I am very efficient. I don't measure my work in hours, but in results. This question is for people who work for others.
I work from home about an hour when I wake up, then drive to work and work for 8 more hours. Work from 11am-7pm so it's pretty nice. Sometimes I work 6 days a week.
Considering I work 11 hour shifts, I'd say I put in a solid 9 hours of legitimate work per day. But that's only 5 days a week...I don't get how anybody works 6 or 7 - I couldn't do that.
No computer at work and I have to work through lunch, so I don't have those distractions. About 8 hours a day, 6 days a week
Seems like ppl are either slacking off way too much at their jobs (underachieving) or working way too much (inefficient/have too much responsibilities)
I just transferred Monday to my new position and I have been working like crazy. 11 to 12 hour days with 15-20 min lunches if I'm lucky. I don't mind though. I am gonna kill them on over time.
The job I had before this one, they decided; since I was inheriting accounts from another field office, to not train me on anything for the first month and a half. They didn't think to tell me this upfront so much as completely ignore the three or four department-wide emails I sent asking for work, not speak to me or make eye contact of any kind while they walked by my cube, then my boss calling me in to a meeting room to tell me people were complaining about my demeanor. Then, on the same day our department director told the newer hires in induction training that they wouldn't be expected to get performance reviews, my immediate supervisor had me fill out a form, so he could write, a month in, that I had a lot to learn about "this side of the business." Between that and them mailing my first paycheck to wrong address (and asking me to "check with my landlord"), I was on Starbucks at Memorial and Beltway 8 sending out resumes three weeks in and interviewing within a month. When I finally got another job a year later, one of the slightly older, black employees came over on my last day and asked me "what happened." "Email, number two." Nowadays I pretty much have to come in and hour-and-a-half early just to take care of intermediate to longer term issues, and I'm completely occupied from 8:00 am well into lunch. The rest of the day is cleanup from the morning and waiting for issues to arise and people to call. Also evening and weekend/holiday work about 5 or 6 times a year.
On my last internship I would work maybe 40 minutes per hour. Sometimes less. Especially towards the end of it where I got what I needed out of it (which was a few resume lines) and had no intention of working there full time.
5-6 hours max on a normal day -- i'll work much longer when needed, but the normal day is about 6 hrs.
I have most of my work automated. Creating the scripts took some time but now everything runs on its own and I mostly check to see there were no hiccups.
hell yeah I work 8+ a day (@ a desk!@ home!). hell yeah I could've taken more vacations. hell yeah free weekends were scarce. But the biggest hell yeah: I'm the only surviving employee after the economy went to the ****ter. Pretty sweet payoff.
I've been using the George Costanaza method of looking frustrated at my computer screen whenever someone is looking at me. It's worked wonders as far as keeping my workload down. Everyone thinks I'm always so busy.
