Single dude living in SF bay area.. This is my schedule for work days -
- 05:55 wake up and get ready
- 06:30 to 08:00 work on my own biz
- 08:00 to 08:20 breakfast / coffee
- 08:30 to 17:00 work. If I crush a lot of work that day, sometimes I end around 16:00 since most of my team is East Coast and UK.
After work I prep for dinner, keep working on my projects, and then drive 5 min west to the beach right before sunset and sit in the back of my car writing in my notebook. This is my favorite time of the whole day, a solid 30 min break where I don't look at my phone or any screen.
I come back home, exercise a bit for 15 min, and then make and eat dinner.
Basically from 19:30 til 23:00, I work on my own biz again or work on whatever projects I am interested in. In bed by 23:45.
Unless I am on call that week (and even then, rarely since we're beasts) or we have something go really wrong, I'm lucky that I don't have work that carries on past like 16:00 most days.
Every 2 weeks on Sunday, I take one whole day off where I don't look at a phone or anything and instead go for a drive either to John Muir or somewhere around Pacifica and just am outside all day, away from noise and people. That helps me reset otherwise I will go nuts.
> After work I prep for dinner, keep working on my projects, and then drive 5 min west to the beach right before sunset and sit in the back of my car writing in my notebook. This is my favorite time of the whole day, a solid 30 min break where I don't look at my phone or any screen
Sounds like a wonderful time for unwinding. What would you be writing in those time?
Ideas, haikus, sketches. A long time ago a manager gave me a high end notebook as a end of year gift and since then I've really enjoyed writing with a lead pencil (I'm a mechanical pencil nerd) and my hi-poly eraser to erase mistakes :)
I think its the "process" of putting the pencil to the paper that I really enjoy, and seeing letters appear.
Get good paper and a good pen, it's great. Rhodia pads are great all around paper if you're not aware. I just scribble lists and notes tbh, but they're fantastic.
- 05:55 wake up and get ready
- 06:30 to 08:00 work on my own biz
- 08:00 to 08:20 breakfast / coffee
- 08:30 to 17:00 work. If I crush a lot of work that day, sometimes I end around 16:00 since most of my team is East Coast and UK.
After work I prep for dinner, keep working on my projects, and then drive 5 min west to the beach right before sunset and sit in the back of my car writing in my notebook. This is my favorite time of the whole day, a solid 30 min break where I don't look at my phone or any screen.
I come back home, exercise a bit for 15 min, and then make and eat dinner.
Basically from 19:30 til 23:00, I work on my own biz again or work on whatever projects I am interested in. In bed by 23:45.
Unless I am on call that week (and even then, rarely since we're beasts) or we have something go really wrong, I'm lucky that I don't have work that carries on past like 16:00 most days.
Every 2 weeks on Sunday, I take one whole day off where I don't look at a phone or anything and instead go for a drive either to John Muir or somewhere around Pacifica and just am outside all day, away from noise and people. That helps me reset otherwise I will go nuts.