Some folks are writing about their typical day which is cool. My typical day looks a bit like this:
06:40 - alarm goes off and I do what we all pretend not to do: check my phone.
07:00 - exercise of some sort. I either do a HIIT class that my PT sister in law runs, or go out for a long, 5k+ run. I prefer the latter because I need some quiet time to get my brain going. In lockdown, it’s my one and only opportunity to get outside too.
07:45-08:30 - get family breakfast ready, make coffee and empty the dishwasher while listening to Radio 4, muttering obscenities at the charlatans who run this country—blundering their way through an embarrassingly weak “grilling”.
08:30 - 09:30: mooch around, get showered and stuff.
09:30-10:00 - slowly get into my home office, check a couple of emails and catch up on Slack, Discord, etc.
10:00-11:00 - productive work blast. No one is getting near me for an hour. Usually this is when I’ll blast out the messy first draft of whatever content I’m on, or get the vast bulk of coding done.
11:00-11:30 - coffee and shitposting break.
11:30-12:30 - another blast, but lower intensity and concentration this time. I’ll normally get another run-through a draft, or write some code. This is normally where I’ll call myself all sorts of obscene words.
12:30-13:00 - get some lunch and chill out a bit. The kids are at home a lot now, so I’ll pop in and see what they’re up to.
13:00-14:00 - another blast at work. Much less intense, but this is my last ditch at getting proper productive work done for the day.
14:00-14:15 - this is where I make my masterpiece tea. I’ll not piss around with this one and make sure it’s a cracker of a brew.
14:15-15:15 - I might squeeze a bit more production stuff out, but generally, I’ve had enough at this point when I’m not on a deadline, so this is when I get little bitty bits of work done like emails and stuff, or I might crack out a quick tip on piccalilli.
15:15-15:30 - brew time again. These little ritual moments are what keeps the ol’ thinker going.
15:30-16:30 - last ditch to get anything done. This period is when I try to get meetings out of the way because I’ve already mostly checked out at this point.
17:00-19:00 - cook dinner, chill with my partner and the kids and then, put the kids to bed with bath and story time.
19:00-11:00 - chill time with my partner. I might muck around with a prototype or demo if I can be arsed, but at the moment, I’m happy just watching some shit on TV then playing whatever takes my fancy on Apple Arcade on my Apple TV.
11:00-11:30 - tidy up and get ready for bed. Cya pals.
This is a very “typical day”. At the time of writing, I’m in a big project, so less ritualistic brew making and more bashing out content.
I won’t tag anyone because fucking hell, I just couldn’t right now. I would love to read people’s that aren’t white dudes like me tho.