How many hours do you consider to be a lot? I'm looking for normal people to respond; not the people who work a ton, but actually like it and just complain to brag or seem important.

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It varies for me. If I'm switching between a lot of things very quickly and I'm working from home I can work from 7:00 am - 10:00 pm no problem for a few days. But if I'm onsite and I'm working through a big nasty project and I've had a long commute I get antsy at 9.5 - 10 hrs.

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The thing about public accounting is you have to remember it's all about billable hours. So I think anything more than 45 hours during non-busy season is too much. But that's 45 total hours, not billable (which in reality is more like 35-40 billable hours is you're being truthful). During busy season, anything over 65 hours is too much (which in billable will equate to 55-60). People who work over 65 hours a week typically have way less efficient output and sloppier work because you simply can't sustain that for a prolonged time.

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Anything over 40. Life is short and I don't want to spend it just working.

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Once it gets to 9pm I'm like alright, I don't want to be here anymore..

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I don't like working past 7. Then by the time I get home and make dinner, my husband and I are eating at 8/9 o'clock.

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Anything past 8 is just a shit show. I don't function anymore after 12 hours on the computer.

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More than 50-55

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Tax Senior with PwC. Had sustained weeks of 60-90 hours my first year due to new client. Anything more than 60 is a staffing issue, with the week prior to a deadline being an exception.

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I think anything more than 60 is a staffing issue too. The young guys at my last job were doing 80 hour weeks which is ridiculous.

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During non-busy season I work on average 35 hours per week. Busy season 55-63 hours on average a week.

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Anything where I need to eat dinner at the office is too much.

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I think in hours, not leave time with no start time noted, and at your level, more than 60 is a lot during tax season. Off season more than 50 is too much

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During non busying season, no more than 40-45. Busy season no more than 65-70.

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Over 60 is getting to be a lot. Over 65 = too much, even in busy season

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@STC 1 - there's some caveats, though, which I mentioned. And it has nothing to do with boundary creep - it has to do with being comfortable. I don't mind working if I'm wearing a sweatshirt and yoga pants and I have a kitchen full of food nearby. But put me in a skirt and heels where I have to ration the food I brought over the course of the day and I will be extremely impatient to end the workday.

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Past 8pm is a lot.

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It's been a consistent 60-105 hours for the last year and some

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More than 45. I assume that 40 hour weeks for public accountants aren't normal. No one really seems to work that. So when it gets to be 45 or more, then that's "a lot." And obviously busy season is way more.

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Okay, during busy season, 60-65 is what is expected; you can't really do much about it. But I get irritated once you have to work past 7 during "off" season

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