What do you do for a living and what does you typical day look like?
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Anonymous
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Economist:
7 wake up. catch up on emails, read news in bed. 7.45 get up, clean up, breakfast. 8.30 cycle to work. 9.30 get to work, shower, start work. reviewing documents, meetings with staff, external stakeholders, writing reports, browsing web, depending on how busy things are 12.30 lunch at desk. 1.30 more work, same as above. 5.30 cycle home 6.30 get home, shower, make dinner if i haven't had kids or wife do it 7.30 go for evening stroll with one of kids if I can convince them 8.30 glass of wine and crappy tv 10 bed, check emails again. |
Anonymous
Grade 3 Teacher here. I am a few posts before you. I need to do more of the part in bold. Where do you work that you are still having to monitor the wearing of masks? |
Anonymous
That would be greeeeaaaat. |
Anonymous
This was my schedule last year... don't know about this year, our district says they are going mask optional. But it is PGCPS. |
Anonymous
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super interesting thread!
I'm a non-fiction writer and involved mother. typical day when both kids are in school: 7:30-8:30: wake up, give kids food, stream-of-consciousness writing for 20 minutes, shower. 8:30-9: school drop off 9-12: write towards current book (may be writing, may be transcribing an interview). daily goal of around 1,000 words 12-1: lunch with my husband when he's working from home 1-2:30: read books that relate to current work 2:30-3: meditate and nap 3:00-4:30: pick up kids and hang out at the playground 4:30-5:30: schlepping kids to activities 5:30-6: dinner 6-8: my time. sometimes go conduct an interview, sometimes take a long walk, sometimes go swimming 9-9:30: do yoga 9:30-10:30: read or have sex with husband |
Anonymous
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Professor (tenure-track) During academic year
Work 5 AM-7 AM -- data analysis/writing/research 7-9 AM kids up at 7 AM for school. we all get ready, get to school etc. Come back, breakfast exercise. 9 AM--12 depending on the day of the week this is filled with faculty meetings, advising meetings, research team meetings, committee meetings course prep, reading articles, grading or teaching. Lunch (sometimes meeting, sometimes working) 1-6 depending on day of the week is filled with faculty meetings, advising meetings, research team meetings, committee meetings course prep, grading or teaching. Sometimes there are opportunities to write. 1 day a week this is a full-time research day checking in on projects and managing research assistants. Every other day (often including weekends) I check in on research for about 1-2 hours. 2-3 days a week I do pick up after school, but then work from home on research and have lots of zoom meetings with students. I teach a 3 hour grad class 1x a week in the late evening in person. I try not to work as much on weekends, but I do need to work on research/writing and sometimes when there are grant proposal deadlines, publications, presentations, I will pull very long weekend work sessions--sometimes overnight to meet deadlines. During summer--it's full-time research/writing and working with graduate students, advisees and research assistants and course prep for the upcoming semester but I schedule the time as needed. I do a complete shutdown of all work for 2 weeks in the summer and 1 week at Christmas. |
Anonymous
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Government attorney with 2 kids in preschool
5:30 wake up. quick workout at home 6:15 coffee, make lunches and breakfast 7:30-8:30 get kids ready, fed, and too school 8:30-4:30 Work, take some calls while out for a walk, take breaks and depending on the day will do laundry, pick up whole foods grocery order. Squeeze in a quick home made lunch in between calls 4:30-5 Cook dinner 5-8 spend time with kids, dinner, sometimes activities, kids get baths and put them to bed 8-9:30 watch tv, read, or do some dinner prep for the next day 9:30 unwind and fast asleep usually by 10. I typically work from home. When I do go to the office, the housekeeping/errand breaks don't happen and the workout might happen late at night. |
Anonymous
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NPO/Grants/Program Officer
6 a.m., wake up and take a walk 6:30 a.m., drink coffee, check email, hang out with kid while he eats breakfast & watches a show or two 7:15 a.m., DH gets kid dressed and drives to school or camp 7:30 a.m., shower, get dressed, go upstairs to office, more email 8-9, quiet work 9-2, usually back-to-back zooms or phone calls (internal & external partners, grantees, etc.). If I have a very slow day, I may go out for a long lunch or do some meditation or take a nap. 2-3 p.m., close out day, plan for the next day, one more e-mail check 3:30 p.m., pick up kid from school or camp 4-5 p.m., dinner prep 5 p..m. dinner 6 p.m., sometimes a quick work task or check-in, usually read/relax while DH handles kitchen clean up & kid bath 7 p.m. we all read together in bed 9-10 p.m. guided meditation / fall asleep |
Anonymous
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HR consulting, WFH, no kids.
6:15 Wake up and work out 7:15 Shower, get ready for the day, take dog out 8:00 Catch up on emails from west coast clients, prep for client meetings 9-11:30 2-3 Mix of leading internal trainings, team meeting, and 1-2 client calls 12-1 Eat lunch, let the dog out and read in the backyard while he plays. 1-4 Heavier on client calls (3-4 most afternoons) and working on deliverables 4:00 Wrap up any follow-ups I didn't get to during the day, usually log off by 4:30 5:00 DH and I alternate nights cooking. On his nights I'll do random things around the house like weeding or cleaning while he cooks 5:45 Eat dinner together 6-7:30 Downtime - read or watch TV 7:00 Family walk with the dog 7:30-9:30 More downtime 9:30 Wipe down kitchen 9:45 Take dog out before bed and get in bed. Usually asleep by 10:30 at the latest. |
Anonymous
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Customer service; taking calls for customers using our accounts
Wake up around 7 with the kids Make breakfast, clean up, get them dressed Clock in at 8 and wfh, nanny comes Talk to people, pace around my office, snack, maybe some impromptu workouts or laundry folding Off at 4:30, relieve the nanny and hang with the kids Dinner, playtime, bath, reading and bedtime for kids at 8 Go for a quick run Shower Evening snack and trash tv time or reading Asleep by 11ish |
Anonymous
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Psychologist in private practice
6am wakeup with kids x2 7:30am bus stop dropoff 8am quick coffee with DH Drive to my office (most patients in are in person) 10am-1pm patients 1-2pm lunch/walk 2-4pm patients 4:30pm pickup (on alternate days I see patients til 5 or 6 and DH picks up) Dinner prep 6pm family dinner, time with kids 8pm start kid bedtime 8:30pm TV/DH time 10pm bedtime |
Anonymous
I'm the one who originally wrote that - didn't find it snarky, just didn't return to the thread until now! Most are prescheduled but in the slots that aren't pre-scheduled, I get a lot of requests just to talk for a sec. My role is very much to be an overseer and ensure that the work of the organization is coordinated across different divisions, plus doing business development and talking to potential funders. Today's calls include one bi-weekly check in with a direct report, one monthly call with someone in a related department to make sure our teams are aligned, a progress review on an ongoing initiative involving people from multiple teams, an emergency call to figure out what to do about a big funder who is threatening to pull out, and a call with a potential outside partner who wants to collaborate on a book. We definitely have some staff who are head down in their work, but at upper levels of management we wear a ton of different hats and the communication demands are relentless. |
Anonymous
It’s something to see how many people are absolutely done after about 8 hours and have some down time during the workday. |
Anonymous
| GS-15 IT specialist. Haven’t done much at work for the last five years. Typical day is to surf the web and watch Netflix. Still get good performance review from management. |
Anonymous
Serious question but how do you make enough in customer service that it makes sense to hire a nanny ? |