Fully work from home. I start late on Mondays and Thursdays because I have Dutch lessons in the morning. I usually work from my small home office, or sometimes sitting on my sofa or rarely at a cafe. I don’t usually have meetings on Mondays or Fridays and log off at around 5:30. On Tuesday through Thursday, I often work until around 7:00 in order to have virtual meetings with coworkers in other timezones. Most days, I skip breakfast or have something light, and opt for an early lunch (sometimes that’s breakfast food).

Outside of meetings, I use an automated time management tool to block off times for certain tasks so that I don’t forget to do them daily. The rest of the time is deep work, hopping from project to project. My work is done in 2 week intervals, and I usually accomplish 15-20 project tasks per interval. During the day, I frequently field random notifications to myself or my team in channels on our comm tool. During deep work time, to keep my brain from falling apart, I tend to put on a comfort show or something not too engaging. A large chunk of my work is also stakeholder management, talking people away from metaphorical cliffs that will hurt the business.

I’m running at 120% at all times. My brain is mush at all times. I’m deeply burned out.

8-5 M-F

I did the math… 48% of my time is pre-scheduled meetings.

I burned out and can now barely look after myself let alone my property. Thus work for me is existing. Actual paid employment would literally destroy me. The medication doesn’t help much.

But if you want interesting shift patterns, I was once on a rotating days and nights schedule that was a lot tighter at one end than four-on, four off. Day shifts were eight hours but staff were staggered so all hours from 8am to 6pm were covered. Nights were always 8pm to 8am. (On-call and a different team covered 6pm to 8pm.)

The worst part of it was that you could finish a day shift at 6pm and need to be in work for a night shift at 8pm the following day. 26 hours to adjust. That was all.

The best part was if your night shifts ended and the recovery time led into a weekend where there was no day shift. That made for nearly a week off, which happened about three times a year.

But absolutely none of that made up for the way it messed with my sleep schedule. I thought being a night owl would make it easy. I was wrong and it severely weakened me.

And it took several years of a different but increasingly stressful (days-only) job before I broke completely.

I drive an 18-wheeler. I don’t live in it full-time though, my employer calls me “regional”. Meaning I stay relatively close to home, rarely more than half a day’s drive.

I work Monday thru Friday, exact hours each day depend on what loads I’m hauling. Unless I have an early appointment, I don’t leave my house before noon on Mondays. Whatever time I get home on Friday depends on how work goes. Sometimes I’ll do some Saturday driving as well, but that’s almost always because I couldn’t make it home Friday night for some reason. Going to my house during the week happens sometimes, though that’s rare.

I’m legally limited to 11 hours of driving per day; most trucking companies see that as a target. My current employer favors a different approach: plan for 7-8 hours per day, so drivers can theoretically work as many days in a row as they want, without being forced to take a day off.

I generally push myself anyway. I’m not paid by the hour; the sooner I deliver my load, the sooner I get to go home.

Working from 11 am to 5 pm Monday through saturday. I really like that I do work not a lot of hours per day, but missing that one extra day off.

Mostly WFH with “when I’m needed” as my schedule. Very flexible, and pretty chill. In the morning I usually catch up on my inbox, check that everything is running as it should. Then a few phonecalls. I usually have another hour in the evening to catch up with coworkers in different timezones.
When I’m doing field work it’s usually 10-12 hours days, weekends included.

I got promoted to this position after doing 12 hour shifts offshore, five weeks on, five weeks off, for ages.

Work? Haha! Ha… ha. 😭

It’s called something like “continental shift pattern” but I’m not totally sure.

I work 2 or 3 twelve hour day shifts. Followed by 2 or 3 night shifts. Never more than 5 shifts in a row.

Then I have 4 or 5 days off. Since I always end on a night shift I actually get off work 6 hours into my first day off at 6AM.

These are staggered in such a way that I always have two weekends fall into my days off per month.

I hate working at all but this is a schedule I “like.” Fuck 9-5 for five days with only two days off. Ew.

I’m on for 4 days. Off for 3 days.

For a retail schedule, that’s a rarity. However, that does come with its sacrifices and some benefits. The sacrifice being, I may make less which means I have to be a lot more careful with finances. I still come out with a decent chunk at the end of the day, but, if expenses get higher and/or hours are cut or I’m somehow paid less, I may have to make sharp adjustments.

My store really does grind on those 4 days, where it feels like it’s a full 5 day schedule. I am a decent worker which unfortunately, makes me the kind of worker where they’re going to rely on me a lot and make me compensate a lot for the lack of a shitty worker. So, I’m going to be coming up fucking tired to do anything and sometimes even think of doing anything. Plus, I’m probably going to be pissed off for a bit so anymore human interaction I don’t want.

8:30-4:30 4 days a week, 9:30-5:30 once in a while. My “home” day varies.

I work from Monday to Friday, 8:30 till 4pm with a half-hour lunch break, 3 weeks in a row.
The fourth week I work from 9:30 till 5, and then I’m on call from 5 till midnight and all day during the weekend.
On average I get 1 call per week that requires 15-30 minutes of actual work (remote). I can live my life normally during on-call time as long as I stay sober, within cell phone range, and within a 1h drive to work in case of an emergency.
As compensation for doing on-call, I get a company car, about 20% more salary, and 12 additional vacation days, for a total of 42 days per year (plus unlimited sick days).

I’m a 9 to 5. Sadly, tomorrow will be mentally hard. I have to explain to two managers why I can’t write a kernel driver for a device in one week while I insist the request is not reasonable.

Thursday-Saturday ~8am-6pm, Sunday 8-3, Mondays as needed 11-3.

But usually M-W off.

I wait tables.

Mo-Fr: 9-18
Every weekday unless public holidays