• Question: how many hours a week do u spend on your work ? xxx

    Asked by fayeandcoral to Gioia, Iain, Jo, Leo, Mariam on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by hollynsarah, fyfie, sportygirl16.
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      Iain Moal answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      It depends. At the moment I’m very busy, but normally about 40. My boss is very relaxed, so I can just turn up when I want and leave when I want. As long as I get the job done, he doesn’t mind.

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      Joanna Watson answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Officially, I do 38 hours a week on my work. Some weeks I do less than that though, and some weeks I do WAY more.

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      Leo Garcia answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I treat my job as a 9 to 5 – so, around 35 hours a week. However, sometimes you need to work longer, and sometimes you have deadlines to meet. I would say my hours are towards the lower end of things for PhD students. You can find some crazy figures for the kind of hours some PhD students put in!

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      Gioia Cherubini answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I usually work from 8:30 to 5:30, but it can vary depending on what I have to do, sometimes I manage to arrive later or finish earlier, but it can happen as well that I have to stay longer or work during the weekends (not very often to be honest 😉 ). On average I think it’s around 45 hours…now that you make me think about it, that sounds a lot!!! :S

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      Mariam Orme answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      It can vary a lot, depending on what sort of experiments I’m doing and whether I have any deadlines coming up that I have to work frantically for. Some weeks, if I don’t have too much going on, I only spend about 40 hours working; but at the other extreme, some weeks I spend pretty much every waking minute working (with time off to eat and go to the toilet!).

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