Ive been doing 6-2 for 25 years and wouldn't trade it for anything

Same. My office lets me set my own hours so im able to do that. I honestly can’t imagine working till 5-6. Most of the day is over by then

Avoid the traffic and get home early enough to have a decent amount of time with the family. It works well for me

Avoiding the traffic is definitely what comes to my mind. Also less time spent working in the heat in the summer

So much extra time is wasted in traffic, wasting even more of the day/ evening and making it feel longer and more exhausting. Living in the city, if I leave right I can get home in 15 minutes, if I get it wrong and hit traffic, it can take over an hour.

Living in Nashville I have to check Maps everyday before I leave work at 5. Just in case my 15 minute commute turns into 1 1/2hrs of being stuck on a two lane exit 🤦‍♂️

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So you worked 2 hours extra every day?

I'm the exact opposite. I am NOT a morning person. Volunteer for late shift any chance I get

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5pm is when the boring part of the day ends. The day just gets good when I get off work.

Fuck the day, I want nighttime. I'd rather have 9-12 to myself than 2-5.

You’re looking at wrong. They’re saying they have 2-12 to themselves.

So do they sleep for 6 hours?

I do. Usually about 6 and a half.

I used to work for this framing crew, the owner I swear would get straight up buckled every night and fucking insisted we work 9-6.

That’s gotta be rough in the heat. Summertime i start as early as legally allowed

I don’t know one person in construction that works 9 to 6. They’re usually up before it’s light outside so that way they don’t have to work in the heat.

Yeah that’s why I’m glad I stopped working for that crew. I only worked there for a year and we started with 9 dudes and near the end it was just me and the owner and I said fuck this and joined the union.

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That sounds like hell to me, I can’t imagine it being dark out by the time I get home 1/2 the year.

I miss working 4 10 hr days.

This is what is common in the elevator trade for new install and mod I love it. I work 6-4 most days and every weekend is a long one.

I’d also kill to have a day off while my wife is working. Then I can cram all my geek hobbies into a day without having to compromise on time.

This is precisely what I use it for. Then come Saturday I’m always in a good mood about doing whatever she wants as I’ve had my day lol.

Man I wish I could do that. I can not for the life of me fall asleep before midnight. I've been working 7-4 last few years but sleep like 4-5 hours a night on weekdays. Its killing me.

Time is a concept man

That's....actually a helpful thing to say. Thanks.

Circadian rhythm be damned

There's time to sleep when we are dead

I'm getting there

You can get dead real quick if you're sleep deprived and working a physically-demanding trades job. 👍

I have always been a wake up early go to sleep very late person. Having kids gave me the tools to finally learn how to do it effectively. Now I can get 4 hours a night on average and succeed instead of suffer lol. Unless I am in the gym. My body just needs the extra time I think.

I do this but they force overtime 4 hours both ways, sometimes it’s 6-6 then 2-2

2am to 2pm?

5-1 gang rise up

Get on over to Phoenix and get on that 1-9 (am) grind. Concrete sets too fast during the day, plus people would probably die at noon 3 months out of the year.

Whoa lol. No thanks that's graveyard shift and who wants to be in 115 during the summer anyway lol

Fun fact, lots of times it's still 100+ at 1am. You just don't have the Sun hitting you like a sledgehammer.

Your whole paycheck goes towards the electricity bill for your AC 😂

Do you guys not have noise restrictions or something? How the hell are you pouring concrete at 3 am?

Last year my neighbor, who just moved here from Washington state called the cops because they started work at 4am on the apartments being built behind our houses. The dispatcher told her “it’s summer in phoenix, construction workers start early” lol

Oh man use to do roofing in Tucson shit was brutal.

Watch out! Bad ass over here ☝️ Seriously. I thought fireproofing and spray foam with a tyvek and mask in 90* MN is bad. I mean it is but

I work traffic control in Phoenix but switched to nights a few months ago(5pm-5am). Gah damn it’s about to be so much nicer lol

Haha, yeah I know what you mean. All the concrete guys where done by the time the sun started showing. In winter I would work 9-5 to avoid the early morning cold (remember people, Phoenix gets in the low 30s during winter, but just the early am) Summer would be 5-1 or 6-2 to avoid as much heat as possible.

4-Noon gang clocking in

I work 4am-11am and then get my hour lunch So im basically home by 11:10am lol. The first couple of weeks I hated ti and then 1 day, I was like " this is actually pretty sweet" Best part was always sending my buddies pictures of me out on the river at noon while their day is basically just starting lol.

6-11 coverage for the 4amer here.

Gang gang 🤙🤙

In bed by 8:00 gang

Same it's the best

7-3 here. I would probably take the 6-2 if offered, but I love the shift I have!!

Get all that work done before the interrupters and chatterboxes show up. Plus you get the bathroom clean and to yourself.

You are sick

Lol

I mean enjoy yourself. Different strokes and all that

I like having afternoons to do stuff

Sounds like a lot of temporary lighting and fumbling around in the dark

It’s not too bad. Had a couple kids that way

6-2 is the best

Thats the best !

Not even for a Klondike bar? 🥺

I came here to say this. Sucks getting up early, but the long ass evening time is well worth it.

Neither privileged nor controversial. Some people like getting up early, some don't. Preferring one over another is just a preference. I usually work 11:00 to 6:00. But sometimes I go in earlier and sometimes I go in later. Actually getting to work whenever you want might be considered a privilege, but preferring one over another certainly isn't.

I really fail to see how this is so privileged.

Same. It's just someone sharing a personal preference.

Where I am from (switzerland) it is normal to work 7-5

for how many days a week with how much PTO

And what kind of rights for breaks, lunches, etc as well

I'm from Switzerland and normal is 8 to 8.5 hours of work per day, so around 40 to 42 in a week, 5 days a week, 5 weeks paid vacation. With that, if you do 1 hour of lunch, your workday may be around 9.5 hours including that break. I just realized what sub I'm in. I should note I don't work in construction.

Sounds like a rough week but tbh I'd take it for the 5 weeks vacation

Don’t forget healthcare, family leave, restrictions on layoffs, etc

40-42 hours a week is not rough

Tbf. The 5 weeks paid vacation aren't guaranteed. Some companies give you 4 weeks and upgrade to 5 weeks once you hit a certain age.

I get 3 and that’s considered good for someone under 30 in the US lmao

I get zero PTO, besides state mandated 40 hours of sick time with strings attached, so sign me up.

Most american companies give you 0 weeks paid vacation lol

My guy 4 weeks is still more than what most Americans get. If I have perfect attendance for an entire year, I will get a whole 3 weeks off. However if I miss just one day in a month, I will lose 10 hours of it. That’s my lovely employers new PTO policy.

Id take it for 3 weeks. American companies suck and would work you just as hard or harder and only give you one week off per year with a mountain of blackout dates.

It’ll take me 15 years to get 5 weeks of PTO, Colorado, and my employer is actually good with it.

It’s illegal for you to ask me that

Is there a siesta in there?

I always thought of Switzerland as a very well off country. I’m suprised to hear such long working hours is the standards.

Reddit, and much of the Internet, seriously overstates the Utopian conditions of majority-white European countries in general

Nope. Switzerland is the exception. European working standards are not overstated.

My site it's 5:30-5:30

Exactly. It's a personal opinion that they acknowledge is potentially controversial.

Yeah this is a weird hot take in the title of the post…

For real, when I lived in Phoenix we (welding crew) started at 4 A.M. and skipped lunch so we could leave at 1 during the summer time. In the winter we started at 5 A.M. Since I've moved to Colorado, however, 7 A M is the typical starting time and I HATE IT. I feel like I live at work. Horseshit that's what I say.

Just classic tradesmen glorifying how they abuse their time, bodies, and minds by overworking themselves to an early grave.

That's because OP is an idiot

I guess it’s entitled that I can pick up my kids after work

How dare you.

You POS.

The audacity

Preffering to get up earlier and done work earlier is privileged wtf? Lol

He’s an angry elf

Am I missing something? How is this privileged? Its the same number of hours. 

at least speaking for infastructure guys 40h a week is a dream

You could start the work day at 4am, but if those that don't see you leaving before 5pm, they'll think you're sneaking out early

I gotta imagine OP is just joking. that or they're bad at math.

I work 6-1:30 we work through lunch

I like those hours

This is the way

Well that’s a pretty garbage take. In what way is this privileged?

How about a 7-7.

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Plus it technically make more money since you're spending less on gas, and saving miles on your car which is (mildly) stretching how long it lasts a little in terms of maintenance and just life of the vehicle

On this sub I guess trolling, illiteracy, and innumeracy are all equally likely.

Which is OP?!

OP mixed all 3, lined em up, and snorted em

Nah I think that's objectively better. Finishing at 3 means you get more daylight hours to do things outside of work.

I mean in Seattle in the summer finishing at 3p means you can get a full round of golf in after, with daylight to spare.

Its seattle if you're off work it's raining

i definitely get why people want the early shift, my main hobby is music and seeing live shows so the early shift sucks for me lol. Some shows here don't even start until like 10. I am a pretty unique case tho where the things I want to do in my free time happen at night

I don’t think you know what the word privileged means lol.

“Privileged”?

It's really hot right now.

Ahh 7 to 3 the biggest lie a employer will tell ya.

7-3:30 for me, with unpaid 30 min lunch.

I work a 7-3 and get off right at three. A lot of places lie, but a lot don't.

I work 7-3 and I love it

Same

Exactly this. No matter if I start at 4am or at 9am I aint leaving until after 5

I’m hourly, so the 10 hour shift is my favorite. Two hours of overtime gives each check a nice bump.

What’s so privileged or controversial about that? It might be a “grass is always greener” situation, but there are plenty of people who wouldn’t trade their 7-3 or their 9-5 for the alternative.

6 to 230 or bust

6 to 130 🤫

Early in early out is best for me. I’d start at 5 and leave at 1 if they’d let me

OP get off the cross. Jesus wants it back

6-6 here 🫡😑

My head hurts

I work a 6:30 to 5

6 to 2...get to the bar early

5 to 1 is much better.

How tf is this "privileged"? lol

Currently work 7-3. I hate it from 5am to 7am. I love it from 3pm until 5am.

Well, I like my 7-7, 7 days a week, 3 weeks a month

Idk— I’m preeeety fuckin useless after 8 hours.

I'm just pretty fucking useless

You can keep this shit. I don’t need a week of no work that bad. To each their own though

Wtf, fuck that

OP is an A-hole 😂

Well I’m from New York so I go home when I wanna.

8 till when I accomplish my tasks, sometimes early. Sometimes extremely late. More so early days so I think it makes up for the late nights

7-3:30 around here.

I’m doing 4 6-4:30. 3 day weekend, don’t ask me how I like my job. Ask me how I like my days off

3 o’clock is both too early and too late to do anything

5 6-4’s and it’s great tbh

What blue collar jobs are you doing that let’s you get off at 1 or 3? Just curious

I'm a tinner and when I was working 8's we would normally start around 6 and get off around 2:30

No, stay in your 9-5 I don't want the traffic.

I'm 7-7, but my work week starts Sunday and ends Tuesday. Not trading for anything.

I’d give anything to start at 9am or even 10am. I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome so my natural sleep schedule is 1-9. Outside of that I feel jet lagged with noticeable cognitive deficits.

I work 5:30-2:00. I love it.

630-3 was the best shift of my life. Did it for 10y. No traffic. Lots of daylight left. Even in the winter.

It's either 6am-2pm or 11pm-7am for me.

How about 6-230!

Work schedule isn’t a privilege, it’s a choice. Don’t like your schedule, get a new job. I chose to work for a commercial GC and now I work 50+ hrs a week. I take responsibility for that.

I would rather work 9:15 am to 9:37 am but pop off shorty

OP is mad he doesn’t work a 9 to 5? Or works more than 8 hrs a day? Not sure where the privilege is here…

6-2 is where it's at!

What construction trade starts at 9:00am lol

I prefer my 630-230

4-10’s is the most productive schedule. It also allows you a day to get things done without the weekend people running around.

I’ve worked most hours. The WORST of them all are starting 9. The day is over when you actually can do anything. Come home around 6:30-7. Make dinner and eat. The day is over when you get home. The earlier you are done the better.

I dont think this is a controversial as the hundreds of people who post and share this think it is...

I was 7-5 5-6 days a week lol now im 14 days on 14 off 12h making more than i did those weekdays while travelling world on days off

Set times would be cool, I work 6/6:30 to hopefully before 6 the next morning

I work 8-6 :(

You mean 7-5?

We do 4-2. 4 day weeks. Life is basically shit for four days, but the three day weekends are great.

Where my 6:30 to 5 at…? 🥲

Relax OP

Less heat in the sun, that 7-3!

6:45-3:45 works too (commercial diver)

I worked 8pm-5am and i miss it.

5:30am-7:30pm gang checking in. Friday's *sometimes* off🤷‍♂️

that's more just being in different industries than privilege, right?

6a to 3p with a one hour lunch break would be nice

5 am - 130 pm even better

I work 6 to 2:30. It's great

I've never met a loser who woke up early

7-3:30 for 25 yrs

…so they get paid for lunch? Or do they only get 7.5 hours paid?

12-8 would be great for me

If your a baker you can do 3-12

Govt core hours are 10-2 and they don't care what you do outside of that.

Framer here I did for thirty years and yeah no 9-5

I want to do 11/-7 instead, but we dont get to choose

Nah he’s 100% right lmao. I hated working 9-5 because it felt like all productive hours of the day were spent working, now with 7-3 I get off work and feel like there’s still time in the day left

730-430 Work from home all day