This is busy season for us, in the winter, I'd probably leave around 5:30 instead of 6:30.
Ask HN: Typical work hours
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#32Re: Ask HN: Typical work hours
#33Now I generally get close to 40 hours in a week, but rarely hit it. Hours are very flexible (today I'm in at 6am, yesterday 9).
Both jobs were smaller companies (<50) in Vancouver, Canada.
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#348:30-5 (I leave a bit early to beat traffic. Sometimes if I can't sleep I'll VPN in to work and do some code janitor tasks. A few times a year my work load gets heavy enough that I'll work extra at night or very early to get through it, but that's not my normal routine. My lunch is anywhere from 0 to 90 minutes but I probably average about 30 minutes. During the day I'll sometimes go for a 30 minute walk. I keep a gu…
Presumably you have your own office, or do your work colleagues enjoy the impromptu performance?
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#35Re: Ask HN: Typical work hours
#367am - 7pm in office, plus 1 hour commute each way.
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#37Re: Ask HN: Typical work hours
#38Now that I work from home (for a different company), I probably work roughly 60 hrs per week. But my time is much more flexible, I typically work 8am->5pm most days, with one or two evenings of actual work (not just answering email) from 9pm to 1am, and often a few hours on the weekends. But somewhere in those 8-5 hours, I'll often take my son to school or pick him up, or take him to an athletic practice, or help him with homework, or have lunch with my wife, etc.
Given that my office is steps away, the line between home and work blurs. I find that it is hard to resist checking on things almost obsessively, and I often go into my office intending to just spend 2 minutes check the progress of something only to emerge 3 hours later.