• Question: Generally on an average day how much work do you do?

    Asked by Still Not An Irish Potato to Ainz, Hannah, Norbert, Simon, Siu on 21 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Hannah Pearlman

      Hannah Pearlman answered on 21 Jun 2015:

      Hi,
      That’s a hard question, it depends a little on what you call work…every day I work for around 7.5 hours with 45 minutes of breaks, however this time could be spent in various ways from attending meetings, to writing emails, from analysing test results to working with a supplier to resolve manufacturing issues, or even organising an engineering event. A lot of the time I find I am enjoying it so much it doesn’t feel like work!

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      Simon Lay answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      Hi, We all work Flexi time based on 7.27 minutes a day (excluding lunch break). We can take as long as we like for lunch but it doesn’t count towards the 7.27. We can start and finish when we like provided on avearge that we do our hours. This means that a couple of times a month you can have a day off or a half day if you are ahead of your hours. I tend to work around 8 and a half hours several days a week but finish early on Monday & Wednesday to be at home for my children when they get in from School.

    • Photo: Norbert Gogiel

      Norbert Gogiel answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Hi!

      Depends what I am doing. I could be either designing something that needs a few days or calculating something that could takes weeks.

      Generally, there could be a hectic day or a relatively normal day. I find my job OK. It is not something that I have a lot of work to do, but not where I sit and do nothing. This is the period I am getting recently. I think it will go up in a month as I will be doing a thermal analysis on the big space construction. I will need find out if radiation will kill it or will it survive :).

      So it varies as you see 🙂

    • Photo: Craig Ainslie

      Craig Ainslie answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      For me as an aircraft engineer we usually work in shifts of 12 hours. I might start at 7am and finish at 7pm – it’s a long day but we work 4 days and then get 4 days off so it’s not all bad! Of course we don’t work solid for 12 hours – we get breaks for lunch and a coffee so its nowhere near as bad as it seems!

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