 4th! thank goodness for holidays
@ISNORTTHENOSELUCIFER - I disagree. It’s just not a paid job.
It’s implicit in Dan’s opening post that we’re talking about paid positions.
If not, then any student may do some hand waving and claim their role as a student to be a 24/7 task. Not only is there the time in-lecture, but also the time spent thinking about studying material out-of-class. Those in graduate school or doing research think about their shit in sleep too! Not only do students not receive any pay, but they actually lose money!!
What about people’s job as an attentive boyfriend. Or people’s jobs as a father. People, too, take up jobs caring for an elderly relative.
In fact, going by your standards and interpretations of the thread, Dan occupies multiple jobs simutaneously. Not only does he run this blog, but he’s also a father.
And are you a mother?
No, but I have a mother. What about you? Are you a retarded racoon with five paws?
@huginn - Prepare to gain an extra exit or two…
Just because there’s no currency, doesn’t mean motherhood doesn’t pay
@mkenyon719 - Yeah, if I actually paid my mom I’d owe her hundreds of thousands of dollars. Being a mom is definitely a job.
So is being a father.
But it’s not the sort of job surveyed in this thread. Rather than mentioning their day jobs, anybody with a family and children can do some handwaving and explaim how their “jobs” as parents are 24/7! Their responsibilities as a parent are never-ending.
But this would defeat the purpose of the thread, woudln’t it? If everyone, rather than describing and discussing their day jobs, take a weasily interpertation of the prompt and hand-wave the obvious responsibilities of parenthood, it wouldn’t leave much to discuss.
@huginn - You’re quite sensitive, aren’t you? If you think I’m going to start a Xanga feud with you over paid versus unpaid jobs, forget it.
@saintvi - It’s okay. We make hasty reads all the time. Your semantic indiscretion is forgiven.
@ISNORTTHENOSELUCIFER - I didn’t justify my position in my initial comment. At the point you called me out on the point, I became obligated to either back up or retract my charge.
If you think I’m going to start a Xanga feud with you over paid versus unpaid jobs, forget it.
That’s your perogative. No discussion continues ad nauseum.
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@GermanWrench - =)
2 weeks and a day or two. It was during Christmas and we were rushing stock out. My company launched these solid perfumes and every thing had to be manually put together. each little solid perfume had to be capped and stickered by hand.
days and days and days. Before going away to college, three summers ago, I worked 40 hours a week in day care and then 12 hours or so on the weekend in a restaurant. Days off only included the fourth of july! Even today I am still working in the daycare and never get days off, if you don’t include weekends.
I haven’t gotten a job yet…8D I’m enjoying the last days of my childhood. n.n
Hmm I think my Dad worked 3 weeks to a month without a day off or maybe even more than that, crazy Asian people! =p
Nine weeks. Basic Training.
three months of summer camp.
3 five-hour(ish) days…I’ve only been working since may, and I am only supposed to work weekend nights (though they like to pull me in on Wednesdays for restocking)
I work?
14 days, 16 hours each. blah. glad i don’t have to do that crap anymore.
sorry yer workin’ so much.
In a sense, I don’t get a day off. I have one main job, two smaller jobs, and one that requires an hour two days a month. I guess if you count the two Mondays (tomorrow being one of them) that I don’t have council, then I would say 14 days???
At 15 I worked about one year strait without a day off. Not full time though.my father goes years at a time.
I left on a business trip Oct 1, 2007 and returned November 13. I was awarded 28k air miles by the end of the trip. I was able to go to some fun places, but not one day went by that I didn’t work…. When I returned on the 13th, I had to be at work on the 14th. I’d rather not count how many days that was…. I left that job a month later….
178 days.
When you’re self-employed like me, you get NO days off, unless you go out of town on vacation.
a month or more. that was back in high school when i allowed them to take advantage of me.
Hmm. I think the most days in a row I’ve worked (full time, 12 hour nights) is seven. Thursday-Thursday.
I’ve heard of 100 hour work weeks but I’m surprised to hear about 10+ days without a day off!
3 weeks. My dad was going through crunch time and we put in overtime every day for 3 weeks last summer. It was killer.
23.
We’d just opened the hotel and our new GSRs were dropping like flies. The 120-hour paychecks were beautiful, though.
at least seven days…. and i have to work on july 4th -_-
14. but whatever. it’s not like it’s any different when you’re in school.
12 days straight, not last week but the week before
7 days…..got fierd on the 8th
My husband has done 3 months as a restaurant manager - he would have to go in everyday no matter what for at least 3 to 4 hours. They eventually closed the place since they couldn’t get enough employees to fill all of the positions. There is a huge shortage of labor out here.
lawl 2 days
but if you include school then its 14..but nobody ever includes school
13 days. The restaurant manager became ill and I was the more responsible shift manager — or just the idiot in the way at that moment LOL.
@alexiah100 - Where do you live, There’s a huge shortage of jobs here LMAO. I have a state food handling license, known as a ServSafe certificate good through July I think of 2011, three years experience as a shift manager and five and half years in the restaurant
too bad the place is already closed eh? LOL
21 days. non stop. 12 hours each day. yeah i know, my life sucks. dont wish it upon my biggest enemy.
@huginn - ROFL you go LMAO
I don’t have a job I have a life as a restaurant owner.
@KJ_Hamnik - Texas thanks to the oil boom is NOT hurting – so restaurants are booming – in West Texas dishwashers start at 9.00 – you can make good money out here. I know that a friend of ours just started at a steakhouse here as a supervisor making 15.00 hr. + overtime.
Try looking in San Antonio, El Paso, Midland, Odessa, and Amarillo. All unemployment is under 2.8% out here – and that’s high because it’s summer.
I have been working 7 day weeks for the last year and a half.
Dunno. Unless we’re doing inventory, we don’t work Sundays. I might have worked 13 days in a row once, but I doubt it.
Well, when I was in school, that was in a sense “working” almost every day because of homework. As far as actually working, I almost had an 11-day stretch recently, but one of my bosses told me to take a day off.
23 and it was worth the overtime
14 days! It felt like it will never end and I might possibly die there if I don’t get out any time soon.
My dad lives just south of Dallas, I can’t honestly remember the name of it LMAO, I lived in Plano for three years. I didn’t like it cos it’s so flat, but West Texas, as I recall isn’t flat, is it?
Please pump more oil LMAO, Texas is gonna save this nation and all they wanna do is succeed from the country ROFL.
Karen
about 3 weeks. It was at a restaurant that’s open from 7 am to 3 pm and I usually worked from 10/11 to close, so it was part time. I actually liked it, it was during Winter Break so it wasn’t an issue and I needed the money.
When my eldest child was born in 1976 I worked Mon-Fri from 5am-2pm driving a truck on a regional route, then pumped gas from 4pm-midnight. Saturdays I pumped gas 6am-midnight. Sunday I pumped gas from 6am-6pm and considered it my day off. I did that for a few months until I burned out. Can’t remember how many now, over 3 but less than 6. Halcyon days….
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8 or 9 days. and all the moms complaining should have realized what happens when you choose to have sex.
most mothers do the world a disservice, since studies show that less educated women have more babies than educated ones.
so. stop. complaining.
i do not feel sorry for you.
well im military so technically ive been on the job for the last 3 years , but to follow in the spirit of this question we did 12 hour shifts for two striaight weeks once , it was pretty hard
I work in corporate travel; and right after 9/11, I worked something like 12 or 14 days straight. I was participating in 4-5 conference calls a day, writing urgent communiques to advise travelers what the news was from the FAA, when planes were going to fly, what security precautions were going to be in place, etc. These were not light days of work; they were 10-12 hours each, and I didn’t get to reconnect with family and grieve what we as Americans had lost until this stretch was over. Not my favorite memory.
17 Days. While I was a lifeguard.
Big mistake!
I ended up with severe exhaustion, dehydration and sun posioning… my team leader sent me home on the 17th day early and told me not to come back for at least three days…
It was my fault though, I needed the money really bad, and alot of people called out because we were having a heat wave so I kept covering their shifts. The money was great… the rest… not so good.
18-20 days working double shifts each day. Boy, I do NOT miss those days…
Geez, that’s a lot of hours. I hope you’re getting a four-day weekend for the Fourth of July.
In June 2001, I worked every day of the month of June except for the 30th. (I REALLY wanted a new car, you see…!!)
Seriously? 34 days.
I have a two-year-old. The last day I got off was the Saturday of the week she spent with her Nana and Papa.
10 months. i had a 9-5 job on weekdays and then a weekend job as a receptionist for a real estate company to make some extra $. had to finally quit the weekend job because i was burnt out.
26. And it almost killed me.LOL
Six, lol.
I’m a part-timer, and I was at the time, and they HAD to give me Tuesdays off for my college class. Otherwise it would have been every day every week and… I was already losing my mind at 6. Putting books away for three hours for even three days a week is a little lunifying. (Yay for made up words.)
I think about a month, but that was when I was working two jobs, so I was asking for it.
Seven days? A week of camp work, then a weekend camp sleepover. I was out like a light that Sunday.
I’ve never worked more than 5 days in a row. My roomate’s girlfriend schedule looks like this, 8-5 receptionist, 9-2 works at the airport…everyday of the week.
@saintvi - @LifeNeedsProtection - Last week I watched my nephew for two days while brother and sis in law took a breif trip up to…. Well I’d rather not say. (But it wasn’t totally a business trip and it wasn’t totally a pleasure trip.)
Also after you guys finish raising your kids you’ll have people you can take great amounts of pride in.
I’m just wondering are you counting things like this when you say no pay, no days off?
@nidan - Even when somebody else is watching your kid(s), you’re still worrying. They’re constantly on your mind and you call, text or email to check on them several times a day if possible. If that’s not possible, you just worry more. It’s not really a valid day off. More like being on call and afraid to relax and enjoy yourself. My daughter is grown now – off to grad school this fall – so I’m semi-retired from full-time mothering. And yes, I’m very proud of her. And yes, I’ll still worry about her, but not every minute of every day anymore; just when I haven’t heard from her or she hasn’t updated her blog for a couple of days.
well, considering I’m a high school student, and I have a part time job on nights and weekends, I go many days without a day off. I’d have to say the longest is at least 3 weeks. At least.
1800 days in a row!! no days off…
like all mothers [and dads] said!! HA! was my first thought.. but back when i was working, the longest days without off was 33 days [worked two jobs.]
fifteen… the last three were doubles… it ended my very first panic attack… twas a busy day at work and everything… lasted an hour long… got to hear a bunch of bitches claim i faked it to get out of work… lame… but yeah… fifteen…
I once worked 17 days in a row of mostly six to eight hour days.
The only reason it ended at seventeen days was because during the shift, I joked with one of my managers about how they should just put a bed in the back for me if they were going to keep me this long (something like that, I think). She asked me when the last time I had a day off was, and then asked to see my schedule for the rest of the week, noting that my next day off was 4 days from that day.
Needless to say, she got someone else to cover my shift for the next day, and, boy, was I grateful.
I managed apartments for 2.5 yrs. The first 2 yrs of that I worked and was on call 24/7 with out any help on weekends from my assistant manager becuz he was always out of town for family emergencies… I took 10 days off the November before I quit. It was very hard to just stop working oddly enough. Even now that I am no longer working I miss it.
18 days
I didn’t know that mothers/grandmas ever got days off.
umm…i’m gonna sound like a brat….but 5 and 5 only. :
10. covering shifts and getting called in when other people don’t come in.
last/this week i am on day 6 of 8 days in a row.
yet i had 31 hours last week and only 27 this week. this is after i covered two shifts. pathetic.
I think I’ve worked like 10 days…
but worse was once I had a 16.5 hour day!
Bout two months worth when driving cab in Santa Fe. I was told to take about a week off after that!
27 days in a row, one day off then 26 more days in a row.
and I was considered part time.
13 days