I work from home, and typically I’m “In the office,” about 32-40 hours a week. I find that I can sustain a max of about 4 hours of focused work (programming) a

I work from home, and typically I’m “In the office,” about 32-40 hours a week. I find that I can sustain a max of about 4 hours of focused work (programming) a day before I’m just mentally worked over. If there isn’t more project management/coordination work to do, then I’ll just call it a day. There have been short seasons where I’ve averaged quite a bit more, but I don’t know that I was ever actually more productive. For me it feels like I hit a point at which there is no more work to be wrung out of me, no matter how long I sit in a chair. At the same time, I find that work is often on my mind during the rest of my life, and here and there an idea pops up while I’m engaged in another activity. I used to do contract programming and found that was the hardest part - my brain was at work a lot of the time outside of “work hours,” but how was I ever going to Bill the client for that?