Help my plan my split schedule (Fed)

[Anonymous]

I think getting in at 9:30 is just too late for a 9.5 hour shift. I work 7-4:30. I don’t have many fed colleagues who get in past 8:30. I would work out earlier.

[Anonymous]

What a weird schedule

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What stuff do you pack to take? Can't you just leave it in a totebag in the trunk?

Mostly I do but not my lunch and laptop, which I would need when I get home to finish my day.

This is a non issue. You have a lunch bag and a laptop bag. You keep your things in the bag when they are not in use, throw the remainder in at the end, and go.
If you drive, you could even move your lunch bag to the car on one of your short breaks.

At home, you have a dedicated place to plug in and an extra plug / cables / keyboard so that set-up is minimal.

Commuting at 2:00 is disruptive, but that's what they get for setting the in-office hours like that. It would make more sense for everybody to commute at lunch.

[Anonymous]

What about the idea of getting in earlier, still commuting back at 2-2:30, then working out after shift over?

8-2 (6 hours)
2:30 - 5:30 (3 hours)
Assume lunch is the 30 minute commute

Workout after?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think getting in at 9:30 is just too late for a 9.5 hour shift. I work 7-4:30. I don’t have many fed colleagues who get in past 8:30. I would work out earlier.

Do you work out before that then? 5-6:30 for workout and shower? That would mean getting up a little after 4am?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you can count your 30 minute commute as your lunch if you want to. So does that give you 9 hour days?
I don’t really see what your options are other than
In office 9:30-2 (4.5 hours)
At home 2:30-7 (4.5 hours)

How much do you really have to pack up? I’d work on minimizing the amount of stuff you bring into the office so that it’s just a question of putting your laptop in your bag at the end of the day.

This. At 9.5 hours + commute, there is just no amount of efficient packing that would make it reasonable. It’s still a long work day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think getting in at 9:30 is just too late for a 9.5 hour shift. I work 7-4:30. I don’t have many fed colleagues who get in past 8:30. I would work out earlier.

Do you work out before that then? 5-6:30 for workout and shower? That would mean getting up a little after 4am?

Why would you need to get up at 4 to work out at 5? Are you driving to a distant gym?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think getting in at 9:30 is just too late for a 9.5 hour shift. I work 7-4:30. I don’t have many fed colleagues who get in past 8:30. I would work out earlier.

Do you work out before that then? 5-6:30 for workout and shower? That would mean getting up a little after 4am?

Why would you need to get up at 4 to work out at 5? Are you driving to a distant gym?

4/4:30? Does it matter at that point? It’s early AF.

[Anonymous]

This sounds horrible. Just go in earlier and leave at 3;30. Working a few hours in the office bookended by commuting and more work! Yay.

[Anonymous]

Just work 10-2 very efficiently and you are good

[Anonymous]

OP might have school drop-off, hence why they can’t work out earlier.

I get it OP. I’m a parent and I can’t find time to work out between drop off/pick up, commuting, actual work, and then after school routine. I’m not working out at 9pm. My buddy who works out religiously with small kids has to do it at 430am in his home gym. Goes to bed every night by 9pm (when his kid goes to sleep).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think getting in at 9:30 is just too late for a 9.5 hour shift. I work 7-4:30. I don’t have many fed colleagues who get in past 8:30. I would work out earlier.

9:30 is a normal starting time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many days do you work 9.5 hours?

Out of a two week period, eight 9.5 hour days. One 8.5 hour day. One day off.

I don't do an AWS schedule (I do a straight 8.5) exactly because it's such a long day and cuts into the other things I need to do daily. I'd lose the AWS, reducing your workday by 1 hour, and I'd also try to get in by 9.