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Define "work"

• mikeyur 18y ago
  I'd also love to know what's defined as 'work'. If it's doing a task explicitly for money, I work under an hour or two each day. But if you also count the time I spend reading, learning new languages/tips/tricks/etc then I work 12+ hours/day. Yesterday I spent the majority of my day playing with CodeIgniter and jQuery for a project I'm working on which may earn me money in the future. Does that count as work?
• rm999 18y ago
  Here's one way of normalizing it: what hours can you unambiguously ethically charge to a client/employer as "work?" If you work for yourself or your own business, assume you are doing a custom project for a client. If you work a 9-5 job, obviously everyone throws in some non-work into their day, but don't count these because it's still ambiguous if it's "ethical" to charge these (there are plenty of bosses who wouldn't consider the gym or surfing the net as work, but every boss would consider programming or reading up on a relevant programming issue work.)