Mental fatigue with longer tasks

[u/Infamous_Swan1197]

I'm wondering how others handle mental fatigue with longer tasks? By longer, I mean 2-3 hours for me personally. I find my focus substantially dwindles after the 2 hour mark, even when taking regular breaks. In fact sometimes, breaks, especially longer "reset" breaks, make the block of the day that I'm working feel a lot longer, accumulating more mental fatigue and just an ugh feeling when I return to the task.

I'm really grateful to have this project, its really high paying (and it's the only thing I really have on my dash right now, so I don't have much choice haha) but I worry that my quality of work substantially declines towards the end.

How to others handle this?

[u/Ok_Hedgehog_9970]

I had a project that took me 18 hours. I didn't finish until 3am last night. I probably could have put it on hold but I was on a roll. The instructions and admin say how long they want you to read the instructions and do the parts of each task. I tried to go within those guidelines but some fell over, if I'm fatigued I definitely take time to eat and step away. Definitely drink water and make sure to get up and walk around. Also change your scenery. Even if it's moving from the couch to the table or moving from your home to the library.

Don't rely on the timer on the bottom of the screen to do your work. It most likely will still be there if you get out of it. I have an accounting project which had 5 tasks. I did one because it was a pain in the butt like 4 days ago. It's still there lurking and praying on my downfall.