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I always wonder how many hours per day people who say they don't have time watch TV.
by erikstarck 16y ago
I always wonder how many hours per day people who say they don't have time watch TV.
- hugh3 16y agoAs someone wisely said somewhere (it may have been here), time is not fungible. I find you only have so many hours of productive work in you per day, and you probably wouldn't have spent that TV-watching time doing something brilliant anyway.
- erikstarck 16y agoKey word is "probably".
- dpritchett 16y agoPlus TV watching can be a social activity. I can watch an hour or two of TV with my wife but she's not going to sit down and program with me.
- Tichy 16y agoI don't watch TV and I don't have time. Day job just makes me immensely tired. I do read a lot of HN, but only because I am frequently too tired for anything else. I see my only hope in quitting the day job. How others manage to do significant things outside of the job is beyond me.
- erikstarck 16y agoHave you asked if you can work 4 days a week?
- Tichy 16y agoNot yet, since I only started the job 8 weeks ago. I guess instead of just quitting, I should ask them if they have any other ideas for me. 3 days a week would be great...
- davi 16y agoOne big lesson I've learned is that if you want something out of the ordinary, no one is spontaneously going to give it to you. You have to explicitly ask for it. And when you do, it's surprising how often you get a positive response.
- ww520 16y agoWhat about weekend? Do you have to work on weekend, too?
- Tichy 16y agoNo, but there is frequently other stuff to do. There were some weekends where I could do some work (been doing the job for 8 weeks now), but not enough to make real progress. Overall it seems too unlikely to have time on weekends regularly.