Sentences with phrase «hour long work day»

I decided to take the job, it took every bit of the 15 days we were given, many very late nights and even one 26 hour long work day in order to complete the home in time for the reveal, but we did it.

Not exact matches

It seems like I spend twice as long in the car every day idling my way through rush hour and staring at the rusted bumper of the car in front of me, when I could be writing and connecting with clients at work.

«The days of working 60 - hour weeks for 30 years at the same company are long gone,» she says.

Depending on scheduling, the trial means some staff operate on a six - hour day, which includes a 30 - minute lunch, while others work seven hours with a dedicated hour - long lunch.

Armstrong has a driver who takes him to work every day, allowing him to get things done throughout his hour - long commute.

It's a gruelling profession: most operators are on call 24 hours a day, and often work in isolated locations for long stretches.

When you're in the trenches every day, working long hours to build your dream company, it's easy to miss the big picture and get stuck in the weeds.

Most operators are on call 24 hours a day, and often work in remote locations for long stretches of time.

That's 1 - 3 days working a few hours per day, or 1 - 3 weeks working just a few hours per week - stretching it over a longer period is often a better plan for additional objectivity and less burnout.

Far from working steadily eight hours a day, seven days a week, most knowledge workers have peaks and troughs of productivity, alternating intense periods of work with long stretches of cat videos and inbox shoveling.

When you work double - digit hours and Sundays are no longer a day of rest, feeling overworked can become the new normal.

You might not need special clothes or long hours («Undertake a commitment to try to sit three times a week for five to 10 minutes to begin with, working up to 20 every day,» Salzberg suggests), but you do need appropriate expectations and a good guide.

While working 10 - hour days at Google, for instance, Marissa Mayer said that she took «a week - long vacation every four months.»

They are go - getters who want to start the day before their peers and competitors, who want to work long hours and have enough time for their personal lives too.

But I can imagine there are some times of the day you can also stay one hour longer in the bed and do some work from there.

The flipside of valuing flexibility is that Millennials don't mind being plugged into work 24 hours per day — as long as they can do it from wherever they want to be.

If you think this isn't important, bear in mind that long - term studies show that working 11 or more hours a day at least doubles the risk of depression.

The idea of May 1 as a day for workers» rights was born in the US city of Chicago, where on May 1, 1886 hundreds of thousands of people walked off the job to protest long hours and harsh working conditions.

But recently Sheryl Sandberg, ex-Google exec and current COO of Facebook, came out with a very different sort of public declaration about how she uses her time — and it's one that might cause you to reevaluate the necessity of your long work weeks and reconsider what you're inadvertently saying about your values when you tout your 12 - hour days.

If you decide to invest you can be assured that I am ready, willing and able to work 18 hours a day, 7 days a week for minimum wage for however long it takes to get this venture on a solid course to success.

Given I no longer work, I've got 10 more hours a day to search for unicorns.

Hicks had been contemplating leaving the White House for several weeks and told friends that she was relieved to finally announce her move... She felt three years was a long time to work in the whirlwind of the Trump orbit, with crises occurring by the day and sometimes by the hour, and was eager to try something new and return home to her family in Connecticut.

This will ensure a much smoother flow to the day so you do not need to work longer hours.

Their average working day is longer than 10 hours.

Most Participants believe the pace of work at Appetize is extremely fast.About 21 % of the employees at Appetize work 8 hours or less, while 47 % of them have an extremely long day - longer than twelve hours.

In praise of a husband, working so hard for such long hours, who is finally home for a whole day.

That meant working unpredictable shifts for as long as 26 hours while fasting from eating and drinking during the day.

Once puberty hit then girls were married off to become mothers often at ages that «conservative» Christians would condemn these days, and young men went off to long hours of work, thus keeping them out of trouble.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Whether you work long hours or simply lack the motivation to eat healthily every day, prepping your meals in advance will help you stay on track and greatly reduce the number of times you pick up the phone to...

It's a super fast weeknight dinner that is easy to put together even after a long 10 hour day at work.

Understandable; if you're a vegan on a budget you're definitely gonna want to have some healthy packed lunches to take to work with you, and who wants to spend an hour standing over the stove making dinner after a long day?

Although the busy holiday tea season can mean long hours with few days off, Lisa says working in the tea salon gives her a quality of life that she could never have imagined over 25 years ago.

These benefits are part of a very long list that includes cheap takeaway food, sprawling suburbs with affordable housing but little public transport or amenities, short meal breaks, long working hours, quick treats for ratty kids when you're tired from a long day's work, high profits in the food processing industries, foods that are transportable and keep for long periods without spoiling and so on.

9 am to 7 pm work days have caused this to happen frequently enough that I am no longer fazed by having to cook the majority of my meal during the first half hour that my guests have arrived, and can usually manage to let go of the over-priced arugala, regroup, and execute under their watchful eyes and growling stomachs.

After a long day of work or play it's time to regenerate at the 24 hour Stayfit Fitness Center and indoor heated pool with sun deck and whirlpool spa.

You could throw it all in a slow cooker and let it rip all day, let it simmer for two hours on your stovetop, or make it happen in the 30 - minute period while you're trying to decompress from a long day at work.

«Talking to parents, I realized they are struggling to feed their children healthy meals they will actually eat and don't require hours in the kitchen after a long day at work.

I'd love to see slow cooker recipes, especially those that can withstand a long cooking time (at least 8 hours to make it through my work day) and I like slow cooker recipes that you can assemble the night before and then start cooking in the morning (am I asking for too much??).

While often the black boys unload freight or work on the docks during the day, then spend long dreary hours in the gym at night, the white fighter is «romanced» — no job, no fights over his head, the best equipment, expensive sparring partners.

This happens even when fathers have only a little contact with their babies each day due to long working hours.

Get started this summer when school lets out and act as if you're homeschooling 3 days a week, Kindergarteners don't need more than 1 — 2 hours a day sitting still, you have to get yourself out of the «school is an 8 hour a day» mind set, that was set up for public schools because parents work, that is the only reason the school day is so long.

With my husband in residency and working very long hours, my most cherished moments of the day are at about 5:30 AM when my daughter gets up and we eat breakfast as a family.

My husband works long hours just about every day, so in order to keep my sanity I've created my own relaxing rituals that I practice throughout the day.

With the hectic pace of life, including school, homework and after - school activities, in addition to long hours at work for many parents, finding time to connect each day can be challenging at best.

If your baby is younger than 6 months old and you're away from your little one for long stretches during the day (for instance, at work), pump or hand express every 3 hours to maintain your supply.

He works long hours, night shifts, and usually only has time to sleep when he's home — railroad life He's been home for a couple of days, and now child care and household responsibilities are no longer 100 % mine.

When I found out I was pregnant as I was about to start a surgical fellow, which can mean a seven day, sixty (sometimes eighty) hour work week with erratic long nights of call, I thought a lot about what it would be like to do the work while pregnant and how to manage maternity leave (six weeks, worked the day I delivered).

I have been working pretty long days / hours, so this is pretty much my fashion every single day.

I think our lives have become hectic, our commutes longer, our working hours and days longer.