Here’s a typical Wednesday:<\/p>\n
8:30 – Wake up unnaturally late and realize I’m missing an 8:30 conference call
\n8:40 – Dial into conference call from the couch while reading email
\n9:00 – Take a shower, get dressed
\n9:40 – Arrive at work, look at calendar for the day: mostly meetings all day
\n9:45 – Status meeting
\n10:00 – Schedule conference call for 3 pm
\n10:15 – Add 5 pm interview to my calendar
\n10:17 – Respond to request for for a 2-4 pm meeting. Reschedule 3 pm conference call to 4.
\n10:30 – Find out my 11 am meeting was resceduled to 3. Respond by saying I can’t make it.
\n11:45 – Do my 10:30 meeting
\n12:00 – Run errands. Recycling has been in my car for 2 days and is starting to smell. Stop at Wendy’s on the way back.
\n12:45 – Eat lunch at desk
\n1:00 – Meeting, wait, no it’s cancelled, spend the hour doing email and writing some documentation
\n1:30 – Cancel scheduled 2 pm meeting so I can go to the entire 2-4 meeting
\n2:00 – Go to 2-4 pm meeting
\n2:30 – Meeting actually starts. Since much of the topic at hand is not directly related to my job, spend most of the meeting reading email on my laptop
\n3:00 – Respond to IMs and phone calls asking why I’m not at the other meeting.
\n3:30 – Still reading email while trying to pay attention to meeting at the same time where necessary
\n4:00 – Run back to my desk to catch conference call.
\n4:30 – Reread email and discover conference call is tomorrow (misunderstanding), try to figure out what to do with an extra half hour
\n5:00 – Interview
\n5:30 – More email and random stuff; no point in starting any projects now; write blog<\/p>\n
In summary, my day starts with a schedule which is rapildy changed in the morning, followed by cancellations and movements throughout the day, making it completely unrecognizable by the end of the day. So much for planning. <\/p>\n
The upside: I’m pretty much caught up with my email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a typical Wednesday: 8:30 – Wake up unnaturally late and realize I’m missing an 8:30 conference call 8:40 – Dial into conference call from the couch while reading email 9:00 – Take a shower, get dressed 9:40 – Arrive at work, look at calendar for the day: mostly meetings all day 9:45 – Status …<\/p>\n