I should actually be working 8h a day, but most of it is spend not working. If I’m honest I’m probably working more like 3h a day even though I enjoy my job.
As a rad tech, I work as little as 3 hours to as much as 8-9 on my 10 hour shifts
That does indeed sound rad
0.5 hours a day in average. I get nice pay for it. The beauty of support 🤣
Officially, it should be 7 hours a day. But normally I work 5-6 hours. The rest are wasted on distractions and context switching. But deep work (i.e. actually getting things done) is normally 2-3 hours.
I also count meetings and chatting with colleagues are actual work. Those sessions might seem superficial but the way we collaborate with others is also important.
You get 2-3 hours of deep work time EVERY DAY? I’m lucky to get that once a week.
It’s not that hard. I utilise Pomodoro techinque to set aside four 25m-40m sessions. Now it’s just the matter of discipline. I block all distractions (emails, texting, entertainment, etc.) and coalesce them into a period of time.
I don’t get that because I’m in a billion meetings, have to conduct interviews, help the more Jr folks on my team etc. It’s not that I’m bad at time management
Straight answer up front: sometimes my entire ten hour shift has less than 10 minutes of work in it.
I must confess, my job is a bit of an edge case because not everybody wants to do it.
I work third shift, and usually exclusively the weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday nights, 11pm to 9am).
4 ten-hour shifts.
and during these shifts… bruh most of the time I’m chilling
I’m reading ebooks, I’m watching anime or youtube, I’m chatting with friends on discord
most of my job is having a pulse while babysitting an empty building.
the part of my job that makes the money, though, is when the phone rings.
I work at a towing company, and I dispatch.
When people are calling me, it’s almost exclusively because shit’s fucked up.
I am in charge of sending some unfuckery their way.Most of the calls are from companies though: Motor freight lines like Ryder, Penske, Fleetnet, UPS, FedEx, and a few other carriers that are even less customer-facing; motor clubs like Swoop, Urgent.ly, AAA, NationSafe; or insurance companies like Allstate or GEICO.
What they want to hear is how soon and how much and knowing how to rapidly generate this information while remaining accurate is where most of the expertise lies.
Then there’s the police calls.
When there has been an accident and a disabled vehicle (and its pieces) must be removed from obstructing the roadway, that’s us.
When some dumb bastard drives drunk and subsequently gets rightly caught, we impound their shit.
When a stolen vehicle is found, we recover it.Whilst my opinion regarding cops (pigs) has evolved (fuck the police) quite a bit (they’re fucking bastards) in recent years (every last one of them), my guys do the NOT Standing On Someone’s Neck bits of it AFTER the dust has settled and the blood is done being spilled (and the bullets have stopped flying…) so generally we’re one of the responders on the make-someone’s-life-LESS-horrible side of the curve. Which feels pretty nice.
There are the rare occasions where a major shitshow evolves and I’m triaging calls and coordinating multiple assets in the field though, and that’s when the pay really feels worth it.
Presently I’m 5 years in and making 20/hr
Literally at this very second, it’s a wednesday night/thursday morning and I’ve already DONE my 40 hours this week - I’m here on overtime covering the other third shift dispatcher while they’re out, and each of these hours is worth $$$THIRTY BUCKS HELL YEAAAA$$$
it’s not enough to afford rent nowadays of course, but eh, i inherited the house from my father…
(and want to transform it into a group home for low income persons and families if I can get it organized right)
(i’ll be taking a page from history and trying to turn my house into something like a multigenerational compound except for people who aren’t strictly related by blood)Doesn’t working overnight have ramifications?
for most people it does. For me, while they may exist outside of my awareness, I am nevertheless unaware of them. What health issues I had been experiencing came about as a result of other major life circumstances, and i’ve seen some pivotal improvements since some of those circumstances have been amended.
I always was a natural night-owl. I’m always more alert at night, and get eepy sweepy after the sun comes up, so it suits my proclivities perfectly.
I’ve been at it for five years already, so, if it’s a chronic issue, guess I’ll find out after another 20 years of it!
Multigenerational housing for the win! Also, neat job, congrats!
Where is everyone getting these jobs? Even if it’s slow I am still doing my job every few minutes unless systems are down.
Get a job in IT and then get a job at an established company. If you doing new job right you won’t do anything at all.
Yeah I agree, I work in IT and specially in enterprise companies, work pace is crazy slow. Not much is expected by the employees. Lots of meetings to talk about things instead of doing them.
I start working the moment I come to work and finish work when the place is closed, 6-12h. I work in a kitchen. Only times there might not be work is during the quiet season when we’ve managed to do a deep clean already the day before. But mostly I only work and then rest on my days off these days.
Only time I have for even thinking about my hobbies and friends are when I get two days off in a row once a month. Probably going to have to look for a new job before I burn out. These comments about only working for a couple hours a day are really making me envious.
2 days off excluding weekends. Right? Right?
I get weekends (sat, sun) and 30 days off a year. Plus public holidays like Chrismas or Sylvester.
Sylvester? Is that an auto correct issue, or is this a public holiday that I might want to move to lol.
Please forgive my ignorance, the schools really failed in the US.
Nah. I mean this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Eve
Thankfully Sundays are double pay in Finland, so we are always closed on Sundays. Then the second day off we have a random weekday (excluding friday and saturday). Monday off rotates so that everyone in the kitchen gets 1 Monday off once a month.
We also get vacation days, but mostly during the quiet season. Always working on public holidays, unless it’s the kind where people go to their summer cabins, out of the city.
In Germany it’s straight up illegal to work on Sunday except in the service industry.
Kitchens are always a grind, but you should be getting more time off than that. Freaking owner/operators get more time off than two days a month.
Worst part is the owner has been saying he has too much staff and that kitchen should also start running some of the food. We are stretched so thin we do prep at the same time we handle the service as well.
I’ve been at work an hour and haven’t done anything. I have some things to work on but they aren’t due for a week or so and I can finish them fairly fast so no point rushing.
I usually spend the morning catching up on news and relaxing until 10 then work until lunch, depending on whether I get my tasks done for the day I’ll continue working after lunch or go back to nothing. Some times I get to go out for site visits so that’s fun and eats up part of my day. Spent 40 minutes talking to some old lady named Flo about her garden yesterday on a site visit.
When we’re busy we’re busy and I work hard but summers are always slow and my boss is wfh today.
I’ve had days of maybe 15 minutes of actual work, and 10 hour days. very variable. I used to have a job paid 8 hours with literally 45 minutes of work a day. loved it, despite the low pay. way before WFH times though so it was a lot of time looking busy
8 hour day, I work 7.5 of that. As soon as I enter the yard I’m in work mode. I work in the city gardens. I’m not surrounded by too many distractions like computers, phones and friends because I’m outside on site and I keep the work conversations about work only. Less drama that way.
About 2hrs per job.
In an 8 hour day, I’d say probably 7 hours
The other hour probably bathroom trips, coffee/water breaks, occasional quick chats with coworkers throughout the day
I can’t hit a full 8 hours actual work unless I do a 9 hour day.
Sometimes I have a shorter lunch break or try not to poop until I get home lol, so I can hit 8 hours quicker
In German it’s illegal to work more than 6 hours without a break of at least 30 minutes. As an employee at least
I get 20 minutes break per day, but it’s not enough.
I set a timer for everything I do. I drink about 3 instant coffee per day and it’s roughly 3 minutes to make each coffee from leaving my desk, going to kitchen and returning. So that’s 10min already
Toilet time also counts as break time, and I usually need longer than 10min throughout the day.
Chatting to co-workers about personal life also break time and throughout the day with small conversations that’s easily 20min
The boss has never spoken to be about some days I record 1 hour break time… But I used to record toilet time separately and they said that’s too personal for time logging, and I should be recording toilet time as break time.
So they are watching, and I try reduce things that count as break time. Or work an extra 15min if I spent too long in toilet etc
Oh also didn’t mention lunch break because it’s not “on the clock” anyway. So you are physically present at work 8.5 hours but with 30min lunch. I assume that’s standard set up (lunch is unpaid time)
Same here in the UK. We get an hour where I work, plus breaks.
Yes sorry I was just counting paid work time. We have half an hour lunch break but it’s not included in the work hours. I assume that’s normal. E.g you are physically at work 8.5 hours with 30min unpaid lunch break in the middle, so total 8 “work hours”
It really depends. I do catering so some days there just isn’t a job. When I have a gig it’s usually 8-10 hours, but only maybe 2-6 of those are actually cooking and serving, the rest is logistics, prep and cleaning.
I actually do about 4h of productive work a day and ~3h of meetings (some consider that work). There’s always about an hour in a day where my brain is jelly. Wish I could take a nap in the afternoons like I did when we had WFH. I was more productive with an afternoon nap.
Mon to Fri. Between 8am and 5 pm, 5 hours tops. And that’s a generous top. Been WFH since 2014.
As a software developer I do not count sitting in meetings as productive work. Maybe 2-3h a day on average I’m left alone, in a state of flow and am really getting stuff done.
