What's your average day like?

[Richard Millington]

I asked Martin Reed this in the interview and got an interesting answer.

Now I want to throw it open to all Commaniacs. What's an averaging working day like for you?

[Matt Cheney]

I love this question, and look forward to hearing all your answers. Here's my day/night/morning:

Wake up at 8AM and hang out with my 16 month old son Cooper. I read some emails and RSS feeds, then close my laptop until 1. After Cooper and I take our afternoon naps, he plays with his toys while I start answering emails and visiting my communities, mostly reading.

I'll plan out what projects I need to work on that day, and start in on the small tasks. It's against the "big rock" theory but it's tough to move a big rock when you can be disrupted by a hungry/cranky/smelly child. There's usually a few phone calls/conference calls I'll take, and usually check in on Digg and Twitter.

My wife gets home from her real job around 6:30, we have dinner together and she takes over kid duties for the night. I work on the projects identified during the afternoon from 8:00PM until 1AM. The projects vary from day to day, so on Monday night I may be editing a phone interview for a podcast, Tuesday I'm tweaking a WordPress or Ning design, Weds I'm doing research and writing a proposal, etc.

After 1AM I get my email inbox to zero (or very close) and go back to my communities to read and participate. I'll read my RSS or check Digg before turning in around 3AM.

That's my day/night/morning. What's yours like?

[Carlos Miceli]

Mostly, not enough. I work 9 to 18, but always take time to work on my projects, but i usually feel that i hadn't done enough. I think this is good though, to do as much as you can every day, 'cause even if you didn't accomplish as much as you wanted to, you still have tomorrow.

So basically, that's my day, work with blogging and writing in between those little office breaks, and some classes of different topics after work throught the week.

[Ryan Stephens]

I wake up a little after 6AM and get ready for work. I get something for breakfast and eat it at the computer reading RSS feeds, and getting prepared for the day.

I usually make it into work by 7:15-7:30 and read a couple of posts to get my brain working before I delve into work.

I work on various work projects (which are usually pretty cool). I work for Sports Media Challenge as a Media Analyst, which basically means that I monitor buzz on our clients (athletes, D1 athletic programs, etc.) and then leverage that information to build social media marketing campaigns for them.

I usually bring my lunch (or go snag Subway) with Friday as the exception so I can eat quickly and work on my own projects/continue to catch up on my feed reader/comment on blogs for a half hour. This usually takes place from 12:00-12:30, and then I get back to work until 6:00.

I get home and clean up around the apt until about 6:30. I go workout and run Mon-Thurs from 6:30-8:00pm. Then I cook and eat dinner and work on my own initiatives between until between 11 and 1. On Wednesday's I watch LOST.

[Richard Millington]

I currently live in Vilnius, Lithuanian, but my clients are based in USA/Canada - so I mostly work on USA time (which I love).

I wake up at about 10am and I start working at about 11.30am (I work from home, easy commute).

I'll aim to get the absolute worst task of my day done first and then reward myself by reading feeds/facebook etc. From 12ish I'm back doing client work (e-mailing, phone calls, content, building/designing etc) until about 3 for lunch. If I haven't written a blog post, I'll pick an idea from a livewriter and write it up.

Then from 3 until 7 I work again until my GF gets home. We watch films, go out in Vilnius etc. Then I do a final burst of work from 9 until 1.

It varies a lot, but there's a typical day.

[Angela Connor]

There is no such thing. My days are always different. The only constant is getting up at 5:15, waking up my children, packing lunches, combing hair, making breakfast and taking them to school. Once I enter the office who knows what I'm walking into. My community for lack of a better word, is insane. There are really good people there but they are intense and passionate and some are downright babies.

[Paul C.]

I am a retired English teacher, now half time literacy coach/coordinator for my school board. My days vary but it is exciting to think about new opportunities when I am not consulting with teachers. I am an avid blogger and hope to eventually move forward with a community idea on a values theme. My site is here.

[Becky]

Sleep until I wake up. That might be 5 a.m. or noon. It depends on how late I was up the night before. Let the dog out. Email and social network checks, go to the gym - workout three days a week, 1-2 hours for workout/travel time. From there on - it varies every day. Some days I have a photo shoot to do, a plant to visit, clients to check in with. Lately, I spend 75% of my day working on my book, updating my blog, helping friends from social networks on their projects or working on a paying project. If I get inspired, I can stay up until 4 or 5 a.m. writing, designing.

[Michael Little]

Generally wake up around 7:30, check my emails and catch on the latest from the blogosphere. Quick breakfast then it's off to Hapkido training for a few hours. After that come home and get stuck into the web development for the day. Dinner and a brief bit of TV. Then sometimes off to the marina for a bit of prawn trawling out in the ocean til some ungodly hour of the morning.

[David Williams]

I get up at about 6 a.m. (okay, 6:30) and then get dressed and my wife and I get our daughter ready for school. Then I skim my email while the coffee's brewing in case there's something I need to jump on. Then I hop in the car for the 45 minute high-speed bumper car ride we call the Atlanta rush hour.
When I get to work at about 8 a.m., I go through my email again.

Then I read through all of the comments that were flagged as violations the previous day to see if there are any problems. If a user was causing trouble, I look through all of his or her comments to see if its a pattern or just a one time thing. Then I decide if I need to send a warning or if stronger action is needed.

I try to have all of the enforcement stuff done by around 10 a.m., so I can focus on more fun and/or productive projects. Today, I was contacting some of our favorite users, who we haven't heard from in a few weeks. Last week I was putting together a new metrics report.

Sprinkle in a few meetings, training sessions for our editorial staff, replying to user questions and piles and piles of email, and that's my day.

I get home at about 5:30 or 6 p.m and then check the email because it seems like something always happens during the 45 minutes I'm driving home.

Then I unplug for a couple of hours and hang out with my family until my daughter goes to bed at about 8:30 p.m. (though I usually sneak a few peaks at my iPhone ).

Once she's in bed I usually go through my email again while we're watching TV on the computer to deal with the evening/late night/West Coast/international users' concerns.

I try to be in bed by around 10p.m. but it's more like 11 these days.

[July]

Good for my average working day is 14 hours to 12 days and that without the domestic chores, of course I am a single mother understand?

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[Celia]

If it is clear that I understand the eternal burden of working mothers who also work long hours still need to get home to family days, but good and wanted to know someone working days there are the traditional complaints of us single mothers

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[Jill Biddington]

Up at 5:00am - check in on Big White Wall, deal with any issues on the cms generated in the UK and US (it will be 8pm in London). 7:00 am weekday tip my children out of bed and juggle breakfast, school lunches, make coffee. 2 days a week I am drop off the youngest at school and return home where I work on the website for Big White Wall. This is a mental health support community so there is more activity in the evenings so the time difference works well with me living in Australia. I might have to work on some consultancy programmes that I am involved in (Organisational and Culture Change) and on a bad day something goes haywire with one of the organisations or projects and have to drive into the city to be part of a war cabinet style meeting. Children arrive home at 4pm - I work in the family room so I am present though continue to work and can mediate any situations. 3 days a week are my "office days" 2 of which are very long days when I arrive home after 8pm and have left at 7:00 am - (I have a great partner:) I spend an average of three hours back on the website while my UK based colleagues have space to work without having to watch the website. Bed? it varies but I prefer to have my head down on a pillow before midnight. Weekends - very much the same but with a roster for time out so my kids see my face and not just my back and the dreaded housework.