THEME
The hours that do not show up on the books
Meaning
The work you are counted for is the time in the room, and the real cost is everything that happens around it.
How it shows up
It shows up as the writing up, the forty minutes before a hard session when you are already in it, and whatever happens in your body for the rest of the evening after the four o'clock. You do the arithmetic in the car because that is the only place left to do it.
Evidence
5 quotes
“Worked eleven hours today and ate standing up at the counter at nine at night.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“In the room I was completely present and useful and none of it showed, which is the job. It was in the car.”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“that is roughly forty-five minutes a week of the thing the structure was designed to protect, spent on admin, every week, for three years”
Reinforced later
Read the entry →“There is the writing up, there is the forty minutes before the hard one where I am already in it, and there is whatever happens in my body for the rest of the evening after the four o'clock.”
First mention
Read the entry →“Twenty two hours in the room is not twenty two hours of work.”
First mention
Read the entry →
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