kristen999 | Playing on the Job.

I work in two schools now and one of them doesn't allow us to use the computer for personal purposes, but the other one actually has a computer at the classroom which I do use all the time. The only problem that lately it's got a few bugs and is making using it impossible. *iz still waiting for tech support* It's been like that for a month. *cries*

I have to sit at the front desk at a library and they don't care if I am online as long as I answer questions and do other things that fall under my job title. That means that most of the time, I am online:)

So are you also able to read ff too??
:-D

Yep. I get interrupted alot, so it is easier to read shorter stories. Longer stories will take me a couple of days or I will take them home and try to read them.

such dedication to Sheppard and Lorne.
:-D

I do love my boys!:)

I know
:-)
It is why I made that observation
which makes me say once again:
I miss SGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read one-shots at work on my break, but the rest I save for home. I do check the net a lot since I do stare at the same stuff all the time.

Hello, fellow library slave! I'm usually in charge, so I don't check up on things as much as I used to. Obviously, today is the exception! My one-shot LJ peek. Though I have my laptop here and I can do whatever I like on break. ;-)

Love meeting a fellow library worker! I usually work the night shift (me and one other employee) and most people in the library then are pretty self sufficient. I am only needed to check things in and out. I have free reign of the internet as long as I still help people when it is needed!

Well, I'm lucky. As a translator, I work from home. So basically, I'm connected to the net 24-7 - well, that's a lie, I do shut off my computer when I go to bed :P I use Poppy for Windows, so it bleeps whenever I get an email. And every three to four pages that I translate, I check my LJ and Twitter. I need to give my eyes a bit rest after staring at the white page in Word for half an hour.

I wondered what you did! Awesome you get to work from home! I check out stuff on LJ to give me eyes a rest as well. Do a bit of research for a story, but don't write.

To be fair, I have a smart phone and am notified whenever I have a new email or Facebook comment. But I still check it during the day to clean out the crap and reply because a keyboard is WAY easier than typing on that little screen.

I have an office and I deliberately turned my screen so only I can see it. That way I look like I'm working hard when I'm really finishing the edits on my ficathon story...

I wondered why you reply from that :-P My screen is turned away from the door as much as possible, but I can still be caught. Awww. edits....what are those?

I keep an eye on my email (read check it obsessively all day long), but I am so busy in my job that I can't do anything more than that. I think I could, but in a previous job I hung out at on online discussion board. I never heard a thing about it, but in my current job I don't have near the time for anything like that. Also, I'm kind of obsessive, and I'm afraid if I allowed myself to check LJ or anything like that I would fall into old habits and that way lies unemployment!!

It can be addictive to check LJ at work, I try to limit myself and base it off of my workload.

Heh, I remember how adamant I was when I first started working at jobs where I had email access at my computer station (nearly a decade and a half ago) that I would *never* use it for non-work purposes! I couldn't figure out why anyone would! And I stuck to that for a long time! But somewhere in the first couple years of the 00's, it started creeping in there, and by the time I left my last job, I was checking LJ and my email probably once an hour if not more often. And writing fanfic in a little window minimized at the corner of my screen. Which probably says a lot about my last job ...

I sometimes look back on it and hope that I managed to clean up all the evidence from my computer before I left. :D Not that it would matter, really, but I'm still friends with my old boss, and I'd hate for her to know what I got up to!

Hee! The guy, who had my job before me, wrote books of poetry that he forgot to delete :-P

My workload is triple his, but I've grown my efficient and need a break. At first, I was sacred to go online and I didn't have time. Now, I surf LJ, check e-mail in between jobs. I have a list of things to do and if I check off a few, then I reward myself :D

I'll read a one shot on break, but tend to read fanfic at home. I research when I'm at work, because it's easy to search for things and copy and paste stuff in a folder.

Hard to read slash at work though. I wait until I'm home to read that.

I bet! :-P

for me it really depends... i work on projects.. when i am on projects i am very very busy.. in between projects we can get very slow then i am online more then i should be

Same here. In between projects I have more freetime at work and can play around more.

hehe i am still paranoid though
but still i try and do some writing when i can

Honestly, the reason I don't spend more time on LJ etc., is because work has it banned. Either they haven't worked out Dreamwidth yet, or they're not blocking it, because I have access to DW - which is why I tend to post from over there now.

It's probably just as well - I post on LJ and I get quite a few comments that I can't respond to until I get home. I post on DW and I get only a couple of comments and it's not too much time to answer them.

I write fanfic while at work - lunchtimes, and sometimes when I'm doing documentation and am bored. Mostly, though, I'm programming - and if it's engaging developmental programming, I'm more than happy to solve problems. If I have a story to nut out, I sometimes scribble down notes on the story on paper, like I'm making notes for work things.

But yes, it is hard to get in the proper headspace at work for fanfic - although I imagine it's easier for me: I don't usually write het or slash while at work and the large body of my work is gen, possibly with a dash of UST in there, but nothing explicit.

In order to read fic (which I don't do much anymore, since few people write my pairings and I'm very picky about who I read in the Gen area), I go through my f-lists in the morning and save the LJ entries and stories that I want to read - in '?format=light' on my USB drive. Then I read them at lunch, or when my brain needs a break.

I'll read something very short on my break, but I answer e-mails at work so any spare time at home I focus on writing. I'm employed at a small enough place where they can't afford to black things etc..

I have to be careful though since I'm in this weird analyst/IT support role and people are constantly knocking at my door which has a window. Saturdays I'm typically the only person on the top floor, so I'm practically alone which is very tempting when I'm between projects.

I check my mail and my LJ-friendslist during my lunchbreak. If there is a tiny, small story I read it during my break or I read some paragraphs over the day during my programm does its calculations - but mostly I read the summary of a fic (and then I'm getting very excited and happy about the prospect of coming home and reading a new fic! =))

Sometimes (but that's more the exception than the rule) I read longer stories if I'm bored...

I'm in the same boat. I'll read something very small on my break, but I'll use the time to scan new fics to see if they are something I want to read when I'm home.

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