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How many hours a day do you actually work? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by newIdentity@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I should actually be working 8h a day, but most of it is spend not working. If I'm honest I'm probably working more like 3h a day even though I enjoy my job.

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[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had (no shit) a week or 2 go by where I've worked maybe a few hours.

I am on call quite frequently and when things do come in I'm on it immediately, but a lot of the time I am just trying to find things to do. I've even asked to be given more work and I'm trying to get into development during my downtime.

I think I'm an outlier though. My role is to maintain a particular service and when nothing is broken, I'm stuck with nothing to do.

After years of hard work, shitty work, long hours, working 2 jobs, graveyard shifts and long commutes.. it's kinda nice to have a break.

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some people actually get tired of being in your situation, which is something I'll never understand. This timeframe me and a colleague were between projects and only had "on call" tasks left because we simply ended our entire workload way earlier than other required integrations (they were slow, not us who were fast, and we couldn't move forward with anything beyond what was on spec there) was the best of all time. Three weeks of 4 hours of coding total, and the rest spent on just meetings. I actually left the office after the morning sync a few of the days with my lead's blessing (so long as didn't tell others).