• Question: what is your typical day at work?

    Asked by branflakes123 to Al, Emma, Ivanka, James, Omar on 15 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: James Vokes

      James Vokes answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Ah a quick and easy question as I have already answered in my profile! Let’s do a quick copy and paste:
      I come in, I sit down and I write computer programs. What programs? What do they do? Well that changes from day to day…
      There are a number of requirements associated with each project I’m working on. Usually my goal for that day is to make sure the program fulfills that requirement. Because the requirements for each project are usually vastly different it can mean programming in a completely different way then you were the day before. Recently I’ve been working on programs that test other programs I’ve created to make sure they work correctly.

    • Photo: Emma Bould

      Emma Bould answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      There is no such thing in my job!

      I’ll tell you about today, which started at 0630. I live onboard during the week so fortunately I didn’t have to go far (my desk is directly below my bed!)

      I was Duty Officer yesterday (I was responsible for the whole ship) so I had a few things to do before I had breakfast this morning: check the signals (they tell me things like the weather forecast and which ships are moving in and out of harbour), sign some paperwork (things like records of people using keys and whether rounds inspections have been completed). Then I handed the responsibility for the ship over to another person. Then I had breakfast!

      At 0800 I did Colours (that’s the ceremony for putting the White Ensign up) and started my normal work, which this morning was preparing for a meeting with our refit managers (the ship is going into dry dock in a few weeks time).

      After lunch we had our weekly management meeting (this is one of the few things that does happen the same every week!) and the I spent some time talking to an Engineering Technician who is about to sit a major exam in a few weeks – we went over some of the sorts of things which he might be asked. I spend the rest of the afternoon working on another document for our Captain.

      Tomorrow will be totally different! That’s about the only thing that is certain!

    • Photo: Al Bartlett

      Al Bartlett answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Hey Branflakes123,

      The routine of my day is usually the same but the work i do is always differentt. Lets take a look at yesterday@

      0600 – Arrive at work
      0601 – Make a cup of tea!
      0615 – Review yesterday’s work and what has happened overnight
      0700 – Carry out a ‘FOD’ walk – FOD is Foreign Object Debris (which means litter and other obejects) so we pick up anything we can see so that it doesnt get sucked in to he aircraft engines because it could cause some major damage.
      0730 – Send the aircraft off to do their flying programs or missions
      1200- Lunch
      1230 – Review the morning work
      1400 – Aircraft arrive back from their training or mission
      1405 – Check the aircraft over and refuel it
      1440 – Sign all of the appropriate paperwork and documentation
      1500 – Home time!!!!!!!

      This is roughly how the day works, some days it may be busier, others it may be quieter. The work we do changes all the time, some days we may be changing a wheel or fixing a computer, other days we may have to inspect an engine or even change it!!

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      Omar Mustufvi answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      I start work at around 07.30- not as early as Emma or Al, which is good because I like my beauty sleep! But my day varies quite a lot day to day as well:

      I usually spend the morning reading/sending emails- asking people for data, setting up meetings or responding to peoples questions having start up meetings to discuss progress on different projects.

      Then in the afternoon I will either be at my computer doing anything ranging from creating presentations to analysing data or in more meetings or doing test work.

      A lot of time is spent in meetings trying to find solutions to issues- as they say more heads are better than one!

    • Photo: Ivanka Brown

      Ivanka Brown answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      I work 9.00 to 17.30 – so I do get my beauty sleep compared to the others!
      Other than that I would find it very difficult to come up with a typical day. Most of the time I’m in the office by my computer – communicating or designing or directing the activities of others. However, sometimes I’m supervising construction on site, ensuring the assumptions that we made in the design are actually the reality on site. Site hours are variable. They may require you to be on site from 8am to 6pm or you may be needed to supervise construction at night – I did four months ground investigation supervision when my hours were 8pm to 6am.

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