Countries with a shorter work week?

[Silver Bullet]

40 hour work weeks are too long for me to handle. I'm prescribed adderall and this stuff just sucks the energy out of me by the end of the day. I need to go to a place where the work week is a lot shorter so I have time for other things (mainly sleeping and working out).

Anyone know of any countries that have 35 hour work weeks or less?

 

[Guest]

you are a sad sad man.

 

[Guest]

Supposedly before the industrial revolution jobs were more around 20 hours a week. The first people that started working 40 hours a week were thought of as crazy.

And it just gets worse.

I don't have answers. Maybe you could cut expenses and work part time. It most likely is going to have to be a lifestyle change...

 

[Moppel]

Go to Uganda, or something like that. You might dont have to work at all.

p/s isnt the other 128 hours enough for that?

 

[Babbabud]

Yea who ever set this whole system up was confused. We should be off 5 days and work 2. Not sure what was up with these dudes!!

 

[Nikijad4210]

Bah! You sissies! When I was a housekeeper, I worked about an average of 7 hours a day, 6, sometimes 7 days a week. I never took a day off unless I was REALLY sick (I.E with something contagious) or if it was a holiday---Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.

I was a workaholic, and I'll never work schedules like that again. After I met Wolf and I started taking weekend days off to spend time with him, I realized I was working myself to death, probably literally considering some of the cleaning chemicals I used to use...

 

[The Most High]

My plan is to work like hell and save up enough so that I can afford to jump da fince and chill out in Mexaco. Im gonna live like a King!

 

[NOKUY]

you are a sad sad man.

No shit man!

I work 10 hr days minimum...and thats 5 - 6 days a week (40 hrs would be like a vacation)

I used to commercial fish and we worked no less than 20 hrs a day 7 days a week for a few months straight.

I have NEVER seen a 40 hr work week.

 

[Rare Groove]

Worked 53 hours a week for a couple years. M-F 7-5, Sat 7-12. Every week. For the last year of it I managed 8 individuals and ran the department. All I have to say is f*ck that. It'll wear you down in a hurry. So bad. All you do is work & sleep. No time for anything else. The money was awesome, and the fact you have no time to spend it, but it just isn't worth the rest of the lifestyle.

I quit that job in July and have been doing my own thing since. Looking to get back into the workforce very soon, unfortunately, because it's impossible to subsist without $$$.

It just seems like there has to be a better way than slaving away and counting the years to retirement...

 

[Moppel]

I used to commercial fish and we worked no less than 20 hrs a day 7 days a week for a few months straight.

Now thats hard work! respect! but dont do it again....lol

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

[edit] Annual hours over eight centuries
Time Type of worker Annual hours
13th century Adult male peasant, UK 1620 hours
14th century Casual laborer, UK 1440 hours
Middle ages English worker 2309 hours
1400-1600 Farmer-miner, adult male, UK 1980 hours
1840 Average worker, UK 3105-3588 hours
1850 Average worker, U.S. 3150-3650 hours
1987 Average worker, U.S. 1949 hours
1988 Manufacturing workers, UK 1855 hours
2000 Average worker, Germany 1362 hours

(Compiled by Juliet B. Schor from various sources; Germany figure from OECD data)

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Interesting

 

[Guest]

40 hour work weeks are too long for me to handle. I'm prescribed adderall and this stuff just sucks the energy out of me by the end of the day. I need to go to a place where the work week is a lot shorter so I have time for other things (mainly sleeping and working out).

Anyone know of any countries that have 35 hour work weeks or less?

do what smart people are doing. try to create your own work, in as many hours as it fits your week.

 

[Babbabud]

Ive already had a full career in the woods fallen timber and running caterpillars fightenfire and I think it would have been way better off set up with alot more time with the families then at work. Who ever set this whole thing up was a jerk. I already had one of those 24/7 careers .. not what I call condusive to family life and the persuit of feeling real good!! Work should be something that helps move you through life not something that takes your whole life.

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

Work should be something that helps move you through life not something that takes your whole life.

Agreed!!

 

[mriko]

Anyone know of any countries that have 35 hour work weeks or less?

Come to France, it's 35 hours here.

Irie !

 

[Pops]

France may have to change that 35 hour work week to make up for falling productivity.

Silver bullet, watch that adderol, my daughter was taking it and got very suicidal on it.

 

[Jam Master Jaco]

France may have to change that 35 hour work week to make up for falling productivity.

Silver bullet, watch that adderol, my daughter was taking it and got very suicidal on it.

I know it was stupid, but I took some of my buddies adderol a few months ago. I took two pills (which is his daily prescribed amount). And felt absolutely great!.....until about 3 hours later when I started to come down off of it....man I've never been so depressed before. I knew it was the adderol that was making me depressed, but damn, it sucked. And I could not fall asleep for the life of me that night. Absolutely terrible. I realize that because it was not prescribed to me I shouldn't have taken it, but with side effects like that you can bet your butt I'm never doing that shit again.

*edit* Whoops, that was way off topic. Uhh....you could start your own business and work as little or as much as you want. My super good idea that I'll share with everyone is to start up an internet site, anything you can think of that will get a huge amount of traffic. Then put up banners on the site, and charge like ten bucks a day for each banner. If you can have twenty banners scattered around the site that's 200 bucks a day for simply maintaining a high traffic internet site. Probably not as easy as it sounds but hey, it could happen.

 

[HotCha]

I would suggest you get off the pills, and be thankful you have a full time job.

 

[Guest]

i work to live
not live to work

 

[Guest]

yeah i find 40 hours quite demanding especially when the job you do is soul destoyingly dull. it's about finding a job u enjoy doing. i'd have a good work ethic if i was a coffeeshop standards advisor or a footballer. But in the real world you just line your bosses pockets with much more cash than what you are being paid to earn him that. the only solution is to start your own business or get a job at home or find a job so well paid you only have to work 5 hours a day.