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I saw a job listing a few months ago that caught my eye. I was tempted, briefly, to apply; I seemed qualified for it, at least on the basis of the ad. I didn't bother applying because I don't wanna move.
But apart from the qualifications were the hours. The hours fascinated me - I had never seen a job with hours like this.
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week - alternating weeks.
I had NEVER seen hours like that in my life. On the one hand, the idea of working an 84 hour week fills me with jeebies - on the other, your tradeoff is seven days without seeing the inside of an office or picking up a tool.
I've seen some interesting nontraditional hours before - one of my co-workers runs a four-day week with ten-hour days. As with the Interesting Job, it has the same number of hours as the rest of us, but the tradeoff is a longer break between weeks.
What do you think? Would you work an eighty-hour week if it meant only working every other week? Would you do that with your current job? Would you switch jobs to do it? I think I'd actually have to be doing it to know how those long, grim, twelve-hour days would sit with me, but that seven-days-off in between is one hell of a temptation.
But apart from the qualifications were the hours. The hours fascinated me - I had never seen a job with hours like this.
Twelve hours a day, seven days a week - alternating weeks.
I had NEVER seen hours like that in my life. On the one hand, the idea of working an 84 hour week fills me with jeebies - on the other, your tradeoff is seven days without seeing the inside of an office or picking up a tool.
I've seen some interesting nontraditional hours before - one of my co-workers runs a four-day week with ten-hour days. As with the Interesting Job, it has the same number of hours as the rest of us, but the tradeoff is a longer break between weeks.
What do you think? Would you work an eighty-hour week if it meant only working every other week? Would you do that with your current job? Would you switch jobs to do it? I think I'd actually have to be doing it to know how those long, grim, twelve-hour days would sit with me, but that seven-days-off in between is one hell of a temptation.
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