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Ask HN: Am I ridiculous for finding 8 hours of work as a coder, ridiculous?

I work 10am until 6pm every day and I have a lot of endeavors I'd like to partake in post-work, everyone else on the team just works and then chills after work.

Ideally I'd work 6 hours a day, from home with no breaks (obviously a 10-15m lunch) but that's it.

3 hours of mine are wasted every day. 1.5 hour commute/getting read, 1.5 hours lunch + various breaks.

So essentially 8 hours of work, and an extra 1.5 hours of wasted time, taking up 9.5 hours of my day. I could be saving 3.5 hours per day (that's a full month and 5 days every year!)

It just seems ridiculous to me as I've already had two really successful remote roles and the dynamic / team size / software stack is the exact same as previous startups I've worked at.

I'm their first hire and the founders come from a corporate culture so they just do all the same corporate stuff, meanwhile me and the employees are dying and I'm really feeling like quitting. I am cleaning up the mess of their old developers of the past 5 years, I am very good and in one month I have already completely rehauled their entire product myself. I have the stones, the problem is I am very very young and tend not to get taken seriously.

Time is MUCH more valuable to me than money. The money just goes in my account and investments, I don't really go out or drink or anything so that money to me is just future time.

What should I do?

54 points EC1 10 years ago 43 comments

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