I'm an engineer at one of those YC companies. 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.
Plot twist: you're 21
Ask HN: What's your working day like?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#22Profession: Sales (software and hardware) at a massive IT conglomerate
Day consists of sitting at a desk waiting for a customer to ask for something.
Otherwise I play games and wait to get fired.
Collect random commission checks and salary whenever possible
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#23Running my own SaaS with 1 co-founder. Every day is different but in general:
- 9:00: Arrive at the office after a 50 minutes commute.
- Bookkeeping, coding, support, administration, legal and answering emails.
- 11:00: Go the gym.
- 13:00: Lunch.
- 14:00: Rocket League.
- 14:30: Same as #2.
- 16:10: Take the train home.
Even though the effective working hours in a normal day are few I do get a lot of stuff done during those. I'm also compensating for the occasional crunch periods where I work 12 hours a day and weekends.
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#24Profession: IT-Auditor - full time, >10k employees
Workday:
- 6:30 Wake up & prepare myself
- 7:30 ~ 8:30 get to the office / client location
- 8:30 - 9:30 check latest mails, discuss the day with colleagues
- 9:30-12 work/meetings/analysis/testings/documentation
- 12-1 lunch
- 1~7 work/meetings/analysis/testings/documentation
- 7-8 get home
- 8-8:30 eat
- 8:30-10 TV, Games, Books, Relax...
- 10 sleep and repeat
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#25CTO - 6 staff - Kathmandu
6AM - Wake up - read news / email / Facebook
6.30 - Exercise on exercise bike for 1 hour
8.45 - Office - check PRs, slack, Pivotal Tracker
9.45 - Standup meeting
1pm - Lunch
7pm - Dinner
7.30 - Back at office
10pm - Home - movie / reading / sleep
I have no commute; my office is right beside my house. The only meetings we have are remote (slack / skype) which happen every so often. All communication is through slack allowing employees to work from home whenever they need.
Most of my work is working on the product across multiple projects. Code review on PRs and ensuring that the services are working as expected. We're a small team, it's hard to hide / slack off.
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#26Profession: Web developer, self employed building own product / consultation.
Workday:
- 7:15AM: Alarm goes off. Shut it off, go back to sleep.
- 7:20AM: Ask wife and kids to keep it down, still sleeping.
- 8:00AM: Wife and kids left to school / work, can finally get alittle more sleep / pupper doggo jumps into bed and cuddes.
- 8:30AM-9AM: Wake up realize the time, and jump out of bed and get dressed.
- 9AM: take pupper doggo outside, then head down stairs to office.
- 9AM-11AM: Slack, IRC, Hacker News, Github Notifications, Email, Reddit review.
- 11AM-1PM: Work on consultation work.
- 1PM-2PM: Lunch.
- 2PM-4PM: Work on consulation work.
- 4PM-5PM: Wind down consultation work and start looking over tasks for my own project.
- 5PM-8PM: Go pick up daughter from daycare, have dinner and family time.
- 8PM-11PM: Work on own product.
- 11PM-12AM: Watch an episode of a show I have DVR'd.
- 12AM-7:15AM: Sleep.
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#27Full stack dev
8:15 wake up
8:25 drive to work
9:00 check emails/reddit/facebook
10:00 code/reddit
12:00 lunch
13-14:00 code/reddit
16-17:00 head home.
17:40 bike ride/exercise
18:30 personal projects
20:00 game
23:30 bed
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#28Profession/position: Lead Software Developer (Web) - Full Time, sometimes I work remotely, most times at the office. Workday:
- 6:30 Wake up and have a small breakfast.
- 7:00 Gym, includes shower.
- 9:30 Have a large breakfast and prepare coffee ;)
- 10:00 Start working on tasks for the day.
- 13:00 Lunch.
- 14:00 Get back to desk and procrastinate for a bit. I like to watch YouTube.
- 15:00 Work on tasks, attend meetings, or pair up with our new-hire on things they're struggling with.
- 17:00 Break.
- 18:00 Work on tasks.
- 19:30 Go home and unwind for a bit, or go see my friends.
- 21:00 Dinner.
- 22:30 Prepare gym bag and food for tomorrow.
- 23:00 Bed.
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#29Profession: Software Engineer, full time working for a big company in a small office
Workday: - Wake up, shower and walk to the office - Arrive in the office and bake some breakfast - Start doing actual work at ~ 9:30 - Work is usually predefined tasks + reacting to specific customer/management requests - Team meetings happens 3 times a week - Code review over the day - Around 6pm start walking back home
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#30I made an account to post this. I come to HN often because I find it interesting and I thought I'd contribute, in amongst the software engineers:
Teacher (UK):
6:30 get up, eat, take child to nursery
8:15 arrive, plan lessons, mark work
9:20 teach
12:40 working lunch (meetings, helping students with work)
13:40 teach
15:40 plan lessons, mark, or attend meetings
16:30 gym
17:30 collect child from nursery and generally feed and entertain
20:00 feed self
20:30 planning lessons, marking
22:00 bed