I’ve seen a bunch of videos about software engineers and a day in their lives. Most of them seem pretty glamorous with their nice offices and desk setups and their fancy perks. I was thinking of filming my own, but then I realized that I don’t want to learn how to edit videos and I don’t actually care about filming something like this. So, I’ll just write about it.
- Wake up around 8:30 to 9 am.
- Check my phone to see if I’m going to get paged due to an off-hours event.
- Wash my face, take a shower, brush my teeth.
- Eat some cereal for breakfast – no milk.
- Respond to Slack messages and and customer tickets.
- Check the stock market.
- Attend the daily stand up meeting and any meetings about related to projects that I’m working on.
- Cook and eat lunch, sometimes while attending a meeting.
- Stop working around 5 or 6 pm, but stay available to customer reach outs throughout the night just in case they run into issues
Usually there aren’t any issues, just a lot of tickets to go through and customers reaching out for assistance over various different platforms. But when there are issues, I have to investigate the issues and reach out to the team when I need assistance. Being oncall used to be a lot more stressful. For example, I used to have hearing problems where I would think my pager was going off even though there weren’t any issues. Nowadays, it has gotten a lot more routine. It is still tiring though. I got my management telling me to do some tasks and I got customers telling me to do tasks as well. The customers live around the world, so the different timezones are annoying to deal with.
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