The Most Hours You've Ever Worked

[ducpainter]

168 hours. 

Liawyer?

I'm here to help.

[lazylightnin717]

This was supposed to be a pity party for me.... damn  

I'm here to help.

[Rameses]

This was supposed to be a pity party for me.... damn  

My record for a single week was 120 hours.

Some nights I drove home, showered, slept for 3 hours, and got up and drove back to work.

Sucked bad.

[Bigbore4]

If yir lookin for some sympathy I can help.  You can find it in the dictionary, hiding somewhere between shit and syphilis.

sorry, that was my inside voice leaking out...

This was supposed to be a pity party for me.... damn  

[swampduc]

Pity party?! I was on salary at $40k/ yr for those 110 hr wks! I went through 4 yrs of med school and accrued 6 figure debt for the privilege of being a slave. No pity here 

[GAAN]

worked or been on the clock?

[slowpoke13]

52 hours straight. 14 of them on a hot ship inspecting cargo containers.

[hbliam]

worked or been on the clock?

A true fireman question! 

[akmnstr]

I don't remember the total hours per week or in a row, but the most I've ever done was fighting wildfires.  Dirty hardass work.  I remember in Oregon there was a big lightning storm that lit off about 20 fires.  At the end of the normal 10 hour day my partner were sent into the woods to join a small team of smoke jumpers on a fire.  Jumpers are the elite in wildfire fighting and I had never worked with them before.  At first I was unimpressed by them.  I thought these guys aren't that tough.  24 hours later I felt like a whooped puppy, desperate for a break and the jumpers were still going at the same steady hardass pace.   

[RAT900]

with or with the benefit of drugs?

[herm]

also in wildland fire..

most hours on the clock with no sleep = 50
most hours paid in a week = 170
most hours worked in a 3 week period = 336
most overtime hours worked in 5 months = 5100

re: smokejumpers - they say no one has ever seen jumper line that held...

[akmnstr]

re: smokejumpers - they say no one has ever seen jumper line that held... Wink

The lines the jumpers and my partner and I put in held. 

[herm]

The lines the jumpers and my partner and I put in held. 

once they ask for help, its not jumper line anymore.

[some great friends are lawn darts, don't get me wrong. i'm sure they have just as bad stuff to say about the hotshots]

[mstevens]

When I was an intern, 120- to 130-hour weeks were the norm. We mostly computed how much we got to sleep, then subtracted it from 168 to estimate how much we'd worked. We usually worked 32 hours in a row 3 times a week.

At least they paid us $20k!

[lazylightnin717]

A good laugh is better than sympathy and you fella's provide 

I also stand humbled. I'm glad to see that there are still hard working people around