How Do You Keep Track of Your Hours?

[PA_dud3]

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Pretty much the title. I know some people prefer everything in spreadsheets. I'm sort of old school and write everything down in a logbook. I started out just putting everything into my phone. Any other ways people might use? How do you keep track of your shadowing, volunteering, work hours, etc? Do you find it helpful to write everything down?

I know this is an odd question, just wanted to see how other people operate.

Thanks!

 

[Dr panda]

MS Excel and paper notebook just in case...

 

[chemdoctor]

noblehour

 

[907914]

I guess and lean on the side of underestimating.

“Well, I worked there full time for 2 years so 40*50*2 is 4000 hours, let’s just say 3500 in case there was some sick days or PTO in there somewhere.”

“Well, I have been doing this volunteering gig one week a year for 6 years, so...let’s say 120 hours.”

“I do this 2 hours a week since last January? 124 hours looks weird...I will say 100.”

It is pretty inefficient, but I don’t stress over hours. I do what I wanna do and know that I will meet ‘sufficient’ hours either way.

Edit: I do have an “I love me book” in which I keep track of the most important stories/anecdotes as well as orders, certificates, printed emails etc. to remind me of everything.

 

[rdyotz]

Excel for sure. You can have it add up all of your hours for you. With a notebook, you have to sit there with a calculator and add in each occurrence.

 

[atm14834]

Short term things (shadowing mostly) I put into like the notes section in my phone. I just logged the dates and number of hours each day. Long term things (work, research, etc) I really don't keep track of. For my application, I just guesstimated where I was based on about how many hours I work per week, per month, etc.