Education & Work How many hours a week do you "work"?

Zero paid hours; lots of unpaid hours.

 

Source?

 

That would be from "The 4 Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferriss (who is not from INXS).

As a public servant, when I am not teaching, eg in the last week of term when my students are away on Work Experience, I do officey stuff. It takes all day to do something I could do in two hours at home because of all the ridiculous interruptions. For the past two years I have to walk to a separate building to collect anything I have sent to print because we don't have a printer in my building etc etc. When you get there, they are out of paper . It can take four days to get my password reset at the start of the year. We used to be able to reset each others, but now we can only reset student's passwords, not staff's.

Back to work again tomorrow .....

 

From this day forward I suggest we all be very specific, so as not to confuse the topic and use "arithmetic mean". This way layman's and professionals alike will know exactly what eachother mean.

 

I propose we use median!

 

I'm puzzled by the title of this thread - with "work" in speech marks.

Every time I read it, I think whaddya mean, I work (real work) not 'work' or "work"!

It also just occurred to me that PC members, with so many wanting to be 'financially free' may be unhappier with their jobs (or their work) than the rest of the population...

 

we need a new poll on this

 

Do you even 'work'?
Seriously, there are so many interpretations.
Some people who claim to be working hard may have never really experienced a hard days work in their lives.
It's all relative.

 

Work smart. Not hard.

 

The quoted stat is clearly and demonstrably wrong.

 

what is it...... the 80%/20% rule??

Looks like approx.
31% work 41-50 hours
22% work 31-40 hours

not surprising really, those in business will be working many more hours I guess??

 

I work 38+ hours per week. I want to be 'financially free', but I LOVE my job. Very rarely do I get up saying "I don't feel like going to work today".

I want the financial freedom mainly to be able to just go and do/buy something for my wife/kids. I have a decent sized mortgage atm, and very tight with money paying it off asap. Will take another 12 odd years at current rate I'd like to be like my neighbour who just dropped "only 87k" on a brand new car. I drive an 8k shitter

 

What do you do for living, if you care to share??
You could always buy a nice car, interest rates are very low, no deposit required?? someone shoot me, but sometimes its nice to have a few toys along the way, as long as its not going to hurt current lifestyle

 

I had a nice car a few years ago (nicely modified WRX which did 0-100 in 4.2 secs). It was my baby, but sold it to chuck into the mortgage, and bought my current Suzuki Swift Sport for 10k (they were selling for 16k at the time). Just sold my motorbike on Wednesday to put into the mortgage too.

The only thing I 'want' in life (apart from the obvious house etc) is a nice(ish) car. Sometimes I regret selling the WRX and dream whilst looking on carsales, but I've set a goal to get the PPOR mortgage to a point where it will still be <500k including new car. I've got a long way to go yet

Would be nice to be in a position to just go out and do it, instead of dreaming!

P.S. I have a pretty standard government job, but the people I work with are great.

 

I still believe in working hard MTR. While I'm young and healthy and have an abundance of crazy energy I am going to give it my all to grow my business as big as I can.... and I'm exceeding every goal at the moment.
Working hard is not all office work, I also have a personal trainer now and being pushed damn hard when I'm not in the office too - it's a goal to get fitter, stronger and become Adelaide's smoking hot PM

 

Wow, you go girl

 

Pics will be required to verify this...
Also, Adelaide is a small place, aim for national.
Being fit and strong definitely helps become even more successful.

 

I swear 2/3 years ago I had abs... (albeit not symmetrical...)
Working on toning again....

 

WoW.....Smoking hot, you look amazing