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Ask HN: What hours do you work? (and what country/job)

7 pointsby buildopsover 9 years ago

12 comments

dsaccoover 9 years ago
I work remotely from home, in New York (U.S. Eastern).<p>My work day on paper is from 9 am until 5 pm.<p>In actuality, I generally wake up at 9 am or so, shower, eat breakfast and catch up on news until 10 am.<p>10 am until 1 pm I am productive and &quot;working.&quot;<p>From 1 pm until 2 pm, maybe 2:30 pm I go to the gym (unless it&#x27;s a rest day) for 45 minutes, then come back home and eat lunch. Then I sign back on.<p>From 2:30 until 5 pm I am &quot;working&quot; again. If there isn&#x27;t a pressing need for me to be available I might do a self-debrief of my to-do list and sign off at 4 pm or 4:30 pm. I then leave my office and don&#x27;t enter it again until work the next day - I completely compartmentalize work life from home life (and respective hours) even though I work remotely.<p>I&#x27;ve made this sort of schedule very much a priority in my life. I am paid very, very well and it allows me to pursue a comfortable work life balance, health, relationships and other projects outside work. I strictly will not work before 9 am or after 5 pm.<p>If I need to run errands during the day, I basically just make it known that &quot;I&#x27;m afk&quot; for some estimation of time and come back later.<p>If I receive emails after 5 pm for work, I don&#x27;t check them until the morning.<p>I&#x27;d estimate I have about 25 hours per week of truly pure, productive work getting accomplished.<p>I believe most people who can work like this in the software industry should. I have very generous vacation time, but I actually need to focus on scheduling it before the end of the year simply because aside from actual trips I never feel the need to use it.<p>Combine this with the financial and professional fulfillment this setup gives me and it&#x27;s basically a dream.
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finlayconnover 9 years ago
I work in an early stage start-up in NZ. To extent our runway, we all took part-time jobs. I work in the Operations Team of Uber.<p>Monday 9am - 7pm Tuesday 9am - 1pm, 1pm - 7pm (part-time job with Uber) Wednesday 9 am - 1pm, 1pm-7pm (part-time job) Thursday 9am - 1pm, 1pm - 7pm (part-time job) Friday 9am - 5pm, 7pm - 12am (part-time job, every 2nd week) Saturday 10am -12pm (part-time job), 12pm - 5pm<p>Usually take a 10 minute break every 2 hours, plus get lunch most days at 12.15 and return to the office by 12.40.
insolubleover 9 years ago
Are you asking how many hours people work, or at what times of the day people work? From the question, this is not really clear, although the former seems more likely. Furthermore, no indication of intent or reason for asking was given. For example, someone may want to know whether there are regional trends among HNer workloads. In that case, it would be useful if participants included whether the job were local, remote, contract, and or employment.
pascalmaheover 9 years ago
I work 8am - 5pm with 30min to 2hrs to eat. I&#x27;m a software engineer in France.<p>Usually the work hours for office work is more 9am - 6pm or even 6:30 at the places where I&#x27;ve worked.
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jisterover 9 years ago
9pm to 1am - 4 hrs for overlap to the guys in PST timezone<p>the remaining 4 hrs I do it anytime of the day.<p>Software Developer (Philippines)
bowlichover 9 years ago
US&#x2F;Software Engineer<p>Work remote so the day starts at 8 or 9 and typically ends around 7. Usually average around 37-42 hours per week of actual &quot;work&quot;
Someone1234over 9 years ago
8 am - 4:30 pm, 30 minutes lunch (optional: 60 minutes&#x2F;5 pm finish) and two 15 minute breaks.<p>US, programmer, state-education.
whatokover 9 years ago
6-6 US, analystish job in finance
lewisgodowskiover 9 years ago
CA, US&#x2F;Software Engineer<p>~9am - 5:30pm
mromanukover 9 years ago
Argentina - 9am to 6pm
ooooakover 9 years ago
Hours: 4 to 5<p>Location: india
tired_manover 9 years ago
0500-1400<p>US&#x2F;writer