Just started out as a field engineer for a service company and on a 10on/4off schedule.

Not so bad. Perfect so I can get **** done at places that are closed on weekdays.

I really enjoy my 7-4 schedule. It's even nicer now that I work from home.

4 on / 4 off...but rotating gets old.

Was told to get 40 hours of work done each week as I saw fit when I worked for the City of Carrollton Parks and Rec.

I could work 6am-8pm for three days and get off at 6pm the third day and have 4 days off each week. As long as the work load got done my sup didn't mind my schedule.

You rotate on every job dude...4/4 is way better than 5/2.

If you like shiftwork, Dupont schedule beats 4 on 4 off hands down, IMO.

6:00 - 4:30 4 days a week rules!

I've never had anything but the regular 8-5 x 5. But of the others I've seen, 4 tens looked to be pretty nice or better yet, 9 eighties where your day off alternated between the end of one cycle and the beginning of the next. That gave you 9 hour days, which safe no big deal, and a 4 day weekend at least once a month.

I love the 8-5 I have now mainly for the fact that everyone leaves at 5. And if someone stays, they don't look at you all judgmental when you leave.

Definitely Long Term Disability.


Just kidding..Im a republican. 4/10s is hard to beat, but would like to have 4/4 rotation.
In sales now, so no "fixed schedule"

3 on, 3 off, 3 on, 5 off. 12 hr shifts. It freaking rocks.

what do you do aries?

What svc company did you hire on with Masterplan? Grats on the gig!

Outside sales.

Hated the job but I sure got a lot of personal stuff done.

15 days on, 13 days off

Nurse.

I was an FE a few years back with an 11-3 then a 10-4 schedule. When I was doing cement jobs, there were times where my 10 days ended until 8 am of my first day off and then I would get called in for a midnight yard time on the fourth day, because the person coming from days off were always the fist ones back out.... Good luck!

28 days on and 28 days off.... been doing it for almost a year now and love it.

i've done 5x8s, 4x10s, 9-80, 5-wk rotating shift. they all have their pluses and minuses. right now i'm on 5 wk rotating and i like it the best. working nights and weekends sucks, but i also get a week off at one point. overtime can be hit or miss...i went almost 3 months with no extra shifts and i'm basically in the middle of working 5 extra shifts.

plus, on rotating (at least for me), i can take 36 hours vacation and get two weeks off. it really works out well for travel back to texas. now if i could only get my wife to quit her job and stay at home...

7-4 is good for me. I need some structure or I keep really strange hours. Even if I work late I usually leave by 530, which is nice.

I think 9-80 would be cool.

Yell, my time offs are like that. If I take a week off, it is really 2 weeks off.

Plus working only 3 days a week is freaking awesome. I'm going on a little 5 day vacation in October & I don't have to take any time off.

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7-4 but if I accumalte OT j can use it as comp time and take off Friday at noon if I feel like t.

9/80

3 on 3 off/4 on 4 off. 12 hr shifts

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If you like shiftwork, Dupont schedule beats 4 on 4 off hands down, IMO

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This. Basically had a week vacation every month during long change. 12 hour shifts...4 nights; 3 off; 3 days; 1 off; 3 nights; 3 off; 4 days; 7 off.

Basically you work 3 one week and 4 the next. And for my job we didn't have to be on call during the 7 off.

Racking up overtime was nice and didn't suck near as much as it does to rack up OT working a 5 day, 8-5.

just to be clear, I meant 4 weeks on / 4 weeks off (not days)

4 days on 4 off, 3 days on 3 off and it rotates between the two. I'm on my four off now. We're supposed to go to 3 on 4 off soon which is a big pay cut but nice in the days off (lose my over time )

I like the 4.5 work week I am on.

Personally I liked my 5/40 alot better than my 5/50+

CSISD School Bus Driver
1 hour in the morning
1 hour in the afternoon

Never really worked a job with a set schedule, but I am a borderline workaholic so there is a potential drawback. I get paid for 40, but have a lot of random night, morning and weekend appointments. I flex things around as need be, but ultimately do what I need to to get things done and keep folks happy. Granted we got an email a while back about reducing the "culture of voluntary uncompensated work".

Hollywood... I thought you were in Australia?

7:30a-5:30p M-TH
7:30a-11:30a F

Love my half day Fridays!

9-noon, Monday AND Wednesday.

Just brutal, but it is only September thru May so I guess I can tough it out.