57 hours

I have worked at my job for 10 months minus 4 days. For the past 3 months I have been living and working in the houses with the students as their Housemother. My job is far from normal, in the things I do as well as my time off. I get the days off while the students are at school and work in the AM and PM. My day(s) off are Wednesday and every other Thursday; I work the "weekends."

I always knew I worked over 40 hours a week. I was always afraid to calculate how many hours I work per week. I knew it would not make me like this place.

Well, I am working on planning time off and, since I was calculating things, I decided to see how many hours I work per week. 57 hours per week; 49 on the ones where I get Thursday off. Here is the breakdown of my days:

• Sunday: 7:30a-5p = 9.5 hrs
• Monday: 8a-9:30p, with hopefully 2-3 hours off = 11.5 hrs
• Tuesday: 8:30a-12:30p (sometimes 2p), 4p-9:30p = 9.5 hrs
• Wednesday: 6a-8:30a = 2.5 hrs
• Thursday: 4p-9:30p = 5.5 hrs
• Friday: 6a-8:30a, 4p-9:30p = 8 hrs
• Saturday: 6a-11a, 4p-9:30p = 10.5 hrs

On weeks where I have two days off, I work 2.5 on Wednesday, 0 on Thursday, and 5.5 on Friday for a total of 49 for the week.

I also went and calculated how much I get paid per hour. I won't share it, but it's not a fun number. I was already not liking this place for other reasons and now I have a few more things to add to my list.

I "signed"* a contract for 2 years and I won't keep it a secret, I'm leaving as soon as those two years are up. Unless God pulls rank.....please no

*I was supposed to sign a contract but never did....