Describe your typical day in your IT/tech job

Describe your typical day in your IT/tech job.

>wake up
>masturbate
>eat breakfast
>masturbate
>eat lunch
>masturbate
>eat dinner
>masturbate
>go to bed
oh wait i don't work in IT/tech

>enter at 9am
>check emails to see if anything urgent requires my attention
>if not, i fuck around until 10am when bosses arrive
>answer tickets taking breaks to chat up in slack with team about random stuff, sometimes debates get heated
>launch at 12-1pm, more heated debates face to face
>more work alternated with fucking around in slack
>leave

i do tech support, dont like it but its ok for now

>enter the job
>sit to my desk
>start learning about data bases php and soft made by people above me
>spent 8 hours with it randomly going to shop for food and shitposting on Sup Forums
>go to home
Man, I love being junior in IT

>wake up
>walk to my office
>start gotomeeting
>start new project or complete a project with existing customer
>answer new questions on basecamp
>usually finish early, sometimes before lunch
>salary

1. get to work
2. forward any emails addressed directly to me to other people to deal with
3. do code reviews from our terrible offshored asian coders
4. tell secretary im busy whenever someone calls me and to divert it to someone else
5. read facebook and try and fuck around with media player every second song trying to find something i want to listen to
repeat steps 2-5 until i go home

This is mine as well.

I start my first IT job in 2 weeks. Sounds great.

> wake up at 8.30am
> get into work for 9.20am if the traffic is bad
> walk into office, get coffee and toast from kitchen
> chat shit with team for 30 minutes whilst everyone gets toast (we haven't got multiple toasters)
> go to office with team, do daily scrum/daily stand up
> yesterday I configured this load balancer, I rolled out this package update, I had this meeting with a new datacentre provider
> today I'm going to have a meeting with a development team to setup a new staging server, add a procurement order to our current DC for more disk space and research the switch to RHEL7 from 6
> do work with a coffee break or two, a trip to the shop to get lunch or maybe to a takeaway if it's near payday
> possibly have an ice cream in the office gardens if it's sunny outside
> go home
> repeat

The luxury of automating most of the grinds of sysadminship

>wake up at 06:00
>get to work at 07:30
>briefing on the days assignments
>have a smoke
>start working at 08:00
>dig graves or do gardening stuff
>breakfast at 10
>have tea and a smoke
>do more work
>lunch at 12:00
>work till 16:00
>smoke a joint while I walk home through a beautiful forest

fuck IT work I don't need a desk job to shitpost on Sup Forums.

>go for weekly meeting at office
>'here's your web design tasks for the week user'
>go home to where my pc is (office is imac only, fuck that shit) do it all within the day
>shitpost on Sup Forums for the rest of the week on retainer fee

>Wake up
>Suicidal thoughts
>Hop on the train
>I could just sit in my seat, go past my stop and go to the city then just off a skyscraper
>Arrive at work
>Count the hours until I get off
>Go home
This was my old IT job tho

New IT job:
>Wake up
>Get to work
>Stress
>Go home
This is fine.

>wake up
>take bike to work or bus if bad weather
>punch in
>prepare and drink espresso
>do whatever the fuck needs doing
>mostly coding .NET or legacy Basic shit with some occasional Linux sysadmin work
>if I have nothing to do, talk to boss
>eat lunch with coworkers, they're all nice people
>resume work
>punch out
>go back home

it's a comfy life

>and research the switch to RHEL7 from 6
what's up with that?

>Bike to work
>Check emails
>Browse nets until someone comes in
>Fix broken Iphone screens 9/10 likelyhood
>Someone with a really stupid question or inability to listen arrives "if I have my own screen will you mount it for free?"
>Talk shit about that customer to my colleague after he/she leaves
>Arab refugees arrive
>They speak barely intelligible english while holding a random smartphone which stinks of curry
>One of the following 2 things happen:
>Manage to convey the price, it's too expensive, they leave
>Can't convey a single fucking sentence because they only know 5 english words, usually "yes" "no" "hi" "glass" "price/cost" so we just end up saying "no. can't fix. no. stop. no fixomundo, unable to repair, shake head, put up a hand"
>You do NOT want to take in a phone which is water damaged and have to convey different risks, dates and prices to someone who can't understand anything you are saying
>Check stock
>Order more stock
>Buy best coffee in town
>Heat food
>Get interrupted from eating by 10 phonecalls in a row where a single question takes 12min
>Count cash
>Shutoff lights
>Put on street clothes
>Insert key to close gate to shop
>2nd generation immigrants stumble right in and ask me to fix their iphone on the double
>Have to negotiate for them to come back tomorrow
>5min late getting home

Yep.

>wake up at 9 am
>get into the office at 10am
>refresh my memory to where i left off the previous day
>check if there are bugs returned from the qa team
>the team lead arrives at 10.20 and we have a meet to discuss what everybody is doing,if somebody needs help with his task, if somebody has found a problem with the code, etc (we do these 2-3 times a week)
>work until 12
>1 hour lunch break
>work until 3 pm
>smoke break
>usually i my productivity drops a lot at that time of the day so either goof off or just think stuff about a project (what should be fixed in the future, what problem I will encounter and so on)
>smoke break at 5 pm
>suddenly get a epiphany and do most of the work
>leave at 7pm

>wake up at by alarm
>get out of bed at 9:50
>be at work at 10:30
>make tea and read the news for a bit
>find something to listen to on youtube
>either just watch youtube or work the rest of the day depending on if i have a deadline
>talk about conspiracy theories and right politics at work
>eat at desk so i can go home earlier
>go home at 6:30

full stack developer

>wake up 7:30AM
>out door 8:15
>at work by 8:30
>pull up github, check for new assignments, work on existing
>lots of bug chasing/research for new implementation
>bullshit with coworkers about whatever for first couple hours (lots of gaming/anime/music conversation)
>conversation dies down, listen to doom metal and work
>vape break around 11
>Lunch around 2
>1-2 meetings per week for brainstorming etc
>usually spend last hour of the day testing new implementation on test servers
>Out the door at 5
>go to park with dog and gf 2-3x weekly, otherwise rocket league/CSGO/personal projects all evening
>repeat m-f

>Get in at 8 (regular time in my country)
>Solve / start a bunch of tickets
>Help people throughout the day
>Phase slowly from basic support into development / programming
>Code for the rest of the day while following up / taking urgent / important cases

>full stack developer
>lots of bug chasing
who would've thought

>7am
>Check email
>Check JIRA
>Check last nights smoke run
>Investigate any failures to see if they were our fault or what
>Follow up on any pending tickets
>Write more automated tests
>Standup
>Shit takes like fucking 45 minutes because our project manager is an ass
>Put headphones back on and just go back to writing tests/manual testing
>Noon
>Lunch
>Repeat for the rest of the day
>Maybe get interrupted at 2pm for some meeting I shouldnt be a part of

>10am
>Get out of bed
>Check emails
>Fuck around on facebook until 2
>Eat lunch
>Play videogames
>Sit back and bask in the comfort that comes with a billion dollar company completely forgetting that I exist.
>Laugh and laugh and laugh as I collect a $112k salary for doing literally nothing.

I'll find a new phrase, thank you

This incident will be reported, John.

>tfw this is not me

Nice story friendo

I am actually jealous if this is true.

those are rookie number in the NEET business

>work hours are 9-5
>get up at 8
>make coffee and jerk off
>take a shower
>drink coffee and eat breakfast
>leave at 9:40
>drive for about 20 minutes
>arrive at work around 10
>boot up my computer
>go to the bathroom and take a shit if I hadn't done that at home
>ask if anyone's going for a tea
>decide with the guys what food we're ordering
>at this point it's 11
>attempt at work
>food arrives before 1pm
>20-30 min break
>work and go out for a tea/coffee in the meantime
>drink as much water as possible to work less and minimize kidney failure

its kinda scary how alike every day is to another.

>enter work
>check emails
>forward lists of non compliant stuff to boss
>answer a phone call from boss and explain exactly how we are liable if we don't spend the money to make them compliant
>check tools... they're down
>check if they are scheduled to be down
>use stats from previous scans to write report on vulnerabity trends
>read news/ agency wide plans/ regulations
>check ticketing system for user requests and approve/deny/research requests before passing them to techs
>study tech shit so I can get out of policy
>wonder if I really want to take a pay cut to get back to using a terminal
>wonder if there will be jobs worth having in IT outside of cloud/machine learning/security in the future.
>wonder if I should get an MBA and focus on the business side because it pays and treats you better.
>read reddits netsec forums and chuckle at the "how do I become a pentester with zero experience or computer skills" threads that repeat daily.
>wonder if I could even do helpdesk anymore I'm so far from tech
>console myself by thinking about my bank account
>go home at 4

>Get to work
>Swap tape in iSeries
>Make sure all blinky lights are green.
>Check email, make sure backups were successful.
>Install new AP near the shitter so I get better phone signal to watch porn and fap.
>Uh oh user has a dead phone, replace enet cable with busted tab.
>Check vuln scores. Go update Flash and Java on machine with highest score
>unlock user with caps lock on
>Lunch
>fap
>Go through users profiles deleting music, my SAN is not your personal jukebox.
>reset forgotten password
>ssh into switches and reset VLANs for fun
>go home

>wake up at 430
>get ready and leave at 5
>scan in by before 530
>eat breakfast at 6-615 from the cafe
>spend until 1730 in training and getting checkouts on nuclear power
>go home by 1750
>eat at 19-1930
>Sup Forums/anime
>sleep anywhere from 2130-0000
>repeat 5x a week

the navy is weird.

> wake up ten minutes before work
> Roll in, check work log
> Either continue their work or assist someone with a walk-in
> Otherwise just sit at desk, drink coffee and shitpost through Clover

>get to work around 7:30
>check cve's
>check nist site
>check emails
>check researchers twitters/websites
>check tools for patches
>analyze some data
>add to report
>modify reports that come back from editors
>qa some tools
>analyze a device
>write report
>leave 6-7
I don't shitpost at work.

>Arrive at work 8am.
>Turn on my computer, spin up my vms, editors, pull latest code, then lock screen.
>Head to kitchen and make coffee if it isn't already started. Spend 15 minutes bull shiting with qt3.145s in accounting (tfwnogf) while I warm up oatmeal in the microwave.
>Go back to my desk and eat while browsing tech news sites y comb etc for 30 minutes.
>Fuck around getting some programming done for another 45minutes until our scrum standup.
>Try to remember what I did yesterday, declare what I will do today, try to make it sound like I am generally getting shit done.
>Work until lunch with a half hour shit in there somewhere when I can phone post on the chans.
>Eat lunch then work some more.
>Around 2pm I take my second half hour shit post break.
>More programming.
>Make my commit/push for the day.
>Leave work at 5pm.
>Head to gym, workout for ~1hour (gota get huge), then head home.

>get to work between 8:00 and 8:30
>get a glass of water and eat breakfast bar
>after that get cup of cappuccino
>check to see if anything is broken if not read articles on hackernews till 9:30
>do some light work till 10:30
>play ping pong till 11:00
>work till 11:30
>go to lunch till 12:30
>work till 3:00 then play more pong
>leave about 4:30

Oh shit forgot
>get home 7-730
>eat Ramen, rice and chicken, or Uber eats
>read/write papers/reports/homework
>wife home at 9
>chill, watch TV, do homework, eat more
>to bed around 11-1
Wake up and do it again.
Travel every weekend.
Will have degree in 6 months, no longer committing my nights to school.
Yah!!!

>wake up at noon because that's when the qa team gets home from school
>Do whatever
>"Hey user, implement this game / tweak this / add that"
>finish
>let higher ups know
>schedule test
>go to bed
Any free time I have I can do whatever

Sounds like you work to much
How do you keep motivated?

By not being a NEET, and needing money/understanding what's needed to make more so that my children may one day know the paradise of not needing to struggle like I did. I hope to:
Provide them with the opportunity for education
Provide them contacts in industry
Provide them with cars and down-payment for homes.
If I take the responsibility, I may be able to break the cycle I was born in.
>muh American dream isn't real

Grew up with meth making/dealing murderers who used my sister and myself as money making tools. If I can do it, you can too.

New job

>go to work
>spend an hour sorting emails because everything is sent to one email group and sorted from there by each individual.
>test the systems I have access to currently
>spend about an hour doubting myself about what to do and what not to do
>get coffee
>reluctantly talk to my boss on how to do something
>repeat from the beginning till its time to leave
>leave
>feel like I don't know anything, but remind myself is there is no way anyone would know this job without actually doing it, as there is no college, bootcamps or courses for what im doing.
>surf tpg threads till its time to go to bed and start over.

>get to work
>look at current stuff working on
>copy/paste code from stackoverflow and github
>shitpost on Sup Forums
>go back to stackoverflow pages when boss or anyone who might be checking on me walks by
>repeat for 8 hours
>go home
>shitpost more

I really don't see what this accomplishes other than my continued survival, but I keep doing it.

>Arrive at work early
>Get coffee and breakfast in canteen alone
>Check emails and schedule for any meetins
>Pull some commits in the repo
>Surf halfchinz and watch tech shit until 10 when team lead arrives
>Meeting with team tell him what i did lastime and will i do today
>lunchbreak
>Code whatever i say
>Occasionally fuckaround and talk to the guy who merge our code
>Blame the other guys code which i use his models and code
>When finished early change some variable names, try to make some codes more one liner complicated bullshit
>1hour before leaving Commit and push
>Go home and play some casual games like csgo or r6 siege

>wake up at 8AM
>take a bath and get to office at 9AM
>cross over to the next building for work
>check tickets and attend daily standup meeting
>code review and test PRs of others
>eat lunch
>investigate tickets, apply fixes, create PR, ask for code review and testing
>local test and staging test before release every thursday
>iteration retrospective every end of iteration
>Stop work and start playing CSGO with girlfriend at around 7PM
>Download animu and episodes and leave at 10PM back to the condominium building next to the office building
>watch animu and episodes until 12 MN
>Sleep and repeat process

>Contemplate suicide
>Drive to work
>Sit down
>Check email/JIRA
>Reply to emails
>Check latest security advisories/news
>Check for any SIEM alerts and attend to them (re-occuring)
>IPS rule/SIEM rule development
>Sysadmin bullshit
>If I have time I try to automate things for the team
>Drive home
>Play vidya and eat
>Sleep

>Wake up at 4:45AM
>Jog for an hour
>Shower
>Get on train to Vancouver
>arrive at work before 8AM
>grab coffee, cigarette
>concentrate deeply for 9 hours straight, skip lunch
>read HackerNews on the way home
>study math until I fall asleep (8PM)

>arrive at different hour depending on shift
>have to stay there for 9 hours
>check mail
>check national incidents
>take calls
>call back the fuckers who wanted to be called back
>half of them already called again, meaning my stats are fucked
>take roughly 30 calls a day
>notice I hate people more than the day before
>go home
>watch a few Chinese cartoons and capitalist pig series
>go to bed
>manage to sleep by wishing my heart out of going back in time in my childhood or my education life
>wake up
>rinse and repeat

Just a bit of unsolicited advice but don't spoil your kids too much. Its extremely painful to watch the cycle repeat because you spoiled them rotten.

>Wake up, get online
>Make sure that tickets are available for everyone on the team
>Run standup, everyone plugging along at a decent pace
>Standup over, everyone starts coding
>Immediately start getting stupid phonecalls and e-mails from sales team
>Explain for the millionth time that they need to create tickets for any of their issues
>Boss asks why XYZ from sales didn't get done yesterday
>Point out that there was no ticket for XYZ, so I can't be expected to know about it
>Go to stupid meeting to talk about stuff I should be working on instead of being in meeting
>Sales doesn't know how to use Salesforce, they work out of a dashboard they created in Google Docs
>Content manager is only focused on writing blog articles that nobody reads, tries to say that low readership is my issue somehow
>Leave meeting, see dozens of questions from interns that they didn't want to ask the other devs for some reason
>Read other e-mails that are CC'd to me and half a dozen other people who have nothing to do with the messages
>Review team members' work towards end of day
>Twenty minutes after my day is over, CEO calls and wants to chat about work stuff for another half hour

>wake up in the afternoon
>arrive at work
>waste 20 minutes marking email as read without reading it
>catch up on irc scrollback
>respond to code reviews and other requests that are specifically directed at me
>triage bugs with new activity where I am cced
>write code and/or design docs for the rest of the day
>occasionally shitpost in irc
>7pm
>go home
>get paid 250k annually

This sounds familiar to me

I am guessing they are researching from the bug depositories in 7 to see how it may or may not break their system which uses 6.

>wake up at 6am
>get into the office at 7am
>first taking a smoke
>get coffee
>checking emails if there is any requests from our costumers which is related with my job
>most of the time I configure switches, routers and firewalls
>administrate costumers networks
>get coffee
>when the time is there I coding python to automatically some networking configuration steps
>answering on some tickets of our shitty ticket system
>I find some shit organized work flow but can't change it, our chief's don't wanna positive changes, so fck off
>get coffee
>taking a smoke
>frustrated of the time and power I waste all the things Iam doing for such a shit pay every month
>costumer projects arrived
>as a system engineer I have also to go out of my office to the server rooms or some shitty cleaning room where costumers network hardware running
>pissed about organized work flow and stupid costumers administration
>get coffee
>taking a smoke
>sometimes I have to talk with such pajeet cisco support when say fucked again
>better to play lottery than advise what the fck he is saying about
>driving at 16pm home or sometimes earlier

>Wake up 5pm
>Smoke weed & do some sport
>Get online @home
>Work around 2hrs (e-mails, TV, Powershell shit)
>Keep smoking
>Lunch at midnight
>Watch Seinfeld @Amazon
>BF1 til 5am
>Write more e-mails
>6 get offline
>Sup Forums now
1800 euros

I'm gonna need your job, l'ami.

>go to job at 9 - 9:30
>turn on computer
>start all my programs
>check mails
>read random stuff on the internet for half an hour
>start to look at the tasks I should do
>start working on it
>lunch time at 12:00
>go back to work at 14:00
>waste my time on the internet
>get back to work and finish at 17:30

>Wake up at 07:45
>Tired as fuck
>Shower
>Haven't eaten breakfast for literal years so i can wake up as late as possible
>Leave for work which is in the middle of the city
>Swear at birds for shitting on my car
>Get to work
>Last one in
>Greet fellow colleagues who work on the support desk
>Not me
>Only Project Engineer in the company
>Take laptop out my bag and set it up on the desk with my monitor and peripherals
>Support desk colleague makes tea for everyone
>Tell each other to fuck off and then look at emails
>Go out to site for installation if it's needed
>Not this week though, boss is away and no projects for me to do
>Drink tea and eat food i bought yesterday but left in drawer
>Browse Sup Forums and talk on IRC
>Run through more of the SoloLearn courses so i can at least learn something
>Go to local supermarket and get something for lunch
>Support desk colleague #2 gets a take away like he does every day of the week
>Pray today is the day that self centered asshole gets a cardiac arrest
>Continue on with day
>Talk with new sales girl who sits opposite me
>More tea being made
>Browse more web and look forward to going home
>Answer a few emails that come in quickly
>Assist support colleagues as i have nothing better to do
>More tea
>Pack up laptop and shut office for the day
>Last to leave
>Go home at 17:30
>Drive through traffic back to just outside the city
>Eat me some dinners
>Browse more Sup Forums and play vidya

Not a bad job honestly. Could do with more money and something a bit more challenging.

>wake up
>anxiety
>goto work, solve problems
>come home
>anti social
4 years later
------------ new job--------------
>wake up
>anxiety
>goto work, solve problems
>come home
>anti social
plus twenty six years later
_-----_----outsourced-_-------_---------_---------

>wake up
>anxiety
>health problems
>stay home
>anti social
----------------------
WAKE UP
OBSOLETE AND IRRELEVANT

> come to office
> everyone start to go badshitcrazysrupid
> help user
> I do shit and everything broke
> it broke by itself, i don't do stupid shit
> like trim ethrernet cable or reconect shit
> or download shitload of virusery fuckery on office pc
> you must fix it
> cause you are programmer and this is your work
> do shit, or i will write a complaint on you
> because you are ignorant shit and do nothing but sit in your internets
> and throw bullshit and hummilations at us
> playing your stupid gaems
> ...
> ...
> ...
> this is small company with office about 15 peoples
> and i am only one who admins and cares our office server and site (partly)
> we have another IT guy who cares for office stuff
> and all office know that we are only ones who makes hardware and software shit flow in there fast
> all office except for our boss's assistant and those three stupid cows
> assistant supports them
> they are from accounting office
> wtf is wrong with these peoples user?

I'm sorry user

I don't see the point in not working while you're stuck at work. Browsing Facebook and shit just makes the day feel slower and you're limiting your chances to advance to a nicer job.

>I don't see the point in not working while you're stuck at work

Well thats pretty easy to understand. When you get a job where you are not happy with, you aren't that motivated to do more than you have to do. Laziness is a problem during that worktime and it's an escape from your job too. The only option you have is to accept your situation and going forward to learn new things for your next job goal. Thats all.

You just can understand this, when you are in the position.