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by mikmeh 3326 days ago
Profession/position: Sysadmin - full time, remote - < 50 employees

Workday:

    - 7:45am Wake up. Let the dog out. Slowly try to wear off soreness from psoriatic arthritis. Get coffee. Go to office. 
    - 8am Check email, hipchat, reports and alerts that came in that weren't critical enough to SMS me. 
    - 9am Do the needful from jira, that I assigned myself. I'm the only sysadmin/ITops/devops person. Add more tasks to jira. My sprint ends with more story points than it started with. I know, but I like using scrum and sprints even if I'm doing it all wrong. It's just me. I also like to schedule meetings between 9am - 11am.  
    - 11am Keep plugging away at jira tasks, try to stay away from /r/sysadmin which will only add more jira tasks. 
    - 1pmish 3 days/week go for lunch ride on the bike. < 1 hour/15 miles 
    - 3pm Mon/Wed Meet with CTO to go over the needfuls
    - 4pm Start wrapping things up so I don't get stuck with a task that keeps me until 7pm. 
    - 6pmish Eat dinner with kids. Play with kids. Go to the park or a walk with the kids if wife is working out, or we all go. 
    - 8pm Watch too much godamn TV. Office re-runs, shark tank, something mindless to veg out on. I'm trying to switch this habit to an hour of reading non fiction. 
    - 10pm-12am Go to bed. Read crappy pop scifi for an hour before falling asleep. 
I love it. Very easy to get distracted, but I am distracted with work to do. I end up reading about some new vulnerability or 0day and I start checking to see if I need to worry about it. Or a new tech that could be useful. New feature was released in Azure/o365.