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I work 40 hour weeks. Nine to five. I got into the habit when I started my PhD, because I knew that if I didn't force myself to work to a certain schedule, I'd
by hugh3 15y ago
I work 40 hour weeks. Nine to five. I got into the habit when I started my PhD, because I knew that if I didn't force myself to work to a certain schedule, I'd probably slack off.
If I only worked when I felt like it, on what I felt like working on, I would never have finished my thesis because, heck, who wants to do proofreading when you could be at the beach? And if I ate whatever I felt like, whenever I felt like eating it, I'd weigh three hundred pounds.
Anyway, the point of the story: if someone forced me to work nine to five, I'd probably hate it. But since I get to pick my own hours, I've picked nine to five.
- yuhong 15y agoYea, reminds me of the "Professionalism vs Passion" HN submission. In fact, I think the two topics are closely related.
- kmuzykov 15y agoTotally agree. Another thing is that your task is not always creative and flaring. Yes you've completed the proof of concept for the task everybody thought undoable, whooray, but now you have to cleanup the mess in the code, refactor everything and deliver something to the client or your boss. And this task involves doing some routine job like writing logs in exceptional cases, making application fool proof and etc.
- khuhvjhv 15y agoI think I am done with HN.
- hugh3 15y agoGiven that your account appears to be eighteen minutes old... wow, that was fast!
- TheAmazingIdiot 15y ago"Nom Nom Nom", says the troll. And then you see a signpost up ahead, plainly stating "do not feed trolls."
- willpower101 15y agoSome people don't like completing work for the week in 14 hours and having to be physically present yet doing nothing but reading on the web the other 26. Do more work? Nope, gotta wait for the clients, the devs, the managers, etc.
- lionhearted 15y agoHave you ever tried going earlier? If you want to do eight hours, try out 4:30AM to 12:30PM sometime. It's hard to stick on it (you've got to be disciplined about going to bed early), but it's great for getting things done while it's still super quiet and peaceful out, and it's awesome having completed the workday at lunchtime.
- hugh3 15y agoYeah, I periodically try to shift it a bit earlier -- 8 'til 4 is nice. Not sure I could cope with quite that early though. For one thing, it would destroy my morning go-get-coffee ritual if there were no cafes open when I get up.
- rhizome 15y agoThat's a good schedule for someone who doesn't really want to do things when other people do them. I think it would be like if there was a such thing as being a time-vegan.
- da02 15y agoThat was the same schedule of Alan Kay around his time at XEROX PARC. How did you come up with that idea? I also hate doing anything outside of those hours.