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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gc8dc95

7:00AM Wake-Up
7:30AM Drop off son at Daycare
8:00AM Arrive at work
8:30AM Read Emails and Check Tickets
9:00AM Meetings
10:00AM Complete some tickets or Projects
12:00PM Lunch
1:00PM - 5:00PM Projects, Tickets, Research, Study

This obviously changes when things break or sometimes work more hours for projects.

moe12

6:00am Wake up, brush teeth get dressed eat something drive to work.
7:00am Arrive at work, check emails, clean up build server with all the installers on it
8:00am scrum meeting
8:15am sprint meeting
8:30am test code
10:30am write up bugs
11:00am meetings
12:00pm lunch
1:00pm arrive back from lunch, pull down latest code retest
2:00pm verify, close or fix remaining bugs
3:00pm confirm all systems are running batch tests
3:30pm meetings
4:30pm move fowards with pushing out updates of code
5:30pm monitor performance of code, roll back if need, pull reports for upper managment
6:00pm get all systems purged and backed up for next day.
7:00pm send out closing email with the status of the roll out
7:45pm home to eat dinner.
Repeat!

JasminLandry

Reading you guy's schedule make me like my job even more! Way more action

chronos42

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.

6502

6:30 Wake up
7:00 Get kids to Daycare School
8:20 Get into work, check e-mails, work on tickets
9:00 Review subnetting questions to make sure I'm fresh
9:20 Draw Ethernet Frame Header from memory
9:20 Review RFC 792/Common Types
9:40 Draw IPv4 Header from memory/ correct any mistakes
9:45 Review definitions of IPv4 fields
10:00 Review TCP. Three way Handshake. Fields, header format
11:00 Eat lunch
12:00 Maybe fix any new issues
1:00 More RFCs / Important technologies and interesting articles
4:30 End of day
5:40 Scan Indeed for networking jobs

JoJoCal19

5:20am: Wake up and get ready for work.
6:30am: Arrive at work 30 minutes early to avoid crappy traffic. Read TE for 30 mins.
7:00am: Read emails, send out emails, and do work duties (content monitoring, risk related activies, risk and InfoSec research, compliance stuff, audit and controls stuff, etc)
9:00am: Depending on how much work is on my plate I finish by 9am sometimes 10am. Start studying for certifications.
11:00am: Lunch
12:00pm: Study for certifications.
3:00pm: Do any ad-hoc work from my manager or finish up any other work and reply to emails from earlier.
4:00pm: Head home.
Profit

I try to apply the 80/20 rule and do 80% of my work in 20% of the time. My job is super easy and I'm good at it so I make it work. That usually gives me 4-5 hours to study a day. Of course that doesn't happen every day, but I alway get in at least 2 hours a day on my busy days. That's what happens in GRC in a global financial firm I guess.

shodown

9:00am Wake up
9:05am Shower/Shave
9:20am Check email get ready for meetings (I don't take any meetings before 10am unless its needed)
10:00am Any meetings, studying technology, clean up work
12:00pm Project work, Getting ready for any implementations or cuts,
2:00pm Afternoon nap unless I'm on site with a client or scheduled meetings
3-6pm Any meetings/Looking for new work.
6-10pm Family stuff or BSing online
10-2am Studying/project work/

xnx

6502 wrote: »

6:30 Wake up
7:00 Get kids to Daycare School
8:20 Get into work, check e-mails, work on tickets
9:00 Review subnetting questions to make sure I'm fresh
9:20 Draw Ethernet Frame Header from memory
9:20 Review RFC 792/Common Types
9:40 Draw IPv4 Header from memory/ correct any mistakes
9:45 Review definitions of IPv4 fields
10:00 Review TCP. Three way Handshake. Fields, header format
11:00 Eat lunch
12:00 Maybe fix any new issues
1:00 More RFCs / Important technologies and interesting articles
4:30 End of day
5:40 Scan Indeed for networking jobs

Is ths a joke..? In the nicest way possible you spend everyday covering 'basic' networking topics at work..

loxleynew

xnx wrote: »

Is ths a joke..? In the nicest way possible you spend everyday covering 'basic' networking topics at work..

It must be he says he has his CCNP as well so I would hope he would know that stuff already.

loxleynew

JoJoCal19 wrote: »

5:20am: Wake up and get ready for work.
6:30am: Arrive at work 30 minutes early to avoid crappy traffic. Read TE for 30 mins.
7:00am: Read emails, send out emails, and do work duties (content monitoring, risk related activies, risk and InfoSec research, compliance stuff, audit and controls stuff, etc)
9:00am: Depending on how much work is on my plate I finish by 9am sometimes 10am. Start studying for certifications.
11:00am: Lunch
12:00pm: Study for certifications.
3:00pm: Do any ad-hoc work from my manager or finish up any other work and reply to emails from earlier.
4:00pm: Head home.
Profit

I try to apply the 80/20 rule and do 80% of my work in 20% of the time. My job is super easy and I'm good at it so I make it work. That usually gives me 4-5 hours to study a day. Of course that doesn't happen every day, but I alway get in at least 2 hours a day on my busy days. That's what happens in GRC in a global financial firm I guess.

Curious, how long did you study for the CISSP ?

Expect

06:00 wake up
06:20 leave to work
07:00 coffee and email
08:00-12:00 development & security
12:00-1300 lunch
13:00 1600 development & security
1600 1730 open source application security testing as part of a community contribution to OSS.
17:30 End of the day

stryder144

Sunday through Wednesday:

0400 - Wake up, get ready for work
0500 - Start drive to work
0600 - Get to work, log in to system, monitor network
1600 - Get off work, drive home
1730 - Get home, say hi to family
1930 - 2200 - Study, then go to bed

Thursday and Friday:

0730 - Get up, greet the family on their way to school
0830 - Get ready for work
0930 - Leave for work
1000 - Get to work
1600 - Hope to get a thirty minute lunch break
1800 -2100 - get off work (ends at 1800 but rarely finishes on time due to customer demand)

Saturdays - Do everything the wife tells me to do.

Rinse and repeat

JoJoCal19

loxleynew wrote: »

Curious, how long did you study for the CISSP ?

3 months of actual serious study for a minimum of 2 hours a day, and upwards of 6 hours on some of my days off which were dedicated study days.

aderon

chronos42 wrote: »

6:40AM: Alarm starts going off every nine minutes
7:40AM: Finally decide to crawl out of bed.

I'll never understand how people can do that. I had an ex that used to do that and it'd drive me insane lol.

bobloblaw

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

RomBUS

6:35 AM ~ 7:15 AM - Get out of bed, brush teeth, take shower (take my time since I am a slow starter on workdays)

7:15-7:40 AM - Check personal items such e-mail, bank stuff, social media, local news/weather

7:45 AM - Get dressed

8:05-8:10 AM - Leave house for ride to work

~9:00-9:15 AM - Arrive at work (if road conditions permit can be in on time)

9:20 AM - Check e-mails/tickets, check servers and backups...if none are current or urgent will read morning tech news or hop on here

9:30 AM - ?? - Follow up calls on ongoing cases or projects. Pretty much on call for help desk related issues

3:00 PM - Eat lunch

5:30 PM - Head to gym (Mon-Thurs...Fridays I head home)

~6:45 - Arrive at home (if not at gym)
~8:30 - 9:00 - Arrive home (if leaving from gym)

MSP-IT

bobloblaw wrote: »

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

If you could come in on Saturday, that'd be great.

Ah, ah, I almost forgot... I'm also going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too. We, uhhh, lost some people this week and we sorta need to play catch-up. Mmmmmkay? Thaaaaaanks

kohr-ah

5:55AM Wake up, coffee, get ready, go make my lunch, browse reddit on phone
6:58 AM Leave to go to train, take train to work
7:25AM - 8:25AM: Study on train, watch netflix, etc
8:30AM Walk in, sit at desk, read emails, have a cup of tea, catch up on news
9:00AM Meetings/more email/try to catch up on small projects
12:00PM Lunch, go for a walk downtown for 30 min
12:45PM Various meetings, fill user requests for IP reservations, BGP changes, policy changes, etc
4:50PM Go home for the day, walk to train station
5:04PM - 5:55PM: Study on the train
6:15PM Walk in my door

Job is pretty boring but pays very well and has good insurance. See if I can find something closer to home probably next year to cut travel time out.

DevilWAH

There is such a thing as a typical Day??!!!

08:45 - 9:15 - get to work
9:00 - 18:00 - Project management/ Design meetings / Developing Solutions / Implementing solutions / Supplier meetings / Aranging and managing 3rd party consultants / Project reviews / more meetings / training junior staff / working though task list and emails / Plus resolving major issues that support desk are not able to manage
18:00 - 18:30 go home and get jumped on by daughter and put work on hold for 12 hours

I still get up looking forward to work and leave work looking forward to seeing family. Cant image having two days in a row that are any thing like the same.

aderon

2:30PM - Wake up, get ready, and leave for work
3:30PM - start work, energy drink, browsing, sometimes training lecture
4:00PM - Training Modules
5:30PM - Break
6:00 pm - Training Modules
6:45PM - Lunch
8PM - Training Modules
10PM - Break
10:30PM - Training Lecture
12AM - Go Home and start studying for WGU courses
2AM - Finish studying, start videogames, fb, etc
6:30AM - Bedtime

UnixGuy

Expect wrote: »

06:00 wake up
..
08:00-12:00 development & security
..
13:00 1600 development & security
1600 1730 open source application security testing as part of a community contribution to OSS.

your life is much more productive than mine, good work. Just curious, what's 'development and security' ? is this your day job? Do you write code securely or what?

UnixGuy

bobloblaw wrote: »

...

What's your job title? duties?

(we're in a similar boat trust me

)

chronos42

aderon wrote: »

I'll never understand how people can do that. I had an ex that used to do that and it'd drive me insane lol.

I don't know. I guess it just gives my tired ass time to adjust to the idea of finally crawling out of bed. If I have to get up as soon as the alarm goes off...well, that's just not going to happen.

paul78

Gosh... I don't think that I've had a typical day in this job yet. There are only periods of ups and downs and the occasional stressful issue. My only regular routine is to wake around 6:30 and be in the office around 7:00 or 7:30.

jamesleecoleman

5.50am- Wake up, turn off the alarm..
7.10am - Get ready to leave
7.20am - Leave to work but I gotta get the energy drinks and food
8.00am - 6.00pm or 8.30pm: Get to work, log into the time clock and stay upstairs from time to time to make sure that things are going okay in the call center. Provide support as best as I can. If nothing is really going on, then I'll work on projects.

snunez889

6:00am-awake up
8:00am - arrive at work
9:00am - be done going through email and waking up
9:30 - 1pm - bull sh$% work(mostly non IT)
1:00 - 2pm - Lunch
2:00 -5pm- maybe something IT then more random crap.

I hate working like this. I find my job to be boring and not vary challenging.

arrogantbastard

Whenever I decide to get up
Get dressed/coffee then drive to work
Arrive at work and eat breakfast
Browse the webs/study/analyze network/drink tea
Go to cafeteria and eat lunch
Browse the webs/study/analyze network/drink tea
Leave work

Expect

UnixGuy wrote: »

your life is much more productive than mine, good work. Just curious, what's 'development and security' ? is this your day job? Do you write code securely or what?

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

Nemowolf

6AM wake up
7AM leave for work
7:30ish arrive and start making coffee ASAP
8AM backup tapes
830 start going through emails, prioritize tickets and direct contact issues
1030AM go on walk to break up tasks and give myself a chance to return and refocus growing task list
Noon lunch NOM NOM NOMs
1PM revisit task list and get cracking
330PM second walk of the day, revisit list and see what isn't going to make it today. Contact those people and reschedule for the next day
430PM RUN FOR THE HILLS. no really, i work in the hills so i drive through more than walk/run.
5:30PM get home, TV time!
7:30PM WGU school time
10PM tear myself away from computer and go to sleep… or try to at least (11PM as i post this)

Snow.bros

aderon wrote: »

2:30PM - Wake up, get ready, and leave for work
3:30PM - start work, energy drink, browsing, sometimes training lecture
4:00PM - Training Modules
5:30PM - Break
6:00 pm - Training Modules
6:45PM - Lunch
8PM - Training Modules
10PM - Break
10:30PM - Training Lecture
12AM - Go Home and start studying for WGU courses
2AM - Finish studying, start videogames, fb, etc
6:30AM - Bedtime

Your day really starts very late, what's your title/position?