Typical day

 A typical day for me is like:

Waking up at 6:45am and snoozed till 7:00am

Get out of the house at around 7:45am

Travelled on a train. Quickly use a toilet.

Around 9:30am +/- 5 mins reached office.

Start my computer, logins and startup 2 visual studio as it takes two to work. By then it will be around 10am already. When all finally load, I will start ssms. If no hell got loosen, I don’t have to do all again. If everything is just nice, I can use Google Chrome for research and something to refer to for the things I needed to do. If it freezes, start all over again, by then it will be 10:30am. Most of the time, I skipped ssms if I have to. Everytime it hangs, down time will be like half an hour to 45 mins. I took at least 10 mins to shut down my laptop peacefully. So, altogether I spent 1 hr just to turn on and off my computer. If it hangs once, 2 hrs. That’s perfect, I could have taken a pillow and nap a bit. If it didn’t hang, it will be pretty slow. It can take me a few minutes to build a program and take another few to type a few words. That’s when I didn’t want to restart my laptop.

All in all, 3 hrs Travelling and 1 - 2 hrs Laptop startup/down/program startup/down. I went home around 9:30 or 10pm which depends on when the office will close. That’s like 12 hrs at the office. 1 or 2 hrs for lunch and dinner. OT seems to be more like covering the lost time.

I reached home around 11:15 or slightly before 12am. Before I turned into a pumpkin. I think I am cursed ;/ That’s pretty much the same for all the 3 full time jobs that I ever had. I think if I did have my next job and I wasn’t my own boss. I would offer my first month salary to buy a better laptop for the job. In the end, that laptop should be mine even when I quit. Fair and square. I got a laptop and I enjoyed the work even more. Enterprise seems to be buying laptop at a higher price but poorer specs anyway. Everyone can get a flying high speed laptop between 1 to 1.5k. But the one at enterprise probably cost about 1.5k to 2k and it still freezes when you open two to three programs… What a world. Anyway, a good start has a good end. A bad start has no ends. The problem will just recycle anyway.