I find laziness is the key to most process improvements. Most of the ones that I’ve personally come up with were a result of “this is too much time/effort. How can I avoid that?”
there was another thread that was closed because the poll was private.
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
right now i wouldnt know what to put
i have a 20 hour a week internship
i work 30 hours part time
i fix other peoples cars when i have time
and im taking 18 credit hours (6 of which are internship)
all that will be done in 3 weeks though and hoping to pick up a 9-5 job
I might make it to a 2, but I am here at work 40 hours a week most times.
I work at over 130% performance physical labor all night and then go to school all day. In terms of hours put it weekly and how hard I actually work at my job I would say I am at a 10.
I’m in just my first month now as an agent collecting for the Target Financial team and I just hit bonus ($4900~ in fee = around $13,000 collected this month barring postdates). I should be getting around $400~ in target gift cards as bonus incentive, cash around ~$350 as bonus check, making around “XX.XX” an hour. Around the same as anyone else here in non-degree jobs.
I usually work around an 8 while punched in I work off the clock in the sense that me and the girl (she works a similar job, diff location) often discuss tactics, time-saving tips, manager advice and whatev to improve our “game.”
I usually take 10 minute bathroom breaks 2x a day to clear my head and relax. :tup:
I get paid biweekly and will basically always get 80hrs in the two weeks, not usually over 'cause it’s frowned upon.
What prompted this anyway willybeen? Not getting noticed enough at work or did you just get a promotion? 
Or just that you browse NYSpeed at work?
edit: I’d like to point out that not everybody here listing 8s-10s are really committing to that amount of work at your actual job. I’d say if you’re not clearly progressing at whichever job you consider “full time” and exceeding all goals then you’re not above a 6-7. Just because you’re spread too thin doesn’t make you a 10. Once I worked 6am-1pm, then 1:30pm-12am, then went to school on weekends (overall 100+hrs a week) and I was NO WHERE near putting a 10 in anywhere. More like a 3 because it was such a shitty life style.
I am a pilot.
I don’t exert any real effort.
I work 3 hours then need a pepsi and snack machine break, use refuel as a good reason to eat junk food for an hour or more.
I sit in form fitted memory foam leather seats.
I don’t talk to anyone but other smart people (air traffic controllers).
I don’t work for weeks at a time, when I do actually work, I go on free golf trips, dinner meetings…
I chose a 3.
- 40 hours a week.
I work at Subway. Perks aren’t bad. All the lettuce I want and free stamps.
I would say I’m easily @ 10. I work long days and come home to do other work-related stuff. It’s all part of owning your own business. I don’t mind it at all but I know over time that will change, I won’t want to be working 14-16 hr. days. I own a media blasting business and we have been having our best months ever, so that is even more of an incentive to work hard.
What prompted this… I was having a discussion with other members about how hard they work… The said members do very well from a monetary standpoint, or so I’d imagine, so i asked them how hard they felt that they worked. Then i made a post. Not getting noticed enough at work? wellllll, i work for myself basically and I’m having another record quarter, its not too bad, but yes I peruse nyspeed throughout my day, I should probably apply to subway so that I start eating better.
smith… do they have internet at subway? or am i going to have to buy an iphone?
EDIT: id love to get a “True” value of how I thought people worked based on their day to day activities… id imagine some of the numbers given that were >5 dont belong there… and vice versa.
4g comes out this summer 
EDIT: id love to get a “True” value of how I thought people worked based on their day to day activities… id imagine some of the numbers given that were >5 dont belong there… and vice versa.
Yeah and I think “hard work” and “smart work” might be pretty different. If you’re naturally very bad at your job you’ll have to work a lot harder to be an average employee, then harder than that to be a stand-out employee, even though other stand out employees might be working less.
Working hard isn’t equal to long hours…
No internet and you won’t be able to afford an iphone on my salary. I am working my way up tho. I started out mopping the floor… but now… now I’m washing lettuce. Soon I’ll be making sandwiches, then ill become a cashier. And pretty soon, I’ll make assistant manager, and that’s when the big bucks start rolling in.
I can’t wait to become part of nyspeed’s financial elite.
Very true… And working hard doesn’t always equal physical hard either. Plus one person’s version of “hard” is another’s version of easy.
please pm me your managers name, and is it ok to use you as a reference? how are the benefits… aside from the occasional free sodey pop and slice of that delicious olive loaf
i work hard as fuck and dont have shit…
I work roughly 60-65 hr weeks. Sucks being exhausted at the end of the day but the paycheks nice. But its like I was always told, you gotta pay if you wanna play. And mind you this is working 2 jobs.
i work my ass off all the time but almost always have a great time doing it, so i clicked 10… but it feels like a 6 or a 7. However, i would think that most people who really know everything i do would put me above 10.
i work 50-70 hrs. a week for CARSTAR including evenings and weekends at times managing all of our major accounts, building contracts and strategies as well as the schmoozing, lunches and dinners etc. I very often do work that others are accountable for simply because, for whatever reason, i want to kick ass and i want the company to kick ass… as a result i’ve started initiatives in other depts. that net tens of thousands of dollars annually right to the bottom line and brought in key people for tough to fill positions without accepting referral bonuses.
There is some travel involved which is good and bad. for example i have a 4 day trip to Calgary and Vancouver coming up which will be pretty fun actually, but i hate spending the time away from my wife and kids.
In addition to that 50-70 hrs. a week for work i spend 20+ hours a week (every week) on personal ventures. some of it includes absolutely rediculous days, like yesterday, where most people would pull their hair out if i simply explained what my saturdays were like.
My parents tell me to slow down and take it easy, so do others, but as a result of the on-going hard work my wife doesnt have to work and we can still have 2 kids, a home, lots of toys and sacrifice nothing.
You can work hard, or you can work smart, or you can do both. both pays the best 