I wake up about 530am, shower,shave...etc.. Check the morning newspaper (obituaries) to make sure I am among the living.I leave home about 645am for work,get to work at 7am.Check messages and return phone calls.9am leave the office for field work. 1130am 1230am lunch. 1pm back in the office to check messages and return phone calls.130pm back out in the field until 4pm.

I also get up at about 5:30. I shower and shave, make coffee and hit the door. I get to office at about 7:00, drink more coffee and visit these sites for about an hour. I inspect till 5:00 then go home.

up at 6-6.45, three S's, on the road by 7:15. Stand in line to turn in yesterdays work, stand in another line to pick up todays work, then a third liine to get equipment. Out to the field by 9 to get my 8-10am appointments done. Barly slide in to all of my jobs on time all day (a cable guy is only on-time to his first job in any given time frame) Take no lunch. Barly slide in the door at school for classes at 6pm. Finaly put the truck to bed around 10-10:30. Eat dinner with the wife, do paper work for work for around an hour. Make sure I comprehend school work for the day. And watch that 70's Show, King of Queens, And Steve Harvey Show. Finally, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

No set pattern 7AM to 3:30PM is the offical day for me, but sometimes the job is 2 hrs away sometimes 5 minutes.

Add to that I work nights instead of days when they need me to.

Nights can be 7PM to 7AM or if I am lucky 9PM to Midnight and get my 8 hrs pay.

Wakeup around 6-6:30. Shower,shave sometimes coffee and breakfast. Usually i am at clients doorstep between 7:30-8:00. Usually finish 4-5 PM. Leave jobsite and go hunt down material for the next day.
I had all my phone call forwarded to my cell #, Thank God i have been busy lately so i have all those call forwarded to my home office where my lovely wife picks up. She still needs training but it is better than talking to the client while in the crawl space and writing addresses down on the floor joists.

Edward

Get up at 5:00am. Scratch my beard, showered last night Make a big breakfast... eggs, sausage, toast, milk, coffee; and cereal or yogurt. (I had to do this as I was running out of steam before coffeetime). Throw my lunch together. Get on my work gear (overalls, jacket, boots, knapsack, etc).

Run out the door at 5:55 to catch the bus at 5:58. 10 minute bus ride, 20 minutes on the commuter train, 10 more minutes on a bus, and a brisk 10 minute walk.

Usually have about 10 minutes to guzzle coffee before I start at 7:00. Coffee break at 9:30. Lunch at 12:45. If I'm lucky, one of the two foreman will have shown up so I can get some material ordered Finish the day at 3:15. Getting home is the exact reverse of getting to work. Repeat 5 times each week.

~Kevin

If the jobs are "Normal Schedules" (work during the day), then it's like this:

• Wake @ 3:30 - 4:00 AM,
• Work 5:00 AM to either 2:00, 3:00 or 4:00 PM,
• Play Project Manager until 6:00 - 7:00 PM,
• Eat + hang with my Wife until 9:00 PM,
• Hit sack, repeat again (goto "Wake").

If working "Inverted Schedule" (Night work), then invert schedule above by 12 Hours

If working in the Office, then alter schedules to read as:

• Wake at 5:00 AM,
• Be at Office around 6:00 - 6:30 AM,
• Work until eyes bug out and water (around 6:00 PM),
• Get Home around 7:00 PM,
• Play on computer or do some paperwork until ???,
• Hang out with my Wife (and maybe eat Dinner),
• Goto bed at ???,
• Repeat from "Wake at 5:00 AM".

When doing any EE / Designing and related work:
I see the Sun rise, set, then rise again!
Just joking... these tasks have no set times, but do run into the 12-14-16 hour marathon lengths very often!

Scott35

As with Scott 35, I'm up at 3:30 or 4 (even Sat & Sun) as a habit.
Usually computer & coffee 'til about 5.
Into office by 6, out to the field about 6:15 'til ? (Target time is 2:30)
I like this hourly in the field schedule.
(Last job as a Proj Manager had me gone from about 4:30-5AM until 7 at night)
Usually in bed by 7:30 or so.
Life is good...S

OK:
M/W/F are 7:30 to 5:30 with my EC business. at shop by 8:00 guys out by 8:15-8:30 P/U mail, go on estimates, do paper, etc. Squeeze in lunch as available.

Tuse/Thurs (P/T AHJ)
Leave house at 6:50 for drive to Twp office, get cup of coffee, at office 7:30+/-. Get days insp ready, out by 8:15/8:30 quick to g coffee at 10:00. Lunch as convenient and as time allows (1/2 hr max) Back to Twp office after field inspections anywhere from 2:30 to ?? Enter daily inspections, do CIC, file, pull cards for next day....then permit apps, and/or Plan Review till 4:00PM.

I left out the phone calls, 'pit stop', questions, and all the other misc stuff that overfills a normal day.

Wed. Nite:
Get to county vo-tech school for class that I teach. Arrive at 6:00, prep, class 6:30 to 9:00 PM.

Sat/Sun:
Usually 'down time', but we (EC)do work on 'as needed' basis, nites and weekends.
Paperwork for EC, and reading for next class I teach, as required.

John

Radio goes on before 7 (in not on all night),
actually get up 8:30 to 9, bum a round a bit with breakfast/coffee. Catch up on TV watching until noon, go out an do things and have lunch,
the comuter/TV in the afternoon.

Wow! Some of ya'll got some long hours. Me:

Up at 4:30, SSS, fly out the door, drive 16 miles and clock in at 5:30 and work till 2:00 & clock out.

After 2:00, bid or work side jobs if I have any (keeping those to a profitable minimum these days) or pick up kids from school and haul them to sports practices. Piddle on computer, eat dinner, annoy wife, go to bed by 9:00, repeat Monday through Friday. Occaisional Saturday overtime.

what's the old addage?

early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy & wise....

~S~

..You guys are gonna laugh me right outta the Forum when you hear this...
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to sleep...but now, I'm a night owl..I'm up til about 3am, usually, and get up at 8am..I have my single cup of joe for the day,check in here,at the Forum,..check my e-mail,...then nature calls...get dressed, and hopefully by 9am, I'm out the door...The clincher is,tho',..we work later than most shops,..sometimes til 7:30-8:00pm..The guys don't mind,as they can sleep an extra hour,and I don't mind,cuz I'm not a morning person....

..I guess thats why I'm neither!!!
AR




[This message has been edited by Attic Rat (edited 01-28-2004).]

Depends on where (and for whom) I'm working..

For my boss- Non-FD day up around 0630/0700, shower/read paper head to Dunkin Donuts for Big Joe Xcream Xsugar, head to job, arrive 0800-0830, work until 1500, as late as 1800 on pre-final nights.

FD days (the day immediately after my 24-hour stint at the FD), If we've been slow (ie I've been able to get "sleep"), I usually head home when we get off duty at 0700, then shower, head to DD, head to job - arrive 0800-0900, work until 1500 or so. If we've been busy, I'll call my foreman and catch a catnap (Tired Dug make mestikes), and get up arounf 0900, arrive 1000, work as long as needed. (I'm lucky - my foreman is a Lt. on my p/t FD, so he knows the business - we've also clocked out from EC and gone to fire calls when working in town)

When working for myself? Usually try to keep the same hours, but have been known to sleep in, unless another contractor is waiting for me / needs to be worked with time-or-area-wise; then the schedule calls the shots.

Hey, it's the nice part about being your own boss!

mj,
Well,
I'm a bit of a "round the clock" Electrician/Line Mechanic/Faultsman.
On a normal day, I'll stumble out of bed at 0530 have a shower and shave, cook my own breakfast and do the dishes.
After about 3 cups of coffee I'm almost in the land of the living.
Start work at 0800, do various jobs until 1230 have lunch if time allows.
Work until 1700.
After 1700 I am on call until 0800 every day of the week.
On Saturdays I am on call from 0700 to 0000
and the same for Sunday.
Also in this time I am usually part of the local Fire Brigade Duty Crew with just living down the road from the Fire Station, it's a 900m run from here!.
Somewhere in between I sleep!.

Mj,
Also at the end of a given week, I have so much paperwork to fill out for all of the work that I do, it's not even funny, well at least I'm not laughing.
I've been on call since 0700 this morning, I have attended 3 Fire calls today and have filled out 34 Certificates of Compliance for both Electrical Installations and the Associated Linework pertaining to the above.
I have filled out 23 FIRS (Fire Incident Report Sheets)Sheets.
Also I have Faults Procedures and Line Clearance forms to fill out.
Sometimes I just wish this could all be done on-line.
But the powers that be here, need a paper trail, if I spread all these papers out they'd go from here to the Moon!.
It's now 0130 Sunday morning, I'll get to bed (provided there are no Faults calls) about 0700.

I get up around 5 p.m., eat supper, and either head to a side job or do some work around the house. Then at 10p.m. I leave for the night job, get home around 8a.m., check on a couple of message boards and then go to bed. Start cycle again.