25 Hour Limit

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I thought this was only me, life can often get me to that point, as well as work I am only there various from 20-25 hours a week, yet anything past that and I feel sick and overstimulated, I feel I have a limit what I can do until I need a break, and yet I see many NT's can go for 60+ hours plus kids at home, even had a meltdown or bad panic attack when it got busy and I couldn't process everything at once, almost passed out, blacked out or was confused where I actually was at the moment

! !!Hot take warning!! !

There is nothing "wrong" with you not being able to "go further", so please don't be hard on yourself. Try to enjoy your life as much as possible in this insane world.

25 hours per week sounds to me like a reasonably civilised amount of time to work. I guess it depends on the kind of work. I used to do about 30 hours, but it was science research, probably not the nastiest job in the world. Since retiring I don't know how I managed to work that long. I loaf around a lot these days, and sometimes think that if I worked at this pace in a job, I'd soon be thrown out.

I work about 25 hours a week. It seems a lot, but compared to my peers who work almost twice that, it feels a little embarrassing.

I think I'd prefer to work less days but more hours in a day, because then you have time to get other things done during the week that is harder to do at weekends, such as doctor's appointments. I find it hard managing my time, plus I have executive functioning difficulties which can make too much work be mentally draining. I think I'd prefer more time than more money, as long as I have enough money to live comfortably on of course. Most people my age work 40-50 hours a week or even more. Makes me feel lazy and worthless, but I know it isn't laziness or worthlessness. I have ADHD, and some of us with ADHD can get bored quickly with the same old routine which can lead to losing interest in our jobs even if we enjoy it, and the EF difficulties and poor time management can also have an affect. Then add anxiety and depression to the mix, life can be so draining.

I used to work long hours. I was very unhappy much of the time. (I recently learned there was something called "High-functioning Depression" and suspect I might have had it...for most of my working life!)

But I persevered and now am comfortably retired. I like being comfortably retired! It's nice!

I do 50+ hour weeks and I'm not happy about it. I'm starting to cut down. It used to be more hours and sometimes up to 70+ and all I had as a result was a massive tax bill.

The place I work has a poorish work culture. A lot of people have substance abuse problems and gambling habits. The peer pressure it causes can be too much. Nothing causes the morale to drop quicker than a crack head who works every hour under the sun being used as an example of the ideal employee that all others should aspire too. What's worse is that my sector also has a zero tolerance policy on drugs, while strangely depending on drugs to maintain 12 hour days non stop.

Hypocritical rules like that is something I have no respect for and I always turn a blind eye to drink and drugs even if I know heavy machinery is being used. Half are just stuck in a vicious cycle of drinking to work and working to drink and the employer is largely to blame.

Working a much lower number of hours has its perks compared to the BS I see from people who do too many.

When I worked at a bakery, I signed up to do 25 hours a week. Pretty soon they had me working 60+ hours a week. After some months of this, I had a meltdown and left work, never to go back.

Now I work 15 hours a fortnight, cleaning/sanitizing. It's only 1.5 hours every early weekday evening. I don't exactly enjoy it but it's much better than working at the bakery.

I used to work a lot. I also used to have a lot of 'little burnouts' that eventually led to my 'big one'. I never have fully recovered from that. I can't even manage doing anything for 25 hours a week these days. Doing too much wrecks me. I can push through if I absolutely have to, but I'll pay for it.

I was one of those losers who worked 40 hours a week in theory, but it was about 90 mins from home. Add fifteen hours per week driving. Then I had to work from home on nights and weekends to keep up, so I'd say another 10 hours minimum at home. Plus having my babies and being a single mum, and getting them to daycare etc. I don't wish it on anyone. I have no idea how the hell I did it. Actually I didn't really "do it", because it nearly cost me my life.

25 sounds about right to me, especially if it could be work-from-home.

Same.
I left work many years ago on Disability.
I'm lucky if I can brush my hair or my teeth most days.
It's generally one or the other. Often neither.
I'm totally DONE.
I will never recover from it.

My neighbour used to work at a bakery and told me he was pressured to do similar hours.

My advice to people stuck doing 60+ hour weeks is don't be afraid to make accusations or shame the people pressuring you. Chances are they're funding a habit and calling them a junkie with the only evidence being their long hours often isn't far from the truth.

In work I even call overtime of 50+ hour weeks with no urgent deadlines "piss head hours" and make sure everyone knows. Hopefully it'll catch on in my place and add some stigma to excessive hours.