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"

[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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.