Game Programming Job

I was reading though some articles and here they explain a "normal day" as a programmer... http://www.ensemblestudios.com/openj...tory/one.shtml

For those of you who work as this, is this somewhat true?

-Emo

yep, sounds like my day a bit

7:00 Alarm goes off
9:15 get up
9:20 catch bus
9:40 Breakfast, Hash browns, waffles, eggs, sausages and beans.
9:50 Read E-mail, Check out Sluggy, VB-world.
10:00 Reliase I don't have jack **** to do today at all, Everyone else in meeting (i'm not cause limited placing, and i'm leaving in 2 weeks)
11:00 Ask the Interns if they fancy a game of Counter-Strike over the network as all managers are in meeting until 2.

5pm, sod off home.

Software Tester for a large Multi-national company, I can tell you more in 1 year + 9 days when my NDA runs out.

Right well this is my schedule ;

07:00 Alarm goes off
07:00 Get up
07:15 Start walking into work
07:45 Arrive in work
07:55 Have ISDN router switched on, laptop setup, and Exchange server has checked for mail
08:00 Read E-mail, Check out VB-world.

08:00 -> 17:30 :
I program (6 different applications), I administer the network to make sure its all running smoothly (100Mbps switched network w/SBS 4.5), take a few microsoft licensing calls, might have to go on site to fix stuff for people, or if its a friday I might have to give a training course.

17:30 -> ... Start wrapping up for the evening.
18:00 - 18:20 Arrive home....

Mmh.. my usual day as a programmer

07:00 Alarm goes off
07:00 Set alarm to 07:58
07:58 Alarm goes off again
07:58 Roll out of bed
08:05 Eat some food and get something to take to the office
08:45 Arrive on office
08:50 Turn on ISDN Router, Turn on computer, Switch on Brain ;)
09:00 Fresh coffee.. whoo! .. also checking mail
09:05 VB-Forums.com. Dilbert.com. Userfriendly.org. Sayz enuf ;)
09:45 Wonder what work I have to had done yesterday
until
12:00 LuNCH!!!! =]... Yum ;)
to
13:00 Back to work, Atm working on GPS transceiver software
to
15:00 Socialising with other peepz on the office. Though they are all pretty dull and won't play HL-CS against me :(
to
17:00 Time to go home
18:00 Home

Thatz all :)

06:00 go to school
07:30 try to concentrate on math
07:45 give up concentrating .. :D
08:00 talk with friend about new programms & games
08:00 teacher gets angry, i have to write a article "why sould i do not talk to my friend in the maths lesson.....:mad:
08:30 write a conzept how to prog my new game
09:05 go to break
09:20 going into the englishlesson with a smile(:mad:)on my face
12:45 going home ... eat something
13:00 booting the pc
13:02 start vb-prog ... doing the walkmode of "görs"prog ... prog..
19:00 aarrrgghhh forgotten to write the article ..:mad: :( :o :( :mad: 19:15 do homework .... write this f... article
23:00 go to bed ...:rolleyes:

My Day:


7:30am get woken up rudely by alarm
7:31am shower
8:00am on the freeway to work
9:00am talk with boss about todays goals
9:30am check email, websites, etc....
10:00am program....
12:30pm lunch
1:30pm program
5:30pm recap day with boss
6:00pm go home


I am a professional VB/ASP Developer I guess :P Working on a game right now..... DirectDraw/VB fun fun fun