How much time do people spend at work?
Was just sat here looking at few stats, you know the kind on average you spend X amount of time asleep in a year, you spend X amoubt of time on the toilet and wondered:
How much time do people spend at work?
Or a more interesting question, how much time do you spend working at work?
(Study and building knowledge whilst related to work is not counted as you dont get paid to do this, unless someone out there does??)
How much time do people spend at work?
Or a more interesting question, how much time do you spend working at work?
(Study and building knowledge whilst related to work is not counted as you dont get paid to do this, unless someone out there does??)
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Often if I have a lot to do, I'll stay late and do it even though I'm not getting paid. It's easier to get a lot of the hard stuff out of the way so I don't have to deal with them the next morning. I will often work until 9-10PM, head home and sleep...then repeat the cycle.
No wonder I'm always stressed.
KG
During the summer we work 7-5 (M-W) 7-4:30 (Th) with Friday off. Same 37.5 hours a week, just squeezed into 4 days.
Anything over 37.5 hrs a week goes to comp time. The college is closed 2 weeks for Christmas, 1 week for Spring Break (last week), 2 days in the fall for Fall break, and 3 days Thanksgiving week.
anything less than 4 hrs. is considered personal time. very flexible
6 weeks vacation
call-outs (if they catch me) are a 4 hr minimum.
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I am an IT Manager and salaried. Up at 5:30, exercise (varies) and eat and I'm out the door NLT 7:10. 40 minutes to work. Then work till 5:30 or 6, later when required. Lunch at my desk most days. If it's light out when I get home, I'll do some yard work or walk the dog with She Who Must Be Obeyed (no kids at home). I read most nights (fiction mostly (I get enough reality throughout the day)) or study for whatever cert I may be working on (MCSE 2K3 these days), but watch TV occasionally. I do like "The Office." Normally sound asleep by 10 or 10:30.
I like to put in a Saturday morning now and then. I can get more done in three hours on a Saturday than I can in a whole day during the week.
I have a good life, but I worked my ass off to get here.
I work for a japanease company though, so even my hours look wimpy compared to some, my line manager is in from 8.00am to 9pm everyday, i simply couldnt do that.
8-5 with 1 hour lunch (though normally you can tack on an extra 15 minutes at the beginning and 30-60 at the end on a good day, and working some at home in the evening)
During the summer, we only work 1/2 Fridays
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700 - waking up, exercise complex, tea
740 - train
905 - trolley
925 - shopping for breakfast
945 - eating breakfast at work (we have a nice kitchen)
1000 - start working (read - open forums and press refresh)
1630 - mouse drops out of my hand
1730 - train
1915 - home
rinse and repeat. some days I go home even earlier, it depends on situation.
Oh, and I usually skip lunch or have a light one at my desk (if it's a sandwich) or in kitchen, if I want something hot.
Summary: ~12h/day spent out of the house
These days I live half hour from work (as far as I am willing to travel) and I am in work by 8 (so I have breakfast with the kids and see them off to school with the mrs. I am home by 6 so they have only been at home 1-2 hours, enough time to get changed, get their homework done and we all sit down to dinner. (I insist on us all sitting down to dinner at the dining table every day - tele off, no music and just talk about what went on during the day at school or at home) I have the weekends off with them too. I have learned from speaking with other parents, not to waste a minute of the kids while they are young. Once they get to 10-12, you hardly see them from then on apparantly.
I'm 42 now and you get to realise that quality of life, especially when you start having a family, is far more important in the long term than financial gain or luxuries. When your young is when you put in the hard graft to reach up to the plataeu where you can be comfortable. So glad that time is all behind me.
Most weeks Iam working away. This week I left home at 3pm on Sunday, drove for 5 hours to the hotel I am staying in. I am at work every morning by 8am and wont be leaving until 6ish. Then its back to the hotel room, login and do another 3 hours work!
Should be home by 10pm on friday night and then back out again mid-afternoon on sunday.
At least I am clocking up the Holiday Inn reward points. Got 14 nights free accomodation in Canada last year thanks to work.
Jon
Breakfast @ 7.30
Log on and do site check on another site
Leave for work @ 8.10
At desk by 8.30 with caffiene to read email and scratch butt
Out to clients usually between 9 & 9.30 and spend the day in and out as needed
Lunch - whenever I feel the need
Bail for home @ 5.00
Check email when home usually around 5.30 then on bike about 6.00
I occasionally do remote admin for clients during the evening and of course there is always new installs and migrations done after hours.
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Up anywhere from 7:15Am~ 7:40AM. I live in a sub division 500 yards from work. No traffic lights or traffic on my 30 second commute. My sub division is surrounded and owned by three nice golf courses that give free range balls to owners and 25% off fees so when the weather is fair I hit balls or play 9 holes during lunch. I may also go home for lunch watch sports center and throw something on the grill.
full time student: 26 hours
part time database analyst: 20 hours
indepedent network technician: 3-5 hours
lunches: 2-4 hours
commuting: 7 hours
for everything else, there's giving up sleep...
Make it to work hopefully by 8...depending on traffic.
Mon-Fri 8-5 maybe 5:30 with usually just a half hour lunch.
Get home around 6ish.
Usually I spend time researchin some new product or technology I heard about or play some video games.
Eventually I'll get a call from an engineer talking about how he should have admin privileges so he can install pirated software. It's the same guy all the time and he only calls me on nights I'm havin a party
OK. You win!
So, I perform work work-related activities (including my commute) approximately 60+ hours per week.
Travel 4-6 times per year for a week or two each time.
leave for work shortly after one
eat lunch between 1 and 1:45
clock in around 2
work til 4, 15 minute break (paid)
work til 6 or 7, 1 hour lunch break
work til 9:30, 15 minute break (also paid)
leave at 11pm.
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Mines varies slightly its either:
Up at 5, out the door at 6 and at work for 7.
or
Up at 7, out the door at 8 and at work for 9.
Then i'll grab a sandwich or something for mu 'lunch' I say lunch but if i stay at my desk its always, "I know your busy but can you just....."
Im sure everyone gets that though.
Apart from that its the usuall 10-15 cups of coffee. (If you train your users to bring you coffee with a problems it works out quite well
Then its home at either 5 or 7 depending on the start time.
Every other week I do 12 hours Saturday and Sunday but i have a couple of days off in the week.
Are you available to train my users? Who do I write the check out to?
Interesting concept.
User: "Will this take long to solve?"
You: "It'll go faster if you get me a cup of coffee."
Sounds fair to me
or:
User on support phone: "I'm having a problem and need help fast"
You: "I'm reeeeallly busy right now. But if the problem comes with a fresh cup of coffee I'll be right with you"
After doing this for a while you should get some sort of Pavlov effect.
38 hours a week but we work 40 hours and get a day off each month (19 day month). There's always an hour here & there extra I do. I only get a ½hour lunch and supposed to have a 15minute morning break (but rarely do). Hours are usually 8:00 to 16:30.
My new job (not yet commenced):
I'm yet to work out the details for the new job as I haven't started it yet but I dare say the same details as the organistaion is similar to where I'm at now.
Can I expand on this .... not only do I have several clients trained to bring me coffee I actually have one that has a coffee shop sized expresso machine at his home and it is a ritual to have 3 different style coffees each time I visit - which is usually 3 or 4 times a year
Now our senior engineer has it worked out even better - he had one client pay him 2 hours to train him how to use the new expresso machinehe put in to treat his clients and the lucky sod visits there weekly to 'discuss issues'
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One user emailed me about a problem and I replied with my usual:
"Let me grab a coffee and i'll be over"
She offered to fetch the coffee for me if I came now.
Whilst fixing it I playfully mentioned she should suggest it to her collegaues as a far to get me there quicker.
I went back to my desk and thought nothing of it till someone later appeared at the door with a coffee and asked if I could have a look at something.
Trick is to make them think they are getting something more by doing it when your just really doing your job.
Since they make extra effort I make extra so i gues they do get more out of me but its a fair trade off.