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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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[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

maybe 2 hours max. most of my job is sitting and waiting and playing games on my phone. its tough hard work but it pays the bills

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.

[–] 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.

[–] jackpot@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

barely 10 mins a day, im 17 and on summer so just gettinf fucjed up honestly

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[–] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I spend about half my day or more at work playing videos games on my Steam Deck. And this is the busy season. Come winter, we won't have anything to do.

I make more than the average for my area, and I work weekdays, nine to five. It's a pretty good gig. The last week I've basically been paid to play Baldur's Gate 3.

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[–] 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!

[–] ryncewynd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 years ago

7 and a half.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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

8 hours.

To many cameras around to not do my job

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Being unemployed tends to be like that.

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

Working without pay is still work.

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

[–] 1984 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.

[–] jeebus@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sometimes 2, sometimes 12, avg is about 6 to 7. Meetings, email, and messaging are work.

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] akaltar@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Usually between 3 and 4 but even that feels difficult to reach sometimes, even with fully remote and engaging work

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

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

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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