Describe your typical work day

[DaTT]

9am - Leave house and grab a coffee on the way.
9:15 - get on the highway
10am - Usually arrive on site around this time. I talk with the other inspector for a half hour or so.
10:30-45 - Leave site trailer for a site walk
11:30 - Arrive back at my site trailer and complete my paper work
12:15 - lunch. Surf youtube and various other sites
1:30-2 - Another walk of the site
2:30 - Youtube and Anandtech
4pm - Go home

 

[brainhulk]

check email
Nef
Eat lunch
Nef
Go home

 

[rh71]

wake up, go downstairs, power on laptop, get kids fed & brushed and walk them to bus stop, return home, work at various capacities and eat lunch (usually from fridge)... till 330 when I get them from the bus. At some point I brush my teeth too.

Know what's funny? I nef'd more when I had an office to go into - pre-2005.

 

[BoomerD]

 

[DaTT]

One day.......one day

 

[nageov3t]

wake up
feed the cat, give him fresh water, and clean the litter box
do the needful in the bathroom, get dressed, leave the house
drive to the train station
take the train to my office building
go to the kitchen, put my lunch in the fridge, and make myself a cup of coffee
spend the rest of the day sitting at my desk, surfing the net and responding to phone calls/IM's as needed
reverse commute home, cook dinner, play video games or watch tv with the BF, and usually go to bed by 11 pm.

 

[DaTT]

Sounds like the majority of us don't have much to do at work.

I am busy from time to time, but not often

 

[JM Aggie08]

Been working from home a lot lately:

0530: gym
0700: come home, eat breakfast, drink protein, drink coffee
0730: logon and check emails
0731: commence tons of people IMing me for various issues/projects/etc
1200: lunch...maybe
1600-1700: finish out the day and log off

Each window is peppered with heavy amounts of coffee.

 

[piasabird]

Pick up documents
Sort Documents
Scan documents
Repeat
Check E-mail
get sustenance
Bother people on anandtech
listen to Internet Radio

 

[z1ggy]

6:45am - 11:45am: ATOT
12noon-12:45:gym
1pm-4pm: ATOT

Every now and then I'll get some work to do. I did this just about everyday for the past 5 years and I make close to $85k. Woooooo.

 

[vi edit]

My work volume is so sporadic I can't even begin to describe a typical day. Some days/weeks there isn't enough time in the day to handle the work load. Other days/weeks it's a massive nef fest here. Right now I'm between projects so there isn't a lot of build or testing to do. My pager isn't going off non-stop for production issues. So things are fairly quiet.

But tomorrow I could lose a server or have a database crash and I'll have 50 tickets to work.

Never know.


But my general day is this:

Up at 5:30
Shower and dress by 5:45
Get 7 year old up and out of bed at 5:50
Make a pot of coffee for me and wife at 5:55
Get breakfast started for everyone by 6:00
Start eating at 6:15
Finish eating and tidy up at 6:30
Get my 3 year old out of bed at 6:35
Get everyone into the car at 6:45
Drive to bus stop and walk my daughter to bus at 6:52
Drive to daycare and drop off my son at 7:02
Pull into ramp at work at 7:15
Walk to my office and ass in seat at 7:25
.......do work stuff
Usually leave at 5:00 or whenever I can drag my wife out of her office
Scream and curse at traffic until I can get to my daughters school at 5:20
Drive to daycare and pick up son at 5:30
Get home around 5:50PM
Start making dinner

 

[nageov3t]

Sounds like the majority of us don't have much to do at work.

I am busy from time to time, but not often

I've been on auto-pilot since I started job hunting.

not that I'm ignoring work -- I take care of my daily maintenance/monitoring tasks and if someone calls me or IM's me with a request, I'll absolutely take care of it promptly -- but I'm not looking for work to do and generally have been ignoring the ticket queue unless it's a Sev 1 case.

 

[yhelothar]

 

[rudeguy]

Sounds like the majority of us don't have much to do at work.

I am busy from time to time, but not often

Its feast or famine for me.

I have days where I am running around like a chicken with my head cut off but I also have weeks where I swear all I do is fill a seat. I'd rather be busy though, so I find stuff to do.

 

[DaTT]

Watch other people work.

 

[Murloc]

Averaged out:
alarm clock at 7
shower, breakfast (luckily I just need 7 minutes for this, south european breakfast is simple), walk
class starts at 8.15
lunch break at 12.15
class at 13.15 or 14.15
go home at 16.15
waste time
eat dinner at 8
go to sleep at 12

 

[highland145]

7:15am ATOT
5:30pm go to the gym.

 

[RichUK]

Wake up and get ready
Set off
Arrive
BE FUCKING AWESOME, PEOPLES STFU AND LISTEN TO BOSS MAN RICH!!11
Leave work
Go gym
Eat food
Scratch balls
Maybe fart
Bed

 

[Mixolydian]

2:30am wake up, cofffee
3:00am drive to work
3:15am - arrive at work
3:20 - meet w/ dispatchers and make necessary changes to route plan
3:30 - set up work area and prepare myself mentally, step out to smoke
4:00-6:30 - work
6:30-6:40 - break
6:40-8:00 - work
8:00-8:30 - watch drivers cause drama
8:30am - go home

 

[madoka]

1. Decide if I want to work that day.

2. Work 3-4 hours in the morning. Collect $600-$800 for my efforts.

3. Eat lunch, go home and take a nap.

4. Decide if I want to work some more.

5. Work 3-5 hours at night. Collect $600-$1000 for my efforts.

6. Sleep.

7. Repeat step 1.

This goes on seven days a week for me.

 

[DaTT]

1. Decide if I want to work that day.

2. Work 3-4 hours in the morning. Collect $600-$800 for my efforts.

3. Eat lunch, go home and take a nap.

4. Decide if I want to work some more.

5. Work 3-5 hours at night. Collect $600-$1000 for my efforts.

6. Sleep.

7. Repeat step 1.

This goes on seven days a week for me.

So, you potentially make $657k/year....and there is a sad face involved?

 

[JulesMaximus]

6:30AM - Wake up, coffee, shower, shave, get dressed etc.
7:15-7:30 - Leave for work
8:00-8:15 - Arrive at work
8:15-11:30 - Work (I'm in front of a computer so I might pop online and check ATOT from time to time)
11:30-12:00 - Lunch at my desk, surf interwebs
12:00-5:00 - Work
5:00 - Head home
6:00 - Arrive at home
6:00-10:00 - Eat dinner, chat with wife, help son with homework, watch TV, surf the interwebs, other various activities.
10:00ish - Go to bed

Work is spreadsheets, finance stuff, respond to e-mails, respond to requests from my boss, various projects/reporting, auditor requests etc.

 

[rudeguy]

So, you potentially make $657k/year....and there is a sad face involved?

his anus has limitations?

I don't like that guy because he makes lots of money.

 

[Newell Steamer]

7:00am
Wake up & start getting ready.

8:00am
Commute to work.

9:00am to 5:00pm
Save all of humanity, you're welcome very much.

5:30pm
Find a bar.

6:00pm to 11:00pm
Celebrate for being the best mother fucker on this planet.

11:00pm to 12:00am
Commute home.

12:00am to 7:00am
Sleep.

BAM.

 

[HeXen]

5:20am - hit snooze
5:30 - hit snooze
5:40 - ok I'll get up
6:00 - Dressed and downstairs, Turn on Kuereg, make lunch.
6:10 - Out the door and on my way to work
6:20 - Arrive and sit there listening to music or news and drink my coffee
6:50 - Go in to the shop and stand around mingling with co workers
7:10'ish - Get a game plan, load up trucks with needed equipment and head straight to pantry.
7:30'ish - Put fuel in equipment, get my breakfast and milk
7:45'ish - hit the road to job or to get materials, rent stuff...etc.

Somewhere between 8:00 to 10:00 Arrive at job depending how far away it is and sit in truck to think about it.
30 minutes later - Get the next game plan then think about it....oh good, it's lunch time.
1:00pm - Do some work.
3:30-6:30'sih - Drive back to the shop and then home. Take off boots and push the dogs out of my way. Then it's shower, change and finally dinner.