[gcascio]

> It was all very doable and not useless time spent futzing around (I would also stop tracking my time for any break I took - no exceptions).

I have a similar experience working remotely. I can be productive 40+ hours a week without getting drained.

But this includes making rather long breaks between blocks of work. Usually this ends up in blocks of ~2-3hours with breaks of ~1hour in between. Although this works out my end of work is rather late (typically I work from 8am to 7pm) which leaves little time to do private things.

So in conclusion, although this works out I am looking into reducing my work hours to 30 hours per week to have a bit more time for myself.

[chmod775]

I'm somewhat similar, except that I use those breaks to do private things, like spending time with others, getting a workout in, doing chores, etc.

As a result I have much less useless idle time compared to working in an office and my days feel like there's so much more time in them. When it's 7pm for me there's nothing important left to do, whereas with an office job I would probably have to cram a dozen things into the next three hours before 10pm.

So yeah I don't mind "ending late".