Letsee, worst hours I ever worked.... FSA for 94 days on the Iwo Jima during the 2003 deployment. (This post not to be construed as bitching.)
0400: Wake up.
0430: Eat breakfast.
0500: Start serving food/washing dishes/etc.
~1100: 20 minute lunch break.
~1700: 20 minute dinner break.
1930: Stop serving food/washing dishes/etc. and start cleaning.
2100: Finish cleaning, thus concludes the work day.
2100-0400: Squeeze in laundry, showering, training (idiots in the deck office wanted me to 3M qual while FSA), miscellaneous crap, oh and some sleep if there's time.
Maintained that schedule Monday through Sunday, for 94 days non-stop. 16 hour days, 17-18 if you count training and other dumb crap that I got saddled with during the same time period.
*gets curious, crunches numbers*
E-1, with less than 2 years in, but greater than four months in 2003... $1,150.80 No sea pay for E-1's. No BAS as food was provided on the messdeck. No "combat zone pay" or "tax free" as no areas in the eastern Med/Red/Arabian seas or the Gulf were designated as such then. Obviously no BAH.
So, an average of 17 hours a day, 30 days a month, about a 15% tax withholding at the time.... $1.92 an hour.
Oh, something to bend your brains with. When I wasn't FSA My work day was 0700-1700, and then a 5 hour bridge watch tossed in that rotated through the day (4 shift sections, 5 shifts one of which was only 4 hours). So what was whee little Seaman Recruit Squirrel's job on watch when he was being paid two bucks an hour? Oh, not much. Just driving the $1,500,000,000 ship that had 3,000 people on board and helicopters and harriers trying to take off and land.
What can I say, take me out to see Spain/Greece/Malta/Dubai and I'll work for damned little.