What could be more interesting than your day at work? Or perhaps, less interesting...
Talk about your typical day at work. What duties and responsibilities do you have? Do you enjoy it? What happened today? Do you even have a job? What are your future plans.
No need to list how much you make. This is not some kind of "I'm better than you" war (or I will kill it). Just curious as to what everybody's doing. Why? Well, I guess just to post_count++.
My typical day consists of showing up between 8:00am and 10:00am. They don't seem to mind, I've never been warned about it or anything. Sometimes I come in even later. If it's really late (after noon), I usually call and they're cool with it.
I'm just an IT intern, so I don't do anything major. I've got a nice little office that I share with one of the other 2 programmers in the company. I usually keep one internet window open at all times, frequently checking forums, unless a big project is underway (which is kind of rare). My duties include helping out users with their multitude of problems, fixing computers, specific problems that need to be addressed with our programs and whatever else might come our way. I do a fair amount of SQL and informix programming, but lately I've been on another project. We are planning to go to electronic reporting and I'm the main man on the project. I just finished today gathering the entire distribution (which is a whole lot) and I'm going to start evaluating the actual usage of our current reports.
I typically finish up the day around 6 or 7pm. I help out with the night operator duties since the position was recently terminated. It's a monday to friday job, so I get weekends off.
I'm hoping to go full time pretty soon, before the end of this semester. I'm going to work here until my wife graduates and then look for other opportunities, hopefully in the gaming industry.
So there you have it, now your turn.
I usually show up around 1pm. If its earlier in the week everybodies probably in meetings so I just get to work on various stuff i have to do (programming, maybe performing some calibrations or something). If its later in the week its likely I'll be helping out with capturing or aligning stuff. Inbetween everything else I'm learning about all the different technologies.
Usually I'll go out to lunch with a co-worker or two (I only have 3, one of which works from home) soon after getting in.
If theres a demo or something coming up I'm probably working weird hours (ie coming in early or leaving late) in which case I wouldnt be doing any programming, just helping keeping everything working.
Oh and ofcourse inbetween everything theres jokes about everything ranging from funny bugs, to weird business strategies, to how facebook always uses the elevator to go between the 2nd and 3rd floors so we can't use it to get out.
I usually leave around 6 or 7.
In between 6-7 AM, I prefer to work early. Usually write some program to make users life easier and more productive in the AM. People start coming in around 9-10 AM, and most the rest of the day I put out fires. I'm the only person remaining from a layoff so I'm the only guy who knows how everything works.
I'm a professionally disillusioned University student. All I can say is
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Lunch and the bus-ride home are the high points of my day. They play movies at lunch As you can imagine, I just can't wait to get into the workforce.
Go in at 2pm, start off by checking if anyone has soiled their briefs. Change as needed, give out snacks at 3pm and get everyone up for dinner by 5. Feed everyone until 6:30pm or so. Give showers to those who are scheduled for one. Get everyone in bed by 8:30 and do last rounds( checking for soiled briefs) from 9-10pm. After that is done, finish my paperwork and go home.
And in case if you're wondering what I do and where I work, I'm a CNA( certified nursing assistant) working in a nursing home.
Go in. Sit down. Help people. Leave.
Marcello
I walk 3 blocks over to work between 7:15 and 7:30. Sometimes I get breakfast downstairs at the deli and eat it at my desk, other times I just have a cup of coffe. I zone out for about an hour in the morning thinking "it's to early to do anything" or for the whole day - "it's monday/friday, I'm not doing anything today!". But normally I get most of my work done in the morning if I have anything big to do.
Before lunch I may research an issue or create a report. Also before lunch I always go down stairs to the big breakroom and 'rest my eyes' by staring out the window for about 10-15 minutes. Then I walk home for lunch: about 1:00 to 1:15 long lunch. Sometimes I eat lunch at the deli and read a book.
Then I walk back to work, I veg out and read stuff I copy onto a diskett and bring in (I have no internet password). I take another break at about 2:30 and then leave precisely at 4:00 and walk home.
My life is very relaxing.
I'm a car mechanic.
If they're not too terribly behind in my pay ("we already paid you for that week: no you didn't, yes we did" etc.) and they knock on my door, I probably go in to work on some car where 3 people have already diddled stuff (and didn't get it to do right so they call me) and try to repair it with no tools (15 minute search for a simple wrench because if it's not welded down it walks off) no info (There's a really lame car repair program called Alldata but they just toss the DVD's in a heap so they're unreadable) out in the rain (because the shop is so full of useless junk that was bought years ago in the hope somebody would pay $50 for it) and the boss wants it fixed in 5 minutes, but "try this, try that, do this" as bright ideas come to him faster than I can carry them out. 10 years ago, I had the idea that I should do my best in everything, now I couldn't care less if everybody in the world had to walk.
Oh what a wonderful topic for me to vent in.
Well today is Monday so of course nothing went right. The first thing I do when I get to work is login to my machine but for some reason the computer wasnt responding to my keyboard. I swapped the keyboard with a different one but no luck. So I rebooted the machine and everything worked fine from there.
Then I spent the whole day rewriting a script to make it faster but failed miserably because the added complexity to make it faster also prevented it from working :p.
Well my job is quite new, only been there for 3 weeks. I work for a major aircraft company and my job is to write programs that make the engineers and avionics teams work more effeciently as well as support old programs other people have already written. My title is Application Programmer/Analyst I. The main application I'm supporting at the moment is called Catia and it's nice. It's used to design parts and products in 3D, test for stresses, look for errors, etc. The industry just upgraded from version 4 to version 5 which is a complete rewrite which runs on both AIX and Windows and has been completely revamped. There is a simple scripting interface to the API as well as a much more complex C++ API called RADE. I'm currently writing some stuff in RADE and dabbled a bit in the scripting but it was not much of a challenge. RADE would be ok if it had proper documentation but unfortunately the docs were written in something like doc++ and the API is inconsistant and confusing. Not to mention it's using COM which I know the reasons but it's more of a hinderance in many ways. Anyway so far I'm impressing the people in my group because I seem to be catching on fast. Lunches are only supposed to be 30 mins but we play cards for an hour. Lots of cool people there too, tons of Linux gurus and techies. So far nothing too intimidating for me though, but I'm sure as I learn more they'll throw more at me.
I work at a Starbucks kiosk inside a grocery store. I typically show up around 2:00 pm. All day I make drinks, spill drinks, pour coffee, brew more coffee, fill the espresso machine, grab syrups, drink coffee... "Make drinks" is a bad way to put my primary job, customer service. Dealing with happy people is the best--it helps when they understand I'm busy (and by myself), and the wait is long. Or if we're out of something.
I enjoy my job. I like it when people return, and I can call out their order before they say anything. They like it too. It makes them feel special and important; plus they always come back .
Dealing with complacent to angry customers is probably the worst part of my job. It doesn't really happen at all since I'm a pro baerista. Well, unhappy customers and make frappacinos. I despise frappacinos, they're a pain in the ass. And I can always tell when someones going to order one. Little kids and fat ugly women, with nasty moles and mustaches.
At around 7:00 I go to the back of the store and grab milk and pastries from the walk in cooler. I try to break down boxes and bring out empty milk crates to make life easier on the guys who work in the back-room. I then bring it all up, take the pastries out of their boxes and make them look pretty on a tray, and cover them with shrink wrap.
At 8:30 I throw away all of the old pastries (usally around 10) and wrap up the ones that are still good. Sometimes I take one or two. Then I grab a mop, stock everything well, sweep, dump stuff out, make stuff...
Still, I can't wait to get a job programming.
SSC my mom is a CNA so I feel your pain Some people like that kind of work though.
Hah, I love frappacinos! Usually the only reason I go to a starbucks. Everything is so damned expensive.
I don't work... so I probably shouldn't post anything in this thread. Woops, too late.
I'll keep this concise.
I get up and make the short (15 mile) commute to work, then sit in my office for the next 10-12 hours programming, ordering equipment, and troubleshooting the occasional system failure. I then go home, and do whatever I can until I eventually fall asleep.
Boring, but the pay is very nice.
I wake up in the morning, make coffee and then sit down in front of the computer all day. My job is the easiest in the world, as I am unemployed.
Although that shall change soon....... I'm going to work as a customer service representative at Lik Sang, probably doing some web work as well too.
SSC my mom is a CNA so I feel your pain Some people like that kind of work though.
I don't mind it, it's an honorable job that makes me feel like I'm actually doing something good( given that most people think I'm a psychopathetic prick).
I don't see how anyone could work all day just sitting down...I'd go crazy and have a sore butt.
The thing that sucks about being unemployed is: "The moment you wake up, you're on the job." (i can't remember where i've stolen this quote... i think it is from the Laffer Utilities)
Talk about your typical day at work.
Sorry, I can't. Have to work...
My job involves fixing up shelves in my department at a Walmart like store (though we get a decent pay).
All I can say is, people would be paying less if they didn't fiddle (then DAMAGE, LOSE and MISPLACE) with the products. They even break the seals that say "do not open the seals for they are for ensuring the product is complete upon trade"... There are so many products that have ripped cardboards, disfigured boxes, missing products and items that are found in the middle of nowhere. Not to mention the people who steal all this unnecessary stuff ('more necessary' would probably be stealing basic food items for a family in poverty).
It makes me pessimistic
I get AU$12 an hour.
I usually go to school at 8, 8.45 or 9.45, to the Savonia University of Applied Sciences (Yes, they've changed the name once again), study, drink coffee and smoke cigarettes till lunch (11.30), then drink coffee and smoke cigarettes till 12.10 when the afternoon lessons begin, after which i study, drink coffee and smoke cigarettes. Depending on the day, i'll get back home at 13.45 or 17.45.
I go to work when I'm scheduled. (full-time suckers! ). Anywhere from 9 in the morning to 4 at night, and work for 5 hours. I move all kinds of huge bulk items, like 54 lbs of dog food, and plastic bins of detergent around same size. It's not bad, but I do work for my money. Though sadly, my damaged back doesn't take kindly to lifting large items like those, so it ends up hurting pretty bad some days.
The managers and such are all cool. For some bizarre reason... they are care (like... actually care!) and don't tell you how to do your job. It's lovely. They're still managers, but they're not so concerned with making money that your well-being goes out the window.
Now, on to the part that sucks: People--or more specifically, stupid people. I'm a cashier, and yet for some reason unbeknownst to me, people think I come up with the rules and regulations. And even more so, they somehow figure that I can bend them. As if somehow, if they yell enough, I'll change my mean ol' mind and let them break the law ("You can't buy beer tax exempt, we don't have a beer reseller's license!").
And then there's the people who think I should be able to read their mind, and then yell at me when I fail to do so. For instance:
"I told you to put $1000 on my card and the rest on my visa"
"Sir, you never mentioned using your personal credit," I replied.
"I handed you my card, didn't I?" he snapped back.
"You have to hand us that card so we can start any transaction. It doesn't mean you'll use the credit on that card."
"I told you to put $1000 on my card and the rest on my visa"
"..."
That guy made me so angry... he had such a demeaning angry tone, and yet I took the high road. He forgot a paper of his that would have made that special sale thing possibly invalid, and I walked out and gave it to him. I think it confused him quite a bit when he realized he chewed out someone who was only trying to help him.
Why are people stupid? I mean, what makes people think that because someone works in retail, they can just be a complete donkey to them? They sure as heck wouldn't do that to a stranger. I swear, one of these days I'm just going to get one of my big friends to hang out at work with me and threaten people who bother with me. It's not like I'm mean or disrespectful in anyway to anyone I help. I'm extremely cheerful at work, I like to work, and I try my best to be helpful. And yet I deserve to be chewed out? Goodness!
Alright, well, I've made my peace.
I'm a student. I hate work.
How it was before I became a student:
05:30 - Wake up!
06:05 - Take the bus for 60 kilometers.
08:30 - I am at work!
At work - Work as a IT-technican, helpning people / designing infrastructure.
17:30 - I have worked my 8 hours.
17:40 - I'm taking the bus home.
19:10 - I am home again!
How it is now when I study:
- Wake up!
- Study at home OR walk 100 meters to the university.
- Study / Go to seminars / Work on assignments.
- If I am at school: Go 100 meters to my home.
- Do something else.
How it will be (I have a job waiting for me) after I have finished my CS studies:
- Wake up!
- Take the train for 80 kilometers.
- Travel by bus/bicycle 2-3 kilometers.
- I am at work!
- Work as a programmer on systems related to the steel industry.
- I have worked my 8 hours.
- Travel by bus/bicycle 2-3 kilometers.
- Take the train for 80 kilometers.
- I am home again!
Take the train for 80 kilometers.
Couldn't you just take the train ONCE, stay there and never take the train again?
This is my order of day at work, in no particular order as there is no order, apart from the obvious lunchtime/going home time stuff
Write code
Design systems
Talk to people
Do research
Do training
Check allegro.cc
Check mailing group
SSC: sitting down all day is HORRIBLE, I hate it.
So far nothing too intimidating for me though, but I'm sure as I learn more they'll throw more at me.
It's good to hear things are going well at your new job Steve!
I try not to kill people. So far I've been quite successful.
1. Walk into a squalid cold building.
2. Find a cubicle with working Computer AND phone.
3. Log myself into 3 different databases
4. "Thanks for calling Dell On Call! My name is Sam. Can I have your name and order number"
5. Help americans with problems they could solved by simple Google searching.
6. LUNCH TIME!
7. Back to 4. and 5.
8. Log out of Databases
9. Smoke 1 cigar.
10. Go home.
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I did have a huge amount of backstory... but it seems to have disapeared. I'll post it in a bit... I need to get back to work
My work day today:
7.45 Get in car and drive to a school on the west side of the island.
8.45 Arrive there. Get bag and trumpet and unpack.
9.00 First student arrived for his 20 min trumpet lesson.
10.45 Get in car, drive to get some food, then to another school.
11.40 Trumpet student.
12.00 Recorder student.
12.20 Waiting for trumpet student that never showed. Why didn't he call me and say he wouldn't come? Note to self: Call him tomorrow. Waiting like this is boring, but at least I got to practise some piano playing.
12.45 Get in car. Drive to the city and the music school (home base).
13.45 Arrive there. Prepare for the rest of the day.
14.40 First student there.
18.40 Last student arrived for her trombone lesson.
19.10 Get in car. Drive home.
20.00 Home. Get food.
I like it, even though the driving gets a bit tedious. I think teaching music instruments suits me well.
(Richard: Keep up the good work!)
I stand up at 6 in the morning, eat breakfast, shower, get pissed and go to work. I work as a paramedic, so I hop on a medic-car and drive to people who need medical assistance. Until 5 in the evening I get even more pissed, so I go home and start programming or watching TV.
See, that's what daunts me the most about having to work one day. I'm sure I could get used to doing whatever task I need to do. What I can't stand is the bloody nonsense where I have to wake up at 6 in the morning and drive or otherwise transport myself for three hours every day. It's insane.
I stand up at 6 in the morning, eat breakfast, shower, get pissed and go to work. I work as a paramedic, so I hop on a medic-car and drive to people who need medical assistance. Until 5 in the evening I get even more pissed, so I go home and start programming or watching TV.
Oh, the joys of British slang!
What I can't stand is the bloody nonsense where I have to wake up at 6 in the morning and drive or otherwise transport myself for three hours every day. It's insane.
You do get used to it to some extent. But I'll not lie to you; it is sometimes extreemly difficult.
Yeah, isn't 'pissed' getting drunk?
So far as commute time, that's why I live close to work.
I come in at exactly 5pm and login to my computer. Once everything is loaded I login to the phone system and check my email. Then I chat for 10-20 minutes with coworkers about what's going on, or if nothing is going on we chat about something else.
I check allegro.cc at around 5:30. Maybe order a pizza. Take phone calls and work on personal projects for the next 3 hours, occasionally jumping over to the work bench to run spyware/virus scans or do something else.
On bad days I spend 95% of my time on the phone telling customers that X service is (or was) experiencing problems.
[edit]My commute time is about 3 minutes from home to work, if I get a ride from my parents (which is usually the case). Walking is about 20 minutes, biking is about 7-10 minutes, weather permitting.
I work at an elementary school as an educational assistant (part time). On a typical day at work, I tell kids off, and I also get hugs.
Here is my day @ Civil service
around 7:30 - 7:45 i wake up. If more near 7:30 i eat something quickly for breakfast.
7:45 i go out and start walking to the school where i am posted on. Sometimes i get car ride.
8:00 - 8:20: I arrive at the school. Check E-mails and some forums. (Work should start 8:00 exactly)
8:30 - 11:30: I'll hang around do some computer problem solving if there is any reported. Otherwise i just surf around and do my own stuff (search, conduct, create information about filming related to us or in general).
11:20 - 12:15: Having lunch break. I go to the schools mesh hall or what ever it is called. Eat if there is anything meaty.
12:15 - 16:00: Wait if someone reports computer problem (Printer, network or anything).
15:30 - 16:10: Have a dinner at the mesh hall and after it I'll walk home.
16:10 - 16:45: I am back at home. Have maybe something to eat (depending on whats cooking at the school) and sit at my computer and start doing all kinds of stuff (well the normal stuff i do).
18:00 - 19:00: Depending if i am hungry i cook something.
23:00 - 2:00: I brush my teeths, and go to sleep.
And when i am writing this its 9:15.
get up at 6:45 am
get to work at 8:00 am
fart around til 8:45 am (bell rings)
teach students reading and writing; praise students; hug students; yell at them when their coats are unzipped; have students wipe their noses; teach math; teach science; give students homework ; give consequences to students; teach social studies; read with them; look at paper cuts and exclaim over booboos.
Bell rings at 3:15 pm - students go home
fart around till 4:30 pm, go home.
Get up at 7am.
Shower.
Make a cup of tea.
Get the train at 8:30.
Arrive at work at 9am, make more tea.
Write/Test/Debug code for 8 hours.
Come home, make tea.
I am an optometrist. I deal with the eyes in terms of vision (spectacles, contact lenses) as well as health (eye diseases).
I work in a dispensing practice which means I also have spectacles and sunglasses to sell. This means I am in retail and so I get treated as such, so I know what you mean Chris.
Funny thing is, when I have my tie and "optometrist" badge on, I get much more respect and I do have to jump in and help out the people I work with when they get chewed on.
I work 6 days a week (I have Mondays off) from about 9am to 5:30pm. I also commute for about 3 hrs per day. I also work late Thursdays (until 9pm).
I work 6 days a week (I have Mondays off) from about 9am to 5:30pm. I also commute for about 3 hrs per day. I also work late Thursdays (until 9pm).
Thats a pretty ridiculous schedule. I hope you get paid a lot of money..
Hmm... on average (numbers rounded to nearest half hour):
7:00 Get up, eat breakfast, shower, pack back
8:00 Cycle to the trainstation
8:30 Sit in the train, read a book
9:00 Get off the train, cycle to university
9:30 Unlock door, put away coat. Note who else made it in early today. Read e-mail and check for new papers.
10:30 Make tea, stop by the printer to collect printe papers (if any), stop by the coffee room.
11:00 Eat lunch at my desk; read some papers, prepare exercise classes or miscelaneous adminstrative tasks.
12:30 Join people downstairs for lunch break
13:00 Do some actual rearch
13:30 Group meeting (on wednesday)
15:30 Colloquium (on wednesday; sometimes on thursday or friday)
16:30 Post colloquium drinking (on wednesday), go home (on monday) or still working
18:00 Grab dinner, go home (cycle, train, cycle) or join some social activity.
19:30 Get home, cook dinner and relax (or go out)
23:30 Prepare for bed if not out; read a little
0:30 Get home if out, consider going to sleep if not
1:00 Put out light and put away book. Sleep.
I do Telemarketing (but don't hold it against me!) The job is okay. The hours are terribly anti-social, though. I go in for 12 and finish at 9. So it's usually close to 10 by the time I arrive home and get my dinner cooked.
The job can be a little rocky. I've only been there for two weeks and, in that time, I've trained for two days, been moved to a new campaign and then been sent for three more days of training.
Ah, the joys of a student job
On most workdays:
5:30 Get up, do the usual morning stuff, sometimes even eat something.
6:00 Drive to work
6:30 Get there, check mail, forums, etc.
7:00 Start working
8:00 Really start working (coding mostly)
14:00 Stop working, check mail, forums again, etc.
14:45 Go home
15:10 Get home
15:15 Eat lunch
15:30 Walk the dog
16:00 Sit behind the computer and do random things
20:00 Watch TV
21:00 Do the usual evening stuff and go to bed
On weekends:
7:00 Get up, do the usual morning stuff, eat breakfast
8:00 Walk the dog
9:00 Sit behind the computer and do random things
14:00 Eat lunch
14:30 Walk the dog
15:30 Sit behind the computer some more and do more random things or watch TV
20:00 Walk the dog
20:30 Eat something and watch TV or sit behind the computer to do random things
21:00-23:00 Do the usual evening stuff and go to bed
It's depressing....
miran: Show us a picture of your dog!
It's depressing....
So, goes out more times with your dog and search for a girlfriend.
A warning: girlfriend can make you depressing too.
depressing or depressed?
miran: Show us a picture of your dog!
OK, here be the doggy.
http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/3963/img2051small0jn.jpg
http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/536/img01640un.jpg
That is one fine looking dog! Not to mention good photos of him (or her?).
Since we're off topic, here's the only digital picture of my OCD dog.
http://comp.uark.edu/~spsilve/riley.jpg
- Go to school
- Do school stuff
- Program
11:00 Wake up (laaate today) at my GF, she has gone to school already.
11:20 Try to shower but there are clothes hanging to dry everywhere.
11:40 Hurry to the bus, the cash machine is out of order.
11:45 Miss bus due to the cash machine.
11:50 Got some money in exchange at the supermarket.
12:00 I'm taking the bus.
12:40 Watch doggie pictures: Nice doggie pictures Miran and Steven!
12:47 Write this...
....To be continued!
The thing that sucks about being unemployed is: "The moment you wake up, you're on the job." (i can't remember where i've stolen this quote... i think it is from the Laffer Utilities)
The bad thing about doing nothing is that you can't stop and take a rest.
My job description matches juvinious'.
The bad thing about doing nothing is that you can't stop and take a rest.
I like this quote
Well anyway, does school count for a job?
It's like this:
06:00 Get up
06:40 Go to school
07:00 Class begins and I start to sleep
11:50 Class ends and I get up to go home and sleep some more
That's it!
4:50 hours of class? We have 6 hours per day.
Do you have school on Saturday?
Hm, Monday through Friday, excepting vacations and such, I go to school.
6:30 - Think about waking up and taking a shower.
6:35 - Get up.
6:45 - Actually get up and drag self into shower.
6:55 - Get out of shower, eat, get on computer for 10 minutes.
7:23 - Go out for bus.
8:15 - Arrive at school.
8:40 - Classes start.
11:55 - Go to cafeteria for lunch.
12:30 - Back to classes.
2:55 - End of day, get on bus.
3:45 - Arrive at home. Either get on computer and do random things, or sleep until dinner time.
5-6 - Dinner time, eat dinner, and do more random things, go out if I have something to do.
10 - go to bed if I didn't sleep when I got home.
12-1 - If I did sleep, go to bed now.
4:50 hours of class? We have 6 hours per day.
Do you have school on Saturday?
No. Brazil's school time is the shortest one I know. Though our vacations are shorter than most ones too.
And hmm, looking at BAF's time schedule, I must do a little correction on mine... that one is this year as I'm more disciplined now, but last year it was more like:
06:30 Get up.
06:40 Actually get up and wash face in cold water to actually get up.
06:55 Run to school cause the bell's almost ringing (I'm lucky to live just in front of my school! )
Oh, is it me or BAF spends almost one hour just in the bus on the way to school?
Yep, an hour to and from. It's not too bad, I usually do my homeworkon thebus, or sleep.
07:30. Wake up. Turn the TV on. Off to sleep again leaving my mind sucking news in the ether.
08:00. Up. If it is too hot or on the night before I did not take a shower, do it now. Drink a cup of orange juice.
08:45. Turn screen on, read some RSS headlines.
09:00. Bus stop. Waiting around 10-15 minutes for one of them to come. During the travel, I read a Dragonlance book. It usually takes me two weeks to finish a book (a gross count states I have read 79 books, and still 42 left and three sourcebooks).
10:00. Another bus.
11:15. Job. Usually my computer is on all night, processing a database hash table we use. Otherwise, turn it on, login, sign on ICQ (that is how our boss notices if we have arrived or not). Check mail, go to the upper floor to greet people, etc.
13:30. Meeting. We usually do a daily meeting to tell what we are doing, what we plan to do, and if we need help and such.
13:45. Out, buy lunch somewhere, eat and spend some good time.
14:15. Back to work. From time to time check A.cc and Wikipedia for vandalism. Reply some stuff, back to work.
17:30. An hour and a half before leaving, I check in everything, if I need to integrate some piece of code I have been working on, do it. If I need to compile something for a upgrade, compile it with binary compatibility. Maybe go out and buy some candy or something to kill hunger.
19:00. Usually time to go. Since our Support Team is annoyed because they aren't our CEO's favourite group anymore, they usually wait until last minute to inform me that some doctor is having problems with his copy of the product. Send them to hell if possible. Sometimes if I am working on something big, I stay till 20:00 or 21:00. If we are releasing a upgrade, I usually stay until 1 or 2 AM. However, in some occassions we stay all night there. On Fridays, we prepare a BBQ, although I almost never stay with them. After dinner, we play some multiplayer games like Call of Duty, Medal of Honour, etc.
19:15. Supposing I am leaving at 19:00, an empty bus passes daily at 19:25. I usually pick it up. Sometimes I just pick the earlier one, although it is full. If there is enough daylight, I continue reading my book. If there isn't, I turn my DS on and play Mario Kart DS (still looking for a mobile phone that can generate a Wi-Fi signal to play MKDS online ).
19:50. Down the bus, 5 minutes walk to the next stop.
20:00. Arrived. Buses leave every 15 minutes, in a short/long trajectory (at :00 leaves a bus that goes fast by skipping some streets, at :15 leaves another which goes slower since it goes through a lot of extra streets, at :30 again leaves another fast one, etc). If the 20:00 bus is empty, I take it, otherwise I take the 20:15 one. Sometimes I need to wait a bit more for the 20:30, as it may be full. Play Mario Kart DS, although if the DS battery is running low, I play a GBA game instead.
21:30. Off the bus, walk a minute and arrive home. If there is a soccer match, I eat while watching it. I usually dinner at 21:45, take a shower at 23:00 (unless I arrive home at 21:00, then I first take a shower to let my hair dry).
02:00. I most times sleep at this hour. I spend time at A.cc, Wikipedia, Genesis MUD searching for butterflies in the latest event, reading RSS news, watch some anime or Charmed episodes, listen to music, etc.
At my previous job (video editor) the mediashop had working motto around there. It went something like this :
"Dont do that today what you can make tomorrow". And things on that mediashop worked pretty much just like that.. Lets say we got project X... completing project X takes 10 days... and the deadline is in 30 days... first 20 days we just hang around and irc... Then someone remember "Holy shit.. project X". And we start to build it and in the end it took 15 days to complete it..
7:00 - Get up, perform ablutions, have breakfast, pack lunch
7:45 - Get in car, drive to work
8:10 - At work, check email, read friends' blogs
8:30 - Start coding / testing / tracking down bugs / fixing bugs
12:30 - Eat lunch
13:15 - Back to work
15:00 - Curse at development environments / compilers / languages used
15:05 - Curse at own stupidity
15:10 - Keep working
18:00 - Leave work, go home, exercise, make dinner, snuggle, sleep.
6h45: Alarm Clock. Kick the alarm clock.
7h00: After spending 1/4 hour trying to wake up my GF, i'm waking up.
7h15: Coffee Time
7h30: Going to work
8h00: I'm at work, checking new mails.
8h30: Coffee, cigarette.
9h00: Doing some nasty things, hiding my dev-cpp projects behind some nasty perl / php / script code i must achieve at work.
11h00: Cigarette
11h30: Eat
12h30: Coffee
13h30: repeat step 9h00
17h00 - 17h30 : Back Home, Kiss GF, i'm rolling me a special cig while a good real coffee is falling into my cup
19h00 Eating while watching the simpsons
20h00 Coding for myself (freeware of course)
23h00 Rolling a special cig
00h00 I'm near the bed , ready to sleep.
a special cig
What exactly does one put in a special cig?
special stuff!
00:00:00-23:59:59; Win everything there is to win
But what do you do on your second off?
hmm... my schedule...
anywhere between 0:00 and 23:59:
I do nothing.
Sleep.
Program.
Go to Dr Appointments (every couple of weeks)
Watch TV.
Babysit
All in a randomish manner. No set schedule for anything. Really messes a person up.
I handle a few applications, and when I don't I do whatever pops up, or researching new stuff. Mainly I deal with a Visio system for drawing logic programs (Prolog), which I guess is pretty cool, but a bit messy since the code is written as VBA in Visio - Still; I keep it functional and practical to work with.
I also have a hand in a logic engine that runs these programs, and a webservices that can use this engine. The result is that the banks/insurance companies that we have as new customers can have Drawn, declarative business rules which they call via the webservice - quite nifty, and very short time for implementing stuff with this system, which the clients are pleasantly surprised by
Daily schedule:
Wake up and drink a bit of 'filmjölk' from the fridge (like Yoghurt, a bit)
Walk some blocks to work - arrive around 9:ish
1 hour - 'doing my netbiz' (checking mails, sites and news)
Starting to think about what I should do today
Depending on luck, motivation and concentration, interleaving work, chatting, surfing and trying to be generally smart and forward-thinking
Around noon - walk home to have lunch for about 1.20 hours
Continue in the same style as before lunch - drinking whatever beverage I consider myself to need, until 5, when I start packing up to go home
Make food & eat
Tonight I'll go to the local "fandom" pub, where all the sci-fi/fantasy nerds hang out. -Fun people to talk to, and I'll bring a friend from stockholm and an ex date (nice smart girl that I fail being attracted to)
Today the snow feels nice - maybe we'll build some snow lanterns on our way home tonight
What exactly does one put in a special cig?
special stuff!
Exactly ! What do you want me to put in my special cig, other than some special things ?
I'm not sure I can freely tell to all what are the components of my special rolled cig's. It's just that it is in my typical day to do so.
My typical "work" day:
6:45 - Wake up.
7:20 - Depart from home, put on headphones, tune up MP3 player.
7:40 - Arrive at school, do homeworks I've forgot.
8:00 - Suck in knowledge.
~12:30 - Suck in some food.
12:40 - Again suck in knowledge.
13:30 - 15:25 (depends on the day shcedule) - Depart from school and do random stuff - program, read book, play game, go to pub with friends, play pool...
18:30 - Have a dinner.
19:00 - Do random stuff - watch TV (not very often, since I must watch BSG on PC), program, or when it's friday go dancing.
22:30 - 0:30 - Fell asleep (depends on mood and whether it's friday).
Kazzmir: Paid enough so I don't quit, but not enough for me to retire young.
It's just that it is in my typical day to do so.
I'm not trying to moralize, but doing drugs on a daily basis can't be healthy for you. Anyway, it's your life.
Torbjörn Josefsson:
Your Prolog stuff sounds really interesting. I've taken a lot of AI courses but haven't ppracticedmy Prolog very much, so I am quite poor in it.
My girlfriend is writing a little language interpreter (Scanner, Parser and Expression evaluator) as part of a course in logic programming, it seems interesting but I fail to understand her code (I've only done simple stuff). I'll try to take it this fall if I'm not out of school yet. Is it possible to use Allegro or something else for graphics from (perhaps some specific implementation of) Prolog?
Prolog for C++ Programmers (abridged version):
1) Take out brain
2) Flip 180 degrees
3) Put back in
You can connect C and Prolog - there are a lot of different systems, with different modes of connecting.
I think SWI Prolog has a really good way of connecting - an SWI is totally free (last time I checked)
We use Sicstus Prolog, however, by SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
-If you buy a telephone exchange (or whatever is the correct term) from Ericsson, it's likely that our code was involved when they sold it to you - to configure and customize those bad boys
-And if you're an astronaut working for NASA, the automated voice system telling you how to repair stuff during flight is powered by Sicstus Prolog
Prolog is not dead.. it's just biding its time
Interesting reply, thanks. It was SWI Prolog which was/is used at my university, I'll try to get into that this fall if I am still studying by then.
My days aren't typical. I work some 60 hours a week. 20 of these as a (bilingual) customer service employee (sometimes I get to do actual customer service, but at the moment, I am more concerned in getting the organisation structured, having proper documentation for all work flows, testing the in-house web-based application, translating it, documenting problems for the IT guys, and forwarding e-mails). Another 8 go into teaching trumpet students. The rest is dynamically allocated for composing, arranging, rehearsing with bands, and actually performing. As you might guess, my sleep patterns are all but regular, and I drink loads of coffee. Leaving for work at 6.30am and coming back at midnight is not an exception.
06:35 I wake up.
06:45 I really stand up now.
06:55 I sit in the kitchen, reading and eating.
07:20 Go to school by bike.
08:00 School starts.
13:35 School ends. I go home by bike again.
14:00 I arrive at home and eat something.
14:40 I sit in front of the computer, or play the piano, or do my homework.
20:00 Dinner.
21:00 I really do my homework now.
22:30 I prepare to go to sleep.
06:45 I really stand up now.
Just in case you'd like to know, the German word "aufstehen" does NOT translate to "stand up".
I see this literal translation is really popular in Germany or Austria or whatever for some reason...
While it might not be very common usage, I think it's "correct" to use "stand up" as a synonym to "get up" or "rise". Maybe it's used less in this context than other expressions.
Online dictionaries supporting this claim:
http://pocket.dict.cc/?s=aufstehen&btngo=Go%21 [OK, this one is mainly fed by Germans]
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=stand%20up [scroll down all the way: "stand up v 1: rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded" [syn: arise, rise, uprise, get up] [ant: sit down, lie down]"]
Context, context, context! You do not say "stand up" in English when you mean "get out of bed". That's all there is to it.
Holy avatar changes, Batman!
I thought X-G's post was made by Richard Phipps, and it sounded strange. Then I saw the weird changes to it and knew the truth.
I get paid $13/hr to flirt with women and compare cameltoes.
what are cameltoes?
Camel toes. He's a camel inspector. He inspects camel toes. Makes sure they're all in order.
6:15 The clock rings
6:20 The clock still rings
6:30 The clock is broken
6:40 Dragging myself to the shower
6:41 Waiting for warm water
6:43 Water is warm. I begin to sing a random melody.
6:53 Enough. Going down to the kitchen, make something to eat.
6:55 Eat. Drink some delicious coffee ( no 1 )
7:10 Go to the bus.
7:17 Getting on the full bus, always standing next to that heavy metal freak who's music is louder than the mass of people babbling randomly through the bus.
7:44 Get off the bus. Go around some blocks and head to the school.
7:50 First lessons begin. Usually two physics AC lessons.
9:30 Drag myself into the cafeteria.
9:35 My second coffee ( no 2 )
9:45 Two lessons of mathematics AC.
11:30 Drag myself into the cafeteria.
11:35 Coffee ( no 3 )
11:45 Random lessons until 2 o'clock
14:00 From here on there are 2 options:
a)
14:00 Go to subway, eat and then head on to work.
15:00 Start working a the supermarket.
19:00 Finish working at the supermarket. Go home and do your homework. Then sleep.
b)
14:00 Go home, eat something, take your guitar, a heavy bag of cables and head down to the bandroom.
15:00 Meat my GF ( who lives near the bandroom )
15:00-18:00 [censored]
18:00 Head to bandroom, practice with the band, eat japanese noodles and drink loads of coffee ( no 4 )
22:00 Finished with session, head to the bus.
22:20 Taking my bus home.
22:35 Arriving at home, drinking some coffee ( no 5 )
22:50 Doing my homework, presentations, coding etc.
01:00 Go to bed.
I don't know what I would do without the a) days...
what are cameltoes?
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Today was crap, Yesterday was crapper. By this pattern, I predict tomorrow will either be good, or be a riot.
Today was a holiday so I stayed home. Yay for holidays.
Tomorow I have to work again which means I have to get up at 5:30, so if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed (it's almost 21:00). Good night.
Just in case you'd like to know, the German word "aufstehen" does NOT translate to "stand up".
Okay, I'll use "get up" in the future! Thanks you notified me of this!
that heavy metal freak who's music is louder than the mass of people babbling randomly through the bus
When we're already nitpicking, it's "whose", not "who's". "Whose" means dessen, while "who's" means der etwas ist.
Today was a holiday so I stayed home. Yay for holidays.
Tomorow I have to work again which means I have to get up at 5:30, so if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bed (it's almost 21:00). Good night.
Hehe, I know the feeling of holidays. Today I had just 4 hours of school instead of 7, which made my day!
Well, good night!
Camel toes. He's a camel inspector. He inspects camel toes. Makes sure they're all in order.
ha! That is but a dream.
well I`m a student.. so it`s like this:
7:00 wake up
7:30 leave home to meet the bus at 7:45
7:40 waiting for the bus
7:45 waiting for the bus
7:50 waiting for the bus
7:55 waiting for the bus
8:00 berserk
9:00 finally at the academy - some lessons till 10:30
10:30 - 15:00 Hell yeah! They give you breakes to have lunch... Enough time to eat out in the north pole and get back on time!
15:00 - 16:30 usially some very very boring lectures... so I read some book (lately about C++ templates)
16:30 free to go home
18:00 time for english/german lessons
19:00 finally time for dinner
19:30 - 21:00 doing some execrices/programs/projects for the academy
21:00 - ' untill you start seeing pink elephants' some time to chill out and rest
and that`s generally how it looks like
When we're already nitpicking, it's "whose", not "who's"
Most english people would just use who's I think. We are pretty lazy with grammar..
I always use whose when i mean whose. I say who's when i mean "who is".
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Do i sense an avatar war?
who's: who is/has.
whose: posessive.
I think. Didn't actually look it up. It's like its and it's.
Marcello
It's not like it's its "it's", it's more like it's its "its".
It's not like it's its "it's", it's more like it's its "its".
I seem to have the gift of starting off-topic discussions about grammar/spelling!
7:00 wake up
7:30 leave home to meet the bus at 7:45
7:40 waiting for the bus
7:45 waiting for the bus
7:50 waiting for the bus
7:55 waiting for the bus
8:00 berserk
When I look at this, I ask myself: Can't you go by bike instead?
Or get a brain that supports multi-threading or interrupts to avoid the constant polling.
By bike? Through strong traffic and air fulled with fumes - hell yeah ! No to mention the snow (yes on the roads too ).