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bed-to-bed schedule

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:38 pm
by the_last_tamurai
Hi everybody :wink:

I cant put a good schedule for my life with developing ,I tried alot to make a compromise
between working PHP, studing PHP and my life but no equilibrium between them.

so, If you'd like to share yours ,maybe it'll be helpful.

thnx alot

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:22 pm
by Weirdan
Programming: 10 hours at work (breaks included) + 2-3 hours at home. The rest of 24 hours is divided between sleeping and doing anything else.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:27 pm
by jayshields
Haha, cool thread.

My 24 hours will usually be 10 sleeping, 3 in lectures, 9 socialising, 1 eating and 1 in the gym. No programming or any work at all gets done :)

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:10 pm
by John Cartwright
25 hours working.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:36 pm
by the_last_tamurai
thnx for contribution

Weirdan :
The rest of 24 hours is divided between sleeping and doing anything else.
no time in these hours for programming related things???? or you throw it away after work.....

jayshields : you the man, I share with you "No programming or any work at all gets done"

Jcart : I believe you forgot the point between 2 & 5 :lol:

anybody else???????

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:47 pm
by Kieran Huggins
Lately I've been working too much (> 12 hrs) but at least it's interesting work for the most part. I try to keep weekends completely free for time with the gf.

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:34 pm
by the_last_tamurai
Kieran : Fortunately , I dont have a gf , so my weekends are perfect chance to study ($my_php_lifetime=5 months)

let's direct the thread to something useful.....

How can you , really , schedule your day so you gain high benefits from it????

we have at least 2 categories ......freelancers & work-in-job (:?: dont know their name)

currently , I'm a freelancer , could anyone advise me.
(when to work , when to sleep , when to play C&C tiberium wars :D ,etc...)

I believe there're time of peak concentration , and others not !!!!!!

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:40 pm
by John Cartwright
In the morning your brain is the most affluent, so try to get most of your work done bright and early and keep C&C for a cooldown period after your long day of work.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:23 am
by Weirdan
Jcart wrote:In the morning your brain is the most affluent
In the morning my brain is sleeping. No real work gets done between 10AM-3PM

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 1:29 am
by John Cartwright
Weirdan wrote:
Jcart wrote:In the morning your brain is the most affluent
In the morning my brain is sleeping. No real work gets done between 10AM-3PM
Coffee dear Watson, coffee. 8) or according to my friends, Redbulls.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:58 am
by Kieran Huggins
It's odd - sometimes I'm in the zone, other times I may as well go watch TV... as long as the work gets done.

I often find I'm most productive in the middle of the night, likely due to a lack of distractions. Also, I'm a night person by nature.

Too much caffeine is almost always counter productive in the long run, so use it in moderation!

Incidentally, I work from home.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:58 am
by the_last_tamurai
I dont think that the concentration relation with day time is linear...but it's a curve

It cant believe that the concentration is on peak in morning and decreases as time passes....it is changing from time to time 8O

I cant remeber where or when I saw an article with data about that curve...

I'll google it after a while

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 8:40 am
by onion2k
These days I spend about 14 hours a day in front of the computer and manage to do about 1 hour of actual coding. My motivation is at an all time low so I play around, read forums, browse MySpace. It's a problem. I need to motivate myself again.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:09 am
by Jenk
about 8-10 hours of my day is spent doing something related to programming, be it meetings/discussions or code cutting.

Outside of work: Nothing. It's play time, not work time! :)

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 12:25 pm
by Luke
Right now, 10 hours at work (m-f) and then after work, I try to get at least 2 hours of my personal project work done, so that's about 12 hours a day of programming/scripting/design. Weekends = NO PROGRAMMING. I get wasted all weekend and try and forget the troubles of stressful deadlines and all that stuff.

As for productivity, I am probably about 3-4 times more productive from 7am - 1pm than any other time. Sometimes I can be pretty productive late at night if I'm motivated, but like onion said, that is rare these days.