I sit most of the days but I also take about 12-20k steps/day walking. So basically whenever I don't sit around in front of a computer I move.
Is that really so bad? I mean you have to rest sometimes.
Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older
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#62I work remotely 80-90 hours a week using my laptop (this is important: your screen needs to be mobile). Here's how I currently try to keep my body moving: - I don't have a desk or chair. I have a bar table and a stool. This makes a huge difference. I get uncomfortable sitting on the stool after about 30 minutes, so I get off. Then I'll stand at the bar table and work for an hour or two. When I get tired of that, I'll…
Working 80-90 hours doesn't seem healthy in its own right. Do you even have time to do anything else?
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I work remotely 80-90 hours a week" I think that's your problem right there, regardless of all the extra measures you're taking, that's mental.
Why are some people always suspicious of others who work a lot ? Genuine question as I don't have this kind of sensibility it seems.
Working 16+ hour days is not sustainable in the long term and is counter productive. Usually when people say they work "80-90 hours a week" I take it with a grain of salt.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are some people always suspicious of others who work a lot ? Genuine question as I don't have this kind of sensibility it seems.
Working 16+ hour days is not sustainable in the long term and is counter productive. Usually when people say they work "80-90 hours a week" I take it with a grain of salt.
Working 80-90 hours a week remotely with the freedom to work from an environment that you find relaxing is a lot different than working 80-90 hours a week in an office or dealing every day with the stresses of traffic and commuting. Yesterday I was laying in a hammock feeling the breeze come in off the lake and listening to the birds while working on my laptop. I couldn't work 80-90 hours a week if I didn't have the ability to look up from my laptop and instantly feel relaxed.
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#65I work remotely 80-90 hours a week using my laptop (this is important: your screen needs to be mobile). Here's how I currently try to keep my body moving: - I don't have a desk or chair. I have a bar table and a stool. This makes a huge difference. I get uncomfortable sitting on the stool after about 30 minutes, so I get off. Then I'll stand at the bar table and work for an hour or two. When I get tired of that, I'll…
Sounds good, but working on a laptop constantly makes Forward Head Posture much more likely
The mobility they afford easily makes up for any negative effects. I couldn't imagine working from a fixed computer. I even tried putting my laptop on a stand and using an external keyboard—it lasted a few days before I just got so annoyed by the fixed position. I sit facing different directions at my circle bar table, shifting my position multiple times throughout the day, so having a laptop that I can simply adjust as I adjust makes a lot more sense for me.
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#66As my wife (an ER nurse) says: "Motion is the lotion"... But seriously: Keep moving folks! Immobility is a co-morbidity with so many other illnesses. Find something you love to do that makes you move and keep at it!
I phrase it "Stop moving, start dying."
"Rest is rust" is my favorite phrasing
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#67Even though I sit all day and most of the evening, my 40 minute commute is mostly standing and walking, and I get up every half an hour or so to make a cup of tea, or to stretch, or so look out of the window for a minute (it helps my eyes...)
I'm hoping that's enough to make a difference
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#68>> "When you have your own business, you have a little more flexibility," she says. "But I'll tell you one thing that's constant — that's eight hours, at least, of looking at the screen and sitting in the chair." Above quote is from the case study at the end of the article. Just wondering about tablets/phones and moving people away from the PC with screen.
Anecdotal Observation 1: My daily journey involves a local train ride from a large main station. The inquiry staff no longer sit at desks in a counter/office. They have 'stands' around the concourse and use tablets to query the national timetable system. The same people help with the barriers when there are problems &c. They are moving most of the day.
Anecdotal Observation 2: Teaching: this time of year we are advising and assessing large numbers of prospective students. Used to be rows of PCs/monitors. Now again, tablets in use and colleagues just use their phones. Far more mobile and a lot less queuing up to see people &c.
Just wondering about 'business logic' applications on a tablet? Just do your stuff while walking about?
Re: Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older
#69I work remotely 80-90 hours a week using my laptop (this is important: your screen needs to be mobile). Here's how I currently try to keep my body moving: - I don't have a desk or chair. I have a bar table and a stool. This makes a huge difference. I get uncomfortable sitting on the stool after about 30 minutes, so I get off. Then I'll stand at the bar table and work for an hour or two. When I get tired of that, I'll…
Working 80-90 hours doesn't seem healthy in its own right. Do you even have time to do anything else?
In my experience with exaggerated statements like this, all kinds of more or less non-work related activities count as work for these people.
Example from my formerboss: weekend get-aways with clients involving alcohol binges, strip-clubs and prostitutes were "work" by his standards.