As a research scientist:
~7 hours (after breaks), of which only 3h are programming.
The rest is organizational stuff like meetings, writing research proposals, answering emails, making powerpoints, supervise students, etc...
~7 hours (after breaks), of which only 3h are programming.
The rest is organizational stuff like meetings, writing research proposals, answering emails, making powerpoints, supervise students, etc...
That is why I started tracking my time consumption on a half hour base. "If you want to control something you need to measure it" was my thinking. The time tracking itself doesn't cost much time. Did it earlier for my private life for a few months.
The first weeks my average programming time was only 1.5h! I slowly got it up to 3h now.
But do I count it as 3h or 7h work?
Hm - As a student I sure had more time for programming itself. But I actually get more work done now. I can much easier pursue multiple projects and delegate work to students. It is just that I didn't (have to) see all the organizational stuff that needs to happen beside the programming itself as a student.
The other 4h I do valuable stuff. Some of it should imho be done by others, but we are currently a little bit short on staff..^^ It's a nice learning opportunity though.
So to answer your question: I would count the whole 7 hours.
But the work related gems I find will be mailed back to work with keywords.
For gems that are related to personal interests I have other knowledge base dumps.