A mention in another thread got me curious. If you don't mind sharing:

1 - A very brief description of your means of livelihood.
2 - Typical workweek schedule.
3 - Hours per weeek you work; just the hours actually worked, not to include any breaks/lunch. (Posting on BAUT is considered work).
4 - Days off per year. Include all holiday, vacation, sick days you take off from your regular schedule. Indicate whether they are paid or non-paid.

Me first.

1 - Ops consultant in health care financing. Stuff I consult on is pretty diverse. I'll go wherever the need is - web development, telephony technologies, language services, IVR/VRU, provider & vendor negotiations, training, etc.

2 - Monday thru Friday, about 6:30 AM to about 3 PM. Except on Wednesdays. I have a plane to catch every Wednesday at 3:30.

3 - 32 to 34 hours is probably an accurate average. I do an hour for lunch, but take no other breaks.

4 - 37 paid days off; 9 paid holidays and 28 days of PTO. If the 28 days of PTO seems excessive - it's one of the perks of being at the same place for 22 years.

If the occasional emergency or off-hours test requires me to work during the weekend or at night, I compensate by taking additional time off during the week. I am an extremely firm believer in a healthy home-workplace balance.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

1 - Chemist. Work for a company that makes ceramic materials. Mostly applied research and development work.

2 - Monday to Friday, nominally 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. or so, but often work later (as late as 7 p.m.). I probably take the laptop home about once or twice a week and work a couple of hours (such as data entry while watching baseball). Do a lot of work with a plant about 25 miles away, generally drive down there at least once a week, though last couple of weeks it has been more like 3 times a week.

3 - I'm guessing around 50 hours per week. I'm salaried, so I get no overtime.

4 - I get 15 days vacation, and about 8 or 9 holidays (I'm too lazy to count them). We don't get a formal amount of sick time - one or two a year, no one seems to care, beyond that I think there are formal rules.

I also am a firm believer in work-home balance, unfortunately, given 50+ hours per week and 2 to 3 hours of commute time a day, my life is pretty unbalanced at the moment.

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009

Okay, it's been a while since I worked, but here's how it stood when last I did.

1. Call center employee.

2./3. We were forbidden to work overtime, even when they could use the help, unless administration specifically announced that it was an overtime day. Ergo, invariably 40 hours a week on the nose. When my shift was varied, but most of the time I was there, it was 2 PM to 11 PM.

4. By the time I left, I got a week of vacation. Sometimes, we didn't have to work on holidays, but we had no paid holidays. Gods help you if you were sick; you had to be working with the company something like five years to get any sick time, and you only got a couple of days. You could get fired for taking enough sick time to get over one cold--so half the people in the building were generally either just coming down with something, actively sick, or just getting over something at any one time.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

1. Geospatial Analyst for a small commercial program within a larger government contractor.

2. M-F (alternate Fridays off) Regular time is 7:45 am - 5:30pm (exepct for 4:30 pm on "work Fridays"). Often I work from about 7:00 am to about 6:30 pm, all days. We get 45 min for lunch (unpaid).

3. 45-55 hours per week, depending. Even though I am salaried, I get paid overtime

4. 2 weeks vacation at this level, accured throughout the year per month, with unlimited carry over from previous year(s). Unlimited paid Personal/Sick days, as long as they aren't abused. We get the usual holidays off, paid (New Years, Christmas, Memorial Day, Labor Day, etc.).

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Two years ago moved from my town
I was looking up past the city lights
But the city lights got in my way

See the constellation ride across the sky
No cigar, no lady on his arm
Just a guy made of dots and lines

-from "See The Constellation"
by They Might Be Giants

1. UML modeler developing object-oriented DoDAF architectures for Air Force Space Command.

2. Typically M-Th: 0630-1530, Friday: 0630-1130, give or take.

3. Currently limited to 40 hours per week but hoping to pick up some more hours on a new project starting next month. I get paid straight time (no time and a half) for overtime. I put aside my overtime pay to pay for flying.

4. I've been with my company for 12 years, so I get 25 days of personal time off (PTO) each year to cover vacation and sick time. I also get 10 paid holidays each year. I have almost 7 weeks of accummulated PTO on the books.

1. Programmer

2. Weekdays from 9 am to 8 pm with a 1-hour lunch break. Saturdays until noon.

3. Forty-eight hours per week [I wanted more]

4. Twenty days off per year [I wanted less]

(*) I´m the owner of the [small] Ltd. Co.

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If you're careful enough, nothing bad or good will ever happen to you.

1 - Architectural draftsman and project manager for a small architectural firm (seven in the studio, plus one architect).

2 - Typically 9am-7pm Monday-Friday, weekends are optional, paid as straight time on top of my salary. We're on flex time, so I can come in pretty much anytime from 7am to 9:30am without any headaches. I'll only usually show up earlier if there's a meeting or function scheduled.

3 - 45+. 45 is the minimum based on my salary, with nine hours typically required per day. I've shaved that to eight and a half, if I know I'm coming in on the weekend. I've gone over when needed.

4 - Eight paid holiday days. New Years, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, two days for Thanksgiving, two days for Christmas. With my seniority, I have three paid weeks of vacation per year, prorated monthly. Maximum carry over from one year to the next is two weeks, any excess lost. We also have five days of personal leave for unscheduled absences.

Personally, I haven't taken a week off since July of 2002 when I went to Chicago to see my neice before she died.

I'm disappointed that it took 4 replies before someone posted military time.

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Don of Borg - Cool, Calm, Collective.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

1) Toxicologist for the US FDA
2) N/A. See below, although we all have to work the 'core hours': 10-2:30 pm.
3) 40 hours per week. I have flexible schedule, so I can break those hours up any way I want to.
3) All paid Federal holidays. 19.5 days of annual leave per year. 10.5 sick days per year.

1 - Software engineer for a NASA (Goddard) contractor.
2 - 9:30-10 am - 6:30-7 pm. (I'm currently on a 30-hour week while I finish the last semester of my master's degree, but that's not typical and is going to be over within a month, so I'm supplying my regular schedule.)
3 - 40 hours, theoretically. In practice, a lot less.
4 - 4 weeks of vacation, 2 weeks of sick leave, 9 holidays, so 39 days altogether ignoring irregular events like funerals or jury duty.

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

1.Theatres assistant in Hospital handing surgeons tools helping put people to sleep etc.

2.10AM - 6PM or 11AM - 7PM

3. 37 Hours a week. (some ovetime)

4. About 6 weeks of vacation in all including public holidays.

1. call center worker, making hotel reservations(script monkey as some one put it)
2. 6:30pm-3:00 am, 2 weeks a month thurs-fri off 2 weeks weekends off
3. 38.5 hours
5. 10 days paid vacation, 8 sick days, Christmas day off, paid more if scheduled and work holidays.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

Real estate broker in a fairly rural area.

Hours: Whenever.

Days off: When I tell my clients to leave me the hell alone.

Vacation: When the Mrs gets hers & I tell my clients to leave me the hell alone.

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"An armed man is a citizen
An unarmed man is a subject"

Robert A. Heinlein

Elementary School Art Specialist and substitute teacher

20 hours a week teaching art to grades 1 through 5, plus preparation time (3-4 hours) that I don't get paid for. 8 hours per week subbing at various high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools. I also work as a first grade reading tutor for one hour a day four days a week.

I teach art Monday through Thursday and get Fridays off, which I use to substitute teach. I can turn down any substituting assignment I want, but I usually don't since I need the money. On Saturdays and Sundays, I take care of my husband, which is a job in itself! (But worth it.)

I am allowed five sick or personal leave days per school year.

$10.00 per hour for teaching art, $7.00 per hour for tutoring, $45 per day for subbing.


BUT!!! I will only be doing this for another week. Next school year, I will be working a full-time position teaching language arts, social studies, and art at a middle school. I'm so excited to finally have a real salary and not just a low-pau specialist job with no benefits. In the meantime I will be doing temp work, although I'm not sure where.

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One nuclear bomb could wreck your whole day.

Good to hear it space cadet.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

1. Professional forester. Own a small limited consulting company that contracts to large industrial firms, the government, and small woodlot holders. Lots of road layout, site (silviculture) plans, timber reconnaissance/evaluation. There have been a number of research projects, including growth/yield remeasurements, regeneration studies, and mill recovery studies. In the last few years I have done a lot of work related to understanding the change in timber quality following the mountain pine beetle epidemic in our province.

2. Monday-Friday, 6 to 12 hours/day, depending on the project, or my level of motivation. Sometimes work through the weekend to meet deadlines or for logistics reasons.

3. In the last year I've worked just under 2100 hours, with about 5 weeks off, for an average of ~45 hours/week.

4. I try to take 5-6 weeks a year, timing it with the kids' holidays. I'll work on the statutory holidays if the kids aren't with me (separated with joint custody). But sometimes I'll take a day off just because I can. So I take about 30-40 days of vacation/time off. However, work issues sometimes nag me on the supposed days off, and I have difficulty escaping it entirely. It's a personality quirk. If I'm sick and don't work, my corporation doesn't earn anything. I've been fortunate to be healthy. Hope it stays that way. I generally take a uniform monthly salary out of the company, and the company invests any profits in stocks. My aim is to work less over time and turn it into a holding company.

1) Hydro power plant senior system controller

2) Special 12-hour revolving shift, 0600-1800 days or nights. Never work more than 4 shifts in a row, always with 3 days off afterwards. One 8-hr relief/maintenance shift every two weeks. 70 day cycle, and within that cycle we have two occasions of 7 straight days off.

3) 80 hrs per pay period (2 weeks)

4) 208 hours of annual leave (paid) per year (I have over 15+ yrs with Uncle Sam), 104 hours of sick leave (paid) per year that accumulates (my current balance is about 1,200 hrs) and the 10 US holidays, which I usually have to work an average of 7 a year (triple time, WooHoo!)

In addition there is also leave without pay, but I've never used it. I am also compensated with 25% extra for Sunday pay. I work for an hourly wage.

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Scienara: A rejection of reason and evidence.

1. Homeless/Philosopher; collecting cans, begging, education, hard labor, not so hard labor, and anything else to generate income (hint:, my overhead is very, very low).

2. Varies, really. Depends if I'm drinking or not. But usually, I work six hour days looking/working for money. Sometimes I work 12 hour days, seven days a week, sometimes, three hours.

3. Depends. Anywhere from about 7 to 168. I always like to work a little bit, perhaps an hour a day. I can work a whole week, well, aside from sleep. You do the math.

4. I can take a lot. In fact, I can take 365 a year, however, that bores me. Usually, during the high heat of summer, I go to the mountains. I pitty those that have to sweat in summer's heat, no matter that type of car they drive. I have numerous, "Stashes" in the mountains. I can survive in the cool air for quite some time and I usually spend my spring saving for such a trip. I have a bank account etc. And yes, my vacation's are non-paid.

Posting here, isn't work. It's pleasure. I also read, a bit. And write. So if you see me, don't take pitty. I am usually more clean and bathed than you are (Though it takes a lot more work for me to bathe, it's not impossible) and I am usually more content. I am free. Truely free.

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Fields of Space

LOGIC, n.
The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

In the Year 2525.

"One small step for (a) man. One giant leap for mankind".

If an astronaut doesn't need good grammar, niether does you.

Host of Seraphim

1. Night Auditor in a hotel.

2. 2300 to 0700, 5 days a week (arrive Sunday-Thursday). A normal shift consists of getting there late. Waiting for the last shift to leave. Waiting until midnight to run the audit. Finishing it 15 minutes later. Waiting until 5 am to start the coffee and set up the breakfast. Doing wake up calls an checking a few people out until the new person comes on at 0700. The rest of my time here has the sole requirement that I simply be awake in case something happens. Sometimes it does.

3. On the clock for 8 hours per day. No time off for lunch. Actual work being done is about 90 minutes to 2 hours most days. There have been nights where I was the only one in the hotel. This last weekend we had one business conference group and three high school rugby teams in house, so it varies a lot.

4. I know we get vacation and sick time, and that it's based on hours accrued, but I've never used it so I have no idea what the rate might be. There is no extra pay for holidays. OT is time and a half.

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I'm not evil.
An evil person would do the things I think up.

1. Capitalist Pig

2. Whenever.

3. About 10 seconds a week.

4. It's always party time when you're the Brak.