Joblog on the Lintels: Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 3 November, 2010

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Work Summary for the Week ending Friday, 3 November, 2010

5 days summarized below


Time at AMBS:			45h 32m 47s
Time Working:			33h 40m 48s
	Planned:			10h 59m 48s
		Projects/Tasks:			3h 27m 55s
		Meetings:			0h 0m 0s
		Reading/Research:			3h 53m 23s
		Communication:			2h 23m 5s
		House cleaning:			1h 15m 25s
	Unplanned:			18h 13m 15s
		Distraction:			0h 0m 0s
		Interruption:			1h 14m 59s
		Projects/Tasks:			16h 58m 16s
	Other Work:			4h 27m 45s
		Non-work Work:			3h 59m 32s
		Community Life:			0h 28m 13s
	Unspecified:			0h 0m 0s
Personal/Break:			11h 51m 59s
Average Daily Time at AMBS:			9h 6m 33s
Average Daily Working Time:			6h 44m 9s


Time Working:			73.95%
	Planned:			32.65%
		Projects/Tasks:			31.51%
		Meetings:			0.00%
		Reading/Research:			35.37%
		Communication:			21.69%
		House cleaning:			11.43%
	Unplanned:			54.10%
		Distraction:			0.00%
		Interruption:			6.86%
		Projects/Tasks:			93.14%
	Other Work:			13.25%
		Non-work Work:			89.46%
		Community Life:			10.54%
	Unspecified:			0.00%
Personal/Break:			26.05%

*** Raw Data ***

11/1/2010 7:55:31 AM,ar,"",0
11/1/2010 8:41:00 AM,re,"",2729
11/1/2010 9:53:58 AM,vi,"",4378
11/1/2010 10:30:00 AM,ps,"monday",2162
11/1/2010 11:28:35 AM,nw,"",3515
11/1/2010 11:37:32 AM,em,"",537
11/1/2010 11:42:03 AM,iv,"",271
11/1/2010 11:44:11 AM,em,"",128
11/1/2010 12:33:00 PM,re,"",2929
11/1/2010 12:58:22 PM,bk,"lunch",1522
11/1/2010 1:16:35 PM,re,"",1093
11/1/2010 1:39:55 PM,tk,"itunes u",1400
11/1/2010 3:03:35 PM,hr,"",5020
11/1/2010 4:05:03 PM,up,"",3688
11/1/2010 4:09:52 PM,em,"",289
11/1/2010 4:29:50 PM,hr,"",1198
11/1/2010 5:06:34 PM,tk,"itunes and moodle",2204

11/2/2010 7:45:39 AM,ar,"",0
11/2/2010 9:16:10 AM,nw,"collab stuff",5431
11/2/2010 9:55:22 AM,iv,"",2352
11/2/2010 9:56:01 AM,iv,"",39
11/2/2010 10:32:12 AM,ps,"",2171
11/2/2010 11:11:28 AM,hr,"",2356
11/2/2010 11:29:35 AM,nw,"collab",1087
11/2/2010 12:35:00 PM,hr,"",3925
11/2/2010 12:55:00 PM,bk,"lunch",1200
11/2/2010 3:54:00 PM,hr,"",10740
11/2/2010 4:06:46 PM,hr,"",766
11/2/2010 4:48:01 PM,up,"itunes stuff",2475
11/2/2010 4:50:07 PM,tk,"itunes u",126

11/3/2010 7:46:15 AM,ar,"",0
11/3/2010 9:09:31 AM,re,"",4996
11/3/2010 9:40:00 AM,ps,"CARES",1829
11/3/2010 9:50:51 AM,hr,"",651
11/3/2010 10:21:28 AM,iv,"",1837
11/3/2010 12:52:23 PM,bk,"lunch",9055
11/3/2010 12:53:17 PM,em,"",54
11/3/2010 1:46:20 PM,tk,"itunes u cleanup",3183
11/3/2010 2:28:46 PM,hr,"",2546
11/3/2010 5:05:50 PM,hr,"",9424

11/4/2010 7:45:00 AM,ar,"sick day",0
11/4/2010 8:00:58 AM,up,"untangle and router",958
11/4/2010 11:55:44 AM,ps,"class",14086
11/4/2010 12:01:38 PM,em,"",354
11/4/2010 1:13:57 PM,nw,"lunch",4339
11/4/2010 1:22:37 PM,em,"",520
11/4/2010 1:50:00 PM,ps,"",1643
11/4/2010 2:00:14 PM,tk,"",614
11/4/2010 3:22:42 PM,tk,"",4948
11/4/2010 4:18:49 PM,ps,"",3367
11/4/2010 4:56:25 PM,re,"",2256

11/5/2010 7:38:33 AM,ar,"",0
11/5/2010 8:45:31 AM,hc,"",4018
11/5/2010 9:48:50 AM,up,"",3799
11/5/2010 10:17:03 AM,cl,"storytelling break",1693
11/5/2010 11:06:43 AM,up,"",2980
11/5/2010 11:45:28 AM,vi,"",2325
11/5/2010 12:13:06 PM,up,"",1658
11/5/2010 1:47:50 PM,ps,"lunch",5684
11/5/2010 1:56:17 PM,hc,"",507
11/5/2010 4:24:49 PM,up,"",8912

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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