Posted: 6/4/2017 6:28:51 AM EDT
Usually work 4/10 Mon-Thurs, but have had to work the last few Fridays (and probably the rest through June as well). Shit blows. I don't know most people do it 
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Ill take what I can get anymore..
Ive been off since the Friday before Memorial day and I am "almost" back to feeling like a human being. Fairly normal sleep schedule that is whacked out due to work stress, house is clean, and I am getting interested in some of my hobbies again. Too bad all that changes when I go back to work tomorrow. Other than this past week, the last weekend I had where I didn't have to do something for work in some capacity was back around Christmas/New Years. |
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I work either four 10 ish hour days (Mon-Wed, and Friday) with Thursday and the weekend off, or four 8 ish hour days ,Mon-Weds, Friday, and how ever many hours on Sat. AM to get to 40 or so, with Thursday and Sunday off.
It's a breath of fresh air compared to the last job I was at for 20+ years of 50-80 hour weeks for weeks on end, with some going over 100 hrs. No regular days off if we were "busy", but then sitting at home during the winter for weeks, sometimes months on end, and being told we can't find other work because we have to be ready if/when they call and need us. Which with each passing winter became fewer and fewer, but the policy still was in effect. I finally said fuck that, and left. I will be making more money, even at a reduced number of hours per week, just by working steady year round. And now I have time for a life. |
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Loved the years I worked 3-13's running a press. 6AM to 7PM three days a week. The 6-13's two weeks a year on the quarterly changeovers were hell. But the two extra weeks off a year made up for it. Can't believe more companies don't run this schedule. I work M-F now, and I agree with OP. It sucks. We should work 4 days and be off 3. |
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Usually work 4/10 Mon-Thurs, but have had to work the last few Fridays (and probably the rest through June as well). Shit blows. I don't know most people do it lol!   im 4 on 4 off...i couldn't imagine having to go back to a normal work schedule.  it would be depressing as fuck |
| While I love 3-4 day weekends just as much as everyone else. I find it much more difficult to get back into the swing of things at work with the extra time off. I work 7-3, 5 days a week, but maybe I'd feel different if the schedule was set up differently, or it was a night shift. |
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I retired early at 50, can't stand the weekends, too many yahoos clogging the stores and my fishing spots.
Don't even go fishing on the weekends anymore. I'm heartened to hear some of you work 6 days a week, now the rest need to do what they can for the economy and work 7 days with no breaks!! |
The job I started last fall has 4 day weeks during the summer which I was looking forward to but now that we're on them I actually think I'd rather work 5/8s then 4/10s. I get bored easy and have a hard time finding enough stuff to do to keep me busy for three days straight. It gets too expensive to go shooting every week and it gets really expensive to sit at the computer . Right now I'm dong a bunch of yard work that I put off all the years I was working 60+ hrs/wk.
I wish we worked 4/10s in the fall so I could go hunting more than just the weekends, but fall through spring is our busiest time of the year. |
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Same here. Last assignment was sometimes months with no days off. 12 hour night shifts. |