Ask HN: What's your working day like?

Good man

there are two counter points in that book he makes though: 1. the best players control the game by directing it towards their strengths 2. take your own playing style into consideration

you can write software any where you can take your cpu, pixel grid and network thing me bob

Profession: Contracted Website Engineering Consultant

[Between 7-7:30 am] Wake up without alarm, check on incontinent girlfriend

[7:30 am] Make coffee, insert into thermos.

[7:45 am] Return to bedroom, pull sheets off gf, change her as she's waking up, kiss her goodbye and depart.

[8 - 8:30 am] Arrive at whatever place I've chosen to work for the day (coffee shop or park by the river usually) and catch up on emails.

[9 am] Open thermos, start working.

[11 am] Head to gym, workout for an hour (depending on the day it's either cardio or boxing)

[12 noon] Drive home, cook a buttload of food and break intermittent fast (usually with some combination of egg, avocado, toast, and meat.) Also pack second meal, generally rice/chicken/spinach in tupperware.

[12:30 pm] Return to someplace from earlier step, re-situate myself, re-open thermos, begin working.

[2:30 pm] Come up for air, check emails, go for a walk if weather permits. Eat tupperware lunch.

[3 pm] Return to whatever work I can finish before productivity begins to wane.

[5 pm] Pick girlfriend up from medical school, return home, bitch about traffic.

[6 pm] Enjoy third meal, whatever we want to split. I try not to force my strange dieting habits on her.

[6:30 pm - 10:30 pm] Some combination of meditation, catching up on programming news, reading books on occult practice, working on side projects, and occasional cuddly activities.

[10:30 pm] Change her for the night, then sleep.

I have strict rules about making work/life balance healthy so I refuse to do anything past 5 pm. It's the common pitfall of the remote contractor. Luckily my boss understands and I perform well enough that he doesn't care. We also live in the Midwest which gives me the benefit of being close enough timezone-wise to both coasts to be able to work alongside both of them decently well. I do sometimes work weekends though, the desire to be productive all day is pretty strong.

There are six United States flags that are not required to follow this rule. Do you know which ones they are?

Profession: meat robot at an Amazon fulfillment center.

[4:00am] wake up

[4:30am] coffee, morning workout, maybe code

[5:30am] shower

[6:00am] breakfast

[6:30am] drive to work

[6:55am] clock in, mandatory stand-up, bullshit, pretend OSHA stretches. Everybody claps out.

[7:00am] push juice carts full of merchandise from point a to point b, push empty juice carts from point b to point a

[10:15am] break, definitely not surfing HN on a work computer

[10:45am] push juice carts full of merchandise from point a to point b, push empty juice carts from point b to point a

[2:15pm] break, definitely not surfing HN on a work computer, also definitely not complaining about processes or the UI of the internal software on the public whiteboard.

[2:45pm] push juice carts full of merchandise from point a to point b, push empty juice carts from point b to point a

[5:30pm] clock out, drive home, maybe code

Alternately, instead of pushing juice carts, I can remove items from bins, count them and put them back, remove items from bins, count them (a different way this time) and put them back, or remove items from juice carts provided by other people doing what I do now, and put them into bins to be counted.

Robots bring the bins, but that's not nearly as fun as it sounds, because it means you have to stay in one spot for the entire shift while the work comes to you, because algorithms. The little orange fuckers[0] are worth more than my car and I'm pretty sure that if someone set the facility on fire, the Kiva pods would be rescued well before me.

This is not a technical job, and not one Hacker News would be at all interested in reading about from my position, but for the time being it's the only job I have.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Robotics