-laughs in construction worker

6 ten hour shifts a week is normal for me. Sometimes we’ll end up on 40 hours if various constraints slow the job down. Other times we’ll have an opportunity to 7 days 12 hours. It’s beyond brutal.

But, a 40 hour week brings me home about $1500 us in a week. 60 hours about $2300. Working seven days 12 hours I’ve seen take home of around $3500. For one week. It’s amazing the problems you can solve with that kind of money.

So it becomes an addiction for a lot us. We chase the hours, because we’re trying to have hobbies and vacations, not just survive. Need a new roof on the house? Time to hit the OT. Have some debt racked up? Crush it in a month of hell.

That said, it’s fucking brutal, physically and mentally.

Don’t you mean Hillary in 16’

Oh wait. They did it twice.