It kind of depends on various factors like:
- Are you a manager or not?
- Are working one job or many as a consultant?
- What are you responsible for?
- Are you getting paid well?
- Are you getting paid for overtime?
- etc...
I moved to Texas four years ago, but before that I worked as a
Programmer/Network Administrator in Denmark where I was born. I started out
working about 70+ hours a week, but since my salary was not anything to
smile about in the first place, and since I was not paid anything for
overtime (normal work week in Denmark is 37.5 hours), and since they did
nothing to appreciate all the extra work I did, I decided to just give a
heck about it and go home everyday at normal time, unless there was an
emergency.
The first job I got here in Houston wasn't too good either, but it was owned
by the same company, so what could I expect. The salary was a tiny micro
percent better, and I again started out putting many hours into every week
and saved the company a lot of money, but after a couple of years without
any appreciation, I went back to my normal work week schedule (which is 40
hours in the states).
I got this job I have now in December last year, and they are really
treating me nice and giving me a much better salary than the other company
did. However, here they believe in family life, and unless it's absolutely
necessary, they don't want people to do overtime, so my normal week is about
50-60 hours at this time.
Hth,
Ole
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Ole Drews Jensen
Systems Network Manager
CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I
RWR Enterprises, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: McCallum, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 7:32 AM
To: 'Paul Schultz'; Hubert Pun
Cc: Cisco Study Group
Subject: RE: Working hour
In Scotland U.K. the normal working week is 37.5 hours. If you have to work
over this then the majority of businesses here will pay over time for your
troubles. I personally do a 35 hour week and work very little overtime at
all. This is the same for most of my colleagues.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 August 2000 14:04
To: Hubert Pun
Cc: Cisco Study Group
Subject: Re: Working hour
The standard US "working week" is 40 hours/week, but that's almost never
the case with people in this field. I know the younger people (like
myself) are known for pulling pretty long hours. I don't know about most
people, but a 55-60 hour week is about normal for me. I've done longer
(hell even camped out at our office to maintain a gas generator when we
had a 36 hour power outage =)
Expect 55-60 hours a week, be prepared to pull 70+ when there's a lot of
crap going on.
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Hubert Pun wrote:
> What is the normal working hour per week in each country?
>
> and what is the normal working hour per week for NETWORK ENGINEER have
> to work per week?
>
> I just want to know roughtly what to expect
>
> Thanks
>
> Hubert
>
>
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