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Ask HN: What does your daily schedule look like?

31 points by tuxxy 8y ago

There have been a few threada I have found enjoyable in the past. What do you do everyday? What time do you wake up? How do you wake up?

a1b2c3d4e5 8y ago
7:45 repeatedly hit snooze on alarm 8:20 masturbate 8:30 peel out of bed, shower and dress 8:40 commute 9:10 think of what I should say at stand-up 9:45 stand-up 10:00 code 12:00 lunch 1:00 code 5:00 commute 5:30 mindlessly swipe on tinde/bumble, watch YouTube videos and masturbate 7:30 running or lifting 9:00 work on side project 12:00 tell myself I'll read, but end up watching twitch 2:00 pass out
angulareact 8y ago
Wake: 6:00 AM In Bed By: 9:30 PM Sleep By: 10:00 PM Fitbit with an ankle strap that tracks my sleep and goes off at 6. Keep phone with alarm in bathroom at 6:15. I should already be awake by now and will turn the alarm off before it begins as to not wake anyone. I have a little script that has all my tasks and creates a spreadsheet for each day with all the tasks that I want to get done in the morning. I print the schedule off a week at a time. I do not use my phone in the morning before work, other than to turn off the alarm. Siempo installed on my android phone to reduce screen time. Citibike (I live in nyc) to work and get into office by 7. Eat with coworkers over lunch and bond. Work until 6 and go home. WFH 2 times a month, trying to do it more. I lock my tv remote and tv cord in a kitchen safe box 4 times a week so I don't watch tv -> https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Safe-Locking-Container-Height/dp/B00JGFQTD2/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1530921113&sr=8-7&keywords=box+lock+timer https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Safe-Locking-Container-Height... I have a life time subscription to the freedom app that blockers internet. I have a apple script that runs via a cron job that grayscales my home computer every 15 minutes I use stretchly which makes me take micro breaks every 5 minutes. I work in tech, but try like hell to not use tech outside of work. Its tough but doing so makes me much happier and it makes the days feel much much longer
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- localcdn 8y ago
  3 free hours a day? Do you feel it’s enough?
  - angulareact 8y ago
    I do get a little burned out every 7-8 weeks, which then for about a week my schedule falls apart and I'm just super lazy for that week. 3 hours without a screen is actually a long time tho. It feels like forever. I've noticed people have a similar schedule to mine although they get much less sleep and increase the amount of tv or video games. I'd rather get more sleep and have less of that type of free time.
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- johnrob 8y ago
  What about weekends?
  - angulareact 8y ago
    Weekends I wake up same time. I usually leave my phone at home and bike to a park first thing in the morning and just bike around until I'm tired of biking. When I get home and realize I only biked for 2 hours and theres still 12 hours of the day left and I don't want to use electronics it's a pretty crazy feeling. Weekends honestly feel like a bit of a waste since I'm so focused on productive tasks all week long. I try to do one thing every weekend that I haven't done before, maybe watch a broadway play or go to a farmers market, go on a free tour etc. Another thing I've been doing lately if since I get to work by 7, on the weekdays I can leave early like 4 if I want to, so in lower manhattan there are a ton of museums on certain days they are free. So I just leave work at 4 and go to those museums
- marmot777 8y ago
  Well done. I feel so inadequate now. Kidding. I think a disciplined schedule like yours is what we should strive for.
Sohcahtoa82 8y ago
Alarm goes off at 8:15. Snooze it until 9:30. Get stuck on reddit until 10, quickly rush to get showered and out the door. Drive 30 minutes to work, happy my job doesn't really care when I get there as long as my work is done. Leave work around 6:30, have a quick dinner with my wife before she goes to work. Play games, watch YouTube, read reddit until 2 AM. Go to bed.
martzcodes 8y ago
(Wife wakes up around 5-6, works out, gets ready... out the door by 7...) 7AM "Bye Honey, have a nice day" back to sleep 8AM Finally get up, shower 9AM (Bike 0.5 miles) Drop daughter off at daycare 930AM (Bike 4.5 miles) Arrive at the office. COFFEE Noon (lunch / typically first food of the day) 4-6PM (weather / wife dependent) Leave work (Bike) +30min (arrive home) Workout and/or chores til... 630PMish Dinner w/Family 7PMish Daughter bedtime 730-9PM TV/Computer (Work, Grad School HW or Idly surfing) on Couch w/Wife 9PM-11PM (Wife falls asleep on couch) Continue TV/Computer above... 10% chance I can play a video game Definitely some sub-optimal parts in there, but that's the norm
finaliteration 8y ago
Weekday: I’m usually up between 05:30-06:00 From 6:30-07:45 I eat breakfast, shower, and get my kid dressed and ready to go. I get to the office around 08:15. I have standup at 10:00 so I usually grab coffee and do some work before then. 10:15-12:00 is usually a mix of work (I do integration and cloud applications development) and meetings. I eat lunch around 12:00, usually with coworkers. 13:00-18:00 is usually about half meetings and half doing actual work. Usually home around 18:30. I eat dinner with my spouse and kid. Kid goes to bed around 20:30 (which usually means I’m rubbing her back for 15-20 minutes in bed). Hang out with spouse for the rest of the night. Sometimes I play PS4, play piano, or just do some more work. Usually in bed around 22:30-23:00 Weekends are usually pretty flexible. The only real commitment is that my kid has ice skating lessons for an hour every Saturday. I spend my free team reading, playing music, and visiting new coffee shops and restaurants with my spouse.
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stevekemp 8y ago
Today is a Saturday so I'll only cover my weekend routine. * 6:30AM - Wake up, make coffee & check interent. * 7AM - Wake up our toddler, feed him, dress him. * 8AM - Hand the toddler over to my wife, who will care for him until he has his mid-day nap. Generally waking up again at 1PM. * 8AM-1PM - Enjoy my own free time, surfing, smoking, sitting in a hammock, shopping, etc. * 1PM-5PM - Entertain our toddler. Take him to a park, play with him at home, etc. * 5PM-6PM - Relax some more - as my wife is in charge for an hour. * 6PM-7:30PM - Play with the toddler, then give him a bath and put him to bed. * 8PM - Watch TV with my wife, talk, or otherwise do stuff. * 10PM - Go to sleep. Weekdays I'm in charge from 7AM-4PM or so, and alternate giving the child a bath and putting him to sleep every other evening. I wrote about this on my blog in the past: https://blog.steve.fi/how_we_care_for_our_child.html https://blog.steve.fi/how_we_care_for_our_child.html
- whatsstolat 8y ago
  That's a lot of free time with a young kid. I find that weekend are pretty full of chores when not directly looking after them. 1-2 dishwasher loads. 1 washing machine load. Tidy house. Buy food. Clean all the mess. I have 2 children tho. I do try to very occasionally get some surfing in. 30min drive to beach so not too bad.
  - jakobegger 8y ago
    Smaller kids sleep more. Once they stop napping they have two extra hours per day of making a mess, and you have two fewer hours to clean up after them :)
  - stevekemp 8y ago
    I guess when you say that I realize you're right; each of us has "half" the day off each weekend. During the week I'm a stay at home dad, so I take care of him from approximately 7AM until 4AM, then an hour or so in the evening. I've started to become very productive during his 2-hour lunchtime nap!
cm2012 8y ago
Wake up around 11. Start work around 11:15, work until 5 or 6. Chill with my wife until 1-2 AM. Repeat.
miguelrochefort 8y ago
05:00 Wake up, take shower 05:30 Email, Hacker News (phone) 07:00 Leave home, head to work 07:45 Arrive at work, start working 10:15 Daily standup 10:30 Resume work 17:00 Leave work, head home 18:00 Email, Reddit (phone) 18:30 Cook and eat dinner 19:00 Reddit, YouTube (phone, Chromecast) 23:00 Sleep
slipwalker 8y ago
05:30 wake up just before alarm. browse news on laptop 06:30 leave home, walk to the bus stop, buy the coffee and cheese bread 06:50 - 07:10 take bus, eat breakfast, listen to audiobooks 08:20 - 08:30 arrive to office, go get another cup of coffee while windows boots 09:00 daily standup 09:30 start actually working 12:30 lunch break 13:00 back to office, grab another cup of coffee 17:00 leave office, walk to bus station 17:30-17:45 take the bus, listen to more audiobooks 19:30 back to my neighbourhood, go to gym ( or the pub, or therapy, depends on which weekday ) 20:30-21:00 back at home, shower, quick meal 21:00 little code-for-fun or netflix, or just relax with wife 23:00 sleep time

31 points by tuxxy 8y ago

There have been a few threada I have found enjoyable in the past. What do you do everyday? What time do you wake up? How do you wake up?

a1b2c3d4e5 8y ago

7:45 repeatedly hit snooze on alarm 8:20 masturbate 8:30 peel out of bed, shower and dress 8:40 commute 9:10 think of what I should say at stand-up 9:45 stand-up 10:00 code 12:00 lunch 1:00 code 5:00 commute 5:30 mindlessly swipe on tinde/bumble, watch YouTube videos and masturbate 7:30 running or lifting 9:00 work on side project 12:00 tell myself I'll read, but end up watching twitch 2:00 pass out

angulareact 8y ago

Wake: 6:00 AM In Bed By: 9:30 PM Sleep By: 10:00 PM Fitbit with an ankle strap that tracks my sleep and goes off at 6. Keep phone with alarm in bathroom at 6:15. I should already be awake by now and will turn the alarm off before it begins as to not wake anyone. I have a little script that has all my tasks and creates a spreadsheet for each day with all the tasks that I want to get done in the morning. I print the schedule off a week at a time. I do not use my phone in the morning before work, other than to turn off the alarm. Siempo installed on my android phone to reduce screen time. Citibike (I live in nyc) to work and get into office by 7. Eat with coworkers over lunch and bond. Work until 6 and go home. WFH 2 times a month, trying to do it more. I lock my tv remote and tv cord in a kitchen safe box 4 times a week so I don't watch tv -> https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Safe-Locking-Container-Height/dp/B00JGFQTD2/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1530921113&sr=8-7&keywords=box+lock+timer https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Safe-Locking-Container-Height... I have a life time subscription to the freedom app that blockers internet. I have a apple script that runs via a cron job that grayscales my home computer every 15 minutes I use stretchly which makes me take micro breaks every 5 minutes. I work in tech, but try like hell to not use tech outside of work. Its tough but doing so makes me much happier and it makes the days feel much much longer

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localcdn 8y ago
3 free hours a day? Do you feel it’s enough?
- angulareact 8y ago
  I do get a little burned out every 7-8 weeks, which then for about a week my schedule falls apart and I'm just super lazy for that week. 3 hours without a screen is actually a long time tho. It feels like forever. I've noticed people have a similar schedule to mine although they get much less sleep and increase the amount of tv or video games. I'd rather get more sleep and have less of that type of free time.
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johnrob 8y ago
What about weekends?
- angulareact 8y ago
  Weekends I wake up same time. I usually leave my phone at home and bike to a park first thing in the morning and just bike around until I'm tired of biking. When I get home and realize I only biked for 2 hours and theres still 12 hours of the day left and I don't want to use electronics it's a pretty crazy feeling. Weekends honestly feel like a bit of a waste since I'm so focused on productive tasks all week long. I try to do one thing every weekend that I haven't done before, maybe watch a broadway play or go to a farmers market, go on a free tour etc. Another thing I've been doing lately if since I get to work by 7, on the weekdays I can leave early like 4 if I want to, so in lower manhattan there are a ton of museums on certain days they are free. So I just leave work at 4 and go to those museums
marmot777 8y ago
Well done. I feel so inadequate now. Kidding. I think a disciplined schedule like yours is what we should strive for.

Sohcahtoa82 8y ago

Alarm goes off at 8:15. Snooze it until 9:30. Get stuck on reddit until 10, quickly rush to get showered and out the door. Drive 30 minutes to work, happy my job doesn't really care when I get there as long as my work is done. Leave work around 6:30, have a quick dinner with my wife before she goes to work. Play games, watch YouTube, read reddit until 2 AM. Go to bed.

martzcodes 8y ago

(Wife wakes up around 5-6, works out, gets ready... out the door by 7...) 7AM "Bye Honey, have a nice day" back to sleep 8AM Finally get up, shower 9AM (Bike 0.5 miles) Drop daughter off at daycare 930AM (Bike 4.5 miles) Arrive at the office. COFFEE Noon (lunch / typically first food of the day) 4-6PM (weather / wife dependent) Leave work (Bike) +30min (arrive home) Workout and/or chores til... 630PMish Dinner w/Family 7PMish Daughter bedtime 730-9PM TV/Computer (Work, Grad School HW or Idly surfing) on Couch w/Wife 9PM-11PM (Wife falls asleep on couch) Continue TV/Computer above... 10% chance I can play a video game Definitely some sub-optimal parts in there, but that's the norm

finaliteration 8y ago

Weekday: I’m usually up between 05:30-06:00 From 6:30-07:45 I eat breakfast, shower, and get my kid dressed and ready to go. I get to the office around 08:15. I have standup at 10:00 so I usually grab coffee and do some work before then. 10:15-12:00 is usually a mix of work (I do integration and cloud applications development) and meetings. I eat lunch around 12:00, usually with coworkers. 13:00-18:00 is usually about half meetings and half doing actual work. Usually home around 18:30. I eat dinner with my spouse and kid. Kid goes to bed around 20:30 (which usually means I’m rubbing her back for 15-20 minutes in bed). Hang out with spouse for the rest of the night. Sometimes I play PS4, play piano, or just do some more work. Usually in bed around 22:30-23:00 Weekends are usually pretty flexible. The only real commitment is that my kid has ice skating lessons for an hour every Saturday. I spend my free team reading, playing music, and visiting new coffee shops and restaurants with my spouse.

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stevekemp 8y ago

Today is a Saturday so I'll only cover my weekend routine. * 6:30AM - Wake up, make coffee & check interent. * 7AM - Wake up our toddler, feed him, dress him. * 8AM - Hand the toddler over to my wife, who will care for him until he has his mid-day nap. Generally waking up again at 1PM. * 8AM-1PM - Enjoy my own free time, surfing, smoking, sitting in a hammock, shopping, etc. * 1PM-5PM - Entertain our toddler. Take him to a park, play with him at home, etc. * 5PM-6PM - Relax some more - as my wife is in charge for an hour. * 6PM-7:30PM - Play with the toddler, then give him a bath and put him to bed. * 8PM - Watch TV with my wife, talk, or otherwise do stuff. * 10PM - Go to sleep. Weekdays I'm in charge from 7AM-4PM or so, and alternate giving the child a bath and putting him to sleep every other evening. I wrote about this on my blog in the past: https://blog.steve.fi/how_we_care_for_our_child.html https://blog.steve.fi/how_we_care_for_our_child.html

whatsstolat 8y ago
That's a lot of free time with a young kid. I find that weekend are pretty full of chores when not directly looking after them. 1-2 dishwasher loads. 1 washing machine load. Tidy house. Buy food. Clean all the mess. I have 2 children tho. I do try to very occasionally get some surfing in. 30min drive to beach so not too bad.
- jakobegger 8y ago
  Smaller kids sleep more. Once they stop napping they have two extra hours per day of making a mess, and you have two fewer hours to clean up after them :)
- stevekemp 8y ago
  I guess when you say that I realize you're right; each of us has "half" the day off each weekend. During the week I'm a stay at home dad, so I take care of him from approximately 7AM until 4AM, then an hour or so in the evening. I've started to become very productive during his 2-hour lunchtime nap!

cm2012 8y ago

Wake up around 11. Start work around 11:15, work until 5 or 6. Chill with my wife until 1-2 AM. Repeat.

miguelrochefort 8y ago

05:00 Wake up, take shower 05:30 Email, Hacker News (phone) 07:00 Leave home, head to work 07:45 Arrive at work, start working 10:15 Daily standup 10:30 Resume work 17:00 Leave work, head home 18:00 Email, Reddit (phone) 18:30 Cook and eat dinner 19:00 Reddit, YouTube (phone, Chromecast) 23:00 Sleep

slipwalker 8y ago

05:30 wake up just before alarm. browse news on laptop 06:30 leave home, walk to the bus stop, buy the coffee and cheese bread 06:50 - 07:10 take bus, eat breakfast, listen to audiobooks 08:20 - 08:30 arrive to office, go get another cup of coffee while windows boots 09:00 daily standup 09:30 start actually working 12:30 lunch break 13:00 back to office, grab another cup of coffee 17:00 leave office, walk to bus station 17:30-17:45 take the bus, listen to more audiobooks 19:30 back to my neighbourhood, go to gym ( or the pub, or therapy, depends on which weekday ) 20:30-21:00 back at home, shower, quick meal 21:00 little code-for-fun or netflix, or just relax with wife 23:00 sleep time