What's a typical weekday for you? (1 Viewer)

[SwampDawg]

I go into the office Monday and Wednesday, work remote Tue/Thur/Fri; This is schedule as of right now, during the fall and HS soccer season it was much more hectic.

5:30 Alarm goes off, wife hits snooze for 10 minutes.
5:40 Wife gets up, I roll back over until she is done in the shower.
6:00 Get up, shower, shave, brush teeth.
6:30 Wake son up, let dogs out and feed them.
6:45 Wife leaves for work
7:00 Son leaves for school
7:15 Office days leave for work / Work from home days eat breakfast and hang out with the dogs.
8:00 Work day starts, meetings, actual technical work, etc.
11:30 Lunch; Office day usually something from the supermarket salad/hot bar and fruit. At home leftovers or something local and watch some TV, play with dogs.
12:30 Work day continues.
2:30 Son done with school; either heads to a sports practice or home.
4:00 Wife arrives home from work.
5:00 End of work day; office days usually stop at grocery store get something fresh to make for dinner. Feed dogs, if it is 5:02 they start letting you know about it.
5:30 Arrive home if an office day. Go out and play with the dogs if weather is nice.
6:00 Mon/Wed/Fri Dinner and usually watch a little TV
6:00 Tue/Thu Son is off to soccer training so lately in a good pattern of some fun time with the wife and then dinner.
8:00 iRacing 2 to 4 nights a week in various leagues, if not misc. playing around on my computer with editing photos, paying bills, etc. Talk to son about school, sports, whatever we need to catch up on.
10:00 Got to bed, scroll Instagram reels for 30 minutes or so before going to sleep.

Again this is as of right now. Work golf group will start up on Wednesday nights in a few more weeks. Once the grass starts to grow will be out doing yard work at least a couple nights a week after dinner until dark and iRacing will cut back to only 2 nights. Will have the occasional after work pickle ball game as well. Also was much more hectic before son was old enough to drive, then we were running to practices multiple nights a week, etc.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

Most adults and especially children prefer a daily schedule/routine
Quite frankly, most of my friends over the age of 50-60 that continue to work hard and at least follow a schedule that take them out to mid afternoon...
These people seem to be in the best mental health of anyone I know
I have a buddy who is 75, I'm currently 50 and we organize the tennis for 12 guys to play on Saturday mornings, been doing it together for several years now
He's 75, ex-Tropical shipping employee and now runs his own shipping company, he's had it for over 2 decades.
He has a small staff of younger Ukraine/Russian ladies, I love to show up with donuts for everyone

-Most adults like a routine and there are some parts of my schedule that are routine
But since my wife started working out of the house during the Covid which has become permanent, our lives have changed a lot
I'm sure if I thought about it, I run a basic routine but that routine would be a little different than what others tend to follow.
I have to be flexible and able to pivot with the Mrs on a dime sometimes
We work in non-profit for the Univ of Miami, cancer research and all that comes with it
I work a lot on the phones and those phone calls can be early morning or sometimes late into the evening. I whale hunt for the gifts, Mrs supplies me with a lot of background
Mrs is basically the Director for Operations and her day starts early, ends late but she doesn't have to leave the house most days, she hated commuting

-It might sound sexy and fun to have that lifestyle but I stress the difficulty of being an executive and waking up every day already in your office
It wears on you over time, it pushes you to take a week off and fly to NYC like we did last week
NYC was a blast, we're going to some events this week at the WMC/Ultra in Miami/Ft Laud
I have a set of Technics and a Xone96 in my living room, Mrs MoP bought them so we can have a release without even leaving the crib
But that's the issue is getting cabin fever after a while

Great thread Moops, good insight into what folks go thru on a daily basis

 

[Zow]

My average day as a lawyer with four kids.

~5:45 AM - Wake up either because of an alarm or my 7 year old is standing 6 inches from my face staring at me like a child of the corn.
5:50 AM - morning constitutional and check out FBGs or maybe make a move in an ongoing chess match
6:00 AM - get ready for work and usually eat a protein bar and a coffee
6:30 AM - at office or on way to court
~6:45 AM to ~6:30 PM - lawyering (on a slower day, usually go out for lunch with a colleague on a busy day like today it's whatever I may be lucky enough to have in the office fridge - I also average one board meeting per week that's scheduled during the lunch hour).
6:30 PM - provided I'm not exhausted I got to the gym for a rotation of lifting upper body, lifting lower body, cardio and usually a quick sauna or steam. Sometimes I play volleyball on my office's team if they need a guy.
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - eat dinner, spend time with the kids.
8:00 PM - Kids bed time.
8:15 PM - 9:30 PM - If needed I'll do some work from home but usually this time is spent with my wife talking, watching a show together (with me on FBG or hitting putts on my putting mat), or in the hot tub together. I will consume ~3 mgs of THC most of these nights to relax.
9:30 PM - bed time (usually fall asleep by 10 PM).

I do spend probably 3-5 days and nights per month out of town for court. These are usually nice days for me because I'm up before 6:00 AM but can utilize the hotel gym. Then I work from 7:00 - 7:00ish usually but hit the gym again, get takeout, and relax before bed with a show or surfing FBG. Usually an edible is consumed.

In the summers, I usually try to take Friday afternoons off to golf.

That looks legitimately rough. How regimented are your weekends?

Nowhere near anything like this. I do try to enjoy life on the weekends and I make it a point to try to not have to work weekends unless I'm in a big trial or have an appellate brief due or something. A typical weekday day usually looks like 1 of these three types of days:

1. If we're home and I'm not golfing: Wake up around 6:00 AM, make coffee and sit next to my youngest (7 year old early riser) and answer emails that either came in during the night or I didn't get to the next day. I'll usually send a note to my high maintenance clients in an effort to appease them for the weekend. Usually during this time my wife or I will make breakfast for everybody once everyone in the house is up. Then, from 9:30 - 11:00 I'll go to the gym and take the kids with me to their kid center. Afterwards, it's usually lunch with the kids and me (for bonding time and to give my wife a break) or we all go to the store to buy food for the weekend and flowers for mommy. Afternoons are usually a family activity such as a family hike if the weather is good, walk to to park where my daughters play and I shoot baskets with my son, play a few holes on our golf course as a family, or to the pool (our gym has a kid-friendly indoor poor if the weather is bad). Evenings are relaxing.

2. If I'm golfing, it's usually the same with emails but assuming a morning tee time I'm doing my pre-round routine of hot tub and stretching. I'll try to get the kids to join in. Post-round it's usually a family activity and a light evening. If an afternoon tee time, then I usually try to do something with the kids in the morning after I go to the gym and take them for lunch at the clubhouse beforehand or to our practice hole to warm up with me.

3. We are probably away at least one or two weekends per month so those days, while regular and common, often vary.

ETA: During football season assuming we are at home Sundays are usually spent with the family at home where I’m playing games with the kids while watching Red Zone most of the day. My wife usually makes something pretty good. These are nice days.

 

[SWC]

since my heart attack i only work from 8ish to 5ish but before that i used to work from 6 to 5 every weekday i use the extra time these days for my doctor prescribed walks which i am back to doing now that my back surgeries have actually made me pain free yay anyhow these days i do not work on saturdays but before the heart attack i used to put in at least 4 every saturday i still work on sundays occassionally for an hour or two just to get stuff set up for the week i am my own boss at this point so when i work i make more money and that keeps me working with retirement in mind i am also wired so that i would much much much rather be working than sitting at home i like it when i am busy because i always say it makes the clock spin so i think a lot of how much you work has to do with how you are personally wired and there is no right or wrong answer anyhow after work i normally go watch games between all the colleges around here and high schools i just like being in a gym and am still pretty involved with girls bball not as a head coach but i still work with a lot for bball and that takes up a lot of time and now that it is spring i spend as much time as i can chasing trout i would say most days i am home for about 2 to 3 hours that i am not sleeping take that to the bank bromigos

 

[Ministry of Pain]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

 

[guru_007]

My routine has been like this for about 2-3 years now. Highly predictable, I'm glad I don't have any enemies (that I know of) as an assassin would have no issue offing me.
All of my children are adults, only 1 in house, but works nights, so rarely seen.

5:33 a.m. - alarm. hit snooze 1x
5:42 a.m. - alarm. Get up, shower, shave, off to the office
6:20 - 6:25 a.m. at office
6:30 - 8:00 a.m. catch up on all emails, work a few jobs, prepare production schedule
8:00 - 11:00 a.m. Perform work duties (basically supervise/oversee entire staff)
11:00 - 11:15 a.m. eat lunch at desk, 90%+ of the time is a home made salad with berries.
11:20 - 12:30 p.m. paper work. Worst part of the day.
12:30 - 4:00 pm. perform work duties (repeat of 8:00 - 11:00 a.m.)
4:30 at home
4:30 - 5:10/5:15 watch news (usually CNBC)
5:15- 6:00 clean kitchen, prepare or help prepare dinner (wife has been taking classes so I usually cook)
6:00 - 6:30 eat dinner, clean dishes, etc...
6:30 - 9:00 usually watch a sporting event or a movie
9:00 - 9:15 watch local evening news beginning
9:30ish retire to bedroom to read or relax with wife
Usually asleep between 10:00 - 10:30

Hope you all were able to stay away reading this one zzzzzzz

 

[Zow]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes.

The question called for a typical day so, speaking certainly for myself but I think for others, we laid out general timeframes for that typical day. In other words, at least for my day, that's usually what it looks like in those time windows. Some days I get to sleep later, some days I work more and some I work less, some I don't make it to the gym, etc. I don't actually force myself to get to work at 6:30 AM and stay to 6:30 PM if I don't have to. That's just probably the most regular window.

 

[belljr]

Got to say I really enjoy having the Wednesdays off

 

[Ministry of Pain]

This week's plan, cause each one's different

Mon (suit up)
6:45 wake up cause I'm running the car pool
8:00 arrive at office, refresh myself with priorities for the week to share at weekly exec and bi-weekly 1:1 with CFO, send emails I wrote after noon Friday and saved as drafts
9:00 exec meeting
10:30 gym
12:00 lunch w / staff
12:30 budget follow ups
2:00 meeting with CFO
2:30 prepare for Wed off site
4:00 email
4:30 run
6:00 baseball practice
8:00 taxi the car pool home, shower, eat dinner, get ready for tomorrow, hopefully on the couch by 10, in bed about 11:30

Tues (button down and slacks)
Sleep in (7:45?) cause I'm not running the car pool
8:30 review scholarship applications
10:00 prepare for afternoon off site
11:30 run
1:30 massage
4:00 off site
7:00 pick up oldest (does play-by-play for some HS games), shower, eat dinner, get ready for tomorrow, hopefully on the couch by 9, in bed by 11

Wed (suit up)
6:45 wake up cause I'm running the car pool
8:00 email
8:30 meeting about afternoon off site
9:30 committee meeting
10:30 email
11:00 run
1:00 off site
5:00 mid week produce stop
6:00 track practice
8:00 go home, shower, eat dinner, get ready for tomorrow, hopefully on the couch by 10, in bed by 11

Thu (suit up)
Can't sleep in (7:00?) but conference is in the neighborhood so no car pool responsibilities
8:00 conference
2:00 annual physical
3:00 run
5:00 review goals for the week and new priorities, what needs done Fri am?
6:00 track practice
8:00 go to the bar with my wife and other coaches, forget about other responsibilities

Fri (tennis shoes / jeans and either a polo or hoodie)
Wake up 7:45-8:00, hopefully there's enough food left in the fridge to pack
9:00 whatever I noted needed done yesterday
10:30 touch points w / team
11:00 email
11:30 gym
1:00 update game plan- details for next week / broad outline for the month / do, delegate, dump --> prep briefings for Mon exec
2:30 run
4:00 anything else needing my attention? Write email drafts, don't send, then it's quittin' time

Tl;Dr
Weekday objectives - 7 workouts / 5 hours, full night of sleep Mon-Thu, leave Fri with empty inbox / plan for next week, work ~35 hours.
Weekday challenge - after enjoying 6 months of no side gig for the first time in ~15 years, I recently accepted one. I just hope the monthly commitment really is 10-15 hours and that coaching responsibilities actually tail (for good) starting in fall.

Weekend objectives - honey do list / stores / meal prep done by ~lunch Sun, at least 1 workout / make up for any missed during the week, body battery 100 Mon am.
Weekend challenge - ensuring that happens around coaching, right now that's track and baseball, hopefully starting fall it's no more than 1 team per season.

I'm exhausted just reading all of this

I might need a nap just getting to lunch time on Day 1 of this
Lunch w/staff is 30 minutes? Sounds like a cafeteria
When do you have fun?
I take it the gym is your release, I can understand. If I go more than two to three days without swinging a racket I get very fussy, try to walk/bike in between tennis

 

[Fat Nick]

Generally speaking...

7:00 AM - Wake up either via alarm, kids, or wife or a combination of those
7:00 - 7:45 - Shower, shave, etc. then head downstairs. If I'm WFH, I'm usually wearing joggers and a nice quarter-zip in the winter, shorts and a polo in the summer.
7:45 - 8:15 - Hang in the kitchen with my wife and daughter until her bus comes at 8:15
8:15 - 8:30 or so log on and start my work day
On WFH days, I usually start with Connections and Wordle to warm my brain up, and listen to Elliott In the Morning on iHeart Radio while I work through e-mails
I have a mix of investor calls and internal meetings and internal research/work most of the time.
10:00 - I usually eat a small bowl of nuts or trail mix
12:00 - 12:30 lunch - usually leftovers, salad, or some kind of microwave meal
12:30 - 4:00 or so - back at it for work. Can end at 4, but will stay on until what I need to do is done. Sometimes later, sometimes significantly later, but generally it's pretty chill.
4:00 - 6:00 is a mix of light work/e-mail and catching up with the kids.
5:00 - 7:00 on some nights is kids activities (guitar, dance, cheer, football, baseball, softball, 3D printing) and being daddy Uber.
6:00 is when we typically eat, but it varies between 5:00 and 8:00 based on activities
8:00 - kids go up to get ready for bed and are usually in bed by 8:30-8:45
8:45 - 10:00 PM usually watch a show or something with the wife on the sofa
10:00 - 11:00 go upstairs, get ready for bed, then I watch a little more TV in bed...then bed.

On days I go in to the office (usually 2-3 days a week tops)
8:15 - 9:00 drive to work
11:30 - I eat lunch early at work just to avoid the lines
3:00 - usually head home around 3:00 and work the rest of the day from there so as to not disrupt the evening schedule.

Generally, I have a great job and a nice, workable schedule. I wouldn't trade it for anything right now.

 

[MAC_32]

I'm exhausted just reading all of this

I might need a nap just getting to lunch time on Day 1 of this

Gonna link this comment with a separate one you made upstream.

Quite frankly, most of my friends over the age of 50-60 that continue to work hard and at least follow a schedule that take them out to mid afternoon...
These people seem to be in the best mental health of anyone I know

Practice the good habits now while I'm somewhat young - as the ole saying goes when you're young you have time & energy but no money, when you're old you have time & money but no energy, when you're middle aged you have energy & money but no time. I'm trying to buck the trend and get to old age with energy still intact.

I take it the gym is your release, I can understand.

So while, yes, the gym is a release, it's also done with the long-term in mind.

Lunch w/staff is 30 minutes? Sounds like a cafeteria

We do this every Monday. While not everyone is in the office the same day, we've found most are here then and we all have developed habits of eating at our desk. We've intentionally carved out time each Monday to have a lunch as a team - there's about 20 of us. From the lens of a supervisor, more gets accomplished at this lunch than most pre-planned meetings.

When do you have fun?

Summer In all seriousness, through coaching I've also developed lifelong friendships, so while those activities are a different kind of fun...it is. Additionally, I think I do a good job unplugging over the weekend. It's one product of trying to accomplish too much during the week.

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way

And I didn't accomplish so much during the week until I started doing this. I may not get a full 3 day weekend every week, but I try to do as little as possible on Friday's. Mentally I check out when we get to the bar Thursday night, if possible any work on Friday is low impact, then I'm checked out again until I log-in Monday. This is how I recharge, a traditional 2 day weekend with my schedule isn't enough.

 

[Gatorade]

When the sun starts to peek around the window shades, I roll out of bed. Make me some coffee, grab a yogurt and sit down and watch the news. Scroll on my phone or look at email till my coffee is gone . Make coffee for my wife, feed the cat and then my day takes off in different directions on alternating days.
1) after a lite breakfast, go play pickle ball for a couple of hours and then come home and relax. Once rested, then do yoga routine with wife.
2) do some light chores around the house while my wife has her coffee. Do a yoga routine with my wife and then cook breakfast.
Do a few small chores around the house.
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Days merge back together as we eat a light lunch. Do some yard work or small chores around the house. Later on in the afternoon my wife and I either take a long walk or bike ride in the neighborhood. Work together on dinner and then sit down to watch some TV while we enjoy dinner and a glass of wine. After dinner I clean up the kitchen, spend a few minutes on the FBG forums and then get ready for bed.
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After 40 years of working 12+ hours a day, RETIREMENT is SWEET.

 

[NutterButter]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way

MIght be b/c you're older and don't have any kids to take care of. I know I'm at the no kids stage of life and my day is 9:45-5:30 work and the rest of the time do whatever I want for the most part.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way

MIght be b/c you're older and don't have any kids to take care of. I know I'm at the no kids stage of life and my day is 9:45-5:30 work and the rest of the time do whatever I want for the most part.

You are correct, I do not actively take care of any children, my son is 25 so that doesn't count
And that sets up something I wanted to say to all the men in here that do all these things on a schedule so they can provide for their families, women too
Some of that is obviously to provide money but I see a lot of love in this thread
When I am on a tighter schedule some days, it's usually because i am running around trying to get errands finished so Mrs and I can relax on the weekends, because I love her
This weekend is "Spring Cleaning" and trips to the storage unit, I'm not looking forward to that

But the house will be a lot less cluttered tha's a good thing, Mrs hates to part with anything, drives me nuts

 

[Gatorade]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way

MIght be b/c you're older and don't have any kids to take care of. I know I'm at the no kids stage of life and my day is 9:45-5:30 work and the rest of the time do whatever I want for the most part.

You are correct, I do not actively take care of any children, my son is 25 so that doesn't count
And that sets up something I wanted to say to all the men in here that do all these things on a schedule so they can provide for their families, women too
Some of that is obviously to provide money but I see a lot of love in this thread
When I am on a tighter schedule some days, it's usually because i am running around trying to get errands finished so Mrs and I can relax on the weekends, because I love her
This weekend is "Spring Cleaning" and trips to the storage unit, I'm not looking forward to that

But the house will be a lot less cluttered tha's a good thing, Mrs hates to part with anything, drives me nuts

I hate storage units. I just had to buy a bigger house. Moving is the only time my wife will part with anything. Maybe that is why we are in our 6th house.

 

[Kanil]

Monday:
7:40 AM wake up, brush teeth and drop the kid off at school.
8:15 Answer work emails for 10 minutes.
8:28 Prep for 8:30 meeting
8:30 1 hour IT leadership team meeting
9:30 Answer emails that came in during meeting
9:45 Make sure **** doesnt blow up / Usually get some video games in... Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 right now.
11:30 Lunch
12:30 IT Change Control meeting
1:00-3:20 Shower/Stay on top of emails, make sure nothing's blown up
3:20 Pick kid up from school
5:00 Take kid to Karate and hit the gym.
6:30 Grocery shopping while waiting for the kid to get out of Karate
7:15 Take kid home, cook dinner, family time
9:00 Kid goes to bed, hang out with the wife until bedtime

Tuesday:
7:20 AM wake up, brush teeth, make lunch for my wife, drop the kid off at school
8:15 Answer work emails
8:30 1 on 1s with some of my staff / Shower / Make sure **** doesnt blow up until lunch
11:00 Lunch
12:30 Level 1 IT Support team meeting
1:30 IT Infrastructure admin meeting
2:00 Nothing planned just make sure ****'s running right
3:20 Pick the kid up from school
5:00 Play in a pool league
10:30 Get home, hang out with the wife until bed

Wednesday:
6:00 AM Wake up and take a meeting from my bed with one of our biggest customers. They're east coast and don't care about us Mountain Time Zone losers.
6:20 Back to sleep
7:40 Wake up, brush teeth, take kid to school
8:15 Check emails
8:30 Exec Brief
10:00 Complete any action items from exec brief
10:30 emails / Shower
11:00 Lunch - Possibly quality time with wife as she WFH Wednesday / Make sure stuff doesnt blow up
3:20 Pick kid up from school
5:00 Take kid to golf league practice.
5:15-6:15 Hit a bucket of balls, chip/putt until kid is out of practice
6:15 head home, cook dinner family time until bed

Thursday:
7:20 Wake up, brush teeth, make lunch for my wife, take kid to school
8:15 emails
8:30 Meeting with the IT asset team to make sure they arent losing **** / paying for stuff we don't need
9:00 Meeting with the service desk manager to go over current trends
10:00 Meeting with level 2 IT support techs / shower
11:00 Lunch
12:00 - 3:20 Various project status meetings
3:20 Pick the kid up from school
5:00 Weekly house cleaning. We clean like a MFer Thursdays. Takes about 2 hours.
7:00 Everyone scrounges for dinner, we watch a couple episodes of whatever show we are watching as a family until bed times

Friday:
7:40 Wake up, brush teeth, take kid to school, shower
NO MEETINGS SCHEDULED FRIDAY - Just make sure **** doesnt break
12:00 Go out to lunch with my wife
1:30 or so, call it a day, hit the range for some chip/putt practice. Maybe hit a bucket if I feel like it.
3:20 pick kid up from school
3:30 Dairy Queen
4:30 Take kid to whatever social gathering he's got setup for the day. Usually something nerdy like escape room or D&D.
5:30 Grab a drink and figure out the plan for the night with the wife. Sometimes date night, sometimes stay home and binge watch a show.
9ish Pick kid up from social event, Family time until bed

Saturday:
8:30 wake up, brush teeth, shower, grab a small snack
9:00 take kid to karate, hit gym
11:00 Pick kid up from karate
Nothing until 3
3:00 Take kid to jr golf league
6:30-7ish Head home, usually pick something up for dinner. Most of the time the kid goes to friends, or his friends come over and/or we have plans with friends.
Bed whenever we feel like it

Sunday:
7:30 wake up, brush teeth, probably quality time with the wife, shower
The rest of the day is usually random plans or house projects unless the Broncos are playing.
11:00pm - bed

Rinse/repeat

 

[Kanil]

This week's plan, cause each one's different

Mon (suit up)
6:45 wake up cause I'm running the car pool
8:00 arrive at office, refresh myself with priorities for the week to share at weekly exec and bi-weekly 1:1 with CFO, send emails I wrote after noon Friday and saved as drafts


Fri (tennis shoes / jeans and either a polo or hoodie)

4:00 anything else needing my attention? Write email drafts, don't send, then it's quittin' time

Curious why you don't send your emails on Friday afternoon? I assume there's an interesting reason why.

 

[MAC_32]

This week's plan, cause each one's different

Mon (suit up)
6:45 wake up cause I'm running the car pool
8:00 arrive at office, refresh myself with priorities for the week to share at weekly exec and bi-weekly 1:1 with CFO, send emails I wrote after noon Friday and saved as drafts


Fri (tennis shoes / jeans and either a polo or hoodie)

4:00 anything else needing my attention? Write email drafts, don't send, then it's quittin' time

Curious why you don't send your emails on Friday afternoon? I assume there's an interesting reason why.

If it's a FYI, I'll send. If it's an action item, I won't. When I am preparing evening emails I incorporate a similar methodology. If I get an action email off-hours, I have a tendency to then re-engage- whether that's just in my mind or actually preparing a reply. I don't want to put others in the same position - evenings and weekends are their time, not work time. Of course there are exceptions, but I really try to stay in front of our work to minimize emergencies. If emergencies are the norm then they're not emergencies, they're the norm.

 

[Kanil]

This week's plan, cause each one's different

Mon (suit up)
6:45 wake up cause I'm running the car pool
8:00 arrive at office, refresh myself with priorities for the week to share at weekly exec and bi-weekly 1:1 with CFO, send emails I wrote after noon Friday and saved as drafts


Fri (tennis shoes / jeans and either a polo or hoodie)

4:00 anything else needing my attention? Write email drafts, don't send, then it's quittin' time

Curious why you don't send your emails on Friday afternoon? I assume there's an interesting reason why.

If it's a FYI, I'll send. If it's an action item, I won't. When I am preparing evening emails I incorporate a similar methodology. If I get an action email off-hours, I have a tendency to then re-engage- whether that's just in my mind or actually preparing a reply. I don't want to put others in the same position - evenings and weekends are their time, not work time. Of course there are exceptions, but I really try to stay in front of our work to minimize emergencies. If emergencies are the norm then they're not emergencies, they're the norm.

I like that. I think I'm going to incorporate it.

 

[Harry Frogfish]

M/Th/F

7am Wake up
7am - 8am feed dogs, let them out, get ready for day, eat breakfast
8am - 5pm WFH, but I'll get the laundry done, vacuuming / dusting / lawn done during the day/lunch hour etc
5pm-7pm Walk the dogs (5 miles or so)
7pm-1030pm Play w/ dogs, sit on patio, watch tv, go to dinner
1030pm-12am computer for personal stuff

Tu/Wed

6am Wake up
630am-745am Commute to work
8am-5pm Work (lunch at desk)
5pm-6pm Commute home (quicker because I take toll home)
630-745 - Walk dogs (shorter walk 3 miles or so)
8pm -1030pm play w/ dogs, sit on patio, watch tv, go to dinner
1030pm-12am computer for personal stuff

I want to be your dog

The more the merrier.

I've got a 13 year old golden doodle (does not go on walks) that is mine. FENWAY
I inherited a Great Lab from my oldest son. CALLOWAY is now 5.
I inherited a german shepard / terrier mix from ex wife. UZZI is 4
and finally I've got BEAR BEAR, a border collie that is 3.

Three syllables (Calloway) is a lot for a dog. Was it Cooper that did that?

Do FenWAY or CalloWAY ever come when the other is called?

What do your other kids think about your handle, or do they know? Is Cooper the youngest?

TIA

 

[Alex P Keaton]

@the moops and @MAC_32 easily winning thus far.

The freedom & flexibility is great, but it has been too much this year. I think the light bulb will go off when our oldest starts driving next year though. That extra 30-60 mins of sleep on non carpool mornings are a difference maker. Plus I noticed this winter that I'm not gassed by Thursday if I get home at a normal time even just one night per week.

Kids driving is a huge shift.

It's a wild balance between "great, they can drive themselves" vs "Are you kidding? They are driving a car on the road!?"

Or at least it was that for me. Part of the cycle of parenting.

Good luck, GB.

My son started driving to school this year. Game changer. He drives himself and sister to school most days. He’s a great kid and largely safe driver.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

I find it fascinating how many people work like 3.5-5.5 hours a day.

 

[coopersdad]

M/Th/F

7am Wake up
7am - 8am feed dogs, let them out, get ready for day, eat breakfast
8am - 5pm WFH, but I'll get the laundry done, vacuuming / dusting / lawn done during the day/lunch hour etc
5pm-7pm Walk the dogs (5 miles or so)
7pm-1030pm Play w/ dogs, sit on patio, watch tv, go to dinner
1030pm-12am computer for personal stuff

Tu/Wed

6am Wake up
630am-745am Commute to work
8am-5pm Work (lunch at desk)
5pm-6pm Commute home (quicker because I take toll home)
630-745 - Walk dogs (shorter walk 3 miles or so)
8pm -1030pm play w/ dogs, sit on patio, watch tv, go to dinner
1030pm-12am computer for personal stuff

I want to be your dog

The more the merrier.

I've got a 13 year old golden doodle (does not go on walks) that is mine. FENWAY
I inherited a Great Lab from my oldest son. CALLOWAY is now 5.
I inherited a german shepard / terrier mix from ex wife. UZZI is 4
and finally I've got BEAR BEAR, a border collie that is 3.

Three syllables (Calloway) is a lot for a dog. Was it Cooper that did that?

Do FenWAY or CalloWAY ever come when the other is called?

What do your other kids think about your handle, or do they know? Is Cooper the youngest?

TIA

1 - we call him Cal. no, cooper's older brother did that.
2 - we call the other Fen, so no they don't get confused.
3 - 2 kids. previous handle was dpssdad before we moved from kansas to texas. used work email from kansas to sign up for FFG in 1990's. Got new computer in tx, and did not have access to old email, so signed up. figured this was easier to remember.

4- scared the **** out of me when I read "did cooper do that". thought someone on here knew me or my son's.

 

[Joe Bryant]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

I find it fascinating how many people work like 3.5-5.5 hours a day.

Do you mean you expected people to work more?

 

[Harry Frogfish]

M/Th/F

7am Wake up
7am - 8am feed dogs, let them out, get ready for day, eat breakfast
8am - 5pm WFH, but I'll get the laundry done, vacuuming / dusting / lawn done during the day/lunch hour etc
5pm-7pm Walk the dogs (5 miles or so)
7pm-1030pm Play w/ dogs, sit on patio, watch tv, go to dinner
1030pm-12am computer for personal stuff

Tu/Wed

6am Wake up
630am-745am Commute to work
8am-5pm Work (lunch at desk)
5pm-6pm Commute home (quicker because I take toll home)
630-745 - Walk dogs (shorter walk 3 miles or so)
8pm -1030pm play w/ dogs, sit on patio, watch tv, go to dinner
1030pm-12am computer for personal stuff

I want to be your dog

The more the merrier.

I've got a 13 year old golden doodle (does not go on walks) that is mine. FENWAY
I inherited a Great Lab from my oldest son. CALLOWAY is now 5.
I inherited a german shepard / terrier mix from ex wife. UZZI is 4
and finally I've got BEAR BEAR, a border collie that is 3.

Three syllables (Calloway) is a lot for a dog. Was it Cooper that did that?

Do FenWAY or CalloWAY ever come when the other is called?

What do your other kids think about your handle, or do they know? Is Cooper the youngest?

TIA

1 - we call him Cal. no, cooper's older brother did that.
2 - we call the other Fen, so no they don't get confused.
3 - 2 kids. previous handle was dpssdad before we moved from kansas to texas. used work email from kansas to sign up for FFG in 1990's. Got new computer in tx, and did not have access to old email, so signed up. figured this was easier to remember.

4- scared the **** out of me when I read "did cooper do that". thought someone on here knew me or my son's.

HA! Sorry about that, did not mean to startle you. I legit lol'd just now, so thanks! And also thanks for all the detailed answers, was not expecting that.

Put me in the camp that would like to be one of your dogs. If I had to choose, probably Bear Bear, but you could call me Bear for short.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

I find it fascinating how many people work like 3.5-5.5 hours a day.

Do you mean you expected people to work more?

Yeah, I get that some folks might work part-time or be semi-retired. But full time people putting in 3.5-5.5 hours a day of actual work is surprising to me. Zero judgment — I have no doubt that some folks can get more done in that time than many others get done in 8-10 hours.

 

[Josh Hines-Ward-Alan-Carr]

My days are so all over the map, I don't want the structure or routine that a lot have in here (I think ) but it makes it clear how little I have.

I run the sales for a small/medium sized brewery and we're small enough that I have to maintain some local accounts myself but also big enough that we have frequent meetings with major grocers/Walmart etc... which is also me.

We have a small sales team that I oversee and I have extensive say in what gets brewed next and have to be in production meetings.

Typical week is probably:

Monday

8 AM - on the road
10 AM - weekly touchpoint (virtual for me) with other key brewery leaders
11-5 - making sales calls on the road/out of town.
630 - "league" squash game (need to get in 5 matches every five weeks)

Tuesday

930 AM - meet with owner (in person)
10 AM - meet with my sales team (inside sales/taproom in person/other reps virtual)
12 PM - gym
1-?? - production/planning meetings
??-5 PM - whatever sales I can accomplish in town.
Chill evening with Mrs JHWAC.

Wednesday

8-430 sales calls/on the road all day. Try to make head office calls on Mon/Wed/Thu - they're all in the same place (Toronto) about 75 mins from me.
5 PM - scarf food down
6-9 PM - "for fun" squash games with friends, with beers after - social night.

Thursday

Pretty open day. Make sales calls, probably out of town, try to get to the gym at some point beginning or end of day.
Evening - watch the local hockey/lacrosse (depending on season) team with my mom. Designated family night

Friday

Fairly relaxed/catch up day for the rest of the week.
- sales calls in the AM, hopefully but not always in town.
- gym over noon hour
- head to the brewery in the afternoon.
- do the "fun" brewery stuff. Tasting recent batches, looking at aging of older brews, probably/always a bunch of sales or production crap to finalize from earlier in the week. Paperwork and ordering type stuff done in this time as well.
- 4 or 430-615 is beers either at the brewery taproom or at the local pub.
-630 - fairly hard cut off, bring home food for Mrs JHWAC (designated take out night), spend the night together watching shows/movie or recently playing video games (It Takes Two/Split Fiction are the best couch co-op/couple games ever).

We cook meals together, basically from scratch every night and find a half hour to walk the dogs in there as well but the pace is pretty manageable.

I am huge on work/life balance and could probably make double what I do now tomorrow at a big office in Toronto but I am very content where I'm at. Double income no kids I'm sure plays a huge part in that.

 

[BassNBrew]

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

I find it fascinating how so many of you have the day broken down into hours and minutes, I can't imagine running my day that way
Mrs runs hers the way many of you do, MoP Jr runs his days same way, he's a minute by minute person

Best I can do is 2 hour blocks, 7-9am I can either be fielding a couple gift calls or I can be on the tennis courts schmoozing with potential donors
I make most of my connections on the golf course or tennis courts. Prefer tennis just because golf is time consuming

-And one more thing...I WILL NOT allow anyone to make me part of THEIR schedule.
I don't take folks to the airport, I call them a Lyft
I don't help folks move homes, I hire them help at Home Depot or call professional movers
I don't help folks fix flat tires, I call them a tow truck or AAA
People will have you running on their schedules as long as you let them
I'm not very giving with my time, very generous with money but not my time

I find it fascinating how many people work like 3.5-5.5 hours a day.

Do you mean you expected people to work more?

I'm shocked their are so many industries where the margins are so big, competition so minimal, or management so generous.

Many haven't been specific with their industry or position, but I always assumed most of the 3.5-5.5 hour guys were sales guys who were either very good or found a nice niche.

 

[Penguin]

I can't fathom how you guys work more than 2 or 3 days a week without 14 hours sleep a night

 

[rockaction]

Man, everybody's working for the weekend. Everybody wants a new romance. Everybody's going off the deep end. Everybody needs a second chance. Whooooa

You want a piece of my heart? You better start from the start. You wanna be in the show? C'mon, baby, let's go.

*geetar*

Mike ****in' Reno! That's my average weekday. Whatever Mike ****in' Reno does!

 

[Ilov80s]

5:15 wake-up, shower, etc
6:00-6:30 drive to work
6:30-7:50 eat my breakfast, drink my coffee and do my work without interruption
7:50-11:00 teach classes
11:00-11:30 lunch
11:30-1:50 teach classes
1:50-2:50 do my work to prep for the next day
3:00-3:30 drive home

The rest of the afternoon/evening is some combo of taking care of my “adopted kid” which consists of helping her with homework, going for a walk, coloring, legos, trying to get her to eat, etc. Taking care of my puppy by playing, going for a walk and training. Helping out around the home like cleaning the bathroom or vacuuming but always dishes because my wife usually cooos. Of course we eat and on a less busy day we watch some TV or maybe even a movie. I always pack the next days lunch for myself and my kid as well as lay my clothes out for the next morning. Hopefully asleep by 10:00.

I’m lucky the my wife works from home and is able to get a lot done during the day and take good care of the puppy as well as be more flexible in her schedule. Then of course in the summer, I become very flexible. We are blessed to have good paying jobs and even better schedules.

 

[rockaction]

He has a small staff of younger Ukraine/Russian ladies, I love to show up with donuts for everyone

Donut party!

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - eat dinner, spend time with the kids.

I love you woz, for real...but I beg you to work less and get more time than this with your kiddos. You and they will love it. I don't mean to sound like a prick, and I know you work very hard and pull in some good cash which will help them down the road immensely, but dude, this time will never be there again.

GREAT and to anyone who has kids and will listen.

I have a 18 and 20 year old and it went by so damn fast. It’s still great but man, 0-12ish was heaven on earth. Magic. Soak it all in with everything you have.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

10 AM - Rise with a shot of Jameson and a Kool for breakfast.

10:05AM lie back down.

12:30 PM wake up, rinse with some Listerine (original flavor) and throw on some rags.

12:45 - Stop by the store for a carton of Kools, a sixer and another bottle.

1PM - I bowl until I drop.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

WFH for last 15+ years. Have been pretty consistent with schedule

530-6AM: shower -make breakfast
6AM: log into work. Work til ~10A
10a-2pm: Daily hike-work out / any errands / yard stuff
2PM: log back into work. Work til ~6P

Works out great. Live in a very populated area but rarely have to deal with much traffic traveling out for hiking/errands10A-2P when most people at work and get to be outdoors hiking/working out every day.

Won't ever work in an office again. Commuting/dealing with traffic & having pointless office conversations just isn't my jam.

 

[MAC_32]

Many haven't been specific with their industry or position, but I always assumed most of the 3.5-5.5 hour guys were sales guys who were either very good or found a nice niche.

Being curious if this was me as I am not an hour counter, I calculated my work hours / day based on what I shared - 7 (Mon) 5 (Tue) 6 (Wed) 5 (Thu) 4 (Fri) - and it appears I am. I'm a finance lead in ed admin and this is written with some hyperbole, but I don't have any day-to-day responsibilities. That said, while there was a 17 week stretch last year in which I did not have a 5 day work week, some days start as early as 7, others finish as late as 9, and while I don't hit send on emails often I frequently check-in after hours during the week, and have fielded numerous phone calls amidst a midday workout. This is just a lower octane time of year, my high tides are the day after Labor Day to the week before Thanksgiving and the day after MLK - the day before Paddy's. As long as I stay on top of things (do / delegate / dump) I can pace myself most of the rest of the year.