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Ask HN: What's your working day like?

#1
I'm curious about the details of the usual working day for different professions/positions (not necessary technical).

Examples of professions/positions: UI Designer, CEO, Sales, CTO, Welder, Trader (online/offline), Recruiter, System developer/administrator, Web developer, Civil Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Teacher, Professor, Astronaut... Anything.

I'll start:

Profession/position: Web developer - full time, remote - Workday:

    - Wake up & prepare myself.

    - Join a 10~15min call with my team (3 Developers, 1 Manager, 1 Designer).

    - Start working on assigned issues, usually for 1~4hours.

    - Catching up with emails/team conversations.

    - Reviewing other developers patches.

    - Repeat until calling it a day, usually 7~8 hours with 1 hour break.

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

#4
Software Engineer

- Awake at 7:00 am

- 8:30 am - on the train

- 9:30 am - at the office. Start working on my projects, join any meetings about any existing or new projects that affect me.

- 4:12 pm - leave work

- 4:30 pm - on the train back home

- 5:30 pm - home working side projects, work work, or trying to unwind.

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

#5
Software Developer. ~100 people org.

Weekdays, wake up 6:45am. Shower, shave every other day. Take dogs outside. Have breakfast. Drive 25 minutes to work, make sure to be there before everyone else (guaranteed if before 8:30am).

Read HN, LinkedIn, check email. Browse through development items, get stuff done. Have salad for lunch. Some more browsing and some more working.

Leave 4:30pm. Drive ~30 minutes back home.

Get home, have dinner, get ready for other work. The really interesting work, from 6:30pm to 11:30pm-midnight.

Weekends - do more of that really interesting work. At least 8 hours both Saturday and Sunday.

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

#7
Profession: Software Engineer (Web) at a large enterprise software company (~12k employees)

Workday:

- [6:30 am] Wake up and get the kids ready (I try and let my wife sleep-in since she has likely been up several times during the night tending to our infant son)

- [8:00-8:15] Get to work, check Email/Slack

- Write Code

- Mid-morning stand-up

- Write Code

- Home for lunch (I'm a 12 min drive from home)

- [1:00 pm] Write Code

- [5:15 pm] Home to run around with my insane 3 y/o

- [8:00 pm] Both kids are in bed

- [8:05 pm] Go for a jog

- [9:00 pm] Either work on side projects or read a book

This is pretty much every day. The software I work on is not exactly inspiring stuff but my company grants me a stable and predictable schedule of which I am thankful for.

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