Re:Ask HN: How many hours do you work?
by BlackiceNetwork on Sunday July 12, 2020 @03:26PM
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“For me it feels like I hit a point at which there is no more work to be wrung out of me, no matter how long I sit in a chair.”
This sentence made me laugh a little bit to hard. I know where you are coming from.
Don’t forget to do a small weird dance every hour or so. To move those muscles and the keep blood flowing to all corners of body.
Re:Ask HN: How many hours do you work?
by sparker72678 on Monday July 13, 2020 @01:57PM
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Standing desk keeps me alive, for sure.
I find that I can sustain a max of about 4 hours of focused work (programming) a day before I’m just mentally worked over. If there isn’t more project management/coordination work to do, then I’ll just call it a day.
There have been short seasons where I’ve averaged quite a bit more, but I don’t know that I was ever actually more productive. For me it feels like I hit a point at which there is no more work to be wrung out of me, no matter how long I sit in a chair.
At the same time, I find that work is often on my mind during the rest of my life, and here and there an idea pops up while I’m engaged in another activity.
I used to do contract programming and found that was the hardest part - my brain was at work a lot of the time outside of “work hours,” but how was I ever going to Bill the client for that?