Ditto. I actually spend long hours at home reading programming blogs, tech news, programming stuff or toying around with system administration tools and techniq

Ditto. I actually spend long hours at home reading programming blogs, tech news, programming stuff or toying around with system administration tools and techniques I may use later in production. What is work? Am I working when I'm reading HN at the office waiting for some test to end ? Am I working when I'm answering support emails from home at 11PM while still reading HN ? I spend about 35 hours a week at the office or customers premises. I spend 80 to 100 hours a week doing work-related stuff. I may pretend that I'm working even while I'm running in the woods, every morning, because while I run I'm probably rummaging about a couple of work related problems, even if it's on the back burner. What's work? Frankly, I don't know anymore.