Flew back to Houston after a long hard week in Detroit working at one of our clients. I’m working an interesting schedule right now, consisting of about 11 hours a day at the client office, starting on a Monday, then working 2 – 4 hours in the hotel at nights on email and other duties. This is fairly hard work, but a little easier than programming work, since I’m really just supporting users in using the new software implementation. One benefit is that I’m hitting about 50+ hours in 4 days of work. So much for a 9/80, this is more like a 8/105.

9/80 refers to a schedule that requires 80 total hours (two weeks of 40 hours), but in 9 working days instead of 10, allowing regular people to take every second Friday off.

This kind of ‘short hours’ might be ok in a big company, but at a consulting company, 50+ hour weeks are more the norm.

On the other hand, working long hours can keep you sharper and can encourage you to keep at it in slacker times. Sometimes I wish there were another 5 hours in the day. *Sigh*.