How Hard Do You Work?

[ryandee]

On an average day, how much actual work do you do at your day job?

I'm just curious

--my answer--

Not very much at all. When I'm given things to do, I tend to knock them out pretty quick becuase I'm eager but my comapny bottle necks left and right so I have a ton of "down time" :eek:

[Crescent]

I used to not work at all but now I honestly work my ass off. I take work home and stay late a couple nights a week. I'm sure this doesn't seem possible from how much I post but I swear it's true. I'm just a fast typer and reader.

I actually prefer it this way even though I'm usually a lazy ass. I think it's because I like my job and am moving up the ladder at a pretty good pace these days.

[Edison]

I'll fuck around online for hours at a time, but I manage to get everything done. It varies, since sometimes work is busy and sometimes not. This week I'm swamped.

My situation is not typical. It's been almost 15 years since I've commuted to anything resembling a 9-5 gig. I'm a self-employed artist working out of my home studio. It's easy for me to get distracted sometimes, but I actually enjoy what I do. I don't enjoy handling all the paperwork and business end, ..but I enjoy earning the money that comes with it.

..also, not having to wear pants to work.

[Mikaela]

lately 20 minutes. maybe. sadly, i am seroius. its making the last 2.5 weeks at my job CRAWL... but i AM almost done here, so that helps!!!!

[Shey]

I used to work my butt off and then I had all this extra time because my position needs me to have flexibility to jump at people's request when needed.

Then I got used this extra time and discovered message boards and gmail. It hasn't been good since then.

Now, I push stuff to the side, I don't get stuff done early and I always have pending work.

I have no idea how to break myself of this. Chatting, group emails, message boards it's like crack. I read like 6 message boards, I have like 5 personal email groups, I gmail chat with 2 groups in Chicago and 3 groups in Champaign. It's so bad, I feel like I'm cheating on people. Sometimes I reply with an answer to one group that was meant for the other and then people catch me! The say stuff like "Are you emailing another group?" And I say, "No, that was a joke. Ha, ha."

WHY? Do I lie? I swear this is addiction.

-S :p

[Captain Bob]

I'm here for eight and a half hours a day.
I'm lucky if I work an hour or two.

I don't like it very much, if you couldn't tell.

[Mikaela]

you can alwasy apply for my job and not work at all, but get paid for it. i am sure you will hate it here too, but at least you wont have to do anything!!! :)

[Cameron Goldapp]

I'm really good at making it look like I work; but I don't. I try to get everything done in the first hour of the day so I can fuck around for the rest of it.

On itunes, I've watched 10 episodes of the office in a day before.

[Mikaela]

I'm really good at making it look like I work; but I don't. I try to get everything done in the first hour of the day so I can fuck around for the rest of it.

On itunes, I've watched 10 episodes of the office in a day before.


this makes me SO jealous!!! i can't view any video here, there's no sound. and youtube is blocked. One time i used google video to look at kittens falling sleep and it totally worked!!! when i tried it again, it was blocked.

[Gina Little]

Our business has its busy and slower times. When we're busy I could work all day. Right now its slower so I'm surfing the 'net.

[aneg]

sicn e we follow the print schedule at work, some days it is hectic and crazy and i'm probably doing work every minute of the day (usually thurs. and fri.) but on tuesdays and wednesdays our department does pretty much nothing. and it is rad.

[schaefe]

I'm with Edison. Especially the not wearing pants thing. It's very liberating...

Since I get to work from home now for 3 weeks a month, I find that I actually get more done than when I actually had to go into the office. When I am back in Chicago for my week "on-site", I tend to work my ass off, as I have to save up some things that I cannot do remotely from home.

The one thing that I had to learn though was you really have to take time to get out of your damn house when you are working from home. The first couple months Amy and I were down in Athens, I virtually became a shut-in (since I really didn't have to leave!) for a little while. That wasn't fun at all. Fortunately the theatre students down here are a pretty out going bunch (actors, who knew?) and fun to hang out with ta boot!

[Edison]

The one thing that I had to learn though was you really have to take time to get out of your damn house when you are working from home.

Double true, Schaefe. I have to make an effort to get out sometimes, or I start to go nuts. Especially during the Winters. The days begin to blur together and I get cabin fever.

[HeatherConnelly]

you can alwasy apply for my job and not work at all, but get paid for it. i am sure you will hate it here too, but at least you wont have to do anything!!! :)

Hey Mikaela, can I apply for your gig? What are the details? I need to jump ship here: it's getting worse and worse and my temp agenices aren't finding anything.

Hope you're doing well!

Heather

ps- your pm box is full apparently...

[Mikaela]

Hey Mikaela, can I apply for your gig? What are the details? I need to jump ship here: it's getting worse and worse and my temp agenices aren't finding anything.

Hope you're doing well!

Heather

ps- your pm box is full apparently...


oh yeha i got the email! send me a pm!

[Miss Mason]

According to Charna... not very hard at all. Sigh.

[stetsko]

I work like crazy if I'm part of a "team" and I'm working on a project that I find interesting or challenging. This means that I slack like crazy if I'm the only one invested in my work (like say grad school) or if the things I'm working on are boring (like say my job prior to grad school).

On the other hand, when I'm productive, I'm mad productive. I've discovered that 1 hour of Kate work time is equal to about 5 hours of standard work time. So at my last gig, I'd work from about 3-4:30pm and accomplish what the guy next to me did in a solid 8 hour day. I spent 7:30-3 reading the NYT cover-to-cover. That was nice.

K.

[bill binkley]

Most days I spend more time commuting than working ... though we're very project-based, so there have been times where I've actually slept here. Crazy. Lately, I've been writing a screenplay and sketches most of the day. Or surfing. Or, you know, hanging around this joint.

[Scol]

Because I refuse to be a grown up, I don't have a regular job. I jump from gig to gig. Right now I'm mainly making actor-income, but that sometimes drops away, and I have to do less fun/rewarding stuff. But there are a surprising number of freelance deals out there, if you're willing to live in poverty long enough to accumulate 'em. Without a computer, a phone and a day planner, I'd be destitute.

I don't know how you office people do it. I guess you developed that 'maturity' thing somewhere along the line. Even if you do nothing but fuck around on the computer 80% of the time, you have my respect (I'm not being sarcastic). You are tougher than I am.

[Champ]

I teach fifth grade so I work pretty damn hard.

[POPS]

well, as a flash/web guy I just fuck around online about 50% of the time unless there is a hard deadline. but now I'm working on prototype interface stuff so it really doesn't matter when it gets done.

but then I usually have side project going for more $.

and now I'm teaching a monologues class next month.

and then I go to wrestling practice and shows 3-4 nights a week for 4-6 hrs at a time.

so I consider all that work. but I live a creative life so I can't bitch about it.

My old man thought it was real important to know the value of education so that's why I had a paper route when I was 10 and I haven't been w/o a job since. btw paper route in Upstate NY during February should be considered a war crime against children. another terrible job was working for Oneida County DPW shovelin patch/black top and pickin up dead skunks and gophers off the road.

character builder-
POPS

[ryandee]

So my boss just came up to me and was all like:

Boss: Have you worked on anything that I've assigned to you the last couple of days?

Me: Ummmm....the phones have been real busy.

Teh Busted

[schaefe]

I am rocking out some SERIOUS technical docs today. Therefore, I must be prepared

I got my coffee, my new robe, some comfy slippers, our dog snoozin' at my feet, and my Japanese Kanji headband on...

Powering up the old iTunes for the morning work mix, and it is time for some Vista goodness.

Aw yeah...

Later on, some Crispy Stellas by the pool...

I think if everyone could be as comfortable as possible at work, it would:

A. Be more enjoyable
B. More Productive
C. Less stressful

Can I get a "Hells yeah" from the crowd?

[bill binkley]

Hells yeah.

What do you do, and how can I get in on this action before I wrap my car around a light pole in an effort to avoid going to this sea of dimly light stupidity?

[schaefe]

I do IT work for a company that allows me to work from home 3 weeks of the month. The "Flack" calls it "Farm Sourcing", and is a response to outsourcing work to foreign countries. So I am lucky in that respect...

Barring that, make your work area as comfortable as you can get away with...it will help...