I usually wake up at 7-8 AM. I've woken up at 6 or 6:30 a few times since my boys were born roughly 3 weeks ago. They seem to get through the night without much fuss. I'll take a few naps during the day and my bed time varies wildly. Going back to bed after I'm done with this disgusting cup of chamomile.
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Share your daily routine
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Well, my view is that the vast majority of those who replied felt - or interpreted - the instruction 'share your daily routine' to mean 'share your daily routine [on a normal week-day]'.
Thus, week-ends do not count as part of the 'daily routine' for people who hold a regular job. Socialising, coffees, pubs, concerts, are the stuff of leisure time, or, at least, not a part of the normal work day, which is what most who responded to you assumed you wished to know about.
If you wish to find out more about how those who chose to respond to you spend their free time, then I'd recommend you post a thread title - or an amended thread - which asks 'share your routine when you're not working' or 'share your routine at the week-end'.
Were you to do so, then, I'd imagine you would receive posts which describe watching TV, attending games, coffee, pubs, socialising, shopping, and so on.
I hardly ever visit coffee shops or malls. My socialising is also infrequent enough to not be included in my daily routine.
Agreed.
While I visit coffee shops, it depends on the day, the weather, and the country I am in.
In the Balkans, when I am there for elections, where coffee is a way of life, and where every meeting starts with a coffee, I have several meetings each day in coffee shops.
In central Asia, and the Caucasus, where I have worked for years, likewise. Coffee and meetings go hand in hand.
When I am on leave, I like to while away an hour or two in coffee shops; very civilised and soothing.
Malls are torture, and I rarely visit them, even for shopping. Most of my shopping is done is specialist department stores, or small specialist shops.
I wake up
I run (slowly)
I go to work
Lunch I run (slowly) again if there is time, if not then it shifts to after work
After work I go to my apartment and futz with something
Sleep
On weekends I go home and hang out with the family.
I run (slowly)
I go to work
Lunch I run (slowly) again if there is time, if not then it shifts to after work
After work I go to my apartment and futz with something
Sleep
On weekends I go home and hang out with the family.
must be clash of cultures. Where I am, people would go to cinemas, coffee shops, attend concerts or events in weekdays. Its more like wake up ->work->lunch->nap-> go out/something social->dinner-> sleep
Fair enough.
However, as you have seen on your own thread, most of those who have replied seem to have quite a drastic difference in how their day runs on a work week and how they pass the time at the week end.
However, this is for more reasons than just the voracious time demands of some modern workplaces.
Moreover, I would also be prepared to wager than many of those who have replied to you have families, and thus, family commitments, on top of their working lives and commitments. The needs of caring for children and elderly parents tend to take priority over hobbies, or taking time for yourself.
Thus, those who have families, or family (and caring) commitments will lead a life that is work and family focussed during the week. Week-ends allow for a different routine in that hobbies, and interests, and 'fun' stuff may be indulged.
Mind you, this can also depend on how you use the coffee shop, and the public,or social, space.
As an undergrad student, I spent whole days in the coffee shop, sometimes missing lectures, just chilling and chatting endlessly, all day. It was great fun.
However, in a recent job, abroad, I spent a lot of my working day in the coffee shop of our HQ. As it happened, this allowed me to meet with a lot of people for whom the casual appearance of a quick meeting over coffee was a lot more congenial than turning up in my part of the open plan office where walls had ears and some colleagues had evolved to sport more ears than would normally be considered compatible with the human state.
Chats over coffee were far more productive than scheduled chats in an office environment would have been. The appearance of ease and congenial chat meant that serious work could take place discreetly, but when people had sufficiently relaxed to feel a bit more at ease.
In other words, for the OP, coffee shops can mean 'not-working'. For me, in recent years, some of my most productive work has taken place in coffee shops. But this is still work, not leisure…...
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Official working hours are 7-2 , you can nap and have lunch from 2-5 then you have 5 hours until 10 to do whatever you want.
Not if you have kids, a partner, or perhaps elderly parents. Then, non-working time during the week can be pretty heavily eaten into as other commitments take priority.
Well, that's certainly not how quite a bit of the world works. But to each his/her own.
There's that certainly as well.
I wake up at 6 o’clock. I get up at 6:50. I make a cup of tea and iron my clothes. I have a shower and get dressed. I brush my hair, put on my make-up. I then put on my coat and leave the house. I walk to the bus stop. I catch the bus at 8:15. It takes about 45 minutes to get to my destination three miles away. It takes about 45 minutes to get to my destination three miles away. I get off the bus and walk to the school.
I have lunch at 12. I sometimes do some shopping. I then catch the bus back home and spend a couple of hours relaxing before I cook dinner.
Then I go on Facebook, or watch TV until about 10:30 and at about 11 o’clock I go to bed.
I have lunch at 12. I sometimes do some shopping. I then catch the bus back home and spend a couple of hours relaxing before I cook dinner.
Then I go on Facebook, or watch TV until about 10:30 and at about 11 o’clock I go to bed.
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