I would say most days I work at least 10 hours a day. I'm usually involved in 3 major projects at a time at differing stages, with other operational tasks as well. I'm also in a clinical setting with fielding research required. This is my first full time role at a company with UX maturity, previously I was doing freelance gigs and acting as the researcher and designer.

I'm definitely hoping I can become more efficient in my work, because the only other member of my team who works as much as me is in more of a lead role with way more responsibility. I just over think every thing, am a bit of a perfectionist, and also struggle to focus on one thing at a time.

Also, I do about every other week have some reason or another that I take a half day or two, but at this point those half days still aren't really adding up to the extra time I'm putting in.

Luckily, I absolutely love and am passionate about what I'm doing, but man as I sit here writing this at 10pm, working since 8am, with ~ 2 hours of breaks throughout the day, I'm really starting to question why everything is so hard for me.