Ask HN: What's your working day like?

Profession: Firefighter - Full time Workday (kind of, nothing is typical at the firehouse):

- [06:00]: Wake up - get dressed covertly and slip out of the house

- [06:30] Arrive at the station - Get coffee! Find my "relief" which is the similarly ranked person on the off going shift.

- run 911 calls

- [07:30] Have "line up"; Where we discuss what drills we have planned, eat some breakfast... drink more coffee. Talk about the previous day off.

- run 911 calls

- [08:30] Workout. Generally we have a mix of runners, lifters and crossfitters. Sometimes we will do the workout "on air" with our SCBA packs on... sometimes we need to just walk a few miles. Everyone on my shift likes to workout.

- run 911 calls

- [10:00] Shower and checkout equipment or drill. Send someone to the grocery store for the meals of the day.

- run 911 calls

- [11:00] Cook lunch, check email, and do any CE/Online training

- run 911 calls

- [12:00] eat lunch (between 12 and 2pm we typically get to eat... based on calls) , then pick up

- [13:30] safety nap for the long night ahead

- run 911 calls

- [14:30] Afternoon coffee, plan drills for the next shift. Admin stuff.

- run 911 calls

- [15:00] Drill on some piece of equipment. Learn or relearn something. Generally Fire in the morning, EMS in the Afternoon.

- [16:00] start preparing dinner

- [17:00] Flag down and eat (depending on calls). We can watch TV or do personal stuff after this time.

- run 911 calls for the night, try to sleep

- [06:00] awake and get ready to go home.

If you're running a SaaS, presumably it's cloud based. Why the 50 min commute?

Why do you make sure to get there before everyone else? Is it that important to you that you be the first one in? Or is it another reason?

Could you elaborate on what does studying medical physics entail? This is the first time I'm hearing about it and I'm curious since this appears to be at the intersection of two unbelievably complex fields (to me at least)

Commercial programmer, full-time, some remote, some office. No alarm clock, watch, or cell phone. I don't know what time it is except for outlook meeting reminders or SO telling me it's time for dinner, Jeopardy, or Penguins or Steelers game. Same routine for years:

  - Cats wake me up when it's light. I feed them.
  - Bike ride on trails, 5 to 13 miles.
  - Shower
  - fresh fruit, coffee, salad, grazing off & on all day
  - check & resolve all personal email
  - check & resolve all work email
  - check headlines
  - check work queue (Visual Studio)
  - review last night's notes
  - spend most of the day in IDE, writing code, unit testing
  - take a break every hour or 2 for email, VSO, snack, Hacker News, twitter, lichess
  - attend meetings when outlook reminds me
  - dinner with SO, reminded with, "Two minute warning!"
  - check & resolve all email (I end every day at email zero.)
  - Jeopardy with SO
  - no more computer
  - print source code, review, & mark up in red
  - write down tomorrow's To Do List
  - read other stuff
  - lights out