Describe your typical day at work

Just a fun thread...

7:45AM Wake up, stumble around, get a coffee, get ready
8:20AM Drive to office (unless its Wednesday, in which case I drive 1hr to our headquarters to work. Tuesday, working from home)
8:30AM Walk in, sit at desk, read emails, zone out while drinking coffee (this starts @ about 9:30AM on Wednesdays)
9:00AM Meetings/more email
12:00PM Go home, feed dogs, eat something
1:00PM Various meetings, daydreaming about travel
3:00PM Drive home from corporate HQ if it is Wednesday
4:00PM Do any production scheduled changes for the day
4:30PM-5:00PM Go home for the day

Pretty boring, though I'm only able to do actual scheduled 'work' on production environments outside of business hours. Most of the day is spent either checking emails, on meetings, or searching the Googles.

Once a month, I'm on call for a week. I've been averaging 0-1 call per week typically taking up 30mins of my time. Rarely, I'll have a major maintenance to support which will take several hours.

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MSP-IT

UnixGuy wrote: »

What's your job title? duties?

(we're in a similar boat trust me )

It's a movie quote.

MSP-IT

Ideally, this is how my day goes...

5:30 AM - I wake and get ready for the day
6:30 AM - I leave for work
7:00 AM - I arrive at work
7:15 AM - I get settled at my cubicle and go through emails and make sure automated processes and scripts are running
8:00 AM - Coffee
8:00 AM to 11:30 AM - Development, code review, attempt to understand Oracle documentation. Downtime consists of TE, Security News, and Studying.
11:30 AM - Lunch
12:30 PM to 4:00 PM - Same as above, but usually downtime activities.

Zartanasaurus

I've recently been spending 8 hours a day explaining that the reason their application doesn't work is because there's something wrong with it, not because of the magical land of problem causing known as the network.

FloOz

I dont really have a typical day since things can break/change in an instant. But here it goes anyway.

7:45am - Wake UP
8:45-9am - Arrive at work and have 9am meeting
9:30am - go through emails, lync messages, etc
10am-12pm - start going over various projects I am working on, with tons of monkey wrenches being thrown in the mix
12pm - Have a quick lunch from our fully stocked catered cafeteria

free food/snacks
12:30pm-4pm- Typically have a few meetings in the afternoon. If not I continue working on projects/tickets/supporting network stuff
4pm - Meeting to discuss changes for the night
4pm-6pm - Execute any changes that are planned for that night or work with another engineer on a change they are doing
7pm - Get home. Quick workout, shower, eat
8pm - CCIE studying
12pm - BED TIME

UnixGuy

Expect wrote: »

I'm doing both software development and security consulting/security response, which is what I prefer to do .
and yes it is my day job

Sounds like a great job. So you develop applications that are used for security? I don't understand sorry

Justin-

FloOz wrote: »

I dont really have a typical day since things can break/change in an instant. But here it goes anyway.

7:45am - Wake UP
8:45-9am - Arrive at work and have 9am meeting
9:30am - go through emails, lync messages, etc
10am-12pm - start going over various projects I am working on, with tons of monkey wrenches being thrown in the mix
12pm - Have a quick lunch from our fully stocked catered cafeteria I free food/snacks
12:30pm-4pm- Typically have a few meetings in the afternoon. If not I continue working on projects/tickets/supporting network stuff
4pm - Meeting to discuss changes for the night
4pm-6pm - Execute any changes that are planned for that night or work with another engineer on a change they are doing
7pm - Get home. Quick workout, shower, eat
8pm - CCIE studying
12pm - BED TIME

12am - BED TIME *

I like your schedule, seems like you manage your time to even throw in a quick workout. Kudos.

Expect

I will explain,

I was hired to do security related work, at first.
but I also do a lot of security unrelated development, which is for the appliance.
we provide a load balancing solution as an appliance, so I also do auditing & penetration testing on our product before it is sent, define the road map in terms of security enhancements, and I also answer customer's security requests.
I guess the focus depends on the day/project.

chandima5320

chronos42 wrote: »

6:40AM: Alarm starts going off every nine minutes
7:40AM: Finally decide to crawl out of bed.
8:00AM: Arrive at work. Respond to any emails received in the evening (usually none).
8:15AM: Get coffee and pull a snack bar out of my desk.
8:30AM - 12:00PM: Respond to calls/emails/visits as they come in. 90% of the time I'm sitting here studying, reading articles, and talking to my girlfriend over hangouts.
12:00PM: Drive 10 minutes home to get lunch. Sit on the couch and avoid thinking about going back to work.
1:00PM - 5:00PM: Same as the morning, though I'll probably be feeling more tired about it.
5:15PM: Arrive at home, change, and contemplate dinner.

I lead an exciting life.

Nice....:):)

Putney

I could probably fit some study in, but I'm still learning how the network works. The shifts are 4 days on and 4 days off, so the break in between is nice.

Day shift
4:00am wake up and get ready for work
4:30am leave for work
6:30am get to work
7:00am start work, action tickets, answer calls etc
1:00pm lunch
2:00pm action tickets, answer calls etc
7:00pm finish work
7:10pm get train home
9:00pm arrive home, eat, sleep, repeat

Night shift
3:30pm wake up and get ready for work
4:15pm leave for work
6:20pm get to work
7:00pm start work, action tickets, answer calls etc
1:00am lunch
2:00am action tickets, answer calls etc
7:00am finish work
7:10am get train home
9:00am arrive home, eat, sleep, repeat

FloOz

Doing some cardio really helps to get the blood flowing. Before if I came back from work and started studying right away I wouldn't retain anything. My typical work day can at times be very stressful on the mind so a workout definitely helps.

jvrlopez

5:15 A.M - Wake up
5:25 - 6:10 - 2 mile run, cool down, watch the start of the 6 A.M news.
6:40 - Leave for work
6:55 - Arrive at work
7:00 - Check emails, chit chat with co-workers
8:00 - Morning meeting
8:30 - Start working
11:00 Lunch at my desk
2:30 P.M - Finish work, check up on emails, tie up loose ends
3:00 - Leave work

It's pretty routine. Maybe stay late once in a while.

kurosaki00

Tickets...lots of tickets

Kinet1c

6:30am - Wake up
6:45am - hop on bicycle for 25-30 minute commute
7:15am - shower in work and get ready for the day
7:30am - At my desk for 12 hours of tickets, might take 30 minutes lunch
7:30pm - Start my 30 minute commute home
8:00-11:00pm Chill, watch tv, study, go for a further cycle and finally sleep

I do that for 2 days, then the am switches to pm and vice versa ... I do it for 2 nights. Then 4 days off.

Enjoying NOC work so far, haven't put any time limit on how long I'll do it for.

Mitechniq

6:00AM-6:50AM Wake Up/Shower/Breakfast/Help Kids Get Ready/ Kiss Wifey
6:50AM-7:20AM Drive to Work
7:30AM-12:30PM Check Email/Logs/Audit Trails--Do Patches/Backups/Scan Disks/End user Support
12:30PM-1:30PM Go to the GYM<-- work on an Army Base and there is 5 gyms just 5 mins from where I work
1:30PM-4:30PM Study CCNA/Read the News/Forums and more End User Support

Non-Typical Weekend (Drill)
5:30AM-6:30AM Do Physical Fitness
6:30AM-7:30AM Officer Professional Development
7:30AM-11:00AM Meetings/Planning for Exercises and Mission Requirements (Equipment, Layout and Personnel Support)
11:00AM-12:00PM Lunch
12:00PM-4:00PM 'Rinse and Repeat'

daviddws

umm.. yah. I'm going to need you to come in on Saturday... yah. We lost some people and we kinda have to play catch up. Yah.

xiny

6:30 AM

7:00 AM

7:30 AM At Work
9:00 AM

9:30 AM 4 Cups of Coffee
9:35 AM

12:00 PM Lunch

12:30 PM Work

2:00 PM

4:29 PM

4:30 PM Time to Go Home

4:35 PM

Danielh22185

Neat Thread! I'll give it a whirl!

5:20am -- Alarm goes off
5:50am -- Crawl out of bed after snoozing a few
5:55am -- Let dog out, start coffee
6:00am -- Let dog in, jump in shower / get ready
6:15am -- Make my lunch, coffee, get things together
6:20am -- Say bye to the wife, kid, dog and leave for work
6:50-55a -- Arrive at work and jump into the fun (NOC Job)
7:15a -- Review turnover items from previous shift and begin working these cases and be available for new network issues / work existing tickets
10:00am -- Take morning break usually another coffee and some fruit / yogurt (breakfast)
10:15am -- Back to the grind
2:00pm -- Lunch break 1hr / last 30 minutes of my lunch to study.
3:00pm -- Back to the grind
5:30pm -- 2nd Break (snack or decompress time)
5:45pm -- Gather turnover items / review daily notes from the day / follow-up on items as needed
7:00pm -- Leave for the day
7:30pm -- Arrive at home
8:00pm -- Finally eat a good meal / play with the kid

mawbkk

6:40 am -- Wake up
7:40 am -- Arrive at work
8:00 am -- Morning assembly ( This is my teaching position)
8:30 am -- Coffee, emails, read one or two articles
9:00 am -- Teach or Study or browse the net
12:00pm -- Lunch
1:00pm -- Teach, Study , sneak out to complete a few chores
4:00pm -- Finish (Mon, Wed set off for the hour ride up to my internship
5:00pm -- Tickets, Training
10:00 - 11:00pm -- Finish
11:30pm --Arrive home

Weekends -- Intership 10am - 5pm

Tremie24

5:30AM - Alarm starts to go off and hit snooze a few times.
5:50AM - Finally get up and get ready for the day.
7:30AM - Arrive to work.
7:30AM to 8:30AM - Surf the web, look at tickets, and other projects
8:30AM to 11:00AM - Go out to sites and complete some trouble tickets.
11:00 to 12:00PM - Lunch
12:00PM to 3:30PM - Back out to sites to do some more tickets
3:30PM - Head back to office
4:00PM - Go home

It varies a lot though depending on how busy things are, there are days where I won't even leave the office. Then days where I'll be at sites all day.