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#4544914 - 11/14/20 03:44 PM Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts?  
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Since i've become a 'Farmhand' i've been pulling the 5.30 am to between 3.30- 5.30 pm shift, 30 minute lunch and two 10 minute breaks, 6 days a week for the last four weeks. Hard yakka flat out in the sun but it's been good. The last three days i've been changed to day/nightshifting it. 10.30am start, 12-12.45am finish. Lunch at 2 until 2-2.30pm then a straight shot until finish. 14 hours, 30 minutes home, wash clothes, pat cat, shower, eat, hang clothes, bed by 2am, up at 8 and breakfast and chill for an hour, catch up with any phone calls, work biggrin

At 50 i didn't think i would be still be pumping this hard and feeling pretty good. Day off begins now, currently 1.45am, if i'm lucky i might even log an hour in a 109 or 190 tonight if i can remember the controls...


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#4544919 - 11/14/20 03:56 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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Those who've never lived / worked on a farm have no idea.


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#4544927 - 11/14/20 04:28 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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Wow, I had no idea.

#4544952 - 11/14/20 07:43 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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16 hour days six days a week in new England textile mills 7 Am--11 PM a lot of nights just went out and slept in my car instead of going home.The money was good but my life sucked,,did it for about 10 months until we hired enough men to fill the roster..And I got boosted from a machine operator to the department manager


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#4544956 - 11/14/20 08:23 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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I've had to work 36 hours at a stretch many times at the railway, but that was not nearly as hard as when I worked at a friend's landscaping company 2 years ago, where there were only the two of us handling the same workload as bigger companies with multiple crews and much better equipment.

Every day involved constant heavy lifting, 25km worth of walking, lots of tedious tasks and you had to do in the brutal southern Ontario humidity. I think our longest day was only 14 hours, but it made the big stretches at the railway seem like a vacation by comparison.

#4544964 - 11/14/20 11:00 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Originally Posted by F4UDash4
Those who've never lived / worked on a farm have no idea.



I think the most recent statistic I saw is that only about 1-2 percent of the US workforce is involved in agriculture so yes, the vast majority would really have no idea!


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#4544965 - 11/14/20 11:16 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted by F4UDash4
Those who've never lived / worked on a farm have no idea.



I think the most recent statistic I saw is that only about 1-2 percent of the US workforce is involved in agriculture so yes, the vast majority would really have no idea!



It was probably no more than 5% when I was growing up on one.


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#4544969 - 11/14/20 11:31 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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12 hours a day, 7 days a week, anywhere from 4 to 15 weeks at a time, then a couple of weeks off. Typically, 4 weeks on, about 13 days off. About 17 years of it.

Most of the time it was easy peasy stuff, interspersed with moments of sheer terror, driving the boat and doing maintenance and repairs.

Now, annual shipyard prior to inspection, that was serious butt-busting work. I did my last one at age 61. It sucked, almost quit a few times.

Rough life, but pretty good money for a blue collar HS grad though. ahoy


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#4544978 - 11/15/20 12:48 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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Man Ajay; you are making me feel like an old man. That is beyond me.


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#4544983 - 11/15/20 02:00 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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Well this was in my early twenties, but I did a roughly 4 month period of rollerblading 6 miles for 4 hours of work at a pizza place (6pm to 10pm), then rollerblade back for a graveyard shift at a 7-11 (11pm to 7am), then roughly 4 hours of landscaping/gardening starting at 7:30am.

I was homeless when I did this. Even with plenty of money well before 4 months of this it was still very difficult to get a place with no phone number, no rental references, only newspaper ads and payphones to go on, and only rollerblades as transportation...

#4544985 - 11/15/20 02:02 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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So many out of work....not here. 10.5 hours days in an essential business. Glad to be working.


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#4544990 - 11/15/20 03:29 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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I did 13.5 hours a day, 6 days a week for four or five months back when I was nineteen years old to save up enough to go to college. That was rough. It was a cashiering job at a farmers market, but the lanes were packed the whole time, so it was non stop work.

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#4544993 - 11/15/20 03:39 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: bigbird]  
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Originally Posted by bigbird
So many out of work....not here. 10.5 hours days in an essential business. Glad to be working.


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#4544994 - 11/15/20 04:05 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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Longest for me is 8 am to 5 pm and then find out my relief was sick and asked if I want to stay and work until 2 am. Boss told me to order dinner, anything I want, by using cash from the safe. I stayed and got me 8 hours of overtime on that check. Hard part was going home and sleep at 3 am and back to work at 8 am. Dinner on the boss was pizza and wings.


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#4544997 - 11/15/20 05:13 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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Lived at work for 25 years. Had many weeks of 18 hour days doing repairs.Never again will I submit to that kind of contract.Worse then prison.
Working for a management company who had a contract with the city who we worked for. Missed out on on about 3 years worth of vacation time.
Moved out west and feel relieved of the pressures as i turn 59 on thanksgiving. Dad only made 58. Life has been tough the past year.


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#4545001 - 11/15/20 06:13 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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10 to 16 hrs a day, 7 days a week - 13 years so far and still continuing.
I must admit I did have 9 days off a couple of years ago and a week when I was in hospital.

12 years older than you Ajay so you have a little catching up to do mate but I'm sure you can make it - don't give up yet sunshine!

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#4545004 - 11/15/20 09:10 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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Umm... my 'normal' day would be 15-20hr shift- breaks /meals if there's time- it really depends on the job, sometimes there aren't any breaks.Usually this would be 3 days on, day off, but I'm self employed so it's take what Ican.
Have pulled a 72 hr straight off and 30 days of 15hr shifts, day off and another 14 days.

Basically haven't worked for last 6 months and little chance in next 6 months- gonna be 'interesting' getting back into that pace next year dizzy
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#4545006 - 11/15/20 09:52 AM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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Long hours running a small visual marketing business. Especially as one of our busiest sectors was producing and supplying exhibition graphics. I didn't mind really as it meant I had an excuse to bike all over the country. Also supplied 'Just in Time' graphics supply to mainly the Waste & Recycling container industry which often meant overnight production for a successful company that was working 24/7, not glamorous but paid off the mortgage. Backed up by a great team of three women who relished the overtime doing the tedious job of 'weeding' and taping the excess vinyl from plotted text and graphics.

Only regret; missing many formative hours of my 4 children.

Ten years of retirement later, I wonder how the hell I managed it.

Thinking of my youngest daughter and her colleagues currently pulling 12-14 hours shifts 6 or 7 days/nights in full PPE as Mental Health Liaison & Assessment in a busy London Hospital Accident and Emergency Dept.
Earning plenty but not the energy or opportunity to spend it under latest Covid restrictions.



#4545232 - 11/17/20 12:08 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: Ajay]  
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I work strictly 40 hours per week unless there is some kind of MAJOR outage or project going on which absolutely necessitates overtime. I'm an IT government contractor so understandably the government wants to avoid any kind of extra expenditure whenever possible.


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#4545234 - 11/17/20 12:14 PM Re: Long hours atm, and holding up suprisingly well. What's your biggest shifts? [Re: BD-123]  
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Originally Posted by BD-123


Thinking of my youngest daughter and her colleagues currently pulling 12-14 hours shifts 6 or 7 days/nights in full PPE as Mental Health Liaison & Assessment in a busy London Hospital Accident and Emergency Dept.
Earning plenty but not the energy or opportunity to spend it under latest Covid restrictions.



That work schedule is SOP for pretty much every medical professional in the West. Great pay but long and stressful hours. When I first started college I knew many people who were "Pre-Med" and by the time of my senior year only about 2 or 3 of them were still in the "Pre-Med" track. Apparently they had discovered just how much of your personal/social life you have to sacrifice to be a doctor or a nurse.


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