Daily Dose of Curious

Site access is the longest part of most jobs and appears on no timesheet.

23 SEP 2026FIELD NOTES

Parking, signing in, finding whoever has the key, waiting for the class to finish. None of it is the work and all of it is the day, and any estimate that leaves it out is an estimate of something else.

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