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.

[Meandwinealone]

God my work life looks so easy. I’m not even going to tell you all!

[HappyAndYouKnowItGlugTheWine]

Your day looks amazing OP! Mine is generally:

5:15 awake/shower/ do make up and hair
6:30 leave for work (DH does kids)
7:30 arrive at work (bloody traffic!)
5pm (or 8pm if I need to work late to catch up on bits) - leave work
6:30 home (if didn't work late) - DH does kids in eve too
6:45 bath kiddies
7pm put kids to bed
7:30 cook
8pm Eat dinner
9pm get clothes and bags laid out for next day/ clean kitchen etc
10pm go to bed

It's exhausting at times and I feel like DH has to take the lions share of drop off and pick up etc. due to my work being a commute and his being local. I look forward to weekends with family a lot and I do love my job so it's not all doom and gloom!

[OhTheRoses]

I waonder what salaries some people are earning for these hours. I regularly work more than 60hpw but I earn a shade over 6 figures.

My GP practice has published £78k as the aveage GP salary. Of 20 partners, two are full time. The other 18 work between 4 and 1 day pw.

I'd quite like £78k for 0.6 to 0.7FTE of my 65 hours pw.

I think the average GP, Accountant, Lawyer cannot be equated with the unrealistic expectations that presently prevail for teachers.

[18875hulu]

Manager in office (no staff) 1 DC & currently 15 weeks pregnant

6.30-7am Wake up when DS starts making sounds on the monitor
7.00-8.00am DH takes DS downstairs and gives him a drink/changes his nappy/puts cartoons on
I use this time to be sick (morning sickness ) get ready, tidy upstairs and make both beds, gather a load of laundry
8.00-8.15 Swap with DH and childcare arrives (grandparent)
8.15am I leave for work
9.00am At desk, clock in then go and buy breakfast (huge site has a canteen)
Some point in the morning a take a walk outside as a break
12pm Lunch (need to work through it so have it at desk)
4.15pm leave work. Sometimes it's much later
5pm Get home, relieve grandparent, make DS tea and get mine and DH tea on
5.30pm - 6.00pm Cleaning up, playing with DS
6.00pm -7.00pm bath time, milk, story time. One of us does this whilst the other puts toys away and cleans up kitchen
7.00pm Collapse in bed as this pregnancy fatigue is really kicking my ass, generally be sick in the evening
9.30-10pm lights out might see DH before I fall asleep if lucky

[Efferlunt]

I get up at 0625 and leave house when everyone else is asleep I shower the night before so literally just put my make up and clothes on and leave the house.

I’m normally on the 0655 or the 0705 train to London which means I arrive at my desk just after 0830. The first thing I do is have a coffee. If baby wakes up I have to get the later 0725 train as I have to look after him until DH wakes up at 0645.

I try to do all my emails and to do list on the train as my days are usually full of meetings I might only have 2 hours in which to do actual work. I don’t usually bother with breakfast but I’m usually feeling hungry about 11 so will have a banana and then an early lunch about 1230 usually soup.

I try and leave by five which means I’m home for six thirty. This train journey is supposed to be my me time but I usually have some urgent office work to do.

Sometimes I have to jump in the car and pick a child up from club before heading home to relieve the nanny. If I’m later I have to pile all the kids in the car with me which is stressful.

The baby is supposed to have had a bath, pets fed (by kids not nanny) and all the music practice/ homework done. This doesn’t always happen though so I end up doing it / yelling at people till it happens.

I then cook dinner and put kids to bed. DH comes home about 1945 and we eat. Usually end up going to bed past 11.

Luckily I only have to do this two days as I only work three days a week and do one from home!

[Mammylamb]

Up at 6am, get showered and dressed and out at 7am. Arrive work 730. Half hour lunch break. Leave work 5.30 or 6pm. Home between 6 to 630 pm. Eat dinner, play with DS. Then either bath and put DS to bed or walk dog, do hoovering and dishes and prep packed lunch. Get clothes ready for the morning. Sit down about 9pm. Go to bed at 10pm

DH works shorter hours, so he gets DS ready and dropped at nursery and also collects him again. I batch cook at weekends, so DH usually heats dinner / cooks pasta / rice when I’m on way home from work.

[JaneEyre07]

Up at 6am with puppy; empty dishwasher, put washing on, make lunch and pack work bag, feed dogs. 7am shower/hair. Dressed then walk dogs 7.30am until 8.15am, then home for breakfast and leave at 8.30am. Dogs come to work with me. Work 9am to around 4pm with a break for lunch to walk dogs again and feed puppy. Home by 4.30pm, walk dogs for around half an hour and then cook tea, tidy house, feed dogs and bring washing in. Sit down around 7pm after eating and breathe a sigh of relief.

Luckily I only work 3 days but the other 2 are taken up with looking after grandkids, doing all the housework and taking my elderly father to more and more hospital appointments............. .

[Turquoisetamborine]

7.10am Get up and get ready, grandparent arrives at 7.50 to get kids up and ready
7.56 walk to work
8.00 arrive at work, make myself a cuppa, check emails and try to do an hour of work before public enter the building
9.00 start seeing customers
10.00 tea break
12 lunch for half an hour
3 another tea break for 15 mins
4.30 meeting about some pointless issue
5 home
Quickly tidy house and prep tea unless it’s a Wednesday as H is off
5.30 kids dropped off, will have already been fed so they play and we read
7pm little one is supposed to go to bed
Time for older one to watch tv and chat with us
8.30 older child goes to bed and we watch tv until
10.15 bed
I’m off a thurs and Friday so those days are much nicer and we don’t get up til 8am. I do housework, cook, meet friends for coffee, shop etc on those days and take kids to football classes etc

I like my life!

[adaline]

7am - up and get ready.
7.20-ish - let dog out and feed/sort dog.
7.30-7.50 - breakfast.
7.50-8.30 - sort any housework out, make lunch, feed the cats.
8.30 - leave for work.
9.30am - 6pm - work.

6-7pm - drive home.
7pm - feed dog and have shower
7.30pm - dinner - then flop!

[whitehousemum]

I’m a part time musician, part time sahm and part time msc student. Each day is different, for example on Tuesday this week:

7am woken by toddler, get ready for day
9am drop toddler off at childminder and drive to school in next city to deliver workshops
10-2 deliver music workshops in school then drive home
2:30 arrive home, write notes from workshops, do msc work
5 pick up toddler, take her home and have dinner
7-8ish put toddler to bed, sit in her room doing msc work while she falls asleep
8 relax with dh when he gets home

Then Thursday:

6am woken by toddler
Get everything ready for wedding I am playing at later, leisurely breakfast thanks to toddler house of wake up time, get ready
9 drive to wedding
10:45 warm up/rehearsal
11:30 play background music for guests
12-1 play for ceremony
1-2 very long drive to reception venue (this is not standard)
2-3 squeeze in msc work before next performance slot
3-5 play for reception
7:30 get home have dinner, dh puts toddler to bed while I chill out (nice dh!)

[getback]

I set my alarm for 7.15. I roll out of bed at 7.20. I drink the tea DH has left for me, drag a comb through my hair, get dressed, clean my teeth and wake dc who sort themselves out in the morning. I start work at 7.30 (wfh) i only eat lunch, not breakfast. I finish at 5.30 every day.

[LadyGregorysToothbrush]

Can’t wait for OP to blow everyone’s minds by telling them about teachers’ holidays in Ireland

[Youngandfree]

@OhTheRoses teachers salaries in Ireland start at 36k I’m on the 5th scale which is 41k

@LadyGregorysToothbrush yes our summer holiday begins on June 25th this year 🙈

[FurForksSake]

5.45 DH alarm goes off and he gets up and gets ready and off to London
6.10 DS2 gets up and I try and convince him to doze till 7
7 get DS1 up and they go downstairs for ten minutes while I dress and do my teeth
7.10 make porridge for kids and lunches if needed
7.30 get dressed
8.15 walk to school and preschool
9.15 arrive home from school run (3 and a bit miles by the time I get back
9.30 housework
10 work
2.40 leave house for school walk
3.45 home (later if we go to park)
4 make dinner and sort out bits for clubs
5.15 DH home eat and clear down dinner
6 clubs or bath time
7 youngest in bed
7.30 eldest in bed
7.45 work
10pm bed

[sideorderofchips]

I’m a school science technician.

6.30 get up and three kids up and fed
705 leave house
7.20 drop ds to childminder
7.25 drop dd2 off to friends and pick up her son
7.30 get to work/ drop off dd1 and friends son.
Then check my emails and practicals list for the day
Set up practicals for day
Help in lessons as needed
Prepare chemicals
Print tests
12.30 lunch
1pm back to same as before lunch
4pm finish work
4.25 pick up dd2 and ds
4.45 home to cook dinner
Then start bedtimes. Once kids in bed it’s laundry and lunch box prep

[mummyof2boys30]

Not a teacher myself but I know in my kids primary school (I live beside it, teachers arrive between 8 and 8.30 (same time as kids) Kids arrive 8.30. Most are away by 4.30. I obviously don't know what goes on with planning etc at home though.

[Tw1nsetAndPearls]

As a teacher I work about 70 hours a week in term time and earn around £45k for my teaching. In the holidays I do other work and earn money on top for that.

[Sunshineandalltherainbows]

Can i come and work in your school? What a dream.
Saturday I was so tired from the week I ended up falling asleep at 3pm ( I do admit this is rare but the planning reports and meetings caught up with me this week). I spent Sunday morning planning. I still have so much to do! Im taking a 15 minute break before finishing off.

My work day:

6.30 up and get ready
6.45 get children up and ready
7 leave house everything else has been packed and ready night before
7.10 eldest child drop off
7.20 second. Hold drop off
7.35 arrive at school (and I’m a later one)
8.40- children come in I will now not break at all until 3.30 when children leave
3.35- photocopy and mark
5- leave school
9- start working again

I need a new school! Or a new job!

[Sunshineandalltherainbows]

I’m moving to Ireland

[pickletickled]

Depends what shift I'm on but this is what my normal week consists of.
12.00 - 10.15pm - work
10.45pm home - shower- bed - force sleep :)
5.45am wake up, have coffee and breakfast.
6.30am get washed and ready
7.00am leave for walk to work
7.30am arrive at work, set up for opening.
8.00 - 6pm work
walk home
6.30 shower and pjs
7.00 eat dinner
7.00pm-9pm -see DH if he's home, read,tv
9.30 - sleep
repeat above for rest of week.
I'm a retail manager

[BlueJava]

6:00am up, shower and dress
6:30am leave house drive to station
6:50am train to London
7:50am (ish) arrive at work
Usually work all the way through, sometimes 20 mins for lunch
5:00pm try and leave office to commute home
6:30pm - 8:00pm arrive home (depending on trains, time I left)
Dinner as soon as I get in (everything is prepped on a Sunday)
10:00pm latest get to bed
10:30pm (ish) sleep!!!

[Youngandfree]

@Sunshineandalltherainbows in all honesty I have often thought how doing a “wife swap” style programme with teachers all over the world would be an AMAZING programme!! “Teacher swap!” It would be great for Evey to see/understand how other countries do it! Run a school, funding, teaching methods, behaviour, parents attitudes, hours, pay, the pros, the cons, etc etc I would l LOVE IT!

[Youngandfree]

*everyone

[itbemay1]

M-F
6.30 get up - wake teens
7.30 leave house
8.00 start work
6.30 finish work
7.00 home
7.30 start dinners
8.30 finish clean up/washing/chores
9.00 sort bags/ clothes next day
9.30 bath or tv or both
10.30 bed
S
6.30 up
7.30 leave house
8.00 work
12.30 leave work
Rest of sat - shopping for food , washing, ironing, cleaning etc etc
S
Sleep in till 9ish
Study

So much easier with teens.

[HunterHearstHelmsley]

Alternate days;

Day 1:
6am - get up, cup of coffee and breakfast
6.40am - shower, hair and make up
7.50am - leave for office
8am - arrive at office
Various meetings (skype), admin
12pm - go home, have lunch and WFH the rest of the day

Day 2:
7.30am - Get up and shower
WFH all day