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I'd come to work at 0700 if it meant I could leave at 1600 every day. Go home, snooze, then you have the whole evening.

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Alarm goes off at 0915 and I snooze around 3 times so up at 0945. Shower and out the house by 1015. With my trade if I am lucky I get away 1930/1945 if I am unlucky 2030/2100. The rest of my staff do split shifts which I hate.

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I go to bed at 0200/0230 - 7 hours sleep. I always find something to watch on History/Discovery or C & I channel to watch and I need time to unwind.

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Agreed. I hate mornings!

Work to live not live to work!

Got to bed between 12:30 and 2 and sleep until 7:15 ish. Saying that though I can quite easily survive on 4 -5 hrs a night no worries.

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Early to bed, early to rise...........

Nothing about knocking off work tho'.

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hmmnn...

Usually breakfast meeting 7:30/8am then meetings and/or office through until around 8/9pm, grab something to eat, couple of hours conf calls to US until 12am/1am.

Don't complain KC.

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3 months of that and i'd go postal

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No one person is important enough or needed enough to work those hours every day.

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It's pretty standard in the industry.

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Just so you know, that wasn't a dig at you personally, I'm just amazed that companies feel the need to treat people like that / expect it. It can't be productive....surely?

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Try 7am to 8pm six days a week... (although we have slacked off now and finish at 6pm). Mind you, there are a fair number of very senior staff and other key staff who do longer than that...

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Yeah it's rubbish, I left the industry twice. But it seems I'm reasonably good at it and dumb enough to go back :(

Very high level of burn-out and not good for relationships.

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Projects are complicated, you can end up having to do those kind of hours because those above / before are inept. It seems almost accepted that at certain stages you need to be there doing and pushing.

What's the industry? That's mental though, not surprised at the burn-out/relationship issues.

Don't get me wrong, I could technically work 8-8 every day because I can ALWAYS do more. But **** that, unless I'm getting my arse kicked.

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I am up at 4.30/4.45. First class starts at 6am. I have a break in the afternoon around 1 and then work from 4 until 7.30pm.

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Always thought there are two types of people in the world: those who think 4am is a reasonable time to get up and those who think 4am is a reasonable time to (stagger) get home.

To be honest Patsy I thought you'd be in the second group.