The perfect way to mourn your mundane life.
And here’s mine:
- 6:30 am - wake up due to 4yo kicking or whatever
- 7 - clean up the kitchen a bit
- 7:30 - make breakfast and lunch for myself and kids
- 8:15 - drive kids to school (we decided on a charter school, so no bus service)
- 9:15 - get to work and refill my water bottle and whatnot
- 9:30-11 - morning meetings
- 11-12 - pretend like I’m working/check email/etc
- 12-1 - lunch
- 1-3 - work on my tasks for the day
- 3-5 - fix something that went wrong, because something always goes wrong just before I go home
- 5-6 - drive home (would take 30 min w/o traffic, but here we are)
- 6-7 - make dinner or clean up house
- 7-9 - get kids ready for bed (takes forever because they’re really looking for time w/ me)
- 9-10 - do adult stuff, like paying bills or shopping for birthdays/christmas stuff; maybe take a walk w/ SO; if the stars align, read a book or play video games
So yeah, that’s me. I get about as much done in those 2 hours of actual work as many of my coworkers get, so I think I’m doing alright.
Here’s an alternative schedule when I WFH:
- 6:30-8:45 - same as above, just w/o commute
- 10-12 - do work (we have fewer meetings on WFH days
- 12-1 - get some exercise in my garage (kids are at school)
- 1-3 - do more work while eating lunch
- 3-5 - play video games or something in my home office (I’ve already done 2x the work I normally do)
- 5-6 - make dinner or clean up house
- 6-8 - hang out with family
- 8-8:30 - get kids ready for bed (much easier since I can work the bedtime routine in the “hang out” part)
- 8:30-10 - same as above, but I have an extra 30 min (hooray!!)
So yeah, most of what the OP posted cannot apply to me, but I get a similar amount of work done.
Wake up between 7 and 10 depending on what timezone I’m in, I work late so I don’t need an alarm. Open the hotel blinds to get some real light. Eat some yogurt. Do a light work out. Shower. Do whatever until whenever my phone says go to work. Work 3–14 hours based on whatever schedule is on my phone. Go to hotel. Go to bed. Appreciate the fact that I have no meetings ever and at least 16 days off a month.
That’s a psychopath’s handwriting.
Most of these make sense but its from a very privileged perspective.
“Work for 3 hours”
Sure, I actually agree, I get more done in 3 hours than my coworkers do in a day. But it’s not like I’m going to get to go home after that. I’ll just get to sit and do nothing for the rest of the day looking busy.
2pm: have a meeting of max 1 hour.
3pm: end of work day, start prepping diner.
7pm: done with diner, wash the twenty pans and nine oven trays.
7:30pm: more weightlifting, more testosterone = more better.
9pm: time for bed, a good night rest starts early!Social life is a waste of time 99% of the time, just take those antidepressants more often.
Ah right, a walk around nature! Because I have so much nature around me!
(Also, I’d prefer to get meetings and impromptu requests from colleagues in the morning, because I tend to get way in the zone around 14h-15h, with the drawback that I often run way in excess of 17h when I’m supposed to leave so I’m home by ~1815.)
Sounds horrible. Here’s mine:
- Stand up when woken up and feeling like it.
- look into my wife’s cute face.
- we make food, watch star trek, drink tea
- decide how and where we’re gonna spend the day. Gaming? Binging? Pool? Museum? Zoo? Just driving around with no goal? Shopping-tour? Visit some city? Some voluntary work to help those less fortunate? Doing absolutely nothing?
- end the day in peace whenever we feel like it.
Oh yes. No kids, no pets.
Oh yes. No kids, no pets.
No job?
Or is this just a weekend routine?
Yes. No job. Retired somewhere mid-20s. With 2 occasional let’s-try-something-new-job for some months since then. That was nearly 3 decades ago. So, weekend only matters because, where we live, life slowly withers saturdays and is dead as a doornail on Sundays 😁
OP could be retired.
Here’s mine:
- Wake up when the neighbour above me slams their door
- Glance over at my phone and realize I have an hour still
- Bask in that extra hour sleep without actually sleeping
- Groggily get up, shower
- Walk to the station, buy a coffee
- And wait for the next autopilot routine to kick in
I’m so sorry man. Capitalism just sucks for the vast majority. It’s not my system-of-choice, even if i highly profit of it. It’s humanity’s bane and ultimate end.
Did they draw hyperlinks in their notebook?
People love to shit on linkedinlunatics (myself included) but people who think that you can get up at 11am, never exercise, never structure your day, and spend all day on lemmy and somehow achieve your goals are just as delusional.
This list might seem crazy to some people (some of the advice is hyper specific to this person’s specific lifestyle) but literally everything is a good idea on it. You don’t become successful at a thing unless you make a plan and structure your day around that priority. Learning how to say no to things is huge. People pleasing is a mental illness. If you have the ability to say no, and you’re not at risk of getting fired or letting down someone you care about, if it doesn’t serve your goals, you say no to it.
A lot of these LinkedIn lunatic posts are absurd. This one seems totally reasonable, healthy, and leaves plenty of time for hobbies and family/friends.
Minus the meeting time restriction. Dunno how you manage that unless you’re the owner of the company.
My biggest criticism is that I’m not really the one who sets my meeting schedule, even when I’m the one who sends the invite. Unless your entire company has a “no meetings until 2pm” policy this isn’t really doable. Especially if you work with people in multiple time zones.
I only got to institute this when I started working for myself. It took me a year or two to realise. For all clients or all agencies I sub for I have a strict no meetings before 930am rule. I haven’t told anyone why - my calendar is just blocked out so each probably individually thinks I have some recurring appointment with another client. Nup. I’m in bed drinking my coffee. I’m a shit sleeper, if I manage at all. I spent decades working to the early birds’ schedule. Fuck that.
But it is a privilege and very few can achieve that working in a company. It’s gross to suggest to people they can just do it. I know my situation is niche. To suggest otherwise is arrogant and ignorant.
Also the same, been doing it for roughly a decade now. Outside of a once a year emergency I don’t start work until after lunch. I just say ‘I have other commitments in the morning’. I’ve had some PM’s push early in client engagements but it’s never escalated more then that. I just make the boundaries super clear and am always willing to walk away.
Most people don’t get a chance to do those things. Wake up, commute while sending off kids, work dreadful shit, collect kids, shop, make dinner, relax15 minutes, pass out, repeat.
Except. bank holiday comes 6 times a year. Cheers.
Yes, I’d like to see this list with four home school kids lol
It’s like going to battle, and in war, the enemy also makes plans!
And to quote Mike, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Well, if one has such a miserable worker-bee-life, why the heck would one want to make it even worse with kids? And what future would that one give his/her kids? The same bright one? We all make our own beds, don’t we?
Believe it or not, kids bring joy to an otherwise bland life. As for the kids’ future, you can do a lot with a little, just spending what little time you have at the end of the day w/ your kids can help them surpass where you were able to get to.
Source: all of my siblings have better jobs than my parents did, and that’s because they prioritized education and spending time w/ us.
Bland life without kids? Absolutely not. I do everything i love with the person i love the whole day. We travel a lot, whenever we desire to. Sometimes just a spontaneous trip to who-the-fuck-cares for however long we want. Do that with kids. No thanks. We don’t even want the responsibility of a pet. Just costs time and money we rather spend on ourselves. Having to wrap my life all around one single tiny human…ohgod no. THAT i would call a bland life. Maybe even while working some job? I wouldn’t find the time for that now, let alone when i would be forced to work too.
Glad it turned out well for you, but in tendency kids of poorer upbringing remain poor or at least have it way harder. But that’s not the point. It was just about my lack of willingness to be slave to a tiny human for at least 18yrs of MY life.
PS: don’t get me wrong. If you have to have a child for whatever reason, the love and care surely outweighs its monetary safety. Though, depending on where one lives, said lacking monetary safety can become a sad regret in a worst case. I, totally personally, wouldn’t gamble on that.
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wake up whenever, alarm usually goes off 8:30. Maybe i hit snooze a buncha times
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start work at 10. Wfh, pants optional
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work according to load, mostly fart about house.
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Take a long walk for lunch, usually blow out my step requirements
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fuck off work 3:30, go fuck around in garden until sun sets
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big fat dinner sitting on my arse watching telly with hubs, then gaming after he goes to bed at 9ish
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bed around 1ish under fat purring cat.
5:30 h/day? My man living the dream
Nah, IT. Work driven. Somedays are five hours, some are 28 hours
some are 28 hours
Ouch, crowdstrike?
Pretty much my routine to a tee.
Fantastic, isn’t it
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Step 8: wake up for real this time. It’s 9:30 and you’re late.
Steps 1-7 was just you dreaming about having your shit together.
I used to do that in high school, set my alarm early to do the homework I didn’t do the night before, I would feel super productive until I woke up for real, late, and with unstarted homework still on the floor.
Tldr guy only works 3 hours a day
Says right on the list that he schedules all of his meetings for the afternoon. The 3 hours of deep unbroken undistracted work in the morning (if he actually is able to pull it off) would definitely be a more productive work day than your average 9-5 office worker. It’s been shown in studies that the 40 hour work week of an average middle manager in an office produces very little value to a company, and is full of useless meetings and distractions that derail concentration.
Exactly.
My work routine is somewhat similar to OP’s, but flipped (meetings from 9-11, actual work from 1-3 or 1-4). I wish it was flipped, but still, 2-3 uninterrupted time is plenty to get real work done. That happens more consistently on my WFH days, though I can occasionally get real work done in the office (WFH 3x/week).
I mean, same honestly. Thank god for remote working (but if any hiring managers are reading I totally work all day at home).
3 hours a day is pretty solid, but don’t tell the blue collars
Blue collar here. I love my job most days, but there are times I envy you guys that don’t have a solid 8 hours of work packed into almost every day. Makes the workday fly by though.
I honestly envy blue collar workers. I do about 2-3 hours of actual work in a given day, but I’m “working” for like 8-9 hours because of BS meetings and whatnot, which makes the day absolutely crawl. If I could set my own schedule, I could get about twice the work done, but I’m in a leadership position so I need to be available for others.
In all seriousness, 3 hours of actual solid work, uninterrupted by meetings or whatever… That’s not as unusual as it might sound. This survey puts the average worker at <3 productive hours per day, and this one at around 4 hours.
Office workers*
They know, they knew before we admitted it to each other.
Pain
I keep reading work as worm.
I didn’t zoom in: 2 Go for a wank
I support this.
“cues me into worm mode”
3 hours of deep worm.
Here’s my morning routine:
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Wake up at 8 (assuming a crying baby doesn’t wake me up sooner)
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Change diapers
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Spend time with my wife and sons
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Walk to the grocery store with my toddler (3500 steps round trip or so)
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Drink a kombucha on the way home (coffee raises my cholesterol and gives me awful anxiety symptoms)
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Change diapers
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Take my toddler to the playground, weather permitting
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Have lunch with my wife and sons
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Read books to my toddler, change his diaper, and put him down for a nap
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Think about how I’m leaving the USA next year partially because American work culture is absolute trash
I’m on paternity leave and it’s been the best part of my career. As in not working at all is the best part of my career. How fucked is that?
I would gladly change diapers and hang out with screaming kids all day instead of dealing with my dumb ass coworkers and people who can’t honor a meeting invite planned weeks out but then expect me to “hop on a quick call” which then achieves nothing. Between the constant threat of layoffs and losing my livelihood and the political backdrop of having my family deported because they’re too dark a shade of brown and speak Spanish sometimes?
Fuck this place. I’m out.
But no one died for your routine. A real mourning routine allocates time to remember those who have passed. /s
Dealing with my toddler is frequently more rational than dealing with my coworkers. Most of em are good, but the ones that are outside my normal bubble drive me insane.
Paternity leave was the best part of my job, too. I wish I got more, and it’s criminal that many dads get very little, if any.
Also I don’t really know the best way to say “sorry for this weird mess of a country,” but I’m sorry. That sounds very stressful to say the least.
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I like organization… but I hate routines.
