I’m one of those people who are sworn never to return to the office (ok, maybe once a week) as I truly and wholeheartedly enjoy working from my office. I’m interested to how does your typical wfh day looks like, during and off office hours, mainly for inspiration what I could add to my routine.
Disclaimer: I don’t have kids.
Mine is wake up around 6am, have a cup of coffee with my spouse and go meditate for 30min. After I’m finished my spouse had breakfast and is at the door with the usual “lucky you for having the opportunity to wfh” (she’s right).
I have breakfast and check my emails. After reading the emails I write a separate work and private to-do lists which I try to follow as best I can.
I try to work using a pomo-timer (pomofocus.io) and during the breaks I do laundry, cook a meal and do other chores.
After work is done I do a 1hr scheduled do-nothing time where I literally try to do nothing to reset my brain. During this time my phone is on dnd.
After that my routine stops and every day is a little bit different.
In the afternoon, 1pm-5pm is usually back to back meetings. Right at 4:58pm my dog walks into my office and starts whining. 5pm-6pm is walking the dog with my partner and general just decompressing from work. 6-7pm is cooking dinner, and 7-10pm is whatever we want, usually binging whatever TV show we want. In bed by 10:30, read til 11:00-11:30, sleep.
My work schedule is usually pretty packed, so I'm very busy from 9am-5pm.
I like being busy, but this schedule does make me feel like I'm maxed out on time. I'd love to write a book or learn a new skill or take up a new hobby, but I can't really see a time to squeeze it in without giving up something else. (My 7-10pm is technically "free" time, but I really enjoy spending time with my partner, and if I give that up for another hobby or something, it just feels wrong to me.)