I'd say I'm lucky to get an hour a day that's free to actually do engineering work, 3 hours would be a godsend, and rare. Its definitely hard to be effective as

I'd say I'm lucky to get an hour a day that's free to actually do engineering work, 3 hours would be a godsend, and rare. Its definitely hard to be effective as an engineer with such little time to deeply engage. Ive sometimes thought about booking a meeting with myself to go get work done!