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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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[-] doot@social.bug.expert 6 points 2 years ago

too many and never enough

[-] nevernevermore@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Depends on how you define work. I do my dayjob for maybe 2 hours a day at most and then freelance with the rest of my working day. so I'd average 5 hours of work a day betwen the two jobs.

[-] jcit878@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I've had days of maybe 15 minutes of actual work, and 10 hour days. very variable. I used to have a job paid 8 hours with literally 45 minutes of work a day. loved it, despite the low pay. way before WFH times though so it was a lot of time looking busy

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years 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.

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years 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.

[-] erasebegin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 years ago

7 and a half.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago

Being unemployed tends to be like that.

[-] itspcp@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Working without pay is still work.

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[-] LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years 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.

[-] ryncewynd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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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[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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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[-] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] McSudds_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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!

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

8 hours.

To many cameras around to not do my job

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[-] keeb420@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I drive a forklift in a warehouse. I probably work 6.5-7 hours a day.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years 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 …

[-] counselwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Sentinian@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

As a rad tech, I work as little as 3 hours to as much as 8-9 on my 10 hour shifts

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[-] spasm01@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years 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

[-] UnknownQuantity@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years 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 2 years 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.

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