Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.
Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.
While in my late teens and in my 20s, I worked seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I worked my tail off.
Once upon a time, I was a workaholic clocking more than 80 hours per week. That changed after I began to write. I now work only around 35 hours per week. I do not work on weekends because these are the days that I use for research as well as for my writing.
For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.
Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
I still manage to spend around 40 hours a week at work but it is a lot more focused on what can make money as opposed to what makes me look good in the papers.
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.