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An average day would be about 4 hours dealing with code. The majority of remaining time is spent on email/phone/here. The amount of personal phone calls I get during work hours is annoying, mostly due to the wife and retired in-laws who seem to think I do nothing but play around on computers all day. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Consider getting (more) kids to have something to do for these folks. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
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Well my paid work time is 40 hrs/week, plus a couple of hours of overtime minus some meetings and similar...
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Not really 
If I count actual coding it is not more than 20-25, but if I count also the learning-testing time it is closer to 50-60...
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Crazy, this means you also code while driving home...
Unless... you stay at the office ... or your home is the office 
The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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No where near enough right now, working on a OS upgrade project
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Have you ever tried to use the business process management software "Metastorm BPM"  by OpenText?!
(now-a-days "OpenText Business Process Management (BPM) Solutions Suite"...)
OOFG! (Oh, our funny G(g)od! - [hey, I share my God!])
 My gosh, 5 clicks and 3 windows (2 modal dialogs) later just to get the ability to enter a single line of freakin' code?!
Yeah, I'm seemingly spending 90%+ hours of my week just "yelling at code" (well, the alleged 'IDE') cuz it takes so damned freakin' long *JUST* to get to the window for the code I want to write.
A rock, hammer and chisel  would be alot more damned productive!
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You sure are doing sth. wrong. They claim on their website:
[...] enables businesses to rapidly understand and automate even the most complex processes with software tools that allow strategic CIOs to work with lines of business to identify new opportunities to drive their agenda of growth and innovation.
That sounds incredibly cool. I'll tell my boss about this, we need this software now! 
I won’t not use no double negatives.
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Black Pearl by K2 is, by far, leaps and bounds above Metastorm BPM.
Really, don't waste your time with Metastorm BPM.
http://www.k2.com/blackpearl[^]
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So stop pretending!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Try running your own business then - apart from a weeks holiday at the start of the year I cant remember the last time I did any less than 40 for the thick end of a year
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Me, but now i have to go coding
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If I have more than 2 meetings in a week I don't bother turning up so 40+ is doable, especially when you factor in the personal coding!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Obviously the poll results reflect the hours per week one pretends to code 
The trouble with people,
is that they want to hear only what they want to hear.
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I used to code for over 30-40 hrs when i was in a development project. Now i write Test scripts and Test procedures so it has averaged out.
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Too darn much SSIS rubbish.
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Right now, I do pretty much spend my 40 hours a week coding.
At the most there is a 30 minute status meeting.
When I move to another project, that may change.
I have been on projects that require more team coordination, system integration and politicking than coding.
And then...
I go home and I am pretty certain that I spend at least 20 hours of my time when I get home coding things that I want to do or learn.
I have a strict policy at home where I avoid meetings, replying to emails and TPS reports
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Paul M Watt wrote: TPS reports
Ah, TPS reports. I trust you don't own a red stapler. 
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Nope, but my supervisor does, it's a red "schwingline"...
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There's a big difference in the number of hours/week of coding in those two cases...
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I used to look forward to the "between project" or even late UAT time when there was no pressure. I was even promised 20% of my time would be devotable to learning, research etc. Lying bastards, 11 years I've bee on this contract and there has always been 1 or more projects waiting.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I am actually coding or working with visual studio/dev tools in some capacity, about 7-9 hours a day. The rest of the day is spent to email, design docs and test plans, research, meetings, etc.
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I'm Too
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That doesn't leave enough time to eat, sleep and party 
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