Seeking your input. Would you work 12 hours per day, 7 days a week, for 45 days straight at high pay?

[Shamar]

I need alternative views on a situation. I was offered a work project today, to work 45 days in a row at a nuclear power plant. 12 hours of work per day. It sounds beyond exhausting, and from previous experience such a commitment leads to serious burnout.
I could pay my $outhern California rent for 12 months with the money it would bring.
I know I can accomplish the 45 days working 12 hours per day, but I also know the subsequent burnout would be brutal and need at least 3 months of recovery to get back to my version of normal.

I am seriously considering doing it, it is just difficult to decide if my income multiplied by 4 is worth the stress, temporary relocation, and dramatic lifestyle change.

What would you do?

It depends on the job and the amount of physical work involved. I have done this repeatedly as an exploration geologist. Keeping a crew in the field is expensive, especially if they are not producing due to days off. It is also physically hard, demanding work. Crew burnout was a constant problem, but generally, I loved it.

 

[Roisin]

I could quit any time.
It is in my regular line of work, electrical, so it’s the same type of work I’ve been doing most of my life.

I would have to relocate 2.5 hours away, find someone to watch my dog and aquarium, pay rent in two places, and also quit my current job to take this one. Quitting my job now would permanently “burn the bridge” with my employer.

Is this a question of risk, one curve ball and the current secure/banal(?)work connection is gone without the full pay off?

 

[if6wasnin9]

You have a disorder and you can work? I haven't been able to do anything last 25 years.
How do you function with a disorder?
There's a Chinese restaurant nearby run by a family and they live in that place and the husband slaves behind a stove 11 hours a day 6 days a week! I would lose my mind doing that!

 

[Rocco]

Many folks with Aspergers or autism have jobs and careers. I have no choice not to work. I have to work to continue to live and pay for rent-bills-food. I live alone so there is no one to take care of me if I don’t work.

I function by making myself do things like wake up early before work to relax and have coffee, I distract myself from work and socializing on breaks and after work. Lots of self care and scheduled time to relax and do nothing. Some parts of life just have to be endured,

 

[tlc]

I did something similar for quite awhile in the past, at my current engineering job. 75 hour weeks. 14 hour days during the week plus partial Saturdays. We were busy and I was bound by child court orders, so I couldn't tell my boss no and risk getting fired. It was miserable and I was still barely getting by. I worked 6 days, but the shop spent all summer working 7 days.

If I could do that now for just 45 days, and have it cover my housing for the whole year... how soon can I start?

 

[Rocco]

I decided not to take that job, and started a new one close to home yesterday.

 

[Outdated]

I decided not to take that job, and started a new one close to home yesterday.

I think you probably made the right choice. Once you mentioned having to find your own place to rent and all the rest of it it didn't sound like that great a deal. Compared to how things work here it sounds more like slave labour.

I hope the new job works out well for you.

 

[Judge]

I think you probably made the right choice. Once you mentioned having to find your own place to rent and all the rest of it it didn't sound like that great a deal. Compared to how things work here it sounds more like slave labour.

I hope the new job works out well for you.

What counts is that @Rocco worked the problem before making the decision. Well done.

 

[Rodafina]

Good luck with the new job, Rocco.