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>If only 30 hours is sustainable for you, do that instead. This is not an option for most us.

• alexeisadeski3 13y ago
  Not an option?
  • cdcarter 13y ago
    Yes. Most people who are employed full-time are expected to work full-time. Yes, they could leave full-time work and fine new sources of income, but that no longer falls under "just work 30 hours instead".
    • zanny 13y ago
      This doesn't mean that you are suited for 40 hours a week. It just means you have no option but to overwork yourself.
      • cdcarter 13y ago
        Correct. It's not an option.
        • alexeisadeski3 13y ago
          You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
          • cgag 13y ago
            There are next to no stable part-time jobs in programming. I don't really know what you're getting at.
            • cdcarter 13y ago
              There are next to no stable part-time jobs that can sustain someone above the poverty line in most fields.
• sokoloff 13y ago
  I'd wager that more than 25% of "full-time" employees in an office-worker setting are spending less than 30 hours per week actually working. Probably far more than 25%. How many facebook posts do you get at all hours of the workday? Assuming their job isn't social media community relations manager, those people aren't working; they're simply attending their job.
  • thesz 13y ago
    My former boss was a PSP/TSP certified software developer. He said studios had shown that programmer can work 4 hour/day and plans should be made accordingly (e.g., if you have 16 hours to solve set of tasks, plan for four days, not two). He also said that this statistics was actually proven true during the course of their training and later in the practical application. Other four hours of "work" time is related to documentation and social aspects of development, like discussing ideas and plans.
  • cgag 13y ago
    This doesn't count. Working 20 hours a week but still having to sit an an office 40 hours a week makes me pretty much as horribly depressed as putting in 40 hours of effort at the same office.
    • sokoloff 13y ago
      I hear ya, but if that's the situation you irretrievably (in your own mind) find yourself in, make the best of it. Put in your solid, no-BS 20 hours of honest work and then when you're exhausted mentally, fill the time with web browsing related to your job, and even personal errands (shopping, travel booking, the online portion of socializing, whatever). If you are genuinely good and the 20 hours represent genuine best-efforts, you're very unlikely to stand out negatively in terms of results produced. But, you probably aren't as stuck to a 40-hour ass-in-seat job as you think. Find remote work; become a freelancer. Some of those have a higher risk profile than sitting down and shutting up 40 hours a week as an employee. No one said life would be trivially easy, but for those of us that can write code, our lot in life is already 2 or 3 standard deviations above the mean, IMO.
• mcv 13y ago
  I have said no to job offers that required me to work 5 days. I explained how it was old-fashioned and that people with kids needed time with their kids too, that part-time work was the way of the future, and that people aren't fully productive for 40 hours a week anyway, so a 4 day work week generally gets you more than 80% of the productivity of a 5 day work week. They fully agreed, and yet they still couldn't hire me for less than 5 days. The job sounded great, but I said no. It was a good decision.