How many hours would you work?

KellNY, RN · May 1, 2007

I would do an 8 hour shift per week with a few extra shifts per month. (maybe a total of 6 shifts per month, with a 12hr thrown in every once in a while for good measure).

This way I can keep my skills fresh, keep busy, have some "extra" money, and still feel like I'm raising my son.

I could also take in a foster child or two.

Hospice Nurse LPN, BSN, RN · May 1, 2007

Probably 40+ ---- just like now! I really enjoy my job and being in the field keeps me out of a lot of the "office politics". I can handle most abusive family members when I keep in mind that they are probably really nice people when they don't have a loved one dying. My b/f (retired) always teases me about the fact that I'll probably be a hospice nurse until the day I'm admitted to hospice.

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tntrn, ASN, RN · May 1, 2007

I work 8-16 hours a week and sometimes not at all. I work to pay the exorbitantly riduculously excessively high property taxes here (about $9K each and every year!) Once DH retires and we have this house sold, we're downsizing in a big way asap and then I won't have to work.

I have a sewing business that I do from my home and love being home, traveling with DH, and working for those aforementioned nurse managers and administrators just does not figure into my long term plans.

S.N. Visit, BSN, RN · May 1, 2007

Fortunately for me, my ends have already been met, so I plan to work PRN 8-20 hrs (no week-ends or holidays) .

ranchwife · May 1, 2007

since my hubby is a self-employed rancher, I must carry the health insurance through my employer for our family......however, if I could only work 8 hours and be home with my kids, I'd do it in a heartbeat!!! I have had 2 of my kids grow up and are now on their own and I pretty much missed everything with them because of my work schedule and picking up overtime "just to make ends meet"!! Time with kids is too precious and it is gone too quickly!! Til I win the lottery, however, I will continue to work my full-time-plus-overtime hours and carry my $600 a month health insurance!!

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dorkyalmonds · Nov 10, 2008

If you needed to work only 8 hours a week in order to make ends meet, how many hours per week would you choose to work?

I would work 32 hours per week: 8 hrs to make ends meet; another 8 hrs for extra bills/ misc and; extra 8 hrs for savings.

32 hours would be ideal and awesome! Not like how i work right now -52 hours/week! :rolleyes:

MrsMissyLPN · Nov 12, 2008

If given the choice it would be eight hours and not one second over that...only if that included my insurance (the reason I must work 40 hrs now)

peace_solace · Nov 12, 2008

I would work 24. That is my goal one day once we get all our debt paid off.

NeoNurseTX, RN · Nov 12, 2008

I'd do 24.

I love my cat! · Nov 12, 2008

I would do 8, but I would be on call for more.

I wouldn't have any problem finding things to do with all of my free time. I think it would be a wonderful way to live. I envy those that don't have to work at all.

Nurse Judy · Nov 12, 2008

definitely 8 if it was at all possible :yeah:

Xbox Live Addict · Nov 13, 2008

I would do 8, but I would be on call for more.
I wouldn't have any problem finding things to do with all of my free time. I think it would be a wonderful way to live. I envy those that don't have to work at all.

Heck yeah. I could think of a million things I'd rather be doing than working and putting up with all the garbage and game-playing. I'd be travelling. I'd be watching movies and playing video games. I'd be reading. I'd be pursuing all kinds of hobbies. Just think... 40 more hours a week to have fun... not spending the best parts of your week putting up with a bunch of silliness.