A day in my life

Kim Schulz, monday d. 28. august 2006

Young men in Denmark tend to be always-on for their job - either by mobile phone or via the internet
-- recent research results Aug. 2006

During the last couple of days, there has been alot of talking about now young men in Denmark gets stressed out because they try to be available for their employer all the time. Some can always be reached by mobile phone while others have an office at home where they work after closing hours - even when not required.

This made me think of how my day goes. So heres the naugthy details about a day in my life:

  • 6.30 AM : I get up, take a bath, turn on the laptop and check my mails and server logs from the Devteam servers.
  • 7.15 AM : I check the newsgroups from CSR to see if any interesting posts has been added (and talk to my girlfriend if she is awake).
  • 7.45 AM : I take my bike (or bus if it rains) to work at CSR.
  • 8.00 AM : I start my day at CSR, checking mails, bug database etc. Getting up-to-date with todays tasks.
  • 11.30 AM : I go to the cantina to get todays lunch.
  • 11.50 AM : I'm back at the office checking my Devteam Mail, check server status, communicate with the devteam supporters if needed, check the latest news online etc.
  • 12.01 PM : I'm back doing my tasks at CSR.
  • 16.00/16.30 PM : I take the bike back home - maybe with a short stop at the supermarket to buy whatever we need for tonights dinner.
  • 16.45 PM : I'm home, relaxing a bit with todays newspaper, letters etc.
  • 17.00 PM : Laptop is back on, and I am doing updates to the devteam servers, checking my personal mail, say hello to the guys and readning news.
  • 17.30 PM : I start preparing the dinner.
  • 18.15 PM : We eat dinner and talk about the day.
  • 19.00 PM : I turn on the TV and watch the news, while I start looking for inspiration for my Vim book.
  • 20.00 PM : I start writing on the book or working on our house repairs.
  • 22:30 PM : I check the server logs for the evening.
  • 23:00 PM : Emails are checked, I talk a bit with my girlfriend and watch a bit of tv.
  • 23:30 PM : a bit more book is written.
  • 00:30 AM : I go to sleep (if I am done writing on the book for tonight).

So that's it. As you can see, I am probably one of the always-on guys they talk about in the research results.
Looking at this time schedule also makes me realize how lucky I am that my girlfriend can bare living togther with me when I am so extreamly much unavailable for her.
I sure hope she can live with it until january when the book will be done and I hopefully have doezens of time to spend with her.

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