A typical day at your job
 

Hello, everyone. I've recently become interested in finding out how exactly certain pnrofessionals go about their day-to-day activities. So I thought I'd try to find out by creating a thread. What is an example of your typical daily routine while you're "on the clock," so to speak? Feel free to say what you specifically did TODAY.

I might as well start with myself. I am a high school graduate, so I'm essentially doing nothing for the next two months.

When I was in high school, my day-to-day routine went something like this:

Wake up at about 5:00 AM to study for an hour. Then shower, eat breakfast, and leave for school. Arrive at homeroom at 8:00 AM, then go to class for two hours. AFter that, I had free time for about 30 minutes. Then two more classes, a lunch period, and two final classes for the day.

This summer, I have a job at Kroger Supermarket, so I spend between 4 and 8 hours a day checking groceries, doing pricechecks, sending people to Guest Care, and making fun of James, a fellow cashier that I don't like. I'm about to start a home computer repair service, so hopefully that'll end up taking more of my time than supermarket stuff.

So what about the TFProject group? What's your daily work routine?

I work for a web and print design firm. My typcial day is as follows.

1) Wake up at 8am, eat breakfast. Leave at 9 to catch the subway. Get to work at 10am. Ask my bosses how their evenings were. Check my email.

2) Shoot the shit with my bosses. It's a very casual non-pc fun working environment.

3) Work on my projects for the week.

4) Take the dog out for a work. Yes we have a dog in our office :D

4) Noon. Go to lunch.

5) Come back, continue to work on my projects for the rest of the day. Shoot the shit with my bosses.

6) Go home at 6pm. Make dinner. Shit around on the Internet, play some games, or watch a movie.

7) Go to sleep and rinse and repeat.

TV journalist

up at 6:30, out the door by 7 for the commute.

At work by 8:30, spend half an hour or so surfing the net reading a jillion online newspapers and checking the wires.

9ish, in the newsroom for the morning meeting, where we suggest ideas for stories to cover in the future and fight over who gets to go cover the good stories today.

After that, it completely depends on what I'm covering that day. Usually I'm stacked so that I have a story in the morning, and one in the early afternoon. Toss the camera, tripod, steadybag, lightkit, batteries, tapes, and my run-bag (has all sorts of supplies - gaffers tape, audio connectors, wireless microphone, etc) in the truck and get moving. Shoot my stories, occasionally having time to grab lunch between 'em, then move to the location of one of that night's liveshots.

Takes about an hour to get the truck positioned, all the equipment turned on, the 60 foot mast in the air, and to get the transmitting antenna pointing at the receiving antenna - called tuning in the shot. Once the shot's tuned, it's usually an hour or two before the hit (when we're actually live on TV)

So I'll run all the cables I'll need for that shot, but leave the camera in the truck to prevent theft. Once that's done, write my stories (usually one is 40 seconds and the other's 1:30-1:50) on the laptop. I'll then voice the stories with the microphone in the truck, and I'll edit both of 'em using the truck's onboard editing equipment.

Then I'll transmit both edited stories back to the station the same way we'll eventually be transmitting the live shot of the reporter.

It's about 30 minutes to air by this point so I'll get all the lights set up and turned on. Around this time the reporter arrives and starts whining about the lighting, his makeup, the background of the shot, the story, you name it.

I get him hooked up with a wireless mic and an IFB (lets him hear directions from the control room so he knows when to talk and when to shut up) and we'll talk about what we want to do for this particular shot.

The newscast opens, they get to our story, and the reporter does his thing. After that, if we'll be doing the same thing in the next cast we'll just stay up, and hang out for an hour. Otherwise everything gets put away and we get back to the station around 7 or so.


That's a fairly typical day, although there really isn't one in TV news - every day is very different from the last - which is what most of us really like about the job ;)

Well... currently I'm not in a job (hallelujah) BUT I used to work in the clerical department in the Lab at the hospital here in Asheville. A typical day was something like:

(Mission Lab, weekday):

Martel drops me off around 2:20. Come in by the loading dock, swing around to the break room, use the phone to "clock in", drop my stuff in a locker, get some water and see if there's any good magazines in the staff lounge. Steal them if there were, go into the bathroom and read for about ten to twenty minutes. Put the mags back, go into the lab, realize that there's only going to be four people there the entire day. AND Wald (super head boss) and Wanda (some sort of boss, but severely bitchy) are both wandering around. AND Vivian (super bitchy shift supervisor) is working on the side of the street. Groan inwardly.

Answer phone calls from irate nurses who can't do their jobs so they expect me to do it. Dispach phlebotomists (who get blood for testing) and try not to bitch at them when they whine that their slacking off has been inturrupted. Check in dead bodies at the morgue, placating Larry (the head dead guy guy) and hoping he's in a good mood. Give out test results over the phone and fax to all the people in the county who use the lab for testing. Take eyeballs in jars back to pathology. Sort paperwork. Try to read my book as much as possible while not looking like I'm reading. Go back to Microbiology to talk to my buddies as much as I can without looking like a slacker. Gossip. Get the test results together and take them up to the floors to put them on the charts- grabbing my book from my locker on the way. Throw test results away, go read in the bathroom for two hours, come back to the lab and leave. Cry on the couch for an hour because I hate my job SO FUCKING MUCH.

On a weekend, I'd sit around and read all day, pretty much. Eight and a half hours of reading (even when its a book I like) is really bad for the eyes.

I am insanely glad I quit. Best thing I ever did. (Except for kissing Martel the first time).

An HOUR AND A HALF commute? That's pretty crazy. My parents' commutes are between 20 and 30 minutes, and we live in a medium-sized city...is 1.5 hrs typical for someone in a big city?

I cook at a homeless shelter

I'm awake at around 4:30, out the door by 5, and in my chef's whites by 5:30.

I start by checking the week's menu and the day's volunteer schedule. We set out a rough plan for the day based on what we have to cook, and what we need to get prepped for the next couple of days. Once we figure out what we're doing, we start getting breakfast ready for anywhere between 200 and 350 people. The worst part of the job is that you're never sure how busy it's going to be.

Breakfast is served at 7:20. Depending on how labour-intensive breakfast is (for example, it takes way less effort to scramble eggs for 300 than it does to fry them) and how much volunteer help we have, I may be on the line serving breakfast or I may be in the back getting things ready for lunch, or I may still be getting the last of the food ready.

The boss usually gets in around 8:00, he usually pulls me aside and gives me a list of functions that need to be catered today, sidework and cleaning that he'd like done and any other kind of wrench he can throw into our impeccably planned schedule.

We stop serving breakfast at 8:30 and clean the kitchen and dining room, or have volunteers do it for us. Depending on how busy I am, I may or may not have time for breakfast.

Now we have about 3 hours before lunch has to be ready. Depending on how much prep work was done the day before, that may be all the time in the world, or it may not be enough. We've also got to make sack lunches for guys that go to work, sandwiches to hand out in the evening, all sorts of other little tasks that have to be done or delegated to a volunteer.

When I have the time and the right ingredients I also try to cook something special for the staff meal. The homeless guys are pickier than any 4 year-old I've ever met, the vast majority of them are strictly meat and potato types. I get a lot more freedom to experiment and cook the way I like to when I feed the staff. We serve lunch from 11:20 til 12:00 for the homeless, and the staff eats at 12:30.

Once everyone is happy and well fed, we clean the kitchen again and finish the day by getting things ready for tomorrow. As soon as the clock strikes 1:30, I'm gone.

I work for a Telecommunications Company.... I

Answer phones, trying to help customers.
Sell products (when people phone in, telemarketing is phoning out)
Explain bills


My daily routine....

1) Get to work
2) Sit at my desk answering e-mails.
3) Wait till I have to be on the phone
4) Periodically take a break.... union says I have to
5) Drive home... with frequent laughing at stupid people

thats pretty much it

Emergency Dispatcher/911 Operator:

I get to work 15 min before my shift starts and get an update on everything that happened since my last shift and what is currently going on.

I sit and wait for officers to call or phones to ring and handle each situation as it comes up. There is no way to plan your day because each one is different. Officers do traffic stops, respond to new calls or continue previous investigations. The calls can range from the simple question (How do I get a restraining order?); to stupid (I called 911 to report that my phone doesn't work!); to urgent (My dad just hit my mom and he is chasing her around the house carrying a knife!). They can be separated by an hour or occur at the same time.

In between calls, I review messages from other departments and take action if necessary. Some messages are requests for information while others are informative such as a recent burglary, armed robbery, etc. I make copies of the informative ones and route those as needed. The requests for info I process.

Not much to type since it varies so much but that is my day. And yes, all three of those sample calls are real ones I have taken over the years.

I work in a library at a college.

I'm at work by 7:30. What someone would need the library for at 7:30 in the morning is beyond me, but the boss says be there so "I be" there.

I sit. On my ass. For 4 and a half hours running the circulation desk, which is fancy talk for receptionist. I direct phone calls, charge and discharge stuff, talk to patrons and try to help them out if they're having troubles with the library's computers, be it the online catalog or Microsoft Word. Usually not a lot to do, so, I've been reading....a lot. Last Thursday, I swear, I picked up a Redbook because it had Tim McGraw on the cover and I thought, "Well, he's a man....I'm a man...his wife is pretty. Maybe some pictures?" So, I gave it a read. Turns out he's not that interesting.

After noon, I bring down the mail and distribute accordingly. Magazines, newspapers and journals are all processed (it isn't nearly has exciting as it sounds), indexed and shelved. Usually takes all of 20 minutes. (I'm getting very fast :) )

I don't take a lunch. I could if I wanted to, but if I did, I'd be here an extra hour every day. There's a couple of vending machines and a Subway at the student center and it's not like I can't eat on the clock, so I usually do that.

I'm gone by 3:30, which is nice. And I get first crack at all the new books and movies the library orders, so, huzzah!

Edit: I forgot to add internet radio. God bless internet radio, I'm only allowed one headphone in at a time (the boss kind of likes me to you know...hear other things...facist...:) ). So, I've been expanding my jazz catalogue with KJAZ in San Francisco.

This thread is awesome.

I'm a support worker for people with learning difficulties.

Typical shift is to get up at 7.30am and be on the bus by 8am. I'll get there by 8.15 or so and grab a coffee at the coffee shop. I get to the house, have a cup of tea and chat until 9am when the district nurse comes and handles the insulin. Then we make some breakfast, make sure the user takes their medication. Then it's some house cleaning and general domestic stuff, then some lunch and some more medication. Then we go to the local charity shop where one user works part time, do the two hour shift. Then it's home for another cup of tea and some exercises, have a chat, perhaps go out for a walk or to visit the community centre, then dinner, more medication and that's it. I like my job :)

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.

Intern Monkey at Motorola running their Driving Simulator Lab:


Wake up between 4:30 and 5:30

work out, say mornin to my love, eat breakfast/pack my lunch

Out the door by 7 or 8, depending on what time my first subject runs

Get to work 30 minutes later, wave at the security guard on my way in

Turn on the sim, make sure everything's working, page & wake up the tech guy if he forgot to do something which in turn he'll blame ME for when he gets here

For the rest of the day - running back/forth between basement lab and lobby security front desk picking up subjects, then having them drive in the simulator for an hour.

When I'm not running subjects, I'm hanging out with my cointern in our lab conference room working on our laptops, or in my cube working on data analysis stuff as neccessary.

The time I leave is variable depending on how busy the day was, and whether I have something going on in the evening. It's a blast having a job I actually enjoy waking up for in the morning.

I'm a marketing director for a real estate company. My day starts at around 7:00 and goes till about 4:30. I meet with publishers to discuss advertising, write marketing letters, meet with agents and brokers to discuss their marketing needs, and develop marketing campaigns that would work for each of the 60 agents/brokers. Since I have a lot of experience as a graphic designer and illustrator I also create all of our brochures, flyers, and signs.

On Tues., Wed., Thurs., I go to the county jail to teach english in the evening(both as second language and literacy). I also teach a religion class there.

Weekends are for hiking, climbing and volleyball.

This topic is awesome!! There's something quite intriguing about reading other peoples daily activities.

I'm a "Software Test Engineer". It's a fancy title for someone who tests software. I work for a company that was just acquired by one and merged with another, so its quite the corporate enterprise. That said, my daily schedule seems oddly similar to Office Space.

Wake up at 0700, take a shower and eat a quick breakfast (leftovers, usually).

Shave, brush my teeth, gel my hair, and piddle around until about 0750.

Drive a short commute to work and show up at about 0825.

Check my email, grab a cup of coffee or some hot chocolate, and mess around until 0900-ish.

Chat with my coworkers about the new issues we have to test and the new bug fixes that the developers put out.

By about 0930, I start testing my area of the software.

The program suite that I am specifically assigned is a Records Management System that our customers use to make sure that their date-specific documents are handled correctly. This means that they can create a "Record" in our system that reprsents a physical object: Microfiche, Tapes, Documents, Files, Boxes, even CDRoms. They can specify creation dates, destruction dates, transfer dates, and many other things that happen automatically. They can even specify the volume of an object (a given box is 6" x 6" x 6", for example, and allocate space in a warehouse. The program will automatically configure the spaces and tell the user what spaces are available. It can also tell a Records Manager how much space would be saved by deleting X amount of boxes or documents or CDs. Even beyond that, it can automatically calculate preset storage amounts for all those boxes, and a warehouse company can charge their customers via the prices in our progam.

Even through that simplified explanation, its pretty apparent there are many dependent assets in the program. If the volume calculation was incorrect, the storage tool would not work correctly, and neither would the price calculations. This could cause a lot of headaches for us AND our customers. It's therefore my job during the release cycle to make sure that any bugs we have are found and fixed before they get to a customer. This ranges from putting in obscene values into certain fields: putting "FUCKYOU" into numeric fields to see if it'll choke, to testing security of the XML/OLEDB layer to make sure hacking the system is much more difficult. I have to also make sure that the program as user-friendly and understandable as it can be. So, that in mind..

By about 1000, I'm looking back over the bugs I've written up from the previous day to see if a developer has found or fixed a certain issue. If he has, I have to find the patch and insert it into my module and re-test it. If the problem was fixed, I mark the issue as closed. If not, I spit it back to the developer to re-fix.

Depending on the day, my time from 1000 to 1230 can be anything from re-testing the fixes from the previous day to dealing with customer issues (they want a patch) sent over from Tech Support. I eat lunch at my desk and keep testing until about 1530. By then I'm pretty burnt out and I mess around a bit until 1600 when I take off.

Half an hour later I'm at home; eat a quick dinner and screw around on my computer or watch TV until about 2100 or 2200 and then its off to bed!

A day in the life of a JiNN. :)

I work as an independant consultant for Information Technology implementations. currently I have a gig with the gas company as a project manager. I just finished implementing a couple of projects (Upgrading vitria to a new version; replatforming the the production oracle database to Unix) which required extensive UAT and performance testing. I am now moving on to an upgrade in the work management software for the summer.

My day starts with a wake up at 6:30, eat breakfast, make my lunch, and read or do email until 7:50, drive to work (it's uptown about 10 km so ony about 20 min drive), and login by 8:15 or so. Immediately go for coffee, and get updated by my group.

I manage deliverables and go to meetings most of the day. (and read TFP). on Mondays, Weds & Fridays, I work out in the gym at lunch time. I usually leave at 5:30 to go home and make dinner.

that's it!

I work as a "room attendant" at a hotel *sigh*

I wake up at 7:00, get out of bed at around 7:15, eat a banana, pack my bag, put on my ugly uniform (bright purple pants and a top with multicoloured mushrooms on it) and walk to work.

At work I clean rooms, clean bathrooms, make beds, vacuum, dust. I take a break, eat a granola bar by the pool, clean more rooms, stock my cart, take out the garbage and go home, I work anywhere from 4-8 hours a day.

I hate my job. I could tell horror stories that would turn you off of staying at a hotel forever.

(is bitter)

Tell 'em! Tell 'em!!!

hope the boss doesn't see this
 

Today:

I woke up around 9:15ish, showered and got dressed. I forgot that I had no gas and so stopped off at the local Shell before hitting the freeway. My commute is 22 miles and takes me about 25-30 minutes. I arrived at work about 10:15 or so. This is 15 minutes after I am on the clock. I boot up my PC and browse to my favorite webcomics. The exact number varies from 2-8 depending on what day it is. Today being Monday I visted 6. I then check evite to see who is going to be at tonight's hockey game (11:00, hooray). I browse TFP for a bit before my coworker calls and tells me I have some voicemails to attend to. So it is about 10:30 before I even contemplate working.

Voicemails addressed, I return to surfing the web. I also do some reading (Mark Twain's Letters from the Earth currently). Soon enough it is lunchtime. I nuke a Banquet Salisbury Steak meal and consume. Mmmm. All the while I have Yahoo Instant Messenger open and am chatting with friends and my girl. About 2:00 I remembered that one of the voicemails was still not taken care of, so I head over to another building to check on the printer there. Sure enough, a sensor in the fuser is shot so I need to call a tech in to take care of it. Back at my desk I do so.

Note that I have been on the clock for 4 and a half hours now and have done approximately 15-20 minutes of real, actual work. The rest of the day doesn't hold much promise for work either. I'll read, surf the web and chat the day away. I am off at 7:00 but will leave sometime between 6:00 and 6:45.

Today is pretty typical of most workdays. However, on Tuesday and Thursday I help out at another site in the mornings and actually work for several hours. There are things I can and probably should be doing today, but I'm putting them off until tomorrow. Or Wednesday. Or Thursday.

I'm not really a PROFESSIONAL, I just finished my first year of college, so I'll give you a basic summary of my summer job:

1. Get up at 7:30, leave at 8:10, get to work at 9:00.
2. Baby-sit a 4 year old brat who doesn't listen to a word I say.
3. Usually leave around 5:00 to go home.

Yeah. That's it. I hate it. lol But it could be worse.

Home day care provider and Homemaker

6:30 - up and dress
6:45 - start breakfast
7:00 - eat breakfast
7:15/7:30 - 2 children arrive (ages 3 and 1)
7:30 - hubby leaves for work
8:00 to 10:00 play with kids, get drinks, help pick up toys as they move to new things.
10:00 - snacks
11:30 - (if she can make it that long) naptime for the 1 yr old.
11:45 - start lunch
12:00 - serve lunch
12:30 - washup, bathroom, and then naptime for the 3 yr old.
1:00 - another child arrives (3 yrs old)
1:30 - baby wakes up
1:00 - 3:00 watch children, play with them, get drinks, snacks, coloring pages, pick up toys, take to bathrooms, change diapers...
3:00 - the later 3 yr old leaves
3:30/4:00 - the 1 yr old and other 3 yr old leaves for home.
4:00 - cleanup or crash depending on how many tantrums and poopy diapers I've changed.

I'm in college, working as a tech consultant for the university. Today for example I got up around 8:00 and had to go to a scheduling meeting for the rest of the summer. Got my hours picked out, and walked home (its about a 20 minute walk). Sat around for a few hours, called the GF who was sleeping. Decided I would go over to her place so I walked over there (30 minute walk) and we watched a movie. Walked back to my apartment then back over to the college. I'm sitting right now with 3 other consultants all just surfing. There are rarely questions for us to answer from any students, and when there are, they are 99% of the time just connectivity issues.

Tommorow, I plan on getting up around 7, getting to work around 8, sit and read fark and other forums for 8 hours (an hour lunch in there), then going over to the GF after work.

You start breakfast in your sleep?

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.

I work in theatre on the producton side of things. Currently I am working as a lighting designer and assistant lighting designer for a large repertory company. (This means that they present several plays at the same time)

Every day is different depending on where you are in the production schedule approaching opening night, so i'll tell you about my Sunday June 5th.

I woke up at 8:30am and walked to work for 10am First I checked in at the office to read email and go over today's Schedule. With three plays sharing three venues plus 4 rehearsal spaces, it's easy to lose track of what is going on and where, so keeping on top of the various schedules is critical.

Right now I am assisting on one that has a few more dress rehearsals to go before its first audience and also designing my own which has just started its "tech week". This means the setting of the lighting cues and final touch ups before full technical rehearsals.

So, after a short lunch I'm off to the 12:30pm dress rehearsal of "Autumn Garden". I watch the run sitting at a large table in the middle of the house with monitors showing me the recorded lighting levels an cue timings from the control console in the booth.

As the play progresses, the designer makes small adjustments and I notate them on a spreadsheet on my laptop. The reheasal ran until about 4:30pm and was followed by 1/2 hour of catch up notes.

Off for 2 hours and then a 7pm "Cue To Cue" rehearsal of the play I'm designing; a french farce called "Something On the Side". A cue to cue is where we just run the transitions between the lighting, sound and staging cues. This is for the benefit of the Stage manager and crew rather than the actors. It also gives me a chance to polish the rough lighting levels we set the night before, now in real time with a cast onstage.

The reheasal ran until about 11:30pm followed by notes. I was home by 12:15am.

Monday's are dark and Tuesday will have a similar schedule but no rehearsal in the afternoon; only office work.

The hours are odd, the pay is low, and employment can be sporadic, but it's very fulfilling work when it all comes together.

lol Oops typo.

Sometimes it sure feels like I'm doing it in my sleep. Hubby never seems to understand why I don't like to have the lights on in the kitchen. He's always asking how I can see to cook. He seems to like my pancakes though. :rolleyes:

Seeing that you're from Memphis, I bet you admin at Rhodes! I live in Memphis, too, so I know a great deal about the place. This TFP thing is really cool...I know know what the Rhodes Sysadmin does with his time!

You are correct. And I meant to say that I work really hard all day with no breaks or anything.

I'm an economics sales analysist for the bakery division of a large supermarket chain. Basically, I drum up ideas and, on an interesting day, get to travel to one of our over 80 stores and point out what they're doing wrong.

I like to start early, from my days as a baker:

4am - Wake up
5:00- Get to office, check e-mails, start laying out work that needs to be done
6:30- Send out any intranet messages to other bakery specialists and department managers
7:30- Finish leftover work from the day before
8:30- Rest of the staff starts to roll in
9:15 - Our first meeting of the day. Oh joy. Usually is about sales trends for the upcoming week, new product that vendors are trying to push, or potential weaknesses in our current structure. As of now, we're renovating a bunch of our stores - it's my job to figure out what the likely profit will be in the medium-long run for each store, taking into account the demographics of its location, past success of renovation, and the store's earining potential vs. current dollars.
10:30 - Break from the meeting (if we're lucky). I ususally now get the honor of going back to my desk and playing with numbers until lunch
11:30 - Lunch time.
12:15 - Straggle back from lunch, make phone calls, argue with vendors
1:00 - Continue playing with numbers until I'm happy.
1:30 - Finish reports, e-mail conclusions to CEO.
2:00- Answer e-mails from specialists and managers
2:30- Head home.

Yes, 10-hour days get to you after a while. However, I love it, and would never trade the extra sleep for being able to get a lot of my work done before people come to bother me.

7-11 Clerk

-Arrive at work 10-15 minutes early
-Make fun of who ever is working tills
-Get a coffee/slurpee
-Make a joke about a customer who was an ass
-Get changed
-Read schedule
-Depending on who I work with I may be, extremely cocky, flirty, insulting, or quiet
-If it's the midnight shift I may or may not get into a fist fight with a customer accusing me of over charging him
-Do some of the tasks I've been assigned that I've ignore while being funny
-Make fun of who ever is on the next shift when they come in
-Cash out
-Continue insulting my co-workers. Giggle when they return the favour
-Say good night and then wait too long to get a bus

IT Program Manager for Wireless Strategy & Architecture - large US multinational networking company


2:30AM to 3:30AM (depending on day) - Wake up; throw on some clothes; go to kitchen and make hot cup of tea.

3:45AM - Check email, respond to most urgent

4AM - First conference call of the day; try to steer team of global architects, engineers and PMs in the right direction; get frustrated

5AM - Second conference call of the day; as above

6AM - Third conference call of the day; as above

7AM - Fourth conference call of the day; as above

8AM - More email; some strategic planning & arch work

9AM - Usually some executive briefings or collateral

10AM - Shower; dress in real clothes; drive to work

10:30AM - Email; work on program activities

~3PM - Leave for home; feed and play with dog

4PM - Call Mrs Mephisto and ask her what she wants for dinner. She's pregnant and eats like a horse

5PM - Some TV; email; maybe a doze

7PM - Prepare dinner

8PM - Eat; drink beer;

9PM - If no conference calls that night, drink bottle of red wine

9PM - If EMEA are online, IM and email until about 11PM. If not, enjoy red wine and fall asleep, mouth open and drooling, on the couch

12PM - Go to bed; try to read; fall asleep with contacts in

3PM - Wake and as above...


Sometimes I will stay at home. But working from home all the time is not what it's cracked up to be. You go stir crazy.


Mr Mephisto

PS - Yes, the times above are correct and yes, this does mean I only get three to four hours sleep a day. I sometimes grab catnaps, but seem to do OK. Good practice for the snapper who's due in 6 weeks, eh?! :)

6:30am - wake up
6:30:20 - fall asleep sitting up in bed
6:45 - slit my wrists
6:46 -get out of bed and throw clothes on
6:50 - eat breakfast on the 10 min drive to wal-mart
7:03 - clock in
7:10 - push carts, ask God why he has forsaken me, wonder why Guns-n-Roses rocked the fuck out and then went bye-bye, wonder if the guy from The Talented Mr. Ripley was truely gay or just fucked up, wonder if all the racket from the carts is damaging my hearing....
9:00 - sit in McDonalds and eat a hasbrown and two granola bars.
9:15 - push carts
11:00 - drive home for lunch, make a Morning Star chick patty sandwich, have a fruit cup, check my email, doze off
11:50 - drive back to work
12:03 - clock in
12:10 - Push carts, chat with that old, black greeter who is cool as shit, go back to pushing carts, WHY, GOD, WHY?!, thinking about moving back to Henderson...
2:00 - sit in McDonalds and eat a medium fry, doze off
2:15 - push carts
4:00 - clock out, pick up some food, go home, check email, check news sites, read a book, hang out with roomates
10:30 - go to bed

Excitement is my middle name....None is my first
 

I don't 'work' as in earn a living....hell, I don't work much at all...
7:30 get out of bed, slap the alarm for interrupting a dream
7:35 drag my ass downstairs, bark at the kids to get ready for school, pour a big glass of ice water. Light first of half a pack of morning cigs.
7:50 braless, in same shirt I slept in and some jama pants, drive kids to school and pray I don't get into an accident.
8:00 turn on upstairs pc, have the 7th or 8th cig, start my tea and read the paper
9:00 paper and tea are done, new pack of cigs opens, talk on IRC and check TFP.
10:00 beg off, take shower. Wake up.
11:00 back on pc, this time mine. Print, scan, render, talk, play Snood.
Sometimes at this hour I may run errands should they be needed. Or throw a load of wash in.
1:00 lunch. After lunch, back to the pc until
3:20 Kids get home from school. I look away from the pc long enough to ask about their day. They get snacks, ask what's for dinner and then go off to do God knows what.
4:10 Spouse comes home from work. Alone time, ruined.
5:00 start thinking about making dinner-take some more time thinking then
6:00 call for pizza
6:30 to bedtime This is what variety of life is all about. Might have to take a kid to something like dance or drama at school. Everyone starts announcing they have no clothes, no underwear or no towels. Directives for dishes, showers and last of homework is shouted.
Once all is calm and kids are in bed, back to the pc to do whatever it is I do to waste time.

Customer Care Agent for an Airline

Wake up between 04:45-05:30
Have a shower and get ready
Start work by 06:30 ish
Log into the phones....and begin my hellish day of taking calls.
Speak to numerous angry and down right nasty people who proceed to tell me "I know this isnt your fault but unfortunately you answered the phone and now I am going to yell at you"...... yes they actually admit I have done nothing wrong but they are going to proceed to belittle me and scream at me anyways. And I wonder why I come home so upset?
Get 2 fifteen minute breaks and a 45 minute lunch, and aside from that I am attached to that stupid fucking phone for the rest of my day listening to ignorant assholes complain above every little thing under the sun.
Cry on my way home from work about how bad I hate my job :(

I wake up at 7:00 and hit snooze until about 7:40 when I finally get up and take a quick shower. I throw on some clothes and make a ten minute commute to work. I walk through several hallways before I finally make it to my office – a converted board room I share with 5 other programmers of varying skill levels. I sit down and resume the work I left off with the day before – creating Java wrappers to a C++ API that preforms credit card and gift card verification for my employer's web store. My compiler is complaining about incompatibilities and I slowly work though them until at long last...things build correctly. I suddenly realize it's already past lunch, so I take off and enjoy my hour break. I go to Subway and get a nice big sandwich. I return five to ten minutes late. I don't worry about lagging behind a little because I know I'll probably lose track of time and stay an hour later than I'm supposed to. My efforts return to the Java and C++, and making them communicate with one another. 5:00 slips by and the building starts to empty, but I don't notice. Around six my boss walks in and I start to discuss the various problems I've encountered. He offers suggestions and we discuss various approaches to the challenges the day has presented to us. 7:00 rolls around and I feel like I could just sit here and keep on going, but I know I need to go. I leave the building, thanking god for giving me a place where I can direct my energy, a place where I can learn, a place where I can discover, and reach, my potential.

I'm a research administrator, and while the "big picture" of what the networks I manage are doing is really inspiring (finding and preventing the roots of mental illness, communicating developmental and neurobiological science to policy makers, proving to Romanian lawmakers that foster care is better than orphanages) the day-to-day details of things are less than fulfilling. However, I find it hard to imagine giving up this job because of the following:

1. I get to work from home
2. My day looks like this:

- roll out of bed when I feel like it
- check email
- deal with impending crises
- browse the web for an hour or so
- take a nap
- take a shower and change out of my PJs
- check email
- check a few things off my list
- do a little paperwork
- balance the books
- choose menus for upcoming meetings
- send out emails telling people for the 3rd time where/when the meeting is (Ph.Ds can be dense)
- browse the web some more
- walk the dog
- watch a little tv while I send emails
- knock off when I feel like it

Meeting days are much more hectic - I am "on" starting at 8:00 AM and have to pay attention to the meeting since I'm writing the meeting summary reports, but I also have to manage all the logistics all day (catering, A/V, travel, etc.), and manage dinner as well, so I don't get done with my day till 9:30-10:00 at night. I do this for 2-3 days in a row. But thankfully I only do 6-8 meetings a year these days - used to be we'd have 15-20 meetings/year, and that got to be unbearable.

I'd like to do something else with my life but frankly, I'm lazy and this job suits me. And I'm paid extremely well for what I do. It's hard to contemplate giving that up, but some day I'm either going to have to move on to something that really satisfies me, or find some way to get excited about the grunt work.

Ahhh, the life of a Sys Admin. Pretty much my day in a nutshell. I'm even in a band too :cool:

i run my own construction company.

my day to day program tends to vary every day dependant on whats happening onsite and whether i have to be there.

usally get up at 6:30, quick shower and brekky and im out the door by 7

meetings, oniste supervision, phonecalls left right centre, engineering meetings, fixing sub contractors mistakes and anomilies..

breath...lunch

ditto..meetings, oniste supervision,..yada yada yada

5:00pm, go home have shower, do paperwork

by 8:00 check mail and then read tfp!

I recently quit my job to stay home with my little girl (15 months), use to work for an ISP before....
day begins the little peanut gets up, could be 6am (doh!) or 9am
-i get up with her every other day, the missus does the other days, gives us each an equal chance to sleep in.
-get the peanut some milk and a quick snack while i rangle up some breakfast for her while she flips the channel over and over again on the tv.
she eats and watchs a bit of cartoons. that steve needs to get laid on blues clues...
-do some colouring and sing songs while i sip on a coffee and do some random surfing inbetween.
-nap time for the peanut. glorious nap time. i'll sit outside with the laptop and a coffee or do whatever cleaning i can't get done while the peanut is up.
-some lunch when she gets up, more playing and general fun.
-then a walk to the park or around the block weather permitting.
-snacks and some more playing and learning of rhymes. hard to do the nursery rhymes normal, too much exposure to the diceman when i was a teenager. there all dirty now!
-a mid afternoon nap for the little one, more surfing and random house work, couple video games. catch a bit of dr phil (don't tell the missus she would tease me).
-the peanut gets up, the wife comes home from work(if she is working days, she is on a rotating shift),
-share the days events with the wife, she takes over on lead peanut duties, while i'll get some dinner together and head to my dad zone (my HT room) to relax and zone out.
...etc

i loving being home with the kiddo, i worked my arse off putting myself through university, then my wife. I hated my job and longed to spend more time with my little treasure.....when she is not crying or screaming that is...

I'm the Nutrition (organics) manager at a grocery store.

While my day is different depending on the day of the week, this is typical:

Wake up at 5. Fall back to sleep until 5:30. Get up, shower, eat, and get to work by 6:15...which is 15 minutes late. I have an understanding boss.

6:15-9:00 - Straighten the shelves in the drug/hba (health and beauty aids) and organics sections. People manage to make a real mess of grocery shelves. Straighten checkstand candy as well. If it is Monday or Friday, I stock the shelves while straightening...it takes the same amount of time.

9:00-9:15 - Take a break. Eat a bagel.

9:15-11:00 - Make new tags for the ones that have mysteriously disappeared throughout the week; make signs for displays.

11:00-12:00 - Put away items that customers have decided they didn't want and just put down wherever they felt like.

12-12:15 - Another break. Eat a lunabar.

12:15 - 1:00 - Audit my sections and make sure that prices are coming up correctly, and fix if not.

1:00 - 1:30 - Paperwork. Yuck.

1:30 - 2:15 - Ask my boss if there is anything that he'd like me to do because what I needed to get done is done. Finish assigned tasks; gab with fellow coworkers about how the store has really gone in the toilet since our last management change. Generally slack off.

2:15 - I'm outta there!!

These are awesome. I just started training to be an airline pilot, so it's like I'm back in college, but I'm actually studying.

6am: Wake up, shower
6:30: Check the email and breakfast with the family I'm staying with who have been great to me.
7:30: Head to the ass end of the airport in a jail like building for training.
8: Class starts and is like drinking from a firehose. My wrist is sore in 10 minutes and I'm already behind on the notes. Breaks are 10-15 minutes every 45 minutes or so.
Noon: Lunch time. Brought lunch because I don't get paid enough to buy anything.
1pm: Back in class, same schedule as when we started at 8am. Sometimes we'll have a paperwork break or a trip to the main terminal or dispatch for tours, depends on the day.
Somewhere between 4 and 5: Dismissed for the day. We almost always get out 45 minutes early.
5:30: Back home to check the email, relax for an hour
6:30: Start studying the wicked thick manual. Some time before 10 I'll eat and call the GF
10-11: Bed time

That's what pilots do for 2-3 months after they're hired.

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.

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

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.

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 :D

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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. :rolleyes:

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).

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.

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 :p)
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 :(

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 :)

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.

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 :)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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