Ask HN: What's your working day like?

I'm in a dev-ops/developer/architect role at SAP cloud infrastructure.

[09:00] Alarm goes off. I'm totally not a morning person, but because the alarm is so late, I usually convince myself to get up immediately.

[09:40] I leave my apartment and read a newspaper on the tram.

[10:00] Upon arriving at work, I fire up my PC, but let it sit while I visit colleagues and chat with them about our progress and impediments. Sort of like a standup, but much more personal because of the 1-on-1 setup.

[10:30] Catching up with mail and Slack. That's where most of the team is since we're scattered across at least five locations.

Then there is not much structure. I just do what's on my plate, or help others when they're stuck.

We don't have a daily standup, but we do have a weekly all-hands that's mostly used for syncing up with our manager. We report on the important tickets, and he reports about new requirements coming in from other teams.

We also have about a dozen weekly "work stream" meetings where those who deal with a certain topic meet to discuss technical issues regarding that topic. Since we do OpenStack, most of the workstreams are named after OS services, e.g. "Neutron" or "Swift", but there's also cross-topics like "Documentation". Everyone decides by themselves which work streams are relevant for them.

[16:00] is about when I leave. My day is rather short because my contract is for 70% part-time, but I might consider going for full-time again in the future.

[16:30] Upon arriving home, I immediately set a timer for 30 minutes and sit down for my daily meditation. (That's a new routine. I'm in the fifth week right now.)

Then it's dinner and free time.

I'm a remote software engineer on a different timezone than my co-workers. So mine is a bit different.

[~08:30] Wake up [08:50] Make coffee and make some breakfast [09:00] Most days of the week do Spanish lesson. (I am living in a country in Latin America) [10:30] Take a shower and get ready for work. [11:00] check email, browse the internet, plan my day, etc. [11:30] join the morning standup and then chat with co-workers [14:00] break for lunch and hang out for an hour [15:00] work for the rest of the day [21:00] work on side project for a few hours

Great answers! We also do our own EMS which make up 90% of our calls...

But if it's remote work it doesn't need to be in your area (as long as they are willing to employ you, as opposed to contracting).

I can relate: In my experience, sometimes your work is light enough that you can still get home at 5pm and have hobbies, consulting gigs where you do what you really love to do (even though that does not give you much money) and et cetera.... and that would make you satisfied with your life, besides.

It's all a matter of balance, sometimes you work in a genuinely nice place but you have shitty working hours and/or wage, you can't properly study and update yourself, no energy to workout or take care of your body or do 'useless' stuff that keep you sane (any hobby will do, rc cars, music, woodworking)... so some people find (for example) a good paying and simple/undemanding job with great hours, so they get home and can still attend uni, workout, have proper hobbies etc.

Source: worked at a place where i felt accomplished and technically challenged all day long but I had no free time, was fat as fuck, had no time for the wife etc... am now at a much lighter dayjob, managed to find time to finish uni, lost weight, have hobbies etc...