How do you keep time?
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For those of you that contract and keep billable hours, or even if you are salaried but keep an eye on your production metrics, how do you do it? I have 10 minutes before I can pick up work again because I prefer to use the clock to keep time. Stopwatches and those online work managers and such make me feel pressured, but I'll only start work on the hour or the half hour, and I don't even like doing the latter, if I'm being honest. It keeps things simple for me.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I don't do it by computer - except to create and print a table showing the day broken down into hours with space alongside to write down what I am working on. I keep this alongside me. If I miss filling it out during the day (normal) I find it more accurate to fill it in at the end of the day than to guess at the end of the week. This requires, of course, a table of job identifiers - in my case job numbers and names.