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Ask HN: How many hours do you work?
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#23I think the average person's capacity for deeply focused work is generally considered to be around 6 hours per day. I've found that to be the case for me as well. However, I can be maxed out at my day job, but go home and work on an unrelated side project for several more hours. I highly recommend Cal Newport's blog as he writes phenomenal content on "deep work", the importance of focus, and how to maximize your "dee…
My work day is 9 hours (with a 1 hour lunch). I track my time and find that about 25% is spent taking breaks from 'working'. The path of lease resistance for me is to work for 45 minutes and then take a 5 to 15 minute break to walk around the office, check HN, get coffee/water, etc.
So yeah about 6 hours of 'working' on an average day at the office for 9 hours.
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#249:30 AM: Arrive at office. 11:30 AM: Stop working 11:50 AM: Go to lunch. 1:30 PM: Get back from lunch. 4:55 PM: Go Home. 2 hours a day.
you work in Sweden ?
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#25That's exactly my problem, I can't work for more than 5-6 hours because of exhaustion. But in my case, I'm still in school and work full time, so that may be part of the problem.
> I'm still in school and work full time That sounds incredibly stressful. Out of curiosity, how many hours do you typically put in at school (attending classes, studying, working on assignments, etc.)? What sort of work do you do? I've thought about studying for a Master's degree while I work here - always wanted to experience a 'real' education since my undergrad was really disappointing as far as academics were co…
I've been doing that for the last 2.5y - university(Soft. Eng.) + work. For the first 6 months I've been working 40-45h a week + 20h at uni and around 10h-20h (depending on the week) more to do assignments. I just needed to change how I do stuff for uni, instead of always listening on lectures(obligatory), I'd study something else. I've not skipped any classes.
It was very stressful and I'd not recommend that to anyone, after 6 months I've switched to 30h a week and it's very good right now. What came surprising for me it's that while it's 25% less, I didn't do much less than I had before.
type of work - Ruby and JavaScript coding in a software house, remotely, with very flexible hours.
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#26I tend to work in two bursts during the day when working from my home office.
I work 10 - 1 have an hour break and then do 2 - 4.
I find I can get most work done using that framework whilst still allowing me time to get other stuff done in the morning/late afternoon that might otherwise be a distraction!
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#27About 9 billable hours after being there 11 and a half hours. I struggle with exhaustion. I was trying to do 10 - 11 billable hours a day but cut that back to 9; doesn't do the client any good if I make a major mistake because I'm tired.
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#289:30 AM: Arrive at office. 11:30 AM: Stop working 11:50 AM: Go to lunch. 1:30 PM: Get back from lunch. 4:55 PM: Go Home. 2 hours a day.
refer me for a job at your place.
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#29I run my solo bootstrapped SaaS business and have put in consistent 80-100 hour weeks (total computer time) for the past 4 years and am 60-85% "productive" (according to RescueTime). Of course there have been some odd weeks of only 20 hours (...and some 120). Not really proud of it. It is what it is. It's been working. I think in the next 2 years I'll be able to figure it all out and taper down (which I really look f…
Up 6:26 AM - Office 7:36 - work to 5 PM - 1.5 hour break broken up during the day. 6:30pm to 11:30 PM coding - 6.5 days a week. Mixture of Deep work and Management.
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#30I try to put in 15 hours a week max (4-5 hours a day, 3-4 days a week), so you're way outperforming me :)
The first 10 years of my career were spent trying to work more and more hours to make more and more money. These days I try to work as few hours as possible while still maintaining a decent standard of living.