Thanks for your answers, everyone. I made this post because I saw a couple people posting about working 10 hours every day, and wanted to reassure myself that it wasn't the norm for it to be required.
I'm currently on sabbatical, so I've been working between zero and negative hours except when I get excited about a project for a little while. In which case it's probably a max of 12 hours a day, but only for one or two days at a time.
My last job was for a government contractor, and we were required to bill 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (or the equivalent of 8 per day times the number of days in the pay period, but you could vary it from day to day). Lunches were unpaid (but mandatory 30 minutes at least) and I also liked to take an (unpaid) walk in the afternoon, so my work day was usually 9am to 6 or 6:30pm. The good part was that overtime was pretty rare (and eventually not allowed without approval).
A lot of people did what they called RDO ("Recurring Day Off" or something like that), where they would work 9 hours most days but get a day off each pay period (of which there were two per month).
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Thanks for your answers, everyone. I made this post because I saw a couple people posting about working 10 hours every day, and wanted to reassure myself that it wasn't the norm for it to be required.
I'm currently on sabbatical, so I've been working between zero and negative hours except when I get excited about a project for a little while. In which case it's probably a max of 12 hours a day, but only for one or two days at a time.
My last job was for a government contractor, and we were required to bill 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (or the equivalent of 8 per day times the number of days in the pay period, but you could vary it from day to day). Lunches were unpaid (but mandatory 30 minutes at least) and I also liked to take an (unpaid) walk in the afternoon, so my work day was usually 9am to 6 or 6:30pm. The good part was that overtime was pretty rare (and eventually not allowed without approval).
A lot of people did what they called RDO ("Recurring Day Off" or something like that), where they would work 9 hours most days but get a day off each pay period (of which there were two per month).