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Ask HN: What's your working day like?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#182Profession: 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…
> [08:00] ... work on something I procrastinated on the previous day so that I can have a good standup report lol, me too, I'm afraid to admit. Every dang day.
I also read this and though to myself "I didn't know other people do that too" :)
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#183I am seeing a lot of depressing posts here (and mostly in humor, I think) Lots of talk about sleeping in, procrastinating, pretending to work, etc. etc. I used to be a Software Engineer and I can relate extremely well. Now I am attempting to be a travel writer and photographer, driving around Africa. I spring out of bed in the morning, and have some of the best days of my life, day after day. It's hard, but I love it…
Thanks for this. I'm a web developer, recent college grad. I freelance and travel a lot. It's cool, but I hate the work for the most part. I do lots of tiny UI tweaks and stuff every day. It's slowly killing me inside I think. The upside is I work from 'hpme' and can sleep in and have lots of freedom and stuff, but when it comes to work... It's destroying me. I have been living in Costa Rica for the past year and I'm…
> Some of the locals are living their dream. Less stress than me, 10x happier. It's incredible.
I see this every day in West Africa. People spend huge time with their families, people build their own houses, and grow their own food. Sure, it can be hard manual labor, but certainly virtually everyone has money for a bottle of beer (or 10) every day.
We have a lot to learn from the "undeveloped world"
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#184Profession: 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…
Just curious. What makes you hangout at HN?
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most interesting. As a layperson I have trouble understanding what happens 17:00 to 06:00 the next day. What does it mean to "flag down" if you are still running 911 calls all night?
It's good to see people from other professions such as yours on HN. I often get the feeling that HN commentators are mostly senior software developers, but people like you kinda balance the atmosphere here.
(Vouched for civility and substance despite a recent ban. Please don't make me a fool to have done so.)
Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#186Profession: Full-Stack Web Developer - Full Time, remote
Workday:
- [7:30AM] Wake up
- [7:45AM] Get dressed
- [8:00AM] Take a quick walk to the gas station for energy drink.
- [8:15AM] Start reading my emails and conversating on Hacker News, Nim lang forum, reddit.
- [9:00AM] Eat some breakfast.
- [10:00AM] Start actual work.
- [11:00AM (M, W, F)] Phone call with the founder to discuss progress.
- [11:30AM] Start daily workout: Gymnastics/calisthenics(M, W, F), cardio (T, TH)
- [12:30PM] Take Shower and eat lunch
- [1:00PM] Get back to work. Mostly React and Django stuff at the moment.
- [6:00PM] Finish work for the day,
- [6:15PM] Start working on side projects, tutorials, learning, practicing etc. Sometimes I study math or Japanese.
- [9:00PM] Play some overwatch, blackwake, beamNG, Persona, whatever. Sometimes spend time with the GF watching TV.
- [12:00AM] Let a podcast lull me to sleep.Re: Ask HN: What's your working day like?
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm. How about actually building stuff? For most software engineers, thats a very important part of their job/life/happiness. That requires long focus and flow. And in my personal opinion has a great sense of fulfillment attached to it compared to lot of scattered micro impacts. Ultimately you need to learn to balance both otherwise it gets very frustrating.
Do you have to personally write every single line of code or are you happy when the whole team builds the code?
Not the previous poster, but I'd argue that being able to point to something meaningful (doesn't have to be the whole system, but a coherent component) and say "I made that" brings satisfaction that's hard to beat.
This seems tricky to reconcile with the "everything is done by a team" model that's currently in vogue.
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#188I was a "Professional Blogger" for a while. - [11:00] Wake up, sit on desk, first thing on the morning, write until I get tired - [14:00] Usually I get tired 3 hours after, then I stop working, cook food for the day and procrastinate lots of things that I was planning to do in my free time in previous day, and thinking about how I would do 3-5x more money if I spent more time working on my blog, but I'm lazy / I want…
> I was a "Professional Blogger" for a while. If you don't mind me asking, how was the pay? I'm delving into this now, and it's coming along nicely. I'm also writing for magazines and selling photos, so that helps the bottom line.
Adsense. Not very smart, but it was paying the bills nicely and I was lazy enough to don't search others form of income.
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#189Profession: 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…
Wow, less than 6 hours of sleep. Is that sustainable?
I'm in my mid-forties now, and I've been doing it since my mid-twenties, so it is for awhile. I doubt I'll still be doing it in my mid-fifties ;-)
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#190Reading the comments I have to consider myself very lucky in a way. I work full-remote.
- I never use an alarm, normally waking up around 8:30am
- I often start coding right away when I wake up, in these first 2 hours I am often exceptionally productive
- eat something, coffee, reading, relaxing
- do some more coding till I feel my focus drops
- repeat the last two steps
When I feel tired I try not to code if possible, I consider it being a bad habit.
Relaxing between the focussed coding sessions is of major importance to produce good code IMHO, while relaxing I'm often thinking about the different options of how I can best write the next piece of code.
If I have a bad day, not being really productive, I often do some more coding at night if I can get the right focus.
On a good day I outperform 2 coders that work in the open office of our company, with ease.