We’re remote and so there are no shifts proper. I do have a lot of time where I’m just wandering around on my phone talking, so I’m not really breaking a sweat, but I also have to be so disciplined with my free time that my free time hobbies might as well also be jobs.
As of Monday I started a two week vacation, and I’ve never had a vacation-stretch until now longer than a week.
I work about 10 hours per day and I’m on call, but my case may be non-standard because I’m in engineering leadership at a startup.
Before that I was easily 9 hours per day. Only when I worked in higher ed did I work 40 hours. I’ve never worked less.
Anecdotally, most my friends and colleagues in tech work 40+ hours per week.
We’re remote and so there are no shifts proper. I do have a lot of time where I’m just wandering around on my phone talking, so I’m not really breaking a sweat, but I also have to be so disciplined with my free time that my free time hobbies might as well also be jobs.
As of Monday I started a two week vacation, and I’ve never had a vacation-stretch until now longer than a week.
Burnout’s pretty severe.