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Organichu normally on this project, when not traveling (only travel one day/two weeks or so) I spend maybe 1.5 hours a day on the phone with someone working for me, helping them through something, and maybe average 30 min a day talking through management stuff with someone above me or in an advisory role, and then maybe 30 min Skype chat with people under me helping them through things, 30 min planning shit and writing it down (...that seems high, probably average is 10 min cause sometimes I spend a few hours on project planning and sometimes no time).
At times I am also forced to spend a few hours making powerpoints or a few hours coding, but most times I have to do neither. Today I need to do both and ew. If I do neither, my estimate of time spent engaged in my work looks like it adds up to 2-3 hours—that feels right. I never quite know when those hours will be though so I’m more or less available throughout the day.
I am
Lazy!
Dang
I’m not really marveling at your laziness- just that your situation permits it
I am pretty good at maintaining a productive facade and just straight up lying about how much work I do (without ever taking away credit from the people actually working)
It comes with a little bit of worry that some day someone will notice, but not very much worry
There are people in my position who work more, I think, either out of obligation or because they are slow at getting things done. However I don’t think the amount of work required by my situation adds up to 8 hours a day, usually, therefore I won’t put that time in. Today I should though, or do some today and some over the weekend.
I think if I worked 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, to the genuine best of my ability, I would probably burn out. But moreover, I would be the most productive person at my job by a huge margin.
I don't think I am a spectacular individual. I am not the smartest, fastest, or most capable here. Probably not even close. So I always wonder what the mix is for other people in terms of people wasting time, slacking, being bad at their job, or just being glacially slow at every task.
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Organichu normally on this project, when not traveling (only travel one day/two weeks or so) I spend maybe 1.5 hours a day on the phone with someone working for me, helping them through something, and maybe average 30 min a day talking through management stuff with someone above me or in an advisory role, and then maybe 30 min Skype chat with people under me helping them through things, 30 min planning shit and writing it down (...that seems high, probably average is 10 min cause sometimes I spend a few hours on project planning and sometimes no time).
At times I am also forced to spend a few hours making powerpoints or a few hours coding, but most times I have to do neither. Today I need to do both and ew. If I do neither, my estimate of time spent engaged in my work looks like it adds up to 2-3 hours—that feels right. I never quite know when those hours will be though so I’m more or less available throughout the day.
I am
Lazy!
Dang
I’m not really marveling at your laziness- just that your situation permits it
I am pretty good at maintaining a productive facade and just straight up lying about how much work I do (without ever taking away credit from the people actually working)
It comes with a little bit of worry that some day someone will notice, but not very much worry
There are people in my position who work more, I think, either out of obligation or because they are slow at getting things done. However I don’t think the amount of work required by my situation adds up to 8 hours a day, usually, therefore I won’t put that time in. Today I should though, or do some today and some over the weekend.
I think if I worked 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, to the genuine best of my ability, I would probably burn out. But moreover, I would be the most productive person at my job by a huge margin.
I don't think I am a spectacular individual. I am not the smartest, fastest, or most capable here. Probably not even close. So I always wonder what the mix is for other people in terms of people wasting time, slacking, being bad at their job, or just being glacially slow at every task.
I literally do not have 8 hours of work to do a day, let alone 40 hours a week. They couldn't find that work for me either. Also a big part of my job is sitting around thinking about what I'm going to make, as much as it it actually making it.
I paid money to have Fez on Steam and never play it and now I could just have it free on Epic and never play it, how's that fair
Im just glad I didnt grab the humble bundle monthly for a dozen more games ill never play, one I have and Kingdom Come of which I would have played once. Kingdom Come being on the Game Pass now.
Organichu normally on this project, when not traveling (only travel one day/two weeks or so) I spend maybe 1.5 hours a day on the phone with someone working for me, helping them through something, and maybe average 30 min a day talking through management stuff with someone above me or in an advisory role, and then maybe 30 min Skype chat with people under me helping them through things, 30 min planning shit and writing it down (...that seems high, probably average is 10 min cause sometimes I spend a few hours on project planning and sometimes no time).
At times I am also forced to spend a few hours making powerpoints or a few hours coding, but most times I have to do neither. Today I need to do both and ew. If I do neither, my estimate of time spent engaged in my work looks like it adds up to 2-3 hours—that feels right. I never quite know when those hours will be though so I’m more or less available throughout the day.
I am
Lazy!
Dang
I’m not really marveling at your laziness- just that your situation permits it
I am pretty good at maintaining a productive facade and just straight up lying about how much work I do (without ever taking away credit from the people actually working)
It comes with a little bit of worry that some day someone will notice, but not very much worry
There are people in my position who work more, I think, either out of obligation or because they are slow at getting things done. However I don’t think the amount of work required by my situation adds up to 8 hours a day, usually, therefore I won’t put that time in. Today I should though, or do some today and some over the weekend.
I think if I worked 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, to the genuine best of my ability, I would probably burn out. But moreover, I would be the most productive person at my job by a huge margin.
I don't think I am a spectacular individual. I am not the smartest, fastest, or most capable here. Probably not even close. So I always wonder what the mix is for other people in terms of people wasting time, slacking, being bad at their job, or just being glacially slow at every task.
I think the secret of a terrifyingly large portion of jobs these days is that they require nowhere near 40 hours a week to accomplish successfully, and we're all living a collective lie to trap us behind desks for no real reason
yes i wasn't so much musing about the very small amount of time cred needs to work. just the idea of a job where you don't need to work all the time. i can steal away little 10-15 second stretches to text people or make a post (i have to like, step away out of sight down an aisle with no one in my line of sight), but i am very much supposed to be There Working for 8 hours. some of that is low impact mindless stuff, like cashiering or folding bags. but i don't get to Not Do a thing ever, really. if i take a shit i get angrily and demandingly paged by my bosses to get back to the front end. my job 'takes' 40 hours a week of work in that i'm never allowed to not be working.
I work 40 to 60 hours a week. I do the jobs of three people including managing shit in another country remotely. I still feel like I'm generally pretty lazy re: my work ethic.
i guess the only saving grace of my job is that I get to come in when I want to do the extra stuff and there is downtime when I am waiting on experiments
idk labwork is super weird
im more completely drained everyday due to thinking too much and directing too much than by the actual physical labor
+1
YoshisummonsYou have to let the dead vote, otherwise you'd just kill people you disagree with!Registered Userregular
The Science Twitter version of circumcision/tipping is whenever someone tweets that their lab members don't work enough hours and that they won't make it if they don't do 60+ hours a week. You get the gifted scientists who are like ????? why would you ever need more than 60 hours a week and you get the hardworking scientists who are like IF YOU AREN'T WORKING EVERY SINGLE HOUR YOU ARE FALLING BEHIND AND I AM SO BUSY OMG and then you get the really bad people who just think you should work long hours just to keep up appearances and have a labor pissing match
generally grad students fall into the third group and they like to brag to each other how late they work
the majority of them could do with some time management software and some better thinking about their experiments instead of brute forcing and fucking things up over and over
I paid money to have Fez on Steam and never play it and now I could just have it free on Epic and never play it, how's that fair
You should play it. It is a very good game. I never fully beat it. Some of the puzzles I just could not figure out.
When I played it I ended up with a table full of sticky notes with lines pointing to each other on them like I had finally actually seen the secret conspiracy behind it all.
Any game that can make it into the real world that way is interesting.
and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
but they're listening to every word I say
+1
Sir Landsharkresting shark faceRegistered Userregular
i wish one of you white collar friends would just found a company or something so you could hire me. i've been cynically told that cronyism rules the world, why can't i be someone's crony
i wish one of you white collar friends would just found a company or something so you could hire me. i've been cynically told that cronyism rules the world, why can't i be someone's crony
The kind of people who start companies don't really agree that employees can slack and work 20 h weeks and still be totally productive
i wish one of you white collar friends would just found a company or something so you could hire me. i've been cynically told that cronyism rules the world, why can't i be someone's crony
I have a couple ideas but I'm not white collar enough (ie have access to capital) to actually start a company.
The Science Twitter version of circumcision/tipping is whenever someone tweets that their lab members don't work enough hours and that they won't make it if they don't do 60+ hours a week. You get the gifted scientists who are like ????? why would you ever need more than 60 hours a week and you get the hardworking scientists who are like IF YOU AREN'T WORKING EVERY SINGLE HOUR YOU ARE FALLING BEHIND AND I AM SO BUSY OMG and then you get the really bad people who just think you should work long hours just to keep up appearances and have a labor pissing match
generally grad students fall into the third group and they like to brag to each other how late they work
the majority of them could do with some time management software and some better thinking about their experiments instead of brute forcing and fucking things up over and over
In grad school I def saw phd students sitting in front of a matlab window, adding random transposition operators everywhere trying to get their script to compile and run through random perturbation for multiple days when all that was needed was reading documentation for 5 minutes, writing the formulations out for 10 more minutes to do a dimensionality check, and then changing three characters in their code.
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i wish one of you white collar friends would just found a company or something so you could hire me. i've been cynically told that cronyism rules the world, why can't i be someone's crony
The kind of people who start companies don't really agree that employees can slack and work 20 h weeks and still be totally productive
i could happily work like 32-36 hour weeks and only slack occasionally and i'd get paid a lot more and not get called a fat gay slur for not accepting coupons
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SurfpossumA nonentitytrying to preserve the anonymity he so richly deserves.Registered Userregular
i wish one of you white collar friends would just found a company or something so you could hire me. i've been cynically told that cronyism rules the world, why can't i be someone's crony
The kind of people who start companies don't really agree that employees can slack and work 20 h weeks and still be totally productive
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I want to indulge by dweeb-ness without getting called out on it in public.
I think if I worked 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, to the genuine best of my ability, I would probably burn out. But moreover, I would be the most productive person at my job by a huge margin.
I don't think I am a spectacular individual. I am not the smartest, fastest, or most capable here. Probably not even close. So I always wonder what the mix is for other people in terms of people wasting time, slacking, being bad at their job, or just being glacially slow at every task.
I literally do not have 8 hours of work to do a day, let alone 40 hours a week. They couldn't find that work for me either. Also a big part of my job is sitting around thinking about what I'm going to make, as much as it it actually making it.
I miss the days when I thought that show's villains were ridiculous and over the top and unrealistic.
Im just glad I didnt grab the humble bundle monthly for a dozen more games ill never play, one I have and Kingdom Come of which I would have played once. Kingdom Come being on the Game Pass now.
I think the secret of a terrifyingly large portion of jobs these days is that they require nowhere near 40 hours a week to accomplish successfully, and we're all living a collective lie to trap us behind desks for no real reason
Also I just looked it up and one of his villains was a character named Luten Plunder, which is
just wonderful
@Sleep she thanks you for the awesome write up. She went to Jodie Bees this morning.
There's too many
It takes a lot to make a stew
idk labwork is super weird
im more completely drained everyday due to thinking too much and directing too much than by the actual physical labor
So...yeah.
Edit: also sided with charles on kicking out the othe brother Fredrick on the belief he was gay (he is not)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/graphics-that-seem-clear-can-easily-be-misread/
It shows how data and statistics can very easily mislead and uses the example of obesity rates correlating positively with life expectancy.
It's short, it's important, it's clear, and the example it uses is real data I've seen thrown around. 10/10
generally grad students fall into the third group and they like to brag to each other how late they work
the majority of them could do with some time management software and some better thinking about their experiments instead of brute forcing and fucking things up over and over
You should play it. It is a very good game. I never fully beat it. Some of the puzzles I just could not figure out.
When I played it I ended up with a table full of sticky notes with lines pointing to each other on them like I had finally actually seen the secret conspiracy behind it all.
Any game that can make it into the real world that way is interesting.
but they're listening to every word I say
No ty
ok fair fair, but
i'm still gonna try to do it myself
i am worried i am becoming a narcissist
The kind of people who start companies don't really agree that employees can slack and work 20 h weeks and still be totally productive
I have a couple ideas but I'm not white collar enough (ie have access to capital) to actually start a company.
In grad school I def saw phd students sitting in front of a matlab window, adding random transposition operators everywhere trying to get their script to compile and run through random perturbation for multiple days when all that was needed was reading documentation for 5 minutes, writing the formulations out for 10 more minutes to do a dimensionality check, and then changing three characters in their code.
i could happily work like 32-36 hour weeks and only slack occasionally and i'd get paid a lot more and not get called a fat gay slur for not accepting coupons
We've had literally hundreds of dollars in sales!
*slams cabinet drawer labeled "quarterly tax filings"*
Amazing
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.