EULA

Brian: I envy you. I want to be a stay-at-home dad.

joemc: It's funny how adults get breaks every hour (or 45 minutes) when their in class, but when kids are in class, they're expected to stay still for 3 hours.

todd

While i'm in college I just have a part time job in the cafeteria at a local hospital. I normally only work 2 days a week.


Starts at 4 PM. I never know how traffic will be, so I get there about 3:45, but sit in my car and listen to music or something untill 3:53, which is the time I am allowed to clock in at. I stock, which basically means make sure there is plenty of everything in the cafeteria. My schedual varies, but this is basically what I try to stick to:

4:00 - Make sure there is coffee, cups, and lids
4:01 - Stock chip racks
4:15 - Stock soda fridges
4:45 - Stock cereal bins, cracker baskets, and top off icee makers
5:00 - journey to the depths of the walkin deep freeze and freeze my balls off while I find specific icecreams and muffins. Then stock them in the icecream bin and muffin rack
5:15 - Take bread tray back and fill half with white bread, and half with wheat bread
5:20 - Top off grape jelly, straberry jelly, peanutbetter, BBQ sauce, and honey mustard sauce trays
-kill more time until like 6
6:00 - get trays to put deserts on, but leave them on the cooler
-kill more time till 6:30
-6:30 - remove drip trays from coffee, icee, icecream, and java dispensers and wash them
6:45 - make several bowls of each kind of soup, and take the soup cannisters to back for disposal
-kill more time till 7
-7:00 - closing time. I shut the doors.
-7:01 - pick up salad bar and put containers in walkin fridge B
-7:05 - put drip trays back on all machines
-7:07 - empty coffee and tea machines
-7:10 - turn off soda fountains, take nozzles off and put them in cups of water
-7:15 till 7:30 - cleanup counters, do random stuff like that
-See if there are more dishes to be washed
-If not, I go home.

Throughout the evening, I rearrange priorities depending on what needs doing. I also put more cups and lids out quite often, and have to make more coffee several times.

It's extremely easy. I get $8.75

Demeter

I do price changes at a grocery store. My day usually begins at 5am.

I punch in, print off bosses emails & plunk them on his desk.
I go through my mail & make any pricing adjustments as needed.

I download the days changes and print off any price labels
& signs that come down, and sort them by aisle & department.
I head downstairs with my paraphenalia and proceed to make changes.
This can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 6 hours
depending on the day, and if I have any help.

I do a tour around the store to check prices & make any signs needed.
I print off signs and hang them as needed.
I check mail one last time & make any relevent adjustments.
Depending on the day, and whats needed, I may order supplies
or run a till for a while.

By now usually at least eight hours have passed & hopefully I've had time for my 2 coffee breaks & 30 minute lunch. If not, I try to fit them in at the end of my shift, usually doing paperwork as I sit. Then I get the heck outta there before they find more for me to do.

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I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
William Shakespeare

joemc91

Yeah, that's one of the first things you learn when flight instructing. Pretty much any ground instruction past 1 hour is useless. People just can't pay attention to it that long unless they're really, really interested. It's sad that kids aren't given the breaks they need. It also helps to have a good union pushing for the breaks

texxasco

My days are pretty similar with the exception of which county jail, or unit I am going to pick up convicts, and where I am taking them.

0200 Wakeup Drink coffee & eat breakfast

0245 Shower & put on uniform

0310 Take Dog out for a short walk

0320 Leave for work

0330 Arrive at the office - Sign in, grab a cup of coffee and get paperwork for the days run. Sort through paperwork, jotting down stops and number of pickups at each stop. Chat with partner and see who wants to drive out, etc.

0400 Sign out bus, pickup restraints, weapons & ammunition

0415 Leave for first pickup

Drop weapons off in secure box outside prison or jail, head inside to pick up convicts. Match travel roster with pickup sheet for convicts I am picking up. ID convicts, place restarints on convicts, load them on the bus. Leave unit, pickup weapons, head to next stop.

Drop last convict. Head back to office. Turn in weapons to armory. Back bus into space on washrack. Have convict worker clean bus inside & out. Turn in keys & logbook for the bus.

11:45 Turn in paperwork, & sign out. Go home...

Take dog out again.... Give him a couple milkbones

Take nap

Eat dinner, watch TV

Go to sleep...... & do it all again..

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...A Bad Day of Fishing is Better Than a Great Day at Work!

Johnny Pyro

6:00pm- Punch in. Make the long walk to my machine.The factory I work in is huge. So if you want to go anywhere, it takes forever. Look at all the work dayshift left for us.

6:10pm- start lifting heavy rolls, getting them packed and shipped. I lift rolls that range between, 20lbs and 180lbs. My record is 240lbs. Send products down the line, pack products coming off the line. Deal with my stupid ass supervisor. Really, I could do his job with my eyes closed.

9:00pm- Break. Smoke four cigarettes, lighting the next one from the head of my smoked down to the filter cigarette. This is called the "chain smokers lighter."

9:15pm- Back to work, same bullshit.

12:30am- Lunch. I don't eat just smoke. Six cigarettes, using the "chain smoker's lighter."

1:00am- Back to work, same bullshit.

2:15am- Break. Four cigarettes.

2:30am- Back to work, same bullshit.

4:15am- Break. Four cigarettes.

4:30am- Back to work. Same bullshit.

6:00am- Puch out. Another day, another dollar.

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"From delusion lead me to truth, from darkness lead me to light, from death lead me to eternal life. - Sheriff John Wydell

Martian

texxasco, that's the same job my uncle does. He loves being out of the pods, says it's so much more relaxing.

Me, I do tech support for a major Canadian ISP. I work evenings, so what most people do after work I do beforehand. This includes any errands or chores that need to get done, work for my independent business or whatever else.

My shift starts at 2:30. Typical day goes like this :

1:30 - Shower, shave and get ready for work. If it's nice I'll walk to work, when it's cold or raining I drive over.
2:10 - I arrive at the office. Greet the security guard, swipe myself in and get my station set up. This includes plugging in my headset and logging into my terminal, getting all of my tools ready
2:15 - I go out for a quick smoke break before starting.
2:20 - Read internal emails to find out about latest issues, check the servers for any outages.
2:30 - I clock in and go green, which means I'm ready to take a call. First call may come immediately, or I could be waiting 5-10 minutes.

A typical call.. well, there is no typical call. I'm a 1st tier support agent, so I deal with most of the issues. It can be as simple as a password reset or troubleshooting connection issues. I'm also generally dealing with people who aren't very technically apt, so I need to make sure I put things in simple terms. I use my tools available to me, which tell me things like when the line card went in, what the signal strength is, what type of connection it is, whether the account's suspended and other useful information to determine whether the problem is on our end or theirs. For farend issues (aka CPE or Customer Premises Equipment issues) I use error messages and what the DSL modem is doing to figure out exactly where the issue is and get the customer back up and running. If it's a nearend issue I do basic CPE troubleshooting on the physical setup in order to make sure there's nothing causing intereference and then forward the ticket and customer to the 2nd tier support, who will send it on up to test centre for a technician dispatch. The technician will go out to the central office and move from there down the line looking for trouble.

The calls range from password resets to browsing issues (slow speeds or pages not loading) to occasionally customers just wanting to talk to someone. For every call I log everything that's done by myself and the customer to resolve the issue along with any other pertinent information, like operating system, modem and connection type and synch rate (which is the signal strength, more or less) in a central database on what's known as a ticket so that anyone who deals with that customer in the future can retrieve the ticket and see what's already been done. Target times for calls is under 800 seconds, but a given call can be anywhere from 2 minutes to an hour and a half. Some of our less skilled agents can be on the phone for two hours or more and not resolve the issue, although much more than that and a higher ranked agent will usually take over.

4:15 - I usually take a fifteen minute smoke break around here.
4:30 - Back at it! I keep a book around for when it's slow and also usually have a stress ball. Those things work.
5:00 - In around here I'll usually go yellow, which tells the routing server not to send any calls my way so I can get up and get a drink. All that talking on the phone dries out my throat.
6:30 - This is approximately when my lunch break is. Breaks can vary about half an hour in either direction, because we need to keep enough agents on the phones at all times to field incoming calls. If I packed anything I'll go to the employee lounge and eat while watching tv, if not I'll grab a sandwich out of the vending machines. Last ten minutes of the break I'll go out for another cigarette.
8:30 - Again give or take. My last smoke break of the day.
10:30 - Quittin time! I finish the call I'm on, which may mean staying late. I've gotten pretty good at timing things so that my last call finishes within about 3 minutes of the 10:30 mark and there's not enough incoming calls at this point for me to have to field another most nights. If there's a major outage and things are hectic I may stay overtime. One night our entire system in Ontario went down. Thousands of customers lost service and I don't think anyone left before midnight.

When I'm done I log off and pack up my stuff, then I'll let myself out. We have passcards, which means that no unauthorized persons can get in and out of the building and there's usually one or two people who forget their swipes. So if there's anyone waiting to be let out I'll do that on my way. I say goodnight to the security guard (a different guy then the one who's in when I start) grab one more smoke with whoever's out front and then head home.

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

josie

Usually, I'm a highschool teacher for students who have learning disabilities. Right now, I'm not working because I'm on a two year leave of absence while we are living in England where we've come for my husband's job. I thought this was an interesting question - so here's my typical day when I am working (for anyone out there who might want to be a teacher.
6:30 - wake up shower, dress, etc.
7:00 - wake kids up- supervise breakfast - make lunches
7:30 - leave house to drop daughter at her school
7:45 -8:00 - arrive at my school
8:00 - 8:30 - answer e-mails, return parent calls, may have parent meeting or tutoring session with a student.
8:40 - Tutor first section of geometry
9:40 - Planning - grade tests, homework, other paperwork
10:35- Tutor first section of World History
11:30 - Tutor second section of World History
12:40 - Lunch - usually at desk, updating files or tutoring a kid
1:30 - Tutor first section of Algebra II
2:30 - Teach first section of Academic Strategies - study skills and homework class for LD kids.
3:45 - School's over - meetings, phone calls, planning for next day - might have a kid help me clean up the room, empty recycling, etc.
4:30 - Soccer, baseball game or track meet (for one of my own two kids or for one of my students) depending on the day and season
6:30-7:30 - Walk back into the house, cook supper, clean up
8:00 - start supervising homework and bedtime, often take phone calls from parents, do laundry, etc.
10:00- collapse on the couch in front of tv
11:00- bed
Busy - but I love it. The students are generally a hoot to be around. I get everything from "Shut up you stupid bitch" to "How would I make it through this without you?" and although sometimes they can be real little sob's, (as is true of all of us, I constantly try to remind myself) there's never a dull moment. I find the kids incredibly stimulating and my job extremely rewarding because I feel that I'm helping people who might not otherwise graduate have the chance to, though it might take a little longer and call for a little more intensive, one-on-one interaction. It's a job that feeds my own love of learning and makes me feel useful. I miss it, and though I'm enjoying myself right now, I'll be happy to go back. I really can never picture working all day with other adults - it wouldn't be nearly as entertaining.

little_tippler

I work at an Art Gallery as an Assistant Curator.

Get up at 8 am.

have breakfast, shower, dress, feed my cats, clean the cat litter, pack my lunch

Then either:

a) go for a swim in the gym I go to near my workplace, for about an hour. It takes me 30-45 mins to get into town, and then I swim for an hour or so. I will then shower and dress at the gym and go to work, by subway, 10 mins away.

b) wash clothes, turn the dishwasher on, hang up clothes, fold clothes, make the bed, and anything else that may occurr to me while I still have time. Some mornings I do patent translation - something I do to make ends meet. Then I walk to the train station at about 1030, arrive in Lisbon at 1110 and am at work via the subway at 1130.

c) set my bags down and put my lunch in the fridge. Have a short chat with my coworker (only two of us here). Go to my desk and turn the computer on. Check my mail, then also my email.

d) Do whatever is set out for the day, could be arranging transports for exhibition works arriving, sending off for frames, answering emails with artists, the press, etc. Also managing the database of about 500 art works we have here, photographing any works that haven't been so far, checking nothing is missing, restocking our kitchen (for inaugurations), writing press-releases, updating the gallery website, writing loan forms, preparing contracts, sending out invitations or catalogues, you name it I do it.

At about 1400 I have my lunch. usually I eat at my desk and then resume work, or will have a browse around the net or in TFP, answer my personal mails and stuff like that. Occasionally I will leave the gallery and have a read somewhere on a park bench or quickly go and visit a nearby art gallery to see what they're exhibiting.

Lunch ends at 1500. I continue with the same sort of tasks as before, until about 1700 when the Curator/Director of the Gallery arrives and then I conference with him about anything that needs to be run by him first for approoval. The remainder of my day proceeds much in the same way as before. Work finishes at 2000 but usually I only leave at 2015 or 2030.

Then I either commute back home or get a ride from the Curator who lives in the same area as me (very useful at the end of a long day).

I arrive home between 2100 and 2130. I then greet my 2 cats, think of something for dinner, eat dinner, feed my cats, clean the cat litter, translate some more, maybe chat with my SO if he arrives home at a decent hour, maybe watch a movie on TV, yadda yadda and some more house chores. In bed between 0030 and 0100.

Repeat.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

texxasco

Yeah, I worked cellblocks, pods, & tanks long enough.... transport is so much better. because we're outside a secure compound it can be more dangerous, but we have safeguards in place - and the typical inmate is glad to take a ride, whether for a regular transfer, medical appt, etc. What I like is it is a boarded position, and the average CO couldn't either can't make the grade, or doesn't have a CDL.....and my co workers are a much higher caliber than on the typical unit.


You on the other hand have the stressful job I would think. I don't think I have the patience to be nice when someone is chewing on my ass, like I know some people who call for support do.

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...A Bad Day of Fishing is Better Than a Great Day at Work!

noodle

Social worker...

--Up between 5:50-7, depending on the day and how late I fell asleep.
--Shower, make self somewhat presentable, etc.
--Drag computer, self to car.
--Drive 4 miles to hospital or 14 miles to main office, again dep on the day.
--Smoke in car, turn air conditioning on high to dry hair.
--Sort through all the voicemails from the previous night (I have 73 in my VMbox, if that says anything) while driving.
--Locate dress shoes under seat of car, toss flip-flops back in car.
--Check email, enter timesheet for Big Brother.
--Make a few phone calls... It's around 9/10 am by now.
--Listen to boss bitch about "did you do this, yet?"
--Affirm or deny. Haul tail away from superiors.
--Spend rest of day running around from Dr. offices, to patient homes or up and down the stairs at the hospital, (depending on the day) while juggling 2 cell phones, a pager, and a laptop. 30-150 miles per day in the car.
--Put out "fires", make funeral arrangements, comfort parents and kids, translate "medicalese" for low functioning parents, pat kids on head, smile, jump back in car. Pick up cigarette and air freshener and use both profusely. NexT!
--Drive in the general direction of home around 6 or 7 pm.
--Send last 15 voicemails to staff, apologize for their pagers going off after hours.
--Drag self and computer back up the stairs.
--Settle in for four hours of paperwork. Or just screw it until morning.
--Stare at refrigerator. Decide just pickles is not a good dinner.
--Get back in car, drive to store, pick up something quasi-nutritious for dinner to make up for skipping breakfast and lunch.
--Eat dinner while typing one handed. (Pickles for dessert!)
--Crash out around 1:30 am post-paperwork.
--Throw alarm clock across room at 5:30 am. Again.

Crap. I need a life.

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Martian

Heh.. why do you think I smoke so much?

Really, it's not nearly as bad as you've probably heard. The irates make up a very small portion of the call volume, as most people have enough sense to realize that without my skills they're not getting online any time soon and treat me accordingly. It can be frustrating at times and it does take a certain type of person to do well (we have roughly a 70% attrition rate) but even that's more because you're dealing with people who can't tell their computer from their toaster.

From the customer point of view, the secret to getting through the call faster is that there is no secret to getting through the call faster. You can go ahead and ask for my supervisor, you can do 80 different things to troubleshoot before you call and I still have to do things properly. After all, neither myself nor my supervisor (actually just a plain old 2nd tier support agent, but don't tell anyone that) knows what you've done or if you've done it properly. Getting angry just means your issue will take longer to fix. And don't lie, because we'll know and even when we don't the thing that you said you did but didn't actually do may be the step that would fix your connection, meaning you'll end up with a stumped tech agent and still no internet.

Actually, that reminds me of a funny quirk; when a customer asks for a supervisor, procedure is to pass him up to tier 2. But there is no tier 3, so if the customer asks that tier 2 agent for a supervisor, he passes the customer off to another tier 2. It hasn't happened yet, but it's theoretically possible for a customer to ask for as many supervisors as he wants and just keep getting passed around 2nd tier, until he may eventually get on the phone with a real supe (the supes will take a supervisor call only if all of our tier 2 agents are busy and there's no one else available to do it).

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

la petite moi

Full-time student and barista at Starbucks.

Wake up to Hello Kitty alarm clock at 7h30.

Look at sleeping boyfriend and silently moan about how he can wake up at 10 and be to school on time.

Put on clothes (that may have already been worn two or three times).

Make it to the bus stop by 8.

Get to school at 8h40.

Do homework from the night before.

Sit in class from 9h15 until 12.

Run to the bus stop to see if I can make the next bus, or wait until 12h45 (as is usual).

Get home around 1h30.

Eat lots of food, while vegging out on my computer or watching the tele.

Usually after about 2 hours of this, I have to go do whatever homework is assigned in my online classes.

After about an hour, I have to change into my work clothes.

I walk about .75 miles to work.

[Clean a buttload, deal with snobbish people/co-partners, make weird drinks for myself, clean some more, make drinks or ring on the cash register.]

Finally, at around 11 or 12, we are done closing the store.

[Closing includes: pulling carafes, milk containers, mats, coffee brewers, syrup holders, blenders. and other miscellaneous things to be sanatised, stocking cups and lids, stocking drinks and food area, stocking beans, sweeping and mopping, bringing in umbrellas, marking out pastries/sandwiches, closing tills, collecting any tips, vacuuming and sanatising espresso machines, wiping everything down, bringing in the tables and chairs from outside, and then locking the doors for the money to be counted.]

Walk home the .75 miles.

Sit on the computer another hour or so if I am not too tired.

Take a shower, maybe, if I'm feeling like being hygenic.

Get naked and go to sleep, after setting Hello Kitty alarm clock.

Rinse and repeat.

dagamore

tech support for the US Army in Germany

~0645 look at the alarm likes its on drugs and hit snooze
~0700 get my lazy ass up, and still think its too damn early (damn it not a soldier any more )
0725 head to work (after SSS{shit, Shower, Shave})
~0755 get to work and log on to workstation
0815 look in the svr room and network monitors to see if any of 'my' servers are down or if network traffic is high
0900 go get breakfast at the German Kantina on post (to go of course :P)
0915 eat breakfast while looking at emails and check answering machine
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< if no issues read my blog list and comics>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
1130 get lunch (Hmmm Schintzle)
1300 get back to work
1700 go home


some times, it goes like this

0215 phone rings, and i get dress and drive ~500miles to fix a computer
2045 get back home and think about eating a real mean (read one not served in a car)

and once it went sorta like this

0345 phone rings
0745 i am on a plane to fix a server and workstation issue
get back home 4 days later with only about 15 hours of sleep since the phone call

Schwan

Manager for an interactive ad agency.

My day start around8.30 when I wake up. I have to put in at least 9-10 hours of sleep, because otherwise I'm useless. I wash myself and leave for work around 9-9.30. I reach my offcie around 10, and most of the staff is there. I start the day reading through various emails. After that I usually have to type some stuff up, create some promos, talk with a dozen people and so on. My wrok cycle is 15-15, which means I work 15 minutes, and then I spend the next 15 minutes on smoking, reading FARK, Slasdot and TFP or generally socializing. After 12, I usually leave the office and drive downtown to attend meetings, pick up promo stuff and so on. I also grab something to eat and drink a coffee in a nice bar (if I happen to stumble upon one). I'm back at the office around 14 (that's... umm... I think 2 pm) and continue on my work. This is when I do most of the manial taks - coordinate stuff going online, and so on. My day at the office is usually finished by 18, though on tough days I stay till 21-22. Im usually home by 18.30. This is when I take a shower and eat a bit. After that, my freelance work hours start. This is when I prepare materials for my own clients - translations, copwriting and PR stuff. Im finnished by 24. Sometimes I have to drive down to a club in the downtown to talk with the owner, since he is one of our clients. This means that I have to be there at 22 and stay for an hur or two. This usually happens on saturdays. Also on saturdays, and fridays, I attend various promo events. This usually takes up the whole day. It's not bad, since most of the time I sit in a vip lounge a get free stuff and alcohol, but it takes up my weekend. If I happen not to work during the weekend, I drive out of town to study (I'm completing my MA in national security and I have no clue what I'm gonna dco with that). This takes up saturday and sunday. When I have a free evening, I play with my band. This takes up around 3 hours, so I'm back home around 1 AM. Sounds bad, but in trouth I'm not doing as much stuff during that time as I really could. Kinda a slacker.

Schwan

Not that it has anything to do with anything else... but Larry, for some reason, seems to be a perfect name for that job.

Titan_Uranus

work for towelling company ,run the design studio
6:00 get up
7:20 - 7:40 get to work
7:45 have coffee ,talk shit with co workers
7:55 - 5:00 deal with the usual shit, come up with new concepts,read e-mail ,surf the net.
5:45 get home play with my son abit ,escape to gym.
8:00 get back home,eat play some more .
10:00 - 11:00 get to bed depending what time the baby-boss falls asleep.

Sue

CMA (Certified Medical Assistant)

6AM wake up
7AM leave house
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insert sitting in traffic for an hour here
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8:30AM get to work, greet first patient since they sit outside like a stalker and wait for the practice to open
-turn on computers, lab machines, lights, prepare patient's folder and take em in back do to vitals
-lather, rinse, repeat
1PM lunch until 2PM
take in patients
4:30PM practice closes
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insert sitting in traffic for an hour
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get home by 6PM

And every other Saturday I get up at 5AM to follow the same procedure, minus the traffic, and open @ 7AM, close up at 11AM

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Teg yw edrych tuag adref.

denton

CNC machinist making aluminum parts for a place that makes military aircraft oxygen regulators, generators, etc...

2pm- get up, get ready, leave by 2:30
3pm-talk to day shift about what I'm working on that night
3-11pm Either running production or on setup.
Production: Measuring size, functionality and finish of my parts and removing any burrs.
Setup: Loading the tooling in and running the first piece to make sure the machine won't crash. Then making sure the part is good.

11:15pm get home from work, watch TV for a while with wife for a while, then mess around on computer

6am go to bed

Schwan

This thread made me realize that all the small objects we don't notice everyday are made by real people, and they spend their whole days just on that. It's obvious, I know, you just don't think about it.

snowy

Just started a new job stocking shelves for Christmas at the local Target. No, it's not glamorous, and the getting up at 2am bit kind of sucks, but it pays the bills.

2am: Get up, grab clothes, head to bathroom, shower
2:15am: put on shoes, grab keys/phone, leave
2:45am: arrive at work, sit in car listening to NPR for five minutes while waiting for the door to open
2:50am: door opens, flow crew clocks in
3am: rundown meeting at back of the store
3:05am: grab flatbed from receiving and take it out to the floor
3:10am: begin stocking "challenge" items
3:30am: begin stocking new stock, starting in toys (this part really sucks, because there is TONS of overstock right now. Gearing up for the holidays evidently means ordering more product than the shelves can possibly carry...seriously, our backroom is stuffed to the gills and so is the floor)
6am: break
6:15am: return from break with cart of assorted (read: really random) goods from distribution center, place cart, return to work
6:30am: begin stocking goods from carts
6:45am: cleanup begins
7am: store opens, still stocking/cleaning
7:15am: return remaining overstock to backroom, check for carts, clock out
7:45am: home

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

FngKestrel

You should watch the show "Dirty Jobs" on Discovery. It shows the tasks that most people take for granted. Most of them are pretty hideous to endure.

Mantus

Well everyday is differnt, here's today!

10:00 - wake up at late, cuz i stayed out late the day before
10:45 - drive to the project site...oh wait it's my neighbours
10:46 - at the job site
10:47 - start work on heating system/framing, other junk.
1:30 - go home, have lunch
2:00 - check the TFP/email
2:45 - back to work
3:30 - help unload a delivery of material.
3:45 - take a short break
3:50 - back to work, doing electrical
4:00 - start on dryer vent
5:30 - start on spectic system
6:30 - start on plumbing
8:45 - finish work
8:46 - I am home!

Wasnt a bad day, got allot done

redneckdude

Ironworker.

Get up at 5:00 am drink coffee and watch the news.
Leave for work at about 6:00am
arrive in parking lot, to meet with other workers, as there is no parking room on site.
I am currently building and addition to the University of Arkansas Law Center.
@ 7:00 am get my crew together and start them on their projects.
Between 7 am and 9 am I walk about 50 miles going from one project to another answering questions, showing the guys how to do certain jobs (training), take an ass-chewin' cause somebody didn't do something right or broke a saftey rule or run over a plumbing pipe in the floor.

At 9:30 break time thank god!
9:45 to 12:00 do about the same as I did prior to break.
12:00-12:30 lunch
12:30-3:30 or later pretty much about the same as I have done all day

It's pretty cool to walk away from a 3-story building and say that I built that. But as a supervisor it is stressful.

Scot

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mingusfingers

Uhh...is that supposed to be 5 miles?
I'm unemployed! I'm in engineering right now, and, thankfully, I only need to work during the summer. Actually, I'm looking forward to work a lot right now, compared to school it's great.

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:::OshnSoul:::

hahahahaha there IS NO typical day at my work. I expect the unexpected.

I am a receptionist/admin clerk and asst. to the President of a P.O.S. company. Many shipments, many requests, many mysteries, many new and tedious projects, many phone calls, much problem solving- I honestly enjoy it though. Nice 8-5 job 10 min. from where I live- no commuting whatsoever.
And the people there are great.

HiWayMan

County Bridge Engineer

Wake up at 5:45am
Eat some breakfast, pack a lunch and out the door at 6:15am.
Arrive at work at 6:55am (yeah...5 minutes early)
Check e-mail, babe-of-the-day, and several message boards till about 8am

If I have a project being built I go and supervise/inspect for the day

Otherwise I design my next project on AutoCADD, make up project specs and other paperwork

Answer phone complaints from taxpayers

Various field recons (I love windshield time, especially when I'm not paying for the gas)

Lunch at 11:30am till 12:00pm (noon officially, 12:30 unofficially)

More of the morning routine with a little surfing thrown in.

Clock out at 3:30 and do the asphalt ballet home.

Start dinner for me and my fiance, and do yesterdays dishes.

Eat at 5:30pm then a movie, read, computer games, outside work, reloading and firearm maintanence till 9:00pm

Have fantastic sex with my fiance till about 10:30pm

Grab a shower, a good night kiss, and head to my parents house for the night (not married yet, so I have to sleep at the parents house, even though I have a house and mortage with my fiance, yeah it is kinda fucked up)

do it all over again

Gilda

Former job: Middle school teacher:

5:15: Get up, have a cup of tea.
5:30: Shower, get dressed, do hair and makeup.
6:30: Leave for work.
7:15: Arrive at work. Check mailbox, e-mail, voicemail, put away substitute lesson plans, get out actual plans.
7:45-11:20: Humanities, periods 1-2 and 3-4.
11:20-12:00: Lunch
12:05-2:00 Family Planning
2:00-2:55 Plan period, check mailbox, e-mail, voicemail, grade papers
2:55-3:15 Bus supervision
3:15-4:00 Grade papers, make phone calls, grade papers, prepare lesson plans, and grade papers.
5:00-6:00 Drive home, prepare and eat supper
7:00-8:00 Grade papers
8:00-12:00/12:30: Surf the net, play games, read comic books

Currently:

5:30 Get up, have tea.
5:45 Shower, get dressed, do hair and makeup
7:00 Go to school.
7:30 Sign in, report to teachers for instructions, make copies, read with students, cover classes while teachers run to the restroom, etc.
11:00: Ride picks me up, go to university.
12:00: Prepare for classes in Jan., write syllabus, read World Masterpieces textbook for class I'm supposed to teach.
3:00-4:00: Ride picks me up go home or to doctor for checkup.
4:00-about midnight: Read, surf the net, have supper, sex with wife.

Gilda

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joemc91

A normal day while on reserve lately has been:

Whenever I wake up
Make food
Check email, surf web, etc.
Pound my head against the wall trying to come up with stuff to do
Drink 3 cups in coffee in an hour, start shaking
Go to gym
Come up with dinner and cook
Go out with friends

On a day where I actually work

Get called at 5am or wake up even earlier to fly
Wake up to wake up +1 hr: Shower, eat, coffee
Wake up +1 hr: Drive to the airport, curse early business travel
45 minutes before flight: Show up at gate, receive odd looks from people wondering who this kid is. Do all preflight stuff, get ready to go
Rest of the day till whenever: Up and down and up and down and etc.
After final landing: Call hotel as soon as we leave the plane.
Landing +45 minutes: Call the rest of the crew and find some dinner. Haven't had a break since this morning.
In bed 9 hours before the next morning's show time.

Lucifer

Interesting all the different jobs we have!
I'm a Merchant Marine Officer. Typical Day (at sea)
11:30 pm - get woken for watch by the ordinary seaman (OS) of the 3rd mate's watch 8-12
11:45 pm - on the bridge, get COFFEE!!, talk to the 3rd mate, look in the radars, check the ecdis, gyro compass, let eyes get adjusted to the dark, look out all the windows for other ships, talk about what to expect in the next four hours (what ships are around, course alterations, radio call in points, etc)
11:50 pm - Sign in the Logbook, and plot our position on the chart. The ship is now mine. Big responsibility for this huge hunk of steel, it's million dollar cargo and the 30 sleeping souls on board.
11:55 pm - call the engine room, check the clocks have the same time in their control room as we have on the bridge
For the next 4 hours, I mainly keep lookout the windows, shoot the shit with my wheelsman, watch for the lights of other ships that may come close to us, plot our position on the chart every 30 minutes and make log entries every hour, alter our course as necessary to avoid other ships, big rocks, land, etc., call traffic control on the VHF radio and let them know where we are, sometimes if I feel particularily bored, I will fill out the weather code sheet and call it in to the coast guard.
3:30 am-ish - get things ready for the 1st mate to take over at 4 am. Make fresh coffee, make sure the charts are updated with latest position, courses and alterations.
4:00 am - off watch now, I watch tv for an hour or so depending on how tired I am and sleep till 11:00 am when the 8-12 watchman wakes me for lunch.
11:50 am - see above, except now it's daylight and I can do chart corrections while on watch, when I'm not avoiding other ships, big rocks, land.
3:20 pm - dinner break. 1st mate comes up and relieves me of watch, so that I can come back and relieve him at 4:50 pm so he can go to the galley and get his dinner.
4:50 pm - relieve the 1st mate for dinner for 30 minutes.
5:20 pm - get my dinner and watch tv and go to bed, cause there'll be a knock on my door at 11:30pm to start another day.

If we are in port loading or unloading cargo, I'm in command of the deck and the cargo operations for the hours between 12-4, and I'm available for overtime for the two hours preceding my watch and the two hours after if the other mate's need a hand, like for leaving/entering port or taking the ship up rivers, etc.
My ship is about 650' long and works on the Great Lakes.

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sailor

Well, I have a different job during the summer from when I'm at school, so Ill do them both.

Job 1, Summer:
8:30: Get to work.
9:00: Send out bullshit status report.
9:30: Go to status report meeting.
10-12: Sit at my desk bored, either cruising spreadsheets or the internet.
12:00: Lunch.
1:00: Usually some other stupid meeting.
2-5: Sit at my desk bored, either cruising spreadsheets or the internet.

Sounds fun being able to just do nothing all day, but it's actually extremely boring and demeaning. I hate it.

Job 2, At School
For this one, my hours are different every day, but thats OK, because it can be summed up in one line:
Work: Shake my head at the stupid shit people can do to their computers, try to fix it, or if it's really hosed, reimage the machine.

Yeah, both of my jobs suck. But they pay well, especially the summer job.

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yellowchef

Wow, everyone does something different....

I am a student and a line cook/supervisor thingie at a franchised Hyatt Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale. Its the Hyatt Regency Pier 66... we make fun of my job and call it "As The Pier Top Turns" because its so drama filled ever since we got bought out by the lovely Blackstone Group.

Anyways this is how a Mon/Wed can go

6am(well now 8am(or later) since I dont have class till 9:40 and the new quarter hasnt starded so I dont know how things will work out) roll over and hit the snooze button

6:10am swear that it has not been 10 minutes and that my alarm is on drugs; hit snooze again

6:13 the cats are pissed that I havent greeted them yet so they are all up ons and in need of attention

6:15-6:20 acknowledge the beasts, work my way out of bed and to the bathroom.. I watch as my cats get pissed off but I refuse to feed them as soon as I get up

6:20-6:30 get dressed, feed the beasts, check the poop box, go wash hands, check to make sure I have all my shit together for school and see if my roommate made coffee( I hate it when she doesnt make coffee but I wont do it myself, Ill leave early to go get a free Jamba Juice)

6:30-6:45 make sure I have everything again(Im very forgetful) check my work bag, put on my shoes, play with the beasts and watch some news.

6:45ish I leave the house for class at 7:30 If I leave after 7 Ill hit traffic and I wont find a parking spot

7-7:15ish arrive at school, park, go to classroom and sleep

7:30-9:30 1st period(insert class I dont give a damn about here) I try not to sleep and am constantly playing on my cell phone

9:30-9:40 check to make sure I have homework for 2nd period and run off to get to that classroom so I get a good seat

9:40-11:40 2nd period, more cell phone games/IM and pretending Im listening

11:40-12:20 LUNCH if only I had time for drinks....lunch is wherever we can grab it...

12:20-2:20 3rd period (usually half asleep from lunch with soda in hand) more playing on the cell phone...

2:20-2:30 changing classrooms and checking for homework

2:30-4:30(usually 4pm though!) 4th period, something I care about..... I still IM on my cell phone though

4ish-5ish commute to work in rush hour traffic no matter what way I go or what side street I take or what backasswards way I discover Im always stuck for like 45 min. I avoid the I 95 like the plauge though.

5ish clock in at work and say hi to the security guards...

5ish get upstairs, change pants real fast in the little office and get my knives out for work

5:30 ish start stuffing my face and BSing with co-workers

6ish start swearing that people are stupid and the next person to make a special order will be killed and served as our "Employee Meal"

7ish-10ish start going over the days drama, watching my chef bite the bartenders ass, having the bartender ask "when can we fuck"(the answer is never), plotting world domination, playing on the cell phones, making weird creations, pulling my bartenders finger, and last but not least actually doing some prep work if we're not busy, if we're busy... Im usually cussing at the printer and telling room service to "fuck off" because how the cake ends up on the plate is how the cake ends up on the plate. We're also probably doing something against company policy at this time too.(and no its not harmful to the consumer)

10:30 chef leaves, I am alone for the night! Totally sucks though if Im working with jackass #1 in room service and the bar is full I go to room service to sleep

10:30-1 sleep, sometimes I work, sometimes I am disturbed by my buds in security, the Manager on Duty(MOD) comes by... sometimes people call and piss me off because I have to work and make shit like NY strip, well done...very well done, vegetables only(how the hell do you eat that burnt piece of shit) I throw anything "well"(except for chicken) in the microwave. Fuck you people who dont know how to enjoy meat.

12am I pack up the line, putting everything into the reach in coolers so I can pretty much get the fuck out of there at 1am but keeping it uncovered untill 1am so I dont have to dig for the stuff I need.

12:55am tell room service "DONT ANSWER THE DAMN PHONE" because Ill kill them if they do......

1am do a wipe down, wrap my food up, put all the utensils away, turn off my equipment and walk donwnstairs to punch out(sometimes I have to bury my stolen goodies..bottled water, cereal... my dinner)

1:15am(at the latest unless I change to go out) I punch out

1:40-2am get home, shower, sleep

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always remeber you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. But..you CAN choose the insane asylum where you have them all put away!

yellowchef

And if you want hotel/restaurant horror stories........ I got some

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always remeber you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. But..you CAN choose the insane asylum where you have them all put away!

Blasphemy.

College music student by day, Night Chef at one of the most profitable Earls in the company by night.

7:00 Am, if I do sleep i'm waking up right now.
7:15 - After checking email and messages, I roll into the shower and brush my teeth.
7:30 - Drive down to college and have my first smoke of the day.
8:00 - Grab my bass and music and cram into a practace room.
9:15ish - take a break, have a smoke, go eat some breakfast from the college cafeteria.
10:00 AM - Start either Music History or Ear Training. Depends on what day
11:00 - Go smoke and go sit down in the school lounge until next class.
12:00 - Go to keyboard class which is so easy that I Just noodle around in.
1:00 - Go to Math Class which I suck at.
2-4 - Either go practase some more, have bass lessons, or go to work early and smooze with my workers.

5:00 - Get suited up in my kitchen Whites, grab enough clothes and aprons for the team.
5:10 - Get downstairs and figure out who's on for the night and who I need to call in.
6-9ish - Peak of rush comes in. I lead the line, so I pretty much organize the bills and call them out to each station.
9:00pm - Rush slows down, I get the crew to start cleaning.
10:00pm - Write about the nights events in a book with the front of the house manager
11:00pm - Sign out, change, drive home and have my last smoke of day.

Repeat until weekend.

ColonelSpecial

It sounds like we have a lot of food service people here! I work as a Supervisor at Chipotle which means I get to tell people what to do. I love it.
7:10 am- wake up/pull on "manager" clothes
7:40 am- out the door
8 am-punch in
8:15-read what happened since I was there last; start prep
10:15 am-break; only chance to eat
11am-4pm-help either really nice people or really crappy people through the line

1000 times a shift-telling the employees to go faster!
544 times a shift-telling people the guacamole is extra
345 times a shift-biting my tongue so I don't yell at the stupid college boys who come in!

Yup, all in all a pretty routine day but it is really fun overall.

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Sara

yellowchef

oh and I forgot to insert wash my hands at least 5000000000000000 times a day because I hate dirty hands.

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the voices in your head are not real--but they still have some really great ideas.

always remeber you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. But..you CAN choose the insane asylum where you have them all put away!