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    Had a bit of a heated conversation this morning about work-life balance in Alberta and curious what is actually "normal" for Albertans.

    For the poll, if your job typically has you being "on-call", try to factor that in as well. Additionally if you're on a work rotation/FIFO, what does that average out to?

    Do you have fairly consistent hours (ie: 8-5, Mon-Fri) or all over the place?
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    Used to be at or near 8. Within the last year have been promoted into a management role, with giving up overtime pay now realistically sit at around 12+ hour days (working from home, office and answering phone calls etc throughput the day and night).

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    I'm in the Auto Industry, Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:30pm (1 hr lunch break) with the occasional 1 Saturday a month 9am-4:30pm. If working the Saturday, would get the following week Friday off. But there is one dreaded day in a Parts Advisors life that really sucks. Inventory. Ends up being a 15-16hr shift that day. So 9 daily
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    Theres about a six hour window every day, 7 days, where I won't pick up the phone for a client. I dont usually travel too many times zones if I can help it. And I'm never anywhere where there isn't good voice and data coverage.

    How does that add up?

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    I pondered this a lot through the years and as you get older, you realize there's no right way, there's only what works for you.

    I use to get a lot of fomo and blamed work but then I gotta credit work too because I'm debt free and whatever I missed out on, I can do it now.

    During the busy years it was easily 70-80 hours a week but now it's more like 50-60 with 1/4 of the time watching tv/netflix and I even take slow weekdays off to go on dates haha

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    Theres about a six hour window every day, 7 days, where I won't pick up the phone for a client. I dont usually travel too many times zones if I can help it. And I'm never anywhere where there isn't good voice and data coverage.

    How does that add up?
    Certainly your call but I would look at this as work is any time you're doing work, regardless if answering calls/emails or not. All those calls/adjustments/emails may be short but add up. Whatever that number looks like on average I'd plug it in but speculating, it seems 12+ is normal for you.

    I would even say that if you're on vacation but phone is attached because you feel or need to be checking emails/taking calls, that should be factored in somewhere as well.
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    Typical work day for me is 12.5 hours up to 16 hours, 3-4 days a week on average.
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    Averaged 100 hours a week for a good 7 or 8 years, at times hitting 110 hours a week for 1-2 month stretches. Now I am in the 90-100 hours a week range and continuously working towards reaching my goal of 60 hours a week.

    Everyone is different, I work like this while I have a friend who’s a petroleum engineer, who works 1-2 years then takes 1-2 years off to travel the world. I get it, but each of us has our own set of priorities and goals, which can change over time.

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    My company owns me, on call every day of the year, when stuff breaks, I work. Even family time tends to involve work, with work trips that involve distance, I often take my whole crew so they can do something fun somewhere while I am at a jobsite. 5 more years, then I'm pulling the plug.
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    I've been backing off on the work part of work/life for the past month. Getting sick of the BS.

    I'm a little different as I work 7, 12 hour shifts, then 7 days off. So theoretically I only get every 2nd weekend off, except for over 7 months now I'm constantly having to go in on that weekend for at least a day. I've worked more OT this year than all of last year already. Fucking tired of it and refusing lately. My boss is pissed about it too, but it's his own fault for not hiring people when he was given the green light to (last fall), and now there's a severe shortage of qualified people in my industry. Of course the company is refusing to increase pay to attract people, and we're just expected to bear the brunt of it.

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    I’m good at what I do, but I don’t derive a lot of satisfaction from it these days. A lot of that is situation specific at the moment, but in general I’d rather work less and spend more time with my family and pursuing rewarding hobbies.

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    9-10, pretty light now, my last job was around 90-100 hour weeks due to shift work, and before that I was a consultant so the company owned me. I don’t mind 45-50 hour weeks, but would love to shift to a 4 day week with the same hours, don’t see that happening any time soon though.
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    For the people pulling 60 plus hour weeks would you consider yourself blue or white collar? As a white collar worker I find my productivity/creativity drops dramatically at the end of a long day and it makes more sense to call it a day and tackle it another day. Just my 2 cents. I don’t get much fulfillment out of work other than the social aspect of it so working long hours so the company might make more money really doesn’t appeal to me. People nearly always regret working too much and spending it on stuff they don’t really need. It’s cliche but time really is the most valuable commodity.

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    For the people pulling 60 plus hour weeks would you consider yourself blue or white collar? As a white collar worker I find my productivity/creativity drops dramatically at the end of a long day and it makes more sense to call it a day and tackle it another day. Just my 2 cents. I don’t get much fulfillment out of work other than the social aspect of it so working long hours so the company might make more money really doesn’t appeal to me. People nearly always regret working too much and spending it on stuff they don’t really need. It’s cliche but time really is the most valuable commodity.
    The actual work I do is blue collar, but being the business owner, there is a little white collar activity thrown in, not a lot, but its not all tool time like being an employee in the same business. Time is irreplaceable .

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    If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life!
    That would be true if your job was one set defined task, and you loved that sole task. After 27 years, I'm pretty sick of the job overall, but there are some tasks that I still enjoy within the job, wouldn't call it love, but I forget that the task is work while I'm doing it. There aren't too many challenges left for me in my career, I'm on autopilot more or less now, which makes for some boring times...
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    Just finished a 45-50 hr/week gig. It use to be 50-60.

    Moving to a new role of 40/wk with 3 on call weekends a year.
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    The engineering firm I work for was taken over by another firm last year sometime, since then, it’s gone from a decent work life balance to all work and no life. New firm squeezes every penny outta u during and after hours. Have been doing 60-70 hours a week now, just insane.

    Don’t mind long hours, but not for months straight. Balance is very important, have serious anxiety right now haha.

    M-F 730 to 5 are the reg hours. Work 30 extra a day to save time for an extended day off or flex day a month, haven’t taken 1 day yet. Hours now for me have more been 6am to whenever. Meetings with UK and Houston starting at 6am, just nuts.

    Have been jumping online for about 2-3 hours on sat and sun now jus to keep caught up. Nuts.

    I don’t know the extent of your discussion op, but for me seems more work than life in Calgary, at least for me. I noticed when I was in van, Montreal that the balance there is def more life than work, kinda like a union or government job haha. But that’s just my opinion.
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    Seasonally work tons and seasonally take a lot of time off. I have put in 100 hour work weeks and I have worked no more than 80 hours in 3 months. Just depends.

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