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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

FYI You’re shorting the government 30 minutes (or 45 depending on lunch duration) of work per day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

FYI You’re shorting the government 30 minutes (or 45 depending on lunch duration) of work per day.

Seriously you would think an attorney would realize that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

FYI You’re shorting the government 30 minutes (or 45 depending on lunch duration) of work per day.

Seriously you would think an attorney would realize that.

Yea I thought the same thing when I read this! What attorney only works from 8:30-4:30!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Some of y’all are way too obsessed with hours of butts in seats.

My gov. agency allows prorated schedules 30-39 hours. Also flexible, so you could mostly work 7.5 hours and then one day that’s 10.

FYI You’re shorting the government 30 minutes (or 45 depending on lunch duration) of work per day.

Seriously you would think an attorney would realize that.

Yea I thought the same thing when I read this! What attorney only works from 8:30-4:30!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

FYI You’re shorting the government 30 minutes (or 45 depending on lunch duration) of work per day.

Seriously you would think an attorney would realize that.

Yea I thought the same thing when I read this! What attorney only works from 8:30-4:30!

My government agency allows flexible work schedules. Lots of people are on a pro-rated or flexible schedule. (For example, quasi-full-time at 30-39 hours per week, or, working 4 7.5s and a 10.) I work 36 hours, so 8-3:30. But I'm state, not a fed., and I don't have to record my hours or use leave for anything less than half a day.

[Anonymous]

Research manager at a large state University. Manage 5 people. Work from home 4 days a week. I have 3 kids (preschool to elementary school) and a DH who works a lot of hours both at work and at home. My day looks like this:

6:30ish - wake up before the kids and get coffee and make lunches
7:30ish - kids get up and have breakfast, changed, etc
8:25 - go to the bus stop and drop 2 of the 3 kids off for school
8:45 - drop 3rd kid off at daycare
9-5 - work from home answering emails, doing spreadsheets, meetings, drop ins from my team who have questions for me, etc. When I am not busy I run around cleaning up the house, doing laundry, etc. I always workout during the day when the kids are gone for about 30 mins
5:15pm - leave to go pick up all the kids from afterschool/preschool
5:30pm-7:30pm - dinner for the kids, going through backpacks, working on homework, bath, getting ready for bed
7:30pm - youngest gets to bed
8:00pm - go upstairs with the older two to read a story
8:30pm - lights out for the older two
8:30-10pm - clean up downstairs and try and watch some TV without falling asleep
10:30pm - lights out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ pp here. Occupation: SAHM

No dur!

[Anonymous]

Biglaw attorney, one toddler

6:45 Wake up
7 AM breakfast with kiddo OR walk the dog (spouse and I alternate)
8 AM out the door for school
8:30 AM work from home
Bill until 11 AM (meetings, briefs, filings, etc)
11 AM lunch
11:30 back to the grind
4:30 pick up toddler
Either make dinner or play with toddler (spouse and I alternate)
5:30 dinner
6 PM bath for toddler
7:15 PM bedtime
7:30 log back on to bill (with TV on in the background)
10 PM close computer unless theres a true emergency
10-11 PM personal time (reading a book, quality time with SO)

Spouse is also a big law attorney

[Anonymous]

Architect:

5:30am -- wake
5:30-6:45am -- get ready, get kid ready (DH takes her to the bus)
6:45-7/7:15am -- commute
7am-4pm -- work (can be a mix of in the office, onsite, WFH, lots of calls and meetings, business development coffees, no day looks the same, always work through lunch)
4-4:30pm -- commute
4:30pm -- pick up DD from aftercare
4:30-8pm -- depends on the day, but DD is very into an activity and where are there usually 3x a week. when she is there, I may work some if needed, other times I just chat. try to find a way to feed her dinner between classes.
8-9pm -- "free" time
9pm -- BED

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biglaw attorney, one toddler

6:45 Wake up
7 AM breakfast with kiddo OR walk the dog (spouse and I alternate)
8 AM out the door for school
8:30 AM work from home
Bill until 11 AM (meetings, briefs, filings, etc)
11 AM lunch
11:30 back to the grind
4:30 pick up toddler
Either make dinner or play with toddler (spouse and I alternate)
5:30 dinner
6 PM bath for toddler
7:15 PM bedtime
7:30 log back on to bill (with TV on in the background)
10 PM close computer unless theres a true emergency
10-11 PM personal time (reading a book, quality time with SO)

Spouse is also a big law attorney

In the 9.5 hours you work a day how many hours do you regularly bill? Are you able to make your 2000 hour (give or take) minimum for the year? Does your billing hours also include business development and other admin related tasks that you can't bill for? My DH is in big law and routinely works closer to 10-12 hour days in order to make his 2000 hour requirement. BUT he has a lot of admin hours (he is the staffing partner for his group) and a lot of business development hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Biglaw attorney, one toddler

6:45 Wake up
7 AM breakfast with kiddo OR walk the dog (spouse and I alternate)
8 AM out the door for school
8:30 AM work from home
Bill until 11 AM (meetings, briefs, filings, etc)
11 AM lunch
11:30 back to the grind
4:30 pick up toddler
Either make dinner or play with toddler (spouse and I alternate)
5:30 dinner
6 PM bath for toddler
7:15 PM bedtime
7:30 log back on to bill (with TV on in the background)
10 PM close computer unless theres a true emergency
10-11 PM personal time (reading a book, quality time with SO)

Spouse is also a big law attorney

In the 9.5 hours you work a day how many hours do you regularly bill? Are you able to make your 2000 hour (give or take) minimum for the year? Does your billing hours also include business development and other admin related tasks that you can't bill for? My DH is in big law and routinely works closer to 10-12 hour days in order to make his 2000 hour requirement. BUT he has a lot of admin hours (he is the staffing partner for his group) and a lot of business development hours.

I'm just a (senior) associate - I get the feeling partners have a lot more non-billable work and quite frankly, I'd be more than happy staying a senior associate, doing what i'm doing, for half a mill until I can retire. That being said, I always make my target (1900). I'd say I bill on average about 8 hours a day. I'll do the occasional weekend evenings (so spillover of 6 more hours), some late nights (getting to the midnight/1 AM area, which gets me 2-3 more hours that day), and then, because I'm a litigator, any trial will net about 300 billable hour for the month it falls, so I'll get a billable hour "infusion" once or twice a year

Also, we can typically bill for case management for a particular matter (or at least get credit for it), which makes it easier. We get billable hour credit for marketing, which also cuts some dead air away. Can't bill for stuff like email organization, document organization, travel, running pro formas, time entry, training associates, etc.

Staffing partner would be a ton of non-billable hours though. Thats legitimately a full time job at some firms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

LOL. That sounds like my schedule except I am still full time remote

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

LOL. That sounds like my schedule except I am still full time remote

Just so you know, that's a quote from a movie. You probably knew though