When I really want to be productive 20-40. When I really need to get something done which requires too much stupid human time, 50-60.
Poll: How many hours do you work a week?
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#22What gets defined as work? That is where it gets fuzzy for me. First thinking about work related issues starts at 6am, is interrupted for a couple hours with getting kids to school, then back at it until 6pm, break for dinner and spending time with the family, and then back to work thinking until bed - about 10pm. I have been self employed most of my life and all of my children's lives. So this fragmented work schedule is normal to me. I generally work 6 days a week, sometimes only 5, and have noticed that if I work more than about 17 days straight I start to get really grumpy.
I have selected 50-60 since I would guess that I end up in the high 50s as an average.
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#23I currently work about 20 hours a week on my day job, 10 hours a week freelancing, another 20 hours day-dreaming about my own startup and reading Hacker News/Techmeme/Reddit.
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#24If you asked me a few months ago I would've said 60-70 but since I started time tracking I've found it's only 40-50 hours on average. This is with being strict about what's considered work time (meals, "general research", etc. are all off the clock)
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#25I checked 80+, but it depends on how you define work. A lot of work is sitting around in an all-night diner drinking coffee and drawing on napkins. It ain't such a bad thing, and is probably less stressful than playing a first person shooter.
Agreed, it depends on how you define work. I spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer, and a lot of that is building something - though it may not always be paying client work. I really have no idea how many hours I "work".
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#26As a startup co-founder do about 10h/week doing stuff I wouldn't otherwise do for free (mainly, recruiting, admin, contracts, and driving to meetings). I spent about 100h/week doing stuff which is fun and which I'd do for free (hacking on stuff, talking to people about stuff, reading and learning about what I'm working on, etc.)
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#27Officially 40 (slightly more if reading HN at work counts) until the end of tomorrow. After that, 0 until I've moved and found a new job etc.
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#28I work 27 hours a week, at home. I usually make a full day when I go grab some coffee at the office and talk to my colleagues, because otherwise I wouldn't get anything done on those days. So effectively that's about 4 hours a day. Of course I can just squeeze in more hours if I have an interesting task at hand; then I can just keep the following day off (except checking email occasionally, that's no problem).
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#29It'd be interesting to cross-reference this with number of posts and hours spent opining about every goddamn thing on HN.
Just sayin'.
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#30My own experience is that above 50 hours you start destructing value, not creating some.
Examples: writing code filled of bugs you have to fix later, getting upset on a problem you cannot find a solution for while you could be resting, taking the wrong decision, being cranky, etc.
Agreed, sometimes you have to go beyond the limit, but it's not sustainable.