What does an “average” work day look like for you?

[Youngandfree]

Just for fun, in AIBU for traffic;what does an average go like for you?
Mine goes something like;
6.50 get up get dressed and ready for work.(clothes set out previous night)
7.10 wake up DC and get breakfast/finish my make up.
7.30 get and help DC dressed, teeth brushed, hair brushed etc.
7.50/8.00 finish lunches if necessary/put all necessary bags and lunches in the car, and sort out washing machine on a timer.
8.10/8.15(latest) leave house
8.20/8.25 drop DC to school/Montessori
8.25 go to work
9.00-2.40 work (I’m a teacher so these are my contact/school hours)
2.40-3.00/3.10 sort out some planning/photocopying etc
3.00/3.10 leave work
3.30/3.40 collect DC
3.50/4.00 home
4.00-5.30/6.00 this is our free time so it varies depending on day or weather , take DD to swim lesson/gymnastics/etc or light the fire and stay home or go to the park/visit friend/family for an hour. And also make dinner
5.30/6.00 dinner time
6.00-6.30 DC play for half hour
6.30 bath/get ready for bed. Listen to DD read.
7.00-7.15 bedtime
7.15....get all bags and lunches (most of) ready for the next day, set out clothes and uniforms for the next day.

My DH Works away for weeks at a time so this is a day when he is away.

[buzzbobbly]

Office days:
5.00: Alarm goes off
5.30: Leave for work

3-4pm: leave work
5-6pm: Gym
Then dinner, perhaps more work, bed.

WFH days:
7-8m: Get up and start working.

5-6pm: Gym
Then dinner, perhaps more work, bed.

[hopefulhalf]

On the days I finish at 6-6:30 I pick up Dc from activites and home for home cooked food (by DH ) at 7 or eatout with 1X Dc between activites once a week.

[IWentAwayIStayedAway]

5am alarm
6am v latest out the door
Arrive work 7.30 and work till 9.30pm
11pm arrive home
Repeat
FML

[happytobemrsg]

I work 3 days a week & most of those days DH has DS.

6am DS wakes up & I coax DH to take him downstairs. DH will get him dressed & give him milk.
7:15am I get up & dressed
8am DH & DS drives me to the station for work. DH will have DS all day.
7pm DH & DS pick me up from the station. DH already has DS ready for bed so I give him cuddles & milk.
7:30pm make/order in dinner. Watch tv with DH or on my own if he's in the gym.

[Yura]

5:20 get up and get dressed
5:45: get kids up and dressed
6:00 breakfast
6:20 brush teeth
6:30 do some playing and some homework
7:10 leave house to get kids to breakfast club/childminder
7:35 walk to station
8:00 get train
8:45 arrive on office
16:45 leave for train station
18:00 get kids from childminder
18:20 dinner and play
19:00 bedtime kids
19:30-20:30 work
20:30-21:30 housework with tv on
21:30 bed

[Fiontar649]

Operations Manager in small office.
No DCs
Dublin

Mon- Fri
7am alarm goes
7.30 -8.30 breakfast/shower/dress etc
In work by 8.45
Spend a day dealing with staff, clients and producing reports. Take an hour for lunch.
5.30 - finish up. Very rarely stay later. No work in evenings.
Usually home by 6, unless doing a grocery shop.
Spend the evening catching up on washing, giving the house a tidy. Also quite a bit of time sitting on my ass watching TV!
Dinner between 7/8
Bed around 10.30

I am realising that I don't do very much!

[happypotamus]

5.55am alarm goes off
6am get up, wash and get dressed, feed cats, have drink
6.25 leave house, get bus, eat breakfast on bus or while walking to work
7-7.10ish get to work, get changed
7.30 shift starts
Work, may or may not have time to eat, drink, go to toilet etc
8.30pm shift ends
9.15pm average kind of time I actually leave work
9.30-10pm get home, empty dishwasher and washing machine, make DD1's packed lunch, have a drink, collapse on the settee with the iPad
11ish get ready for bed much later than intended, put washing in machine, collapse into bed

There are also night shifts.

[reefedsail]

SEN Teacher (England)

6am get up
7.15am drop DS into his school for breakfast
7.35am arrive at work- admin
8.45- 3.00pm with the children all day, including eating with them, no breaks
4.00pm or 4.40pm leave school
4.20 or 5.00pm collect DS
Sort dinner, life admin etc
6.30pm take DS out to sport (4x week)
8.30pm get back from sport
Bed time routine
9pm - 10pm down time.

[starabara]

Alarm at 5am
Kettle on, dogs out, horses out.
Coffee with the news on TV until 5.30
5.30 shower
5.50 leave for work
6-9am commute
9am emails and phone calls
9.30-3pm ish work
3-6pm commute home with telecons and Skype sessions on route.
6pm home, ride horse, dinner with DC and DH
7/7.15 bedtime for DC
7.30pm relax, work, exercise, chat, shag

Bed at 11.30pm ish

I drive to work, different place most days, in summer I run the dogs first too. Husband does all school runs, after school clubs, yard chores and dog walking. I do life admin and financials. He works a few hours a week on a Friday and Saturday night.

[SunnyNights]

Work as a Senior Comms Manager in the public sector, hours are 8-2pm but generally get in for 7:30:

6:20 - get up, shower, get ready, make up etc

7:10 - wake kids up, then husband takes over as he drops to school every day

7:10 - leave for work, takes 15 mins to get to the office

7:30 - 2ish - work, mixture of meetings and actually getting things done!

2:20 - get home, squeeze a quick walk in on way to collect from school

2:45 - school finishes, walk home

3 - 6 - mixture of after school clubs, homework, dinner prep, light housework (husband sorts washing and hoovers in the morning)

6 - dinner, husband gets home at 6 so we all eat together unless clubs are on

7- run for 30 mins three days a week

7 - 8 - bath, bed (for kids) and pack lunch boxes and sorting uniform

8 - 10pm - sort clothes for next day, check work emails (depending on what's going on, if it's a busy period etc), have a cup of tea, try not to eat anything and catch up on tv with husband

[user1457017537]

School car parks are always empty by 4.00 pm where I live.

[Slowknitter]

Teacher here too, of sorts!

7:00 Get up, make breakfast and packed lunches
7:40 Dh and dc1 leave for school, I have shower, get dressed etc
8:10 ish Get stuff done until dc2 goes to school at 8:40
8.45 Walk dog except on Tues and Weds when I leave for work at 8.45 so walk him earlier.
10:00-12:00 Teach some mornings, housework on others
1:00-3:15 Teach
3:15-3:30 Pick dc1 up and walk with him and ddog to meet dc2 from bus stop
4:30-18:00 Hang out with dc, faff around, admin stuff, then make dinner
18:30 ish Dinner with dh and dc, clear up dinner, chat to dh, supervise homework etc
21:00 Watch box set/series with dh
22:30 Bed

I do all my lesson planning etc at the weekend.

[user1457017537]

Schools have started coming out at 2.30 pm as well to stagger the times so that there is no trouble with rival schools.

[Fishwifecalling]

The life of a teacher in Ireland sounds Fab.

[Helpmytrousershavesplit]

My working day:
5am Cats wake me up to be let out for wees
6am pointless alarm goes off as I'm already up
6-6.30am Feed cats, dressed, lunch packed and make up and leave for work
7.45am arrive at work
Lunch at desk and lots of coffee and pointless meetings
4pm finish work
5.20pm ish arrive home
6-8pm husband, degree study and tv (usually all at the same time)
8-10pm have some toast, shower, mumsnet! Then bed
Chores mostly done by lovely DH during the week and me at weekend depending on study/cats. I'm an accountant.

[hopefulhalf]

Realise that should say 7:30/8-4:30/6 work.
Try to take a lunch break (eg leave my desk)on the days I don't finish till 6. On the other days I will eat at my desk. Usually admin (often dictation ) first thing 7:30-9.
Clinics twice a week 9-1 and meetings on the other days. I usually have some teaching or training to deliver for a couple of hours.

[SockQueen]

5:15 get up. Tiptoe around house to shower and dress.
5:45 eat breakfast.
6:00 leave house. DH and DS still asleep; DH will take DS to nursery when they're both awake.
7:10ish arrive at work, get changed.
7:30 morning handover, work starts

17:30 finish and hand over to whoever's covering the long day shift, if there are no emergencies which require me to stay. Get changed, drive home
18:45ish (if I'm lucky with traffic) get home. DH has picked DS up from nursery, we usually have a snack and a cuddle/play before bedtime.
19:30 bath and bed for DS.
20:30 whichever of DH and I feels less knackered throws some kind of dinner together. Eat in front of TV.
21:15 Do house admin, work admin, laundry etc.
22:00 bedtime.

I also do occasional long days (7:30-20:30) or nights (20:00-8:00) plus weekends, but thankfully only average 3 days a week so have time to do other stuff and spend time with DS on my off days.

[Youngandfree]

@user1457017537 yes my DDS school finishes at 2.20!! Teachers are long gone by the time I get there to collect her at Afterschool. I pass the head teacher leaving at about 3.20 😂

[Currywurstmitpommes]

I teach.
0600 up,
7.15 leave the house with kids
7.30 drop at nursery/ breakfast club
7.50 get to work (all my colleagues are already in)
Get days lessons prepped and sorted/ admin.
9.30-4 in lessons teaching.
4.00 lesson prep/ admin/ tidying up
5.20 leave to collect kids

1. collect kids from nursery/after school club
   

home
bedtime
dinner
8 pm sort planning/ admin prep.
9.30 watch TV
10 sleep

[reefedsail]

starabara you commute 6 hours a day!

[starabara]

@reefedsail I do. I cover an area of over 14 counties. From the West Midlands over to Telford to the bottom of east anglia and the lower East Midlands such as Kettering.

[Iamclearlyamug]

I'm self employed so things can change depending on the clients I'm seeing but an average day is

5.20 - alarm goes off
5.30 - attempt to drag self out of bed, get dressed and wake DD7
5.40-6.30 - get both of us ready, dressed, teeth cleaned, hair brushed and plaited (for DD) mine just gets scraped up in a bun, and make up on
6.30 - leave house
6.40 - first client of the day
7.30 - second client
8.30 - drive to school
8.45 - drop off DD at school
9.00-11.30 - work
12-1.00 - work out at gym
1.15-3.00 - more work
3.15 - collect DD from school
3.30-5 - chill time, shower, homework egg
5.00-6.00 - cook and eat dinner
6.00-7.00 - clean up after dinner, make sure school clothes and bag ready for next day
7.00 - DD bed time
7.15-8.15 - catch up on laundry egg
8.30 - watch movie or tv series, mumsnet, social media
9.00 - sleep

[RebeccaWrongDaily]

Monday and Thursday looks like this- I am in my local office I get up at 7.30, get kids ready, make lunches, take to school, Get to office about 9am. I work solidly for 6 hours, no lunches etc. doing a variety of things (social media/ Allocation of work to others/ sending emails/ reading briefings/ writing notes) I leave at 3 and pick my children up.

Tuesday I drop my children to school, get the train to London, and work probably 12-14 hours inc working on the train. I get the train back from London on Wednesday to be back in time for bed. DH works shorter hours on my away days.

Friday my boss is around and for example this past week we started work with an 8am breakfast meeting and ended at midnight on Friday at a function... having had no real breaks between any of the meetings to eat. Thankfully we got fed at the event on Friday night or I'd have gone through the whole day on just a bowl of porridge at 7am and a slice of birthday cake.

[MWNA]

I'm a clinical nurse specialist in palliative care.


Up at 6
Shower and dress
Get 2 youngest children up - 4 & 2 - they drink milk and then we get them dressed
Make breakfasts
Eat breakfast
Put a wash on
Vacuum and tidy
Cuddle children on sofa and play for 15 minutes
Leave wife and children at home at 8
Arrive at work at 8.30
Coffee in canteen with older daughter (same job, same place)
Arrive in office at 8.55
Look at diary, read emails, research and familairise myself with the patients on my clinic list
Meeting
First patient at 10.00
Clinics all day with lunch for 30 minutes at my desk usually
Leave at 5 and home by 5.30
Play with children and talk to wife for an hour and eat standing up in kitchen (wife is on Huel - we don't eat together)
Tidy, vacuum again, supper for chidren, bath them, bedtime routine
7pm wife's first tutee arrives. I potter for 2 hours while she teaches - I do prep for the next day etc
9.30 bed and watch Netflix for an hour.

[wonkylegs]

5.30/6 woken up by toddler, 10yo gets himself up at 6
Put a load of washing on
6.45 shower & dressed me
7 .15 breakfast
7.30/45 get toddler dressed shout at 10yo to get dressed,
8.10sign reading record/letters/check bags
8.20 school run/ nursery run
9am-3pm work no breaks (own practice)
3-3.30 school run
3.30-5.30work
5.30-6 nursery pick up
6-6.30 make dinner
6.30 dinner with kids & rarely DH
Some nights take DS1 to clubs otherwise, cleaning up, washing into tumble dryer etc + a bit of a play with DS2
Otherwise bed for toddler at 7.30
DH usually home between 7&8
8pm bed for 10yo
8.30 catch up with some work or stuff for being chair of an association I belong to, or sort out stuff for my mum who has Alzheimer's usually in front of the tv.
10.30 bedtime
Toddler is in nursery 3days a week so try to get bulk of work done in that time but as I own my own practice there really aren't enough hours to rely on that being enough so evenings and weekends catch up stuff.
Should be a little less hectic next year when DS1 goes to secondary school as he can get a coach rather than needing me to drive (village life) but that only lasts until DS2 goes to school!