What is the longest amount of hours you have worked in a row?

[Xipe Totec]

19. 24 hours - three 8 hour shifts

On a drilling rig, breaking pipe (retrieving the pipe string before dismantling the rig).

I was one of the roustabouts catching the pipe sections coming down the ramp and rolling them to either side for storage.

My father was the Chief of the Watch and wanted to teach me a lesson about how hard this work was so I would stay in school (totally unnecessary, but anyways) so he sent two relief crews back-to-back one man short. So I had to stay until my relief came.

It was brutal. Covered in caustic drilling mud from head to toe for the entire 24 hours, I had bleeding sores in my groins and armpits by the time it was over.

But....

This was in Mexico, and I was union, so I got paid straight time for the first shift, double time for the second, and triple time for the third. So I made 6 days wages in 24 hours.

Not an easy way to make a bundle.