>Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working? Short answer: No. Long answer: Coders, Developers, Software Engineers, etc. (use whatever term y

>Are most of us secretly lying about how much we are working? Short answer: No. Long answer: Coders, Developers, Software Engineers, etc. (use whatever term you want) don't function like most "working" people. We don't work by filling in spreadsheets, shuffling papers and sorting cards, we also don't fix screws or talk a lot or cut hair. A lot of our work is a) absorbing knowledge b) experimenting with things c) thinking about things. This then culminates in short but productive bursts of what non-coders would perceive as "actual work", aka. punching code into a keyboard. This btw. is the reason why hackers and "it guys" are always portrayed in movies frantically typing on a keyboard...its the only way of telling the vast majority of mankind "this person is doing stuff".