How many hours/week did you work when you were in grad school?

50 at my job as a grunt civil engineer, and then another 20 to 30 doing school work. During my thesis year, it was 50 and 50.

Typically took 2 classes (6 semester hours) per semester. Summer school would take one class. Because of undergrad deficiency courses, needed 48 semester hours, plus a thesis. Whole thing took me 5 years for an MS

Paid off though.

MS: about 35 hr/week total. Very easy, lots of time to train. Easier than undergrad.

PhD: up to 100/week during field work, but about 80 when on campus. Worked as a TA with a second job as a grader for a statistics professor. Gave up my sponsorship (Etonic, a company that was breaking into the running market in the late 80s but died) because I was not able to train enough to race well, but enjoyed getting out as much as possible.

I lived on caffeine but was learning a ton and loved what I was doing so it was OK.

40-45 hours of work/week with another 30 in coursework/labs/projects

This past summer while developing my capstone I worked 40 hours, with another 10 at an internship and another 20-30 developing our web app.

I'm lucky that I have a great wife. I couldn't have survived such a schedule alone.

Working about 50, but what really gets me is the commute. I live about 90 minutes from work, and 45 minutes from school. On nights when I have class, I don't get home until 11, and then I'm up at 4:45 the next day. Luckily, I still live at home, so I don't to worry about little things like making breakfast/lunch/dinner or doing the laundry. That said, I have absolutely no free time at all anymore outside of running/work/school, and I am definitely about at my limit. Grad school and working is tough, no two ways about it.

F/T teacher

I worked my regular full-time job which was about 45 hours a week and attended night classes.

I did most of my schoolwork on the weekends.

In my experience, most of my fellow students did not have full-time jobs. I am not sure if their grad school was funded by parents or student loans, but those that worked full time were few and far between.

When I was in grad school it was like one drawn out dull continuous sustained effort separated by occasional brief periods of extreme drunken fun. I both loved and hated it, but who counts hours in grad school? If I was awake and maybe even sometimes when I was asleep, I was

always "working" on my projects. Some of my best "work" was done on long runs, while driving to another state, or while sipping hot coffee on bench outside the building.

M.S. - I kind of slacked even though I was in what was considered a very good program. 4-6 days a week including classes and animal care. Maybe 30-35 hours a week. A few above 40, but not many. Took lots of long weekends when I could. Yes, overall easier than undergrad.

Post masters research (4+ years) - 50 hours a week/and 50 miles with 1 rest day for each.

Doctorate - 40 to 60 hours, maybe some 70s, a week/and 40-50 miles of running. My running went downhill during that time. I enjoyed the work, but it was a stressful time too.

Post doc (3 years) - 50-60 hours a week, 40-50 miles, and I was considered not that hard of a worker. Expectation was 70 hours in the sweatshop but by then I had a young family and chose to be reasonable with the hours.

Professional - usually 40 hours a week at work, 15 hours coaching, 50-70 miles running.