Most hours worked?
 

Question is that is the most hours you have put in in a day, week, month? This week has been tough 0600-2100 each day and sleeping onboard tomorrow.

When renovating the dojo, i did a 70 hour pull. I got really sick after that.

All things combined I'm at a constant 60+, that's day gig, plus other business. One week that particular comes to mind though was 6 days 0800 - 2300 and I had to be 100% meticulously focused second to second for about 25% of that time.

Sounds like you're having a ball. :smack: Probably best not to take too many shortcuts on a sub.

Mine was a straight 70 hours, at the dojo, in the same Gi, the next week i got a terrible cold, was vomiting, probably during that time i drank probably 10 NOS drinks. After that was when it nearly ate my intestines out, and has ruined my ability to ingest caffeine

I used to put in 3, 16 hour days a week while working 2 jobs. One full time job 5 and 6 days a week in rotations and a part time job 3 nights a week. On my 5 day weeks , I worked the extra day at the part time job. The full time job was flat rate on labor, on 10 hour days most of the time. EDIT: I did this for 6 years.
Flat rate is based on the labor that it takes to do the job, like a commission, so no overtime either.

So it was 80 ish hours a week.


I still will stay at work sometimes until 10 or 11pm, if I have cars that need to be done. They asked me to stay until 9pm tonight, but I made plans to meet Frankie for dinner, and she was on the way already .
And I still have a second job on Saturdays.

~131,400

Give or take a few dozen and account for the odd leap year or two...


When I repossessed cars it was basically like being on call, all the time (24x365x15)

I'm torn, I'd never go back but mostly because the industry is way different now but if I could still go out and get paid for thieving cars like you could in the 90's, I'd be there in a heartbeat. It was an art back in the day, now it's just moving cars with a tow truck.

116 hours in 7 days as a civilian, continued to work 16 hour days for 3 more days before getting a break. 32 hours straight once and I nodded of at a red light stopped with the clutch pushed in. I woke up and the light was still red, but I did not recognized any of the cars in the intersection. 49 hours straight only potty breaks and food was brought to me when I was in the Navy. Our internal navigation system was down on my aircraft carrier, no internal nav, no flights. Normally 12 on 12 off while out at sea 7 days a week.

Bob

Mercedes, BMW, Audi, pretty much all the luxury models, sent us keys to do our repos. Spot the car, take the key, drive away the car. Most of the time though we had to do some crawling into garages, locked parking structures etc.

spent the better part of a year doing 75 hours a week working and taking 14 units at school, if that counts in there too :huh: Glad not to be in that boat anymore.

My grandpa did something like that at engineering grad school. Not as many work hours, but would typically go to class and lab 7:30 - 12:00, work from 2:00/4:00 - 10:00 (at places like a Foundry doing enamel on cast iron bathtubs), do homework til he couldn't stand it; wash rinse repeat. He also had a breakdown towards the end. It's not really how you want to do anything if you can help it.

If I count what I would really consider work, it's really just 40 hours a week, since other business is kind of a different category. I'm 37. The goal is to be at (have the distinct option of) 0 hours a week by 50. :drink:

Total side note, but I think it's worth mentioning. No one gets bonus points on their death bed for working themselves to death. Think hard about what you want to spend your life doing. It goes fast and sometimes get's cut in the middle without much consideration. No one cares if you have a great house in a swanky neighborhood, or super slick car . . only go after these things because YOU want to and think about why YOU want to. Don't get me wrong, nice things make life nicer and no one is throwing money or things at me, just think about your time. I don't consider time I put into my own business as work really, it's a choice and a desire. But are you just grinding for no particular reason or worst of all, just because you think you have to?

Let's see how long today is....jsut got in ..6am

Stick it to the man

Yeah well I didn't have the luxury of working for those particular finance companies, I had to settle for the more common NMAC, MACC, FMCC and the like but since they dealt in volume...

:thumbs_up:

I still have my key equipment if anyone is looking to get into the game, since the keys were simple back then, we would cut them on site.




Shhhhh.....




An aside, everyone always asks me (6'3" and 135lbs in the day) if I was scared working in south central and Compton and Inglewood and in the I.E. (anywhere lol) and truth be told although I was cautious I was never 'scared'. In fact I was always more comfortable in the poor part of town because deep down folks almost expected me at some point, just another part of being 'middle class'.

Now driving up to Calabasas or Bel Air or down into Coto (when you could get in) or even Laguna Beach or Irvine to pick up someones Jaguar or Range Rover used to make me nervous as all get out because now I'm dealing with folks who used to have money and now don't, which tends to make folks very unpredictable...

Like I said, glad I'm out of the game and yes, it is just a big old game.

I've put in 18 hours working on a car before in one day, 8am till 2 am.

Agree with most of this, but disagree to some extent. Work may be a desire at first, but it will eventually and inevitably become just work.

Everyone I've talked to in their careers has told me that eventually, a job becomes just a job. So pick something that you can do well, that you feel good about, and that is lucrative or at least worth your time.

I knew this guy who was, and is a mechanic. In highschool he was obsessed with his 65 GTO, to the point that he got a GTO 6.3L tattoo on his arm. Now, after about 8 years, he HATES his job, it doesn't pay well enough, and he is training and looking for another career. He wouldn't even talk about tuning cars for fun, he was just over it. His GTO is now a gigantic paper weight that has been sitting for about... 8 years. I have no doubt it will be sold, without love.

My Dad is a loudspeaker engineer. Same story, in college, he was an audiophile. More hardcore than any of you. Now... he hates his job, doesn't make enough, is looking for other work, and listens to his TV speakers.

My mom had a career as a professional air brush artist. ...She is now a psychologist... and once again, hating her job.



I even know a certain forum God, who has recently opened up his own business in his early 30s... even after landing a successful career at a major company in his industry after getting his masters degree. Bored so soon? Although, I'm sure he'll have some explanation. ;)

Reality is, I love cars, I have a desire to work on them. But if I went from pulling the heads on a classic Corvette, to doing brakes on a Camry, I'm guessing I'd lose that desire pretty quick.

Do I want to be a litigator? Sure. Do I have some desire to litigate? No. I want money. I feel that I can do law well, I won't get easily bored with it, and it should pay out. But honestly, I'd rather be jet skiing or wrenching on a tuner car.

we would get some pretty good volume 20 cars a weekish. Only time i was nervous was in LA since we were picking up really expensive cars (sl63 black series etc) in the ghetto. Generally they knew we were coming and living in those places there was really only one way they got a car like that. Money was great, $100 for an auction drop, $150 for a turn in and $300 for a repo, 700 if it was really late. The problem was getting 4 call between 12 & 6am while still having a day job. Wont go back

exact reason i stopped teaching, i want to live the arts, not hate them

Then change your path. That's all.

[EDIT] The other side is that being a professional is doing the things you love on the days you don't feel like it. But if you never like it . . . WTF are you doing with your life?



I still have my day gig and after ten years enjoy as much or more than ever. The other business is in the same broad field and my wife, who loves the same things runs it. I have little money, but am doing what interests me within what I can do. I am the 1%.

At the risk of sounding really pompous, I'm intelligent enough to have chosen any career I wanted and had an absolute open path to stepping into the family's engineering company where I would have made multiples (potentially many) of what I'm making now; big house in the OC Hills, Ferrari, whatever.

I have ZERO regret.

See theory of subjective marginal utility in economics and all shall be revealed to you. What I'm warning against, is just working for just stuff because you think you need to. That's a road to a meaningless life filled with regret. There are no do overs.

:p

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs : February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011


"Such as thou art, sometime was I.
Such as I am, such shalt thou be.
I thought little on th'our of Death
So long as I enjoyed breath.
But now a wretched captive am I,
Deep in the ground, lo here I lie.
My beauty great, is all quite gone,
My flesh is wasted to the bone."

- Epitaph of the Black Prince June 15, 1330 - June 8, 1376

And I'm out ! 15 today.

12-14 hrs a day for 23 days straight ...fml

Worse 1 day clocked in at 630am ish got off at 2am

You guys make me appreciate what I do, max i hit 12hrs x 6 days, but that happens once week a month maybe...i will never complain again.

I work 8 clock out and go home...

Oh, i by no means work that much any more. Im also making about 20-25k less a year then i use to. Im enjoying the extra time though.

Oh, i by no means work that much any more. Im also making about 20-25k less a year then i use to. Im enjoying the extra time though.

i just worked a 13hr overtime job last night from 3pm to 4am..