Longest amount of time working / not working?

What's the longest amount of time you've had no work to do? Do you usually have large gaps?

What's the longest amount of time you've worked without taking more than a 15-20 minute break? Do you usually never get to leave your computer?

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While in banking (both answers):

Longest time without work to do would've been 3-4 days or so during the late summer. There's always stuff to do, but nothing was pressing.

Longest continuous amount of time worked would've been my first true all-nighter as a first year for a pitch. Started work around 9am on day 1 and finished around 11:30pm on day 2. So ~38 hours or so.

I bet someone around here has done day 1 through day 3 evening without stopping, luckily that person is not me.

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