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by ponsin 2407 days ago
I earn a monthly salary. That means that as long as I avoid getting fired I earn the same amount regardless of how much time I spend on Reddit/Facebook.
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I'm salaried and eligible for overtime, but I don't have the option of overtime whenever I want. I did have a job with unlimited overtime once, but it didn't last (the overtime I mean, they decided to classify us as exempt).

If you are eligible for overtime, it seems like, say, time-and-a-half is probably going to be more lucrative than a second job.

I see.

Are there activities that you would consider productive (you would like to do more) and activities that are non-productive?

There is an idea to assign a positive hourly rate for good time spent and a negative hourly rate to other activities in the internet.

The app would track that time spend and show balance to gamify productivity rise.

You definitely have to make the hourly customizable. Just stating the obvious but people value things differently.

They could assign a positive rate for Reddit time.

Exactly, that was the takeout from this discussion.

I'm going to make functionality to assign a rate for each website, a positive or negative one. Even rates for different parts of the website. Also, a potentially useful feature is to make a cap, like the first 30 min per day does not count.

Well, there's also the nights you could spend driving Uber, working on mTurk, or writing mass produced erotica for someone on Upwork.