Ask HN: Software developers: What percentage of your workday is fun?

1 pointsldom2210y ago3 comments

Programming is fun, but in my experience software engineering is not. I would say about less than 8% of my day is fun, rest is testing, docs, emails, etc, which is needed, but not fun

3 comments

3 comments · 1 top-level

stray10y ago· 2 in thread

~80% for varying values of fun.

ldom22OP10y ago

that sounds really good, are you self employed or work at a company?

stray10y ago

I work at a very small company. There are only 4 developers: 3 full-time and 1 part-time.

A full work week is defined as 35 hours, 5 of which are to be spent on research/study.

So when you figure in the daily standup, I get to spend ~29 hours per week building things -- essentially protected from everything else.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse