6:15 - 6:30 Wake up, cuddle with SO and read in bed.
7:00 - 7:30 At work, make coffee in Aeropress, eat overnight oats for breakfast, read email.
7:30 - 11:15 Code/Document Work
11:15 - 11:30 Daily Scrum
11:30 - 13:00 Either Onsite Exercise Class + Run or Lunch with coworkers + walk around campus
13:00 - 13:15 Daily meeting with non software team members
13:15 - 15:30 Work
15:30 - Rest of day Go home, make dinner, sew/knit/pet cat/spend time with SO
I have more meetings than this schedule suggests, but they are mostly adhoc design meetings. I also have calls with India once a week, taken from home with my cat walking over my keyboard.
In the summer I work slightly longer in order to make time for bicycling my commute. More exercise = more tolerance for office nonsense.
7:00 - 7:20 Light alarm gradually fades to on. Wake up, in a fugue state.
7:20 - 8:35 Gentle voice reminder of who I am and that I enjoy being alive plays every fifteen minutes.
8:30 - 9:30 Get ready for work, including 30 minutes of light meditation in the shower.
10:00 - 10:30 Arrive at work, make coffee, review notes from yesterday, review today’s calendar to make sure it’s physically possible, write today’s to-do list.
10:30 - 11:30 Maybe meetings, maybe code. On a bad day, email.
11:30 - 12:00 Lunch.
12:00 - 17:30 Mix of meetings and code, fading towards email at the end of the day.
17:30 - 18:00 Leave notes for tomorrow.
18:30 - 20:00 Social media, food, dissociation, video games.
20:00 - 22:00 Work on activism and other extracurriculars.
It gives me the information that, in the fugue state, I am lacking. This makes it possible for me to find the necessary memories. This a phenomenon that I experience as part of general dissociative identity disorder and dissociative amnesia stuff.
It also has a very mild, carefully-chosen hypnotic effect which results in a slight mood boost.
I’ve always wanted an alarm app where I can dictate messages to it to play in the morning. I could use myself saying don’t forget you need to do something, or don’t forget you’re trying to fix your sleep schedule, don’t sleep all day.
I briefly considered interpreting “how does it really work” to be about the technical aspect, but decided to focus on what I think is the more interesting part. But yeah anyway I used Tasker on Android for it. I don’t think that would work for what you want, but maybe one of the voice assistants will grow that functionality someday.
Wake up anywhere between 600 and 900. Either make coffee or grab one from a local cafe on the way into the office. Or don’t go to the office at all, depends. Check emails. Attend meetings. Code. Debug. Meetings. Listen to JRE or a radio broadcast of a ball game. Code. Head home anywhere between 1600 and 1800, and either go grocery shopping, grab some soup or a burger, or head straight home. Work on audio stuff if I have any to do, or go out and grab a drink, hit some open mics, or stay in or whatever. Watch baseball, and probably work on some music while doing so. Sleep.
My days are wildly inconsistent other than I am available for work between 930 and 1630. Stark schedules bother me and make my brain feel dull and stale.
Hey, same as me! I kept trying to shift to an earlier schedule since bosses tend to prefer it. Brain just doesn’t agree with it. They and I are happier if they schedule me in a bit later to leave a bit later.
if it were up to me I’d work in fits and starts from about 10am to midnight. Unfortunately an office job comes with an expectation of visibility, and an attempt to travel at the same time as other road users.
06:00 - 06:30 : Wake up, get milk for the kids, bring them into bed for a cuddle
07:30 : out the door, walk to subway
08:00 : arrive at work
09:00 - 10:00 : workout
11:00 - 11:15 : daily standup
12:00 : lunch
17:30 - 18:00 : pick the girls up from the nanny
19:00 : girls to bed
19:15 : cook dinner
22:30 : to sleep!
Then, for my work afternoon, it depends: a lot of meetings, some code reviews, some management stuff. I don’t really write software any more.
In the evening, the wife and I will sometimes both work, or sometimes we’ll watch basketball or a movie. I try to get to bed at the same time every night, because our kids will wake us up around six regardless.
MORNING:
- 06:30. My cats wake me up to feed them. I do that and go back to bed.
- 07:15. My alarm goes off and I snooze it.
- 08:00. I actually crawl out of bed and dress.
- 08:25. I walk to the bus stop.
- 08:35. I get on the bus.
- 09:11. I arrive in SF and walk towards my office, grabbing a coffee on the way.
WORKDAY:
- 09:38. I arrive at the office and mentally steel myself for standup.
- 10:15. We have our daily standup.
- 10:20. We break from standup and coding/documentation/reviews/meetings.
- 13:00. I eat lunch. I skew my lunches later so I can eat alone.
- 13:20. I finish lunch and returns to coding/documentation/reviews/meetings.
- 16:58. I wrap up what I'm doing and walk to the bus station.
EVENING:
- 17:10. I board the bus.
- 17:42. I disembark and walk home.
- 17:52. I arrive at home and collapse on the couch.
- 18:15. SO and I begin cooking supper.
- 18:45. SO and I eat supper and watch TV.
- 20:45. SO and I get ready for bed. Sometimes I shower here.
- 21:00. Sleep.
6:37: Lights start dimming on. (30 minutes to full brightness)
7:00: Wife’s alarm goes off, I start reading random crap from the internet.
~7:30: Out of bed into shower.
~7:45: Brew tea, mix together a lunch, clean apartment a bit.
~8:00: Walk outside and get on train. Then, read Lobsters/HN/RSS, drink tea, listen to music.
~9:00: Arrive at work, read more L/H/R if there’s no pressing work.
10:00: Definitely start working if I haven’t already. Individual days vary a lot. if Wed || Fri: 11:30-12:00: Project sync meeting. if Tues: 13:30-14:00: Team sync meeting. if Thurs: 15:30: Beer:30 with coworkers.
16:00: Head for train/bus, more reading L/H/R, more music.
17:00: Get home, work on a project or just watch TV/movie if too tired from work.
21:00: Bed time.
Thankfully that’s all the more specific I can be about my actual working time. There’s no daily standups and nothing else overly rigid. It’s just “work on whatever there is to work on” for the most part.
06:30 - 07:00 -> Alarm goes off, I snooze it, firmly beliving it will be only for a couple of minutes
08:00 - 09:00 -> I finally wake up, half-desperate that I’m missing some meeting, half pissed of at myself for being late AGAIN
On a good day:
09:00 - 10:00 -> Breakfast, shower, leave to work (by bus)
On a regular/bad day (those are more frequent):
09:00 - 10:00 -> Pooping and farting and waiting to see if I don’t have to poop or fart again (I have Crohn’s disease, and it’s been acting up lately)
10:00 - 11:00 - > Breakfast, shower, being angry at the uber driver for taking too long to arrive
10:00 - 11:00 -> Arrive at work, check email/chat, do quick code reviews and answer emails if needed
12:30 - 13:30 -> Lunch.
13:30 - 15:00 -> Trying to figure out if there’s anything productive at all I can do until 15:00
15:00 - 15:20 -> Daily sync, currently at this completely stupid time because of freaking timezones
15:30 - 16:00 -> Complaining about whatever happened in the daily sync meeting
16:00 - 18:30 -> Trying to get some work done: discussing design/architecture stuff, sending emails to gather info, following bad manual processes because I don’t have time to automate them right now, and, if the gods smile upon me, doing some coding or other programming related activities that don’t make me wanna kill myself
18:30 - 19:30 -> Give up work because it’s late, try to organize list of things to do tomorrow, procrastinate
19:30 - 20:30 -> Go home
20:30 - 23:30 -> Hang around thinking that I should be doing something productive instead of just browsing social media and watching youtube/netflix
23:30 - 2:00 -> Eat, watch some more youtube/netflix, go to sleep.
06:15 wake up (usually my cat’s idea, rather than mine)
07:30 travel to office (a short drive or cycle ride)
09:15 team stand-up
09:30-12:00 manager’s schedule (most days)
12:00-13:00 lunch and light research
13:00-16:00 maker’s schedule (most days)
16:00 travel home
We have a two-week sprint, so one day in ten is Sprint Ceremonies day and there is no maker’s schedule. On the other hand we have no-meeting Wednesdays, so one day in five is no manager’s schedule.
There are at least four schools on the two-mile route between my house and work, so if I don’t travel in very early and leave very early it will take a long time to drive or be dangerous to cycle.
Work days are vaguely similar, I don’t have many meetings so mostly just appearing on Slack & making infrastructure work is my day. I pretty much only have my 1:1’s every Weds, “remote coffee” at the end of a Weds workday (anyone “remote” who feels like hanging out in a google meet for an hour, does so), and then sprint retrospective on the last Friday afternoon, then Sprint planning the following Monday morning.
0630 - 1000 - depending on the day I’ll wake up at some point in this window. Work days tend towards the end of the window for some reason.
1300 - 1400 - I try to take lunch, if I’m taking lunch during this time. Might be skewed an hour either way, or eat at my desk to finish up earlier later.
1600 - 1800 - Finish work, depending on the day it’s then mess about with kids/dinner/gaming/cycling/pub with friend(s) to pass the time till ~sunset
1930 - 0100 - Watch Youtube, prod personal laptop, occasionally do a couple of hours freelance for a friend
0100 - bed, usually flick through Imgur till I fall asleep
On weekends the routine is vaguely the same, just replace $work with gardening/entertaining children/days out/cycling/sailing/working on the cars/hacking on laptop/going to pub with friends.
12:00 wake
12:01 make tea or decide to go out for coffee if anyone in the neighbourhood is about
12:30 catch up on RSS feeds and reddit
13:30 check email and github to see if any clients have new issues / tasks
14:00 (50% chance) code
14:00 (50% chance) listen to backlog of new music that is out
16:30 go for a walk to play PoGo or go to the arcade if weather is foul
18:00 cook dinner for a client or for self / friends
22:00 meet up for drinks with friends or go home and watch something
many common other permutations, though. about twice a week I stage manage a live show (theater, drag, live music) or DJ and run sound and lights for similar shows. about once a month I house sit or dog sit, which precludes most everything else.
6:15 - 6:30 Wake up, cuddle with SO and read in bed.
7:00 - 7:30 At work, make coffee in Aeropress, eat overnight oats for breakfast, read email.
7:30 - 11:15 Code/Document Work
11:15 - 11:30 Daily Scrum
11:30 - 13:00 Either Onsite Exercise Class + Run or Lunch with coworkers + walk around campus
13:00 - 13:15 Daily meeting with non software team members
13:15 - 15:30 Work
15:30 - Rest of day Go home, make dinner, sew/knit/pet cat/spend time with SO
I have more meetings than this schedule suggests, but they are mostly adhoc design meetings. I also have calls with India once a week, taken from home with my cat walking over my keyboard.
In the summer I work slightly longer in order to make time for bicycling my commute. More exercise = more tolerance for office nonsense.
7:00 - 7:20 Light alarm gradually fades to on. Wake up, in a fugue state.
7:20 - 8:35 Gentle voice reminder of who I am and that I enjoy being alive plays every fifteen minutes.
8:30 - 9:30 Get ready for work, including 30 minutes of light meditation in the shower.
10:00 - 10:30 Arrive at work, make coffee, review notes from yesterday, review today’s calendar to make sure it’s physically possible, write today’s to-do list.
10:30 - 11:30 Maybe meetings, maybe code. On a bad day, email.
11:30 - 12:00 Lunch.
12:00 - 17:30 Mix of meetings and code, fading towards email at the end of the day.
17:30 - 18:00 Leave notes for tomorrow.
18:30 - 20:00 Social media, food, dissociation, video games.
20:00 - 22:00 Work on activism and other extracurriculars.
How does that voice reminder really work?
It gives me the information that, in the fugue state, I am lacking. This makes it possible for me to find the necessary memories. This a phenomenon that I experience as part of general dissociative identity disorder and dissociative amnesia stuff.
It also has a very mild, carefully-chosen hypnotic effect which results in a slight mood boost.
I think of it as my stage1 initrd.
I’ve always wanted an alarm app where I can dictate messages to it to play in the morning. I could use myself saying don’t forget you need to do something, or don’t forget you’re trying to fix your sleep schedule, don’t sleep all day.
I briefly considered interpreting “how does it really work” to be about the technical aspect, but decided to focus on what I think is the more interesting part. But yeah anyway I used Tasker on Android for it. I don’t think that would work for what you want, but maybe one of the voice assistants will grow that functionality someday.
Wake up anywhere between 600 and 900. Either make coffee or grab one from a local cafe on the way into the office. Or don’t go to the office at all, depends. Check emails. Attend meetings. Code. Debug. Meetings. Listen to JRE or a radio broadcast of a ball game. Code. Head home anywhere between 1600 and 1800, and either go grocery shopping, grab some soup or a burger, or head straight home. Work on audio stuff if I have any to do, or go out and grab a drink, hit some open mics, or stay in or whatever. Watch baseball, and probably work on some music while doing so. Sleep.
My days are wildly inconsistent other than I am available for work between 930 and 1630. Stark schedules bother me and make my brain feel dull and stale.
Everyone here seems like a morning person…
I typically get up around 10am, if it makes you feel better. :-)
Hey, same as me! I kept trying to shift to an earlier schedule since bosses tend to prefer it. Brain just doesn’t agree with it. They and I are happier if they schedule me in a bit later to leave a bit later.
6am isn’t early in my world. I usually get up at 4am for exercise. Have done most days for the past 18 years.
Been starting work most days around 6am for the past 6 or 7.
Experimenting with injecting some leisure time into my morning by starting work at 7:30-8am.
By “world” you mean you live in a Nordic country?
It was this comment that inspired me to write mine. ;)
Frankly, I’m surprised no one posted a night schedule.
if it were up to me I’d work in fits and starts from about 10am to midnight. Unfortunately an office job comes with an expectation of visibility, and an attempt to travel at the same time as other road users.
Every day:
06:00 - 06:30 : Wake up, get milk for the kids, bring them into bed for a cuddle
07:30 : out the door, walk to subway
08:00 : arrive at work
09:00 - 10:00 : workout
11:00 - 11:15 : daily standup
12:00 : lunch
17:30 - 18:00 : pick the girls up from the nanny
19:00 : girls to bed
19:15 : cook dinner
22:30 : to sleep!
Then, for my work afternoon, it depends: a lot of meetings, some code reviews, some management stuff. I don’t really write software any more.
In the evening, the wife and I will sometimes both work, or sometimes we’ll watch basketball or a movie. I try to get to bed at the same time every night, because our kids will wake us up around six regardless.
6:37: Lights start dimming on. (30 minutes to full brightness)
7:00: Wife’s alarm goes off, I start reading random crap from the internet.
~7:30: Out of bed into shower.
~7:45: Brew tea, mix together a lunch, clean apartment a bit.
~8:00: Walk outside and get on train. Then, read Lobsters/HN/RSS, drink tea, listen to music.
~9:00: Arrive at work, read more L/H/R if there’s no pressing work.
10:00: Definitely start working if I haven’t already. Individual days vary a lot.
if Wed || Fri: 11:30-12:00: Project sync meeting.if Tues: 13:30-14:00: Team sync meeting.if Thurs: 15:30: Beer:30 with coworkers.16:00: Head for train/bus, more reading L/H/R, more music.
17:00: Get home, work on a project or just watch TV/movie if too tired from work.
21:00: Bed time.
Thankfully that’s all the more specific I can be about my actual working time. There’s no daily standups and nothing else overly rigid. It’s just “work on whatever there is to work on” for the most part.
On a good day:
On a regular/bad day (those are more frequent):
09:00 - 10:00 -> Pooping and farting and waiting to see if I don’t have to poop or fart again (I have Crohn’s disease, and it’s been acting up lately)
10:00 - 11:00 - > Breakfast, shower, being angry at the uber driver for taking too long to arrive
10:00 - 11:00 -> Arrive at work, check email/chat, do quick code reviews and answer emails if needed
12:30 - 13:30 -> Lunch.
13:30 - 15:00 -> Trying to figure out if there’s anything productive at all I can do until 15:00
15:00 - 15:20 -> Daily sync, currently at this completely stupid time because of freaking timezones
15:30 - 16:00 -> Complaining about whatever happened in the daily sync meeting
16:00 - 18:30 -> Trying to get some work done: discussing design/architecture stuff, sending emails to gather info, following bad manual processes because I don’t have time to automate them right now, and, if the gods smile upon me, doing some coding or other programming related activities that don’t make me wanna kill myself
18:30 - 19:30 -> Give up work because it’s late, try to organize list of things to do tomorrow, procrastinate
19:30 - 20:30 -> Go home
20:30 - 23:30 -> Hang around thinking that I should be doing something productive instead of just browsing social media and watching youtube/netflix
23:30 - 2:00 -> Eat, watch some more youtube/netflix, go to sleep.
moved to Austin, TX recently, so new routine!
7:30: wake up
7:30-8:00: read HN and twitter (yes, what a waste of time -_-)
8:00-9:00: shower, breakfast, etc.
9:10: crazy biking to downtown
9:30: scrum meeting
9:40-{17:00,19:00}: write code, discuss with boss-slash-officemate
bike home, eat pasta, think of the futility of life
Twice a week: 20:15-{22:00,24:00}: dancing!! ^_^
5:45 - 8:00 Wake up, initialize myself for the day, fire up laptop, read news for the day, check stocks, do some coding.
8:00 - 8:30 SO wakes up and helps me with the breakfast
9:00 - 9:30 Drive to work, listen to some podcasts/lectures/audiobooks during the road
9:45 - 11:30 Read emails, do meetings if necessary
12:00 - 17:00 Work, work, work
17:30 - 18:00 Drive home, listen to podcasts/lectures/audiobooks during driving
18:00 - 23:00 Spend time with SO and two cats, read books, do some coding if I’m able.
23:30 - 23:45 Shutdown myself for the day
23:45:00 - 23:45:05 - I’m fortunate enough to be able to go to sleep in 5 seconds after going to bed.
7:30 - Wake up, walk older kid to school
7:45 - 8:30 - Walk around the neighborhood
8:30 - 9:15 - Eat breakfast, drink coffee, talk with wife, play with younger kid
9:15 - 9:30 - Read the news, check personal email, etc
9:30 - 5:30 - Work (it’s not very organized, except that all our meetings are confined to one day, there’s a shower and lunch in there somewhere)
5:30 - 7:30 - Dinner, play with the kids, talk with wife, family movie night, go to the store, go to the park, etc.
7:30 - 8:30 - Bedtime for the kids, brushing teeth, baths, books, maybe a cartoon
8:30 - 11:30 - Work on personal projects, or catch up on bugs from earlier in the day
We have a two-week sprint, so one day in ten is Sprint Ceremonies day and there is no maker’s schedule. On the other hand we have no-meeting Wednesdays, so one day in five is no manager’s schedule.
There are at least four schools on the two-mile route between my house and work, so if I don’t travel in very early and leave very early it will take a long time to drive or be dangerous to cycle.
I’m not a big routine person. I think the most common events would be:
None of my core group of friends lives near me, we’re kind of dispersed all over. Gaming is the way we “hang out.”
Weekends are totally different and not even remotely routine.
Not sure I have a routine as such.
Work days are vaguely similar, I don’t have many meetings so mostly just appearing on Slack & making infrastructure work is my day. I pretty much only have my 1:1’s every Weds, “remote coffee” at the end of a Weds workday (anyone “remote” who feels like hanging out in a google meet for an hour, does so), and then sprint retrospective on the last Friday afternoon, then Sprint planning the following Monday morning.
On weekends the routine is vaguely the same, just replace $work with gardening/entertaining children/days out/cycling/sailing/working on the cars/hacking on laptop/going to pub with friends.
6:00 - 6:15 Wake up, getting dressed6:18 - 7:25 Walking to work8:30 - 11:00 Work/Uni11:00 - 11.45 Lunch11:45 - 16:00 Work/Uni16:00 - 17:00 Walking home17:00 - 17:30 Prepare Dinner18:30 - 22:00 buy food / clean/ watching {Gynvael,yotube,etc.} / Projects / time with SO12:00 wake 12:01 make tea or decide to go out for coffee if anyone in the neighbourhood is about 12:30 catch up on RSS feeds and reddit 13:30 check email and github to see if any clients have new issues / tasks 14:00 (50% chance) code 14:00 (50% chance) listen to backlog of new music that is out 16:30 go for a walk to play PoGo or go to the arcade if weather is foul 18:00 cook dinner for a client or for self / friends 22:00 meet up for drinks with friends or go home and watch something
many common other permutations, though. about twice a week I stage manage a live show (theater, drag, live music) or DJ and run sound and lights for similar shows. about once a month I house sit or dog sit, which precludes most everything else.