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This is an unsustainable workload. It's not possible to work productively at this level for anything but the short term. Honestly, for how many hours of the d

by rleigh 11y ago

This is an unsustainable workload. It's not possible to work productively at this level for anything but the short term. Honestly, for how many hours of the day are you actually productive? Could you have worked more efficently and left after 8 hours instead of 10 or 12? As a cheeky example, if you've got time to read HN at work, could you cut that and similar time wasting activities out completely so that "work time" is limited to just work and get out of the door once the real work is done? WRT finding time to exercise, I go to the gym for an hour over lunch: 10 mins running, 30 mins doing weights and using various machines and another 10 mins running to wind down, then shower and back to work for the afternoon. Other days I go to the climbing wall and have an hour on the bouldering wall. Then back to the desk. I also usually cycle to work. The physical exercise makes me feel overall much better both physically and mentally. I can really tell the difference if I don't do anything for a few days. Physical exercise definitely reduces my stress.

gorena 11y ago
> Honestly, for how many hours of the day are you actually productive? Not very many. I would definitely love to leave at 5, and I know that this would make me more productive - in total! - not just per hour, but I don't want to deal with the fallout from it, since everyone else stays until after 7:30. I tend to get in at 8-9, while others come in 9-10, but no one can tell how early I was in. As is, I'm already typically among the earliest leaving, and it already feels weird.
- rleigh 11y ago
  It sucks to have that kind of work culture, but it's really unhealthy for everyone involved. Is it at all possible to point out its flaws and make everyone's work-life balance better? Or to be the one to work sensible hours and make the rest realise what they are doing is pointless? (I know social pressures like this are very difficult to change, and I'm terrible at dealing with this type of thing myself. I'm actually very lucky in my present job that I can work flexible hours and 8 per day is totally acceptable--I could even get away with less if I really wanted, though I don't.) I spent a year working 12 hour day and night shifts, so I can certainly sympathise with the hours. I got a 6 mile cycle each way and wasn't entirely desk bound then (industrial laboratory) so physical exercise wasn't an issue.
- gamblor956 11y ago
  Get there a little bit earlier and either go to the closest gym or do your own self-led workouts (run/bodyweights/etc.), then get in to the office when everyone else arrives.

by rleigh 11y ago

gorena 11y ago

> Honestly, for how many hours of the day are you actually productive? Not very many. I would definitely love to leave at 5, and I know that this would make me more productive - in total! - not just per hour, but I don't want to deal with the fallout from it, since everyone else stays until after 7:30. I tend to get in at 8-9, while others come in 9-10, but no one can tell how early I was in. As is, I'm already typically among the earliest leaving, and it already feels weird.

rleigh 11y ago
It sucks to have that kind of work culture, but it's really unhealthy for everyone involved. Is it at all possible to point out its flaws and make everyone's work-life balance better? Or to be the one to work sensible hours and make the rest realise what they are doing is pointless? (I know social pressures like this are very difficult to change, and I'm terrible at dealing with this type of thing myself. I'm actually very lucky in my present job that I can work flexible hours and 8 per day is totally acceptable--I could even get away with less if I really wanted, though I don't.) I spent a year working 12 hour day and night shifts, so I can certainly sympathise with the hours. I got a 6 mile cycle each way and wasn't entirely desk bound then (industrial laboratory) so physical exercise wasn't an issue.
gamblor956 11y ago
Get there a little bit earlier and either go to the closest gym or do your own self-led workouts (run/bodyweights/etc.), then get in to the office when everyone else arrives.