Originally Posted by vanblah

I'm a SysAdmin at a small private college.

Awake at 8 or so. I live about a block from work so I walk. It takes less than 10 minutes so I'm there by 9.

Put out the various fires from the night before. Mostly email or remote connectivity issues.
Make sure backups ran the night before (or are still running in some cases).

Start thinking about lunch.

Read tech manuals/websites. Lurk and occasionally post at TFP.

Answer inane questions about whatever comes my way. Sometimes I get really good questions ... but mostly it's crap like "why is my email bouncing and oh yeah, I've been getting messages that say my mailbox is over it's limit."

Walk home for lunch. Watch whatever is on Trio or if Trio is showing crap I watch MadTV. Sometimes my wife comes home for lunch.

Walk back to work. Have some kind of meeting about why the website is so "slow" or what our plans are for future hardware/software purchases (or other stuff along those lines).

Read more. Surf more. Think about the band and how we can continue marketing it so that we can eventually all quit our day jobs (Ha!).

Walk home contemplating the quiet desperation my life has become.

OK. It's not that bad. I actually like my job. I'm extremely lucky that I live close to work. I HATE driving. Some days it's even more boring; other days I barely get a chance to breathe.