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How Many Hours I Work Per Week (Week 1)

June 20, 2019 · Career

Back in 2015 a few months after I’d gone full time with YouTube I wrote How Many Hours Do I Work Per Week? It was a lil’ experiment where I tracked what work I was doing when. Read that if you want the juicy details but spoiler alert: even though my hours were sporadic I averaged about 8 hours per day (over a 5 day week).

Fast forward to 2019 and in my “You Assumptions About Me” video, someone assumed that I work more than 40 hours per week. So here we are again, tracking my hours to find the answers.

My note-taking this time round was also way more detailed than in 2015 so you can get really nosey about what I do each day!

DISCLAIMER TIME
  • I tracked everything in a digital app so I’m afraid there’s no nice pics of handwritten notes in this blog. Sorry.
  • I tracked two weeks instead of one! This is the first week where I was mostly working from home. The second week was more out and about. Let me know if you’d also like to see that blog post.
  • I somehow picked weeks that are maybe the busiest I’ve ever been. You will see that I worked a lot of hours but it’s safe to say that whilst I do work a lot. Perhaps not this much.
  • I do not want to glorify “the grind” or “the hustle”. Yes I worked a lot but I also had time off that I spent with friends, my partner Dan and chill time. Look after yourselves, people!
RULES TIME

(I didn’t do this last time but thought it was important to clarify a few things about what I consider to be work and what I don’t)

  • Hair & makeup on days when I’m filming is work.
  • Lunch break – it depends on where you work whether you get paid for your lunch break or not. I often work through lunch but if I don’t and I actually take a break then I won’t count it.
  • Travel – if I’m commuting in/out of central London that doesn’t count. But once I’m in central and I’m travelling between meetings and events, that is on the clock.
  • Filming videos – it may seem like it takes a long time to film a 12 minute video. This time includes – preparation, setting up equipment, filming, transferring footage to editor, inputting edit notes into spreadsheet for editor.

Without further ado here is everything I did and how long it took me!

WEEK ONE

Monday 27th May (bank holiday) – 6 hours 5 minutes
9:00-9:30
Catch up with assistant
9:30-10:15
Emails
10:15-11:00
Went through notes from Clamour Summit & created actionable list
11:00-11:35
Call with A about Buffer video
11:35-13:20
Podcast announcement– hands on social media.
13:20-13:40
Prepping YouTube video for tomorrow, sending link to Patrons & Channel members.
13:40-14:00
Mailing list prep
14:00-14:15
Call with assistant
16:00-16:15
More podcast social media. Feedback on new Patreon designs.
17:40-18:15
Taking pictures of receipts and watching YouTube videos.
Posting podcast announcement on personal instagram.
Tuesday 28th May – 9 hours 20 minutes
8:00-9:00
Makeup for shoot.
Checking podcast social media & stats.
Sending off emails.
9:45-11:00
Coffee meeting
11:00-12:30
Filming Snapchat thing for PopBuzz
Meeting with podcast producers pre-launch
13:10-18:00
Lunch (worked through)
Podcast launch prep
Patreon revamp prep
Getting addresses from friends to send copies of book too.
Creating facebook event for book launch with friends, family.
Emails.
Working on mailing list.
Publishing YouTube video – social media, replying to comments.
20:45-21:30
Replying to YouTube comments
Collecting addresses for influencer copies of book
Last minute podcast/Patreon prep
Wednesday 29th May – 9 hours 25 minutes
7:30-10:00
Makeup for filming
Social media for podcast launch
Patreon revamp launch
10:00-11:00
Filming video (announcements)
11:00-11:30
Call with podcast producer
11:30-12:30
Promoting Patreon revamp on socials.
STILL HAVEN’T EATEN BREAKFAST (this is me screaming at myself to eat breakfast)
13:30-14:10
Catch up and call with assistant
14:30-15:00
Recording podcast intros
15:00-15:20
Filming video (intro to Who Am I?)
15:20-15:40
Emails.
15:40-18:15 (still counting this as work because I was still logged on & switched on, I was just being more reactive than proactive during this time)
Chilling the fuck out watching YouTube videos.
Responding on social media/emails/Patreon queries when necessary.
Posting on social for Qs for Q&A.
Thursday 30th May – 8 hours 55 minutes
8:30-8:45
Hair & makeup for filming
9:00-10:00
Emails.
Feedback to editor on videos.
10:30-11:45
Filming video (Hormone Diaries Q&A)
11:45-17:30 (worked through lunch)
Emails. Admin.
Content planning & scheduling (YouTube & Instagram, Dear June)
Reviewing podcast episode.
17:00-17:40
Phone call with book editor.
22:30-23:00
Sorting through photos on phone and editing.
Friday 31st May – 8 hours 30 minutes
7:50 – 9:00
Podcast episode socials & blog posts live.
Feedback on social posts for assistant.
Website updates.
9:00-11:35
Content planning
Video research
Script writing
11:35 – 12:15
Photo editing.
12:15-14:30
Lunch meeting with Simon and Taha.
14:30-16:50
Laptop club with Simon and Taha.
Registered domains.
Clamour actionables.
16:50 – 18:00
Emails.
DearJune insta post.
Saturday 1st June – 4 hours
00:30-00:45
Checking Dear June posts.
11:00 – 12:00
Liking/commenting/sharing Dear June posts.
16:15 – 16:30
Feedback on video edits and thumbnails to editor.
16:30 – 17:15
Dear June posts.
17:15 – 18:30
Creating special offer “ads” (the glitter post)
19:00-19:30
Dear June posts.
Sunday 2nd June – 4 hours 5 minutes
09:45 – 11:10
Patreon admin
Creating Patreon reading list
17:00 – 19:40
Reviewing video edits.
Uploading to YouTube – description, tags.
Dear June posts.

The results

Total minutes: 3020 minutes 
Total hours/minutes: 50 hours 20 minutes
Average per day over a 5 day week: 10 hours 4 minutes

Like I said at the beginning. This was an extra busy time for me with launching my new podcast, the Patreon revamp, newsletter and Dear June. And I’d just gotten back from my trip to California where I went to Clamour Summit and recorded a bunch of podcast episodes so I worked that Monday bank holiday to catch up on everything once I was back. Under normal circumstances I try my best not to work bank holidays.

So there you have it! Certainly, a lot more than I was working in 2015 but let’s perhaps pick a number in the middle of the two that’d probably be more reflective of my normal.

Hope this provided some insight for you in what goes on behind the scenes at Witton HQ!

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  1. Maria says

    June 20, 2019 at 11:11 pm

    Which app did you use?

    Reply
    • Vicky says

      June 21, 2019 at 1:09 pm

      I don’t know what she used but I use Toggl and it’s great as website, desktop or phone app.

      Reply
      • Jennifer says

        June 27, 2019 at 5:17 pm

        Ooh I’ll have to check that one out then.

        I work fulltime in a traditional setting, but I’m constantly trying to freelance on the side, and I’m always trying to strike a good balance between all work and time for me. I feel like if I tracked it more, I could really optimize that time.

        Reply

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