I spend at least 1 hour a day just reading up on forensic techniques and technologies as a forensic examiner, is this average? Or should I be working harder at research? )
I'm curious what other qualified examiners classify as normal for them.
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Probably can't class it as research, but throughout the course of most days i'll probably keep up with the messageboards, when i've got a natural break in what i'm doing, or when i've reached the point where i'm going dangerously crosseyed.
(i realised looking at a different screen sounds stupid for the crosseyed bit, but anything other than trudging through 8 zillion documents, or images, or whatever, is a break at times)
So i'd call that an hourish perhaps.
Yeah, I wouldn't call reading to keep up "research". I use an RSS feed to track some blogs pertinent to my needs, but "research" usually involves something more active on my part.
Greetings,
I spend at least an hour a day reading various lists, this forum, and listening to podcasts. I'd qualify these as "keeping current" rather than research. When I spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out the YAFFS2 filesystem on Android phones, that was research.
-David
I would say I easily spend 2-3 hours a day. Helps to have a dual monitor set-up to keep all the news feeds, Forensic Focus, Digital Detective, Linked In, etc. open and refreshing 😉