Looking around at the majority of my peers in the industry, within my organisation and more prevalently in our customers, its blatantly obvious that the 9-5 Monday to Friday working ethos is dissolving far more rapidly than perhaps we would like to admit we are very much into the global warming phase of the work-life balance ecology…
I’m a typical (tell me if I’m wrong) IT Strategist… I have a laptop, I have connectivity at home, work and in between, I have a work phone (Blackberry) and a personal digital device (iPhone), I’m rarely unconnected and I have an absolute bucket-load of things on my mind, such as this lot:
So how does a typical day flow for me and where do the edges of the old, “nice” 9-5 get bled to death?
- between 6am – 7am
- Wake up slowly
- Check email (iPhone maybe Blackberry)
- Shower etc
- Breakfast with family (unless I’m on the road early, then its just breakfast with the dog!)
- iPhone - Scan RSS, Check Twitter… replies, DM’s and scan through a few pages of tweets… Favourite those I think may be worth consuming properly
- between 7am – 8:30am
- Go to work \ client
- Car and usually catch up on phone calls..
- Train then its email, calls, tweets, RSS… maybe knock up document skeletons, ideas, brainstorm etc…
- Work..laptop\iPhone checking backchannels occasionally when\if appropriate
- sometime between 12pm – 2pm
- Lunch…iPhone - Scan RSS, Check Twitter… replies, DM’s and scan through a few pages of tweets… look in depth at any Favourite’d items
- Work..laptop\iPhone checking backchannels occasionally when\if appropriate
- between 5:30pm – 7:00pm
- Go to home
- Car and usually catch up on phone calls..
- Train then its email, calls, tweets, RSS… maybe knock up document skeletons, ideas, brainstorm etc…
- between 6:30pm – 9:00pm
- Kids & wife… eat, kids to bed, (or eat later)
- TV \ Music
- Laptop \ iPhone - Scan RSS, Check Twitter… replies, DM’s and scan through a few pages of tweets… look in depth at any Favourite’d items
- TV \ Music
- between 9:00pm – 10:30pm
- Catchup on emails, admin, proposals etc
- TV \ Music
- between 10pm – 2am
- Laptop \ iPhone - Scan RSS, Check Twitter… replies, DM’s and scan through a few pages of tweets… look in depth at any Favourite’d items
- between 11pm – 2am
- Sleep..
Thats crap isn’t it… I mean I’m productive in the day…and when travelling… but why the uncompromising activities in the evening?? And worse a cut-down version of the above @ weekends too!
I guess the only excuse (and its a poor one) is that I, we, all of us are trying to just cling to the ever-changing digital world that keep incessantly revolving, changing, innovating and leaping ahead across time-zones, technologies, cultures and strategies…
The only way we can stay ahead of the game is to plug in and consume and participate, share, add value and learn…constantly…
There must be a better way to stay ahead of the game without “bleeding eyes” and pissed off families…Isn’t there??
1 comment:
reading this on my phone. On holiday. At my father in law's. Because you tweeted. On holiday. At Centerparcs. My 'game' is not quite the same (education) but the rules look pretty similar. I think the problem is that .work' and 'leisure' often converge so that I justify too long messing about in front of a screen as work then feel bad that I haven't got enough done and also haven't had proper recreation.
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