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How productive are you?

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Nobita

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Oct 5, 2008
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In an hour of work (assuming you have a desk job and work full time, not including lunch time and commuting time), how much of it do you actually spend to do your real job? How much of it do you use to go to macrumors, tuaw, other apple blogs, itunes, youtube, facebook and so on?

Sometimes when my brain doesn't work I just step out and listen to music or play games in my iphone, but on a serious day I think spend around 10-15 minutes every hour to check my rss and facebook. But of course that depends on the situation, I don't do it during meetings, or when I'm doing some critical or important task. Do you guys think it's too much?

What do you do to increase your productivity?
 
It depends on the day and the tasks at hand. I maintain servers and on some days the servers, environments are running smoothly so I'm not "busy" in the truest sense.

On other days I'm busy for 18 hours, and as I'm facing a major application upgrade that will take in excess of one year. My workload just increased exponentially so I'll be very busy and need to make the most of my time, i.e., being productive.
 
Usually near the level of the cosmic background radiation, ie: next to nil.

Frankly, I'm a crammer, and I do well enough (read: for the moment, I know it doesn't work so well in real work situations) at uni but I'm trying to break it.
 
maflynn said:
It depends on the day and the tasks at hand. I maintain servers and on some days the servers, environments are running smoothly so I'm not "busy" in the truest sense.

On other days I'm busy for 18 hours, and as I'm facing a major application upgrade that will take in excess of one year. My workload just increased exponentially so I'll be very busy and need to make the most of my time, i.e., being productive.
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Nice. I wonder if working overtime does actually count as productive. I always tell myself that if I stay after 6pm, then I probably wasn't being productive during the day... But I don't know.
 
When I'm on a roll with a steady workload, very. I tend to not work as fast when the workload lessons.
 
Well, if you're measuring solely by the number of minutes I spend doing my job, then I'm probably only on par with my coworkers. But, considering I work much faster and more efficiently than they do, I get a lot more done in the same amount of time. So, my productivity is either equal to my coworkers, or much higher, depending on how you measure it. :)
 
I work one day a week but on that day I accomplish everything I "need" to get done and earn more than I spend. The rest of my time is fairly unproductive.
 
I'm a programmer, so...
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When I start a new project, I'm all over it and on beast mode. After resources are assigned, tasks delegated out, and all stakeholders have been appraised of status I go into coast mode. Rinse and repeat. :)
 
I'm pretty much terrible at getting myself motivated to do work. However once I start I find it hard to stop! I just keep going until the job is done, and then some. But seriously, I rarely ever get work done, because I never get around to starting it. It's not good - I need to figure out some sort of regime, soon.
 
I can work better without the distractions, but that isn't as easy when you're working on a computer :D
 
Tilpots said:
Us video guys spend our time "rendering." We then tell our bosses how much more productive we'd be if we had the latest and greatest Mac Pro.:)
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So... Did your boss got you one? My colleague insist that if he buys an iPad he'll be more productive. He's a programmer so he really only use his iPad for reading and email. Because, you know... You can't do programming on an iPad...
 
Nobita said:
So... Did your boss got you one? My colleague insist that if he buys an iPad he'll be more productive. He's a programmer so he really only use his iPad for reading and email. Because, you know... You can't do programming on an iPad...
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Nope. They have no idea the time it would save me and how it would improve the quality of my work. Oh well, more MR time while my ancient PC with an old, old version of Premiere grinds away.
 
Being ADHD doesn't help.

I have my awesome days and my terrible days in regards to productivity. The second seems more common, unfortunately. :(
 
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