Kuan

January 13, 2023

I can't do 120 WORK hours per month

The usual hours for office, 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week, 120 hours per month. But I can't do it.

More like, hours spent appeared to be working for the company. REALLY working? If one clocked 8 hours "at work" for a day, what amount to "really working" is less, way, way less.

Ever since I became a freelancer, broke from my salaried job 4 years ago, I have been diligently recording my working hours. These hours can be paid work, my own startup work, free work, or whatever I am doing with my PC. I have long learned that 4 hours of focused work in a day can consider a productive day already, for me. A few good days I will get 6 hours. Some disrupting days can be sub-1 hour.

For the past three months, I have been focus working on one project only, my paid freelancer work. I just invoice a bill of 120 hours, for 2 months. 120 focused work hours. I only clocked these hours in 2 months time, compare to usual employee in a month.

About Kuan

Web developer building with Flutter, Svelte and JavaScript. Recently fell in love with functional programming.

Malaysian. Proud Sabahan. Ex game developer but still like playing games.

New found hobby is outdoor camping with my love.