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by ChristopherDrum 1239 days ago
Married, no children

5:55am - Wake up and have a light breakfast

6:30am - Start the work day

11:30ish - Lunch

3:30pm - Finish work day; I cannot stress how great it is to start and end the work day early (I have to work during 3 "core hours" but my schedule is flexible beyond that). It is like I have my entire day left ahead of me to enjoy.

3:30pm - Take a walk; this is a somewhat new addition to the schedule and has become quite critical. It dawned on my how important my daily walk to-from work was to my health and how I had lost that, so I reinstated walking into the routine.

4:00pm - Finish up house chores (folding laundry, vacuuming, etc)

4:30pm - Play games for while to flush the day's work from my mind, then work on personal projects, before my wife gets home. If need be, I do external chores (grocery shopping, for example)

Exercise every other day in the evening.

Someone asked about meetings, and to tell the truth I tend to have shockingly few meetings. Big group meetings (all staff, all engineers, all team) are relatively rare. Beyond those, I have almost nothing. For example, this week I have one (1) 30-minute meeting. Next week I have three (3) meetings, totaling four (4) hours.

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I have two daily meetings that often go to 1hr, and at least two other meetings each day. Then, twice a week we have an "all hands" meeting. Crazy.
Yeah, I'd say even within my current company I'm a bit of an outlier. I'll be looking for a new job in the semi-near future and these meeting-free glory days will likely come to an end.