Take me thru your work day

[KillahBee]

Make me understand what you do, what your day looks like. For example, I know Scots and maybe even mountain muscle work with oil or some shit, but I have NO CLUE what that entails.

A decent example of my day is today thus far:

- Finished a 40 page deck on recommended employee leveraging/activation concepts/tactics for a client of mine who is the biggest sponsor of the PGA TOUR. That one is currently in the hands of upper management...now I just have to wait for the 7,000 revisions
- negotiated two PGA TOUR contracts for 07 for the same client. My reco is also in upper mngmnt's hands for those two
- just had a call with a decor vendor we have a $250k contract with for the same TOUR sponsor. had to settle some issues with roles/responsibilities. now I have to make a fucking status report to keep us all on the same page
- need to bother accounting now to make sure I get this check I need to overnight to another client (sponsor of the NFL)
- trying to reconcile the budget on a series of golf events one of my clients did in Q3
- need to submit my staffing reco's for The Masters in 07

You?

 

[feisty11975]

I get paid to play on EF all day long



just kidding

 

[habitualhealth]

I get paid to play on EF all day long

fixed.

 

[jnevin]

I come in, check email, meet with my processors and find out what I need to get for them to get my loans through, call all of my borrowers, realtors, and builder to give updates, then space out if there isn't anything I need to do right away. When it's warm out, I'll take a realtor golfing or some shit. Usually go to lunch with realtor or builder and go to their office to help out with any prequals they need me to look at. Afternoon is usually following up on the leads and getting ready for the next day.

Your day sounds horrible to me. I had to do all of those reports and dealing with mgmt when I was with Countrywide. Didn't like it, I was burned out doing that plus doing my loans.

 

[stilleto]

i wake up at 6:30, give my kids lunch money, see them off to the busstop,
shower
go to physical therapy or to the gym

then i either buy groceries, or go home and clean up a little, pay bills, talk to my contractor/real estate agent/painter. sometimes I go out to lunch.

work on some artwork or my house (putting up door molding later)

at 2pm, i put my foot up and nap till 3 when the kids get home.

later, i make dinner and either write, do some artwork, or prepare for my class.

 

[habitualhealth]

go to physical therapy or to the gym

 

[Smurfy]

I come in and check messages left overnight. Most likely either members I've called for followup or providers Ive contacted re: making referrals. Log onto the phone lines. I take incoming calls from the queue all day long. People are calling to get connected with their mental health or EAP benefits. Facilties or providers are also calling to get authorization for treatment for members. I spend most of my time on the phone - making calls or taking calls. Right now Im also training 3 new Clinicians on our systems here and also training the chick who will be replacing me in my current role so I can transition into Managing the Customer Service Operations here. So a portion of my day is spent training as well. Today I also followed up on some drug test results that came through on some of the Mandatory Referrals I manage for our client, Campbell Soup Company. I ate a piece of cake too.

 

[feisty11975]

fixed.

ummm what did you change?

 

[Sassy69]

My day today:

1) 7:30 am wake up
2) 8 am dressed for a day in corp america
3) back the car out for the 30 min commute
4) realize my rear right tire is flat
5) call AAA & get the spare put on
6) drive to the tire place to buy a new spare since I'm supposed to drive 6 hrs tomorrow to my parents' place for xmas
7) find out the rim is fucked up too and can't put a spare on it.
8) Guy sends out the rim for repair
9) I go home w/ no spare and wonder if I should get a rental for the drive or not.

Oh yea, during this time I emailed in to work to cancel 2 meetings but get the meeting participants to answer the same questions via email. My one other meeting is cancelled for lack of participants left in the building before the holiday. So I come home and play on EF while creating a product requirements specification template.


BUT, on a normal day I am a product manager. I work for a mobile marketing / mobile software company that is not a start up but acts and operates like a startup. My job involves identifying & defining products and features that our system and services should have to compete in our market. I collect the requirements for all aspects of the product, build a business case for the product and put together the initial specification. Since we don't have any sort of decent project mgmt, I also do all the project documentation - planning, staffing, scheduling, status and coordination. I also am workign to establish 'process' in many other places because I don't actually have any authority to "make" people do things but I have responsibility to get all the different departments to work together to produce the product. Since all our department are teh sukc as far as communicating, I am also working to tie together a reasonable trouble ticket submission process as well as clean up the 300-some bugs that exist in the current system that no one has looked at since 2003.

What I like about what I do - I was a software engineer for 10 yrs and I enjoy being able to build cool software - so now I can still work within that space but not actually have to be "Dilbert" tied to my computer for 22 of 24 hrs/day. I also get to touch on all different departments within my company that are involved in building the product. And finally I get to learn about / become the 'subject matter expert' on the industry that we play in - meaning competitive research & analysis, hobknobbing w/ other industry people at trade shows and also getting involved in some of the industry associations that are driving the best practices, etc of the industry itself.

Its never boring but it can get really stressful & tedious when there is no 'process' in place to support smooth communications and scheduling of projects. And also when there are at least 10 simultaneous projects running all on not enough people, not enough money, not enough time and an iffy platform to stick all the finished software on top of.

... Never boring.

 

[KillahBee]

Your day sounds horrible to me. I had to do all of those reports and dealing with mgmt when I was with Countrywide. Didn't like it, I was burned out doing that plus doing my loans.

yeah, but you're looking at it through your frame. I get to brainstorm and literally CREATE. It's awesome. Then I get to fly all over the country and hang out at the most amazing sports & entertainment events ever.

My job is awesome. It's easy to get burnt out here, but not if you love it. I get off on the shit I do.

 

[jnevin]

yeah, but you're looking at it through your frame. I get to brainstorm and literally CREATE. It's awesome. Then I get to fly all over the country and hang out at the most amazing sports & entertainment events ever.

My job is awesome. It's easy to get burnt out here, but not if you love it. I get off on the shit I do.

Those are solid perks. Before I left, it seemed all I was doing was reports about shit that really didn't affect my branch, my people, nothing. The higher ups just kept making busy work for the branch managers and sales managers for no real reason. I like doing what I do because of the freedom, the pay, and because I interract with people all day. I didn't have that for a while.

 

[ksharp01]

Anyone on this thread that is doing something...is more than me right now. I am an office manager/agent for an insurance company and we are always slow this time of the year but has been so much more worst since Katrina came in to visit. Very limited on the business I can write right now so my bonus checks suck ass!! I so hope things change soon!

 

[Hams]

I'm an analyst for a hedge fund. We are attempting to improve our short portfolio, so I've been hunting overvalued stocks. When I think I have a gem, I research the hell out of it (read other analyst reports/estimates, quarterly and annual filings, transcripts of conference calls, etc), then model the company if I think it has the potential to lose value. If the model shows a promising forecast, I advise the GP to cover the stock. Rinse and repeat.

 

[KillahBee]

Those are solid perks. Before I left, it seemed all I was doing was reports about shit that really didn't affect my branch, my people, nothing. The higher ups just kept making busy work for the branch managers and sales managers for no real reason. I like doing what I do because of the freedom, the pay, and because I interract with people all day. I didn't have that for a while.

Oh yeah. The majority of my job involves starting with nothing, ideation, seeling the concept/idea in, then actually creating it.

It's very addictive

 

[alien amp pharm]

Start my computer
Open up digital blueprints from architects (floor plans and such)
Remove everything except the walls and anything structurally related via cad
Add foundations, columns, beams, joists, trusses, etc.
Detail out various connections, footing sizes, wall sections, etc.
Size those things
Print for boss to approve
Send these construction sets to architect for them to give to the contractor & construction company to either bid or start building.


Occasionally I do field work that involves structural analysis of buildings, machinery, etc.

I also play on the internet much of the day like the rest of you people.

 

[KillahBee]

Start my computer
Open up digital blueprints from architects (floor plans and such)
Remove everything except the walls and anything structurally related via cad
Add foundations, columns, beams, joists, trusses, etc.
Detail out various connections, footing sizes, wall sections, etc.
Size those things
Print for boss to approve
Send these construction sets to architect for them to give to the contractor & construction company to either bid or start building.


Occasionally I do field work that involves structural analysis of buildings, machinery, etc.

I also play on the internet much of the day like the rest of you people.

what job is this? construction? architecture?

 

[perkele]

Make me understand what you do, what your day looks like. For example, I know Scots and maybe even mountain muscle work with oil or some shit, but I have NO CLUE what that entails.

A decent example of my day is today thus far:

- Finished a 40 page deck on recommended employee leveraging/activation concepts/tactics for a client of mine who is the biggest sponsor of the PGA TOUR. That one is currently in the hands of upper management...now I just have to wait for the 7,000 revisions
- negotiated two PGA TOUR contracts for 07 for the same client. My reco is also in upper mngmnt's hands for those two
- just had a call with a decor vendor we have a $250k contract with for the same TOUR sponsor. had to settle some issues with roles/responsibilities. now I have to make a fucking status report to keep us all on the same page
- need to bother accounting now to make sure I get this check I need to overnight to another client (sponsor of the NFL)
- trying to reconcile the budget on a series of golf events one of my clients did in Q3
- need to submit my staffing reco's for The Masters in 07

You?

No wonder who haven't posted much lately.

 

[alien amp pharm]

what job is this? construction? architecture?

Structural Engineering, except I am not an engineer because I always hated school. Basically I do engineering work but I don't have the fancy stamp to put on prints.

Technically what we do is called "Consulting Engineering" because we do buildings, bridges, machinery, civil work, waterline runs, and other various trades.

 

[DannoMight]

Today
5:00 am woke up and seen it was raining and went back to bed
9;00 am woke up and took the famil yout to breakfast
11:30 took an hr nap
2:30 here

Usually its

5am wake up, 6:30 start work,somewhere between 9:30-11:00 take a half hr break and go til between 2:30 and 3:30 then go home and to the gym around 5:00pm

 

[slat1]

7am - I should have gotten up.
8am - I should be on my way to work.
9am - Seriously, I should be at work not just getting in my car.
10am - shake
11am - masturbate at desk
noon - go out for lunch
3pm - shake
4pm - masturbate at desk
4:30pm - think about skipping the gym since I am now tired.
4:35pm - try to remember what I was supposed to do all day.
4:40pm - leave for the gym.
*in between what I listed I am on the phone and emailing business associates.
*Lately, I have been getting business calls up until 11pm at night too.
Stress is HIGH. I am not sure if cutting back on masturbating has helped.

 

[PICK3]

7:00 a.m. - clock in
7:01 a.m. - assume the position

 

[youngguns]

i wake up at 6:30, give my kids lunch money, see them off to the busstop,
shower
go to physical therapy or to the gym

then i either buy groceries, or go home and clean up a little, pay bills, talk to my contractor/real estate agent/painter. sometimes I go out to lunch.

work on some artwork or my house (putting up door molding later)

at 2pm, i put my foot up and nap till 3 when the kids get home.

later, i make dinner and either write, do some artwork, or prepare for my class.

all that free time and you GIVE your child LUNCH money that they spend on CHIPS and POP? shame...

 

[stilleto]

all that free time and you GIVE your child LUNCH money that they spend on CHIPS and POP? shame...

a. no they don't. my daughter gets the salad bar at school every day and my boys get a sandwhich or yogurt. none of them drink soda.

b. they want to buy lunch.

c. shame? fuck you.

 

[youngguns]

a. no they don't. my daughter gets the salad bar at school every day and my boys get a sandwhich or yogurt. none of them drink soda.

b. they want to buy lunch.

c. shame? fuck you.

wow, bad day on the home front?..., hmm C&C, take a joke?

 

[stilleto]

wow, bad day on the home front?..., hmm C&C, take a joke?

nope, great day. like all my days.
i don't like to be judged- ESPECIALLY when it comes to how i take care of my kids.

to me, that's no joke.

 

[youngguns]

nope, great day. like all my days.
i don't like to be judged- ESPECIALLY when it comes to how i take care of my kids.

to me, that's no joke.

good to know for future reference.

 

[rykertest]

I have to check to make sure I put the covers on my TPS reports. Then I just zone out for about an hour. it looks like I'm working but I only do about 15 minutes of actual work in a day.

 

[Cutiebaby]

I am a stay at home mom..Do you honestly want to hear about my day?
Lol

 

[rykertest]

I am a stay at home mom..Do you honestly want to hear about my day?
Lol

Wake up and kick needto out of bed to go to work
Dirty Martini Break
Ricki Lake
Jerry SPringer
Dr.Phil
Cheese doodle break
Yell at needto when he gets home
OC
Desperate housewives
Dirty martini break
bed.

Wash and repeat.

 

[HiDnGoD]

Get up @ 5:00 to decide if I wanna go to the gym today.
Get Up at 6:10 & get to work for 7:00. Meeting/bullshit session with my boss & production manager.
Fix what's broke. Could be dog fucking all day, or could be knee deep in a CNC machine repair for 3 days straight.
Lunch on EF
Fix what's broke. Replace light sockets or outlets, weld benches, machine connecting rods, solder limit switches.
Home for weights, or gym for cardio.
Supper.
EF, or other computer shit.
Bed.

 

[Island Son]

8:30 work starts

9:45 I arrive. Talk to QA on how the software works for the doc he's writing

10:20 QA buys starbucks to chat, talks about his upcoming vacation. I took him out camera shopping so he's happy. Introduce myself and chat with cute Indian girl as she passes by our table.

10:40 Smoking hot Portugese girl gets on elevator. Introduce myself, we chat for a bit. No striking features but overall... wow. Really nice hair too.

12:00 lunch with old colleagues, one just bought a boat. Everyone else asks me about job openings. Sounds like I got out before everyone's soul got crushed.

1:20 back in. QA finds a bug in new software, previous results not showing. Doubting my own skills I take some time to check. Finally discover the mutual fund has tax year end of Dec 15, he used a test payout date of Dec 20. Therefore it's a different tax year, there are no previous results, it's not a bug. Remind myself that I'm pretty good.

1:45 Database guy finishes bugfix, it works in the test case but I want to be thorough. Nothing is allowed to f* up next weeks mutual fund distribution. Email accounting again that I need more samples, and a reply on a missing ledger code. Due to lack of resources, I say can't promise that we can fix things last-minute. No reply, they might know I'm bluffing; everything is secondary to them next week. Back to working on new program spec changes.

2:10 Accounting guy calls for some mock payouts to be run tomorrow morning. I find out the guy who does 90% of the work is out getting a root canal. And they were already swamped, so that explains the lack of reply. I take a break and email Xmas greets to various chix. Check some websites www.carnivalofpersonalfinance.com and www.carnivalofinvesting.net to see the weeks' roundup.

2:30 This doc is boring, I'm passing out again. Get some tea. Wave at one of the phone chix on the way in. She's coming over tomorrow night with a girlfriend to hang out.

3:10 Confirm sushi lunch date for tomorrow. She's sweet, funny and ambitious with a voice made for phonesex and a killer smile. If she was single, I'd propose and I'm NOT kidding, 100% wife material.

3:30 Get bored with the document, start updating the program in my "sandbox" (that's like a private copy, changes I make here don't affect anyone else until I "commit" them to the sourcecode). OK, now I feel like I'm doing something with my day. I'll go back to the specs tomorrow b/c I have to finish next week, review with Accounting two weeks later but build the result before I review it with them.

4:30 Check Yahoo/Gmail/phone again. I keep the phone on silent during the day. Hm, a hot friend just got a bartending job at the amazing club I was at last week. Damn, I don't want to go there again so soon, but she might not last long and there'd be no cover. I'll call her later.

5:00 Leave. I'll try to be in early tomorrow b/c I'm taking a half-day.

I was a software engineer for 10 yrs and I enjoy being able to build cool software - so now I can still work within that space but not actually have to be "Dilbert" tied to my computer for 22 of 24 hrs/day.

luv u *smooch*

 

[Sassy69]

luv u *smooch*

Its a lifestyle, eh ?

 

[theoak01]

my days vary depending on assignment and duties set out by the client,so ill give an example of this job and one i did before

live in a hotel
get up and drive to the job site
sit in a van and when transport trucks come to the pickit line i approach the line and ensure the driver and the truck isnt being damaged or anything, at 20 minutes the truck comes in because we have an injunction in place.
I do that all day when trucks come,which isnt too often,the rest of the time i eat,read,sleep,whatever. this is the boring type of assignment.

another one I was running escort for trucks leaving a job site.
union members would try and run myself and the truck off the road,throw shit at us as we go down the highway, I had a PI with me filiming to use as evidence in court.
one particular day i had 6 cars try and block me in,they smashed my tailights with a bat then chased me too the police station and then left,to get there i drove through a ditch in a maxima,and damn near died.

another example was I got shot at while I was out east this summer working a strike in a mine.

it can be great or a bore

 

[HiDnGoD]

my days vary depending on assignment and duties set out by the client,so ill give an example of this job and one i did before

live in a hotel
get up and drive to the job site
sit in a van and when transport trucks come to the pickit line i approach the line and ensure the driver and the truck isnt being damaged or anything, at 20 minutes the truck comes in because we have an injunction in place.
I do that all day when trucks come,which isnt too often,the rest of the time i eat,read,sleep,whatever. this is the boring type of assignment.

another one I was running escort for trucks leaving a job site.
union members would try and run myself and the truck off the road,throw shit at us as we go down the highway, I had a PI with me filiming to use as evidence in court.
one particular day i had 6 cars try and block me in,they smashed my tailights with a bat then chased me too the police station and then left,to get there i drove through a ditch in a maxima,and damn near died.

another example was I got shot at while I was out east this summer working a strike in a mine.

it can be great or a bore

Holy shit, bro! feast or famine,eh?

 

[jh1]

my days vary depending on assignment and duties set out by the client,so ill give an example of this job and one i did before

live in a hotel
get up and drive to the job site
sit in a van and when transport trucks come to the pickit line i approach the line and ensure the driver and the truck isnt being damaged or anything, at 20 minutes the truck comes in because we have an injunction in place.
I do that all day when trucks come,which isnt too often,the rest of the time i eat,read,sleep,whatever. this is the boring type of assignment.

another one I was running escort for trucks leaving a job site.
union members would try and run myself and the truck off the road,throw shit at us as we go down the highway, I had a PI with me filiming to use as evidence in court.
one particular day i had 6 cars try and block me in,they smashed my tailights with a bat then chased me too the police station and then left,to get there i drove through a ditch in a maxima,and damn near died.

another example was I got shot at while I was out east this summer working a strike in a mine.

it can be great or a bore

You fuggin win... best low down on a day so far...

 

[PICK3]

I am a stay at home mom..Do you honestly want to hear about my day?
Lol

lol!

Angel = Peg Bundy

 

[Cutiebaby]

Wake up and kick needto out of bed to go to work
Dirty Martini Break
Ricki Lake
Jerry SPringer
Dr.Phil
Cheese doodle break
Yell at needto when he gets home
OC
Desperate housewives
Dirty martini break
bed.

Wash and repeat.

uhm, nope.
I dont watch silly talk shows, I dont eat cheese doodles, I dont like martinis!

 

[cboogsrun]

Structural Engineering, except I am not an engineer because I always hated school. Basically I do engineering work but I don't have the fancy stamp to put on prints.

Technically what we do is called "Consulting Engineering" because we do buildings, bridges, machinery, civil work, waterline runs, and other various trades.

Too bad you can't stamp a set of plans, your bank account would be nice. I'm always on the phone with engineer's assistants. I feel bad for those guys. Do all the leg work calculating load parimeters and all the other shit and make 50k a year, while the douche bag who looks over your work pulls in 150k. If he works for himself he'll pull in way more than that.

 

[Mr. dB]

What is a 40-page deck, and by finishing it does that mean you finished writing it, or reading it?

 

[jenscats5]

Hmmmmmm, lessee - it kinda varies a bit.....

Get up around 6:30am, get ready for work, leave the house by 7:30am and am at my desk by 7:45am......

Open & check any email......log on to the AS400 system then make coffee........check the bals in the cash accounts......mid-morning I run upstairs to look for mail and do any journal entries or post any NSF checks.....take my 1/2 hour lunch around 12:30pm and leave work @ 4:15pm & walk over to the gym.....home by about 5:30/6:00pm......

 

[bigmann245]

10:00 pm get to work
10:01 pm stand in my spot
3:00 am leave my spot
3:01 am go home

i have the most boring job in the world. i had a job interview yesterday ill find out next week if i got the job. i need to get out of the club scene. i cant stand it anymore. i cant wait till school is over then get a REAL job. i get my associates degree next summer then off to business school at the University of North Florida.

 

[jnevin]

The funny thing about this thread, is it reminds me of when I took over as branch manager at my last job and met my new RVP for the first time. The guy seemed to have a decent sense of humor from talking to him on the phone. The previous RVP promoted me, so I didn't know him well at all. He took me into the conference room, sat in a swivel chairlooked at the geigh ass corporate artwork on the wall, took a deep breath, and said, "Ok, take me through your typical work day." He sounded like the guys from Office Space, so I thought he was joking. So I started with the Office Space bit about getting there late, etc. He hadn't seen the movie and I packpedaled for about an hour. Self pwnage.

 

[Spartacus]

at the moment for example I'm in my office while a funeral is going on
when I hear amazing grace start to play
I have to go do "showtime" for a while
got an old man to embalm sometime this afternoon

 

[theoak01]

Holy shit, bro! feast or famine,eh?

ya there is no middle at all,and shit can go bad so fast it isnt funny, ive been working a strike and the caw flyign squad shows up with 4 charter buses of people and they just storm the place,scary shit

 

[ck2006]

6:00 am make lunch for hubby and my boys and sit and have a coffee before the rush
6:30 am say goodbye to hubby and make my girls breakfast
7:00 am wake up my boys and make them breakfast
7:30 am check my emails
7:45 am clean up breakfast
8:00 am make sure boys get to school
8:30 am go workout in basement
9:30 am clean up basemen with girls
10:00 am snack time
10:30 am craft time
11:30 am make lunch
12:30-3:30 pm work from home, take girls to park, gymplay or library
3:30 pm make sure boys come home and help with homework, start supper
5:30 pm eat supper, bath everyone, clean the house, do the wash and study if I have the energy when the kids go to bed

rinse and repeat

 

[jackangel]

10:00 am - masturbate.

10:04 am - .

 

[superqt4u2nv]

7:45-8:00 am get to work strar my computer up get breakfast and coffee
8:30-10:00 check email and csr/rma crap
10:00-11:00 have a snack then call some customers
11:00-12:00 do some quotes
12:00-3:00 on the phone some more with customers or vendors making miracles happen basically
around 2:30 have a snake
3:00-5:30 more quotes, order etc make sure eveything that needs to get done that day gets done
around 5:00 have something to eat
after that head to the gym

 

[needtogetaas]

I walk in on monday talk to my shift leaders about ods and ends and get a list of things we need till fry day.do my orders right the sceg give the kitchen and walk ins a once over
and I am out until fry day unless some one calls in or something happens or I have a big function or a large number of party reserves some time in the week or next week week.if I have a large function coming up I may spend some time plaining it.I pretty much dont show my face again still fry day morning.I come in on fry day make the specials for the week end make a few menu changes do my orders for the week end go over the books check the kitchen and walk ins have a staff meeting and go over all the changes with the wait staff and cooks.maybe help out for the rush or watch the food as it comes out and send any thing I don't like back.I love doing that cuz I know the cooks hate me for it.lol pat a few guys on the back tell them how great they are yell at a dumb waitress or to just to flex my authority.talk with some customers ask them how every thing is then go home.the place runs its self I just make shore it dos.I have the beast staff I have ever seen and I hope I can keep them all but I know the biss and it never happens like that.sooner or latter I am going to busting my ass 90+ hours
a week and every thing will go to shit but for now things could not be better.
when I first took the job it seemed I was doomed to spend my life there I was working all day every day but its winter and I finely got a good team.all is well till summer.lol

 

[jackangel]

10:00 am - masturbate.

10:04 am - .

omg u 2??

 

[needtogetaas]

6:00 am make lunch for hubby and my boys and sit and have a coffee before the rush
6:30 am say goodbye to hubby and make my girls breakfast
7:00 am wake up my boys and make them breakfast
7:30 am check my emails
7:45 am clean up breakfast
8:00 am make sure boys get to school
8:30 am go workout in basement
9:30 am clean up basemen with girls
10:00 am snack time
10:30 am craft time
11:30 am make lunch
12:30-3:30 pm work from home, take girls to park, gymplay or library
3:30 pm make sure boys come home and help with homework, start supper
5:30 pm eat supper, bath everyone, clean the house, do the wash and study if I have the energy when the kids go to bed

rinse and repeat

so in other words you don't do shit all day.

 

[ck2006]

so in other words you don't do shit all day.

Yeah, yeah looks like you know what that is like by the sounds of your work day

 

[Lestat]

Killahbee, how long until you are out of the admin role and into upper management?

The day in the life of a Programmer Analyst

Get into work around 9am. Check email, phone message (if any), check to make sure data loads that process nightly ran. Get breakfast and coffee.

Respond to any emails, usually users asking for access to some reporting projects I've deployed. Sometimes answer user question on how to use the software I support. Answer questions on project status.

Usually 1-2 meetings per day. 1-2 hours each. To discuss current projects, department status, or any variety of topics that take more than 2-3 together in a room to accomplish.

I meet with users to discuss reporting needs. I develop reports for them. I monitor databases and tune tables based on particulary query needs. I interview potential candidates for IT positions in my group. I move things from a development to a test then to a production environment.

I'm usually either managing a project. Which means assigning tasks, tracking resources, resolving issues, identifying risks, providing status, etc. Or I am a developer on a project and assigned some specific development specifications which I usually flush out and develop. Almost half of my time is spend doing is is called "sustainment" which is making sure what we've got now continued to work as is.

On Friday I got a call from the manager of payroll saying that some of their reports were timing out. I checked the servers and we were getting 60 requests per minute! The highest load I've ever seen on these report servers. It was because it was the last day a particular benefit could be used and people were running a report to see if they had used it yet this year. In hindsight, we probably should have ran that report for the entire company over night and emailed the results to all employees to prevent the mid day surge in usage.

 

[needtogetaas]

Yeah, yeah looks like you know what that is like by the sounds of your work day

true.but I have my busy times.

 

[ck2006]

true.but I have my busy times.

exactly

 

[needtogetaas]

exactly

I slept in to late today now I cant sleep.lol

 

[ck2006]

I slept in to late today now I cant sleep.lol

I am finally tired, gotta get up early tomorrow, you have kids too, how can you possibly sleep in????? That is a foreign concept to me now LOL

 

[needtogetaas]

I am finally tired, gotta get up early tomorrow, you have kids too, how can you possibly sleep in????? That is a foreign concept to me now LOL

meh they all sit around me and play waiting for me to wake up.my wife tries to keep them off of me but they just cant wait for me to walk up.my kids are pretty good at letting me sleep they will not tuch me or make to much noise they just sit close to me and play and wait till they see me open my eyes once i do forget it there is no going back to sleep.

 

[ck2006]

meh they all sit around me and play waiting for me to wake up.my wife tries to keep them off of me but they just cant wait for me to walk up.my kids are pretty good at letting me sleep they will not tuch me or make to much noise they just sit close to me and play and wait till they see me open my eyes once i do forget it there is no going back to sleep.

My husband is not soo lucky, the girls are all over him in the morning, but let me sleep in, but I think it is cause he worked out of town for sooo many years that they have separation anxiety. When hubby gets up in the morning, my older daughter has radar and runs down stairs. lOL

 

[Spartacus]

just finished a high profile funeral
the widow winked at me before I rolled the casket into the church
she knows me and it was a nice gesture

 

[Big Rick Rock]

Oh gosh....

I won't even get into my day.




-BRR

 

[Lestat]

Oh gosh....

I won't even get into my day.




-BRR

i'd like to hear about a typical day of an EF employee

 

[ponyfitness]

5am wake up, usually first client at 6 or 6:15/6:30.
6am convince an insecure woman she is not weak and/or fat.
7:30 talk music history with a producer
8:30 talk real estate with his wife
9:30-11:30 relax and eat
12:30 Fix a guys back
1:30 Convince a guy that he needs to start running if he's going to do a marathon.
2:30 Flirt with a housewife who wants to sleep with me but can't
3:30-5:30 eat and nap and internet surf
6:30 Listen to a very boring man tell me about his latest writing project or the printer he fixed that day
7:30 Enjoy chatting with an elderly vietnam vet who is tough as nails.
8:30 home to eat again and maybe jerk off before bed.

Oh, and these people are all working out at the same time. I rarely have that many people in one day but that's a typical profile, either morning/midday or morning/evening. Days I get more time I sleep more. The starting work at 6 and finishing at 8:30 gets to me though after a while even with the breaks in the day.

 

[Longhorn85]

Make me understand what you do, what your day looks like.

0600 - Wake up/Commute
0700 - Workout at the office gym/Shower
0800 - Coffee, check email
0900 - Review daily schedule, scan paperwork
1000 -1200 - Meetings, Coordination for upcoming training, events
1200 -1330 Long Lunch, maybe workout again
1330 - 1700 Meetings, Give or prepare briefings, coordination, planning
1700 -1800 Email, work projects
1800 - go home

 

[Longhorn85]

nope, great day. like all my days.
i don't like to be judged- ESPECIALLY when it comes to how i take care of my kids.

to me, that's no joke.

So defensive. Why did you post it if you didn't want scrutiny?

 

[biteme]

wake up between 3 and 5 p.m.
eat
get on internet for 30 minutes to a few hours
get chores done
wait for gf to come home
play with gf
get on computer again while gf sleeps
go to bed around 3 to 5 am
play with gf

 

[jenscats5]

So defensive. Why did you post it if you didn't want scrutiny?

How does one posting about one's day warrant scrutiny?? And who are you to judge another??

 

[Daisy_Girl]

Average Day ....

5:45am - up, shower, get ready
6:15-20am - make and eat breakfast
6:30am - wake up the baby, dress her, play with her, feed her
7:15 - leave for work
7:40 - get to work
7:45-8:20 - check mailbox, pick up attendance folders, go to my classroom, check emails and voicemails, get things ready for the day/week (whatever I did not do the night before)
8:20-8:45 - meetings with coworkers, administration or parents
8:45 - finish getting things ready for day/week
9:00 - pick up the students (28 of them), talk to parents, students start working at their seats
9:10 - last morning bell rings, start teaching stuff
10:30 - snack time, for them and me
11:40 - morning class leaves
11:50 - take the stragglers to office to call their parents to come get their poor children
11:50-12:35 - lunch, check email & voicemail, clean room & prepare room for afternoon class
12:35 - playground duty
12:50 - pick up my afternoon class (30 of them), talk to parents, students start working
1:00 - start teaching stuff
2:20 - snack time, for them and me
3:21 - afternoon class dismissed
3:31 - my day *technically* is over, paid contract time is 8:20-3:21 each day

3:31-4:00-15 (or so) - clean room, get things ready for the next day/s, meet with parents, return phone calls and emails
4:15-30 - go pick up baby, bring her home and play with her until her bedtime (8:00-30) then go to the gym once she is sleeping

 

[Razorguns]

i work like 3 jobs, 18 hour days. i get 6 hours a sleep a day. way too much shit. guitars, reading, phone calls, computer work, driving, tinkering with gadgets, pr work, military, you name it. for fun, i head to the gym.

 

[mountain muscle]

LOL KB,

I just looked at this thread.

Typical winter day on the rig? Well there is no typical really because there is always something different to take care of when you're drilling.

Get up by 3 am, 2pm if I am on morning tour. Coffee or rockstar time.
Take the boys out for 30 minutes or so and make food for the day. I Always have a cooler big enough I can lay inside, full of food because you never know how long you will be there.
Drive out to the rig within an hour of getting up. At the rig talk to the Relief driller, toolpusher and company man to get lined out on what is happening. I make rounds every day when I get there, check out all the motors, pumps, mud, shakers, agitators, BOP, Choke mud lines, hydraulic lines, air lines, water lines, sub, mast, derrick, drawworks, rotary table, torque converters, scr house, Koomey, water tank, fuel tank, water levels, basically everything.
By then I have at least a page or two or things that need to be fixed, worked on or maintained.
Back to the doghouse to check and fix the IADC and morning report. Wonder why the relief driller is so stupid. Fix the Pason and check the weight indicator, standpipe manifold pump pressure gauge.
Make a hook or 4 while doing all of this, depending on the hole conditions and formation, p-rate etc.
Line out all the hands. Give the derrickhand shit for being stupid. Line out all the hands for a few hours. Fix more equipment. Train the hands on how not to be stupid. Make some hooks, slides, drink some coffee.
Repeat everything for 12 hours at least.
Granted, I do a lot more as a driller than most of the drillers I know.
If you have a bad crew, it is the driller's fault. period. I learn something new everyday, and train and retrain my boys everyday. If you're fat, out of shape, a smoker or a drunk you won't make a hand for me long.
I run 2 or 3 BOP drills every day. No one on my crew will be scared nor untrained when that hole comes at us.
No one on my crew will not be a driller soon.
I know most of this is greek and I left out a majority of things through my day. I will try to get some photots and explain the operation when I get time.
Comes down to this. I love the patch. I don't ever see myself in an office, I just would go crazy.

 

[-SD-]

Dont forget to include your cover sheets for your TPS reports, m'kay?
Greaaaaaaat.

 

[mountain muscle]

Dont forget to include your cover sheets for your TPS reports, m'kay?
Greaaaaaaat.

Not now Lumberg, we're taking a kick. Get the fuck off my floor.

 

[HiDnGoD]

Very intersting to hear the geekspeak form all the different professions.

 

[Wulfgar]

Day is pretty much a jumble of conference calls and meetings with lawyers, payroll, salesmen, accountants, advisors, employees, ect
thank god my secretary schedules my meetings. Id be totally magoo if I had to do it all myself

 

[Longhorn85]

How does one posting about one's day warrant scrutiny?? And who are you to judge another??

Making your personal life public will always result in scrutiny whether it is voiced or reserved, justified or unjustified.

I think most of us understand that.

I have not commented on anyone else's schedule (yet), but I would have absolutely no problem doing so if I felt the urge.

Lighten up, Francis

 

[stilleto]

So defensive. Why did you post it if you didn't want scrutiny?

why did i post what? that i give my kids lunch money?

are you seriously asking me this? it seems a stupid question, even for you.

 

[KillahBee]

Killahbee, how long until you are out of the admin role and into upper management?

not sure if that was supposed to be a joke or not, but I am FAR from admin role. I don't work in the corporate world, so there's no "upper management" per se, but if I had to label it, I would say I am middle management right now (there are only 2 levels above me - Director and VP).

 

[Bikini Mod]

Make me understand what you do, what your day looks like. For example, I know Scots and maybe even mountain muscle work with oil or some shit, but I have NO CLUE what that entails.

A decent example of my day is today thus far:

- Finished a 40 page deck on recommended employee leveraging/activation concepts/tactics for a client of mine who is the biggest sponsor of the PGA TOUR. That one is currently in the hands of upper management...now I just have to wait for the 7,000 revisions
- negotiated two PGA TOUR contracts for 07 for the same client. My reco is also in upper mngmnt's hands for those two
- just had a call with a decor vendor we have a $250k contract with for the same TOUR sponsor. had to settle some issues with roles/responsibilities. now I have to make a fucking status report to keep us all on the same page
- need to bother accounting now to make sure I get this check I need to overnight to another client (sponsor of the NFL)
- trying to reconcile the budget on a series of golf events one of my clients did in Q3
- need to submit my staffing reco's for The Masters in 07

You?

With the exception of training a client here and there I havent gotten a paycheck since DEC of 05.

But DAMMIT... I will be working again soon. I guess the vacation is over.

*scratches head*

I wonder what it will be like to be a radio talkshow co-host and oil and gas tycoon, who knows.. maybe actually take my artwork more seriously... LMFAO

I'll be sure to let ya'll know.

 

[stilleto]

How does one posting about one's day warrant scrutiny?? And who are you to judge another??

seriously.

i think we (you and I), both know where his comment came from though.

 

[Longhorn85]

i wake up at 6:30, give my kids lunch money, see them off to the busstop,
shower
go to physical therapy or to the gym

then i either buy groceries, or go home and clean up a little, pay bills, talk to my contractor/real estate agent/painter. sometimes I go out to lunch.

work on some artwork or my house (putting up door molding later)

at 2pm, i put my foot up and nap till 3 when the kids get home.

later, i make dinner and either write, do some artwork, or prepare for my class.

why did i post what? that i give my kids lunch money?

are you seriously asking me this? it seems a stupid question, even for you.

Ok, I am applying some serious scrutiny to your post, at the risk of drawing your ire:

Conclusion = Add to the end of the list jump in the bed w/LH85 and it looks very similar to my wife's schedule. (Except she makes the kids lunches only because they don't like the cafeteria food).

 

[Bikini Mod]

Ok, I am applying some serious scrutiny to your post, at the risk of drawing your ire:

Conclusion = Add to the end of the list jump in the bed w/LH85 and it looks very similar to my wife's schedule. (Except she makes the kids lunches only because they don't like the cafeteria food).

Cut it out both of you! Do I have to send you both to the corner for a time out?!

*taps foot*

Hopefully my days will look like Stiletto's and Mrs Longhorne's again someday in the not too distant future.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Work day?

Boink the old lady make her breakfast whilst she recovers, head to the office about 8 or nine ish have coffee, attend a meeting get ready for lunch pick up the old lady and head to some local bar. (one paragraph sentences are my fav.)

After a couple cocktails head to the homestead and boink the old lady, poass out and endure yet another day having to work. Good darn thing Fridays are a non work day. 5 days in a row would kill me.

 

[Longhorn85]

Hmmm. That is the first time in 5 yrs here that I have received red karma for a routine comment. I know Mother's are defensive when it comes to their kids but apparently someone hit a Stiletto-nerve.

Ironically, you have been designated a "moderator" on a discussion board, yet you have tremendously thin skin.

I'd like to think that you were selected for a reason other than coming in with tits flashing, but I don't think that is the case judging by your reaction here.

 

[stilleto]

Ok, I am applying some serious scrutiny to your post, at the risk of drawing your ire:

Conclusion = Add to the end of the list jump in the bed w/LH85 and it looks very similar to my wife's schedule. (Except she makes the kids lunches only because they don't like the cafeteria food).

ok...
so in what way did i invite scrutiny regarding my parenting skills that would warrant anyone saying "shame on you for not making their lunch"?

 

[Longhorn85]

Making your personal life public will always result in scrutiny whether it is voiced or reserved, justified or unjustified.

...

 

[KillahBee]

LOL KB,

I just looked at this thread.

Typical winter day on the rig? Well there is no typical really because there is always something different to take care of when you're drilling.

Get up by 3 am, 2pm if I am on morning tour. Coffee or rockstar time.
Take the boys out for 30 minutes or so and make food for the day. I Always have a cooler big enough I can lay inside, full of food because you never know how long you will be there.
Drive out to the rig within an hour of getting up. At the rig talk to the Relief driller, toolpusher and company man to get lined out on what is happening. I make rounds every day when I get there, check out all the motors, pumps, mud, shakers, agitators, BOP, Choke mud lines, hydraulic lines, air lines, water lines, sub, mast, derrick, drawworks, rotary table, torque converters, scr house, Koomey, water tank, fuel tank, water levels, basically everything.
By then I have at least a page or two or things that need to be fixed, worked on or maintained.
Back to the doghouse to check and fix the IADC and morning report. Wonder why the relief driller is so stupid. Fix the Pason and check the weight indicator, standpipe manifold pump pressure gauge.
Make a hook or 4 while doing all of this, depending on the hole conditions and formation, p-rate etc.
Line out all the hands. Give the derrickhand shit for being stupid. Line out all the hands for a few hours. Fix more equipment. Train the hands on how not to be stupid. Make some hooks, slides, drink some coffee.
Repeat everything for 12 hours at least.
Granted, I do a lot more as a driller than most of the drillers I know.
If you have a bad crew, it is the driller's fault. period. I learn something new everyday, and train and retrain my boys everyday. If you're fat, out of shape, a smoker or a drunk you won't make a hand for me long.
I run 2 or 3 BOP drills every day. No one on my crew will be scared nor untrained when that hole comes at us.
No one on my crew will not be a driller soon.
I know most of this is greek and I left out a majority of things through my day. I will try to get some photots and explain the operation when I get time.
Comes down to this. I love the patch. I don't ever see myself in an office, I just would go crazy.

I totally understood every word you just said. Especially the standpipe manifold pump pressure gauge part. We're totally in sync.

Would love to see some pics dude. Very interesting ish.

I can't even change a friggin car tire.

 

[stilleto]

Hmmm. That is the first time in 5 yrs here that I have received red karma for a routine comment. I know Mother's are defensive when it comes to their kids but apparently someone hit a Stiletto-nerve.

Ironically, you have been designated a "moderator" on a discussion board, yet you have tremendously thin skin.

I'd like to think that you were selected for a reason other than coming in with tits flashing, but I don't think that is the case judging by your reaction here.

i give red k when i don't like someone's post. has nothing to do with thin skin, since I can count on one hand the number of people who have gotten it from me.
someone cares enough about it to go crying in a post about it though.
want a tissue?

 

[Longhorn85]

No tissue required, I just wanted to shed the light of day on your childish behavior.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

I totally understood every word you just said. Especially the standpipe manifold pump pressure gauge part. We're totally in sync.

Would love to see some pics dude. Very interesting ish.

I can't even change a friggin car tire.

Damn now you have both sides of the O & G business.. I am REALLY glad I don't have a tool pusher yellin at me all day....

 

[stilleto]

No tissue required, I just wanted to shed the light of day on your childish behavior.

awwww, is wittle longhorn upset because he got red k?

who's childish? BWAAAAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAAA.
yes, good thing you 'shed the light of day'.

 

[Longhorn85]

Behold the proverbial "woman scorned"

 

[stilleto]

Behold the proverbial "woman scorned"

scorned? by you?
great memory you have there.

 

[jnuts]

Fly - it's a good day

Don't fly - gobs of ass pain staff work that blows

I don't fly enough.

 

[mountain muscle]

Damn now you have both sides of the O & G business.. I am REALLY glad I don't have a tool pusher yellin at me all day....

You want me to yell at you instead? For the most part the Pusher stays out of my hair. I do get my ass chewed from time to time, usually the Pusher and Company man team up on me.

I was told not to be so hard on the hands after I put a roll of toilet paper on the chain hands tongs and told him not to be such a fucking cry baby.
Poor little texan wormo.

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

hows the sulfide gas, mm?

 

[mountain muscle]

hows the sulfide gas, mm?

JMO!

We don't get any where I am drilling now. Hell we don't even have a positive pressure mask on location. Just fast holing through to about 1000ft above TD. We don't even mud up until then.
Can you say easy duty?

I finally got my rep phone so I will give you a hollar later today. Maybe we can meet up for the Broncos game and you can start your conversian to a real team.

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

haha sounds good.

 

[jenscats5]

Making your personal life public will always result in scrutiny whether it is voiced or reserved, justified or unjustified.

I think most of us understand that.

I have not commented on anyone else's schedule (yet), but I would have absolutely no problem doing so if I felt the urge.

Lighten up, Francis

Lighten up what?? I was simply asking a question...... what? it's ok for you to scrutinize someone's day but not ok for someone to ask a ? ala scrutinize something you posted??

I just don't see the need to get on someone's case about what they do during the day......Interesting you feel the need to....

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

hey jens, I'm going snowboarding today at Arapaho Basin... sound fun?

 

[jenscats5]

hey jens, I'm going snowboarding today at Arapaho Basin... sound fun?

Yes!! Sounds like a lot of fun!! I'm jealous!

 

[rsnoble-im-back]

Get up 445am. Drive 50 miles to current worksite which currently is constructing new bldg for the Cerner Corp. Stop at Sonic in the am. Arrive, go to work at 7am. Right now im installing large fire dampers. This consists of uncrating items, manual moving them with 1 other person(they weigh about 300lbs each) and installing them 20' above the ground at the rate of 12-15 a day. At 10am I hit the gut truck for a breakfast plate.......fried eggs with cheese, fried potatoes, sausage&bacon, half order biscuits with gravy and toast all for only $5.50. At noon I hit the gut truck again for whatever lunch special. I continue this horseshit till 3pm at which time I take off my tool belt and clean up and leave the job by 315 and am home by 430. This job pays roughly $40/hr and is extremely demanding. Much worse than I described. When I get home I check all my stock charts for entries or exits and either workout or go to work on some project around here.