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When is it okay to work overtime because I have to think of a solution before I implement anything?
Is it necessary to work 8 hours a day if I work from home?Is background design/problem-solving time considered billable?How do you decide when to go home for the day?Is it possible to work more than full-time for an employer?I'm a consistently underutilized developer - is this normal?Maths beyond my ability to do efficiently, do I ask for help or take the time to solve it myself?Should I bring attention to my boss about arriving late?How do I explain that I am in the office to work, not to have fun?How should I go about finding work while my manager is gone on vacation?Is there any way of defining an upper limit to how much of accumulated responsibilities you can be working on ? If yes, how do we define it exactly?
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I'm new at a company doing statistics and I have no trainer or superadvisor and little work experience so there's many things I don't know how to do and I don't even know if there's a way to do what I want to do faster by automation. Automation is often necessary because there's too much data to sort by hand.
The problem is sometimes I'm trying to come up with a solution to automate a process/do my work faster and stay sane and I get nothing written down during that time except in my own mind and I feel the need to stay in the office longer once I do figure out the solution and implement it.
Is the 9-5 work schedule supposed to include all thinking time (time where I'm at the drawing board coming up with a solution but not actually implementing anything) and the time I actually get things on paper that my boss can see?
I feel guilty and confused on whether I'm being taken advantgage of or just being smart because I'm new, have no superadvisor, so I have to struggle and take extra time to figure things out, and I'm worried I'm not getting enough done, and sometimes spending time during work walking around , going to the bathroom, looking on stackexchange is better for actually coming up with a solution than just forcing myself to try to do work that should be automated by manually entering data.
Sometimes I actually don't leave the office at 5 after starting at 9am just because I didn't actually sit in my chair from 9-5,there's one hour where I'm walking around thinking about how to do something rather than actually coding the implementation of my idea. If you've ever solved a math problem, you actually get more done if you don't spend all your time sitting trying to find a solution, but rather taking a walk or going to the restroom or taking a train ride.
The problem with white collar work is it's not like manufacturing widgets. You have to think of a solution then implement it. So you get paid to think and therefore you aren't bound to sitting in front of a machine making widgets. But I feel like it's bad if I make my 9-5 include thinking time. I feel like my 9-5 shouldn't include thinking time because I'm doing things too slowly.
My boss treats me like a blue collar worker where he doesn't care if I spent the day figuring out how to solve the problem, he just wants results or he expects me to make my 9-5 only be made up for by implemtation. Basically my boss doesn't want me to actually have a 8 hrworkday but rather a 10 hr work day just because I don't know how to do things fast enough.
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I'm new at a company doing statistics and I have no trainer or superadvisor and little work experience so there's many things I don't know how to do and I don't even know if there's a way to do what I want to do faster by automation. Automation is often necessary because there's too much data to sort by hand.
The problem is sometimes I'm trying to come up with a solution to automate a process/do my work faster and stay sane and I get nothing written down during that time except in my own mind and I feel the need to stay in the office longer once I do figure out the solution and implement it.
Is the 9-5 work schedule supposed to include all thinking time (time where I'm at the drawing board coming up with a solution but not actually implementing anything) and the time I actually get things on paper that my boss can see?
I feel guilty and confused on whether I'm being taken advantgage of or just being smart because I'm new, have no superadvisor, so I have to struggle and take extra time to figure things out, and I'm worried I'm not getting enough done, and sometimes spending time during work walking around , going to the bathroom, looking on stackexchange is better for actually coming up with a solution than just forcing myself to try to do work that should be automated by manually entering data.
Sometimes I actually don't leave the office at 5 after starting at 9am just because I didn't actually sit in my chair from 9-5,there's one hour where I'm walking around thinking about how to do something rather than actually coding the implementation of my idea. If you've ever solved a math problem, you actually get more done if you don't spend all your time sitting trying to find a solution, but rather taking a walk or going to the restroom or taking a train ride.
The problem with white collar work is it's not like manufacturing widgets. You have to think of a solution then implement it. So you get paid to think and therefore you aren't bound to sitting in front of a machine making widgets. But I feel like it's bad if I make my 9-5 include thinking time. I feel like my 9-5 shouldn't include thinking time because I'm doing things too slowly.
My boss treats me like a blue collar worker where he doesn't care if I spent the day figuring out how to solve the problem, he just wants results or he expects me to make my 9-5 only be made up for by implemtation. Basically my boss doesn't want me to actually have a 8 hrworkday but rather a 10 hr work day just because I don't know how to do things fast enough.
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Why do you feel bad for doing your job?
– FiringSquadWitness
2 mins ago
Because I'm actually putting in 10 hours of work a day. the salary isn't bad even if I'm doing 50 hours of work per week but it's like am I being stupid or what?
– Lasuiqw
1 min ago
Because I'm a young guy who can't just rely on this job to feeed me forever. This company is going to change and I'm going to get fired more or less in maybe 2 years regardless of what I do. I need to go to grad school to actually make a good living. actually write grad school essays and do the GRE.
– Lasuiqw
20 secs ago
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I'm new at a company doing statistics and I have no trainer or superadvisor and little work experience so there's many things I don't know how to do and I don't even know if there's a way to do what I want to do faster by automation. Automation is often necessary because there's too much data to sort by hand.
The problem is sometimes I'm trying to come up with a solution to automate a process/do my work faster and stay sane and I get nothing written down during that time except in my own mind and I feel the need to stay in the office longer once I do figure out the solution and implement it.
Is the 9-5 work schedule supposed to include all thinking time (time where I'm at the drawing board coming up with a solution but not actually implementing anything) and the time I actually get things on paper that my boss can see?
I feel guilty and confused on whether I'm being taken advantgage of or just being smart because I'm new, have no superadvisor, so I have to struggle and take extra time to figure things out, and I'm worried I'm not getting enough done, and sometimes spending time during work walking around , going to the bathroom, looking on stackexchange is better for actually coming up with a solution than just forcing myself to try to do work that should be automated by manually entering data.
Sometimes I actually don't leave the office at 5 after starting at 9am just because I didn't actually sit in my chair from 9-5,there's one hour where I'm walking around thinking about how to do something rather than actually coding the implementation of my idea. If you've ever solved a math problem, you actually get more done if you don't spend all your time sitting trying to find a solution, but rather taking a walk or going to the restroom or taking a train ride.
The problem with white collar work is it's not like manufacturing widgets. You have to think of a solution then implement it. So you get paid to think and therefore you aren't bound to sitting in front of a machine making widgets. But I feel like it's bad if I make my 9-5 include thinking time. I feel like my 9-5 shouldn't include thinking time because I'm doing things too slowly.
My boss treats me like a blue collar worker where he doesn't care if I spent the day figuring out how to solve the problem, he just wants results or he expects me to make my 9-5 only be made up for by implemtation. Basically my boss doesn't want me to actually have a 8 hrworkday but rather a 10 hr work day just because I don't know how to do things fast enough.
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I'm new at a company doing statistics and I have no trainer or superadvisor and little work experience so there's many things I don't know how to do and I don't even know if there's a way to do what I want to do faster by automation. Automation is often necessary because there's too much data to sort by hand.
The problem is sometimes I'm trying to come up with a solution to automate a process/do my work faster and stay sane and I get nothing written down during that time except in my own mind and I feel the need to stay in the office longer once I do figure out the solution and implement it.
Is the 9-5 work schedule supposed to include all thinking time (time where I'm at the drawing board coming up with a solution but not actually implementing anything) and the time I actually get things on paper that my boss can see?
I feel guilty and confused on whether I'm being taken advantgage of or just being smart because I'm new, have no superadvisor, so I have to struggle and take extra time to figure things out, and I'm worried I'm not getting enough done, and sometimes spending time during work walking around , going to the bathroom, looking on stackexchange is better for actually coming up with a solution than just forcing myself to try to do work that should be automated by manually entering data.
Sometimes I actually don't leave the office at 5 after starting at 9am just because I didn't actually sit in my chair from 9-5,there's one hour where I'm walking around thinking about how to do something rather than actually coding the implementation of my idea. If you've ever solved a math problem, you actually get more done if you don't spend all your time sitting trying to find a solution, but rather taking a walk or going to the restroom or taking a train ride.
The problem with white collar work is it's not like manufacturing widgets. You have to think of a solution then implement it. So you get paid to think and therefore you aren't bound to sitting in front of a machine making widgets. But I feel like it's bad if I make my 9-5 include thinking time. I feel like my 9-5 shouldn't include thinking time because I'm doing things too slowly.
My boss treats me like a blue collar worker where he doesn't care if I spent the day figuring out how to solve the problem, he just wants results or he expects me to make my 9-5 only be made up for by implemtation. Basically my boss doesn't want me to actually have a 8 hrworkday but rather a 10 hr work day just because I don't know how to do things fast enough.
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Why do you feel bad for doing your job?
– FiringSquadWitness
2 mins ago
Because I'm actually putting in 10 hours of work a day. the salary isn't bad even if I'm doing 50 hours of work per week but it's like am I being stupid or what?
– Lasuiqw
1 min ago
Because I'm a young guy who can't just rely on this job to feeed me forever. This company is going to change and I'm going to get fired more or less in maybe 2 years regardless of what I do. I need to go to grad school to actually make a good living. actually write grad school essays and do the GRE.
– Lasuiqw
20 secs ago
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Why do you feel bad for doing your job?
– FiringSquadWitness
2 mins ago
Because I'm actually putting in 10 hours of work a day. the salary isn't bad even if I'm doing 50 hours of work per week but it's like am I being stupid or what?
– Lasuiqw
1 min ago
Because I'm a young guy who can't just rely on this job to feeed me forever. This company is going to change and I'm going to get fired more or less in maybe 2 years regardless of what I do. I need to go to grad school to actually make a good living. actually write grad school essays and do the GRE.
– Lasuiqw
20 secs ago
Why do you feel bad for doing your job?
– FiringSquadWitness
2 mins ago
Why do you feel bad for doing your job?
– FiringSquadWitness
2 mins ago
Because I'm actually putting in 10 hours of work a day. the salary isn't bad even if I'm doing 50 hours of work per week but it's like am I being stupid or what?
– Lasuiqw
1 min ago
Because I'm actually putting in 10 hours of work a day. the salary isn't bad even if I'm doing 50 hours of work per week but it's like am I being stupid or what?
– Lasuiqw
1 min ago
Because I'm a young guy who can't just rely on this job to feeed me forever. This company is going to change and I'm going to get fired more or less in maybe 2 years regardless of what I do. I need to go to grad school to actually make a good living. actually write grad school essays and do the GRE.
– Lasuiqw
20 secs ago
Because I'm a young guy who can't just rely on this job to feeed me forever. This company is going to change and I'm going to get fired more or less in maybe 2 years regardless of what I do. I need to go to grad school to actually make a good living. actually write grad school essays and do the GRE.
– Lasuiqw
20 secs ago
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Because I'm actually putting in 10 hours of work a day. the salary isn't bad even if I'm doing 50 hours of work per week but it's like am I being stupid or what?
– Lasuiqw
1 min ago
Because I'm a young guy who can't just rely on this job to feeed me forever. This company is going to change and I'm going to get fired more or less in maybe 2 years regardless of what I do. I need to go to grad school to actually make a good living. actually write grad school essays and do the GRE.
– Lasuiqw
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