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I tracked my time for a month and the numbers were a shock
I always thought I was billing for about 30 hours a week, but I logged every single minute for 4 weeks. Turns out I was only doing 22 hours of actual paid work on average. The rest was admin, chasing invoices, and looking for new gigs. The biggest time sink was email, which ate up almost 10 hours a week. Now I batch my email to just one hour in the morning and one in the afternoon. Has anyone else done a time audit and found a specific task that was stealing way more hours than you thought?
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linda_mason825mo ago
Oh man, the email thing is so real. I did a time check last year and found I was basically running a small, unpaid customer service desk from my inbox. The real kicker was how much time I spent just thinking about emails I needed to send later. It felt like a second job I never agreed to. Now I have a rule where if it takes less than two minutes, I do it right then, otherwise it goes on a list. What's the most pointless task you found yourself stuck doing?
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patricia_king235mo ago
Email was a killer for me too... setting up those auto replies for common questions saved my sanity.
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