Last Friday, @david_j_eddy dropped a fun discussion topic here on DEV:
90% of my job is...
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I'm part-time DJ for my office folks 😎
Haha, I feel that.
Now that I'm WFH, I'm full-time DJ for my cats at home. 😸
In the meantime:- office folk 😼
Being the owner's go-to "Computer Guy", because the other "tech-inclined" person in the office is on the other side of the warehouse from him.
Latest request was "The printer's printing two sided" so I went in and unchecked "Print 2 Sided" in the print dialog.
Lol funny that my comment was highlighted. Thankfully, dealing with that copier is probably less than 10% of my day now (finally).
Honestly though, I was ecstatic when we got it. I hate network printers, but this one was both easy to set up and use, and it prints so much faster than anything else we've had in the office. Even I actually liked printing with it.
Now the frequently-printing coworkers just need to learn to open the printer status view and clear their own paper jams.
Haha phew! Well that's a relief. 😅
I just inherited an old printer from a relative for my house (WFH now) and I'm so not looking forward to replacing ink. But, for the time being, it's full up and printing wonders... just please don't break on me. 🤞🤞
I say this coming from having to help with the various desk printers around the office -- ink, slow response times, lost connections (on the computer's end, not the printer's) etc.
I said fiddling for the 90%...
Which takes up a lot of my time.
The other part of my time, and perhaps much more than 10% is reading. Not the code itself, but ideas. Reading articles, comments, etc.
I actually feel like the immersion learning that is being part of the global dev community (and DEV Community, big dev 😄) is really pretty core to my day-to-day.
In short, trying to make things better. Whether it is code, learning, or a new process flow. For instance one of the big things earlier this year was integrating Symfony into our stack. We really needed some structure to our code base and Symfony was the perfect choice for our use case.
Wow yeah, definitely important to save time for reflecting on things & looking for improvements. Just making it through the day isn't enough... taking the time to review your tools and processes is super important for improving efficiency and thinking about product direction/big picture. 😃
The other 10% is the useful part, i.e. real development :)
The other 10% of my job is writing code.
The other is a mix of office politics, dealing with people, meetings, reading code, and googling.