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juankOrtiz

Freelance Web developer, programming teacher and software developer (tough rarely these days). Dependending on the day (wednesday is my "client meetings" day, monday and thursday are my "teacher" days):

  1. Get up.
  2. Have some nice breakfast with my wife.
  3. Turn on my notebook, check my work email, messages on social media to see if one of my clients is requesting something.
  4. Open my editor (Sublime Text) and my other tools and start coding right were I left the day before. That's my main task in the morning.
  5. When I'm stuck, I check some resources. Mainly, I use Stack Overflow, some subreddits and a tool named Zeal, a desktop app for Windows with the docs of my programming languages.
  6. Lunch with my wife.
  7. Sometimes I sleep after lunch, or I check some pages: Dev.to, a Medium page called Codeburst and more Reddit.
  8. Depending on the day, I keep coding or working on personal projects. Or I prepare myself for teaching: this year I'm teaching Python and Java, so I need a few hours to review the contents for each class.
  9. Again, depending the day, I:
  10. Keep coding with intervals (unlike the morning, in the afternoon I tend to take more time to rest).
  11. Go to class, from 4 to 8 pm.
  12. Go to see my clients, same hours.
  13. Spend time on other activities: take a walk with my wife, watch some movie together, go to see a friend.
  14. At night, we make dinner and get some rest. Our rule is that after dinner we don't work anymore, unless I have some very urgent changes to make or if she need to finish her stuff (she's a teacher as well).

In between, I make my day more pleasent with some lemon juice, some ambient, post rock or instrumental music and taking periods of time to stretch and make other stuff at home.