[DougWebb]

For a 40 hour week and 150 tasks per week to track, you have just 16 minutes per week per task. 16 minutes, to understand what's going on with a task that requires 13-20 hours to complete. How can you possibly develop an understanding of any of these tasks? I'm guessing that you can't, and that your 'tracking' must be limited to updating Basecamp with whether or not the task is on-track or blocked.

[rodolphoarruda]

It doesn't go that way because of the variety of projects/tasks you are handling. For some projects I check the entire Gantt chart in seconds, send 2 or 3 notifications and that's it, 5 minutes max. Other times it would take me 1 full hour to write a single email with 4 or 5 statements and send it to company executives. I have to choose my words, be careful and rewrite. So it depends.

You are not taking overtime into consideration. In 2015 alone I worked a full month worth of overtime. Working 40h a week for me was far from reality. On peak periods I was pushing from 12 to 16h a day.

Edit: tried to improve grammar. Added more details to improve context.