How many hours straight can you work before you crash?

[prolesunited]

I worked a double yesterday and was here at 8 a.m. today. Between that and the time change, I'm zonked.

How hard can, do you push yourself?

[texas1928]

1. I had 36 hours straight one time.

then 4 hours of sleep, and 8 more. by the end of that weekend, I was a zombie.

[nomorenomore08]

2. I don't know about working, but I've been up over 40 hours straight before. Made me delirious.

nt

[Fox Mulder]

3. Eight hours is enough for me.

I could barely work a twelve hour shift one time. I felt like I was going to die.

[MrCoffee]

4. I worked for 30 straight hours once

Not physical labor, but still, it was rough.

[DarkTirade]

5. I'm one of those people who can't really function without a regular sleep schedule.

So no more than 14 hours usually.

[TimeChaser]

6. I'm a college student, I regularly miss sleep

It's bad the morning after not sleeping, but as the day goes on, I start feeling better. I haven't missed two night in a row.... yet.

[NJmaverick]

7. I was lucky to make it to the end of my post

With out crashing:silly:

[sarge43]

8. I did 73 hours once.

That's three days I never want to 'live' through again. I can do 18 hours now before I shut down.

[prolesunited]

12. What were you doing?

That sounds insane.

[sarge43]

27. It was military; ergo it was insane.

Sending a bomber wing with support units (900 plus people) from the states to the western Pacific to show fang and claw at some bad guys. We had 48 hours to lock and load, ie updating records, cutting orders (long before word processing), etc. When the paperwork finally outweighed the aircraft, we were allowed to throw up, then hit the rack.

[femmocrat]

9. Hell, I crash after lunch!

I'm ready for my nap at 1 p.m.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. me too! i love naps.

[Haole Girl]

10. When I was 26 years old I worked 21 straight days.

That is a record I don't ever want to break! :hi:

[prolesunited]

13. Heck, I did that last year.

In fact, I'm doing 12 straight in the next two weeks. And I'm old.

[LeftyFingerPop]

11. Close to 50 hours straight once, over 40 straight several times...

over 20 hours straight uncountable times.

Deadline work. Horrible life altering stress.

I've posted about this before...this type of shit went on for me for a few years. I took good care of my employer, but it fucked me up permanently.

[prolesunited]

14. I'm not familiar with your tale

What was the outcome? Did it pay off?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. for a while i was working from 8am to 10 pm

now i am working fulltime and taking 3 masters classes

so i can work. i just dont like it.

[Magrittes Pipe]

17. About 4.

:shrug:

[KG]

18. about 20 min.

[Shine]

19. One day last year I rode my bike for over 12 hrs. Does that count?

It was an organized bicycle ride called the CA Death Ride: 129 miles, 5 mtn passes w/ 15,000 ft of climbing....all in ONE DAY!!

Total time: 15 hrs 40 min.

Total saddle time: over 12 hrs.

Whew! I can and have definitely push myself hard. :D

[prolesunited]

28. You're brave

I wouldn't sign up for anything called the Death Ride.

[Pacifist Patriot]

20. Can we answer in fractions?

[SarahB]

21. I worked a double Friday (7a-11:30p) after a 12 hour shift Thursday.

I was pretty dead after. :boring: I feel for you.

[LynzM]

22. Hrm... around 14 easily if I have time to recoup later, 18 once in a while.

I'm lucky to not generally need to work those kind of hours. There was a while where I was working full-time with an hour commute and going to school for 3-4 hours at night, I didn't enjoy that... I'd come home from school and spend two hours after that doing homework, because there was no other time to do it before class the next day, so those were easily 6:30a.m.-midnight or 1 kind of days.

I think the longest I've ever been awake was about 36 hours, luckily. I can't imagine you guys who've stayed awake for 50+ hours, omg. :scared:

[Dangerously Amused]

23. In the 30s more times than I can recall offhand.

And in the 70s on numerous occasions. But by then I start hallucinating.

[Phillycat]

24. Depends on what the work is...

Work for my job? After about 10 hours, I'm slipping into a coma.

But knitting/crafting, or studying for school? I can do that for nearly round the clock before I start to zonk out.

[Solon]

25. 32 hours, a quadruple shift...

That's what I get when I work the weekend, was the manager on shift, and had people call in on two different shifts. Fucking sucked.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

26. Less than 30 seconds...

Jeff in Milwaukee - Professional Demolition Derby Driver.

[EstimatedProphet]

29. I used to do 30-36 hour stints in grad school

That was 10+ years ago too.

[ZombieNixon]

30. I and two friends were awake for 54 hours working on projects once.

Not eager to repeat that. I sleep every night now, even if it's just for an hour.

[Lance_Boyle]

31. I run Netware servers. They always abend before crashing. n/t

[mtnester]

32. Shoveling snow - exactly 5.75 hours non-stop (no pee breaks even) my body simply gave out and said

"nope nope nope not one more shovel full"

I jammed the shovel in the drift blocking Grandpa's driveway, went inside, took a super hot shower, took 3 Ibuprofen, and told hubby when he got home from work it was his turn