Ask HN: What's your working day like?

Perhaps you would be interested in "sales engineering", which deals more with the ingest of customer information and needs, and outputs a configuration (from you) that will solve technically whatever challenges the customers is having.

Sales representatives like me are responsible for portraying an image, telling a company story, and manipulating people into doing quickly that which a rational person wouldn't do at all.

The knowledge base can be learned, but soft skills and truly psychopathic levels of manipulative ability can only be cultivated with intensive experience.

It is basically a performance art at that point :)

Profession/position: Software developer - full time, office-located* - peers are remote but boss is local - [9:45-10:30] wake up, shower, breakfast

[10:30-11:00] either cycle to work if there are any bikes/slots in the local bicycle rental system, otherwise walk

[11:00-12:15] sometimes we have a video meeting with the remote coworkers at this time, otherwise, mainly procrastinate/ do email

[12:15] boss drops in for a chat before he has lunch

[12:20-14:30] work- usually developing some new feature to report at the next video meeting, bug fixes, whatever is needed

[14:30-15:00] lunch

[15:00-15:30] work

[15:30-16:00] go for a walk

[16:00-18:30] work, easily my most productive time of the day

[18:30] boss usually leaves, we chat for a while

[18:30-19:30, or beyond to 20/21 if needed] finish up work

[19:30] head home, hope to be able to cycle again

[20:00-21:30] make dinner, eat, clean up, watch youtube, make lunch, do laundry

[21:30-01:00] play video games, spend time online, whatever

[01:00] try to fall asleep

I kind of hate my job honestly, there are no processes at all, no supervision, no contact with coworkers outside of meetings, no structure, no collaboration or code review. But equally, there is basically zero pressure or stress either, no deadlines, I just have to be fairly busy and make good reports in our meetings. Basically I'm making good money(in comparison to my needs and my family's background) and have things fairly easy, but I desperately need to move on if I want to get any real career progression. Or a social life or contact with real developers I can actually learn things from. Sick of working on my own in isolation writing code that no one but me will ever look at, previous job was the same too.

[06:40] - Wake up, check a few headlines and get ready for the morning

[07:30] - Head to work, drive if my partner and I are carpooling, catch an Uber otherwise

[08:00] - Arrive at work, greet a few people, complain about someone forgetting to schedule the coffee pot. Check HN, Reddit, and a couple news organizations. Reply to a few important and/or quick to answer emails and Slack messages.

[09:00] - Get my hands dirty in whatever projects we have going at the moment, field emails and calls as they come in.

[13:00] - Working lunch, reply to emails and try to get some HN in.

[13:30] - Meet with CEO or whoever needs me then spend some time with different departments and jump in to help wherever I can be of use.

[15:00] - Start wrapping up for the day, clean around the office and lay out an agenda for the next day.

[16:00] - Head home

[16:30] - Power nap

[17:30] - Figure out where I misplaced my Blue Apron recipes and make dinner.

[18:30] - Usually try to get some work done, otherwise grab a controller and find a game if I'm feeling particularly uninspired.

[20:00] - Grab drinks at the dive with friends or co-workers.

[22:00] - Head to bed, get ready to start it all over again in a few hours.

It's not glamorous, but I've been fortunate to develop a schedule that keeps me productive the entire work day. There's only so much head-down work you can get done in a day, so taking the last few hours to help out in other departments and take some load off them keeps me engaged and always learning something new.

   [6:00] wake up + breakfast (oatmeal porridge, w important!)
   [6:30] work on music
   [8:30] leave for work (30min commute)
   [9:00] arrive at office & start work
  [10:00] stand-up meeting (5min)
  [11:30] go for lunch (1h)
  [12:30] back from lunch & work some more
  [13:30] 15min nap
  [18:00] end of work day, commute back home
  [18:30] 15min nap at home
  [19:00] workout (jogging or swimming) / dinner / social time / netflix / etc
  [21:00] bed time

Physical exercise 1 - 2x per week.