What's your daily routine like?
I'll start (for reference, I am a 14 year old Brazilian in a presumably poor house , also in retrospect this reminds me of what they tell you to do at the beginning of most English courses, which makes me feel like a cringy kid):
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Wake up (6:15, praised be alarm clocks)
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Put on the school uniform (takes 5-10 minutes)
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Have breakfast (takes 10 minutes)
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Brush my teeth (takes less than 5 minutes)
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Walk to school (6:45)
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Reach school (less than 100 meters from my home thankfully) and enter a classroom (7:00 plus a few minutes for teachers to set stuff up)
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stay in school until 12:17 (every time the subject changes, we pack our stuff and go to the classroom the teacher of the subject is in. There is also a break between 9:30 and 10:20.)
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Leave school and go home
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Get home by 12:45
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Have lunch, usually rice and beans with either meat or chicken meat in some flattened form I can't describe, usually at 1-1:30 PM.
Do... whatever on the phone (as of recently be here or in discord, along with reddit and YouTube for longer unless it runs out of battery) Edit: see here for details.
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Have dinner (usually at 8:30-9:00, same food as lunch)
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Pack the books for the subjects they teach tomorrow
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Go to sleep at 10.
During vacation/weekends I can wake up from 5-10 AM depending on how well I slept the previous night. The rest is the same, except for Saturdays my parents go and buy some esfihas to break the monotony of lunch and dinner.
I would like to try and squeeze meditation there in the morning but the apartment is so small that the only place I can feasibly do that is the bathroom, and the cats tend to bug me right after they've eaten/just rub up on my legs and want some pets, and my wife sets multiple snooze alarms, so I'll hear a lot of those go off in the background. I can't do it at work 'cause people are in the office by the time I get there. I could do it at night when I get home from work, but by then I typically just wanna chillax.
I am a 35 year old robotics engineer in California.
Wake up (~10am, no alarm)
Girlfriend makes me coffee.
Read phone, wake up, sip coffee.
Hit marijuana vaporizer. (~10:30)
Make toast, slice avocado. Eat avocado toast.
Make smoothie - banana, carrots, spinach, frozen mango, water. Drink it. (~11:15)
Hit marijuana vaporizer.
Put on headphones, listen to YouTube. Brush teeth.
Pack lunch, fiddle with computer. (~11:45)
Leave for work. (~12:00)
Listen to podcasts. Arrive at work 1hr later.
Say hi to goats, dog. Check 3D printers.
Work on the robot (a farming robot). Work on software, electrical system, or mechanical stuff.
Five hours later, so ~6:00, finish up.
Drive home, stop at grocery store. Home by ~7:30.
Hit marijuana vaporizer.
Make dinner.
Hang out with girlfriend. She falls asleep around 9.
Go to computer. Design robot stuff for fun. Circuit boards, software, computer vision, 3D printing.
Watch movies while I work. Smoke more marijuana.
Find a stopping point around 1:30am.
Shower. Brush teeth. Go to bed around 2am.
Saturday-Monday are days off. Usually I’m working on robot hobby stuff all weekend, going on dates, or taking my robot on a hike.
Neat to see the routine of someone younger than myself and from another country! It's not too different from what my schedule was as a teen in the US, although I was at school from 8:30 to 3:30. And we had dial up internet and our phones were flip phones with terrible keyboards.
As for now, as an "old" man in his early 30s:
But the wondrous thing about having babies, especially twins, is that "go to bed" isn't the end of your day anymore!
thankfully they're sleeping through the nights fairly regularly these days, so I can't complain (but I still do!).
Do you work remotely I take it then? If I am ever looking for a new gig, I definitely and going to prioritize getting a job that I can work from home with. I think the flexibility is awesome.
Yep, been doing that for almost two years now and I love it. The only downsides to it are that it's a little lonely sometimes since there aren't folks to chat with in-person and I miss out on a lot of fun stuff going on at the office.
But totally worth it to work in my PJs and get more time with my family.
I've found the biggest downside to working from home (I've done it in two different jobs) is being left out of the loop. "Out of sight, out of mind." I've turned up at the office after being absent for a couple of days, only to find out things have happened that I wasn't told about. A lot of communication happens via informal chats at people's desks - and if you're not there, you miss out.
Yeah, that's definitely true. For a year and a half my team was entirely remote, so that wasn't much of a concern. But now that I'm on a team that's mostly in-office (except for me and one other guy), I definitely feel like I'm missing things. Little discussions about the project, who's working on what, etc.
Depends on whether waking at 6:20 or earlier is worth it. (I'd presume yes, since waking up at 6 am is a pretty normal practice I guess. )
Being done at noon seems amazing. In grade school, we didnt' finish here until 4pm, and high school was 3:15. Having most of the day still in front of you after school sounds great.
For reference, I am a 40 year old man living in Canada in a moderately affluent household; I work as a developer, my wife is a professor, and we have three children. This is what a weekday generally looks like for me:
That 5 hours of free time is when I do most of the things that are for myself; they include:
This is just a typical day - I have atypical days as well, where an entire evening is spent playing D&D, or doing home repairs, or driving kids around to lots of different things.
Wow, everyone here is so organized! Maybe it's because I am a uni student but my schedule is absolutely terrible. Most of the time I wake up at like 10-11 am, unless I have classes early in the morning, in which case I wake up anywhere from 6 to 8 am, depending how early the classes are. Chill for a bit in the morning, eat some breakfast. Go to classes, get home, eat some shit frozen pizza or something of that kind at like 4 pm as lunch. Proceed to waste my time playing games, playing guitar, watching youtube and stuff like that. Have some dinner, continue in the totally healthy gaming and stuff, most of the time playing some stuff with my friends. I go to bed somewhere around midnight to 2 am, where I lie trying to go to sleep, most of the time succeeding after on average like 1 hour of thinking about how I am screwing everything up in life.
You underestimate the power of my parents.
For everyone else though, good job.
Do you get a proper 2 hour lunch break or is it like mine in my last job where we went to lunch and ate it but then starting the work again took about an hour before we were properly doing it?
Same deal here, my schedule varies a bunch from day to day. I could probably benefit from a stronger routine, to be honest...
25 year old American in the Midwest, reporting in! I have been wanting to change up my routine a little bit as of late, but this is where it stands as of now.
prayer AND/OR I work on some sort of creative endeavor. Lately, I have been
trying to start a writing habit in the morning.
Friday. I fast and skip breakfast and lunch on Fridays.)
for work.
pretty great gig. I get an hour lunch which I usually spend walking back home
to make a quick lunch.
The evening varies a lot. Sometimes, we spend it with friends. Other times we binge TV or video games. Here in a few weeks, my class will be starting up. I am attempting to get my Master's before we start having a family, but I am only doing a class at a time. I try to be in bed by 10:00 PM.
I'm making assumptions here but are you Christian? If so how did you get into the regular prayer with it not being mandatory and all that like it is for some other faiths.
Yes, I am! (Roman Catholic to be more precise.)
It's just like any other habit honestly. Start out small, try to do it everyday and build on it as you get more consistent with it. I also find it easier to stick with this if I do something like read the daily Gospel and pray/meditate on that in the mornings.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I wake up at 6:05, hit snooze until around 6:10, then I get up and use my inhaler. I fill up the moka before going to bed, so I first go into the kitchen to turn the stove on, plug my phone to top it up, and then I go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and do other bathroomy stuff.
I'm usually done by 6:30, and then I sit down to have breakfast and dress up, not necessarily in that order. Then, I start untangling and taming my hair, I put on coat and backpack, get some hand cream, get out, lock the door, and walk to the bus stop.
If I'm a few minutes late, it'll drop me some 800 m from my school. Otherwise, I get on another bus at the terminus, but either way I'm there by 7:50. I sign for the lab keys, go to the teacher's lounge, ask my colleagues if they have any plans for the day, and then I either get in class with them or go to the lab, to dig around the equipment and prepare it for the next lesson.
I finish working at 13:05 (minus reunions, training courses and whatnot). I put the equipment back in its proper place, lock everything up, sign as I leave the keys, and walk back to the bus stop. Once I'm home, I either cook something - it never takes much longer than half an hour - or reheat some leftovers.
I then wash the dishes, but what I do with the rest of my afternoon varies. I might go out to do some shopping, or just clean up and lounge around. I eat dinner around 19:30-20:00, read for a while, get my pills, get some chamomile tea if I'm still feeling too alert, get the moka ready, brush my teeth, and get in bed around 22:00.
On Monday and Tuesday my schedule is similar, but I get up much later, as I don't have lessons until around 12, and on the weekend I just faff around.
Here it goes:
Yes, i‘m very blessed to work only 6 hours, wake up naturally and live near work.
Unfortunately, this will end in February and we will start working 8 hours with 1 hour lunch break. Everyone is pissed.
I live a largely routine-less life, other than a few weekly classes which I like to attend.
Right now I'm focusing on my programming, so I typically stay up doing that until I'm too tired to go on, then go sleep until I feel rested enough, then repeat. In between, I find time for other basics like socializing and eating.
17 year old student in Florida.
Every time you remember me this I'm astounded by how mature and intelligent your posts are. When I was 14 I couldn't put 2 and 2 together.
I swear I don't do anything special to my posts other than using plain (read: serious and almost never funny) language and look for some trustable source that agrees with what I say before I post a comment because my perception of 'high-quality discussion' is essentially those two things put together and turned into this forum.