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Originally Posted by Cherie

depends on your workload I can't get my work done in an hour, I nearly always work a little bit over, but then I do break on TiBB and have cups of tea and a breather from the PC and take my time...

Thats the choice you have to make though, work at a reasonable pace and take shorter breaks, or work at breakneck pace and take longer breaks. I prefer the former in-office, but definitely the latter at home . I also can work outwith office hours so I can bugger off at 1pm and jump back on at 10pm if I need to.

I did have another freelance job where I was paid for 15 hours a week but worked about 3, my son worked out I earned about 170.00 a hour on that one alas it is no more

My wife had (still has, technically) one of those . Unfortunately the nature of the work means it's on hold because of lockdown measures so no brucey bonus income for the time being. Academia needs to be in full swing again before the organisation will start back up, but the role is waiting when it does.

The actual hourly rate in academic freelancing is insane though, I should have stuck with it and done a masters