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 | | From: | John Fleming | | Subject: | RE: keyboard hrs vs non-keyboard hrs | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:39:25 +0000 |
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From: siliconwriter@comcast.net (Sarah Stegall)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.techwr-l
Subject: keyboard hrs vs non-keyboard hrs
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:35:02 -0800
|As i sit here recovering from CTS surgery, I am trying to come up with an
|estimation of how much impact this wll have on my work schedule.
|What would you folks say is a good number for the amount of time you
|actually spend typing text? I came up w/2 hours a day, which seems woefully
|little. However, we're in the early developpment stage of the product
|(software), so I spend a bunch of time reading specs and interviewing. I
|would say that when I'm really cranking, I can do 4-5 hrs keyboarding a
|day.
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|Thoughts?
Interesting question, and I am not how I would come up with an estimate.
In my job, I need to do a fair amount of reading, and on a day where I do a
lot of reading, one to two hours of keyboarding might be ambitious.
Ditto for days where I am in meetings, making phone calls, and chasing down
people who have answers to my questions.
On a day I'm writing database queries and doing a lot of coding, three to
five hours is more realistic. I'm not doing a lot of typing while the big
database queries are running. And some of those queries can take up to
twenty minutes to run.
On a day like today, which will be mostly writing, five to six hours.
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John Fleming
Technical Writer
Edmonton, Alberta
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