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I should actually be working 8h a day, but most of it is spend not working. If I'm honest I'm probably working more like 3h a day even though I enjoy my job.

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I do design and tech support for industry. Official hours are 7,5h/day (lunch is off-duty). 3 days in office 2 days remotely. My actual workload varies a lot. If everything works and all resources are in use, I might not have anything to do for weeks on end. If shit hits the fan, I'm on overtime working 10h days, using every second.

I might quess that on average 2h/day of actual work and varying part of this are communally beneficial activities I invent for myself to keep myself busy.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

8 hours.

To many cameras around to not do my job

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[–] erasebegin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Same. 3h or less usually. Love my colleagues, the work is fine. But the requirements are so low that I'm able to manage a startup during work hours 😌 #softwaredeveloper

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

About 2.5 hours before lunch, then long 90 minute lunch, then maybe 3 hours. So I guess around 5.5 hours.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Mostly 2-3 hours of an 8 hour day. Once a week I have to go in guns blazing for 5 straight hours of work in a 10 hour shift.

[–] ryncewynd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In an 8 hour day, I'd say probably 7 hours

The other hour probably bathroom trips, coffee/water breaks, occasional quick chats with coworkers throughout the day

I can't hit a full 8 hours actual work unless I do a 9 hour day.

Sometimes I have a shorter lunch break or try not to poop until I get home lol, so I can hit 8 hours quicker

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being unemployed tends to be like that.

[–] itspcp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Working without pay is still work.

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[–] Fizz 5 points 1 year ago

7 and a half.

[–] doot@social.bug.expert 5 points 1 year ago

too many and never enough

[–] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My job requires me to work 7h a day. When I am working from home I will probably work 6h-6.5h since I will take two 15 minute breaks but otherwise there is nothing to distract me. If I work from the office however that number easily drops to 4.5-5h since I will be interrupted all the time by various issues and also just take more breaks due to others taking them as well.

Edit: I don’t really know how it is to work from a hole, but I know how to work from home

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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

I'm a graduate student and it varies wildly. When I have to work on my dissertation and teach I definitely work a full 40 hours. Teaching alone takes a shit ton of your time.

[–] McSudds_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm stuck in the food service industry, so I work 9hr days 5 days a week :) All gruelling and soul-sucking, of course!

[–] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

All 8 hours. It's a physical job, I'm on my feet all day, but it's one of the better ones I've had recently.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I estimate about 4 or 5 hours of actual work per day. I'm a high level IT engineer. The rest of the time is just organization or resting my brain between difficult assignments.

I was previously an IT manager and averaged 11+ hours of work per day.

[–] codeweyy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

8 hour day, I work 7.5 of that. As soon as I enter the yard I'm in work mode. I work in the city gardens. I'm not surrounded by too many distractions like computers, phones and friends because I'm outside on site and I keep the work conversations about work only. Less drama that way.

On average, about 5hrs a day. 2hrs on a slow day and 7hrs on a fast day.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Depends a lot day to day. Sometimes like last week, 7 out of the 8 hours. Today, so far none. Not much useful to do, so just do useless trainings.

[–] Zweibel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Education in a Title 1 school. I'm contracted five days for eight hours, but I probably work more like ten hours with before school and after school activities and additional stipend duties I've taken on. You don't get much in the way for downtime between meetings, grading, and planning.

Weekends are my time. Non-negotiable.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

referring to how much time working? or how much time I spend doing my job? I have no problem working in the garden or on the house – but having to do a job so I don’t starve or go homeless makes me a little resentful …

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Most days 4 or 5 hrs. Around 5% of the time, 12+ hrs.

[–] zacher_glachl@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Probably something like 6h or so. I enjoy my job and I think I do it well, but there's only so many hours you can juggle complex logic in your mind per day before your brain turns to mush. After that point any further minute spent staring at the screen would just be a waste of my time and motivation.

[–] UnknownQuantity@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I find 4 hours a day ideal (if I have to work at all) and 6 hours optimal.

[–] spasm01@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

My days vary, depends on the amount of clients. 6-10hrs and I am doing physical labor so its at maximum 10-15% downtime

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