Poll of the Day > What are the most days you've worked in a row...

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without a day off?

Just eight days for me.
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Five
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Fourteen, which included six twelve hour shifts. The things you have to do when you're down two people on a five-man team in a 24/7 business.

That sucked.
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Black_Crusher posted...

Fourteen

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13. Then one day off. Then another 13.
This went on for 3 months.
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RCtheWSBC posted...

Five

^^^
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13
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9
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12 I think?

Saturday and Sunday were shorter days though
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6 days working full time. When I was in college I worked almost everyday part-time for two years. I had an on campus job that I worked Mon-Fri 3-4 hours a day. On Sat.-Sun. I worked 8 hours a day at Gamestop.
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34. I once worked the entirety of August without a single day off during a summer job at university. Which was fantastic, because the base pay was already good, but you got time-and-a-half after 40 hours, double time after 70 and when the week rolled over if you didn't have a full 24 hours off (which I didn't), you were paid double time for that first 24 hour period while still having the time worked count towards the next week's overtime.

Given that I was working 12-16 hour days at the time, I paid off my entire university bill for the coming year - including room and board - by week three of that, leaving the rest of the summer's income as spending cash.

I'd never do it again because I had no social life and there were nights where I had to sleep in the truck I worked in, but damn if those paycheques weren't fantastic at the time.
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Twelve. Did a few of those in a row before quitting because that was basically required.
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10 days. Worked at my college bookstore during the first week of school in the fall. It started friday and ended on a Monday. 8 hours while being a full time student was hell those first two weeks.

First week had night shifts while the second week had inventory shifts.

10 days when I worked for a liquor store. Our week schedules were Sunday to Saturday and we were allowed a maximum of 5 shifts per week. She hit me with the deadly power combo of Tuesday to Saturday on week 1 and Sunday to Thursday on week 2 one year, right before Christmas.

You start getting like cabin fever or something around day 8.
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35

I spent a year working 28 days on, 28 days off. My back-to-back needed to be home for a wedding so I ended up working an extra week on top of that once to cover for him.

It really wasn't that bad. Getting the time off in lieu totally made it worth it. I only had to work for 6 months of the year.

Oh, that year also involved one 36 hour shift and one 30 hour shift (40 depending on how you look at it, as I had to spend 10 hours traveling before I could go to sleep after the 30 hour shift). That I don't recommend.
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Depends on what you count as work.

If you consider school (College) as work, or doing things like student teaching (you teach a class but don't get paid for it), then I've worked over 6 months straight without a day off.

If you don't count them, I've still had more then one job a few times, or worked a bit every day, not to mention owning our own law firm (I often worked every day at least a bit.

Hard to really identify the exact number of days in a row I worked without any break, but I did go about 9 years without a vacation at all. I certainly had days off in there though.
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Dynalo posted...

35

I spent a year working 28 days on, 28 days off. My back-to-back needed to be home for a wedding so I ended up working an extra week on top of that once to cover for him.

It really wasn't that bad. Getting the time off in lieu totally made it worth it. I only had to work for 6 months of the year.

Oh, that year also involved one 36 hour shift and one 30 hour shift (40 depending on how you look at it, as I had to spend 10 hours traveling before I could go to sleep after the 30 hour shift). That I don't recommend.

What job was that, if you don't mind me asking. Was it, say, a mining operation?

wolfy42 posted...

Depends on what you count as work.

I'm not counting school. I am counting internships, volunteer work, and jobs which pay under the table. Teaching without pay counts.
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I frequently did 8-9 day stretches at the walmart deli, and a lot of the time they would have me working until 11pm at night and then back at 8am the next morning

Christ that job was awful, but it did pay off my school fees for that entire year
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There was awhile where I was working two jobs with no days off for about four months straight.

I only stopped because my girlfriend threatened to leave me if I didn't get some time off

Person106 posted...

What job was that, if you don't mind me asking. Was it, say, a mining operation?

I'm a project engineer and I was doing work in the oil fields in Angola. Technically the platforms were all offshore, but I was able to do all the work I needed to onshore so I never had to go out to the platforms directly. Which... was probably for the best given that I believe it was my second rotation out there when a helicopter crashed in the ocean on the way out to one of the platforms, killing everyone on board the helicopter.

Edit: Nope, it was my third rotation out there. Back in September.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3809801/Six-killed-Angola-helicopter-crash.html
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maybe 14+

I worked retail so some of those days were probably short shifts
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3 months. I got ill and got a day to recover then back at it. This was during a deployment. I'm not counting days where you just show up either, those are off days. This was daily work.

too many.

does kinda wish that I was working in another country that gives mandatory vacations and stuff.
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From one job? 10
From multiple? I think I went 2 or 3 weeks before I quit my second job.
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25, but I was working two jobs at the time, so no surprise there.
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Person106 posted...

without a day off?

Just eight days for me.

12
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Four, maybe five
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Damn most of you people make me feel like a pansy...
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I think I most likely have the record for this.

364.

depends on the newspaper, but the one I worked for had no weekends, no holidays; the only day off was christmas day (and at least once or twice they even had a christmas paper, but fuck that). not to mention you have to work no matter how sick or injured you are, or how bad the weather is as well, and that's 6+ hours a day outside at night, and this is canada.

I've worked in -30C winters with bronchitis burning up my chest. just breathing the air was like a knife in the throat (used a scarf to minimize the pain). I've limped around all night with a severely sprained ankle, multiple bee stings, herniated discs in my back, and so on. I've trudged around in knee deep snow for hours on end, or frozen rain that makes every surface into a skating rink.

honestly, depressed as I am these days, I should be more grateful that I've gotten myself out of that horror.
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Every year, for the last 7 years, I have worked from October 1st until January 10th without a day off.

UPS peak season.

The week after Thanksgiving is the worst. I'll often work 18-20 hours a day and just sleep under my desk.
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12 I think?

Started with a 5 day week, then a full 7
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Probably over a year. I walked a dog for an old lady every day when I was a kid.
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Eight. I was working as a tax preparer, and it was the high point of the tax season.
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I couldn't really tell you. In my current job I've had multiple stretches in the last 2 months where I was working 10 out of 11, 11 out of 12 days. Back in college though there was a point I had 3 jobs in addition to a full load of classes. I didn't have a day off for months.

There was another stretch where I had classes 5 days a week and then worked back to back open to close shifts at work that totaled up to 36 hours. 8am to 2am Saturday and Sunday. It was torture. Slammed from the moment I arrived until the moment I left. Never again.