3 day work week with longer shifts, without hesitation. If I’m already engrossed in my work, it’s not hard for me to go another 4 hours, and I could accomplish so much more when I know I have 2 full extra days off.

4 day with a bit longer work

If it's a choice between 5 or 3 I'm gonna have to go 5. I have insomnia so need more than 12 hours between shifts to travel to and from work, do chores, and wind down.

I used to do three 12 hour days, and then a 6hour day each week.

I loved it. while work days, were work days and nothing else, three and a half days off was incredible.

They tried suggesting the rotating four 10hour days at one point, and most everyone at the company said no way.

Three days for sure. All that commute time adds up.

Meanwhile my company insists on five 10's and some Saturdays because we should all care about this company as much as the founding family....
My resume gets around

I hope something better comes your way soon. Culty we-are-family-so-we-work-unpaid-overtime jobs are the worst

Emoloyee Owned Companies are amazing.

https://www.esop.org/maps/esop-map-us-industry.php

maybe there is one near you!

If I had to choose out of those two options, it would be five days. I’m a therapist, I can’t work for 12 hours a day.

But my ideal schedule is what I have now, 4 days working and 3 days off, roughly 6 hours of work per day. I worked hard to get here, and I’m staying 😊

Well apparently you didn't work 12hours days to get there! 😁

sorry, I'm just kidding (and a bit envious!). I'm happy you managed to get to a nice work/life balance! 🙂

I used to work in public accounting and then in finance and mortgage compliance. We had busy seasons and special projects that definitely hit 10-12 hour days, but it was for 6 days out of 7. A tiny silver lining is they always bought nice dinners and lunches.

But gurl, I hated that with a passion. So at 35, I went to grad school, got my master’s, did 2 years of post-grad, worked my ass off to start my own business.

4 years later, here I am! It’s not all roses, it’s really hard to market right now, and it’s even harder to actually do the work because *vaguely gestures at everything. But I would still much rather do this than finance.

I've done a 4 day work week with 12 hour days before, with an hour long commute each way, and the long days weren't that bad. Regular 3 day weekends were divine.

I'd take 3x 12 hour workdays in a heartbeat.

Five day. One place I worked offered us a chance to work four 10 hour days. I tried it for a few weeks and found I was so tired when I got home that I just wanted to go to bed. The first day of my three day weekend was spent recovering.