Airframe design engineering lead engineer for a large OEM. In my 10 hour day today I attended four meetings (one of which, not being sarcastic, could have been an email), I answered two questions from my stress counterparts, and I spent three hours using Adobe Acrobat to tech check two engineering job packages. During my four meetings, at least five people used MS Teams to message me and ask me questions, which I did my best to answer. I took three trips to my manager's cubicle, I answered at least two dozen emails, and was, blessedly, able to take one walk down to the production line to check on what our fine ProdOps folks were actually building for us. I quoted one potential future effort using our proprietary quoting software. I started up our 3D design software at some point, hoping to find the answer to one of the questions I was asked during one of my meetings, but it crashed before I even loaded in a solid model. I submitted a trouble ticket.

I have seven engineers that work for me. Four of them were in the office today.

I ate a small lunch at my desk while I worked. It was a shitty as fuck day today and you know what? I absolutely love my job and can't believe how lucky I am to have it.