I generally work at least a 14 hour day, but I do a lot of other stuff between work stuff. The nature of the work is about 360 days a year. In a normal day I am at the computer by 6:30 AM, check my servers and other tech stuff, read my morning email newsletters from the NYT and WaPo, deal with work stuff, prepare some meals, check out b.org and FB, respond to calls and emails, play some sudoku, do some database work, Words with Friends, alternating work and play until about 9-10 PM. So a long computer day, but I can't say I am working all that time. My doctors can and will text me at any hour of the day or night if they have issues because their hours are insane.

eta: best thing I did was program the wrist device to vibrate if I have sat for an hour so I will get up and do something physical. I should change that to 45 minutes!

I have a thing, I think it's a Chrome extension, that pops up to tell me to take a break every 20 minutes (at least look away from the screen) and get up every hour and the like, but I ignore it more than I should.

NASA conference call and OMG people can't figure out how to mute. British dude is working from home and has 2 kids who are fighting over mum's chair, someone is drinking an iced something, bag'o'chips, emphatic typing...jesus.

Huh. If there's a gov't shutdown lasting this weekend (technically, if it isn't done by midnight sunday) the rehearsal I'm working next week won't happen. Enough direct feds, their furlough would impact the exercise.

Well, then. I won't know until midnight Sunday whether I have to be at work at 7:30 Monday! (I get here around that time anyway, but now I can't be at all late because the shift briefing happens then.

Well, that's exciting.

So awhile agoI did some research into the 40-hour workweek. Though it was a hard fought battle it came from the industrial revolution. Turns out that factory workers that worked more than 8 hours had a lot of accidents and made mistakes. More research showed that desk jockeys are really only good for 5/6 hours. Brain work takes more out of you than physical work. And then Boom the tech industry came along and there was a group of people that thought differently. Those that started the current tech revolution were happy to work long hours ,because their brains just keep working. The problem. They got more satisfaction out of problem solving then any social interactions. These early. Tech people were happy. I still meat tech people that would be happy living,breathing,sleeping all work. However, the consequence of this is the current 50 hour work week being an expectation. Now most people can work a long day or even a few long days and be productive,safe,etc. however after long days you need a longer than usual rest. It also means that for the average person with an expected work week of 50 hours - at least. 20 percent of their time is unproductive. Possibly more . AI've worked in libraries and offices. I heard comments about 'lazy government workers ' at lot. While in an office where people leaned on my cube wall and gossiped for 20 to 40 minutes at least 3x a day. There isn't much time for that in my 37.5 hour a week job at the library. I did this research cause Matt has had jobs where he has worked really long days and had to fight for vacations.

Well, then. I won't know until midnight Sunday whether I have to be at work at 7:30 Monday!

Yikes.

The NPR Politics podcast had a live show last night, and they opened with a question from the audience: Do I have to go to work on Monday?

I have a thing, I think it's a Chrome extension

If you remember the name, let me know.

More research showed that desk jockeys are really only good for 5/6 hours. Brain work takes more out of you than physical work

Hard to believe, but probably true in some ways.

I work a 9-hour day most days in order to get the 10th day off, and I suspect I'm more productive at the end of the day than the beginning.

Today I'm off, so I went to get my blood test at Kaiser (I'm hoping to have a big drop in my cholesterol from being at altitude for 9 days), and stopped at the store for groceries. Now I want a nap, but it's only 10 AM.

I'd like to have that schedule, I think, Consuela. Having a time during business hours to run errands would make mylife so much simpler, and while I do think 8 hours is kind of too long, 10hours is not much longer, if that makes sense.

It is an Extension and it's called "Micro Breaks": [link] Suzi