Is it realistic to carve out 3 hours for self-education during the working day?

Question

IT education

Hello.
I decided to try to “roll over” from freelancing to an office for the sake of seniority, a white salary, a mortgage, respect among boys, work experience in a large company and similar goodies, because I realized that for some reason it’s difficult for me personally to develop as a specialist on home freelancing (alas and oh, for 3 years of freelancing, I rate my level as junior, due to the fact that I managed to find only the same type of orders) and you just degrade socially. Well, I’m corny tired of sitting at home, and I regard freelancing options from cafes and coworking as a perversion of the very essence of freelancing (since for me personally, freelancing has always meant that it’s unnecessary to go anywhere, working pupated in your house).
The rate per hour in local offices is, of course, much less than freelancing, but, as I understand it, they rarely force you to “plow” 8 hours a day (although I saw a cool story that many companies have cameras and programs for tracking employees , in such I certainly will not go). Therefore, the idea was born to combine self-study and work (I read on Habré that a lot, almost the majority, do this).
The question is - is it possible to carve out a few hours (ideally 3 hours) from an office working day for self-education? I understand that this is all individual and depends on the office, but your experience is interesting in order to understand how it is at least on average and what you can roughly count on.
My plan so far is this - 1-2 hours in the morning, while there are no bosses and 1-2 hours in the evening, when the bosses have already left. And perhaps even the company itself will encourage this and will not have to "hide", provided, of course, that I will close all tasks in a timely manner and efficiently (I saw such precedents on the same hub)

Answer 1

It all depends on the project and the company. In some, your education will be further encouraged by free trips to trainings and education, and somewhere all your attempts will be slaughtered in the bud. Therefore, initially look for a place where the tutorials are part of the buns along with the hall and cookies

Answer 2

Most likely it won't work. But you can reduce the transport time (the company is closer), as well as get up early (at 5 am).

Answer 3

It completely depends on the project (not even on the office, because in a large office individual teams can have their own schedule).
However, it will be difficult to find an office where you can freely engage in self-study 2-3 hours a day (and full concentration is desirable for this, and not twitch every 20 minutes, being distracted by work) - it will be difficult. Here, sitting on a toaster, looking up from work for a couple of minutes, is easy everywhere.

Answer 4

Depends on the job in all my jobs before I quit, there came a moment when I just studied on my own for eight hours a day

Answer 5

2-3 hours IMHO fantasy, it can really come out half an hour or an hour, if there are no hands on the job. In general, you have a legitimate hour for lunch, it is quite possible to use it. However, it takes you an average of 30-60 minutes to travel by public transport, and you have an extra hour to read.
If you want really fast growth, you probably won't be able to spend only 8-9 hours on ALL work activities. With the exception of cases when the company is actively pumping an employee (however, in such companies it often does not work out from call to call)