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 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.
9-11 maybe wake up, sex, or not
10-11 check the internets
11-3 frantically work on tasks that I should have started at 9a
2 or so : fry some potatoes and eggs and eat them with avocados, cheese, and tortillas
after lunch till 5 or 6 frantically work on tasks
11-sleep - check social media and write messages to folks who might need what I do
6-8 goof off with my kids
6 maybe exercise
9-12 play a gig if one has been booked (usually only on Friday or Saturday)
12-5 play a gig (usually only on Sunday)
7-9 practice playing jazz with old people (typically only one or two days a week)
9-12 drink some beer and practice new programming techniques
2 or so go to sleep with my beautiful and talented wife, sex, or not
When I was on Co-op in Boston at a late stage start up my usual schedule looked like
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.
Open up asana, check our priority queue and ensure my in progress/upcoming are set accurately (remote team, so this is very important)
I work mostly with data scientists. So, some days it's pure cowboy coding. Experimental and research stuff. Lots of image processing, NLP, and API design stuff.
After I finish the first task of the day, contact the Chief Scientist/senior data scientists. Review, consult, plan if we can do more to it or if its worth 'graduating' to a larger product.
Or, if its a larger, production project consult with product and VP of eng as well. Ensure all delivery needs are met.
At the end of the day we have an informal chat of no specified amount of time. The 'end' of the day is often midnight-1am-ish for us because we have people in 5 time zones. We try to be as flexible as possible especially with a guy in South Korea.
I understand your company has lots of remote data scientists... Are you hiring? I'd be interested to have a go if it's the case. How can I contact you?
Lots of great responses here, I can chime in! I'm from Minneapolis.
I usually wake up between 9-11, and always without an alarm. I'll get up, take a 5-hour energy, go have some breakfast while I watch Reddit.tv. Breakfast is usually toast and Honey Bunches of Oats, sometimes eggs and toast, sometimes a toaster strudel (no toast). I'll then pop my Vyvanse (adderall) and head to my office.
Once I'm in my office I'll hop on Slack, Ventrilo (we <3 it), and check my emails. I'll check in with everyone to let them know I'm alive and I'll excuse myself while I spend 15-minutes max replying to emails.
Lunch is usually around 1, but no later than 2. It's a bit smaller than my breakfast is, but enough to ensure that I don't get hungry before dinner.
I'll then spend the next five hours as close to a 100% productivity level as I can.
Figure it's about 7, I start to unwind. I'll put on a sports game or head out for a drink with colleagues or clients.
Around 9 is when I'm usually doing my own thing. I'll spend some time on my piano or working on a side project.
It's now about 11 where I settle into bed, no laptop allowed on my bed. I'll put on a documentary, close out emails, and prepare for the next day.
I'm 23, self-employed. I quit my bullshit "100+ hour work week let's call you at 1am saying somethings not working on my daughter's iPhone with the app" a few months ago. I'm not going back.
From Ottawa, Canada. Before I had a very loose daily structure but was noticing my output and general health was suffering, so trying to stick to this structure on weekdays:
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.
I'll describe the best and worse daily routine I ever had during my working life.
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.
In Belgium working for a startup which I just gave my notice to so I can start my own business:
06:00 Alarm goes off and get up
06:15 Leave for work, listen to podcasts or music depending on mood
07:00 arrive at work, check up on email and monitoring tools
07:30 pick a task from Jira and start coding
11:30 daily scrum standup to see what my colleagues are doing and how we can help out each other
12:00 lunch, usually I buy something from the local supermarket and we eat in the office kitchen
12:45 resume work, mostly coding and avoiding meetings
15:30 start commute home, podcasts or music depending on mood
16:15 do freelance work or work on one of my own projects
18:00 pick up my daughter from daycare, have dinner and play with her until she goes to bed
20:15 more freelance/own project work or watch TV shows with my wife
23:00 sleep
The last few weeks I tried moving those 2 hours of freelance work from late in the afternoon to right after I wake up (and move my day job 2 hours later), and this seems to massively improve the quality of the work I get done for my own company while not impacting my day job code quality that much. I suspect this is because otherwise the long commute home is draining a lot of energy.
8:30-8:45 Walk to work, open up the office for the rest of the staff
9:00-14:00 Work work work work. Since we have an 'open office' there are no set meetings but as the manager I will be usually having sit-downs with each of my reports and figuring out what's going on. Also will engage in Skype-chats with my other reports/colleagues (we have remote developers in Europe and Africa)
14:00-17:30 Wind down with a long lunch or work on extra projects if there is a tight deadline (usually the case)
17:30-18:00 Close up the office and walk home
18:00-18:20 Standup with the USA office (there are ten hours' difference between CA and UA), get updates on what is going on and get latest assignments
18:30-19:30 Dinner break
20:00-22:00 Skype calls with the USA for work, usually with PMs and clients based in the USA. Can also include answering emails, answering forums, or running demos/presentations over the GoToMeeting
22:00-midnight or 1am - cycle down, watch some streaming shows, goof around on a tablet, go to sleep
Pomodoros = a productivity technique I use when I'm working. Currently I'm learning algorithms as I apply for programming jobs.
09:00 - wake up via alarm and hit snooze
09:40 - actually wake up -> check internet stuff
10:00 - get out of bed and start doing pomodoros
11:00 - make smoothie and drink it while continuing pomodoros
11:30 - do pushups -> continue pomodoros
12:30 - lunch
01:30 - pomodoros (usually get interrupted with something)
05:00 - gym
06:30 - shower, surf web
07:00 - dinner, watch a little tv
08:30 - more pomodoros, or watch move/socialize
12:00 - lights out, listen to podcast/watch tv until I'm sleepy
01:00 - sleep
Really, this is the best case scenario.
* In practice, I often sleep later. And I often try to go to be earlier but end up lying in bed for too long trying to go to sleep.
* And somehow my meals end up taking forever. I'm a really slow eater, and apparently a slow cooker also. Plus I like to relax and watch a little TV after I finish.
* Often times I'm interrupted with stuff. Today I had to shovel the driveway. Tomorrow I have to go to the doctor.
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 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!
I live in Fukuoka, Japan. Here's my antidote to the Tokyo rush:
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?
I wake up at 7. Then take a shower and create 2 sachets of microwavable porridge, read something on reddit or hn / watch youtube scishow during breakfast.
Around 8:15-30-(45) go through the door and take 20 minutes bus and 35 minutes of tube then walk 5 minutes. Usually listening to music or some podcasts but the tube is so loud I can't hear anything.
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.
[+] [-] Hytosys|11 years ago|reply
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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Assess the situations my wife might have gotten into while I was sleeping and do triage, or wake up gracefully.
Determine which emails and phone calls need a response and reply as briefly as possible.
If we're going somewhere else, prepare the mobile lab for departure and get under way. Otherwise enjoy wherever it is we are.
Connect with business partners and make any outstanding decisions required for that time.
Connect with F/OSS collaborators and audit any outstanding bug reports or feature requests.
Scout around the area with my wife, figuring out what about where we're currently staying is worth coming back for.
Eat something in the local area or come back to the mobile base and make something.
Assess situation of deliverables and code on most mission critical pieces due soonest.
Unravel some visionary pieces coming in the mid/long term and discuss future scenarios with advisors and agents.
Take on a large piece of code that needs to be written, or a large bug that needs to be weeded out.
Make a campfire, have a beer... maybe cook something on the fire.
Watch a few episodes of something on Netflix with my wife... assuming 4G access or WiFi in the location is stable enough.
Either turn in for the night/day or continue with more of whatever large coding project I took on.
Periodically communicate with partners, collaborators, or clients passed to me by agents managing contacts.
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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.
[+] [-] hendzen|11 years ago|reply
7:15 AM - Alarm goes off. turn on lights. squint until eyes acclimated to light.
7:30 AM - Put on running clothes. Leave residence, embark on run.
8:00AM - Reenter apartment after ~3 mile run, take shower and get ready.
8:30AM - leave apartment again for work
9:00AM - arrive at work, get coffee & light breakfast
9:10-12:00 - most productive programming hours of the day
12:00 - 12:45 - lunch, either onsite or off depending on day
12:45 - 3PM - usually when I have meetings, if not in meetings then programming
3-3:30 PM - afternoon break, have a snack, leave office for a bit and walk around
3:30-6PM - more programming & meetings
6-7PM - leave office, go home, cook & eat dinner if I don't have dinner plans.
7-11PM - social life (dates, friends, etc.)
11PM-12AM - read a chapter of current book I am reading
12AM - bedtime
[+] [-] phamilton|11 years ago|reply
7:00 drive to BART in walnut creek
7:15 park at Walnut Creek Bart
8:00 get off BART at Montgomery
8:05 arrive at office
8:05 - 9:00 grab breakfast, informally sync with Product Managers
9:00-10:40 code alone
10:40 standup meeting
11:00 - 12:00 informal design discussions with team mates, lots of white boarding
12:00 - 1:00 grab lunch, play super smash brothers with colleagues
1:00 - 4:30 push changes to prod, review code, pair program
4:30 head to BART
4:35 head upstream on BART to civic center
4:45 catch BART from civic center (get a seat)
5:35 get off at Walnut creek
5:40 drive home
6:00 arrive home, eat, play with kids
7:00 kids bedtime, free time for parents (generally try to spend this together)
9:00 go running
10:00 wife goes to bed, I'm less of a sleeper so I usual stay up another hour or two working on side projects or sometimes just playing video games.
[+] [-] synunlimited|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] rhgraysonii|11 years ago|reply
Check Slack, and my google calendar for the day.
Open up asana, check our priority queue and ensure my in progress/upcoming are set accurately (remote team, so this is very important)
I work mostly with data scientists. So, some days it's pure cowboy coding. Experimental and research stuff. Lots of image processing, NLP, and API design stuff.
After I finish the first task of the day, contact the Chief Scientist/senior data scientists. Review, consult, plan if we can do more to it or if its worth 'graduating' to a larger product.
Or, if its a larger, production project consult with product and VP of eng as well. Ensure all delivery needs are met.
At the end of the day we have an informal chat of no specified amount of time. The 'end' of the day is often midnight-1am-ish for us because we have people in 5 time zones. We try to be as flexible as possible especially with a guy in South Korea.
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I usually wake up between 9-11, and always without an alarm. I'll get up, take a 5-hour energy, go have some breakfast while I watch Reddit.tv. Breakfast is usually toast and Honey Bunches of Oats, sometimes eggs and toast, sometimes a toaster strudel (no toast). I'll then pop my Vyvanse (adderall) and head to my office.
Once I'm in my office I'll hop on Slack, Ventrilo (we <3 it), and check my emails. I'll check in with everyone to let them know I'm alive and I'll excuse myself while I spend 15-minutes max replying to emails.
Lunch is usually around 1, but no later than 2. It's a bit smaller than my breakfast is, but enough to ensure that I don't get hungry before dinner.
I'll then spend the next five hours as close to a 100% productivity level as I can.
Figure it's about 7, I start to unwind. I'll put on a sports game or head out for a drink with colleagues or clients.
Around 9 is when I'm usually doing my own thing. I'll spend some time on my piano or working on a side project.
It's now about 11 where I settle into bed, no laptop allowed on my bed. I'll put on a documentary, close out emails, and prepare for the next day.
I'm 23, self-employed. I quit my bullshit "100+ hour work week let's call you at 1am saying somethings not working on my daughter's iPhone with the app" a few months ago. I'm not going back.
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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.
[+] [-] galfarragem|11 years ago|reply
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.
[+] [-] jetskindo|11 years ago|reply
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 I code and experiment new tech.
4 am I listen to another podcast while playing clash of clans
5 am I am consumed by sleep.
Context: I quit my job 6 months ago after 3 and a half year. I am trying a bunch of new things to see what sticks.
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06:00 Alarm goes off and get up
06:15 Leave for work, listen to podcasts or music depending on mood
07:00 arrive at work, check up on email and monitoring tools
07:30 pick a task from Jira and start coding
11:30 daily scrum standup to see what my colleagues are doing and how we can help out each other
12:00 lunch, usually I buy something from the local supermarket and we eat in the office kitchen
12:45 resume work, mostly coding and avoiding meetings
15:30 start commute home, podcasts or music depending on mood
16:15 do freelance work or work on one of my own projects
18:00 pick up my daughter from daycare, have dinner and play with her until she goes to bed
20:15 more freelance/own project work or watch TV shows with my wife
23:00 sleep
The last few weeks I tried moving those 2 hours of freelance work from late in the afternoon to right after I wake up (and move my day job 2 hours later), and this seems to massively improve the quality of the work I get done for my own company while not impacting my day job code quality that much. I suspect this is because otherwise the long commute home is draining a lot of energy.
[+] [-] tomh|11 years ago|reply
7:30-8:15 Wake up, get out of bed, shower, coffee
8:30-8:45 Walk to work, open up the office for the rest of the staff
9:00-14:00 Work work work work. Since we have an 'open office' there are no set meetings but as the manager I will be usually having sit-downs with each of my reports and figuring out what's going on. Also will engage in Skype-chats with my other reports/colleagues (we have remote developers in Europe and Africa)
14:00-17:30 Wind down with a long lunch or work on extra projects if there is a tight deadline (usually the case)
17:30-18:00 Close up the office and walk home
18:00-18:20 Standup with the USA office (there are ten hours' difference between CA and UA), get updates on what is going on and get latest assignments
18:30-19:30 Dinner break
20:00-22:00 Skype calls with the USA for work, usually with PMs and clients based in the USA. Can also include answering emails, answering forums, or running demos/presentations over the GoToMeeting
22:00-midnight or 1am - cycle down, watch some streaming shows, goof around on a tablet, go to sleep
[+] [-] adamzerner|11 years ago|reply
09:00 - wake up via alarm and hit snooze
09:40 - actually wake up -> check internet stuff
10:00 - get out of bed and start doing pomodoros
11:00 - make smoothie and drink it while continuing pomodoros
11:30 - do pushups -> continue pomodoros
12:30 - lunch
01:30 - pomodoros (usually get interrupted with something)
05:00 - gym
06:30 - shower, surf web
07:00 - dinner, watch a little tv
08:30 - more pomodoros, or watch move/socialize
12:00 - lights out, listen to podcast/watch tv until I'm sleepy
01:00 - sleep
Really, this is the best case scenario.
* In practice, I often sleep later. And I often try to go to be earlier but end up lying in bed for too long trying to go to sleep.
* And somehow my meals end up taking forever. I'm a really slow eater, and apparently a slow cooker also. Plus I like to relax and watch a little TV after I finish.
* Often times I'm interrupted with stuff. Today I had to shovel the driveway. Tomorrow I have to go to the doctor.
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[+] [-] brosky117|11 years ago|reply
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!
[+] [-] gokhan|11 years ago|reply
Why? What's the thing with GoPro that the work is pretty relaxed there?
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[+] [-] laurieg|11 years ago|reply
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?
[+] [-] a269b546fefc|11 years ago|reply
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.