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Profession: sysadmin - full time, on prem - ~300 employees Workday is really simple, and not really set to a schedule. Arrive a bit before 8 and check email and the help desk for overnight issues. Follow up on any outstanding issues from the previous day. Review backup logs (This is not an in-depth review, just looking for errors) Check for interesting articles on HN, Reddit, etc Depending on what else is going on, l…
Profession: 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…
I looked into becoming a volunteer firefighter after I got out of the Marines, but honestly the extremely long training required and the extremely high potential for PTSD from fire calls gone bad put me off from it.
Profession: 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] First alarm goes off;
[10:00] I'm starting to wake up
[11:00] Some quick HN checking
[12:00] Ok, off to office.
[13:00] At the office; talking with customer if needed, otherwise desperately trying to get some work done amidst noise and distractions, including but not limited to people occasionally playing board games for a break.
[18:00] All my cow-orkers in the room have finally left for the day. Time to get some actual work done.
[21:00] Ok, time to head home.
[22:00] Let's eat something quickly and go to sleep.
[02:00] That side project is _way_ too interesting; I guess I'll be waking up at 10:00 tomorrow again...
So no help from me.
The other day, one of my cow-orkers asked me, how can I bear working late hours - it must be very lonely. I desperately tried not to answer that with "that's precisely the point".
Profession: 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…
lol, me too, I'm afraid to admit. Every dang day.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people like to work in one place and live in another.
Sure but if you're in control of the company and it's primarily cloud based, you could be much closer to home. 50 min each way is 100 min per day, 500 min per week. That's an entire work day. A commute that long isn't for founders, it's for wage slaves!
Before we got the office I did 6 months from home and I was highly ineffective. Remote work is just not for me.
The commute itself is rather pleasant and I can work on the train if I wish, although I mostly use the time to read HN and relax.
Profession: 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…
Find remote work. You can work in solitude (as is natural) and collaborate asynchronously (as it should be). Made the switch a year ago after moving from web developer to tech lead and having all the issues you mentioned. Now I'm just writing code again. Best decision ever.
[05:00] alarm / wake up
[05:05] eat breakfast with coffee, read personal email
[05:30] bathe and dress
[06:10] kiss my snoozing wife goodbye and out the door
[06:45+/-15] park and walk to office
[07:00] more coffee and business email
[07:30] review requests, competitions, progress of dev team; code; meetings; occasional walk to clear my head
[11:30] lunch
[12:00] review requests, competitions, progress of dev team; code; meetings; occasional walk to clear my head
[16:00] walk to my car
[16:30+/-15] arrive home
[17:00] personal email; budgeting; help prepare dinner
[17:30] dinner
[18:00] play video games; watch sports on TV; read
[22:00] to bed
- 07:00 Help get daughter up, fed and ready for school and then get myself ready
- 08:30 Drop daughter off at school
- 09:00 Start work: for me this means coffee and reading some news
- 09:30 Work on current project (right now I'm doing maintenance on an existing project)
- 10:00 Standup, usually 10 minutes
- 10:15 Work on current project
- 11:45 Check in on email'
- 12:45 Lunch, sometimes I bring in and other times I walk into town; somedays this is like 15 minutes and other days maybe 45 minutes
- 13:30 Work on current project
- 17:15 Head home
- 17:45 Help get dinner ready (maybe set the table, maybe wrangle child, somedays do some prep, etc.)
- 18:00 Eat dinner
- 18:45 Clean up after dinner, load dishwasher, etc.
- 19:00 Feed the dog
- 19:05 Spend time with child (sometimes TV, sometimes video games, sometimes walk to park, etc.)
- 19:50 Put child to bed (every other day)
- 20:10 Put the dog to bed
- 20:15 Spend time with partner (sometimes TV, sometimes chatting, etc.)
- 22:30 Go to bed