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.

Oh, I go to the gym at 4pm every day and get back around 7pm.

5.15am Get up. Make coffee
6.00am Set off for gym
6.15am - 7.30am Work out
8.00am Arrive home, drop off gym bag, make coffee to go
8.15am Walk to work
9.00am - 6.pm (sometimes later) Office
7.00pm Arrive home, make dinner or go out to eat
11.00pm Bed

There are variations but that's a fairly typical day.

On the days I go into the office, I commute 3 hours to London.

Up at 5:45am
Leave house at 6:30 and on train by 6:50.
In office by 9:30am
Leave for home at 4
Home by 7:30
Put dc to bed
In bed by 9:30pm
That’s 3 days a week

Other 2 days I’m at home with youngest and doing school run for older one. And wishing I could take a nap.

I don’t really have a normal day I work flexible hours so as long as I do my FT hours they don’t care if I do it 4am Monday morning or all day Sunday. I also work between 2 counties so if I’m working in the one I don’t live in then I have to leave earlier. Oh has a pub so is all over too.
A typical day when oh is off and I’m working from the office 5 mins away:
6:50am - wake up and doss in bed, fuming about getting up until
7am - get ready (the usual getting ready ness)
7:20am - wake kids up and tell them to get ready for school - continue getting ready myself
7:45 - older kids have already made and had their own breakfast.. younger lazier child comes down with me and I make her breakfast.
8:15 - oldest kid leaves for school
8:30 - we leave for school
9- in office until
6 - go home, the rest of them have eaten so I usually scrabble about trying to find food for myself (they can’t leave me any because I’m coeliac and none of them lot are)
7 - youngest goes to bed
9 - older ones go to bed
10 - I go to bed

Alarm goes off at 7 press snooze till 7.30
7.30-8.30 shower,get dd and ds up, breakfast.
8.30 leave house, drop dd at school, I'm a ta at ds school we get there 8.45.
9-3.30 work
Usually get out about 3.45 dd walks to my work and waits for us outside. Get home 4 if we go straight home often have shopping etc to do so home any time between 4-5.
Make tea and eat 5-6
Run kids to drama, cubs etc
Wash up do packed lunches etc watch tv, play games,read with kids do homework
9.30-11.30 bed

Then repeat the rest of the week.

Can I ask the teachers who get to work really early: is that your choice or are you expected to be there at that time? I have just applied for a pgde and was thinking if successful I would do planning etc. at home before the kids wake up. I have a 1 year old and 3 year old and childminders around here don’t start until 8am and then I would have to get the bus. Is it possible to do it that way?

@breeze44 I know when I worked in the uk many moons ago we were expected in for 8 😬

I work 5 long shifts one week, 2 the next. 08:00 - 22:30, nurse consultant. PhD work when i can. Husband is a head teacher, in school my 07-30 or earlier if my day off, around 6 hrs at the weekend, I've never known him work hours like the op!!

7am get up and get myself and DC ready
8:20am leave for school run
8:50am back home from school run
9am start work (from home, Monday-Friday)
1pm finished working
1pm have lunch
1:30pm prepare dinner, do washing, house work that needs doing and any errands
2:40pm leave for school run
3:15pm back from school run. Give DC snack, help with homework and nag that they practice their instruments until around 4:30.
4:30pm cook dinner
5:30pm eat dinner as a family (DC is back from work at 4:15)
6:15 bath DC and get them ready for bed
7:15 DC bedtime
8pm I tend to shower around this time
Watch TV or read until 10:30 then I go to sleep.

Acute medicine doctor

Days:
Wake up at 6.15am, get dressed sort kids leave for bus at 7.15 (boyfriend does school run on way to work)
Home at 5-6pm-ish or 10pm depending on shift

Nights:
Wake up at 5pm, spend some time with kids, cry a bit about being a shit mum/sleep deprived
Leave for work at 7.30pm
Home around 9.30am, eat and wash and go to sleep 10.30- 11am

Breaks varied and often minimal. It’s a great job though! And 13 hour shifts fly by
This year much easier than some as places at a nearby hospital so minimal commuting time.

I work evenings/nights so mine is a bit backwards.

1am- leave work

1:20am- get home from work, make sure DDs lunch is ready, have a cup of tea etc

2am- go to sleep.

7am- get up, dressed/makeup, wake up DH, make cup of tea.

7:40am- wake DD up, give her breakfast, get dressed, teeth and hair brushed (has rapunzel-like hair so always a struggle)

8:30am- walk DD to school, we luckily live extremely close to her school.

8:40am- get home, wash dishes, feed cats, Hoover and tidy up, put a load of washing on.

10am- go back to sleep

12:30pm- wake up from nap, shower, hair and makeup done again for work, get dressed, make “lunch” for work.

3:15pm- get DD from school, put coat/bag/shoes away, give DD a snack, check book bag for any important bits

4pm- leave for work, get there for 5pm (public transport).

Rinse and repeat

Up at 6.30 - get myself dressed and sometimes the baby depending on who finishes first out of me and DH
Drop DD at nursery for 7.30
In work at 8am
I usually have a couple of meetings a day but otherwise I'm at my desk - have a lovely job with great office pals so I really enjoy it
Lunch at 12-1
Leave the office at 4
Pick DD up around 4.45
Home by 5
Dinner for DD about 5.15
Bath and bed for her at 6
Dinner for DH and I once she's asleep (about 6.45)
Bed by 11

I feel incredibly lucky to have the job I do as it gives me great work / life balance - but I chose it specifically because I knew it would and sacrificed salary to get it.

OP isn’t a slacker; those are standard working hours for primary teachers in Ireland.

Teachers are also better paid (I think) and have a hell of a lot more respect in society. Employed centrally by the Dept of Education, not by individual schools. It’s a very desirable profession.

Breeze, Dh has always been in by 8 at every school when a teacher. most teachers at every school were the same and never left when lessons finish, those 'unpaid' hours go towards the holiday time (his leave is actually a real pain, pay pro rata, every where is expensive plus he has do holiday clubs /teaching

Ladies- sounds so much nicer all round!

Alarm 7am
Wake up 2x DD
Breakfast
Packed lunches
Out door by 8.45am
Drop youngest to childminder, eldest walks to school alone
Start work 9am
Finish work at 7pm
Collect youngest from childminder 7.15pm
Home by 7.30pm read youngest book then straight to bed for her.
8pm cook tea for myself and eldest
9pm bath and tv
10pm bed

Work day
Up at 0545
0600 Make breakfast for me and DD
0625 wake DH with tea (If he is not working and is therefore taking DD to school)
0630 leave for bus
0730 start work
2030 finish work (lunch break some time in between those hours - nurse at a children's hospice.)
2040 bus home if no lift available
2130 arrive home
2200 bed

Night shift day
0600 - woken by DD
0630- breakfast
0645- feed cats, clean litter trays etc/ unload dishwasher
0730 - dressed and get ready for school
0815- leave for school
0840- local shop for any needed bits
0900 - home
0930- run if I can be assed
1030 - household chores
1230 - lunch and some chill out time
1435 - leave for school run
1510- 1630 - after school activities for DD a few days a week
1700 - home for dinner
1800 - bath for DD, reading, story before bed etc
1850- leave for work
2000- start work
0800 - finish work

Maybe sleep next day if working again that night and able to...

Thanks for answers. Strange as my mum was a teacher and used to get in at about 8.40am and then leave at around 3.45 when we were young, then she would work at home. I wonder how teachers with young kids manage if they have to be in for 8am.
Anyway sorry to derail your thread op.

I'm time rich.

Get up and dressed at 7
Make lunch and empty dishwasher at 7.15
Eat breakfast and Mumsnet until 8.15
Get to work at 8.30
Usually fairly non stop emotionally draining
Finish at 4.30
Pop into the shop for something
Get home at 4.45
Relax for a bit
Throw some dinner together and do admin
6.30 take dc to do sports of some kind
Go to gym then pick dc up (total 20-80 minutes driving depending on the night)
Home by 8 or 9.30 cup of coffee
Bed by 10.30

Im a nursery nurse in a private nursery.

6.45 wake up, get dressed etc.
7.00 wake kids, sort breakfast, brush their teeth, help get them dressed, do DDs hair.
7.30 leave for work
8.30 start work
6.00 finish work and go home
7.00 arrive home, talk to kids about their day, do reading books
7.30 put youngest to bed.
7.45 put middle child to bed.
8.00 finally get something to eat and a brew
9.00 big one goes to bed, i watch TV or faff around on tinterweb
10 shower
10.30-11 ish bedtime.
4.00am finally get to sleep because I'm autistic and a very very bad sleeper!

. I wonder how teachers with young kids manage if they have to be in for 8am.

My husband works from home. For other staff they pay for nursery from 8am and get into work as soon as they can. Teaching does give you some flexibility with regards to starting and ending times

Can I ask the teachers who get to work really early: is that your choice or are you expected to be there at that time? I have just applied for a pgde and was thinking if successful I would do planning etc. at home before the kids wake up. I have a 1 year old and 3 year old and childminders around here don’t start until 8am and then I would have to get the bus. Is it possible to do it that way?

I don't get in very early but it is a choice. I do what you intend on doing - sort of! I work between 5 and 7 am when everyone else is asleep and then again between 10pm and midnight.

Sahm to 8 children here:

5am wake up and wake dh. Dh feeds dogs and does lunches for those on packed lunch. I exercise for an hr
6:15 am wait to here ds 1 come out of shower so I can get mine
6:30 say bye to dh (dh cycles off to station) have a cuppa, put washing on let dogs out again, chat with dd 1 and ds 1 about their upcoming day wake ds 3
7:10 see dd1 and ds1 out to catch the bus
7:20 wake other dc - make breakfasts for them and get those who can’t dress themselves dressed. Hear reading, practise spellings in panic mode!
7:50 see ds3 out the door to catch bus
8:20 coats, shoes, hair
8:30 leave house to walk to school
9:10 get back from school run - dishwasher sort out, washing sort, have cuppa. Play with smallest dc or take him out. Cleaning, washing, tidying, until
2:45 leave to pick up Primary age dc
3:40 return from school run - prepare snacks for primary children
4:10 eldest dc return
4:15 depends on day but either start Dinner or take dc to after school activity
5:00 dh home
5:30 - 6:30 prepare and serve dinner everyone eats together
7 pm ish baths for youngest dc’s
7:30 hear reading etc
8 - 8:30 supper for dc and bed for dc under 12yrs older dc’s take themselves between 9 & 10 ish.
10pm bed - hope to be able to sleep before 11 if youngest ds is asleep!!

Also a teacher, but SLT
5.00 alarm
5.15 get up, get ready etc
6.15 leave house
6.40 arrive at school, log on to computer, reply to emails, sort out resources for the day if I'm teaching.
8.00 some days briefing, or 8.30.
8.45 go out on duty as kids arrive
8.55 kids come in so either I'm in class or taking groups until 12
12.00 lunch, set up for afternoon
1.00 afternoon lessons or time in office
3.30 kids go home
4.00 sometimes meetings depending on day
If not planning, monitoring, planning with other year groups etc
6 ish leave.

6am alarm
6.09am - up (iPhone, one snooze)
6.10am shower, wash hair, make up
6.50am leave the house. My DH sees to the dcs in the morning.
7.45am Get to work
5pm finish
6pm home and immediately start dinner

The afternoon varies as I collect the DC from school a couple of times a week and they have netball, choir, piano, skating, dancing etc. through the week.

Most evenings I will cook, DH does the packed lunches for the DC and will make sure they have clean uniform. I sometimes feel grateful that he’s so good, then I realise that I’m sure he didn’t feel grateful when I was doing it before he took over.