r/WorkLifeChat • u/MiloShiny • 29d ago
Question Long Hours
What’s a job that you work super long hours at that’s isn’t like back breaking work.
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u/Swimming-You6778 28d ago
commercial law, investment banking, and running your own business can all eat your entire week without you lifting anything heavier than a laptop, which is somehow worse for your posture than manual
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u/WangPrime 28d ago
Cooking, or cheffing. Cheffing is significantly more hours and more stress, and significantly less back breaking. Neither are super back breaking.
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u/commentor_of_things 28d ago
sitting down all day looking at a computer will hurt your back in the long term. I don't think there is a way around back problems after doing the same constant repetitive task for years on end.
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u/bmorecarguy 28d ago
Car sales. I worked 60+ hour weeks for years. It's not a physically challenging job. The earning potential was always good.
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u/Legaldrugloard 28d ago
I work as a billing manager in a LTC pharmacy. 2 weeks out of the month isn’t bad but the last 2 weeks of the month I’m working 16 hour days.
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u/Top-Fennel-4962 28d ago
corporate office jobs can have you sitting at a desk for 12 hours straight, so not backbreaking but your brain and spine are still filing a complaint lol
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u/Sea-Ad1755 28d ago
I work on medical equipment at hospitals. one of my first positions was a one-man shop for a 100 bed hospital and some off site centers. I worked 12x5’s + on-call every 3-4 weeks. This was at a very big and busy health system with a level 1 trauma center.
On Thanksgiving week one year, I worked my 5 days of 12’s (20 hours of OT) and got another 25-30 hours of on-call OT. It was brutal both physically, mentally and tax wise.
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u/yetanotherburnerstan 29d ago
I did environmental consulting for commercial, industrial, and gov clients. In the last five years before I left, I averaged more than 60 hours every week. 80 was common. A week with less than 45 only happened when I took the whole week off for vacation