Would be really interesting if people could add their location. Seems like those in US have really long journeys to work?
Ask HN: What's a day in your life look like?
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#22Would be really interesting if people could add their location. Seems like those in US have really long journeys to work?
That's a very good point. I'm going to upvote this to make it more visible. I would encourage others to do the same.
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#23"A life in a day of a startup CEO": http://doublestealth.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/a-life-in-day-of...
Are you the author of that blog post? Totally off topic, I didn't really expect to see you up on HN at midnight on a Friday. Hopefully no fires in CloudFlareLand to put out.
Yes. I wrote the whole "Double Stealth" parody blog. Someday I'll get back to it.
It's perhaps midnight on Friday in SF, but it's 0813 in London :-)
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you the author of that blog post? Totally off topic, I didn't really expect to see you up on HN at midnight on a Friday. Hopefully no fires in CloudFlareLand to put out.
Yes. I wrote the whole "Double Stealth" parody blog. Someday I'll get back to it. It's perhaps midnight on Friday in SF, but it's 0813 in London :-)
Oh, my mistake. I assumed you were in SF for some reason.
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#26Thanks for asking! For context, I live in Southern California.
I wake up some time in between 10 and 2.
The majority of my day is spent alternating between playing guitar, playing Super Smash Bros., programming (work), learning (physics lately), and cooking. Besides on occasion, I don't have the best ability to sit down and do one thing for more than an hour at a time.
On most days, I walk downtown (about 40 minutes of walking daily) to eat, shop, or just relax. Lately I've been packing lunch, getting high, and walking to the park a few blocks away. It has a really awesome man-made pond that is home to plenty of critters.
On some days, I lift weights or bodyweight train at home.
I work freelance (iOS/web dev) so I can pay rent.
I'm building a B2B web app with two other people who live across the country. We have an hour long Skype call once a week.
I quit my bullshit 10am to 8pm startup job 10 months ago. I'm not making much money yet, but as a 23-year-old with no kids I don't care. I'm healthy.
That was therapeutic!
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#27Location: Kuwait
05:30 Wake up. Followed by an hour of coding / reading / follow-up of what I left last night.
06:30 Shower, freshen up for work.
07:15 Cook breakfast, browse HN, pocket some articles for the ride to work.
07:45 Leave for office.
08:15 Arrive at office. Begin the day by checking emails.
08:30 Shuffle between meetings & coding. On a good day, I'm able to avoid meetings until lunch.
12:00 Lunch time and hanging out at the proverbial water-cooler with colleagues.
13:15 Meetings and hopefully some productive coding
17:15 Prepare to leave. Check email one last time and send off replies to anything pending.
17:45 Leave for home.
18:30 Reach home. Order dinner, call parents.
19:30 Finish dinner while watching some TV show / talk on Youtube. Head out for a walk / run
20:15 Get back from walk / run. Relax by listening to some music, IMing with friends, watching few videos.
21:00 Start work on side-project or coursera course or blog post. Try to get a couple of hours of productive work done.
23:00 Prepare to sleep.
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#28Thanks a lot OP. This is exactly something I wanted to ask. Of late I have been feeling like wasting lot of time. I was looking for some kind of inspiration to bring some order to my life.
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#29Thanks for asking! For context, I live in Southern California. I wake up some time in between 10 and 2. The majority of my day is spent alternating between playing guitar, playing Super Smash Bros., programming (work), learning (physics lately), and cooking. Besides on occasion, I don't have the best ability to sit down and do one thing for more than an hour at a time. On most days, I walk downtown (about 40 minutes…
If you don't mind me asking, how do you go about acquiring clients for the web dev, and what rates do you charge? Thanks!
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#30Sg
Here is my colleague's:
6.00 Am wakeup brush and shower 6.30 catch a train 7.45 eat breakfast 8.15 reach office 8.15 - 9 reply email 9-12.30 work 12.30-1 lunch 1-1.15 read news 1.15 -7 work/meeting 7-9pm reply email/work on crunching stuff 10pm reach home 10 - 11pm plays dota/Diablo3 11pm replies boss email after his boss finished taking care of boss's kids Between 1.15am - 2am sleep
Mine's almost like his, got to reply his emails at all times after he got bombarded by boss's, but I generally get home by 8-10pm and wakes up at 7am to catch the company's shuttle bus.