Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?

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Post by carucez » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 4:41 PM UTC

San Diego County, California.

M-F: 06:30 stock market alarm rings. I sleep in.

06:30-07:15 twitter alerts inform me of stocks to trade.

07:30 I get out of bed

08:00 showered, i head downstairs to read more twitter

08:30 leave for work

09:30 arrive at work (yea, suck)... do work all day, non-stop, no lunch, no break.

17:00 leave for home

18:05 arrive at home, turn on oven, crack beer, clean up

18:15 pizza in oven, read twitter, ebook, or other reading

18:45 eat dinner

19:00 watch video lectures, set stock alerts

20:00 write notes, draw pictures, prepare for tomorrow's code session

21:00 tea and quiet time, screens avoided.

21:30 prepare for bed

21:45 in bed, lights out

S-S: 08:30 get out of bed... naturally

08:35 coffee, cold water, email

09:00 notes for items to do today

09:30 eat oatmeal, clean kitchen/house/bathrooms... whatever

10:30 computer time

11:00 programming time (or venture outside for a change)

17:00 make rice

17:45 prepare dinner

18:00 eat

18:30 dishes, tv

20:30 twitter/news/world events

21:30 prepare for bed

22:00 in bed... (possibly read a book)

22:30 lights out

Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?

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Post by joshmn » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 11:50 PM UTC

Lots of great responses here, I can chime in! I'm from Minneapolis.

I usually wake up between 9-11, and always without an alarm. I'll get up, take a 5-hour energy, go have some breakfast while I watch Reddit.tv. Breakfast is usually toast and Honey Bunches of Oats, sometimes eggs and toast, sometimes a toaster strudel (no toast). I'll then pop my Vyvanse (adderall) and head to my office.

Once I'm in my office I'll hop on Slack, Ventrilo (we Lunch is usually around 1, but no later than 2. It's a bit smaller than my breakfast is, but enough to ensure that I don't get hungry before dinner.

I'll then spend the next five hours as close to a 100% productivity level as I can.

Figure it's about 7, I start to unwind. I'll put on a sports game or head out for a drink with colleagues or clients.

Around 9 is when I'm usually doing my own thing. I'll spend some time on my piano or working on a side project.

It's now about 11 where I settle into bed, no laptop allowed on my bed. I'll put on a documentary, close out emails, and prepare for the next day.

I'm 23, self-employed. I quit my bullshit "100+ hour work week let's call you at 1am saying somethings not working on my daughter's iPhone with the app" a few months ago. I'm not going back.

Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?

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Post by adamzerner » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 4:34 AM UTC

Pomodoros = a productivity technique I use when I'm working. Currently I'm learning algorithms as I apply for programming jobs.

09:00 - wake up via alarm and hit snooze

09:40 - actually wake up -> check internet stuff

10:00 - get out of bed and start doing pomodoros

11:00 - make smoothie and drink it while continuing pomodoros

11:30 - do pushups -> continue pomodoros

12:30 - lunch

01:30 - pomodoros (usually get interrupted with something)

05:00 - gym

06:30 - shower, surf web

07:00 - dinner, watch a little tv

08:30 - more pomodoros, or watch move/socialize

12:00 - lights out, listen to podcast/watch tv until I'm sleepy

01:00 - sleep

Really, this is the best case scenario.

* In practice, I often sleep later. And I often try to go to be earlier but end up lying in bed for too long trying to go to sleep.

* And somehow my meals end up taking forever. I'm a really slow eater, and apparently a slow cooker also. Plus I like to relax and watch a little TV after I finish.

* Often times I'm interrupted with stuff. Today I had to shovel the driveway. Tomorrow I have to go to the doctor.

Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?

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Post by olegious » Sun, Jan 25, 2015, 8:02 AM UTC

In SF (pretty typical weekday M-Th, Friday's are different)

6:30 wake up, stretch, pull-ups, handstands, meditate (don't eat breakfast, intermittent fasting has changed my mornings and I haven't looked back)

7:30ish catch bus to work, read industry news on bus

8:30 arrive at work, make tea, review tasks for day, set up pomodoros, take care of personal errands (once or twice a week meet a good friend to catch up)

9:00 begin work

12:30ish post lunch walk (about 20 min)

5-5:30pm leave work

6:30 get home, maybe workout (2-3 times a week), prepare/eat dinner with wife, maybe go for a walk together

8:30ish or 9:00- work on personal projects (python, watch repair, blogging, etc.), or watch TV with wife

10:30ish get in bed, read

Midnight, sleep.

Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?

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Post by provost » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 5:48 AM UTC

joshmn wrote: post #62

Lots of great responses here, I can chime in! I'm from Minneapolis. I usually wake up between 9-11, and always without an alarm. I'll get up, take a 5-hour energy, go have some breakfast while I watch Reddit.tv. Breakfast is usually toast and Honey Bunches of Oats, sometimes eggs and toast, sometimes a toaster strudel (no toast). I'll then pop my Vyvanse (adderall) and head to my office. Once I'm in my office I'll ho…

What's the start-up?

Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?

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Post by Fenicio » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 9:39 AM UTC

Wake up at 06:00

Work in the last CS project until 07:00

Shower, breakfast, clean up after myself, leaving home at 08:15

Get to work at 09:00, go into jungle mode until 14:00

Drive to father's place, eat in under 5 minutes, go back to work to be there at 15:00

Work until 18:00, pick up the girlfriend, get home at 19:00

Do house maintenance, cook, eat, watch something over popcorn time.

Go to sleep between 22:00 and 23:00

Repeat until I get fired or I finish the CS project.

Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?

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Post by joshmn » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 5:26 PM UTC

provost wrote: post #65

joshmn wrote: post #62

Lots of great responses here, I can chime in! I'm from Minneapolis. I usually wake up between 9-11, and always without an alarm. I'll get up, take a 5-hour energy, go have some breakfast while I watch Reddit.tv. Breakfast is usually toast and Honey Bunches of Oats, sometimes eggs and toast, sometimes a toaster strudel (no toast). I'll then pop my Vyvanse (adderall) and head to my office. Once I'm in my office I'll ho…

What's the start-up?

I'm actually running a little development agency while I work on some side projects. My goal is to use my income from developing other people's ideas to develop my own. Sooner or later, though, I hope the agency is on autopilot so I can devote full-time to one of my own ideas.

Re: Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?

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Post by joshmn » Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

scarecrowbob wrote: post #14

gberger wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this satire?

Naw, that's me writing in the 12-2 time frame when I get blitzed drunk with my violinist wife and her pianist. Before going to bed. It will probably tip over someday but I can say that it has been working for the last 5 years.

What.