Your work day...

[SOB]

You're both homos.

[FUNKED1]

Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side
door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta
space out for about an hour.
Yeah. 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 probably, say, in a
given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.


School Days (M-W-F or Tu-Th alternating each week)
0730-0800 Get ready for class, check mail, etc.
0800-0930 Teach Advanced Drafting / Architecture
0930-0940 Urinate, relax
0940-1110 Teach Beginning Drafting
1110-1200 Lunch, usually about 50/50 eating and working.
1200-1330 Teach Advanced Drafting / Technology
1330-1530 After school tutoring, take care of administrative or district business, lab upkeep, grading, etc.

Example of 90 min teaching period:
5 min - Take roll, answer questions.  
15-20 min - I sketch some examples of drafting concepts on the board, explain it to them, make it as interactive as possible.
15-20 min - Show them how to execute the concept in Autocad or Inventor.
60 min - Give them an assignment using the concepts we just covered.  They work independently and ask for help as needed.
During this period I also meet with the Juniors and Seniors who are working on individual projects, e.g.:
3D animation of paintball gun assembly and function.
3D model and full set of engineering drawings of a Toyota starter.
Foam board model of a 2-story hotel.

Non School Days
Consulting engineer on a contract basis, working with a 2-4 person team.  

Typical day of that goes like this:
0800-0830 Breakfast meeting near job site.  Discuss design changes, obstacles, etc.
0830-0900 Hit the job site, carry materials and tools into building, log into building automation system and see what's cooking.
0900-1300 Wiring, installing electronics, programming same, updating as-built drawings, etc.
1300-1400 Wash up, eat, etc.
1400-1530 Finish up installation/wiring.
1530-1630 Back to the basement control room "boiler room" to reprogram system to accomodate new changes, debug programs, monitor performance.
1630-1700 Clean up tools and materials, get water and an ice cream from the vending machine, quick meeting with project mgr.

When we aren't on site I do drafting and design stuff from the home office, and I use a modem to monitor and reprogram systems at the job site.

Also I do most of my grading and lesson preparation from my home office, something like 2 hours a day.

[Steve]

Wow, excellent posts.. very interesting stuff!

I own a small business;  a medical transport company in the Phoenix area.   Basically, we transport non emergency patients to various locations for assorted reasons. I am contracted w/ a  large hospice here and another one is trying to get me to expand so I can take on their business as well.

Since I have just 4 employees(started in April w/ just me) I "work" 24/7/7. I may get a call for transport at 3AM(rarely after 4 PM though), or may get no calls at all on any given day.  Most of my day is spent driving or here in my home office.

I also broker refurbished office cubicles.  I was previously in the office furniture business and when I quit to start my business several people in the industry offered to support me if I'd stay in for refurb work stations.(have many contacts nationwide so I make things  easy for them).

It's not nearly as sexy as what others have posted.. but it's all mine!

[Nilsen]

No day is the same, but i usually get somewere between 10-15 pages done depending on how many pictures and stuff there is. I also do about 10 payments to various companies and answer some calls and other mondane tasks. If you compress it all, I work about 4-6 hours a day.

[-tronski-]

Although today was monday...it's my last day off, however last Thursday night was a fairly typical nightshift...

Works Safety Officer, Sydney KFS airport...
start 2200, briefing on assigned works...check notams, weather radar.
Grab keys out of the keysafe, head downstairs and run through a vehicle check of my truck (we use Mitshibishi Triton 4WD turbo/diesel dual cabs) ie. check servicibility , radios/strobes/beacons etc.

That thursday I was assigned to the de-rubberising the RWY 07 threshold works.
Head out onto the airfield by 2230 to meet up with the works group by 2245.
Brief works group on the safety requirements of working on the field, discuss the extent of their approved works and what their needs were. That night it was an american contractor assisting an aussie crew spraying de-rubberising chemical onto the RWY and using a large wire brush roller (towed by a ute) to scrub the surface. Tankers would then dump water to wash off the chemicals into the grass of the RWY.
2300hrs call sydney ground to close the RWY, and escort the works party onto the RWY itself. Then the rest of the night is spent supervising the works group...keeping a listening watch on sydney surface movement - escorting the tankers across the taxiways etc. till about 0430. Then as the works party start to pack up - start the inspections of the RWY works areas, and the surrounding taxiways. Escort the works party off about 0500, and then hand back the runway

...then contact base to see if anyone else needs assistance with their works parties (we're in the swing of A-380 upgrades, and RGL installations).

Head back to operations at 0545 for debrief and leave at 0600

 Tronsky

[cpxxx]

I came in a 7am waited until 7:30 for instructions from my 'superiors'. Didn't get any so went and loaded 160 Sasquatch into an oven and started it.  Then I tried to get the Puma going but it wouldn't until I put it into another oven.  Then I moved on some Chinook.  After that effort I took 45 minutes of my 15 minute morning break. Since then I've been here posting. Later I expect I'll have to mark some Galaxy, Elvis or even Comet.  But who knows.  

It used to be so different. I ran an area with between 10 and 20 people and never stopped working. I did so well that I was moved to a new project which slowly died along with my so called career.  Now I'm just winding down until I move on to better things as a flight instructor.

[Nefarious]

My Boring Day!

Most Mondays, Like today. I go in at 445 AM EST, to put food order away, Two Hours later I come home, and try to get some more shut eye, But today is different, have to run some errands before I go back to work at 1PM EST.

I go in at 1PM EST, Help Finish Lunch Dishes which usually takes an hour, Do a crapload of prepwork for Dinner and Breakfast the next day, which usually takes two Hours.

If I have time, I also file Diet Orders, Or organize Meal Cards for New Residents. At 4PM EST I get a half hour lunch, usually I walk home and check the boards, Then I head back to work around 420EST.

When I get back to work, We serve supper which usually takes a little more than an hour. Then I help with the Supper Dishes, which usually takes about an hour.

Then I clean up, And sit for about a half hour then clock out and go home around 8PM EST.

So for most of the day I'm pretty busy, But theres a few minutes of the day where I get to be a slacker.

Man I need a real job.

[Heater]

I do level 4 support for a large Multinational (UNIX, Windows & Hardware), The team I am assigned too covers Europe, Middle East & Africa.

Get up around 06:00
quick shower & breakfast
hit the gym for 45-60 min, shower
and head to the office,

A normal day:

E-mail & check voice msg etc...
Bring up the call Queue to check for new calls.
Start working the calls that are assigned to me.
this can entail anything from simple answers to setting up a complete test system to duplicate the problem. or may require the I go on site.
we also cover the following:
Complex Installations of new system.
Complex merges of systems.
Performance tuning.
System recovery.
Political Problem with Customers (normally sales promised something that can not be done, or under priced it so bad that that the customer is very PO'ed when he see what it will cost keep in mind the entry level for these system is around $500,000 and the High end can be in the range of 15-20 million.)
Setting up classes and training the field support teams.
Review & approve or disapprove changes to the system configurations.

That's about it

[slimm50]

Get to the office around 7:30 am. Check e-mail. Usually around 9:00 I get a call from a Principal or teacher about smells in the class room, or mold, or some such indoor air quality issue. So I'll schedule a meeting with whoever the responsible person is at the school for that problem. In the meantime I'm working on a set of project specs for either a mold removal, or asbestos removal project.

[ygsmilo]

Normal day:

8:00 PM check markets to see if any orders got filled (grains and energies)

12:00 AM check markets, asian grains and update currency and metals

6:00 AM  check markets for overnite closes

7:00 AM go to office

7:30 to 9:30 make opening calls to client base, do a couple of conference call about marketing plans, check truck logistics to see what did not get deliviered the previous day.  Check on rail logistics, cars placed-grades-billing-settelments.  Pick on people in the office.

9:30 to 1:30 Grain markets open, take orders, fill orders, call back fills, pick on people in the office, sell cash grain (truck/rail)

1:30 to 3:00- Lunch, work out or bike or screw off.

3:00 to 6:00 Do afternoon stuff, do my charts, futures and basis, do the afternoon conferece call with 10 other offices in the company, check truck schedules, do records for accounts, come up with some wild bellybutton idea to make money for clients.  Put in orders for the nite session.  Go HOME.

6:30  Make dinner for the family, see what my kids did at school, watch them do home work, get a glass of wine and start all over again at 8:00  Thats a normal day.

[Maverick]

My work day?

Don't have one. I get paid to enjoy myself. I get up when I want, have my coffee and breakfast and do whatever I want to the entire day. Some days I move the house to another location and see what's there.

Did you know that work is a 4 letter word???

[Dinger]

Hmm.. .okay:
9:30: Wake up. How the hell did that happen? Swear a bit.
9:45 out of shower. Log on. Discuss meeting with export lawyer to make sure we're not going to be branding international arms traders.
10:00 breakfast. At the table, talk to a couple of hippie musicians from San Francisco promoting peace through chamber music. Field complaints about extreme quantities of meat and the relative merits of a US embassy attache'.
10:20 Director of the Institute comes up to harass me into watching "Hannibal" at his house on Sunday. I tell him there's been political sniping between the department of antiquities and my department over a lecture he talked me and my colleague to give in May.
10:40-11:00  Walk into work -- saw the hippies drive off in the direction of the DMZ.
11:00: brew up, check emails, start this post.
11:20, resume translating (Latin-English) Averroes' comment 83 on Physics I, on the scope of first philosophy, and whether one can prove the existence of immaterial beings.
11:30 another phone call into the director. Lecture now on. Ball kicked to DoA's court
11:50 DoA Archaeologist agrees to give lecture with us. Crisis resolved.
12:00 Downloaded image file of 1498 edition of Latin translation of Avicenna (Ibn Sina)'s De prima philosophia.
12:05 hunted reference to Peter Lombard's discussion of the Eucharist as requiring wheat bread.

12:45: finished translation, shifted to Book I of Aristotle's Physics

13:00 walked down to old city with book one of the Physics. Had lunch at a place up against the perimeter wall of a former OESA convent, now a mosque. Lots of working class old men were having lunch there with their asian mail-order or wage-slave mistresses. Some guy came through with a roulette wheel hidden in a briefcase. A dutchman and a danish woman showed up, and started talking to a recently retired official in the communications ministry who had been reading a book about a pezevengi. Big Tomcat parket at my feet, expecting me to share some meatballs with him.

on the way back, picked up a head of garlic and two artichokes.

14:00 back in the office. Screw around for half an hour.
14:30: spent a half-hour doing Customer Support kind of stuff, including fielding the ever popular email along the lines of "Hi, we had a discussion on the forums earlier; you said it couldn't be done this way, and I was rather rude and said it could. Now I've seen your stuff, and it's really good, and I can't do it the way I thought. I've got this great idea, see (insert stupid derivative idea taken from watching Band of Brothers too many times), and you can have it if you write and test the 200 lines of code necessary to implement it."

15:00 CEO in Doncaster comes online.  Talk to him for 20 minutes on organizational matters.
15:20 More Aristotle
16:15 Colleague swings, by, we go to his house
16:30-:work with colleague revising my translation of an article on Thomas Aquinas, Christology and Hylomorphism from French to English.
20:15 leave
20:30 return home. Spend 30 minutes filling out and uploading company paperwork. Do some laundry, cut some eggplants.
21:00 Talk to CEO
21:15 Chat with project leader about "going into phase II" of his project, which means "get dinger to write the code to make it work"
21:30 Chat with someone who thinks he's a project leader. Tell him he's not.
21:45 pull the plug on the conversation. Get laundry out of basement.
22:00 fry up some artichokes and eggplant.
22:25 post this.
22:30 went to the corner pub with australian housemate to play pool.

[Octavius]

I get up at 4am Thursdays through Mondays (Tues/Wed usually noon).  Don my spiffy uniform, eat a muffin or granola bar, pop a vitamin and ripped fuel combo, and head off to the airport...

-Arrive, say hello, punch in.
-Pick up flight schedules.
-Sit for 10-15 minutes in the ready room getting... um ready.
-Head out to truck line, get in a tanker (anywhere from 2000 to 10000 US gal capacity).
-Do the routine checks
-Fueling madness! I do 757s, 737s, MD80s, occasional DC10, A300s, CRJ-700s, EMB170s, various other Embraer/Canadair regional jets, various Beeches, and the occasional charter.  I may hit Midwest, Northwest, AirTran, United, US Airways, Fedex, UPS, Funjet, America West, Frontier, American Airlines, Delta, and whatever else might be on the schedule.  I BS with the Creamos, pilots, and ground handlers on occasion.  Whoever drives a tug with more than 3 carts is automatically a moron - period

I'm out on the flight line throughout the day, and depending on the schedule, I think we do maybe 3 hours of actual work throughout the shift.  I get loads of reading done, which is nice

-Head back, top off at the fuel farm, park da truck, punch out, run like hell to the car and fly home around 1400.
-Eat something quick, head off to class on various days.... stinking like Jet-A.
-Come home again, do whatever.

[Thrawn]

Dinger, are you Buckaroo Bonzai?

[medicboy]

Originally posted by FUNKED1
It's Sunday, retard.

Not everyone in the world gets weekends off retard...  jk

Well Monday through friday I am at the University learning things like Gas laws, phisics, chem, A&P.  ect.  I sit next to a Rodeo Queen, tough life..

Sat and Sunday I work as a Telemetry tech. I gave up on the paramedic thing, wasn't going to blow my back out for $9/hr. (after 12 years in ems thats all the local slave driver, I mean ambulance owner would pay me when I moved here, hence the school)  I work 12 hours, 7A-7P.  I watch the monitors for ICU (ekg, art lines, cvp lines, ventalator paramaters ect) and shuffle paperwork for $5/hr more than I made as a medic...  HA!!!!!  I get a day off later this month,,,