Hours of my time today and how they can/cannot be billed:
Non billable:
* Hour spent researching contrary evidence for, composing, and subsequently not sending a response to family members regarding whether or not incorporating prayer in school and spanking children would prevent further school shootings. (This is really another post for another day)
* Hour spent frustratedly composing fake banner copy for an arthritis pain medicine that shall remain nameless (eg, "If you're going to be such a pansy about one tiny little black box warning, just take a fucking aspirin.")
* Hour looking at shoes on Zappos.com (ok, it was nowhere near an hour).
Billable:
* Hours spent rewriting for the 4th time real banner copy for an arthritis pain medicine that shall remain nameless as client changes direction again. And again. And again.
* Hour spent in a meeting with project managers discussing something... about what they were doing for the rest of the week? Maybe? (during which I was billing my time in our time-reporting system).
* Hour spent researching topical infectious disease.
* Hour spent buying softball glove. (I can justify this because it's for the company game!)
* Hour spent researching contrary evidence for, composing, and subsequently not sending a response to family members regarding whether or not incorporating prayer in school and spanking children would prevent further school shootings. (This is really another post for another day)
* Hour spent frustratedly composing fake banner copy for an arthritis pain medicine that shall remain nameless (eg, "If you're going to be such a pansy about one tiny little black box warning, just take a fucking aspirin.")
* Hour looking at shoes on Zappos.com (ok, it was nowhere near an hour).
Billable:
* Hours spent rewriting for the 4th time real banner copy for an arthritis pain medicine that shall remain nameless as client changes direction again. And again. And again.
* Hour spent in a meeting with project managers discussing something... about what they were doing for the rest of the week? Maybe? (during which I was billing my time in our time-reporting system).
* Hour spent researching topical infectious disease.
* Hour spent buying softball glove. (I can justify this because it's for the company game!)