Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 6 October, 2010

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 6 October, 2010

4 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			37h 31m 47s
Time Working:			29h 11m 39s
	Planned:			20h 55m 7s
		Projects/Tasks:			15h 34m 1s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			3h 40m 29s
		Communication:			1h 16m 13s
		House cleaning:			0h 24m 24s
	Unplanned:			6h 27m 5s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			4h 34m 41s
		Projects/Tasks:			1h 52m 24s
	Other Work:			1h 49m 27s
		Non-work Work:			0h 0m 0s
		Community Life:			1h 49m 27s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			8h 20m 8s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 22m 56s
Average Daily Working Time:			7h 17m 54s


Time Working:			77.79%
	Planned:			71.65%
		Projects/Tasks:			74.42%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			17.57%
		Communication:			6.07%
		House cleaning:			1.94%
	Unplanned:			22.10%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			70.96%
		Projects/Tasks:			29.04%
	Other Work:			6.25%
		Non-work Work:			0.00%
		Community Life:			100.00%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			22.21%

*** Raw Data ***

10/5/2010 7:48:22 AM,ar,"",0
10/5/2010 8:07:20 AM,em,"",1138
10/5/2010 8:32:24 AM,em,"",1504
10/5/2010 9:25:53 AM,re,"rss",3209
10/5/2010 9:35:09 AM,re,"",556
10/5/2010 9:53:14 AM,tk,"gmail",1085
10/5/2010 11:02:20 AM,tk,"",4146
10/5/2010 11:30:10 AM,tk,"survey",1670
10/5/2010 11:57:13 AM,iv,"",1623
10/5/2010 12:19:00 PM,hc,"",1307
10/5/2010 1:20:05 PM,tk,"gmail",3665
10/5/2010 2:20:49 PM,re,"",3644
10/5/2010 3:37:28 PM,tk,"",4599
10/5/2010 3:39:58 PM,em,"",150
10/5/2010 3:51:57 PM,re,"",719
10/5/2010 4:20:20 PM,ps,"",1703
10/5/2010 4:24:34 PM,tk,"gmail surveying",254
10/5/2010 4:30:15 PM,ip,"",341
10/5/2010 5:05:22 PM,ip,"",2107
10/5/2010 5:11:16 PM,ip,"",354

10/6/2010 8:10:30 AM,ar,"",0
10/6/2010 8:58:45 AM,tk,"",2895
10/6/2010 9:23:11 AM,em,"",1466
10/6/2010 10:15:00 AM,ps,"CARES",3109
10/6/2010 10:48:44 AM,iv,"",2024
10/6/2010 11:31:17 AM,hr,"",2553
10/6/2010 11:39:29 AM,iv,"",492
10/6/2010 12:05:00 PM,ip,"",1531
10/6/2010 1:19:55 PM,bk,"lunch",4495
10/6/2010 1:22:32 PM,hc,"",157
10/6/2010 3:34:27 PM,tk,"evals",7915
10/6/2010 4:05:38 PM,iv,"",1871
10/6/2010 5:07:25 PM,tk,"evals admin fixing page",3707
10/6/2010 5:13:29 PM,re,"rss",364

10/7/2010 8:16:33 AM,ar,"",0
10/7/2010 8:21:48 AM,em,"",315
10/7/2010 11:35:00 AM,ps,"",11592
10/7/2010 11:42:46 AM,iv,"",466
10/7/2010 11:47:42 AM,iv,"",296
10/7/2010 11:49:53 AM,iv,"",131
10/7/2010 1:04:25 PM,cl,"forum",4472
10/7/2010 1:18:54 PM,iv,"",869
10/7/2010 1:49:04 PM,up,"",1810
10/7/2010 2:00:20 PM,re,"",676
10/7/2010 4:17:29 PM,tk,"evals",8229
10/7/2010 4:54:52 PM,tk,"evals fixing",2243
10/7/2010 5:05:40 PM,re,"rss",648
10/7/2010 5:50:00 PM,ps,"disc",2660
10/7/2010 6:10:47 PM,hr,"skype",1247

10/8/2010 8:02:26 AM,ar,"",0
10/8/2010 8:41:37 AM,re,"rss",2351
10/8/2010 9:13:27 AM,tk,"backup",1910
10/8/2010 9:13:47 AM,iv,"",20
10/8/2010 9:26:49 AM,tk,"fix backup scripts",782
10/8/2010 10:25:00 AM,ps,"Brandon",3491
10/8/2010 10:41:29 AM,iv,"",989
10/8/2010 10:45:05 AM,ps,"Brandon",216
10/8/2010 11:27:18 AM,ip,"",2533
10/8/2010 11:45:00 AM,re,"rss",1062
10/8/2010 12:19:55 PM,cl,"",2095
10/8/2010 12:24:39 PM,tk,"",284
10/8/2010 1:10:21 PM,bk,"lunch",2742
10/8/2010 1:41:39 PM,tk,"explore",1878
10/8/2010 2:17:54 PM,tk,"",2175
10/8/2010 2:58:51 PM,tk,"tech toys",2457
10/8/2010 3:21:32 PM,tk,"testing devices",1361
10/8/2010 3:51:09 PM,tk,"scripting",1777
10/8/2010 4:00:00 PM,iv,"",531
10/8/2010 4:14:57 PM,tk,"evals",897
10/8/2010 4:20:00 PM,ip,"",303
10/8/2010 4:55:12 PM,tk,"evals updating",2112
10/8/2010 5:06:21 PM,hr,"",669
10/8/2010 5:14:06 PM,hr,"",465

How to Read These Posts

These posts are posted by a perl script I wrote to parse the output of a text file created by a slightly modified version of quicklogger. Posts on Tuesday through Saturday cover one work day; posts on Monday summarize the previous work week.

The parser relies heavily on two-letter codes, visible in the raw data. These codes went into effect July 1, 2016:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk/ps = break (unpaid) or personal stuff
mt = meeting
mr = meeting-related (preparation/followup)
bm = budget management (shame on you)
re = reading/research
or = ordering
tr = training (includes telling someone how to do something, not just student supervision)
su = supervision
pr = project (just a task, but longer -- I know them when I see them)
av = specific AV-related task or project
hr/tk = short task/project done immediately (hr = something someone asked me to do; tk = something I decided to do just right then without planning for it)
ro/on = routine or ongoing task/project - stuff I do regularly for whatever reason
tm = task I initiated (but planned to do at a particular time, not something I just thought of this moment)
to,ob = task initiated at another's behest, but something I scheduled to work on at this particular time (not an emergency or spontaneous "let's just get this done" thing)
nw = meta-work (recording vacation, registering for a conference, rewriting the joblogger, chatting with the colleague whose quick question turned into a longer discussion about unrelated things [pastoral care work])
cl = community life stuff (chapel, forum, breaks)
co,em = correspondence, consultation, email

These tasks often flow into one another, so a spontaneous task (tk) includes not only the work I'm doing, but also the three interruptions in the hallway (that would normally be categorized as hr or co) that I dealt with while completing it.

Additionally, the categories are not strict. Tasks (tk or tm or to) have a tendency to become projects (pr), sometimes depending on nothing more than how I feel about them.

And, lest you think I spend all my time at work logging what I do at work instead of actually working, I'll break it down for you: if I average 50 log entries per day, and if each entry takes five seconds, that's six minutes and 10 seconds of each day committed to logging. Not nothing, but also not massive. And each entry probably takes less time than that -- I'm a touch typist, so most of the time entering in the log is related to waiting on the quicklogger to wake up when I press Ctrl-Alt-L. And even then I'm not sure more than five seconds pass.

Now the time coding and re-coding and remembering to use my new codes ... well, that's different. Let's call it nw.

So why the change? The new codes fit more neatly into categories in my job description so that when annual reporting and job description review comes up I can be a bit less impressionistic.

*** Older codes follow ***

These codes went into effect January 2, 2008, and are now obsolete:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk/ps = break (unpaid) or personal stuff
di = distraction (self-imposed interruption)
ic = interruption by instant messenger (chat)
ip = interruption by phone
iv = interruption by visit
hr/up = help request or unplanned task (something that comes up as a result of checking my e-mail or phone messages -- usually not the result of an interruption)
mt = meeting
ch = chat initiated by me (should be rare)
em = e-mail checking/corresponding
ph = phone (calling, checking messages)
vi = visit (initiated by me)
hc = housecleaning (office)
tk = planned task or project
re = reading and research
cl = community life (this includes various all campus events, special and regular breaks, forum, chapel, etc.)
nw = work-related non-work things (for those things that aren't exactly community life, but are also not exactly work -- conference registration comes to mind)

*** Original Codes Follow ***

Original code set (2007) - now obsolete:

ar = arrive (as in, "this is when I arrived at work")
bk = break
mt = meeting
ic = interruption by instant messenger (chat)
ie = interruption by e-mail (as in, "I was doing something else and an e-mail popped up on my screen because that's my preferred method of receiving help requests")
ip = interruption by phone
iv = interruption by visit
ch = chat initiated by me
em = e-mail correspondence initiated by me
ph = phone correspondence initiated by me
vi = visit initiated by me (presumably, if others were logging these last three things, there would be a corresponding "iv," "ip," or "ie")
ps = some personal task (as in, "Oooo ... I forgot to check the bank balance, maybe I should do that before I forget")
hc = housecleaning (as in, "I better check my e-mail, listen to my phone messages, and clean up this clutter on my desk, NOW!")
tk = planned task
re = reading and research

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