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You Should Stop Working 40 Hours A Week Immediately
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 15. 04. 2022
- The 40 hour work week is perhaps the biggest scam of the century. While it made sense when it was originally formed, nearly one hundred years it has not aged well. In this video you'll not only learn about why the 40 hour work week is a relic of the past, but also what you can do to have your own 4 day work week even if your company doesn't allow for it.
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I'm very strict on working less than 40 hours. I've had people end interviews just because I won't budge on this. I'm currently working 32 hours over the span of five days and tbh, I'd lose my mind if I had to do 40 again
It's wild how ingrained 40 hour weeks are, good for you for standing your ground though!
What is your profession?
"oh you dont want to work 80 hours a week? you must be lazy"
I just want to enjoy the one life I'm given calm down susan
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There are literally people (sheep for the system) who have videos pretty much with that title. They think working enriching someone else and having no life is a flex.
Try working 40 hours a week. Like a normal person.
â@@tbc9096 When did people get so lazy?
Wha! I have to work 8 hours a day. Boo hoo.
@@youtubesucks1499 I do work that. Get over yourself. But yeah, if I had the option not to have to work for any corporate dickheads again, then the answer is a resounding yes.
I've worked in corporate America going on 15 years now. it has completely eviscerated my work ethic. I used to be the hardest working, most conscientious contributor to any team I was a part of but now I log in and put in the bare minimum because honestly, I get nothing in return for my effort except a reminder every year that this measly 5% raise is really ALL they could do.... I want out.
You should interview at some other companies, to be fair though 5% is actually pretty good as far as raises go which is kind of sad đ
You got a whole 5% huh?? I got 3!! đ€Ł
Enter the Forex market and invest in real estate brotha
I got 1% over a 2 year period
Wait, You guys get a raise?
I decided to work 32 hours a week and got laid off. I needed a day of rest ( physical and mental), a day of home projects, and a day to honor a God. In 25 years of working, I've never had a paid day off. America is upside down.
Youâre so right. I donât know why this country canât transition to a 4 day work week and/or offer more paid time off/vacation. Americans are burned TF out because work takes up so much of our lives and leaves us greatly depleted. Had a hellacious week and now I have to get geared up for another. Hell, I might call out one day this week. I feel like 30-32 hours would be the sweet spot.
@@tbc9096 Come to Europe :D , I will never work in USA feels like slave in Capitalism
john 4:37
Where are you working? In 25 years you haven't has q paid vacation?
McDonald's offers a paid vacation.
â@@tbc9096Why? Ok, why would any business pay you 40 hours for 32 hours of work?
Seriously. How lazy are people that they can't work 8 hours a day?
So a doctor works 32 hours a week? The police? A fire department?
What happens when truck drivers only work 32 hours a week?
Lazy.
This is a big reason why remote work is gaining so much traction. People are getting just as much done in 5-6 hours as they were in 8 hours in-office.
Jeah, and paid less...
No man, remote work is also a scam. Itâs just another form of handcuffs. Youâll be doing the same job at the physical location, same job title, for 1/5th of the actual pay youâre supposed to be getting. And if you donât like it, thatâs okay, that company is already outsourcing your job to the philippines anyway + there will always be some useful slave who wants your laptop anywhere job. Itâs still 40 hours in a job where youâre not growing any useful skills. Youâre wasting your life away.
â@@batman6540This is how it has to start though, if companies have to pay you more for the same amount of work, then they aren't going to increase the pay for their time. Its similar to the difference between contractors and employees, contractors can take a higher pay because they are hired to do a job, while an employee is currently set to a schedule. Their pay account for the fact that times may be slow, so while there was only 6 hours of work to do they have to be paid for 8 hours
People who work themselves to death looks like death. Not happening to me ever again!
I Mey a man of 61 he did security 15 hours a night for 4 weeks at end of 4 weeks no break or decent food i saw him he was pale, could hardly speak, could hardly walk, depressed , looked 65 now
Going home now to what? To a nervous breakdown a day in bed no sun, fun and guess what back again
they call it a 40 hour work week but you may as well call it a 120 hour work week since 24 hours in a day times that by 5 ( 24x5=120) since you're not going to have any life expect for the 48 hours called the weekend
I can't really argue with that.
modern slavery
3 to 5 hours a week is all I put into work when remote. Every time I go into the office it's full of people doing everything but work, or they are on the same project for the past 3-4 months for basic stuff. There is zero reason to work 40 hours. Do what it takes to get the job done and be done. No office politics. No brown nosing. No BSing with coworkers.
In my case, I get to spend more time with family and entrepreneurial pursuits. As mentioned in the video, use the time for what you want to do. Life is too short to do otherwise.
Well said đââïž
People believe that working less hours is a sign of weakness. I believe the opposite.
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They're not really happy, so they try to push that lifestyle onto others to validate their life decisions.
i hate working 40 hours a week and itâs hard to see a way out :(
You'll make it my friend keep pushin, im sure your almost there đȘđŸ
I went to a three day week (21-24 hours) as a (Senior level) software engineer when I was 30. Permanent employee, not contractor. That was 13 years ago and have moved jobs in that time, and had promotions. They basically trust me with full autonomy for the majority of my work to do what is worthwhile.
Best thing I ever did - happier, do better quality work, and itâs a win-win for the company too and I donât waste nearly as much energy on small stuff. Because of that, Iâm now paid what the average engineer in my role would get full time too as the company also sees the value they get out of me as worth it. And yeah, so maybe 12 hours of deep work - but very intense and in a very relaxed way.
The 2 days extra I get to not work is my âpay premiumâ đ
Living the dream Ray! Hopefully others can get to a similar position that you are in, getting 2 extra days off a week is almost certainly worth the pay trade-off!
@@CodyEngelCodes thanks and yeah - 100%. You can't exactly buy time. Well, you sort of can - through convenience food and getting someone to do your household chores for you, but that's a hollow way to live imho. Far better to have four solid days off and cook yourself đ
I think plenty could (get into my position) but are fearful of asking or scared of the effects it might have on their career. If you're earning 750k at Netflix or whatever, dropping down to 450k for three days seems like a total no-brainer to me if you can swing it though. It's still a truck load of money compared to almost any other career, even if you can't immediately retain your 'premium'!
Sounds good!
How did you convince your employer, and also the next ones (who didn't know you) for such a reduced week?
@@iwn77620hopefully he answers
I could definitely get my entire week of work done in 2 to 3 days of focused work. But in my boss's eyes, that just means he can bring on more work for me to do. Because he wants me to be at the office for optics more than anything else. So I half-ass my work for 5 days.
Sounds like you already found the answer -- Parkinson's Law it and let the work expand to fill the time allotted.
@@CodyEngelCodes I'd rather be at home doing schoolwork than slowly doing my work
Yeah this is the attitude i normally see
If you have to commute, like so many do, and I used to, then 40 hours a week is ALL of your useful time. Your time at home is exhausted useless time, just enough time to turn around and go back. Itâs soul crushing.
My work hates me because I refuse to work over 32 hours xD
And I bet they can't do anything about it because they are understaffed as it is right? đđ
@@neena7076 that and other things xD did 52 plus for a solid year. And they had the balls to say i didnt work enough. Now they get 32. Not a second more. Fuck around and find out. They try to take my comp and ill walk out on them.
Right now Iâm saving $$$ every week and building up a nest egg. Iâm looking at passive streams of income that hopefully one day will take off into something much larger. Iâd love to just work part time and have those passive incomes and eventually work for no one again. I am so sick of every Sunday night dreading whatâs coming. Weâre not meant to live this way
Could u also make n share such videos. For us all please. Thank u
I'm a software engineer and I agree with your opinion. Currently, many Asian countries are also working more than 40 hours a week. I think it's okay for a short period, but it's not good if it lasts long.
The system is still designed around the industrial revolution.
Yeah working extra works is fine once in a while, and always with the caveat that you should take time to rest and relax after you're done with crunch time.
Thanks for talking about this Cody! I'm happy to hear more companies (at least in tech) are moving to 4 day work weeks while still providing competitive salaries. I hope more industries follow similar patterns as there are so many studies not only validating productivity doesn't decrease from 40 hour -> 32 hour weeks but also improves employee's health, work-life balance, and mental health. At this point, the inertia from upper management seems very similar to the hesitation around fully remote workers. I just hope it doesn't take proxy events to cause four day work weeks to become a norm.
Yeah any time T-mo, really means a lot that you watch my videos âșïž I also hope the 4 day work week takes off sometime in the near future. Productivity doesn't drop and employees get the chance to rest, relax, and come back to work ready for the week on Monday or Tuesday.
@@CodyEngelCodes Haha thanks man! Your videos are always informative and helpful, so I should be thanking you for taking the time to make them đ
This place Iâm working at is 45hrs, but was advertised as 40. Theyâre fine as long as you do 40 but they get funny if you donât do anymore/donât finish the jobs before then end of the week. With it being minimum wageâŠIâm very much feeling ripped off.
That setup though! Great vid cody. Never knew the origin of the 40 hour work week
Thanks man đ
Work 40 hours a week making 35 to 60 grand a year is the vast norm. Owning your own home by the time you are 65 or older seems to be about average. That's a long grind to own a house. If you even live that long.
Wages need to go up
i work in construction. working 40 hours a week is destroying me. i used to work alot harder but yeah.
I work 25 hours a week at my job and I have more peace and free time
what the hell type of job.
Whatâs the job?
I do construction alot of 30 hr plus straight 80 plus hour weeks, when I do get time off I don't have energy to do anything then get depressed knowing I gotta get up and go in the next day a trap I'm trying to get out of
I work in logging and there's always vary lengths of commuting. My current situation is 10 hour days plus a 2.5 hour commute ONE way. The commutes always vary due to job site locations and daily circumstances, so sometimes it's even longer of a day. I've been doing this for years and trying to find something else to do. I NEVER have time or energy to do anything else except go home eat dinner and pass out, and not much energy on days off.
Got a call about a job I applied to for a construction company warehouse and they said it was 12 hours shifts, when the ad didn't say anything about the shift being that long. It's B.S. they can't be honest about the hours straight up front. No thanks, not for me!
I'm a "full time" (WFH) software engineer and I put in around 20 to 30 hours a week as well. Sometimes more or less, depends on the general work load and ultimately what I feel like doing. 40 would definitely be too much though. Totally agree with everything you said in this video and I think a lot of people figure this out on their own through experience in a remote work environment.
Yep the hours are fairly fluid but usually 20 - 30 hours of actual impactful work sounds about right đââïž
Can any software engineer work 20-30 hours like this?
I try to work more then 40 hours a week for overtime pay. Pay + half is a huge boost to your paycheck whether its only 2-3 hours or 10-15 hours which i try to aim for. So I typically do 50+ hour weeks. I dont work remote though, I work in a kitchen
*than. Spelling is hard.
My dream as an overworked truck driver is to have a classic 9-5 stable schedule I canât imagine that.
You can do it đ€đ€
@@CodyEngelCodes thank you for the encouragement! I appreciate your comment.
â@@SuprBestFriends
Then you have to deal with ppl
It's not good lol.
9-5 does not exist anymore
As a freelancer in software development I am currently working 3 days a week. It's great! You only have to shift your expectations that you will not be the latest and greatest in everything. But it's a really good balance between work and personal life.
Totally agree!
Curious how much youâre able to earn per year on average. This would be my dream!
I make around 80k (âŹ) while also taking several weeks of holiday. But remember that from this number you still havbe to subtract taxes, health insurance and other expenses...
@@maxpowers6880 thanks for responding! Curious whatâs your specialization and do you have any advice for someone whoâd like to get to where you are. Iâm currently working as as full time UI engineer for a large company but would love to work fewer hours and have more flexibility
@@maxpowers6880 Freelancer devs have to do everything on their own, haven't they?
Must be nice, Iâm currently stuck in service desk and I hate it. I feel burnt out and not advancing
I time track and use 40 hours as a ceiling on my weekly time dedicated strictly to my employer. It basically keeps me in check and I wont exceed 40 hours because that means I'm out of balance on other personal / side goals. In my industry, there's an endless hopper of projects to be done so I could easily hit 80 hours, but then again, I'm sacrificing so many other things so it's a discipline check more than anything else. Great videos!
Thanks Arthur and that's a good mindset to have with keeping everything in balance âșïž
I currently work 40 hours per week; I am a single mom with a child who plays sports. When I leave work, my child has practice 3-4 days per week. It is exhausting because I don't feel I have time for myself. All I do is work to provide, cook, and clean. I want a more balanced life so I will search for a job with fewer hours. I have a master's degree in HR and have worked in HR for the last 13 years. I am open to any suggestions to get out of the Matrix!
Thank you for this video
I wanted to find something like this and a search showed me "how to work 60+ hours" and I almost burst into tears.
Ack, working 60+ hours is the exact opposite of what we should be striving for lol
One thing I struggle with is that, technically, most of us have signed a contract with our employer saying we would work 40 hours a week (by accepting the job description/initial offering, etc.). So even though I 100% agree with everything in your video, as well as other peoples videos on this subject matter, I still can't get past the fact that I would technically by lying to my employer by not working 40 hours a week. HELP ME BREAK THROUGH THIS?! I want to land in a good spot with this emotionally/mentally, but just can't seem to. I've been HEAVILY thinking about this for a whole year.
Knowledge work is based on outcomes and output. If you are meeting deadlines and keeping your boss happy then don't sweat it when you work fewer hours. If you are working at a place with "unlimited" PTO then I'd suggest trying to take some extra long weekends more frequently or take sick time if you have the sniffles and see if your performance suffers. If it doesn't then it's a good indicator that you don't actually need to work all of those hours.
Output is the only thing that SHOULD matter, but a lot of managers don't accept this. You still have to sit at the office for 8 hours per day
subbed. Been trying desperately to think of something out of the home. So tired of micromanagers and a 4 hours daily commute. I'm in IT, but have done blogging, CZcams, and thinking of what to do out of the home.
Cody Engel gets it. Why can't companies pull their collective heads out of their asses and start following this.
đ€·ââïž no idea, but hopefully one day they get with the times. Seeing some companies go to 4 day work weeks full-time is encouraging.
@@CodyEngelCodes what if you're an hourly employee??? I'd have to make $60/hr if I worked only 30hrs/wk
I work 5 days a week but get 13 paid stat holidays, 17 earned time off days paid a year, and 20 vacation days paid. So on average i work 32 hours a week. Unions man; good shit!
Thanks for your video. Im all for quality of work over quantity of time. I just wish and hope more of us get on board with this.
I saw a couple of your videos, instant sub, great content đđđ
Welcome aboard!
I switched to part time web development and meditative side gigs and more energy each week. How you're feeling each week is extremely important and often easy to miss with some standard salary position (even remote) that might be more soul crushing than it seems.
I work as a waiterss and some jobs has better salary, but good per hour but over time no. if you make alot of over time to get more and is better then per hour tbh. If i work 60 hours in a week i get almost 2k
Imagine working 50 âšMANDATORYâš hours per week! Resigned two weeks ago and never looking back. No way that hell will continue to be my story.
Just stopped working forty hours , left my corporate job and moved into an independent owner , working four days and three off and about 33 hours , done with 40+
I dont work 40 hrs/week by choice lol But I think I can do my job in less hours, like 30 hrs/week its ok
There ya go, get the work done in 30 hours and then take it easy for those remaining 10.
that pillow ....
...is the best.
I agree....but I don't have much of a choice right now.
I have a 37 hour week and today I negotiated to work 40 hours as of the following year. My goal is simply to make as much money as possible. In august I left the job I really liked and now drive 1.5 hours every day to work... all just to increase my gross salary by 47 %.
Sure, I'd rather work 37 hours, but I need to make money and get ahead... maybe push 10 years, although I have to say that working as a DTP-operator is not the most stressful job in the world.
Gotta get that money somehow, most of the time that's trading your time for money.
hahah you have employee mind set bro
I quit working 40 hours a week, now I do 60 or 70, and I canât seem to find time to take a vacation. Oh well.
I work 59 hours a week minimum and its not good for your health
Yikes brother. I hope you find a way out of that soon.
But how do I get the money
Wonderful video, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this!
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful.
I HAD to leave a like, the yotuube like/dislike ratio I saw under the video was EXACTLY the same as the one you use in your video, so surreal
đ thank you!!
đđŸđđŸ for the diversity in your stock B-roll footage
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i followed ur advice i am now homeless :(
Oh no, I'm sorry, but happy to see you still have access to CZcams!
You can stop workinâ, but keep gerkinâ the gherkin. The more youâll be smilinâ the less youâll be smirkinâ.
Ok so how do I find work that's less than 40 hours
Find work that lets you focus on outcomes as opposed to hours spent working.
I want to work less time so I can not be so overworked and so I can yse my time to focus on things I like however I've been in a long distance relationship for the past 5 years and I have to meet a legal income requirement for my fiancee to be eligible for her visa. I do have doordash employment as a side hustle however from my experience I can't say it's always an efficient alternative to convienantal work hours.
Depends if you count research and learning new technologies as "work". If you rightly do then it pushes software devs hours back up.
I mean without 40 hours how am I going to buy a house a 40 hours a week
Try graduating high school and wanting to get into the work force, and moving out of your parents house. Rents 2k plus and most places donât hire for more than 20 unless you have the resume to argue for more pay.
An excellent reason to not graduate high school and join the full-time workforce. Either pick up a trade or go to college. One day this hopefully won't be a requirement, but today it's pretty hard to get by with only a high school diploma and no other education (be it college or learning a trade).
I work 40 hours a week 7:30-4:30 Monday-Thursday. Friday get out at 11:30
someone should bring this discussion to brazil!
Well I donât have a tech job but I am 15 and McDonaldâs is starting me off tomorrow from 11 am to 7 pm 5 days a week
Yaâll really got me considering leaving my accounting career for software engineering lol
As an accountant, do you need to really work 40 hours?
@@CodyEngelCodes it depends on the company or how many clients you have. I work in public accounting and I have to submit billable hours so where I am- I have to work 40 hours and track and report what Iâve completed in each hour. During the busy season I have to work and bill 45 hours
Why do companies still require workers to be there 40 hours a week every week I work in manufacturing and some times dont do any thing for 2 and 3 weeks yet they make us stay an this is the same for a lot of people I've experienced it throughout my working life I often wonder how much this affects the planet huge factory buildings with all the equipment and lights on no one doing anything yet they still don't send people home.
40 hours needs to go
Tell me how am I going to buy a house with 40 hours a week
You're not, gotta work less than 40 hours a week for a house.
It's called investing and saving. Common sense.
My strategy is to work 50ish hours a week during the summers in Alaska for four months, then part time the rest of the year(20 hours a week) teaching Kung Fu and personal training. It works for me.
What did you do in alaska?
@@Hauptstufe seasonal work at a lodge!
@@Anonymous-wb3nz I was looking at different jobs--even the cannery jobs that work a man to death--in order to escape my current situation of perpetual mental and emotional exhaustion. How do you like the lodge?
i agree, it's not worth it, but it's necessary to get you started in life
True, I know when I was getting started I was working 40 hours to keep up for a while.
Nothing is really necessary. Itâs just been a norm for so long working 40 hours. I prefer 30 hours with an hour lunch break. The rest of the time, people arenât really working,
My goal is to
Work 20-25 week get paid 60 an hr and up full benefits enough to
Keep me a float keep my Maintenance in my coop at 30%
On the pillow is that ... Joseph Vissarionovich Swanson?
Ron Swanson for sure.
I work over 12 hours because I am in the International logistics industry biz.
12 hours/Day
I guess SEâs are different than the rest of the real world. I have to work. The expectation is I get to work 40 only as long as my projects are on track and sometimes I get to work 50 plus half days on Saturday đ. Honestly plumbers, construction workers, electricians, manufacturers, retailers, cleaners etc. people that actually make physical things or do physical services have to show up. I canât say I guess Iâll do 30 this week.
It's called better management.
40 hours a week and some weed + gym will get me through.
They want people to work less and spend more. Meaning more loans and credits.
I want to work 20-30 hours a week.
30 would be ideal for me. Five six hour days
I have no idea what the conclusion is? What jobs do I need to do to leave the 40 hour work week? These videos donât explain anything
When you are still young and terrified of failing and not being able to hold up to standards, like getting fired for underperformance.
Then you'll be VERY happy to hear that honestly, employees of big company offices often do everything but work. XD
Pretty much, yeah.
I actually work 50 hrs a week, get paid hmmm. Anyway I am transitioning into Executive assistance I want remote work
I love that book
Me too!
Bro I work 77 hours a weekđą
Well that i s 40 with mom home now both have to work 40 with nothing to show
who's that on your throw pillow
Ron Swanson, Parks and Rec
What Manny said âșïž
civil eng, 10h a day 6 days, sometimes 12h a day serbia ist a norm .....
Iâm working 40 hours a week as a care worker, guess this video wasnât made for me lol
âOnly tech bros and hedge fund managers work 80 hr work weeks.â
Bro, let me introduce you to the fields of healthcare and agriculture.
I'm not your bro, guy.
@@CodyEngelCodes I'm not your Guy, Buddy.
Farmers just fix fences and drive around their tractors and call it work. Healthcare just talk to patients and answer calls oh and make tiktoks. Not deep work but easy work
I'm military. In my unit you get assigned tasks and you're on duty until you complete them. If you finish them before 1700, sweet you're free to go home.
Love the pillow :D
Thank you đ
This helps
Happy to hear that!
45 minimum and still being told you do nothing. Crappy corporate life of slavery.
So you agree every job is different. Your only talking about office jobs and yet you donât separate the different kinds of office jobs.
And those terrible bosses out there that insist on you working to earn your money. Jerks! đ
Nobody works more than 3 hours a day lol. Especially for creative tasks
But I'm only earning 11.50 euro an hour...
What about Public Accountants? Realistically, it's not possible to decrease our hours...
Get out of public accounting. Iâm an accountant too, not public. Work 20 hours a week max.
@@TamekaGraham What type of accounting is that? Part time? What position & searcgmh terms?
Hell i wish it were that easy...
Agree
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Nice đ„°
Thanks đ€
Good thing Iâm not working 40 hours a week Iâm working 75 hours and over time on Sunday đ
That's too much nobody needs to be working that much
12 hours to edit a video? Do you need help? I've been an editor for 25 years.
40 hours sounds lazy.
Its not 40, its 50.
50? Where are you working? Twitter?
@@CodyEngelCodes 8 hr day + 1 hr commute each way. 5 days a week..
Ohhh gotcha, yeah, commuting sucked.
WTF you have never had ur own business.
I Work 70hours and im not less productive than when i was working 38 for an employer.
Pretty much the opposite.