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2. Uber to work
3. Get coffee immediately on arrival
4. Check email/calendar
5(a). start working on current iteration tasks
OR
5(b). go to a meeting
6. more work on tasks
7. Lunch
8. work/meetings
9. more coffee
10. more work/meetings
11. Leave work, go to Starbucks or Barnes & Noble, etc.
12. Work on the startup project for 2-4 hours
13. Go home.
14. Eat.
15. Read for a little while
16. Go to sleep.
17. GOTO 1
Workday:
- [08:00] Wake up in a daze and make my wife and son tea and breakfast
- [08:30] Shower, get dressed and ready
- [09:15] After prepping water canister and tea caddy, head to garden office.
- [09:30] Procrastinate
- [14:00] Realise the work day is nearly over. Panic. Cram work in.
- [17:00] Finish work, make son dinner and play with him.
- [19:00] Put son to bed and start making wife and I dinner.
- [20:30] Watch Parks and Recreation whilst contemplating an entire career change.
-Awake at 04:00 -Start remote work at 04:30 -Gym at 10:00, followed by shower/lunch -Resume work at 12:00, finish at 14:00 -Side-projects from 14:00 on.
Work remotely for a great company, other than scheduled meetings, work to my own time which tends to be split up to AM/PM and also, each day is a different schedule.
The lack of routine is great, I get to work and live at the same time, rather than feeling like my life is dominated by office hours.
- 6:30AM Awake
- 7:00AM Leave home, work on transit if needed
- 9:00AM Arrive at office
No typical day, but typical activities. Day is divided into about a dozen 30-minute and 1-hour chunks )(so, no getting into The Zone like programming), mostly dictated by existing meeting schedules:
~60% meetings
~20% communication, solving things over E-mail when I can, hounding people in person only when I must.
~10% going over the issue tracker, to get a picture of project health, look for warning signs, stay on top of things
~5% writing various reports
~5% working on automation to help me do more of the above
- 6:00PM Leave office, work on transit if needed
- 8:00-8:30PM Arrive at home and collapse
I begin my morning working on a priority-sorted list of tasks. Then at some point, a 25-year-old DMs me on Slack to do something urgent and fucks up my entire day/week.
Workday:
- 8 AM - Wake up, shower, shave, etc.
- 8:30-9 AM - Ride the subway in to the office
- 9-12 PM - Calls, meetings, data analysis, output creation (primarily in word, powerpoint, and excel)
- 12-12:30 PM - Lunch (but this can shift around widely based on meetings)
- 12:30-7 PM - Calls, meetings, data analysis, output creation (primarily in word, powerpoint, and excel), usually with a half hour break at some point
- 7 PM - dinner is delivered to the office
- 7-~9PM - finish up work for the day
- 9-9:30 - head home
- 9:30-12PM - unwind (internet, side projects, video games, etc.)
It's hard to define an average day, as my end time can be 6 PM, 9 PM, or 1 AM, but 9 PM is probably close to average. The work that I do on a given day can also vary widely. I've got a light day today, hence the comment.
Project Manager - Large tech company. - 6:30AM Awake - 7:00AM Leave home, work on transit if needed - 9:00AM Arrive at office No typical day, but typical activities. Day is divided into about a dozen 30-minute and 1-hour chunks )(so, no getting into The Zone like programming), mostly dictated by existing meeting schedules: ~60% meetings ~20% communication, solving things over E-mail when I can, hounding people in per…
And I thought my 1.5 hours, 3 days per week was bad.
I do not envy you.
Project Manager - Large tech company. - 6:30AM Awake - 7:00AM Leave home, work on transit if needed - 9:00AM Arrive at office No typical day, but typical activities. Day is divided into about a dozen 30-minute and 1-hour chunks )(so, no getting into The Zone like programming), mostly dictated by existing meeting schedules: ~60% meetings ~20% communication, solving things over E-mail when I can, hounding people in per…
4.0 - 4.5 hours of commuting every day? And I thought my 1.5 hours, 3 days per week was bad. I do not envy you.