What do you do for a living and what does you typical day look like?

[Anonymous]

People were guest posting their typical schedules on a physician mom blog I like to read, and, even though I know a little about most specialties, it was interesting seeing what a typical day to day looks like. I thought I would take the question to a more diverse group.

What do you do? What does your day look like?

[Anonymous]

Non- profit exec wIth two middle schoolers.

Wake at 5 or 6am. Brush teeth and start working on things that require focus (or sometimes exercise)
7:30-8:30 get kids out the door. Get dressed.
8:30 - 10 answer emails, deal with things I didn’t get to the day before
10 - 5pm relentless zoom calls (with a brief break to welcome kids home on good days and occasionally a short walk with the dog or neighbor or phone call to my mom or sister)
5ish - stop working. Shuttle kids to activities. Sometimes exercise while they’re out, sometimes work more.
7-9 family stuff. Make dinner (or DH makes dinner), eat together, maybe watch something together.
9:30 head to bed bed. Read for a bit or veg out on my phone. Asleep by 10:30.

Once or twice a week I go into the office but mostly I WAH.

[Anonymous]

Research scientist in academia.

Wake at 6.
Head out at 7.45 with toddler, drop at daycare, reach work at 8.30
Mix of bench work and desk work every day from 9-3.
Meetings and routine tasks between 3-4.
Wrap up and prepare for next day between 4-5.
Leave at 5, home by 6 (spouse WFH full time and picks up kid)
6-8 dinner and family time
8-10 relax, tidy up and sleep by 10.30

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Non- profit exec wIth two middle schoolers.

Wake at 5 or 6am. Brush teeth and start working on things that require focus (or sometimes exercise)
7:30-8:30 get kids out the door. Get dressed.
8:30 - 10 answer emails, deal with things I didn’t get to the day before
10 - 5pm relentless zoom calls (with a brief break to welcome kids home on good days and occasionally a short walk with the dog or neighbor or phone call to my mom or sister)
5ish - stop working. Shuttle kids to activities. Sometimes exercise while they’re out, sometimes work more.
7-9 family stuff. Make dinner (or DH makes dinner), eat together, maybe watch something together.
9:30 head to bed bed. Read for a bit or veg out on my phone. Asleep by 10:30.

Once or twice a week I go into the office but mostly I WAH.

What are the relentless zoom calls? Who is calling? Are they scheduled or are you putting out fires all day?

[Anonymous]

Psychiatrist

5:30am: wake up. Eat breakfast and read through and answer emails sent the day before
6:30am: get kids up for school
8:00: get to work and review the day
8:30: meeting with therapist group about common patients
9:30 - 12:00 - outpatient med management clinic. 60 minutes for new patients, 30 minutes for established patients. I specialize in taking care of people with complex trauma and chronic suicidal ideation/multiple hospitalizations. I respond to messages and telephone calls from patients and residents between appointments.
12:00- meeting. Lunch provided. Most recent meeting was on making some changes to the third year med student curriculum
1:00 - meet up with med students/residents for table rounds on inpatient consults. These are people admitted to the general medical hospital. Our bread and butter is delirium and suicide attempts, but it changes from day to day.
2:00 - walk around rounds
4:00- have a contentious conversation with trauma surgery about why the psych hospital is full (not every day, but it feels like it).
5:00 - home
9:00 - log in after kids go to bed and edit/sign student and resident notes

[Anonymous]

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way the boss can't see me, and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

[Anonymous]

6:30 make breakfast and lunches
8:00 bring kids to school
8:30-12:00 errands, pilates, dance class, piano (depends on what day)
12:30 pick up kid from “preschool”
1:30 bring younger kid to violin lesson (Wednesdays)
2:00 pick kid up from violin lesson
3:00 pick up other kid from school
3:30 bring older kid to tennis, violin, enrichment class (depends on what day)
4:30 pick up older kid
5:30 start making dinner
6:30 dinner
7:00 family time
9:00 sleep

[Anonymous]

^ pp here. Occupation: SAHM

[Anonymous]

16:53 - Engineer at Initech. Thanks for the LOL.

[Anonymous]

Engineering manage
Up at 6:30.
Make breakfast and get 2 kids ready
8:00 Nanny comes, in sept i will drive kids to preschool/bus stop
8:30: get to office (short commute)
9:30: Catch up with managers via chat/calls
Emails and to out management/contract/finance fires all day
Customer meetings via zoom (usually 2 a day)
12:30 or 1 Lunch at desk or walk to get lunch.
1-2 hr work blocks marked on calendar for any deep thought items like proposals etc
1 day a week mid day work out
5-5:30 depart work depending on day and lunch
Home and dinner at 6 (i make dinner if i left at 5, left overa if later)
6-8:30 dinner and family time.
8:30 kids to bed
Catch up on any emails work 9-10 (not every day)
Bed by 10:30

[Anonymous]

High school math teacher.

6:00 wake up
7:00 out the door
7:30 walk into my classroom, adjust learning standards on the board, set out copies and materials, check technology
7:45 kids enter, private chats with those who need a little extra emotional support or love, small talk/banter with those in good shape
8:00-12:40 classes. I taught 3 different preps last year (thankfully only two of them each day thanks to block schedule), so the 7 minute passing periods are spent shifting materials, adjusting technology, posting lesson recordings, etc
12:40-1:10 lunch. I made a big deal of trying to eat with colleagues this year to get some adult conversation! Around thanksgiving I had one super needy girl who asked to stay in my room during lunch on odd days, so it ended up only being every/other day, but it was still a nice break.
1:10-2:15 meetings every/other day (once a week for each course I teach). All the teachers of that course come together to create common assessments, share resources, agree on pacing, etc. If there are no meetings, I use that time to create resources, run copies, make slide decks, etc. This will be the first year in 3 years I’m not teaching a brand new to me course, so I’m hopeful to be able to leverage old stuff I made and just modify instead of start from scratch.
2:15-2:30 Prep for after school kids (3x per week). I try to get copies of missing work for kids who were absent, packets of missing work for those who don’t turn stuff in, retakes for those who signed up, extra practice for kids who were struggling.
2:30-3:30 Help for after school kids. If one of the two days no one stays, I try to get grading done. If I have a full house, this gets done at home late at night. Once a month are full staff after school meetings in lieu of after school support.
3:30 Pack up whatever grading/planning I didn’t get to. Make a to do list for the evening/morning (email back x’s mom, run 10 more copies of xyz in the morning), and rush to the bus stop to grab my own kid by 4.
4-9 Family stuff. Dinner, homework help, taxi to activities. Once a week is my own hobby sans kid.
9-??? Finish as much of to do list as I can. I aim to be asleep by 11, and make it about 50% of the time, lol.

[Anonymous]

I'm a software developer/manager. Lately my schedule is:

6:30 Wake up
6:45-7:45 Walk, train, and play with new dog
7:45 - 8:30 Shower, dress, mindfulness meditation
8:30 - 10:15 Respond to emails
10:15 - 12:00 Meetings
12:00 - 1:00 Try to write some code, stuff my team can't figure out, eat an unhealthy quick lunch
1:00 - 5:00 Mix of meetings and queueing up work for my team
5:00 - 6:30 Write code
6:30 - 8:00 Dinner and family time
8:00 - 10:00 Consulting outside of my main job
10:00 Bed

[Anonymous]

Airbnb host -

Wake up around 7:30
7:30-10 -- coffee, internet
10am -- guests leave, clean the spaces and start laundry
11:30 -- brunch (I don't eat breakfast, just a midday meal)
Twice a week noon-1 is exercise class
Afternoons are finishing laundry and managing my own house
4:30pm -- dinner prep
6pm -- dinner
Then on the couch for bad TV

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised everyone goes to bed so early

[Anonymous]

Professor.

I kind of have three types of days.

Teaching days:
Wake up between 6:30-7 (earlier if I want to exercise, which is a 4 mile walk for me).
Shower.
Leave around 8am.
Teach/meetings.
Home by 3-4.
Might walk in the afternoon or at my child's sports practice if I didn't before work.
Cook dinner, bed by 10:30.

OR

Work from home days:
Wake up around 7:15.
Get kid out the door and make a nicer breakfast for them.
Longer walk, followed by shower.
Work from home (research, planning, Zoom meetings, this kind of thing) until about 4pm.
Cook dinner, bed by 10:30.
I might go in for 2 hours or so for a meeting one of these days.

OR

Some days I go in earlier and stay later and have very long days (7am-8pm or so). Maybe once per month.

Virtually every day and weekends I am checking email, answering emails, working as inspired (ideas come at the strangest times), and some degree of "on." But no complaints, because I am very flexible most of the time and can always find time to exercise and grocery shop during the day each week.