Day In A Life of Data Scientist & Software Developer | South Africa

**Morning:**

- My day starts at about 6:00am, right after that it takes about 15 minutes to freshen up (which mainly includes a face wash and brushing my teeth) and then I am ready to tackle the morning
- Right after that - I proceed to one of the best parts of my morning, which is mainly just making coffe. The reason why drink coffee so early in the morning is mainly for a caffiene boost which waked me up a little bit.
- Because I work remotely luckily i dont have to travel to get to the office - its just a short walk to my desk once I am ready to start work

- The first thing I do right before I start working is a short preparation session which usually takes about 15 minutes which is me just getting my ear phones, setting up my playlist and opening all the softwares I will be using for the day
- At about 6:45am I check my email, slack and jira - jira is a software that contains the tasks that I am currenlty working on.
- Once updated - i will then proceed to planning out the tasks for the day on my daily planner. On certain times I tend to jsut use notion, but more often than not I just use this daily planner just because I like feeling of using pen and paper and I get to keep the planner on my desk all day so I see which task needs to be completed
- At 7:30am - is the time at which I get most of my deep work done, I like to tackle the most complex tasks at this time as this the time where my brain is the most fresh. This is the when i program the longest without actually taking a break which is about 3 hours. and a short 10 minute break at the end right before my first meeting of the day which is at 11:30am
- at 11:30am I have a quick chat with my boss for about 30 minutes
- and Right after I catch another meeting with a colleague in which we conduct a deep dive and plan for an upcoming project. the meeting also lasts for about 30 minutes soemtimes they last longer but on this day these where the last for the day. The rest of the communiction is done through slack
- At 12:00pm is when I reach a dip in producticity and usually take this time to step away from my desk and go make some breakfast. But while preparing breakfast I like to watch Matt D'Aveila - his content is just amazing. - I am not gonna brag about my cooking skills which is why I chose to have soup on for breakfast. (whisper: why you lying?)
- At about 13:00pm I then continue my work day and by having aother deep work session since I have refueled my energy with some breakfast
- I do some more programming and kill some bugs
- Drink some water
- At about 15:00pm is when I reach another dip, so I take some time off by putting in some exercise. On this day I had planned to do some running and cardio.
- Right after exercising i take a quick shower to wash of some sweat, while listening to an audio book - by James Clear Atomic Habits, which I highly recommend if you looking into building good habits.
- At about 16:30pm I like to go back and do another work session where it is mainly just programming. I try to keep the session as light as possible to avoid any form of mental exhaustion. I just program till sunset
- At about 19:30pm I am officially exhuasted and I will just bury myself with a book, as form of relaxing and also because i started the book and need to finish it.
- However after a few minutes of reading, I will take the time to spoil myself for a hard days work with some dinner while watching a movie.
- At 22:00pm before calling it a day - I like to wrap up whatever I know is gonna haunt my dreams when I sleep at night by trying to kill a few bugs before I go to sleep.
- Suprisingly some of my friends actually sleep late, so right before lights out I take that opportunity to talk to some friends and catch up a little till I knockout
- At 00:00 is about the time I tend to knockout
- And repeat

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