FngKestrel

Cell phone game artist.

My day. Today happens to be an exception to my day to day, but I'll just describe the norm. (and yes, I know it borders on the edge of readability. Deal.)

- Wake up to alarm at 8:40. Hit snooze. Get out of bed at 9ish, brush teeth and whatnot. Leave somewhere between 9:10 and 9:20. Drive to work. Get in about 10.

- Fire up e-mail, log onto IM, log into bug database.

- Watch computer chug.

- Read the three pertinant e-mails, delete the rest.

- Receive an IM from Coppertop.

- Clink on link that Coppertop sent (usually a TFP thread).

- Skim it quickly, then either quip/subscribe/close window.

- Receive IMs from coworkers, requesting some form of work that needs to be done ASAP.

- Look at bug database and realize that more work has snuck in under the radar.

- Talk to producers who need something ridiculous done, and they need it ASAFP as opposed to the engineer's, who simply need it ASAP.

- Go to lunch with coworkers and shake my fist angrily.

- Come back and tackle the remainder of the work.

- Place headphones over ears and crank up the music to drown out the inane chatter of people who like to hang out in the bullpen.

- Receive more art requests from engineers, all ASAP.

- Receive art request from producer, ASAFP.

- Receive art request from art director, which supercedes everything else.

- Get IMed by Coppertop. Another hilarious TFP thread.

- Get griped at by engineers as to why work isn't done.

- Get griped at by producers as to why work isn't done.

- Art director knows better than to gripe at me.

- Commit homicide on engineer.

- Stack body outside cube as a warning to other engineers.

- Complete art director request.

- Get IMed by Coppertop. Another hilarious TFP thread.

- Complete producer art request.

- Complete engineer art request.

- Get IMed by Coppertop. Another hilarious TFP thread.

- Complete engineer art request.

- Complete engineer art request.

- Receive engineer art request.

- Get IMed by Coppertop. Another hilarious TFP thread.

- Complete engineer art request.

- Get ready to leave.

- Receive engineer art request.

- Receive engineer art request.

- Receive engineer art request.

- Grumble angrily.

- Get panicky producer request.

- Complete panicky producer request.

- Leave the rest for tomorrow.

That's pretty much it. Some Mondays I'll work late. Tuesdays and Thursdays I insist on leaving at 7:00. Wednesdays, we usually have a mini poker tourney. Fridays are the supreme indication that I have no social life, as I stay late and work on straggling art requests.

Edit: Despite what's written above, I actually enjoy my job quite a bit. I feel like a firefighter or short-order cook, taking care of problems and delivering requests in a timely fashion. The variety of requests keeps me on my toes and mixes up the work so that it doesn't get too monotonous.