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[Carmy]

Here in Korea or anywhere else.

I just worked a 12 hour day. Started with my kindy's at 10:15 then finished with my elementaries at 7p.m. Then all us foreign teachers had to stay behind and judge a Speech Contest until almost 11p.m
And the best part is we don't get paid for this.
Talk about being worked to death!

Oh and we have to do it AGAIN on Monday.

And yes I do work for a hogwan where the owner is a psycho biatch!

[Homer]

18 hours.....

But that was for my consulting agency.

Longest teaching day...hmmm...back in 1998 I did a 11 hour day....never again!

[ceesgetdegrees]

i started kitchen handing p/t at a conference center when i was 16, saturadys was a 9am start through to a 3am sunday morning finish if we were busy. I was the richest kid at school.

[sojourner1]

37 hours. I was in the US Army as a cook and during a field exercise, I finally said, "Hey, I need to rest, I have been laboring for 37 hours straight!" I just left and went to my tent and passed out on my cot. I was to the point, I didn't care any more. They just expect you to work to death until you stand up and say, "Hey, I have needs too."

[Cliffhanger]

Back in Canada, I had a job that I was regularly working 13 hr days. Not everyday, but maybe once or twice a week. It was a job that I generally liked and the overtime was nice, so it wasn't that big a deal. But I do remember it being quite tiring.

[Dome Vans]

I can't beat sojourner but i would regularly work 21 hour days in Sweden as a chef, something definitely wrong with with starting work at 6am and then finishing 3am the next morning. Unless you love your job though, puddings snare me in! I did this for three years. Seems to be something common with cooking and mental hours.

Being my own love affair with food, found the energy. Come Chantarelle or asparagus season there was definitely a spring in the step.

[merkurix]

Back in 2004 I was working from 9:00 AM to 8:30 PM for 3/4s of the year. And here was the schedule:

9-12 Preschool / Kindy teaching

12-1 Lunch (on-site. Most teachers had to help serve the food and eat with the students)

1-3 Mandatory Prep Time for afternoon classes. No one was allowed to go home.

3-5 Early elementary school students teaching

5-7:30 Upper elementary school students teaching

7:30-8:30 Submission of written pre-schoo/Kindy lesson plans for the next day (mandatory) AND written post reflection lesson notes from lessons taught that day (ridiculous, but mandatory as well). Sometimes these took a little longer.

And all for 1.9 million won in 2004.

There were days were I've gone home at 9 PM. And I kept this up for almost 9 months out of the year at that hagwon. It almost cost me a piece of my sanity :::shudders:::. Never again.

[Zutronius]

I've pulled a few 13 hour shifts at my previous job servicing septic systems.

[demaratus]

In July and August I worked monday to saturday 12 hours a day, with only one saturday off per month. It sucked, I was cranky, got noticably fatter and had little social life frombeing more tired. But man was that money nice!

[Fredbob]

hmm, during graduate school, my schedule during the week was 4am to 1230pm at work 1-5 internship 6:30-9:30 at school, AND THEN THERE WAS HOMEWORK (don't remember much of that year and a half)

My first hagwon job in Korea, basically M-T 9am-10pm, with a 45 minute commute each way

When I was COO for a small company, for 1 year I worked from 8am Sat until 3am the same day, back in the office 10am Sunday until anywhere from 1am-3am.

Just out of school, working at a brokerage 9am-10:30pm

Hmm, guess what I'm trying to say is, SUCK IT UP

[jaganath69]

Regularly pulled 12 hr + days, 6-7 days a week prior to teaching doing physical labour, including a job in an abattoir and harvesting work driving a tractor. Teaching a 12 hour day, which I have done frequently, is nothing by comparison.

[Carlyles Ghost]

Longest teaching day: 9 hours straight with no break at a hagwon. It may not seem like much but my mind was a jellied clump of uselessness at days end. I was walking into walls on the way home.

Longest day at work: I was helping my brother who is a carpenter. We worked together for something like 14 hours. Never work long days with family.

[Draz]

16 hours.

11pm-7am - Job #1
7am-8am - travel by bike ~10km, stop at home to feed the cat
8am-4pm - Job #2

Then home and sleep. Then do it again. This was my weekend schedule for three months last year. I liked both my jobs so I didn't mind. I only quit because classes started again.

[xtchr]

12 hour night shift (5pm-5am) in a fish processing plant, six days a week for two years. The pay made it worthwhile, and was relatively easy to still function as a human being, but social activities were definitely put on the back burner.
Edit - have just remembered I used to work at the same time three days a week as a teacher aide, from 1pm-3pm. On those days I was a bit of a wreck. Was either at work, or asleep, pretty much didn't do anything else. Actually the more I consider the topic - what on earth was I thinking at the time? It was crap.

12 hour rotating shifts (5am-5pm for two days, then 5pm-5am for two nights, followed by two days off) in a cheese factory, for three months, in Uni summer holidays. - This was the worst! Really messed with my head, never knew what time it was, constantly felt tired/exhausted, never got into any sort of routine as regards sleeping.

[aarontendo]

Had to work at my part time grocery store job *shudder* for 8 hours, then had to zip over to Software Etc. (gamestop now) to work the midnight opening for the Dreamcast for 5 hours, then had to go back to my part time job to open the next day, 8 more hours.

That was on 9/9/99 I guess.

Though in all fairness I just went to the stock room and slept for a lotta that time the last shift.