So. Much. Email.

I get a lot of email. I mean I really get a lot of email. Approximately 1,500 email per day.  Of that 1,500 about 1000 of it is spam (or at least filtered out as spam).  Of the remaining 500, about 200 of it is spam that didn't get caught leaving 300.  Of that 300 about half of it (200) I either don't need to respond to or can optionally respond to.

That leaves around 100 email per day that needs to be responded to.  At 3 minutes on average per email, that would be 5 hours per day of responding if I responded to all of them. I usually spend 3 hours per day on email. Which means quite a few emails that I should respond to just don't because there's not enoug h time.

Yesterday I wrote 73 emails. Average length was 50 words. Each one unique (i.e. none of these are "Canned" responses).  Today, because I got so busy, I've only written 44 emails. Which leaves me with around 450 emails I need to look over with some uniknown number needing a response (I would guess probably 100 of them). In fact, in the time I wrote this blog, I received 4 email. 3 were spam, 1 was legitimate (needing a response).