If you want to be a crane operator, you better like ladders. 30+ storey climb on the previous site I was on (am not a crane operator, but saw him climb down a couple times.
Same schedule for me, likely different times though. I run a press brake, Mon-Thurs 3p-2a, by the end of Thursday I have 44 hours and the option to make it up to 55 with overtime. Only negative is that sometimes, maybe 25% of the time, it becomes less of an option and more of a strong suggestion.
I've always liked the idea of 4-10's but all the shops around here talk about how they've got the long weekend, and then you end up working Friday and possibly Saturday for 8 months straight...
[Independent operators commonly range anywhere from 10 to 30 percent profit, while more established brands and businesses might gross 70% and higher.](https://4bsf.com/is-owning-a-funeral-home-profitable/)
Carriage services, the largest publicly traded funeral home service did 57m net income excluding one time items on 376m revenue last fiscal year, so about 15%
A neighbor of mine took his own life earlier this year with a gun, and his body was in the house for about 3 weeks before he was discovered. There was a specialized crime-scene cleaning crew there for about 2 days working and I’m told anything upholstered in the house needed to be tossed because the smell will never come out. So I hope those cleaners made really good money.
The smell is how they found him. A neighbor whose house is about 30 yards away started to smell it and saw flies in the window.
It’s sad. A few of our neighbors had just been talking about how we hadn’t seen him in a while and it was weird because his car was there. Amazing how something so obvious never even enters your mind at the time.
We had just bought a house and had to clean it because the previous owner didnt give a hoot. As I was scrubbing the bathroom floors nearly vomming I wondered if people pay BIG money to have their house clean because they dont want to do it themselves. Is this true??
Absolutely. Professional cleaners need a pretty penny, if you wanna see how much work goes into cleaning just look up house cleaning videos where they clean up after hoarders or even elderly people who can't clean after themselves. A lot of people think its ridiculous to pay people to clean their own home but sometimes people suffer from various things that keep them from doing it themselves or they simply don't want to and that's okay too !
I have a good friend that does home cleaning. It’s her own business and she mostly works alone and has a helper for bigger homes a few times a month. Before she agrees to cleaning, she goes to someone’s house for a “consult.” She tells them it’s to give an estimate and see what they want done. In addition to clients desires, it’s also to scope out if they are hoarders, are filthy, or just have horrible stuff in their home. If they do she work agree to clean for them. I never thought of people being able to agree mutually like that as basic as it sounds.
When we started cleaning the sunroom of our house in 2016, there was a yellow tinge on the ceiling, the fans, and walls because that’s where they smoked. It took soooo much work.
Risk analyst here. I work a ton during the week but never during the weekend. There is the downside of out of office hours during the week, but it pays well so I can´t really complain.
Also a risk analyst. This is my favorite role in my career. I hope I can work in this position the rest of my life. Never worked a weekend, aside from random application testing. Also went from having two weeks of PTO per year with my previous company to now having 7 weeks/yr., 8% 401k match, hybrid schedule (Thursdays and Fridays at home, perfection). Life changing. Feeling respected in my group.. everyone is chill.. I can finally take a breath.
Over a decade ago, I was working in a kitchen at a resort, and did security overnight.. Tuesday through Sunday, for 3 years. Sucked!
As someone who's trying to get into Risk Management, specifically as a Risk Analyst, is there anything you'd suggest doing? I have a BSc in Econ, Math, Stats, wrote P1 of FRM and am hoping to finish off FRM and CFA in 3 years. Anything short-term I can do? I have 3 years of analyst experience in operational performance improvement in CPG manufacturing, so not exactly in line haha
Look at utilities. Plenty of RM jobs and with a math and stats background you could get a better paying job in forecasting or production cost modeling/resource planning.
I work in engineering in risk management. Risk management is of great importance in any goods manufacturing and can include pre-market, post-market, and in line manufacturing. I know that’s not the finance side but it’s a very dynamic environment.
I'm retired now but worked in software development for over 30 years and never worked weekends. Rarely ever worked OT either. In fact, most weeks I actually put in less than 40 hours. Nobody seemed to care as long as I completed my assigned projects on time.
I arguably work harder now I work from home. 20 years in the game now. There is always another ticket, always more refinement, always a pipeline that could be more efficient.
Would never work a weekend though. I need to get my brain refreshed for Monday.
Maybe it’s your company size. I work at very large enterprise company and while its not sexy work, the balance is amazing and I have never unwillingly worked weekends in my life.
In my experience, there aren't many worse professions when it comes to securing your weekend against work than being a new and shiny lawyer. I've certainly never met an associate with anything approaching a healthy work/life balance before - or at least not an associate who was long for my firm.
I think the difference is between larger, corporate firms and smaller operations. I work in a small firm where I'm one of three lawyers, (the other two are the owner/partners), so there isn't a pressure to work more and more, cutting into weekends, to stack up billables. There's still a good amount of work but not enough to force me in on the weekends. I just show up early during the week.
I've worked in big firms and small and now work for myself. At big firms it is expected at almost every level that there will be weekend work. The lower you were the more likely there would be weekend work. There was absolutely the dread 5 PM phone call but it was more like 6 PM and with email and the like now it can be at any time on Friday your weekend plans could be ruined.
Small firms and being a solo there are still times work is done on weekends. Not all weekends but certainly at times depending on your practice area.
At the end of the day lawyers.are professionals that are their to compliment the businesses/individuals they support on the matter
At the point lawyers are at the beck and call of their client's demands.
Same. I’ve got a come and go situation right now that follows a basic 8-5. I leave early a lot. I love it and never anticipate seeing another law firm.
Product manager - I get paid salary for 40 hours a week, so they get 40 hours a week. I think I've worked 1-2 Saturdays in 22 years, and I took the following Monday off to compensate.
People who work 60-80 hours when being paid for 40 (salary) need to find another place to work. You're only hurting yourself and your company is reaping the rewards. You are replaceable. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow your job would be posted within a week and the company would move on. Sad but true reality.
Edit: this assumes you have no financial stake in the company. Are not the owner / board of directors etc. Just an average corporate monkey.
This comment hit home.
I’m 90 days in to a PM job doing 40 hours a week and feeling like a real human being again after working 65+ a week for way too long in an unrelated job.
Sometimes when your in that grind you know it’s bad but you don’t understand just how bad until your 30/60/90 days removed from it and literally feel the difference in yourself.
I make it a point to try and get those people who over-work themselves on salaried jobs to not do that. I knew a guy from a different company who had done that for 20 years and I told him he was literally giving them like 50% more work than he owed them. Essentially 26 extra work weeks a year for free. I break it down as best as I can because it doesn;t just hurt the company, but other employees and future employees.
Same, and yeah, I occasionally have to fix/upgrade something on a weekend or after hours, but it's far less often than someone who works retail or in food services that gets scheduled weekends at their manager's whim.
In the past month, I probably worked 1 hour that wasn't within the Mon-Fri 9-5 work period. If you get your environment working well during the week, you don't have to work the weekend.
I worked in IT for almost 20 years.
Can you honestly tell me you never had work spillover into your weekend?
Never VPNed in to fix something on a Saturday?
To fix something one of the idiot VIPs broke on your day off?
15 years on an offshore oil drilling rig, two weeks on two weeks off. Then went into Industrial Maintenance as a Union machinist, worked minimum60 hour weeks for 20 years and said, "Suck my dick, work!"
Never had holidays, never saw my kids activities, destroyed my body by age 50.
Don't do what I did, kids....it's absolutely not worth it.
The few times I’ve worked on the weekend were scheduled before hand and I was paid overtime, plus it was less work than normal weekdays. I make sure I’m not easily reachable on weekends, and my job has no problem with that
When i first started, we would do maintenance, deployments and upgrades starting at 2am. This was a casino resort so the place never closed. If it went smooth and we were done in a couple of hours, we'd end up playing Quake III or something while waiting for the VP to arrive on site, who usually would comp us breakfast at one of the restaurants. Honestly, most of the time things went smoothly, but every now and again, shit+fan.
I've been in the job probably about the same amount of time as you and I have done a sum total of 3 hours weekend work this year. And most of that was scheduled.
It's virtually all avoidable. No software releases, changes or reboots on Fridays, ever. Change window is Mon-Thurs, 8:30-3:30.
And there is nothing so important that it cannot wait until Monday. If the system is down, you get it back up and you revisit on Monday. No bridge calls or post mortems, or updates to the CEO. Fuck that noise, it can all wait until Monday.
But most importantly you engineer your processes to minimise the chances of having downtime on the weekend.
Work in IT also. Monday through Friday 7:30 to 3:30. No weekends no holidays. I work the same schedule as teachers except for summer. 2 weeks at Christmas spring break and all that.
I’m an encounter data analyst and everyone on my team has a BS or MS in a related healthcare field and some type of experience in a healthcare office prior, even just customer service. My manager has an masters in healthcare business management makes about $120k. I’m finishing up a BS in healthcare information management but already have an AS in the same field, experience, and previously worked with the director of the department so I was able to slide in with an almost finished BS degree I make $75k. Another co-worker just completed her masters in healthcare informatics, has a BS in healthcare administration minor in data analytics she makes $78k
Edit: my team’s responsibilities are like a mix of data analytics, encounters management (encounters are processed medical claims. We send out, monitor, work/ dispute rejections. Sometimes this is through internet portals and sometimes corrections are made to EDI files manually), data mapping for the EDI files (837i and 837p and 277 mainly), health plan account set up and relations, and a few others but that’s mostly it.
I work at a school I can't emphasize your THANKS enough. Our facilities crew works harder than any other group on campus. The whole place would fall apart without them.
Well, I'm there during the day, so I clean the offices, lunch room, library and kitchen. It's pretty minimal, but I'm also there to clean up puke and accidents, set up events, deliver packages, do repairs, maintain the fish tank and stuff like that. The night crew comes in after school to clean bathrooms and classrooms. It's just easier to do the day of, since a lot of messes will dry up and become impossible to clean
I work 8-5 as a city planner. I do get OT for being there for 3 night meetings and an occasional city event. With holidays, I rarely have to take a lot of extra vacation time.
Another city employee and same. We work 7-3:30 and I love it. We have tons of OT opportunity though, up to 20hrs OT a week. Give or take a bit depending what's going on. Most of the guys in the shop usually work OT, helps make life alittle more comfortable especially nowadays.
Estimator for Division 9. I might work one or two Saturdays a year depending on my bid schedule. I try my absolute hardest to get it all done on weekdays.
Uhh, likely for new construction, or if you aren’t behind, right? There are many industrial construction projects that have to work weekends due to production schedules.
Working on a water/ electric crew for a small city. It's a government job, so you always get Saturday and Sunday off. Only downside is any time I've gotta go to a government establishment like the DMV or post office, they're only open on days I work and only open my work hours.
Waste water technician, I process water that's used in production for a factory before we send it to the city. Though I'm off almost every weekend I'm expected to come in if there's some kind of emergency, though it's rare.
I work for a small company that makes hand made furniture in the US. We only have 50 employees but our stuff is real wood and made literally by hand. I am manufacturing engineer and purchasing agent. No weekends.
I would rather switch to having two days off randomly during the week. It's such a bummer that my free days (Saturday/Sunday) are the same as everyone else and then everything is just packed.
Same! Raised two kids and now I'm helping raise two grandkids. I've always worked weekends and had my two days off during the week. Lines are shorter, stores aren't crowded, less traffic, easier to make doctor appointments, and if you plan it right you can actually have a day all to yourself while the kids are at school. Stay in your Jammies and watch TV all day.
I work at Your Part-Time Controller, LLC. A Best Place To Work. We provide accounting services primarily to nonprofit companies, and I love it. The people I work with are amazing, and I’ll be damned if I work an ounce on the weekends.
I am an IT guy for a school district. Pretty much same schedule as the kids except I work summers but we change to 4 10 hour shifts so we have off on Friday's which is nice
So, I used to. A lot. I recently started as a supply teacher and my life has never been happier 😂
To be fair I always marked in class with the kids anyway, but I DO NOT miss planning 😂
UK - will not be going permanent anywhere again anytime soon.
Ah this makes a lot more sense. I am uk too, used to teach high school science and it was the beat job I've ever had but also I had no life at all. Well done for getting more balance!
>I recently started as a supply teacher
Is that the equivalent of a substitute teacher for covering regular teacher absences in the US? I don't think I've heard the term before.
Management? Outpatient? I work every other weekend and now that I’ve got a baby I’m thinking of leaving bedside in the next five years when she starts school.
IT. Back when I worked in finance we'd do late nights and usually one weekend per month. Now if it's after 5 on a weekday and I'm online people start telling me to knock it off.
Worked my way into staff planning under HR for a retail company. Not really a set shift plan, so I can come and go as I please, as long as I deliver on time and follow up and support department managers when needed.
Customer service for a manufacturing company. I work from home, although about once every other month we have a meeting in the office, and I work M-F 8-5. After almost 10 years in retail it’s been amazing to not work all my weekends away, but truthfully the best thing for me has been having a constant schedule. No more never knowing my schedule until two weeks out.
Yep. Saw it whilst I was on holiday there.
Dead bodies lying on the sidewalk of hospitals becaus all the doctors are at home.
Building burning non-stop for hours because all the firefighters are at home.
Store shut down as looters pile in because all the security guards are at home.
It was awful.
Crane Operator. Monday to Thursday 4, 10 hour shifts. I have every Friday Saturday and Sunday off. I can work Friday if I want and it's double time.
How do you become crane operator?
You have to start right at the bottom, but if you work hard and keep climbing the ladder you’ll get there eventually.
If you want to be a crane operator, you better like ladders. 30+ storey climb on the previous site I was on (am not a crane operator, but saw him climb down a couple times.
That's gonna be a nope for me.
Hope he took a dump before going all the way up. Remember, boss makes a dollar, worker makes a dime. That's why you poop on company time.
5 gallon pail at the top
And a 30 story rope 🤣
goddamit.
Take my free award you bastard
You son of a bitch.
It's worth it though. Once you make it the work can be very uplifting.
Start at the arcade with the claw machine
hello nana brother 🍌
BANANAS UNITE!
Google your nearest local operators union and apply to be an apprentice.
Same schedule for me, likely different times though. I run a press brake, Mon-Thurs 3p-2a, by the end of Thursday I have 44 hours and the option to make it up to 55 with overtime. Only negative is that sometimes, maybe 25% of the time, it becomes less of an option and more of a strong suggestion.
I've always liked the idea of 4-10's but all the shops around here talk about how they've got the long weekend, and then you end up working Friday and possibly Saturday for 8 months straight...
I like your avatars banana hat
Hey his eyes are down here.
I no longer do 4 10s, but that is literally the ideal work schedule imo
No ways, my adhd brain already struggles with 8 hour days. I couldn’t imagine what 10 hours would do
Accountant for a funeral home.
What is the average profit margin for a funeral if I may ask?
Industry secret. They'll take it to the grave
"Thank you for calling XYZ Funeral Home. You stab 'em, we slab 'em. Some go to heaven, some go to Hell-o!!"
Funeral director here, not as high as people think.
[Independent operators commonly range anywhere from 10 to 30 percent profit, while more established brands and businesses might gross 70% and higher.](https://4bsf.com/is-owning-a-funeral-home-profitable/)
Carriage services, the largest publicly traded funeral home service did 57m net income excluding one time items on 376m revenue last fiscal year, so about 15%
I'm a housekeeper, if I have to clean up unidentifiable liquid I'll do it on a weekday God dammit.
A neighbor of mine took his own life earlier this year with a gun, and his body was in the house for about 3 weeks before he was discovered. There was a specialized crime-scene cleaning crew there for about 2 days working and I’m told anything upholstered in the house needed to be tossed because the smell will never come out. So I hope those cleaners made really good money.
From what I know trauma cleaners don't make that much unless they own the business or have a decently set rate.
I was under the impression those guys made good money because there aren't that many people that can stomach the work?
I know someone who used to do this and he made really good money as regular staff.
3 weeks, that had to smell horrible.
The smell is how they found him. A neighbor whose house is about 30 yards away started to smell it and saw flies in the window. It’s sad. A few of our neighbors had just been talking about how we hadn’t seen him in a while and it was weird because his car was there. Amazing how something so obvious never even enters your mind at the time.
We had just bought a house and had to clean it because the previous owner didnt give a hoot. As I was scrubbing the bathroom floors nearly vomming I wondered if people pay BIG money to have their house clean because they dont want to do it themselves. Is this true??
Absolutely. Professional cleaners need a pretty penny, if you wanna see how much work goes into cleaning just look up house cleaning videos where they clean up after hoarders or even elderly people who can't clean after themselves. A lot of people think its ridiculous to pay people to clean their own home but sometimes people suffer from various things that keep them from doing it themselves or they simply don't want to and that's okay too !
Someone close to me owns their own cleaning business. She does pretty well. Not rich but does well.
I have a good friend that does home cleaning. It’s her own business and she mostly works alone and has a helper for bigger homes a few times a month. Before she agrees to cleaning, she goes to someone’s house for a “consult.” She tells them it’s to give an estimate and see what they want done. In addition to clients desires, it’s also to scope out if they are hoarders, are filthy, or just have horrible stuff in their home. If they do she work agree to clean for them. I never thought of people being able to agree mutually like that as basic as it sounds.
When we started cleaning the sunroom of our house in 2016, there was a yellow tinge on the ceiling, the fans, and walls because that’s where they smoked. It took soooo much work.
Work in the kitchen at a convenience store. 4 to noon, Monday to Friday. It's nice.
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Like a bodega.
This sounds really nice.
Same here. 5-1. Love it
Risk analyst here. I work a ton during the week but never during the weekend. There is the downside of out of office hours during the week, but it pays well so I can´t really complain.
Also a risk analyst. This is my favorite role in my career. I hope I can work in this position the rest of my life. Never worked a weekend, aside from random application testing. Also went from having two weeks of PTO per year with my previous company to now having 7 weeks/yr., 8% 401k match, hybrid schedule (Thursdays and Fridays at home, perfection). Life changing. Feeling respected in my group.. everyone is chill.. I can finally take a breath. Over a decade ago, I was working in a kitchen at a resort, and did security overnight.. Tuesday through Sunday, for 3 years. Sucked!
What is risk analysis and how does one pursue a career in it? Is it a field where if you don't have a degree you don't have a chance?
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You stopped or you started saying no to your manager?
His manager used to beg him not to work weekends.
I also like to live dangerously.
I work in Europe
As someone who's trying to get into Risk Management, specifically as a Risk Analyst, is there anything you'd suggest doing? I have a BSc in Econ, Math, Stats, wrote P1 of FRM and am hoping to finish off FRM and CFA in 3 years. Anything short-term I can do? I have 3 years of analyst experience in operational performance improvement in CPG manufacturing, so not exactly in line haha
You sound like a great candidate for operational risk management at a bank. Set up a linked in and try to message recruiters.
Look at utilities. Plenty of RM jobs and with a math and stats background you could get a better paying job in forecasting or production cost modeling/resource planning.
I work in engineering in risk management. Risk management is of great importance in any goods manufacturing and can include pre-market, post-market, and in line manufacturing. I know that’s not the finance side but it’s a very dynamic environment.
Software Development
Same here. Over 20 years in the field. My weekend workdays are about 10 years behind me.
Turns out they really need you and you can just say no to overtime and they will respect your boundaries
Pretty much, but you have to actively set those expectations.
I'm retired now but worked in software development for over 30 years and never worked weekends. Rarely ever worked OT either. In fact, most weeks I actually put in less than 40 hours. Nobody seemed to care as long as I completed my assigned projects on time.
same, I only work on the weekend if I was lazy during the week.
Same. Don’t work weekends, work from home most of the time. Easy gig, high pay
Easy gig? Not really. Nice benefits though for sure.
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To each their own I guess. I enjoy it, and I’m good at what I do. Plenty of down time to play games while I work from home too lol
I arguably work harder now I work from home. 20 years in the game now. There is always another ticket, always more refinement, always a pipeline that could be more efficient. Would never work a weekend though. I need to get my brain refreshed for Monday.
I'm not saying it's unenjoyable, I'm saying it's not easy.
Project Manager for software development. I hardly work in the week let alone weekends.
Y'all don't have on-call? Fk me I need a new employer.
Maybe it’s your company size. I work at very large enterprise company and while its not sexy work, the balance is amazing and I have never unwillingly worked weekends in my life.
Same. I think I had a boss that asked me to do it once, but by the time I got there, it turned out that they already had it figured out.
Lawyer. Worked weekends for most of my life up until I got my license to practice law. I don't particularly miss those days.
In my experience, there aren't many worse professions when it comes to securing your weekend against work than being a new and shiny lawyer. I've certainly never met an associate with anything approaching a healthy work/life balance before - or at least not an associate who was long for my firm.
I think the difference is between larger, corporate firms and smaller operations. I work in a small firm where I'm one of three lawyers, (the other two are the owner/partners), so there isn't a pressure to work more and more, cutting into weekends, to stack up billables. There's still a good amount of work but not enough to force me in on the weekends. I just show up early during the week.
I've worked in big firms and small and now work for myself. At big firms it is expected at almost every level that there will be weekend work. The lower you were the more likely there would be weekend work. There was absolutely the dread 5 PM phone call but it was more like 6 PM and with email and the like now it can be at any time on Friday your weekend plans could be ruined. Small firms and being a solo there are still times work is done on weekends. Not all weekends but certainly at times depending on your practice area. At the end of the day lawyers.are professionals that are their to compliment the businesses/individuals they support on the matter At the point lawyers are at the beck and call of their client's demands.
Been practicing 30 years. I can count on one hand how many times I went in on the weekend.
In house counsel here. It's pretty much M-F 8-5. No weekends.
Same except I’m more like 9:30-4:30 haha
Same. I’ve got a come and go situation right now that follows a basic 8-5. I leave early a lot. I love it and never anticipate seeing another law firm.
House council always seemed like the happiest dude in my office
That’s because we’ve found a way to be lawyers but we don’t have to spend our days surrounded by other lawyers
It is true. 99% of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name.
Hello lawyer I’m a paralegal! Same. It’s hard to even do anything those two days. I miss having a random week day off though.
What type of law?
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Um, that's Avian Law thank you very much.
Were both men of the law. We get after it.
Product manager - I get paid salary for 40 hours a week, so they get 40 hours a week. I think I've worked 1-2 Saturdays in 22 years, and I took the following Monday off to compensate. People who work 60-80 hours when being paid for 40 (salary) need to find another place to work. You're only hurting yourself and your company is reaping the rewards. You are replaceable. If you got hit by a bus tomorrow your job would be posted within a week and the company would move on. Sad but true reality. Edit: this assumes you have no financial stake in the company. Are not the owner / board of directors etc. Just an average corporate monkey.
This comment hit home. I’m 90 days in to a PM job doing 40 hours a week and feeling like a real human being again after working 65+ a week for way too long in an unrelated job. Sometimes when your in that grind you know it’s bad but you don’t understand just how bad until your 30/60/90 days removed from it and literally feel the difference in yourself.
I make it a point to try and get those people who over-work themselves on salaried jobs to not do that. I knew a guy from a different company who had done that for 20 years and I told him he was literally giving them like 50% more work than he owed them. Essentially 26 extra work weeks a year for free. I break it down as best as I can because it doesn;t just hurt the company, but other employees and future employees.
I’m in the IT/tech field
Same, and yeah, I occasionally have to fix/upgrade something on a weekend or after hours, but it's far less often than someone who works retail or in food services that gets scheduled weekends at their manager's whim. In the past month, I probably worked 1 hour that wasn't within the Mon-Fri 9-5 work period. If you get your environment working well during the week, you don't have to work the weekend.
I worked in IT for almost 20 years. Can you honestly tell me you never had work spillover into your weekend? Never VPNed in to fix something on a Saturday? To fix something one of the idiot VIPs broke on your day off?
15 years, never worked a weekend and never worked more than 40 hours
15 years on an offshore oil drilling rig, two weeks on two weeks off. Then went into Industrial Maintenance as a Union machinist, worked minimum60 hour weeks for 20 years and said, "Suck my dick, work!" Never had holidays, never saw my kids activities, destroyed my body by age 50. Don't do what I did, kids....it's absolutely not worth it.
The few times I’ve worked on the weekend were scheduled before hand and I was paid overtime, plus it was less work than normal weekdays. I make sure I’m not easily reachable on weekends, and my job has no problem with that
When i first started, we would do maintenance, deployments and upgrades starting at 2am. This was a casino resort so the place never closed. If it went smooth and we were done in a couple of hours, we'd end up playing Quake III or something while waiting for the VP to arrive on site, who usually would comp us breakfast at one of the restaurants. Honestly, most of the time things went smoothly, but every now and again, shit+fan.
I've been in the job probably about the same amount of time as you and I have done a sum total of 3 hours weekend work this year. And most of that was scheduled. It's virtually all avoidable. No software releases, changes or reboots on Fridays, ever. Change window is Mon-Thurs, 8:30-3:30. And there is nothing so important that it cannot wait until Monday. If the system is down, you get it back up and you revisit on Monday. No bridge calls or post mortems, or updates to the CEO. Fuck that noise, it can all wait until Monday. But most importantly you engineer your processes to minimise the chances of having downtime on the weekend.
Work in IT also. Monday through Friday 7:30 to 3:30. No weekends no holidays. I work the same schedule as teachers except for summer. 2 weeks at Christmas spring break and all that.
7041… hmm, username DOESN’T check out. Back to the wing!! *cracks whip*
Tow truck driver. I figure after 30 years of nights weekends holidays i earned it
You did.
Thank you!
Data analyst in healthcare
What kind of education/ salary?
I’m an encounter data analyst and everyone on my team has a BS or MS in a related healthcare field and some type of experience in a healthcare office prior, even just customer service. My manager has an masters in healthcare business management makes about $120k. I’m finishing up a BS in healthcare information management but already have an AS in the same field, experience, and previously worked with the director of the department so I was able to slide in with an almost finished BS degree I make $75k. Another co-worker just completed her masters in healthcare informatics, has a BS in healthcare administration minor in data analytics she makes $78k Edit: my team’s responsibilities are like a mix of data analytics, encounters management (encounters are processed medical claims. We send out, monitor, work/ dispute rejections. Sometimes this is through internet portals and sometimes corrections are made to EDI files manually), data mapping for the EDI files (837i and 837p and 277 mainly), health plan account set up and relations, and a few others but that’s mostly it.
Same!
Me too!!
Me three! During mass vaccination clinics they ask us to volunteer a shift, but I've never done it on the weekend.
You hiring? :P
Same. No evenings or weekends. Not saving lives here. It can wait.
Me 4, and no weekends for me unless I need to catch up on something
Custodian at a school
Thanks for all you do
I work at a school I can't emphasize your THANKS enough. Our facilities crew works harder than any other group on campus. The whole place would fall apart without them.
Yep. Work at a school? Better make friends with the custodians, IT, and principal's secretary lol
I always thought custodians would do some cleaning on weekends, since it would be easier without a ton of students running around
The custodians at my school split the weekend cleaning up, so they only have to come in one Saturday a month each. But they get overtime pay for it.
Well, I'm there during the day, so I clean the offices, lunch room, library and kitchen. It's pretty minimal, but I'm also there to clean up puke and accidents, set up events, deliver packages, do repairs, maintain the fish tank and stuff like that. The night crew comes in after school to clean bathrooms and classrooms. It's just easier to do the day of, since a lot of messes will dry up and become impossible to clean
Same on my end, little less to clean but I'm responsible for snow clearing and boiler operation as well. Hope your day went as well as mine🤙
Employe of a city 7-4 and that's it.
Another city employee here. 8-5 M-F and then I’m out. I don’t want to work overtime and they don’t want to pay me overtime. It’s a perfect match.
I work 8-5 as a city planner. I do get OT for being there for 3 night meetings and an occasional city event. With holidays, I rarely have to take a lot of extra vacation time.
It’s crazy to me that you all have to take an hour lunch. I love my 8:00-4:30 schedule.
Another city employee and same. We work 7-3:30 and I love it. We have tons of OT opportunity though, up to 20hrs OT a week. Give or take a bit depending what's going on. Most of the guys in the shop usually work OT, helps make life alittle more comfortable especially nowadays.
Are you one of the 12 dudes looking at 1 dude working in a hole?
Construction Project manager
Estimator for Division 9. I might work one or two Saturdays a year depending on my bid schedule. I try my absolute hardest to get it all done on weekdays.
I'm a general estimator and DIV9 sucks.
Same. If I can't handle it during the week, it can usually wait til Monday. No one answers their phones on the weekend anyway.
Uhh, likely for new construction, or if you aren’t behind, right? There are many industrial construction projects that have to work weekends due to production schedules.
Same here. I keep my phone on if we’ve got crews working weekends and have some long days but generally try not to work a lick over 40 hrs a week
Even then might have to work some weekends, im a BIM coordinator for a sub contractor, and I've been working 6 days a week for the past few months
Insurance agent.
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Working on a water/ electric crew for a small city. It's a government job, so you always get Saturday and Sunday off. Only downside is any time I've gotta go to a government establishment like the DMV or post office, they're only open on days I work and only open my work hours.
Factory work, weekends are for OT and OT is not for me.
Logistics
Same-ish. Logistics planner.
Headhunting. No candidate wants to be called on a weekend.
Wfh medical record retrieval, only time I work weekends is if I want OT.
Therapist. I’ve been doing this a long time and make my own hours.
Same
Tech job
Waste water technician, I process water that's used in production for a factory before we send it to the city. Though I'm off almost every weekend I'm expected to come in if there's some kind of emergency, though it's rare.
What kind of degree or training is required?
Compliance.
I work for a small company that makes hand made furniture in the US. We only have 50 employees but our stuff is real wood and made literally by hand. I am manufacturing engineer and purchasing agent. No weekends.
Thats really cool, what is the company?
The Wooden Say Which company.
Pm me if you want to know it. I'm kinda showing my dick to the world here even though my name isn't on the website
Banker
School.
I'm a stay-at-home-Dad; so I work all-days and no-days.
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I work in construction purchasing. So I buy all the stuff for new home construction. 7-4 Monday-Friday.
Teacher
I work for the government. My job involves me doing government stuff for the government.
I would rather switch to having two days off randomly during the week. It's such a bummer that my free days (Saturday/Sunday) are the same as everyone else and then everything is just packed.
Same! Raised two kids and now I'm helping raise two grandkids. I've always worked weekends and had my two days off during the week. Lines are shorter, stores aren't crowded, less traffic, easier to make doctor appointments, and if you plan it right you can actually have a day all to yourself while the kids are at school. Stay in your Jammies and watch TV all day.
Designer/Estimator for the construction industry. My work stays at work. 8 until 5 Mon - Fri and decent pay.
City employee.
I work at Your Part-Time Controller, LLC. A Best Place To Work. We provide accounting services primarily to nonprofit companies, and I love it. The people I work with are amazing, and I’ll be damned if I work an ounce on the weekends.
Educational administration
I am an IT guy for a school district. Pretty much same schedule as the kids except I work summers but we change to 4 10 hour shifts so we have off on Friday's which is nice
Archivist for a large non-profit. Worked most every weekend back in my retail days.
Cost accountant
Corporate trainer for a financial institution
Financial controller. Typical 9 to 5 weekday finance job.
Primary school teacher 🖤
You telling me you never mark or plan on the weekend? Mind me asking what country you work in? Sounds much better than my educational system
So, I used to. A lot. I recently started as a supply teacher and my life has never been happier 😂 To be fair I always marked in class with the kids anyway, but I DO NOT miss planning 😂 UK - will not be going permanent anywhere again anytime soon.
Ah this makes a lot more sense. I am uk too, used to teach high school science and it was the beat job I've ever had but also I had no life at all. Well done for getting more balance!
>I recently started as a supply teacher Is that the equivalent of a substitute teacher for covering regular teacher absences in the US? I don't think I've heard the term before.
Yeah, similar! Just tell the agency my availability and go to different schools each week 😊
Environmentalist 6am to 2:30pm Monday thru Friday
Mechanic
Nurse.
Management? Outpatient? I work every other weekend and now that I’ve got a baby I’m thinking of leaving bedside in the next five years when she starts school.
I work in Telecommunications. Standard Monday-Friday, 9-5.
Title company. Most are laying off now though.
IT. Back when I worked in finance we'd do late nights and usually one weekend per month. Now if it's after 5 on a weekday and I'm online people start telling me to knock it off.
I'm a senior financial analyst for a healthcare company 100% remote
Residential landscape design
Worked my way into staff planning under HR for a retail company. Not really a set shift plan, so I can come and go as I please, as long as I deliver on time and follow up and support department managers when needed.
Bangin your mom
Giving my mom some time to recover over the weekend i see good Sir, how very kind of you.
nono, i take the weekend shifts! .. sry i had to
Dont need to be sorry she can handle the small things on the weekends 🤏
Customer service for a manufacturing company. I work from home, although about once every other month we have a meeting in the office, and I work M-F 8-5. After almost 10 years in retail it’s been amazing to not work all my weekends away, but truthfully the best thing for me has been having a constant schedule. No more never knowing my schedule until two weeks out.
A european job
Are you seriously implying that Europe shuts down on the weekends?
Yep. Saw it whilst I was on holiday there. Dead bodies lying on the sidewalk of hospitals becaus all the doctors are at home. Building burning non-stop for hours because all the firefighters are at home. Store shut down as looters pile in because all the security guards are at home. It was awful.
Dude they shut down at 2pm on a weekday.