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Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by hfsktr »

gaving wrote: post #124
hfsktr wrote: post #80

Software Developer (mainly web). Full time. Sole developer in a 3-4 person department. Our consulting company (15-20 persons) was recently acquired by a much larger (1300 persons) but hasn't had an affect on us (yet). [05:30 or [06:00] - wake up [06:00]-[07:00] - make coffee and watch tv while I work out [07:00] or [0715] - shower [08:00] get to office (5 minute drive) [08:15] - wait for my computer to finish startin…

"5 minute drive"? Buy a bike and chuck out 0600-0700!

I very strongly considered it. Or just walking (3 miles). The two hold ups are that I don't want to turn up to work all sweaty (or wet, or frozen etc) and to a lesser extent carrying all my stuff (purse, wallet, coffee, lunch).

Also going home for lunch is highly convenient and I really like that nap.

I wouldn't have to bike/walk every day of course. I am still considering it (clearly).

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by mcheshier »

rufugee wrote: post #86

Profession: CIO - Full time at company of roughly 3400 employees - [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 fam…

I couldn't operate at a high level with that amount of sleep. You must be one of those rare people who don't need 7+ hours of sleep to function.

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by pcsanwald »

VP Eng at a small fitness startup (6:45 - wake up, walk dog, make coffee

7:10 - practice double bass technique for 30 minutes

7:45 - run 5 miles to work, stopping for breakfast + coffee

8:45 - arrive at work. check email, slack, etc.

9:15 - code until lunchtime

12ish - eat lunch (usually homemade)

12:30-3 code

3 - sometimes gym, Code until 6ish

6-7, run home 5 miles, walk dog

7-8:30 - practice double bass technique and sometimes drums

8:30 - dinner with wife

9-10:30 either practice more, or talk or watch a show with wife, or work.

10:30 bed

I have a few meetings throughout the week but definitely not a ton.

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by Etheryte »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #113
treehau5 wrote: post #46

Profession: Software "Engineer" [06:15] First alarm goes off; [06:45] Finally wake up, get out of bed, shower, shave, make espresso for me and the wife [07:15] out the door, 30 minute commute to office [07:45] breakfast bagel at my work cafe [08:00] arrive at desk, begin contemplating work -- work on something I procrastinated on the previous day so that I can have a good standup report [9:00] everyone arrives at off…

Profession: software "engineer" too. [08:00] First alarm goes off; [10:00] I'm starting to wake up [11:00] Some quick HN checking [12:00] Ok, off to office. [13:00] At the office; talking with customer if needed, otherwise desperately trying to get some work done amidst noise and distractions, including but not limited to people occasionally playing board games for a break. [18:00] All my cow-orkers in the room have…

Your work schedule speaks to mine on a spiritual level. I can't imagine working anywhere where strict hours (9-5 or similar) are required.

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by gmcerveny »

Profession: Music Tech Developer - Freelance, Remote

  6:30am : Wake up, sit (meditate > 10min)
  7:00am : Make tea/coffee and breakfast for my wife, eat together, she leaves
  7:30am : Quick exercises
  8:00am : (Sometimes 9a, 11a, or a combination) Meeting to plan the days priorities with either clients or my associate developers
  9:00am - 12:00pm : Making things (researching, writing code, testing, taking screen shots / recordings, reviewing, committing)
  12:00pm - 1:00pm : Lunch, often watch content on apple tv (youtube video, daily show, etc) 
  1:00-2:30pm : Making things (same as above)
  2:30pm : Walk (
I love working on music tech and just chatting with someone about it gets me stoked to start building stuff. Those morning meetings with clients and my associates really help me focus.

Wrote a little more here: https://medium.com/@gmcerveny/my-daily-routine-for-music-tec...

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by ryanx435 »

dba7dba wrote: post #112
ryanx435 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Los Angeles FD has firefighters earning regular pay AND extra pay for having PTSD if you were involved in a particularly bad fire. Not sure how much that extra pay is.

Seeing how much PTSD has affected some of my marine buddies, I do not believe that any amount of extra pay is worth the horror that it can cause

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by winteralynx »

Profession: IT Admin & Aspiring programmer

0500 - Wake up, grind coffee beans and put kettle on

0515 - Pack gym clothes, french press coffee

0605 - Arrive at work, check emails/calls for urgent requests

0620 - Check HN, Reddit, Bloomberg & Jalopnik

0720 - Do a bit of daylighting with some programming practice and/or homework

0930 - Work existing trouble tickets & take customer calls

1100 - One hour lunch, play MTG with coworkers (yeah, we're those guys)

1200 - Back to browsing the web and doing FreeCodeCamp challenges to keep awake

1300 - Work various customer issues and projects

1530 - Gym time, go hard to ensure sleep that night

1630 - Drive 45 minutes to school (CS Major)

1730 - Computer Science courses (x2)

2130 - Drive home

2145 - Pickup food from Panda Express or Noodle Co.

2200 - Watch netflix and eat dinner

2230 - Shower, shave

2245 - Head to bed

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by ta20170508 »

Profession: WFH software developer - between half and full time @ small distributed company

Workday (kind of):

- [between H = 6am and 3pm] wake up

- [H - H+1] either manage to force myself to code, or get annoyed with not being able to communicate with anyone else, because everyone is in a different time-zone, and/or on a different schedule

- [H+1 - H+2] depending on the above, continue work, or do some random errands/waste time because "I can do the work later"

- [H+2 - H+3] depending on work/errands, continue whatever, or decide it's time for a break again because "I can do everything later, since I don't have regular working hours"

- ...

- [H+7 - H+8] usually something like one of the following: (1) get depressed by the low number of working hours done this day/week/month, (2) contemplate whether I will manage to get back into some daily routine, or (3) get depressed or excited by the possibility of the routine, or (4) depressed by lack of social interactions while WFH.

- ["after work"] trying to decide what to do with the rest of my time, i.e. "maybe work more, to make up for the low number of hours" or "maybe do something else, to rest before the next day" - it's a rather heavily anxiety-inducing decision making process.

:)

Sorry, this post really made me want to vent. But seriously, it is like ~60% coding, ~30% talking to other remote people or reviewing their code, ~10% other work'ish stuff like deployments to various environments, planning, etc. And I realize the hours and everything could be better, given some better organization and discipline, but anyway I'm going to switch to an office based job, which should Solve All My Problems. Yeah, I'm kidding obviously. :)

Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?

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Post by edw519 »

SCdF wrote: post #63
edw519 wrote: post #39

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 - c…

> print source code, review, & mark up in red Can you expand on this one? What code are you printing? Other developer's code for code review? And to be clear, you mean a printer right? That paper comes out of? Also: I like that you only check email twice. I should look into that.

Maybe the most effective practice I've ever had. Check out #49 here: http://v25media.s3.amazonaws.com/edw519_mod.pdf
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