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On a small community forum I use, a friend posted an interesting topic.

What do you actually do on a day to day basis? If you work, it might be helpful to include your job title.

Here's me. I'm a Virtual Learning Environment Manager for a Trust of schools. Basically that means I develop and maintain the website that the kids get their homework on. Though, hopefully, there's a bit more to it than that

0700 - first alarm
0730 - second alarm
0800 - hopefully awake and getting ready
0825 - make a pint of latte on my beautiful, beautiful coffee machine
0830 - arrive at work, check e-mails, deal with anything urgent
0900..1700 - currently, I'm spending most of my time developing a negative behaviour system. however, my day to day jobs vary quite heavily.. from monitoring student and parent usage, to designing websites, to developing and maintaining systems, to training, to managing, right the way through to meeting with our SLT teams to ensure our strategy is having an impact
1220 - table tennis club! (tue and fri)
1500 - table tennis club! (tue)
1720 - arrive home, chillax for a bit
1800 - cook. tonight it's fresh egg pasta with rump strips in a juniper berry and red wine reduction
1845 - go to table tennis (mon, wed, thu, fri) and beat everyone (may not be even remotely true)
2115 - return from table tennis, run bath, invariably eat something sweet (naughty boy)
2230 - get out of bath, read (currently it's a Robin Hobb book, the first after the Farseer trilogy)
0000 - attempt to sleep
0200 - actually sleep
0700 - first alarm

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[Other gear I've used]
Blades: Butterfly Defence 3, Butterfly Defence Pro, Butterfly Innerforce ZLC, Butterfly Innershield, DHS Power G7, Stiga Offensive Classic Carbon
SPs: Friendship 802 (1.5), TSP Spectol (1.3, 1.8, 2.1), TSP Spectol Speed (1.3), TSP Super Spinpips Chop Sponge 2 (0.5, 1.3)
LPs: Butterfly Feint Long II (1), Butterfly Feint Long III (0.5, 1.3), Tibhar Grass D.TecS (OX), TSP Curl P1-R (0.5, 1, 1.3), TSP Curl P4 (1.3)

Software developer

4:45am Alarm, get up dressed deal with newspapers - 550 of them
5:00am Leave to help deliver some of the newspapers
5:45am Home, put porridge on, shave get dressed, have breakfast
6:40am Leave to get bus
7:10 - 725am Change for train
7:30-7:50am Get to work, read support emails, switch on PC, read OOAK forum, read own emails etc
8:30amish Do software development (analyse code changes, test, do documentation, testcases etc)
12:00pm Lunch - read OOAK forum & other web browsing, eat lunch, go pay bills etc
1:00pm Do more software development
5:00pm Leave to get train
5:30pm Change for bus
5:55-6:05pm Get home have dinner, make lunch for next day etc
9:30-10:30 Go to bed to sleep

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Moderator, Inverted Retriever Technique sub-forum - http://ooakforum.com/viewforum.php?f=74

Commercial Manager for construction firm on Oil & Gas project

6.15am Alarm, get up, shower, iron shirt, get dressed
6.45am Breakfast, watch news on TV. Try not look at any of the 50+ emails I received overnight
7.15am Leave home, drive/ motorbike/ bicycle to work (depending on weather)
7.30am Arrive at work
7.30-8.00 Check staff arrive, are settled in and productive
8.00am continue through emails, waiting for a crisis to hit and destroy my plans for the day
8.00-9.00 Crisis arrives, try and resolve for the next few hours
12.00pm Grab something to eat at my desk, while reading through +-300 emails that arrive per day.
1.00 pm Review contracts, issues, approve invoices and payments
5:00pm Start going through balance of emails

(if table tennis night)
6.00pm Leave for home, get changed, go to table tennis
7.00pm-10.00pm table tennis
10:30-11.00 Go to bed

(if not table tennis night)
6.45pm leave for home
7.00pm arrive home, watch tv, play some table tennis with family at home
9.00pm review new emails for crises that cannot wait until the next day
10.00pm - 10.30pm watch tv
10.30pm go to bed

next day: wake up, and do it all over again (my OOAK forum reading is done at random during the day)...

Quality Techician:

5:50am snooze
5:55am snooze
6:00am dog wakes me I get dressed walk the dog
6:15am get something to eat shower get dress
6:30am wake up wife
6:50am drive to work
7:40am turn on Computer and read the news-get coffee-read OOAK Forum -email
8:00am Inspect parts for A380 Airbus-Gulfstream-450, 787 Dreamliner
12:00 look up articles on table tennis-More OOAK Forum _lunch-emails
12;30 Continue Inspecting-logging -working- looking for a new job (plant closing sept)
4:30pm Drive home
5;10pm Walk the dog-get something out for dinner-
6:30pm-7:15 eat dinner- chill
7:30 hit on robot- take a walk- emails-facebook
8:30pm watch some TV ( Tuesday-Thursday-Sat--Table tennis club 3 hours)
10:00pm--take the dog out- get to bed .
* this does not happen like this everyday...sometimes more than not some cancellations of events do take place....but I still walk the dog.

Peace GIG

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New blade set-up... Nittaku Monophonic with Dawie 388d-1 ox and Big slam max ( really like this one) down to FH rubber selections--I like it better than talon
flaired handle and 90 grams

You all get up so early! I'd like to, but I just can't. One of my biggest weaknesses.

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My blog: "Learning to play: as a modern defender": http://ooakforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=22254
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtazeX ... oICGS9bqNg
Join the OOAK Discord!: https://discord.gg/Yw2hYUdz3g

[Other gear I've used]
Blades: Butterfly Defence 3, Butterfly Defence Pro, Butterfly Innerforce ZLC, Butterfly Innershield, DHS Power G7, Stiga Offensive Classic Carbon
SPs: Friendship 802 (1.5), TSP Spectol (1.3, 1.8, 2.1), TSP Spectol Speed (1.3), TSP Super Spinpips Chop Sponge 2 (0.5, 1.3)
LPs: Butterfly Feint Long II (1), Butterfly Feint Long III (0.5, 1.3), Tibhar Grass D.TecS (OX), TSP Curl P1-R (0.5, 1, 1.3), TSP Curl P4 (1.3)

me too I was going to be a jockey but 3 little things stopped me
1. I was too heavy
2. I was scared of Horses
and 3. I couldn't get up in the morning

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Blade Ulmo Duality| FH Tibhar mx-p Black, Dawei 388D-1 red OX
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My Blog here..How table tennis objects are made
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when you Kiwis get up, the rest of the world is still asleep!

There is no way in hell I could get up as early as most of you

I'm working as a software developer

08:00 first alarm (turn off)
08:20 second alarm (this time I get up and do the morning stuff..)
09:00 arrive at work, drink coffee, read forums
10:00 doing some actual work
12:00 going for lunch
13:00 back from lunch, another coffee break, forums, etc ..
14:00 doing some actual work
~17:15 going home
18:00-20:30 table tennis training
20:30 gaming or going out with friends
00:00 watching some tv series
02:00 sleeping time

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Setups (click on writings to read reviews):
1) Defence III / TSP P4 (0,5) / M3 (2,0)
2) Defence II / Joola Octopus (0,5) / M3 (2,0)
3) Ross Leidy "White Shadow" / P1R (1,3) / Hexer PS (1,7)

Interesting thread!

I've nearly always been self employed, which leaves lots of flexibility in my day..
At the moment (and for the last 10 years), I've have an antique/secondhand shop
An average day would be..

Anytime between 6am & 9am I get out of bed (no alarm, I just wake up when I'm finished sleeping )
Between 9am & 10am, open shop, drink coffee and read forums/facebook/emails/etc.
10am - 6pm-ish: Make sales throughout the day.. spend time pricing stock, researching values, general biz stuff. Usually have forums/facebook open all day. Grab lunch when I'm hungry... on busy days I sometimes forget!
In the summer months, I often stay open much later.. while there's tourists around. Sometimes as late as 10pm if I don't have TT, or a date!
My days also usually include re-gluing bats on the counter, and administrative work for our association (seeing so I'm president!)
It is nice not having a boss!
On the evenings which I close early... I'm either playing TT somewhere, or out the back doing some repair work for the shop, or off digging for antique bottles (another hobby)... or catching up with one of my four kids.
Mid-week, when I sometimes close the shop for a few days (depending on the time of the year)... I'm off cleaning out old sheds, buying deceased estate house-lots, or doing some "picking". Of course, no two weeks are the same... But generally, I'm doing work stuff pretty much seven days a week... unless there's a TT tournament on somewhere

I'm a night owl and usually pass out around 6AM and get up at noon. I commute about 20 steps from my bed to my home office where I'm on the internet or telephone pretty much all day/night. My desk adjusts between sitting and standing height so I alternate between sitting and standing every few hours (I'm standing right now). I have mobile devices to stay connected when I go out. Table tennis is my escape four times a week. I also have a table and robot in my garage which I use about an hour a day for relaxation.

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My whole set-up costs less than a sheet of Butterfly Dignics

Equal Opportunity Civil Rights Violator

0430-0440 Get up and harness up a dog or two for a run.
0440-0500 Run 2 miles
0500-0530 Feed dogs and myself. Help wife feed more dogs.
0530-0550 Shower and get ready for work.
0550-0605 Drive to work.
0605-0700 Paper work and get other assorted things together for the day.
0700-1500 Violate someone's civil rights. You know, like write some tickets, arrest some knuckle heads. Maybe even serve a warrant or two.
1500-1520 Drive home
1600-1620 Feed dogs
1620-1730 Different things around the house. Cut grass, fold laundry, clean.
1730-1800 Drive to Table Tennis
1800-2130 Play pong.
2200-0430 Bed

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Equipment:
Victas Koji Matsushita, Yasaka Rakza 7 2.0, TSP P1r Curl 1.5-1.7

USATT Rating: 1869

MOLON LABE!!!

I'm finishing my last year of high school which basically means I have no life at the moment.

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Xiom Zetro Quad
FH: Tibhar 1Q XD
BH: Yasaka MarkV XS

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My blog: "Learning to play: as a modern defender": http://ooakforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=22254
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtazeX ... oICGS9bqNg
Join the OOAK Discord!: https://discord.gg/Yw2hYUdz3g

[Other gear I've used]
Blades: Butterfly Defence 3, Butterfly Defence Pro, Butterfly Innerforce ZLC, Butterfly Innershield, DHS Power G7, Stiga Offensive Classic Carbon
SPs: Friendship 802 (1.5), TSP Spectol (1.3, 1.8, 2.1), TSP Spectol Speed (1.3), TSP Super Spinpips Chop Sponge 2 (0.5, 1.3)
LPs: Butterfly Feint Long II (1), Butterfly Feint Long III (0.5, 1.3), Tibhar Grass D.TecS (OX), TSP Curl P1-R (0.5, 1, 1.3), TSP Curl P4 (1.3)

Like the other bloke i'm a night owl too!

Bed anything from 4am till 7am

Get up have a shower,cup of honey tea.

Play tennis most days,tabletennis few nights a week too.

Work nights as cleaner part-time.

Internet from 2am till bed-time.

We'll be singing
When we're winning
We'll be singing

I get knocked down
But I get up again
You're never going to keep me down

Pingponging the night away
Pingponging the night away

He drinks a whisky drink
He drinks a vodka drink
He drinks a lager drink
He drinks a cider drink
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the good times
He sings the songs that remind him
Of the better times

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Blade Ulmo Duality| FH Tibhar mx-p Black, Dawei 388D-1 red OX
NZ table tennis selector, ask a question
My Blog here..How table tennis objects are made
Table Tennis abbreviations, and acronyms