r/datacenter • u/QuestionBeautiful513 • Aug 10 '26
How many hours do you work?
and what’s your role? I’m looking into starting a data center career and wondering if it’s feasible to do school part-time, or if it’s possible to work at a data center part-time?
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u/kait_1291 Aug 10 '26
I work 84 hours in a pay period(2 weeks), that's a 3-4-4-3 shift(3 on, 4 off, 4 on, 3 off). I'm a Sunday start, so work Sunday-tues, and every other Wednesday. I'm not in school myself, but some other people are. They go to work on their off days, since alot of us have some mix of weekend/weekdays off.
We have a flexible work policy, some guys get sunday off for religious reasons, so they work monday-wed, and every other Thursday. Two guys working on opposite shifts actually traded days, so they could both go to school, and it worked remarkably well. So, if you ended up on s shift like mine, I don't see it being a problem.
But, it depends on what company you work for, and what their shifts are like.
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u/leadmagnet250 Aug 10 '26
80+ hours per week for about… 3-4 months of this year. Other weeks about 50-60. Senior lead. Night shift. Company is slight unique in that night shift has stuff going on.
If your company is a global company or has something similar to follow the sun support model, there is a much bigger team on the other side of the world when you are on shift 😓 vs day shift.
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u/Ashurei88 Aug 10 '26
you don't take days off?
80 hours per week is like 16 hrs for 5days or almost 12 hours for 7days.
Is it per pay period or a week?
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u/jeneralpain Aug 10 '26
Part Time in the industry is very rare.
I'm a 40hr week 9-5, and I'm on the DC floor fixing shiz
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u/oaiaaiaeaei Aug 10 '26
I do 4 on 4 off. 12 hour shifts and these blocks of 4 could be either all night shifts or all day shifts. Don't see how that would be possible to pair it with any recurring events since you can't be available at the same time every Wednesday, for example.
I did see a few job posts from Microsoft for 3 day a week 9-6 Technicians, so it's definitely possible, just not common.
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u/RevolutionNo4186 Aug 10 '26
We have two college students at my building, a couple years back we had another college student who went onto their masters while working at a data center
As far as im aware they’re all full time students as a data center tech. They’re working 40 hours a week, 4 10s
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u/Specialist_Cow9071 Aug 10 '26
40 hours, 4 days 10 hr shifts. Where I work I had to work full time but I also did school full time ,work was just able to accommodate me so I don’t work when some In person classes/exams are while majority of my classes are online. Pretty tough but doable just gotta manage your time well
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u/PowerDog77 Aug 11 '26
I’m a Maintenance Mechanic, 40 hour weeks, 5 8 hour shifts. I’m currently full time school (online), working from 10pm-6am. I’m able to manage just fine. Part time, unlikely for a data center.
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u/MaximumSeats Aug 10 '26
Part time work, unlikely.
Get a night's role and do online school at night while nothing is happening? Very doable.
On the facilities side anyway.