I’m just wondering because I may be in the minority here but I don’t work in front of a computer. Most of my days (when school is in session) are spent behind a lecturn. Granted I have a computer in my office at school, and my office at home and I am usually logged into the SDMB in some form or another. This summer is my first summer in a while that I did not have to teach summer session, so I’m off :).
I’ve been on a lot lately because it’s been so bloody humid I don’t want to go out, and everytime I try to do work yard I sweat like niagra falls. Anyway, I’m hijacking my own thread…
So do you work in front of a computer… if not when do you usually find time to post? If you do work in front of a computer, do you need to hide the fact that you are posting on a messege board? Or are your boss’ quite liberal.
I spend most of my time either sitting at my desk not really working (like today) or running around the theatre trying to do 8 things at once. I would say I use the interweb machine for about 20% of my actual work, the other 80% being more about hands-on stuff.
I tend to post a lot on days like today when I am in charge and bored, and very little when other people are around. I don’t really hide it, but I don’t talk about it either.
I run printer tests. There isn’t a lot else for me to do while the tests are running, so I pass the time here. There’s a lot of walk-by traffic and my monitor is in plain view in my cubicle, but most people probably aren’t even paying attention. Nobody has ever commented on my being on the SDMB while at work. Just to be safe, though, I’ll ALT-TAB over to Outlook or Excel and have it on top if I am not actively reading the board or writing a post.
I work retail - I’m a copy machine jockey at an office supply store. I’m in front of computers all day, but they’re not hooked up to the internet and I don’t have any free time anyway. I get online when I come home from work in the evenings, after dinner and all that. I’m rather nocturnal, and there’s nothing else to do around here at midnight.
I don’t have a job that pays money. I stay home and try to keep my daughter from destroying my house In a few months we can add care and feeding of one baby boy to my job description but neither requires a computer.
We do have a small network at home though so I can surf the SDMB (and whatever else I think is interesting) whenever I want to. Hubby works at his computer across the room from me so he works at his computer all day. Munchkin has her computer too but that isn’t on the lan yet. It mostly plays baby smartronics My guess is she will be on the SDMB and asking me the really hard questions like ‘what does TMI mean?’ far earlier than I would like!
I, too, do the lectern thing, though not in the summer. The computer in the adjunct office at Campus One is too old and slow to be good for posting, but the ones in the English Dept. faculty computer room at Campus Two are a bit better. I’ll spend some time there between classes and after lunch, if I have time.
I’m rarely in front of a computer at work, except for printing up PCR results. I work in a medical lab, and most of my time is spent mixing very small amounts of colorless liquids together.
It’s about 70-30 not in front of a machine for me. I’m usually too busy making sure the newsroom is happy, helping to troubleshoot problems, installing equipment, working on satellite antennas, spending time at the transmitter, teaching safety classes, etc. to be tied to the keyboard for too long at a time.
But, I’m in management, so that means budgets and reports and lots and lots of e-mail, so on any given day, I may actually spend the VAST majority of the day in front of the infernal memory box.
As for SDMB, my posting is done almost exlusively from home, unless things at the office are just way too mind-numbingly slow that day.
I build airplanes for a living but everything from job check in, QA call sheets, drawings, specs, part ordering and rejection tags are all done on a computer. On the 737 assembly line everyone is within 50 feet of at least a dozen computers while working on the airplane. There are even computers on the entry stands employees use to get on and off the airplane. The part that is amazing to me is that the setting is not what someone would call computer freindly, lots of dust and dirt, the computers run 24/7, and many employee do not treat them kindly yet it is rare to have one crap out. They are all Dell’s too.
I no longer work in front of a computer. After 12 years in a cube farm I made a ladder out of inter- office memos and made a break for it. I now make cushions for aircraft seats. I stand ther bravely in a hanger, electric turkey knife in one hand, coffee cup in the other, and cut and glue pieces of foam together. Periodically sitting on the cushion to test it untill my butt is happy.
I spend 75% of my time at work driving ground support equipment or loading containerized freight on airplanes; the other 25% is spent in front of computers that were built and programmed in 1985. (No internet at work for me!)
I spend 40% (according to job description) out in the field. Of the remaining 60%, about a quarter to a third is in front of the computer and the balance is shuffling papers, attending meetings, making phone calls, etc.
At work the only personal use of the web I make is to check my personal email. SDMB is read and posted to from my home computer.
Like fizgig I spend more time in the field. More like 85% though. the rest is shuffling papers from one side of my desk to the other. I’m only at my desk one day a week, sometimes once a fortnight. All computer play (that’s all I use it for) is done at home. About 1 hour a day. Weekends maybe 2-3 hours if the little one is at his fathers:) .
When school’s in session, virtually no time at all. I used to try to find stuff on line but my work computer is tragically slow. Anymore I zip around at home, then mail myself the link at work. With appropriate sacrifices made, the appeased e-mail god lets me log on and retreive the links. More sacrifices must be made to the printer god if we actually want a hard copy of anything, but heck, that’s why they give us so many extra students, right?
When we had one, there was always someone either on-line in chats or playing games. I took the computer out, cut the modem line from the phone bill and saved lots of money.
I post from home while having insomnia problems due to illness.
No computer work for me, either. I see clients all day long and drive to and fro for all my appointments, so unless I install a laptop in my car, I have no accessability. The agency I work for doesn’t even have electronic filing of paperwork, so I <gasp!> handwrite all of my notes. When I tell people that, they look at me like I’ve just said I use an abacus to balance my checkbook.
In a few months we can add care and feeding of one baby boy to my job description but neither requires a computer.