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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…
Out of curiosity, what does PH stand for?
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…
You sound really interesting! Are you in Los Angeles? I'd love to meet up for coffee one day.
12pm - 2p: Wake up (no alarm unless I have an early appointment)
2p - 6p: Run errands, exercise, meetings/calls with any APAC clients
6p - 10p: Hang out with my wife (who works a traditional 9-5 schedule), go out to dinner, meet friends, etc.
10p - 5am: Work.
5a - 6a: Read to wind down for bed
6a-ish: Sleep.
At work from 9:30-10, try code something, review pull requests, tickets. Trying to concentrate. Lunch from around 13 until 14. Repeat previous coding part. Go home around 17:30 - 18.
Usually just reading and watching videos/ IM-ing. Sometimes coding if I have a good idea for my side project. Or creating content to my site project. But this is not longer than 1 hour, and usually not even exists. At 23:00 I go to sleep.
I posted mine because everyone else's was like my dream, hehe.
I live in Hong Kong, but work primarily with clients in the west so my schedule is shifted to compensate. All times are GMT+8. 12pm - 2p: Wake up (no alarm unless I have an early appointment) 2p - 6p: Run errands, exercise, meetings/calls with any APAC clients 6p - 10p: Hang out with my wife (who works a traditional 9-5 schedule), go out to dinner, meet friends, etc. 10p - 5am: Work. 5a - 6a: Read to wind down for be…
Best (I was truly happy with this routine):
08:00 - Waking up with somebody that makes you happy. (When there is urgent "homework", getting up at 06:00). Tasty and elaborated breakfast.
08:40 - 20 minutes walking to work, independently of the weather (sun, rain, snow). Good time to contemplate and meditate.
09:00 - Work that I really like, feeling that I'm making something that makes a difference, with people I respect and being reasonably well paid for that.
12:15 - Lunch. 2 options: a) Buying something in the shop and walking around or going to the park to eat it. b) Going to a restaurant with colleagues/friends.
13:00 - Work that I really like, feeling that I'm making something that makes a difference, with people I respect and being reasonably well paid for that. Anyway I prefer to work mornings.
17:00 - Walking every day to a different gym in the city. Normally meeting friends there.
18:30 - Arriving home in the city and having a girl/woman with a great smile on her face waiting for you. Making/having a tasty and elaborated dinner together.
20:00 - Time for novelty: movies at home, meeting friends/new people, going somewhere. No TV. Unpredictability is great here.
24:00 - Sleep with a girl/woman with a smile in the face.
Worse (my unhappy times):
08:00 - Waking up alone.
08:30 - Long commute(1.5h) during rush hour to work, changing transportation 3 times.
10:00 - Work that I really hate, feeling that I'm making bullshit, with people I don't respect and being very bad paid for that.
13:00 - Lunch. Taking food from home to compensate long commute costs and low wage.
14:00 - Work that I really hate, feeling that I'm making bullshit, with people I don't respect and being very bad paid for that. Afternoons are even worse.
19:00 - Long commute home.
20:30 - Arriving home in suburbs. Too late and far way for gym. Eating something.
21:30 - Too late and far away to meet somebody. Crappy TV/internet till sleeping time.
24:00 - Sleep alone.
I live in Hong Kong, but work primarily with clients in the west so my schedule is shifted to compensate. All times are GMT+8. 12pm - 2p: Wake up (no alarm unless I have an early appointment) 2p - 6p: Run errands, exercise, meetings/calls with any APAC clients 6p - 10p: Hang out with my wife (who works a traditional 9-5 schedule), go out to dinner, meet friends, etc. 10p - 5am: Work. 5a - 6a: Read to wind down for be…
Do you keep to the same sleep schedule on weekends?
8-10am Wake up, lounge a little, read. If I'm feeling very energetic I'll wake up at 7am and hop in the pool for a bit.
10-1pm Work on software projects, research papers, lesson plans.
1pm Quick snack. Cup of tea.
1.30-3.30pm More programming. My co-founder is probably up and useful by now, maybe run some by things, maybe not. Almost always via slack.
3.30pm Quick blast in the gym, usually weights.
4.00pm Biiig meal. I only eat twice a day.
4.30pm Get my things together for going to my teaching jobs.
5-9pm Teach English, Science, Math, all sorts to keep my rent paid.
10 or 11pm go to bed.
For a while I did a full time programming job at a company while doing the teaching in the evening. Definitely too many ours. If there's anything missing I thing I could do with a bit more outside time. What do you think?
6:30 - Alarm on gym days, otherwise I just naturally wake up around 7-8
7:30 - work with my PT on gym days and refresh myself after, or on non-gym days I catch up on the Internets and prepare for the day
8:30 - hit a coffeeshop and motor through client work (mornings are where I find it best for me to work on this stuff)
12:30 - lunch break, where most of the time I just grab something from the same vegetarian restaurant and bring it home and usually couple with reading a book during this time
13:30 - nap if I’m tired, otherwise continue with client work, though my energy levels are usually sapped by now so I work on low-hanging fruit items
16:30 - wind down, catch up on the Internets
The rest of the evening is more loose, either hanging out with friends, playing some board or video games, figure out if I need to restructure possessions or other things in life, or continue my indie game dev hobby (recently started). I go to sleep anywhere between 22:00-2:00. I also try to make a todo list for the next day so I do less planning on the fly, but that habit hasn’t sunk in yet.
This made me realize how messed up my day is. California: Wake up at 1 - 2 pm Wash brush 3 pm go out and get breakfast and listen to podcast 3:30 pm I record podcast 5 pm I play with the kids (niece and nephew) 6 pm fire up laptop edit the podcast write a blog post - if the stars are aligned I may publish. 8 pm I waste time on the web 10 pm watch a movie and dinner. 12 am I open blender and work on my 3d project 3 am…