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Someone like me! I’ve been doing the exact same thing for about a year now. My quality of work is up, and so is my salary. I have more time for family and hobb

Someone like me! I’ve been doing the exact same thing for about a year now. My quality of work is up, and so is my salary. I have more time for family and hobbies. Whenever I’m stuck on a problem and my four hours are up, I right down my thoughts and the next morning I find the solution quickly. Either you and I are special, hyperproductive but easily exhausted workers, or everyone else is just pretending to work twice as long.

kilroy123 5y ago
It think it's a combination? No way anyone is working productively for 8 hours. It's not just possible in the long term.
- Void_ 5y ago
  I used to work productive 8+ hours in my early twenties - driven by excitement. Definitely closer to 4-5 now that I’m close to 30.
- wsc981 5y ago
  I certainly have plenty of days where I do around 8 hours of productive work. Of course there's also days that I only have 4 hours of productive work. I'd say in a given week there's usually around 2 or 3 days that I am productive for ~8 hours. I am happy I work for a company that doesn't distract me too much as distractions cause me to lose focus. Every Monday we discuss deliverables and bugs issues with last deliverable. I add new features and fixes in the coming days and Thursday evening or Friday morning I send out a new release for testing. Apart from this there isn't too much communication, this approach allows me to focus on my work most of the time. My daughter has been home for the last month or so, since schools have closed due to COVID. To stay productive, I only work in the night once my daughter is in bed. This way I have no distractions. I sleep in the morning while my girlfriend takes care of our daughter. In the afternoon I wake up and spend plenty of time with our daughter. As a freelancer I only bill the hours that I feel I really delivered work. Because of this mindset and because I want to make a decent amount of money, I can't afford to slack too much. An hour of slacking is an hour I not bill to my client. I think some freelancers are probably more liberal in what hours they invoice, e.g. always invoice 8 hours every workday regardless if they really worked 8 hours or been slacking half a day. I think most clients wouldn't be able to tell the difference regardless.

kilroy123 5y ago

It think it's a combination? No way anyone is working productively for 8 hours. It's not just possible in the long term.

Void_ 5y ago
I used to work productive 8+ hours in my early twenties - driven by excitement. Definitely closer to 4-5 now that I’m close to 30.
wsc981 5y ago
I certainly have plenty of days where I do around 8 hours of productive work. Of course there's also days that I only have 4 hours of productive work. I'd say in a given week there's usually around 2 or 3 days that I am productive for ~8 hours. I am happy I work for a company that doesn't distract me too much as distractions cause me to lose focus. Every Monday we discuss deliverables and bugs issues with last deliverable. I add new features and fixes in the coming days and Thursday evening or Friday morning I send out a new release for testing. Apart from this there isn't too much communication, this approach allows me to focus on my work most of the time. My daughter has been home for the last month or so, since schools have closed due to COVID. To stay productive, I only work in the night once my daughter is in bed. This way I have no distractions. I sleep in the morning while my girlfriend takes care of our daughter. In the afternoon I wake up and spend plenty of time with our daughter. As a freelancer I only bill the hours that I feel I really delivered work. Because of this mindset and because I want to make a decent amount of money, I can't afford to slack too much. An hour of slacking is an hour I not bill to my client. I think some freelancers are probably more liberal in what hours they invoice, e.g. always invoice 8 hours every workday regardless if they really worked 8 hours or been slacking half a day. I think most clients wouldn't be able to tell the difference regardless.