i really like this question because i'm not too old to remember my first civil engineering job, and my complete lack of preparation for working in a corporate e

i really like this question because i'm not too old to remember my first civil engineering job, and my complete lack of preparation for working in a corporate environment with meetings and lots of boring boring work. so: at a large company i am a senior data scientist supporting a business org. i have a lot of experience at this point in business management, and i'm valued for my combination of business competence and sql coding. i've developed a level of trust with my management org, and i've attained the highest non-manager level available. i am not at immediate risk of being dumped, so that stress is gone although with the next management rotation things can change quickly. i show up at work around 10ish. if i don't open email i can be productive for an hour or so before someone bothers me with an irrelevant line of inquiry. usually i play 2 to 3 games of ping pong before the afternoon rush on the table on our floor. i always fit in an hour of study during the day, these days i'm trying to get past the grievous irritations of tableau or learning new joys of julialang. i was studying statistics, but i got an intern to manage so now my time is crimped. by the afternoon (after an hour lunch - burger and beer) i am focused on my self-managed issues panel, and try to knock out some sprint items. these are typically datawarehouse extracts with some analysis and tables of sort/filter variety. quitting time always comes too fast, but with a newborn at home i dont stay late any more. no one seems to notice or care, as long as i am able to grind when the chips are down (and they are at a loss to explain sone financial results in the monthly P&L review). basically, on average its pretty great.