Working Time

After writing a list of allocating myself time to work, I’ve found that my working timetable comes up to about 60+ hours...

On a Monday I have visual design from 10-1pm then again at 2pm but usually we out and around so I basically just continue working with a few small breaks in between until about 3-5pm. When I get back home every day I usually take about an hour out for dinner, relax for a bit and get ready for some more work, though I might note this is what I usually do each day around the same time, 5-6pm is usually an hour break. I’ve planned my timetable to give myself something to do on the night. Everyday I’m trying to do some visual design weather it maybe just drawing a piece of fruit or an object to keep me going or getting on with my final piece for my projects. I take the time to also maybe write a blog if I find there is time.

On Tuesday it game production, all day, literally. Second and third years are not allowed in the game labs on a Monday so we are limited to 4 days in there each week from 9am-5pm giving a maximum of 32 hours per week, so I am trying to use that time as much as possible. We’re there at 10am on a Tuesday from 10am-1pm then again at 2pm-5pm but I just stay there the full day. I take a couple of minutes break here and there just to have a rest from doing work as continuously working can be extremely stressful and take about 10-15 minutes for lunch, so maybe I’m losing a little bit more time there, maybe half an hour to an hour when you add it up? Afterwards I will work for maybe another 3-4 hours on a night doing visual design work and or doing blog work.

Wednesday pretty much works the same way as Tuesday except about a couple of hours out to watch our film at 2pm, usually the film will end about 3:30-4pm so I can make it back to the game labs for an extra hour of work until were kicked out. Again I repeat the same thing on a night doing visual design or blogging, though this is quite repetitive if I need to work on my game production making textures or just tweaking some geometry I’ll find the time to do that to maybe take a break from visual design.

Thursday again is just like a Tuesday/Wednesday though we have an hour for critical studies. Basically sitting in the game labs all day, I should also mention that I may take a few minutes out to scan some of my drawn work in. Again on the night I will go through what I need to, I’m attempting to balance it out almost.

Friday, again will be in the game labs all day which I should also mention that our FaceBook network does seem to get in the way, but however it’s not really in a bad way as we are looking and commenting on our and others colleagues, though there is some time taken out for that maybe up to an extra 20 to 30 minutes possibly? On the night I’ve allocated some time to draw a piece of fruit which is what I’ve wanted to do each passing week so being the last day of the week I’m drawing one piece and basically ending the week with that.

Its odd how this week we were told that we should be having free time to ourselves on the weekend however when I wrote my timetable I tried to make everyday count. I’m basically letting Saturday’s be my blog day; I do pretty much do nothing on a Saturday so it gives me time to think about things more. We were told that the internet is the biggest distraction ever created and I strongly agree, in 3 weeks I’ve worked out that I’ve spent about 60 hours on the internet alone which averages at about 20 per week which I’m quite astonished by. If that’s about 80 hours per month that’s about nearly a 1000 per year though these days I’m not using the internet as much as I use to, but in total that about 1 and half months a year spent on the internet alone which is quite phenomenal. If I try spending about 8 hours sleeping per night plus maybe extra on weekends, I have to take off about 60+ hours from my 168 hour week leaving me about 100 hours. I spend about an hour each day eating then take off another 7, now we’re down to about 93 hours. If I spend some time on our FaceBook network and have little breaks between working in the labs each day I need to maybe about another 3 or so hours off, so we’re about down to 90. If I take travelling or walking to University everyday it takes about 15 minutes each day there an back, I might go out into town to so maybe about another 4 hours off down to about 86 hours. If I take organising things and doing things such as washing, I might spend a couple of more hours do that so about 84 hours left, I maybe even also take out about another 10 hours for time spent on things I want to do in my free time, not forgetting our weekly film either which is about 2 hours extra so about 70 or so hours we’re down to. What’s amazing about all this is that I’m struggling to find out what I’ve been doing, but by the looks of it I am making about 60 hours a week, which is more than the average/standard 40-45 required of us each week, it just feels like I’m not doing much work when in actual fact I’m probably putting in all these hours to be more accurate and careful about my work.

On Sunday I originally wanted to spend this day doing some personal projects of my own but I’m sort of finding that instead I’m doing the mandatory work in this time. Sunday is suppose to be a day of rest but I’m not resting, it’s odd really but as I’m doing the work I don’t think about the time that I’ve spent doing work, it constantly feels like everyone else is working when I’m relaxing making it feel like everyone else is getting further ahead and producing more than me and I’m constantly falling behind. I’ll probably do another blog upon what time I’ve actually spent in a week maybe to be a little more accurate and further develop on what I’ve written.