As some of you will know- I take a month each year to note down what I do every minute (ish) of every day that I work. I do this partly to satisfy my own geekiness, but also to look at the balance of my life in a number of different ways. It helps me to note where I am spending most time- and over the course of the years it has helped me to identify my better working patterns. This year I chose October (if you are clergy never do this in August, December or Easterish). So the headlines: I had at least one day off every week. I still work 54 hours a week (54.3 this year). Its been the same for four years now (over two different jobs) That is still spread over about 5 and a half days a week (5.6) That equates to a full working day of 9 hours and 42 minutes. My average full working day span (from first bit of work to last) is 12 hours and 17 minutes. Be gentle with me if these maths don’t work. I am not a great statistician. Within ...
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