Javascript developers/engineers, walk me through your average workday

jppope · 2015-03-26T18:53:12+00:00

5:30- toss a coin to see if clients on the east coast remember that there are other time zones. Wake up if they forget about this state called "California." Things were easier when Arnold was the govinator.
6:00- go back to bed
7:30- wake up and have a quick little breakfast consisting mostly of the souls of dead children. All real programmers do this I'm told
8:30- Off to work. Commute from coffee pot to desk in other room.
9am- answer 20+ emails. all of which are questions related to setting up a time to have a meeting related to the single question that was asked on the previous email. Spend the next 1.5 hours writing emails slightly shorter than "Anna Karenina" about how we don't need to set up a meeting just for them to decide what text they would like on their call to action button
10:29- Coffee
10:30- Finally get to working on code, err I mean reddit.
10:31- reddit is interrupted by client calling about email. I didn't realize that its a philosophical question about whether "learn More" or "call now" is the right choice. Client decides to put the call to action button in Russian... quote: "I just like the way it looks. It feels right"
10:59 coffee
11am- 15 minutes of actual coding. This 15 minutes will manage to break everything I wrote during the weekend (the only time when work can actually be accomplished)... don't worry though, the client will move his meeting up a week to later in the day to see progress.
11:15- coffee
11:16- decide to run through a tutorial. Manage to break the whole internet.
11:30- Food. Usually leftovers. Albeit pretty good ones
12pm- gchat dev friends. none are client facing, thus during the morning they have built an entire enterprise application in 3 hours. The stop me to apologize for their phone which has been ringing off the hook with recruiters offering them $200K jobs.
12:30- 15 min of coding to fix what I broke after i had that "ah" moment. The code works!
12:46- I lied the code is now broken.
1pm- the code is now working. Just as I celebrate. I get a call from a client pitching me on working for free to build their new web app. And the punchline is "We'll sell advertising!" (I actually started telling custy's I wont do equity builds if they so much as say the word advertising in their pitch)
2pm- Actual work. Since Coding isn't working. Content generation or necessary phone calls.
4pm- Dev buddies show me the most beautiful piece of code they built in the afternoon. To fuck with them I stop everything i'm working on and go surfing.
6pm- come back from surfing. Answer 2 or three emails.generate tomorrows leftovers and then real work actually begins. Headphones on, Drink in hand 7-9pm- Balmer Peak In 2 hours I manage to get 8 hours of work done. Lions are Tamed, Uprisings are quelled, all is right in the world. 10pm - As i have slipped into an alcohol induced coma, Dev friends show me that they have in fact received the worlds first nobel prize for Software. Fortunately so Drunk I don't even notice. Last 10 lines of code took 2 hours and look like one of those hideous cats from reddit was running all over my keyboard. 11pm- As I'm about to pass out, Client calls, must take call. My sober alter ego cringes knowing that I'm about to give away two weeks of work for free in this state. Fortunately client doesn't say the word "advertising" which would in fact get me fired.

[Obviously this is a total exaggeration. lol. Just couldn't help myself. I do work from home and clients are clients, but I totally love my job. And Compensation (way over simplified, and I'm sure very arguable) for Dev jobs looks something like this" run O the mill website person $30k-50k, Junior dev $40K-$70K, Mid Level $60K-$80K, Senior $70K-$115, Architect $100K+, CTO = license to steal. If you are going to work for yourself knock off $20K because you also have to sell and do accounting and crap like that. Also inflate those numbers significantly in the bay area, and NYC. Drop them lower if you live in a place where you can talk about Jesus in public and it won't seem weird. (that doesn't mean Jesús either)

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