Has anyone never had a full time position?

[MMouse]

or even just worked full time hours as a part-timer.

How did it work out?

Pros and Cons

 

[usfbrah]

Mores hours, more money

 

[BEER]

I've never worked a single full time job, but I've worked multiple jobs, up to 80 hours a week.

Right now, my hourly is enough to be comfortable working 4 days a week.

Pro: Three day weekends every week.

Con: I work actual weekends.

 

[Dogstarman]

I work full time plus overtime plus extra time. So my week can last between 40 to sometimes a little over 50 hours. Never have done a 60 hour week but was close once.

 

[Milgrim]

Always been self-employed. The last time I had an actual employer was a summer job when I was 19. But yeah, I have always worked full time hours at least.

 

[LATEXXX COMMANDO]

Always been self-employed. The last time I had an actual employer was a summer job when I was 19. But yeah, I have always worked full time hours at least.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do? Don't mean to be personal but I just love hearing self employed people doing well.

 

[Superbad]

I've worked full time since I graduated high school. I've even had a part time job along with a full time job for about a year. The most hours I have worked in a week at a single job was 72 hours. But that was one time. I think after that the most is in the low 60s. I would say I have averaged about 50 hours a week for the past 6 years.

 

[DIABOLUS]

I worked 70-75 hours a week, seven days a week, averaging 4 hours of sleep a night, for about 18 months straight, on TWO separate instances. Come at me.

 

[Milgrim]

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do? Don't mean to be personal but I just love hearing self employed people doing well.

I have done a few things. I worked in the entertainment biz for a number of years. Left that about 15 years ago to focus on writing and also did a lot of marketing/promotion consultation.

Most recently (last year), I dropped the consulting work to establish a charitable organization in an area that is of interest to me. It means making less money, but we're doing pretty well, so it is worth it. Life is better when you love what you do.

 

[Zezima]

I've always worked between 35 and 45 hours a week

All Monday to Friday

 

[Oblivian]

I've been in a full time job for years now, but out of college, I had two part time jobs at once. One was around 30 hours a week and the other was around 12 hours. Honestly, I liked it because I worked six days a week and less hours each day. A lot of people would prefer a 4 day work week with more hours each day, but I'm the opposite. I'd gladly work 6 days a week with between 6-7 hours each day.

 

[Deleted member 220895]

I worked a part time job with full time hours.

Benefit:
-You still are considered a part timer, so the expectations aren't as high for you as the full timers.
-The more you work, the better you look in your boss' eyes because you technically don't have to work those hours.
-It's easier to trade shifts because you don't have a required amount of hours like a full timer. So if you do end up not working 40 hours in a week, nothing is held against you.

Detractor:
-No benefits.
-Sometimes its hard to get 40 hours every week. Usually I got 40 hours by exchanging shifts with full timers that didn't want to work 50 hours a week, but sometimes they do, so you don't always get their shifts.
-No holiday pay.
-No sick days.
-Less of a bonus (if the job has them)

Theres probably more, but I can't think of the at the moment.