Your work day...

[Nilsen]

souds like you have a realy nice job oct

[Octavius]

It's... tolerable, hehe.  Atleast until I finish my degree.  And I get to see the sunrise every freakin day, so thats a plus.  I have yet to bring my camera .  

Going for PPL this spring/summer

[Siaf__csf]

The majority of my days go by travelling to the clients. Then some days I just spend on my home office answering e-mails or doing videoconferences.

I really don't have a typical working day as it can be anything from 500 miles of driving and 16 hours spent on the work and road down to answering a couple e-mails and doing basically whatever I like. Oh and those quiet days I never wake up before 9, usually try to hang on untill 10. I'm a night person.

Lots of hotel nights, expos, conferences and customer training sessions. It's a life for a single person really, you kinda start to miss the family if you have to live a week in the hotel.

[Golfer]

I passed on this job to a buddy of mine since I'm going to be all over the country for the next month.

Wake up between 3-4 am and play alittle AH during the wee hours of the morning while drinking some juice and having a cereal bar.

5:00 head to the airport...5:15 arrive (5:20 if I catch that damn train) and preflight the yellow 172 I call an office.  5:30 the radio personality shows up and we chat in the FBO office till about 5:50.

5:55 engine start and wheels up at or before 6.

Fly for 2.5 or so hours inside I-270 (Runs a ring around Columbus) every few minutes changing back from approach to another local tower.  Dodge police helicopters and blimps if they're in the area.  Keep an eye out for folks who get speeding tickets.

Land between 8:30-9.  Leave the airplane out of it's hangar to be fueled.  Go home.  Nap and/or do school work (I've got no school work left except for my CFI classes which are no factor since my writtens are done, so I typically nap now) until 2:30

Head back to the airport for a 3:15 preflight and shoot the breeze with my buddies who are still working the line.  Help an old crusty banner tower build banners in exchange for Citabria time and so nothing until 4:00.

Take off again, tell approach we're "Goin around" and talk to the other traffic airplane while keeping the dirty side down.

Land around 6:30 and head home.  Work on various things, practice some geetar for a bit or go out with the girlfriend to the movies.  She works at a theater, and does not tire of movies...I don't get it.  Either way, no shame here getting into all the movies for free.

At some point I will log into AH and see how its going.  Often I'm not on long, kinda burned out lately.  I'll spend time in the TA helping the new guys.

That's a day...pretty boring.  Wx is too wet to ski, too cold to do any wet IFR work and too crappy for golf or anything else.  I can't wait for spring.

[2stony]

I handle the store inventory for an air museum, occationally researching and ordering items to sell in the store that are aviation and/or space related. I also handle the inventory for the American Fighter Aces and am on the board for the NW Friends of the Fighter Aces. We do 3-4 symposiums per year where we get a few aces to come to the museum and talk about their experiences. I'm also responsible for coming up with new ideas for the Aces to make money and to impliment those ideas. Once a year I go to the Aces' reunions and am responsible for security at their signing sessions(i.e. making sure only authorized people are going into the session). Even though I've talked to many aces about their combat experiences, it hasn't seemed to help my AH flying(lol).

[Reschke]

Hmmmm

Well lets see how it has gone today.

5:45AM Wake up and eat egg white and turkey bacon on whole wheat and make breakfast for the rest of the family.

6:00 Check email from German office (+7 hours) and respond before the rest of the family gets up. Also check voice mails on cell phone from customers and German HQ.

6:15 Wake up Parrish (oldest boy who is 8) to get ready for school and to make his bed and take out the dog before breakfast.

6:30 Have the lunch ready for my 8 year old before he sits down for breakfast

6:45 Check email from German HQ once more and then go get in the shower.

7:20 - 7:30 Leave the house and take Parrish to school.

7:30 - 8:00 While driving into work make a few quick calls to customers asking what the issue is so I can jump on it when I get into the office at 8.

8:00 ~ 8:15 Walk in to a barrage of phone calls and responses to my response to emails from Germany. Get ready for the Monday morning production meeting at 8:30. Check the AH BBS and see whose up to what.

9:00 Start call backs and check email once again. Also being putting in new orders from customers and sending those to Production. Check on new projects from the shop and go over purchase requests for materials for shop use.

10:00 Grab my mid morning snack of protein shake and almonds with dried cranberries.

10:15 Call the manufacturers of the truck mounted concrete pumps that we supply pipes and elbows to and go over updates on their PO's to us.

12:30 - 1:15 Take lunch preferably away from the office where I can have some peace and quiet and leave the cell phone on the desk as a "mistake".

1:30 - 2:15 Come back from lunch and get right back on the track of returning emails and listening to voice mail.

4:00 - 5:00 I leave the office with the ball and chain close to my body and go coach my oldest son in either baseball (spring/summer) or football (fall).

Several times in this time frame we are dealing with trouble from the customers such as elbows or pipes failing ahead of time. Also have to deal with OEM's who are fussing about back orders due to delays in shipping.

Also talking with customers and potential customers while setting up my next trip out of the office. As well as helping the engineers at the OEM's figure out the best way to do what they want to do.

Occasionally I leave this job and go to the part time job for the fun stuff like hunting and fishing.

[StarOfAfrica2]

4:30 am - Get up and get ready for work, have to be on the road by 5:15 or forget it, traffic will be a nightmare (unless its a holiday).

6:00 am - Start work for the day.  Open the loading docks and the front doors of the building, turn on the A/C, walk the lobby and loading area and make sure everything is working ok, make notes for the Building Engineer to take care of when he and his assisstant come in.

6:30 am - Morning paperwork.  Mondays I take care of payroll for my guards and send it out to have checks printed, all other days I read through the logs they left, make notes to add to my morning walkthrough for the Engineer, make notes for myself for things to check on.  Print out copies of the patrol logs from the previous day's guard shifts and check to make sure they are doing their jobs.  Call vendors and/or repairmen for any work needing done (elevator/escalator repairs, water leaks, landscaping, etc) and email the Property Manager.

7:00 am - Make the rounds of the property, talk to the tenants and keep an eye out for anyone who doesnt belong.  

7:30 am - Take care of contractors coming in to the building to work, make sure they sign in, make sure the subs are on the approved list.  Advise contractors of move-ins and major deliveries that will tie up loading docks and freight elevators, coordinate timing of deliveries so they dont overlap.  Email property manager who is doing what.  Will call on the phone if I need to double check a contractors insurance status or "boot-off-the-property-on-sight" status.

8:00 am - Talk to the parking manager or his assistant and give them notes left from last night of issues they need to take care of and deal with any problems they have.  Also inform them if I have any problems with security access into the garage after it closes.

8:30 am - Break.  While I have a few minutes here and there through the morning, this is where I get to sit down, check my email, grab a drink or a snack, return phone calls that didnt get forwarded to my 2-way, etc.

9:00 am - Generally use this hour for making changes to building access program, setting up elevator controls and programming access cards for tenants.  Fill out paperwork for the cards, file it, take forms down to Parking office if they also need access to the garage.  Normally, most of this hour is used to extend my break.    

10:00 am - Walk the property again, make sure everything is still operating smoothly and no one is complaining about anything.  From here until 2:00 pm my day is spent making rounds, dealing with tenant complaints, helping and/or booting out contractors, directing deliveries and handing out directives or posting things for the Property Manager.  

2:00 pm - Pau work, go hang out at Ferguson's Pub for an hour or so, play darts, have a couple of beers.  Then head home and either log in for some AH time or take a nap until the missus gets home.  

[Siaf__csf]

Crikey I'd probably die if I had to wake up 4:30 regularly. 4:30 is the time to go to sleep for me.

[bustr]

crowMAW,

VP, Jacksonville, by any chance BofA? I'm and AVP BofA datacenter in San Francisco.

[Suave]

I'm a nurse.I'll leave for work about 1750. Don't know where I'll be working, 70% med surg or oncology, maybe er, maybe iccu, incu, won't know unitll I get there. Sometimes work is good, sometimes it's bad. Sometimes it's slow, sometimes it's busy. Somedays I won't have time  to eat. Somedays I'll get two breaks.  I'll get home around 0815 unless they really, really need me to work a double.

[OneWordAnswer]

Originally posted by Creamo
Just your typical work day... What did you do?

Work.

[Thrawn]

Wank.

[LePaul]

Welp, I'm the Night Operator for a bank with 12 branches.

4pm Leave for work
 
5pm or earlier, arrive & sign in.  On Mondays, clean the tape drives on the Unisys mainframe and get all the cartridges I'll need through out the night.

5:30pm or so, begin the check processor.  All the checks that the scanner scans gets SQL'd.  While that server is doing that, have the mainframe run a daily log for maintenance history.

6pm Maintenance cycles done, await the results from the check processing folks and run file space checks, datesets and teller updates.  Do tape backups of the printjobs, security settings then run backups on the PIN code passwords.

7pm The games begin!  Close of business day, run the ATM stuff, transactions, fees, etc.  Electronic banking stuff.

730PM Disable core systems so the evening update process can commence.  

745pm The updating begins, on our mainframe, takes about 4 hours.

8pm - 1230am Monitor the process.  No error messages is a good thing.  Check Web forums, cook some supper (full kitchen at this facility) and maybe watch a DVD on my laptop.    Sounds easy, but when things go to hell, as anyone in banking can tell you, it goes to pot fast.  

1245-130 give or take, Im done for the night.  Usually, this time of year, its crappy snow/ice weather so the 25 mile commute takes an hour.  Listen to AM Coast to Coast and discover aliens are indeed in control of banking.  And a meteor will strike Los Angeles on Wednesday, at 3:01pm.

02:00 AM  HOME!  Feed cats, unwind...then...at 3am IRON CHEF on Food Network!

[bloom25]

I design and do high level support for public safety communications systems.  I also design custom wireless camera systems.

Generally my day starts with about 40 - 60 emails.  Once I've sorted through and answered the important stuff, I then virtually glue the phone to the side of my face for the next 3 - 4 hours.  Then I remove the office phone from my ear, and switch to the cell phone during lunch.  Once I get back to work I write firmware for projects we are developing, do some testing, and then reattach the phone to answer all my voicemails before the end of the day.  Occasionally I get to travel onsite all around the western US for configuration of systems.  It's actually a lot more fun than that sounds.

(P.S.  If any of you work for America West, please surprise me next time and actually have my checked backage on the same plane as I am.  Thanks! )

[NUKE]

I could tell you what I do, but I'd have to kill you.