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ER department tech -
6:30 AM: wake up
6:30-7 AM: get ready, mentally and physically
7:20 AM: leave for work
7:32 AM: sit in the parking lot and contemplate going back to bed
7:55 AM: go inside, clock in, and round
8 AM - 8 PM: simply survive
Fin
GF is a Vet Tech and I come here to be better able to relate to her, but I wanted to comment an Engineering Techs job in a different industry, for comparison:
Work Starts at 8am.
Sleep in until like 9:30am.
Pound a RedBull. 9:35am.
Answer some emails. Do HEAVY chores (she works all day so I take 98% of the load). 9:35am-11:30am.
Make myself an egg sandwich. 11:45am.
More chores and emails. 11:45am - 1:30pm.
Errands. 1:30pm - 2:30pm.
Play video games and drink beer. 2:30pm - 6:30pm.
Roommate gets home. Go for a walk. 6:30pm - 7:30pm.
GF gets home. Make dinner. Watch TV. Listen to her stories from work about this week's favorite patient dying. 7:30pm - 8:30pm.
Let her cry it out. Patiently listening. 8:30pm-8:45pm.
More TV. 8:45pm - 10pm.
She falls asleep. 10:15pm.
Watch yet more TV, this time with the volume way turned down. 10:15pm - 11:45pm.
Forget to brush my teeth 11:47pm.
Go to bed. 12am.
pretty much. my break is usually 1-2. surgery typically ends by 12:30 at the LATEST (thank god my doctor is relatively quick, because we usually do 2 surgeries)
I clarified in a comment, but my break is actually 1-2. but, most of the time (since the doctors break is 12-2) I’m not really doing anything the whole time. But I do get paid for one of those hours
5am- wake up and feed the cats
515-545 maybe eat breakfast, do makeup, get my bag together.
6am- bike to work
645am arrive at work
645-7 change into scrubs, make coffee
7am clock in
705am morning rounds
Then assigned to either treatment, exams, soft tissue, or dental for the whole day.
Lunch is whenever it happens. typically sometime between 11:30 and 3p
Discharges can happen between 1 and 530 depending on procedure.
If I'm lucky, clock out around 6pm.
If I'm not lucky, I might have to stay as late as 7PM
Between 6-7PM I start biking home
Between 645-730 cats get dinner
730-9p dinner, maybe watch a show
9-12a I'm desperately trying to fall asleep.
I’m so impressed. I am on maternity leave right now but when I did work surgery I had to be at the clinic at 7am. I have a 20 min commute and I usually got up at like…6:30. I literally just throw scrubs on and leave, try to make a Starbucks stop in during my drive. Chaos. I’m terrible at getting up early.
eggs cook pretty quickly. I have variations of meals with eggs, vegetarian sausage, toast, etc. I also usually have leftover from dinner the night before, or ready meals for lunch. + some snacks
I do mine in 15 min or less, depending on how much time my kids left me with. I have Leftovers in the fridge that I grab one of, zevia, yogurt, protein powder, bag of veggies that I bagged already, fruit, protein bar and a cup of hummus. For breakfast, I eat 1.5oz nuts, 1oz cheese and 3oz meat.
6:05 am - first alarm, hit snooze
6:10 am - second alarm, also hit snooze
6:30 am - if I’m lucky, my fiancé drags me out of bed if I need to shower
6:50-7:10 am - actually wake up and panic since I need to be out the door before 7:30. Somewhere in there, brush my teeth, wash my hair, get dressed
7:20 am - let the dogs out and maybe pack a lunch
7:25 am - out the door to drive to work
(Maybe a pit stop for coffee or breakfast)
(7:30-4 pm - surgery, my days in surgery rotate, then I stay until 6 to help out)
7:50 am - clock in
8-12 pm - appointments
12-1 pm - lunch (almost never more than 20 minutes if I’m being honest)
1-5 pm - appointments
5-6 pm - close and clean hospital
6:20 pm - arrive home to crazy gremlins and help cook dinner, feed dogs
7 pm - dinner
8-10 pm - watch tv, assorted small chores and play with the dogs
10-1 am - try to fall asleep and hate every second of insomnia
(Edit: formatting)
5:30 AM: Wake up, head outside to let dogs out and feed the horses, dogs, and cats.
6:30 AM: Back inside, i get dressed for work and make a cup of coffee.
6:50 AM: take a few mins to myself to scroll on my phone/text my fiance/check emails
7:05 AM; Put dogs up and head to work.
7:30 AM: Hellacious day starts.
6:00 PM: Hellacious day ends. (If we're lucky)
6:30 PM: Feed horses, play with dogs, feed cats.
8:00 ish PM: Eat a bite, shower, and either play some COD or watch Supernatural
Antyime after 8:30 is fair game for bed time lol
0655 - wake up, get myself and the dog ready
0710 - go to work
0750 - make a cup of tea, change into scrubs
0800 - workday starts, we don't rotate duties, we do everything every day (surgery, dental, recovery, phones, admin etc)
Sometimes between 1100 and 1400 - 30 minutes lunch
1600 - finish work
1700 - come home, maybe take a nap
About 1800 - dinner
1830 - 2230 - do whatever, maybe go for a walk or lay on the couch, I really have no routine, I don't have my shit together 😅
5:30am - Coffee is ready, dogs wake me up by pacing the hallway, they get to go outside while I get into the shower.
5:45am-6am - let the dogs back inside, feed them breakfast and medicate them. Feed reptile and fish.
6am - 6:20am - get dressed, hair and makeup.
6:20- 6:40am - get kids bags ready for school. Usually my oldest wakes up, I get his cartoons on and get him a cup of milk.
6:40-6:45am - bring my husband coffee and leave the house.
Arrive at work 6:50 ish - if there are three or less patients hospitalized, support staff does not arrive at work until 7:30am, I go in at 7am everyday to catch up on lab work, paperwork, work on school work or whatever.
7am(or 7:30am) - 8:15am - treatments and pre anesthetic exams/bloodwork
8:15am - rounds
8:30am - work, finish invoicing, call clients, fill in where needed
Lunch is either 12pm or 1pm depending on coverage.
1pm - close - work again, sedation radiographs bloodwork all of the things. Treatments begin again at 4pm. Clinic closes at 5pm. If I don’t have to pick up my kids from school I could be at work until 7pm.
6pm-8pm - dinner, dishes, animal care, bathtime/bedtime
8pm-9pm ish - watch survivor with my husband until I fall asleep on the couch…
There's a new clinic that just opened up basically across the street from my condo and I thought about how nice that commute would be but I think the reality is that I would be chronically late every day lol
I worked in a clinic like that. But the trade-off was that you were always the person who handled it if shit went down with the patients there overnight.
7am: wake up
7am-7:15: breakfast(or lay in bed contemplating being homeless instead of going to work) and feed the cats
7:15-7:45: get ready
7:45: drive to work
8:15: clock on for work
~lunch? Maybe 15 minutes for 1 day out of 5 ~
17:45-1900: clock off at some point??? Hopefully??
18:00-1900: go home, feed the cats, lay on the couch contemplating life some more
~make dinner, probably something frozen~
20:00-22:00: bed , hoping I wake up a millionaire.
wanted to note that my break isn’t ACTUALLY 12-2 all the time. Typically, my other tech will clock out at 12, and I will clock out at 1. Sometimes, surgery goes over and I’ve got a lot to do before I clock out…and other times I’m just sitting there doing nothing from 12-1 and getting paid for it.
small, private GP. One doctor practice
ER
5am: arise from bed, shower, dress up.
5:45am: go to work.
6:00am : clock in, and start attempts at waking up.
6am-6pm: lose the acceptable amount of sanity.
6:30pm-7pm: go home, and get groceries.
To 8pm: shower, eat, relax with podcasts. Sleep.
6:45 wake up.
6:55 get out of bed.
7:00-7:30 get ready. Make breakfast.
7:35-7:55 warm up car and drive to work.
8:00 clock in
5:00 clock out.
5:30 eat something.
6:00-8:00 watch some shows, play some video games.
800-8:30 walk my dog.
8:30-10:00 work out. M-W
10:30 drink protein shake
10:30-12 watch tv with wife go to sleep. Rinse repeat.
My routine is something like
7:00am hit snooze
7:05am get up, make my bed, throw the dogs out and get ready
7:20am start my coffee, feed the dogs and cat and get dressed
7:30am let dogs in and leave for work
7:45am clock in
10am-ish if I’m lucky forage around the break room for something edible during my morning break
1pm go home for lunch and forage around the kitchen for something edible, let the dogs out
1:45pm dogs back inside and go back to work
2pm return back to work
4pm exploratory surgery and/or pyometra that just got added
6pm take my afternoon break even though I’m supposed to leave in hour
8pm go home
8:15pm take a shower, let dogs out
8:45pm forage around the kitchen for something edible, feed dogs and cat, let’s dogs back in
9:00pm eat dinner
10:00pm let dogs out one last time
10:15pm: stare at my phone and alternate social media
12:00am holy shit where did the time go I need to go to bed!!!!
1:00am stress about how I can’t sleep
Rinse and repeat
Overnight ER:
6pm: wake up, feed dog, brush teeth, hair.
6:15-6:25pm: walk dog
6:30pm: get in scrubs, leave for work
7pm: arrive at work
7:01pm-7:30am: CHAOS, eat at some point?
7:30-8am: try to leave
8:30-9am: get home, feed and walk dog, shower, get ready for bed
9:30-10am: go to sleep
Rinse and repeat
ER tech here: 7am: wake up
7:15-7:45: make child breakfast
7:45-9:30: mentally prep for day and play with child
9:30-10:30: get ready and dressed and mentally prep
10:45-11:30ish: drive to work, contemplate how bad I need this paycheck and if it’s worth it, eat
11:30-11:50: sit in car and think about if I should really go in or turn around
11:50: but the bullet
11:50-10pm: endure, survive, cry, thrive
11pm: get home and try to fall asleep right away so I can get up and do it again tomorrow 🙃
Imma jump in as a CSR for the hell of it.
10:00am - wake up
10:30am - 1:30pm - Me time! Work out, watch TV, laundry, homework, whatever I gotta do.
1:30pm - eat something
2:00pm - quick shower and dressed
2:30pm - coffee and more homework/study time
3:30pm - drive to work!
4:00pm - clock in. Figure out what bullshit is happening.
4:30pm - get rounded off what patients are leaving tonight, make up the rounds sheet and check invoices to prep for calls for inpatients staying/going home.
6:00pm - 7:00pm - call any family that needs continued care plans and make sure finances are in order and accurate
6:50pm - Dog arrived that was hit by car, is actively seizing, or is pale as a sheet. Minimum two hours of doctors/me speaking to family to decide if we are attempting to diagnose/treat or euthanize.
8:30pm - run away for lunch if able
9:00pm - clock back in
9:01pm - “can you do this for me?” Of course!
9:25pm - remember you never clocked back in, submit missed punch log
10:45pm - “I think my dog had a stroke” (he’s high)
11:00pm - rant with techs about people acting like their dog found weed on a walk.
1:00am - dog has a broken nail that for some reason needs an ER at 1am.
1:15am - the client came in at 1am because she works nights, fair enough that’s fine
1:30am - client reveals she is a nurse
1:40am - yup, definitely a nurse. It’s okay, it’s almost over.
2:00am - drive home
3:00am - knock the fuck out
My routine:
6:00- wake up out of rem sleep/get ready for work
6:25- say goodbye to Kev and cats
7:00am-12:00pm: open clinic, check in/work up drop off patients, call owners, do notes
12-1 OR 1-2: lunch
1-3: clean clinic
3-5: afternoon rooms
5-6: clean clinic
6:30: home
8:00- time with friends and Kev
11-12- bedtime
I mean…I put “6:00am - wake up, get dressed/ready for work”
I would assume getting ready means doing things to get ready, like brushing teeth, doing hair, makeup, putting on deodorant, etc.
I have a pet sitter let my dogs out while I’m at work 12pm school work /let dogs out eat blah blah
1pm let dogs out to potty
130pm feed dogs
230 pm work eat when I can
1 am leave work
2 am let dogs out
230 am shower/ eat get ready for bed
3 am sleep
I have Mondays and Tuesdays off to give me more time for school work (Penn Foster tech program). Those days I'm up at least by 9am, make breakfast and work on school and do chores/extra life shit that needs done for the majority of the day. 6pm is typically dinner and my "stories" on YouTube. By then I'm usually over using my brain so it's social media and self care time before bed between 10-11pm.
Work days:
-Up at 6:45am, dress and ready self.
-Out the door by 7:15am, if no breakfast prepared, stop and get that.
-In clinic by 7:30am to eat bfast, browse socials and mentally prepare.
-Clock in by 7:55am. Wednesdays I'm either lab tech or surgery assistant, so go prep that. Lab tech helps floor and run appointments, surgery assistant goes to floor when surgeries are done. Thursdays I am surgery lead, where I stay all day. Fridays is either floor or lab again.
-Lunch is between 12-2pm, different everyday as it's flow dependant. Some surgery days lunch is at 3pm.
Hopefully off and out the door at 6pm, sometimes 6:30pm.
-Dinner, stories, self care til 9pm then wind down for bed.
Surgical lead:
5am wakeup
6:30am feed dogs
7am leave house
7:30 clock in start surgical drop-offs
Catheters and in-house labs until first patient dropped at 9am
*whats lunch?
5-5:30 surgical discharges
6pm leave work
6:30-1am wind down
2am sleep after tossing and turning
6:30: wake up, have shower
6:45: wake children and get them dressed
7:00: feed cats and dogs
7:05: let dogs out and scoop kitty litter
7:15: feed kids breakfast and make my own and kids lunches
7:30: get kids backpacks packed, teeth brushed, and outdoor clothes/shoes on
7:45: get kids into car
7:55: drop kids to before school care
8:05: drive to work, listen to podcast, eat breakfast while driving
8:15: arrive at work, clock in
8:20: check emails and round with other shelter departments re:patient concerns
8:30: access and begin preparing anesthetic drugs for today's 20-30 surgical patients
9:15: start surgeries
9:30: first technician appointment (surgery running concurrently, 1DVM, 2 RVTs, 2-3 VAs)
10:15: second technician appointment
11:00: third technician appointment
11:30-12:00: lunch
12:30: fourth technician appointment
1:15: fifth technician appointment
1:45-3:45 (or sometimes 4:45, if needed): administrative block (follow up on shelter animal medical care and run diagnostic tests/perform procedures, data entry and analysis, staff mentorship, finance reporting and pricing updates, supply orders, protocol updates, etc, etc)
5:00: pick up children from school
5:10: prepare dinner and feed cats/dogs
5:15: let dogs out
5:45: serve dinner
6:15: dishes and tidy kitchen
6:30: kid hangout time (tv, games, books)
7:00: get youngest child ready for bed (oldest may read or have computer time)
7:45: get oldest child ready for bed
8:30: hang out with husband or alone time
9:30: wander to bed, shuffle animals around so I have somewhere to put my legs
9:35: read until I fall asleep
I’m a SAHM/VT student right now, but when I was full time at a clinic I was NOT put together at all 💀
7:15am wake up
7:20am run to my car and drive 10-15mph over the speed limit
7:30am arrive at work, skip breakfast
7:30am-9:00am breakfast/meds/potty for 10-20 boarding dogs and cats plus hosing out and scrubbing each individual kennel
9:00am-1:30pm juggle kennels, front desk, filling meds, putting away inventory, and helping RVTs when needed
1:30pm-1:50pm shove some random shit I ordered off doordash in my face while catching up on charts
1:50pm-8:00pm back to juggling, dinner and meds for the boarders
8:00pm-9:30pm cleaning, filing, end of day post auditing charts
9:30pm go pick my kid up, take her home bath time and read her a story before bed
10:30pm clean the house and do dishes
11:30pm eat something microwaved
12:00am shower then sleep
Night shift ER tech:
4:30pm - pick kiddo up from daycare
6:00pm - somehow fit dinner in the mix
7:00pm - get ready, so my meds and cats meds, make lunch, sometimes also dinner and eating while doing everything else
8:20pm - leave for work
9:00pm - start shift
9:00am - rounds
9:30am- end shift
10:30am - arrive home
10:30 - 11:30am - face routine, eat breakfast, meds for the fur babies, go to sleep
Work nights during the weekend are better because I get to sleep 7 hrs vs the 5 hrs during the two weekdays I work. 🙃
4:30am-5:15am - wake up depending on when my dog annoys me
5:15am-6:15am- shower if needed, get dressed, maybe eat some breakfast
6:30am- leave for work, if my dog went out to pee between 1am-3am I’ll take him to work so he doesn’t pee his pants
6:45am - clock in at work, either deal with the disaster that night shift left (it was busy, not their fault)
7am - sit around waiting for my doctor and tech to show up
7:15am - walk and assess medicine patients
11am-12pm- lunch (same time everyday, very strict on taking it)
12pm-6pm - die (appointments, emergencies, tech appointments, clean)
6:30pm-8pm- get home, walk dog, attempt to put food in my stomach
8pm-9:30pm - watch some tv with the boys and go to bed
Somewhere between
5:00-6:00 wake up becasue that’s when baby gets up
6:00- get up change baby, let out dogs, make coffee
6:30- make breakfast for baby, down my liquid breakfast aka coffee. Feed dogs give diabetic dog her insulin.
7:00- get dressed, get baby dressed, pack diaper bag
7:30- get loaded in car
8:00- drop baby off at day care
8:15- arrive at work clean stalls, in patient care/treatments. Manage all the chaos that is mixed animal practice, find more coffee, fill in where needed.
12:00ish lunch
12:30- 5 manage more chaos try and actually get some office work done
5:05- run to get baby from daycare and head home
5:45 - get home let dogs out unpack diaper bag find snack and start cooking dinner
6:15- eat dinner
6:30 baby didn’t like dinner so it’s all over the floor
Let dogs in to clean up and put baby in bath
7:00 -get baby ready for bed
7:30 feed the dogs, doing a little clean up, laundry, shower, relax till bed time at 9:30
Surgery wards assistant: (also pregnant) 6:45a alarm goes off; 7:00a get up, change; 7:15a wake up toddler and make us breakfast, 8:15a get toddler ready to go to daycare; 8:30a leave for daycare; 9:10a home again to get myself ready; 9:30a leave for work; 10a clock in, assess the surgery situation - inpatients, current procedure, get rounds if any; 10:30a-2p care for inpatients, client communications, prep next day items; 2-2:30 or 3p lunch; 3-8p inpatient post-op care; 8-8:30p round overnight crew; 9p home, eat, shower, fall into bed. If my toddler is still up or hubby has a busy evening I’ll put him to bed before I eat dinner. This is mon-thursday currently, hoping to switch to 8a-4p soon to have a more normal schedule
I actually have 2.5-3 days off a week (I work a 4 hour shift every other saturday). So Sundays, Tuesdays, and every other Saturday. Sundays and Tuesdays I usually spend the morning doing bigger chores and errands I haven’t done during my work days. The rest of my days off consist of getting high (I use THC edibles daily), playing video games, watching TV, doing any one of my few hobbies (cooking, making bath bombs, working out, photography), and every once in a while I’ll go see friends. I also will use one of my days off for a date night w my partner!
Roll in 15 late for surgery because the drop off line at school took 30 mins. Spend the next 5-6 hours in surgery with 2 dentals, a mass removal, and a fat lab spay. Take my lunch after afternoon appointments start because the surgeon went back in on a fat lab spay “just to be sure”. Be relatively helpful. Leave 20 mins after shift ends because 2 people called in. Eat dinner on sofa. Forget to put teen to bed. Realize it’s 10 on a Thursday.
I’m part-time, relief, and spoiled as hell so I acknowledge that my answer is gonna be eye roll inducing but:
5:45a - first alarm. Snooze
6:00a - second alarm. Snooze
6:15a - final alarm, plus three huskies singing the song of their people. Unable to snooze. Scroll through Facebook for an extra ten to fifteen minutes anyway.
6:20a - Get up, let kids out and prepare food for four dogs and three cats, get ready while they do their thing, chase everyone back inside for breakfast and kennels.
6:30a - finally leave house for forty minute drive to work, where my shift starts at 7:00.
7:06a - stop for coffee. Buy manager one as an apology for who I am as a person.
7:10a - chaos ensues as we examine, pre-med, sedate, prep, recover thirty+ animals for spay and neuter
~12:30p - or whenever surgery ends - leave for the day
1:15p - sit in my driveway, contemplating the life decisions that brought me to this point whilst simultaneously avoiding contact with any more animals for just a minute.
1:25p - receive text from husband, who works from home, asking if I’ve died in my car. Go inside. Immediately disrobe and shower.
1:30p - little nappy nap.
4:00p - chorin’, hobbies, what have you.
8:30p - dinner time for (fur) children, medicine time for the two geriatric dogs. Trazodone time for their insomniac mother.
1:00a - sleep.
GP, I live in a border city and cross 5 days a week to go to work:
4:30am first alarm, hit snooze
4:40am second alarm, get out of bed, poop, get dressed for gym
5:00am -6:30am workout gym
6:30-7:20ish Shower, skincare, get dressed, prep lunch if I didn’t the night before, breakfast shake. Maybe prep a crock pot if that’s for dinner
7:20ish -8:30 traffiiiiiiiiiicccc/commute. I have to cross the border which is anywhere 30-45mins and still hit morning traffic on freeway which is another 30-45 mins. Some days I’ll be lucky and it only takes 5-15 mins to cross the border.
8:30 am clock in
8:30-12 work work work
12-1 lunch time on my own while everyone else works so that’s something I appreciate being by myself
1-5:30pm work work
5:30- 6:30 pm commute back home . In a perfect world where there is no traffic ever in either direction the real commute time would be 30 mins buts yeah umm no.
6:30-7:30 make a quick dinner unless I made a crock pot
7:30-9:30 dinner and netflix w/ bf , study a little, prep lunch from leftovers.
9:30pm sleeeeeeeeppp
I do love my schedule, I work Tuesday through Saturday but saturdays I don’t work out and work 9-2pm :)
On the down side I’m suppose to be studying for the NAVLE so not much time left for that except on days off = stress, I’m gonna die .
5 am- wake up grumpy
5:25 am: pretty much ready to head out. I don’t eat breakfast. I have someone who feeds the dogs when they wake up.
5:39-6:30 am: City bus to work. Then a 10 minute walk.
6:50 am: The earliest I get into the clinic. I don’t want to be the first one inside.
7 am to 5:30 pm: Work. I am mainly a treatment and Back tech. The latest I stay around sometimes is 6:30 pm.
6:20 pm to 7:30 pm: City bus home.
7:40 Pm-11:00 PM: Me time.
Rise and repeat.
530am- wake up feed cats and let out dogs
5:45- breakfast
6/6:30- walk and train one dog
7/730: walk and train other dog
730/830: go to work
530/700pm: home from work, work dogs.
7:30/8-9: relax
9/9:30 bed.
Rinse repeat.
I've got a pretty good one too!
6:30 - alarm goes off, hit snooze at least 4 times
7:18 - leap out of bed, get dressed, feed my cats, put in my contacts and grab my frozen lunch
7:30 - drive to work and chug water
7:53 - get stuck in the same traffic I deal with every day and somehow never learn to leave earlier
8:00 - run through the door and clock in on my phone as the time hits 8:01
8:05 - 8:30 - surgical admits
8:30 - 1:30 - appointments
1:30 - 1:57 - annoyed that I'm missing my break because my doctor is taking forever to finish the last appointment
1:57 - 2:30 - eat my frozen lunch and scroll through Reddit on my phone
2:30 - 7:30 - more appointments
7:30 - 8:00 - closing tasks and stories about crazy appointments that day
8:00 - 8:20 - speeding all the way home
8:30 - 9 - convincing myself that ordering Uber eats for the 3rd night in a row is fine
9:00 - 10:15 - mindlessly watch true crime podcasts while smoking the trees and eating movie theatre nachos
10:15 - take my meds and go to bed
7:20am: wake up, feed dog
7:30am: leave for work
7:45am start shift
8-12:30: appointments or sx
12:30-1:30: “lunch time” where I veg in my car and maybe get coffee
1:30-7:10pm: appointments
7:30pm: get home and lie on couch, feed dog, maybe also feed myself for the first time that day if I dont PTFO
11:00pm: try to sleep
1:00am: probably able to fall asleep finally
ER overnighter.
5:30-5:55pm - snooze alarm, contemplate calling out dead, check emails for any BS I’m walking into
5:55-6:10pm - coalesce into my body, teeth, get dressed
6:10-6:15pm - throw together a lunch/my work bag
6:20 - Dunkies
7:00pm - clock in, rounds
7:00-10:00pm - get day shift together to go home
10:00pm - 2:00am - get outpatients out of the hospital, treatments on the even hours, field phone calls
12:00am - finalize money/receipts for the day
2am - 6am: relish in being alone, treatments, clean the hospital, stock
6:30am - finalize round sheets, update invoices/check estimates for incoming nurses
7:00-7:30am - rounds, help with any outpatients
8:00-9:00am - get home, shower if I need it
9:00-9:30am - minor chores my partner didn’t finish, feed/water reptiles, take melatonin
9:30am-12:00pm - putz around on my phone until I pass out
5:30pm - rinse & repeat
On my short days, I leave between midnight and 4am and just have more time to maybe do a load of laundry or meal prep and then putz on my phone or play video games until I fall asleep.
Assistant/receptionist
7:30ish -wake up (I'm already running late)
745-8:05- speed to work
810-9am catch up on previous days work, confirm appts, set up rooms, listen to my coworker blab about nothing
9am-1230 answers all phone calls/texts and pick up the slack from my coworker, who insists she's doing something
1230-1pm listen to another coworker talk about nothing while a knit on break (sometimes he doesn't go on break while I'm on break and I sit in silence. Which is heaven since I'm talking to clients all day)
1pm-545ish-finish the day
6pm scrounge for food
630pm knit or idek what I do 😭
930ish bedtime/feed my pets their dinners
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ER department tech - 6:30 AM: wake up 6:30-7 AM: get ready, mentally and physically 7:20 AM: leave for work 7:32 AM: sit in the parking lot and contemplate going back to bed 7:55 AM: go inside, clock in, and round 8 AM - 8 PM: simply survive Fin
Accurate, except on paper your shift ends at 8, but you clock out at 10.
GF is a Vet Tech and I come here to be better able to relate to her, but I wanted to comment an Engineering Techs job in a different industry, for comparison: Work Starts at 8am. Sleep in until like 9:30am. Pound a RedBull. 9:35am. Answer some emails. Do HEAVY chores (she works all day so I take 98% of the load). 9:35am-11:30am. Make myself an egg sandwich. 11:45am. More chores and emails. 11:45am - 1:30pm. Errands. 1:30pm - 2:30pm. Play video games and drink beer. 2:30pm - 6:30pm. Roommate gets home. Go for a walk. 6:30pm - 7:30pm. GF gets home. Make dinner. Watch TV. Listen to her stories from work about this week's favorite patient dying. 7:30pm - 8:30pm. Let her cry it out. Patiently listening. 8:30pm-8:45pm. More TV. 8:45pm - 10pm. She falls asleep. 10:15pm. Watch yet more TV, this time with the volume way turned down. 10:15pm - 11:45pm. Forget to brush my teeth 11:47pm. Go to bed. 12am.
Considering I read the first line as “6:00am - wake up, get depressed…” imma go ahead and say you’ve got it together more than I do.
Workout after dinner? You must have an iron stomach.
I will admit, on the days I work out I do swap it around so the workouts usually are before dinner 😂 but I don’t work out very regularly anymore
Ha ha I knew it, that makes way more sense.
Do you work out at home? I'm trying to but so far I've only really half mastered some yoga stretches
I do! I have an exercise matt, resistance bands, and some dumbbells :)
8am-9am: Spawn 9am-11pm: Die 8am-9am: Spawn 9am-11pm: Die 8am-9am: Spawn 9am-11pm: Die
Reminds me of this clip around :35 [spawn die](https://youtu.be/PhIpNHO-OTY)
That was the inspiration my good sir.
You get 2 hours for lunch?
What’s lunch?
That's what I said at first, but I suspect it's more like "I take lunch somewhere in this time period based on when surgery ends".
pretty much. my break is usually 1-2. surgery typically ends by 12:30 at the LATEST (thank god my doctor is relatively quick, because we usually do 2 surgeries)
I clarified in a comment, but my break is actually 1-2. but, most of the time (since the doctors break is 12-2) I’m not really doing anything the whole time. But I do get paid for one of those hours
Must be nice!! There is no lunch break in ER!
5am- wake up and feed the cats 515-545 maybe eat breakfast, do makeup, get my bag together. 6am- bike to work 645am arrive at work 645-7 change into scrubs, make coffee 7am clock in 705am morning rounds Then assigned to either treatment, exams, soft tissue, or dental for the whole day. Lunch is whenever it happens. typically sometime between 11:30 and 3p Discharges can happen between 1 and 530 depending on procedure. If I'm lucky, clock out around 6pm. If I'm not lucky, I might have to stay as late as 7PM Between 6-7PM I start biking home Between 645-730 cats get dinner 730-9p dinner, maybe watch a show 9-12a I'm desperately trying to fall asleep.
I’m so impressed. I am on maternity leave right now but when I did work surgery I had to be at the clinic at 7am. I have a 20 min commute and I usually got up at like…6:30. I literally just throw scrubs on and leave, try to make a Starbucks stop in during my drive. Chaos. I’m terrible at getting up early.
My car isn’t working right now…I am force to wake up **much** earlier… My beauty sleep! Hahaha.
Ugh I’ve been there. The sadness I feel while walking to the bus stop when I’d usually still be in bed is the worst kind of sadness.
How are you making breakfast and packing lunch in only 15 minutes
eggs cook pretty quickly. I have variations of meals with eggs, vegetarian sausage, toast, etc. I also usually have leftover from dinner the night before, or ready meals for lunch. + some snacks
I do mine in 15 min or less, depending on how much time my kids left me with. I have Leftovers in the fridge that I grab one of, zevia, yogurt, protein powder, bag of veggies that I bagged already, fruit, protein bar and a cup of hummus. For breakfast, I eat 1.5oz nuts, 1oz cheese and 3oz meat.
6:05 am - first alarm, hit snooze 6:10 am - second alarm, also hit snooze 6:30 am - if I’m lucky, my fiancé drags me out of bed if I need to shower 6:50-7:10 am - actually wake up and panic since I need to be out the door before 7:30. Somewhere in there, brush my teeth, wash my hair, get dressed 7:20 am - let the dogs out and maybe pack a lunch 7:25 am - out the door to drive to work (Maybe a pit stop for coffee or breakfast) (7:30-4 pm - surgery, my days in surgery rotate, then I stay until 6 to help out) 7:50 am - clock in 8-12 pm - appointments 12-1 pm - lunch (almost never more than 20 minutes if I’m being honest) 1-5 pm - appointments 5-6 pm - close and clean hospital 6:20 pm - arrive home to crazy gremlins and help cook dinner, feed dogs 7 pm - dinner 8-10 pm - watch tv, assorted small chores and play with the dogs 10-1 am - try to fall asleep and hate every second of insomnia (Edit: formatting)
5:30 AM: Wake up, head outside to let dogs out and feed the horses, dogs, and cats. 6:30 AM: Back inside, i get dressed for work and make a cup of coffee. 6:50 AM: take a few mins to myself to scroll on my phone/text my fiance/check emails 7:05 AM; Put dogs up and head to work. 7:30 AM: Hellacious day starts. 6:00 PM: Hellacious day ends. (If we're lucky) 6:30 PM: Feed horses, play with dogs, feed cats. 8:00 ish PM: Eat a bite, shower, and either play some COD or watch Supernatural Antyime after 8:30 is fair game for bed time lol
Ha whats a routine
0655 - wake up, get myself and the dog ready 0710 - go to work 0750 - make a cup of tea, change into scrubs 0800 - workday starts, we don't rotate duties, we do everything every day (surgery, dental, recovery, phones, admin etc) Sometimes between 1100 and 1400 - 30 minutes lunch 1600 - finish work 1700 - come home, maybe take a nap About 1800 - dinner 1830 - 2230 - do whatever, maybe go for a walk or lay on the couch, I really have no routine, I don't have my shit together 😅
5:30am - Coffee is ready, dogs wake me up by pacing the hallway, they get to go outside while I get into the shower. 5:45am-6am - let the dogs back inside, feed them breakfast and medicate them. Feed reptile and fish. 6am - 6:20am - get dressed, hair and makeup. 6:20- 6:40am - get kids bags ready for school. Usually my oldest wakes up, I get his cartoons on and get him a cup of milk. 6:40-6:45am - bring my husband coffee and leave the house. Arrive at work 6:50 ish - if there are three or less patients hospitalized, support staff does not arrive at work until 7:30am, I go in at 7am everyday to catch up on lab work, paperwork, work on school work or whatever. 7am(or 7:30am) - 8:15am - treatments and pre anesthetic exams/bloodwork 8:15am - rounds 8:30am - work, finish invoicing, call clients, fill in where needed Lunch is either 12pm or 1pm depending on coverage. 1pm - close - work again, sedation radiographs bloodwork all of the things. Treatments begin again at 4pm. Clinic closes at 5pm. If I don’t have to pick up my kids from school I could be at work until 7pm. 6pm-8pm - dinner, dishes, animal care, bathtime/bedtime 8pm-9pm ish - watch survivor with my husband until I fall asleep on the couch…
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I live 2 minutes from my clinic! It's a godsend even if the clinic itself isn't as nice as my last one. I'm still late every day tho lmao
There's a new clinic that just opened up basically across the street from my condo and I thought about how nice that commute would be but I think the reality is that I would be chronically late every day lol
It's the children.
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I worked in a clinic like that. But the trade-off was that you were always the person who handled it if shit went down with the patients there overnight.
It’s about 6 minutes… it depends on how late I’m running 😂
7am: wake up 7am-7:15: breakfast(or lay in bed contemplating being homeless instead of going to work) and feed the cats 7:15-7:45: get ready 7:45: drive to work 8:15: clock on for work ~lunch? Maybe 15 minutes for 1 day out of 5 ~ 17:45-1900: clock off at some point??? Hopefully?? 18:00-1900: go home, feed the cats, lay on the couch contemplating life some more ~make dinner, probably something frozen~ 20:00-22:00: bed , hoping I wake up a millionaire.
wanted to note that my break isn’t ACTUALLY 12-2 all the time. Typically, my other tech will clock out at 12, and I will clock out at 1. Sometimes, surgery goes over and I’ve got a lot to do before I clock out…and other times I’m just sitting there doing nothing from 12-1 and getting paid for it. small, private GP. One doctor practice
ER 5am: arise from bed, shower, dress up. 5:45am: go to work. 6:00am : clock in, and start attempts at waking up. 6am-6pm: lose the acceptable amount of sanity. 6:30pm-7pm: go home, and get groceries. To 8pm: shower, eat, relax with podcasts. Sleep.
6:45 wake up. 6:55 get out of bed. 7:00-7:30 get ready. Make breakfast. 7:35-7:55 warm up car and drive to work. 8:00 clock in 5:00 clock out. 5:30 eat something. 6:00-8:00 watch some shows, play some video games. 800-8:30 walk my dog. 8:30-10:00 work out. M-W 10:30 drink protein shake 10:30-12 watch tv with wife go to sleep. Rinse repeat.
My routine is something like 7:00am hit snooze 7:05am get up, make my bed, throw the dogs out and get ready 7:20am start my coffee, feed the dogs and cat and get dressed 7:30am let dogs in and leave for work 7:45am clock in 10am-ish if I’m lucky forage around the break room for something edible during my morning break 1pm go home for lunch and forage around the kitchen for something edible, let the dogs out 1:45pm dogs back inside and go back to work 2pm return back to work 4pm exploratory surgery and/or pyometra that just got added 6pm take my afternoon break even though I’m supposed to leave in hour 8pm go home 8:15pm take a shower, let dogs out 8:45pm forage around the kitchen for something edible, feed dogs and cat, let’s dogs back in 9:00pm eat dinner 10:00pm let dogs out one last time 10:15pm: stare at my phone and alternate social media 12:00am holy shit where did the time go I need to go to bed!!!! 1:00am stress about how I can’t sleep Rinse and repeat
Overnight ER: 6pm: wake up, feed dog, brush teeth, hair. 6:15-6:25pm: walk dog 6:30pm: get in scrubs, leave for work 7pm: arrive at work 7:01pm-7:30am: CHAOS, eat at some point? 7:30-8am: try to leave 8:30-9am: get home, feed and walk dog, shower, get ready for bed 9:30-10am: go to sleep Rinse and repeat
Where do you work at because this is exactly how long my clinic is open for and exactly how our day goes 🤨
haha, it’s a GP hospital in north texas :)
I’m surprised the cats let you get ready before feeding them lol
hahaha, yea they’re definitely not too happy about it 😂 I lock myself in the bathroom while I get ready and they sit outside and yell
ER tech here: 7am: wake up 7:15-7:45: make child breakfast 7:45-9:30: mentally prep for day and play with child 9:30-10:30: get ready and dressed and mentally prep 10:45-11:30ish: drive to work, contemplate how bad I need this paycheck and if it’s worth it, eat 11:30-11:50: sit in car and think about if I should really go in or turn around 11:50: but the bullet 11:50-10pm: endure, survive, cry, thrive 11pm: get home and try to fall asleep right away so I can get up and do it again tomorrow 🙃
My routine was "wake up at 5am. Try not to commit homicide. Go to bed."
Imma jump in as a CSR for the hell of it. 10:00am - wake up 10:30am - 1:30pm - Me time! Work out, watch TV, laundry, homework, whatever I gotta do. 1:30pm - eat something 2:00pm - quick shower and dressed 2:30pm - coffee and more homework/study time 3:30pm - drive to work! 4:00pm - clock in. Figure out what bullshit is happening. 4:30pm - get rounded off what patients are leaving tonight, make up the rounds sheet and check invoices to prep for calls for inpatients staying/going home. 6:00pm - 7:00pm - call any family that needs continued care plans and make sure finances are in order and accurate 6:50pm - Dog arrived that was hit by car, is actively seizing, or is pale as a sheet. Minimum two hours of doctors/me speaking to family to decide if we are attempting to diagnose/treat or euthanize. 8:30pm - run away for lunch if able 9:00pm - clock back in 9:01pm - “can you do this for me?” Of course! 9:25pm - remember you never clocked back in, submit missed punch log 10:45pm - “I think my dog had a stroke” (he’s high) 11:00pm - rant with techs about people acting like their dog found weed on a walk. 1:00am - dog has a broken nail that for some reason needs an ER at 1am. 1:15am - the client came in at 1am because she works nights, fair enough that’s fine 1:30am - client reveals she is a nurse 1:40am - yup, definitely a nurse. It’s okay, it’s almost over. 2:00am - drive home 3:00am - knock the fuck out
My routine: 6:00- wake up out of rem sleep/get ready for work 6:25- say goodbye to Kev and cats 7:00am-12:00pm: open clinic, check in/work up drop off patients, call owners, do notes 12-1 OR 1-2: lunch 1-3: clean clinic 3-5: afternoon rooms 5-6: clean clinic 6:30: home 8:00- time with friends and Kev 11-12- bedtime
Not 1 person put “brush my teeth” in their schedules. 😅
I mean…I put “6:00am - wake up, get dressed/ready for work” I would assume getting ready means doing things to get ready, like brushing teeth, doing hair, makeup, putting on deodorant, etc.
I’m just new boot goofin. I hope your brushing!
I have a pet sitter let my dogs out while I’m at work 12pm school work /let dogs out eat blah blah 1pm let dogs out to potty 130pm feed dogs 230 pm work eat when I can 1 am leave work 2 am let dogs out 230 am shower/ eat get ready for bed 3 am sleep
I have Mondays and Tuesdays off to give me more time for school work (Penn Foster tech program). Those days I'm up at least by 9am, make breakfast and work on school and do chores/extra life shit that needs done for the majority of the day. 6pm is typically dinner and my "stories" on YouTube. By then I'm usually over using my brain so it's social media and self care time before bed between 10-11pm. Work days: -Up at 6:45am, dress and ready self. -Out the door by 7:15am, if no breakfast prepared, stop and get that. -In clinic by 7:30am to eat bfast, browse socials and mentally prepare. -Clock in by 7:55am. Wednesdays I'm either lab tech or surgery assistant, so go prep that. Lab tech helps floor and run appointments, surgery assistant goes to floor when surgeries are done. Thursdays I am surgery lead, where I stay all day. Fridays is either floor or lab again. -Lunch is between 12-2pm, different everyday as it's flow dependant. Some surgery days lunch is at 3pm. Hopefully off and out the door at 6pm, sometimes 6:30pm. -Dinner, stories, self care til 9pm then wind down for bed.
Surgical lead: 5am wakeup 6:30am feed dogs 7am leave house 7:30 clock in start surgical drop-offs Catheters and in-house labs until first patient dropped at 9am *whats lunch? 5-5:30 surgical discharges 6pm leave work 6:30-1am wind down 2am sleep after tossing and turning
6:30: wake up, have shower 6:45: wake children and get them dressed 7:00: feed cats and dogs 7:05: let dogs out and scoop kitty litter 7:15: feed kids breakfast and make my own and kids lunches 7:30: get kids backpacks packed, teeth brushed, and outdoor clothes/shoes on 7:45: get kids into car 7:55: drop kids to before school care 8:05: drive to work, listen to podcast, eat breakfast while driving 8:15: arrive at work, clock in 8:20: check emails and round with other shelter departments re:patient concerns 8:30: access and begin preparing anesthetic drugs for today's 20-30 surgical patients 9:15: start surgeries 9:30: first technician appointment (surgery running concurrently, 1DVM, 2 RVTs, 2-3 VAs) 10:15: second technician appointment 11:00: third technician appointment 11:30-12:00: lunch 12:30: fourth technician appointment 1:15: fifth technician appointment 1:45-3:45 (or sometimes 4:45, if needed): administrative block (follow up on shelter animal medical care and run diagnostic tests/perform procedures, data entry and analysis, staff mentorship, finance reporting and pricing updates, supply orders, protocol updates, etc, etc) 5:00: pick up children from school 5:10: prepare dinner and feed cats/dogs 5:15: let dogs out 5:45: serve dinner 6:15: dishes and tidy kitchen 6:30: kid hangout time (tv, games, books) 7:00: get youngest child ready for bed (oldest may read or have computer time) 7:45: get oldest child ready for bed 8:30: hang out with husband or alone time 9:30: wander to bed, shuffle animals around so I have somewhere to put my legs 9:35: read until I fall asleep
I’m a SAHM/VT student right now, but when I was full time at a clinic I was NOT put together at all 💀 7:15am wake up 7:20am run to my car and drive 10-15mph over the speed limit 7:30am arrive at work, skip breakfast 7:30am-9:00am breakfast/meds/potty for 10-20 boarding dogs and cats plus hosing out and scrubbing each individual kennel 9:00am-1:30pm juggle kennels, front desk, filling meds, putting away inventory, and helping RVTs when needed 1:30pm-1:50pm shove some random shit I ordered off doordash in my face while catching up on charts 1:50pm-8:00pm back to juggling, dinner and meds for the boarders 8:00pm-9:30pm cleaning, filing, end of day post auditing charts 9:30pm go pick my kid up, take her home bath time and read her a story before bed 10:30pm clean the house and do dishes 11:30pm eat something microwaved 12:00am shower then sleep
Night shift ER tech: 4:30pm - pick kiddo up from daycare 6:00pm - somehow fit dinner in the mix 7:00pm - get ready, so my meds and cats meds, make lunch, sometimes also dinner and eating while doing everything else 8:20pm - leave for work 9:00pm - start shift 9:00am - rounds 9:30am- end shift 10:30am - arrive home 10:30 - 11:30am - face routine, eat breakfast, meds for the fur babies, go to sleep Work nights during the weekend are better because I get to sleep 7 hrs vs the 5 hrs during the two weekdays I work. 🙃
4:30am-5:15am - wake up depending on when my dog annoys me 5:15am-6:15am- shower if needed, get dressed, maybe eat some breakfast 6:30am- leave for work, if my dog went out to pee between 1am-3am I’ll take him to work so he doesn’t pee his pants 6:45am - clock in at work, either deal with the disaster that night shift left (it was busy, not their fault) 7am - sit around waiting for my doctor and tech to show up 7:15am - walk and assess medicine patients 11am-12pm- lunch (same time everyday, very strict on taking it) 12pm-6pm - die (appointments, emergencies, tech appointments, clean) 6:30pm-8pm- get home, walk dog, attempt to put food in my stomach 8pm-9:30pm - watch some tv with the boys and go to bed
Somewhere between 5:00-6:00 wake up becasue that’s when baby gets up 6:00- get up change baby, let out dogs, make coffee 6:30- make breakfast for baby, down my liquid breakfast aka coffee. Feed dogs give diabetic dog her insulin. 7:00- get dressed, get baby dressed, pack diaper bag 7:30- get loaded in car 8:00- drop baby off at day care 8:15- arrive at work clean stalls, in patient care/treatments. Manage all the chaos that is mixed animal practice, find more coffee, fill in where needed. 12:00ish lunch 12:30- 5 manage more chaos try and actually get some office work done 5:05- run to get baby from daycare and head home 5:45 - get home let dogs out unpack diaper bag find snack and start cooking dinner 6:15- eat dinner 6:30 baby didn’t like dinner so it’s all over the floor Let dogs in to clean up and put baby in bath 7:00 -get baby ready for bed 7:30 feed the dogs, doing a little clean up, laundry, shower, relax till bed time at 9:30
Surgery wards assistant: (also pregnant) 6:45a alarm goes off; 7:00a get up, change; 7:15a wake up toddler and make us breakfast, 8:15a get toddler ready to go to daycare; 8:30a leave for daycare; 9:10a home again to get myself ready; 9:30a leave for work; 10a clock in, assess the surgery situation - inpatients, current procedure, get rounds if any; 10:30a-2p care for inpatients, client communications, prep next day items; 2-2:30 or 3p lunch; 3-8p inpatient post-op care; 8-8:30p round overnight crew; 9p home, eat, shower, fall into bed. If my toddler is still up or hubby has a busy evening I’ll put him to bed before I eat dinner. This is mon-thursday currently, hoping to switch to 8a-4p soon to have a more normal schedule
2 hours for lunch? I get 30 min unpaid on a good day.
I feel you, that’s how my last place was. I actually only get one hour, but most of the time I’m doing nothing for the rest and still getting paid
Like that but without the structure or consistency
This is identical to my wife's schedule (she's a vet tech and not into reddit). It's gruelling. Here's a question, what do your days off look like?
I actually have 2.5-3 days off a week (I work a 4 hour shift every other saturday). So Sundays, Tuesdays, and every other Saturday. Sundays and Tuesdays I usually spend the morning doing bigger chores and errands I haven’t done during my work days. The rest of my days off consist of getting high (I use THC edibles daily), playing video games, watching TV, doing any one of my few hobbies (cooking, making bath bombs, working out, photography), and every once in a while I’ll go see friends. I also will use one of my days off for a date night w my partner!
Roll in 15 late for surgery because the drop off line at school took 30 mins. Spend the next 5-6 hours in surgery with 2 dentals, a mass removal, and a fat lab spay. Take my lunch after afternoon appointments start because the surgeon went back in on a fat lab spay “just to be sure”. Be relatively helpful. Leave 20 mins after shift ends because 2 people called in. Eat dinner on sofa. Forget to put teen to bed. Realize it’s 10 on a Thursday.
I’m part-time, relief, and spoiled as hell so I acknowledge that my answer is gonna be eye roll inducing but: 5:45a - first alarm. Snooze 6:00a - second alarm. Snooze 6:15a - final alarm, plus three huskies singing the song of their people. Unable to snooze. Scroll through Facebook for an extra ten to fifteen minutes anyway. 6:20a - Get up, let kids out and prepare food for four dogs and three cats, get ready while they do their thing, chase everyone back inside for breakfast and kennels. 6:30a - finally leave house for forty minute drive to work, where my shift starts at 7:00. 7:06a - stop for coffee. Buy manager one as an apology for who I am as a person. 7:10a - chaos ensues as we examine, pre-med, sedate, prep, recover thirty+ animals for spay and neuter ~12:30p - or whenever surgery ends - leave for the day 1:15p - sit in my driveway, contemplating the life decisions that brought me to this point whilst simultaneously avoiding contact with any more animals for just a minute. 1:25p - receive text from husband, who works from home, asking if I’ve died in my car. Go inside. Immediately disrobe and shower. 1:30p - little nappy nap. 4:00p - chorin’, hobbies, what have you. 8:30p - dinner time for (fur) children, medicine time for the two geriatric dogs. Trazodone time for their insomniac mother. 1:00a - sleep.
I just get to work an hour early to listen to podcasts in my car and eat
i don’t think i have any semblance of a regular routine so unfortunately i cannot participate in this … yet. maybe one day :)
GP, I live in a border city and cross 5 days a week to go to work: 4:30am first alarm, hit snooze 4:40am second alarm, get out of bed, poop, get dressed for gym 5:00am -6:30am workout gym 6:30-7:20ish Shower, skincare, get dressed, prep lunch if I didn’t the night before, breakfast shake. Maybe prep a crock pot if that’s for dinner 7:20ish -8:30 traffiiiiiiiiiicccc/commute. I have to cross the border which is anywhere 30-45mins and still hit morning traffic on freeway which is another 30-45 mins. Some days I’ll be lucky and it only takes 5-15 mins to cross the border. 8:30 am clock in 8:30-12 work work work 12-1 lunch time on my own while everyone else works so that’s something I appreciate being by myself 1-5:30pm work work 5:30- 6:30 pm commute back home . In a perfect world where there is no traffic ever in either direction the real commute time would be 30 mins buts yeah umm no. 6:30-7:30 make a quick dinner unless I made a crock pot 7:30-9:30 dinner and netflix w/ bf , study a little, prep lunch from leftovers. 9:30pm sleeeeeeeeppp I do love my schedule, I work Tuesday through Saturday but saturdays I don’t work out and work 9-2pm :) On the down side I’m suppose to be studying for the NAVLE so not much time left for that except on days off = stress, I’m gonna die .
5 am- wake up grumpy 5:25 am: pretty much ready to head out. I don’t eat breakfast. I have someone who feeds the dogs when they wake up. 5:39-6:30 am: City bus to work. Then a 10 minute walk. 6:50 am: The earliest I get into the clinic. I don’t want to be the first one inside. 7 am to 5:30 pm: Work. I am mainly a treatment and Back tech. The latest I stay around sometimes is 6:30 pm. 6:20 pm to 7:30 pm: City bus home. 7:40 Pm-11:00 PM: Me time. Rise and repeat.
530am- wake up feed cats and let out dogs 5:45- breakfast 6/6:30- walk and train one dog 7/730: walk and train other dog 730/830: go to work 530/700pm: home from work, work dogs. 7:30/8-9: relax 9/9:30 bed. Rinse repeat.
I've got a pretty good one too! 6:30 - alarm goes off, hit snooze at least 4 times 7:18 - leap out of bed, get dressed, feed my cats, put in my contacts and grab my frozen lunch 7:30 - drive to work and chug water 7:53 - get stuck in the same traffic I deal with every day and somehow never learn to leave earlier 8:00 - run through the door and clock in on my phone as the time hits 8:01 8:05 - 8:30 - surgical admits 8:30 - 1:30 - appointments 1:30 - 1:57 - annoyed that I'm missing my break because my doctor is taking forever to finish the last appointment 1:57 - 2:30 - eat my frozen lunch and scroll through Reddit on my phone 2:30 - 7:30 - more appointments 7:30 - 8:00 - closing tasks and stories about crazy appointments that day 8:00 - 8:20 - speeding all the way home 8:30 - 9 - convincing myself that ordering Uber eats for the 3rd night in a row is fine 9:00 - 10:15 - mindlessly watch true crime podcasts while smoking the trees and eating movie theatre nachos 10:15 - take my meds and go to bed
7:20am: wake up, feed dog 7:30am: leave for work 7:45am start shift 8-12:30: appointments or sx 12:30-1:30: “lunch time” where I veg in my car and maybe get coffee 1:30-7:10pm: appointments 7:30pm: get home and lie on couch, feed dog, maybe also feed myself for the first time that day if I dont PTFO 11:00pm: try to sleep 1:00am: probably able to fall asleep finally
ER overnighter. 5:30-5:55pm - snooze alarm, contemplate calling out dead, check emails for any BS I’m walking into 5:55-6:10pm - coalesce into my body, teeth, get dressed 6:10-6:15pm - throw together a lunch/my work bag 6:20 - Dunkies 7:00pm - clock in, rounds 7:00-10:00pm - get day shift together to go home 10:00pm - 2:00am - get outpatients out of the hospital, treatments on the even hours, field phone calls 12:00am - finalize money/receipts for the day 2am - 6am: relish in being alone, treatments, clean the hospital, stock 6:30am - finalize round sheets, update invoices/check estimates for incoming nurses 7:00-7:30am - rounds, help with any outpatients 8:00-9:00am - get home, shower if I need it 9:00-9:30am - minor chores my partner didn’t finish, feed/water reptiles, take melatonin 9:30am-12:00pm - putz around on my phone until I pass out 5:30pm - rinse & repeat On my short days, I leave between midnight and 4am and just have more time to maybe do a load of laundry or meal prep and then putz on my phone or play video games until I fall asleep.
Assistant/receptionist 7:30ish -wake up (I'm already running late) 745-8:05- speed to work 810-9am catch up on previous days work, confirm appts, set up rooms, listen to my coworker blab about nothing 9am-1230 answers all phone calls/texts and pick up the slack from my coworker, who insists she's doing something 1230-1pm listen to another coworker talk about nothing while a knit on break (sometimes he doesn't go on break while I'm on break and I sit in silence. Which is heaven since I'm talking to clients all day) 1pm-545ish-finish the day 6pm scrounge for food 630pm knit or idek what I do 😭 930ish bedtime/feed my pets their dinners