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Profession: Software Security Engineer (Work from home) Workday: - [08:00] Wake up in a daze make breakfast - [08:30] Shower, get dressed and ready - [09:15] Start work (at home), read email / respond to email. - [10:30] Prioritize days work. - [10:40] Research first priority issue, read bz, take notes, read again, familiarize self with new area (almost every time). - [11:45] Eat lunch - [12:35] Attempt to write a re…
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Great to see some variety!
Haha my pleasure! That's what we do. Especially for inside sales. Outside sales is mostly the same thing, unless you have great accounts. Only difference is you sit at your house and not your desk. And you also do fake travel and bill it to your credit card for points, and wait to be reimbursed by your company, who think you are out like actually visiting customers lol Some people do great work and are very skilled b…
[08:00] Wake up
[09:05] Arrive at work a little after 9 to fight the power
[09:15] Coffee. The daily pilgrimage to the Mr. Coffee is the highlight of my day.
[09:25] Go to meeting scheduled by demon. I don't need to be in the meeting and nod my head whenever they look at me.
[10:05] Check email to find a customer figured out my email and started emailing me on how to figure out their wifi password. This is their 5th time emailing me despite having forwarded them to customer support.
[10:45] Ask head of developer team if security issue XYZ is fixed yet. Dev team head says he doesn't think it's a real security issue and won't be dedicating resources to fixing it. Tells me to reopen the ticket as a "feature". Researcher plans on disclosing the security issue within the week.
[11:10] Check ticketing system to find 5 new emails from security researchers from India demanding bug bounty for a reflected XSS issue they found on one of our static promotional websites.
[11:15] Briefly consider a career change
[11:16] Remember how big dat paycheck is
[12:00] Lunch
[13:00] Meeting about long-standing architectural security issue that I want fixed. None of the PMs want to dedicate resources to fix it.
[14:00] CEO sends company wide email about how good our security is compared to our competition.
[15:00] By now I've read every reddit post on the first 20 pages.
[17:00] Go home while being too mentally exhausted to go out after work and make friends
Loving the wage slave life
Running 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 duri…
If you're running a SaaS, presumably it's cloud based. Why the 50 min commute?
Workday:
-[8:00] Meeting, once a week with Italy (tool supplier), 2 days a week with US manufacturing (on site)
-[9:00-11:30] Catch up on emails, review 3D CAD for projects, individual casual meetings with designers, marketing, CAD etc
[11:30-1:00] Lunch with coworkers, usually go to local climbing gym or go for a hike
[1:00-5:00] Same as morning routine, sometimes have to help manufacturing team with production issues, usually schedule larger meetings to kickoff new projects
[5:00] Touch point call with Chinese counterparts for new projects
[6:00] Go home.. exchange email/wechat with China for a while
- [6:45 AM] - Wake up, take out dog
- [7:45 AM] - Place kids in the car, off to car pool
- [8:25 AM] - Arrive at work
- [8:30 - 9:30 AM] - Catch up on email and news
- [9:30 - 11:45 AM] - Work on whatever
- [11:45 - 12:45 PM] - Head to gym and get workout in
- [12:45 PM - 5:45 PM] - Work on whatever
- [5:45 PM - 7:45 PM] - Head home, spend time with family
- [7:45 PM - 11:30 PM] - Work on either full time or personal projects on laptop while on the couch with the wife
- [11:30 PM - 1:30 AM] - Work on personal projects
- [1:30 AM] - Bed
Profession: Web Developer, self employed working remote with startups and creative agencies. 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 dinne…
At Home:
[08:00] - Wake Up
[08:00] - Coffee and catch up on emails, news in bed
[09:00] - Walk or Run with the dog
[10:00] - Coding, bug fixing, calls with team
[12:00] - Lunch
[13:00] - Coding etc. interspersed with house/ garden work (depening on work demands)
[18:00] - Prepare dinner for family and Eat
[19:30] - Relax/ work on side projects
[23:00] - Bed
Commuting to the office (2-4 times/ month):
[07:00] - Wake up
[07:30] - travel to work (mix of bus, ferry and subway)
[10:15] - Arrive at work
[10:30] - Mix of meetings, urgent work, pingpong, and sometimes beer
[17:00] - Leave work and reverse the journey home
[21:00] - Arrive home
[23:00] - Bed
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If you're running a SaaS, presumably it's cloud based. Why the 50 min commute?
Some people like to work in one place and live in another.
50 min each way is 100 min per day, 500 min per week. That's an entire work day.
A commute that long isn't for founders, it's for wage slaves!
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 ab…
I looked into becoming a volunteer firefighter after I got out of the Marines, but honestly the extremely long training required and the extremely high potential for PTSD from fire calls gone bad put me off from it.
One of my first stories was with some local firefighters that responded to a car wreck.
When they got there, there was a woman trapped in the wreck.
Then it caught fire. There was nothing they could do but watch the woman burn to death.
Decided then and there that firefighting wasn't in the cards for me.