The schedule shouldn't be the most important. What should be most important is if you can actually tolerate it enough to go in and tolerate what you have to do every day all day. Liking what we do for a living is the most difficult thing to successfully accomplish. Of course the money is a factor, and the schedule is another factor but those 2 things are things a lot of people sacrifice to work at a job they either enjoy or is at least tolerable. Nobody likes being miserable and if you don't like what you're doing for work you're going to be miserable.
To answer your question there are several jobs that have a schedule similar to that, but not all of these suggestions are guaranteed to always be a Monday through Friday 7 or 9 to 3 or 5 with weekends off. Some of them change to including additional hours and weekend hours because of demand.
- Office jobs: If you can tolerate being bored to death, sitting on your butt, doing not much of anything most of the time an office job might be something for you. If you like working with your hands, staying busy (because it passes the time), actually DOING something an office position is probably not something you're going to like therefore you're going to be miserable and not want to continue doing it for long.
- Teaching: Guaranteed 7(ish) to 4(ish) Monday through Friday with weekends, holidays, weather days, and at least 2 months between July and August every year OFF. Teaching, again, may or may not be for you. It can be rewarding but it can also be very stressful. If you aren't a fan of children and teens teaching is definitely not for you unless you get qualified in a specialized trade and teach that trade. The other thing is at this time and generation teachers really don't make much money. They are usually salary jobs. When you calculate a high school teachers average salary down in to the hours they have to work they only make between $10 and less than $17 per hour and they don't get paid overtime rates or have any special tax or benefit discounts. Teachers salary is a struggle to survive on unless you're amazing at keeping a very tight, strict, budget.
- Trade jobs: The schedule for trades cannot be guaranteed. Some skilled trade positions work and run 24/7 and being new in the field you would only be given the option to work 3rd shift. 2nd if you're lucky until you gain seniority and a day shift position opens up for the ones that operate 24/7. There are a lot of skilled trade jobs though who only operate starting between 6 or 11am until 5 or 9pm at night. The shops that run like that usually have techs that work either in shifts or their work schedule isn't always exactly the same, or they work the entirety of the open hours.
In reality expecting to get what you're asking about hardly exists anymore. It's a dream these days to get a day shift job AND have weekends off.
If your only criteria for a career is what hours you will work and that you will always be off on weekends, you are doomed to a boring and unfulfilling job.
Clerical work. Alas, much clerical work is being eliminated by technology, but what jobs there are typically start between 8-9 am, and out by 5. And employers hate to pay low-level clericals overtime, so it almost never happens. Receptionist, file clerks, Dictaphone transcriptionists, secretarial work, accounting clerks (payroll, AP/AR), data entry. But avoid higher-end clerical & support positions as Executive Assistants (especially), Legal Secretaries & Paralegals, Administrative Assistants work their boss's hours & may have to work late quite often.
Also consider part-time jobs through temp agencies as you can stipulate what hours you are available, willing to work.
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Most office jobs will offer that.
Most office jobs
Some takeaways are closed at weekends, if they're in the financial district.
The hours will depend entiely on what an employer wants and needs, not on your preferences.
Office work. I don't know what else has those hours.
The schedule shouldn't be the most important. What should be most important is if you can actually tolerate it enough to go in and tolerate what you have to do every day all day. Liking what we do for a living is the most difficult thing to successfully accomplish. Of course the money is a factor, and the schedule is another factor but those 2 things are things a lot of people sacrifice to work at a job they either enjoy or is at least tolerable. Nobody likes being miserable and if you don't like what you're doing for work you're going to be miserable.
To answer your question there are several jobs that have a schedule similar to that, but not all of these suggestions are guaranteed to always be a Monday through Friday 7 or 9 to 3 or 5 with weekends off. Some of them change to including additional hours and weekend hours because of demand.
- Office jobs: If you can tolerate being bored to death, sitting on your butt, doing not much of anything most of the time an office job might be something for you. If you like working with your hands, staying busy (because it passes the time), actually DOING something an office position is probably not something you're going to like therefore you're going to be miserable and not want to continue doing it for long.
- Teaching: Guaranteed 7(ish) to 4(ish) Monday through Friday with weekends, holidays, weather days, and at least 2 months between July and August every year OFF. Teaching, again, may or may not be for you. It can be rewarding but it can also be very stressful. If you aren't a fan of children and teens teaching is definitely not for you unless you get qualified in a specialized trade and teach that trade. The other thing is at this time and generation teachers really don't make much money. They are usually salary jobs. When you calculate a high school teachers average salary down in to the hours they have to work they only make between $10 and less than $17 per hour and they don't get paid overtime rates or have any special tax or benefit discounts. Teachers salary is a struggle to survive on unless you're amazing at keeping a very tight, strict, budget.
- Trade jobs: The schedule for trades cannot be guaranteed. Some skilled trade positions work and run 24/7 and being new in the field you would only be given the option to work 3rd shift. 2nd if you're lucky until you gain seniority and a day shift position opens up for the ones that operate 24/7. There are a lot of skilled trade jobs though who only operate starting between 6 or 11am until 5 or 9pm at night. The shops that run like that usually have techs that work either in shifts or their work schedule isn't always exactly the same, or they work the entirety of the open hours.
In reality expecting to get what you're asking about hardly exists anymore. It's a dream these days to get a day shift job AND have weekends off.
Many office jobs have that kind of schedule. Many high-paying jobs are usually daytime week days but sometimes require evening or weekend work.
Office work .
If your only criteria for a career is what hours you will work and that you will always be off on weekends, you are doomed to a boring and unfulfilling job.
Clerical work. Alas, much clerical work is being eliminated by technology, but what jobs there are typically start between 8-9 am, and out by 5. And employers hate to pay low-level clericals overtime, so it almost never happens. Receptionist, file clerks, Dictaphone transcriptionists, secretarial work, accounting clerks (payroll, AP/AR), data entry. But avoid higher-end clerical & support positions as Executive Assistants (especially), Legal Secretaries & Paralegals, Administrative Assistants work their boss's hours & may have to work late quite often.
Also consider part-time jobs through temp agencies as you can stipulate what hours you are available, willing to work.