I've been working 10 hour days for the last 4 years, and I consistently come in under-budget, on time, and to specification.
I cannot see any contradiction to what I just said. Are you 100% sure that you wouldn't be able to do the same work in 8 hours if you used the extra concentration gained through 2 hours more leisure time? Simply by being more efficient in how you go about your tasks?
Of course it helps a lot if you like what you do "at least half the time". Anything below that would be a sure sign for me to quit immediately.
You're fooling yourself. Nobody (with the rare exception, granted) can keep up that pace.
In my experience anyone working for more than 8 hours a day will compensate by being less effective at times. Nobody can handle that load and if you fooled yourself into believing that you can, closely observe your working time for a week or two and honestly log how much time you were really getting some progress and how much time spent making mistakes and redoing what you'd just done.
That' exactly why (speaking as the "boss" now) we have a 30 hour week here and no overtime is accepted for any reason.
If there is more work than my employees can accomplish in these 30 hours, this is a sure sign for poor planning and I'll have to hire or do the work myself.
Nobody can work more than 8 hours a day for any extended period and be really efficient at it. Anything else is a myth in my experience. You are betraying yourself (perhaps by/.ing to compensate) if you think you're better than that (and if you're not the 1 in a million exception).
So, IMHO companies demanding overtime above 8 hours a day are sucking their employees dry for as much as they can get before they have to fire them for being burnt out. This is not the way to go if you want to build a lasting business.
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You're fooling yourself. Nobody (with the rare exception, granted) can keep up that pace.
In my experience anyone working for more than 8 hours a day will compensate by being less effective at times. Nobody can handle that load and if you fooled yourself into believing that you can, closely observe your working time for a week or two and honestly log how much time you were really getting some progress and how much time spent making mistakes and redoing what you'd just done.
See my earlier comment. Couldn't agree more.
That' exactly why (speaking as the "boss" now) we have a 30 hour week here and no overtime is accepted for any reason.
/.ing to compensate) if you think you're better than that (and if you're not the 1 in a million exception).
If there is more work than my employees can accomplish in these 30 hours, this is a sure sign for poor planning and I'll have to hire or do the work myself.
Nobody can work more than 8 hours a day for any extended period and be really efficient at it. Anything else is a myth in my experience. You are betraying yourself (perhaps by
So, IMHO companies demanding overtime above 8 hours a day are sucking their employees dry for as much as they can get before they have to fire them for being burnt out. This is not the way to go if you want to build a lasting business.
Just my 2 cents.
"Ottos Mops" is a poem by Ernst Jandl, a rather famous german (language, not nation) author, who died recently.
>Nice sig, why don't you give credit to the person
>who actually thought it up, Abraham Lincoln.
No, he didn't. This is a free translation of an ancient Latin proverb ("Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses").