Yeah, I have a hard time imagining this working. If anything, I'd like to be able to get back to working the 8-6 days I could before I was doing school dropoff

Yeah, I have a hard time imagining this working. If anything, I'd like to be able to get back to working the 8-6 days I could before I was doing school dropoff in the mornings. It's not like there's any dead time, for me at least, although it probably varies by industry. Back when I was in finance, we needed to be around whenever markets were open, if only to be able to run one-offs and answer questions for the traders. In tech, there's always more to do. The bulk of the hard stuff isn't raw programming, it's doing the data analysis to figure out where problems are, trying to come up with experiments to run, documenting them so you don't repeat yourself six months later, and so on. On top of that, there's whiteboarding out ideas with people, teaching interns and more junior folks, meetings with aligned teams to share knowledge, manager-stuff (1:1s, planning), writing up docs (also to share knowledge), trying to learn how something works, etc. I don't think I can manage more than a few hours of raw code time myself, but that's a pretty small slice of the things that need doing.