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5:50 wake up: breakfast, preparing to work. 6:50 leaving home 7:30 arrive to the office by feat, during time audio books, podcasts, birds 8:15 starting working 11:00 walking across the forest by something for lunch 12:00 back to work 1) 16:45 leaving for gym 19:45 back from gym 20:00 light dinner 2) 17:15 leaving for home 18:00 dinner 19:00 hose hold stuff/coding/socialising/etc. -- 22:00 trying go to bed 23:00 sleeping ---- Typical developer day?
8am - 9:30am - Wake up and Skype long distance fiance as she gets ready for class. Check emails, hipchat and social media. Push some bug fixes / product updates and deploy.
9:30 am - Shower and get ready to head to work.
10 am - 10:15 am - Walk a mile to T (JFK/UMass)
10:15 am - 10:45 am - Take red line to MIT/Kendall
10:45 am - 11am - Walk 1 mile to the office (Could also take the green line and walk a few steps but I enjoy the walk)
11am - 12:30pm - Email, push some more code, go over pull requests
12:30pm - 1pm - Lunch with co workers maybe longer if its a team lunch
1 pm - 2:30pm - code code code
2:30pm - 3:00pm - Meeting with tech lead if its a Monday
3pm - 7pm - code code code
7pm - 7:15pm - walk back to the T
7:15pm - 7:45pm - Red line
7:45pm - 8pm - Walk back to apartment
8pm - 10pm Dinner, Skype, Stream something from my Plex server
10pm - 12/1/2/3am - Work on a personal project or more work stuff. Push some changes and deploy them
??? - 8am - Sleep
I would also play lacrosse on Wednesdays which changes the whole end of my day.
I work at GoPro so the work is usually pretty relaxed. I spend most of the day working on software issues, browsing HN/PH/Quora, and studying programming languages (Java and Python are my flavors of the month).
I leave for school around 1:30 to make it to 2 o'clock classes. I'm there until 5-7pm.
Make my way home to my beautiful wife and baby girl. Eat, exercise, and hit the books. I try to pull the plug sometime around 9 but I'm usually too interested in whatever I'm studying.
My wife is good about keeping me balanced though so I try to spend as much time as possible with her.
Luckily, I sleep like a champ so I'm always out as soon as my head hits the pillow.
My life is crazy busy right now (I also do some freelance work with SumoMe and am trying to get a side business off the ground) but I totally love it. I just wish I were getting paid more!
Thanks 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!
I wake up at 6:40 and make my way to work by 7:00. I work at GoPro so the work is usually pretty relaxed. I spend most of the day working on software issues, browsing HN/PH/Quora, and studying programming languages (Java and Python are my flavors of the month). I leave for school around 1:30 to make it to 2 o'clock classes. I'm there until 5-7pm. Make my way home to my beautiful wife and baby girl. Eat, exercise, and…
Why? What's the thing with GoPro that the work is pretty relaxed there?
I wake up at 6:40 and make my way to work by 7:00. I work at GoPro so the work is usually pretty relaxed. I spend most of the day working on software issues, browsing HN/PH/Quora, and studying programming languages (Java and Python are my flavors of the month). I leave for school around 1:30 to make it to 2 o'clock classes. I'm there until 5-7pm. Make my way home to my beautiful wife and baby girl. Eat, exercise, and…
8:45am Alarm goes off
9:00am Wake up
9:40am Leave apartment and head to the subway
10:00am Arrive at work. Check HN, email, my stock portfolio, maybe get some breakfast, etc.
10:30am Start coding
11:30am Morning standup
12:00pm Get lunch
3:00 Grab snack from the kitchen
5:30pm Go home
6:00pm Work on side project or read stuff on the internet. Get dinner
12:00pm Tell myself that it's time to go to bed
1:00pm If I'm tired, go to bed. Otherwise keep doing whatever I'm doing. But hopefully I'm asleep by now