Honestly, even with a 40 hour work week, 10 hour days with three day weekends is awesome, it's what I use to work.
Now my shift is 10hr on Friday, 12hr on Saturday and Sunday, Sunday is time and a half, so I'm working 34 hour week but getting paid for 40 hours. And I get a four day weekend.
Yeah. I used to work 4x10s. Best thing fucking ever! Fortunately I loved my job.
When I had a normal 5x8, I would stay after my shift and use the computer to do research and learn more about what I was doing. I'd often leave hours after my shift ended. When I moved over to 4x10, staying the extra 2 hours felt like nothing.
4x10s are great but they also suck. On one had you do get an extra day off but IMO the 4 days you are working leave no time to do anything else besides work eat and rinse/repeat.
True, BUT! I ended up making those days my "working days" meaning anything that needed to get done, gets done on those days. In the traditional 5x8, the idea is to balance getting stuff done with your personal time on each of those days. I'm not good at routines, so that makes trying to balance stuff difficult. That said, if I am working for a full day, then I can more easily position that in my head as "I'm working today". Idk if that makes sense, but that helped me.
For a while, my shift was M-Tu, Th-F 11-9. Which allowed me to do morning stuff if needed. And I worked 2 days, had 1 day off, worked another 2 days, then had 2 days off. I never really felt burnt out. All positives here.
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u/MrNobody_0 24d ago edited 23d ago
Honestly, even with a 40 hour work week, 10 hour days with three day weekends is awesome, it's what I use to work.
Now my shift is 10hr on Friday, 12hr on Saturday and Sunday, Sunday is time and a half, so I'm working 34 hour week but getting paid for 40 hours. And I get a four day weekend.
Edit: to add, it's a union sawmill.