Chris McCullough

7.00 AM

Woken up by the alarm and spend a few minutes in bed waking up. Roll out of bed and have a quick shower before getting my daughter up. Have breakfast and get her ready for daycare.

8.30 AM

Drop my daughter off at daycare and either get on the bus into town or head back to work from home.

9.00 AM

Get to the office and find a desk to work at or turn on my computer at home. Make a cup of tea and start the day by checking emails and getting everything open for the day. I like to get my workflow set up so that I don’t have to keep changing things around during the day.

9.30 AM

Check in with my manager to talk about what the plan is for the day or continue working on some code from the day before.

10.00 AM

Working on the tasks assigned to me. This could include programming new features, reviewing code, or writing content for the product I am working on during the internship. This might be by myself or working together with one of the other interns in the team.

Some of this time could also be spent planning functionality, observing my manager while they write code and explain their thinking or submitting pull requests and reviewing the code that I have written.

12.30 PM

Lunchtime! If I’m in the office, I might treat myself to a bought lunch or go out for a team lunch!

1.00 PM

Keep working my assigned tasks. Similar to the morning, this could involve a range of things.

3.00 PM

Once a week I will drive to a local school where they run a dev club and they use one of Theta’s products to create digital content. I work with the students on their projects and show new functionality that we have been working on. They give feedback, suggest new functionality and find bugs in the software. Or I will join their zoom call if the club is working remotely that week.

5.00 PM

Pick up my daughter from daycare and head home. Make and eat dinner, get my daughter ready for bed – bath, brush teeth and read stories.

7.30 PM

Clean up the kitchen and crash on the couch to watch something on Netflix.

9.30 PM

Get ready for bed and get some sleep!