What's the Longest you worked ?

[megocrazy]

I only did the job for about 1 1/2 years but I would get on a bus at 6am and arrive at work around 7:30am. (they drove us in, paid from when we got on the bus). Work the first shift in shipping/receiving until 3:30pm. Then I would start the second shift working on the floor (retail department store), toy department mostly. 3:30pm-11:00pm. Then I would start what was my original shift from 11:00pm until 7:30am. Back on the bus that was dropping off the new shift and hit home at 10:00am. 28 hour shifts Monday, Wednesday and every other Friday. 3 lunch breaks, 6 15 minute breaks and 3 hours paid while sitting on an air conditioned coach or mini bus driving in and going home. Great money, especially on the 3 day weeks, Thursday-Sunday off every other week, but talk about 18 months that flew by. Work sleep work sleep work sleep one day off and back to work. I actually liked it. You just couldn't do anything other than work and sleep during the 3 day weeks.

[torgospizza]

Man ....., was it hard to focus on Traffic and Pedistrian Traffic towards the end.

I used to fall asleep driving all the time when I was going to school full-time and working 10 hour shifts. Rumble strips have saved my life quite a few times.

[ScottA]

The longest stretch I've worked is 32 hours straight, twice. It was from 7am to around 3pm the following day. It was getting the 600 CADD drawings done for a report at the 75% stage and 100% stage while I was out in California. I remember getting something to eat, going back to the hotel and then sleeping for 15 hours. I've also worked 19 straight days without a day off and worked 112 hours in a seven day week before.

[Gorn Captain]

When I was working two jobs, it was 16 hour days for three years.
An eight hour shift combined with a two hour commute (making 12 hours total), and I also had a mail order company, which took about four hours a day. I also organized a movie convention at that time.

That kind of finished me off.

[Tothiro]

Stagehand gig in college - Set up for Gloria Estefan's album release party by shutting down a stretch of Lincoln Rd in Miami, putting up multiple stages, light trusses, running electrics and mounting projection equipment/lighting on rooftops to bounce off of buildings. Whole thing was a little over 46 hours clock time with set-up, strike and load-out and we got 45 min meal breaks, 15 min every few hours between and one 2 1/2 hr break in the last third for the performance. It was a very good thing I was used to tying knots in the dark via muscle memory - we were all a little stupid by the end.

[VintageMike]

I used to work in a warehouse where there was always tons of work to do, but they didn't want to incur any overtime. Eventually I decided to see how far I could take this and work two 15 hour days and one 12 and 11 and and and half hour day (half hour lunches did not count towards the total). For about three weeks I only worked Mon-Wed and actually liked it since the two extra days I had off were much more useful to me than than few hours I'd have each day when I'd normally get home. It only lasted about three weeks though because it was leaving them to short handed the rest of the week, so they started imposing maximums on my hours ensuring I could only get Friday off at most. At the same job they asked me to help set up for a commercial they were doing. Longest day I've worked since I arrived at the warehouse at 7:00 Am and did not leave the house where they shooting the commercial until 11 at night.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

For me it was 5 days. I was on course, and sleep deprivation was part of the training.

Don C.

[vulcan2074]

The longest I can work is 10 hours by law and thats pretty rare. I usually work 8 hours. I don't think I could work anywhere near as long as the rest of you. My girl works 12 hour shifts almost everyday. She's on salary and they make her work for it.
Sammy

[madmarva]

I worked a lot of 12 and 14-hour weekend days in high school and college in my mother's catering business. Harder work than one might think, but nothing like construction.

As a journalist, there are a lot of 12- to 16-hour days when larger stories break, and in sports during football season, it's easy for a salaried person to get 40 hours Friday-Sunday, but it's not hard work. A whole lot of hurry up and wait and the energy at the games — even high school games — keeps everything rolling. Covering training camps usually works out to be 12- or 14- hour days, but again taking notes during practices and pumping out copy isn't that hard. Making it worth reading when you're tired is more difficult.

Worst part is the pay stinks. Salaries aren't that great, and the hourly employees generally are held to 40 hours a week. The hourly employees that care about doing good work and want to advance often work hours they aren't paid for, but there is no way to adequately cover a beat in 40 hours a week.

Journalism and particularly sports journalism is a lot of fun if it is your thing, but unless you make it to the highest levels, it's not lucrative.

[raider5gt]

I worked 23 hours straight a few months ago when we had the storms over here,trees and powerlines down all over the place,man that was a day and night I would not want to do again but it's part of my job to respond to storm damage trees for the power company,it's not to bad in the day time,as you can see what your cutting with a chainsaw or climbing up a tree to take the side or top out of a tree but in the dark with only a head torch in some cases,as some jobs are in remote areas and can not get an Unimog to,can really test you,aswell as the tiredness and the elements,had to grab cups of tea and food on route to jobs it's something I would rather do in daylight,I can tell ya.

[Goblin19]

Somewhere between 15-16 hours. I used to do 14 hour shifts fairly regularly.

[bobws]

Doing construction i did days of 14-17 hrs. Doing Security i've done a 16hr shift off for 8hrs and then did another 16hrs.

[Merlyn1976]

I was working at WVU Hospital during the big snowstorm we had a few years back...well needless to say if they close the roads due to state of emergency...I didn't get to leave...not sure how many hours I pulled in but I was stuck there for 4 days...

[BlackKnight]

I just found out I gotta work Sat & Sun too ....
The paycheck will be nice ...., but I don't live to work ..., I am more so a Work to live sorta Guy.

The Most hrs I worked in a Week was 79 .
This might top that.

[MegoMark71]

Longest i ever worked was when i was working for Spencers gifts. I took over a store and went in and had to overhall the entire store. It was 19 hours and i was beat.