Considering the ridiculous amounts of time spent on training, how do those of you deal with 'work' ? Work remotely ? Run multiple experiments at the same time ?

Considering the ridiculous amounts of time spent on training, how do those of you deal with 'work' ? Work remotely ? Run multiple experiments at the same time ? I'm having an increasingly difficult time explaining to my client why it's taking so much longer to debug the code as opposed to getting the implementation off the ground.