Jul 18 2006

My New Work Day Schedule

By Jeremy Schoemaker 12 comments

First of all I want to say thanks to everyone who sent me TONS of great tips for being a new father. I REALLY appriciate it.

Now with the baby and everything I have been getting a lot of emails asking me what my day is like so for those that care i put together a little schedule:

Morning

wake up and start my breakfast - omelet 3 eggs, swiss and ham complete with diet pepsi. While cooking my breakfast I get the baby up and give her the morning bath. just as we finish with the bath and i dress her my omelet is ready for the flip. After the flip I put cheese on my omelet and go and get dressed + take my morning vitamins.

I come back put my breakfast on a plate grab the baby and head down to work. Down at my office I put the baby in her swing but usually don’t swing her. I try to get through my email before she is rowdy and wants to feed. If I can make it through email then I will approve some pending comments on my blog. I 99% of the time approve all so its a pretty fast process. If I am lucky enough to get this far then I will play with her a bit. Usually just take her out of her swing and put her in her bouncer on my desk (yea i should put up some new pics of the baby equipped shoemoney office but i think some people would puke from corniness ).

Lunch -

Ok by now I take her up stairs check/change diaper and then goto moms for lunch. I hand her off for nursing with my wife while I go back down to the office and try to get some real work done.

Usually by now I am pretty hungary so I nuke 1 can of chef-boy-r-dee beef ravioli in the microwave and touch base with my business manager for the day to see where we are at and if I need to sign/approve/deny anything.

Once my ravioli is done i go back to my desk and check all forms of revenue to make sure everything is up to par. This involves checking paypal, azoogleads, commission junction, yahoo publisher network, google adsense and a few other things.

usually between those I will see some issue somewhere and deal with it or talk to my developer about it.

Then I will check out my PPC spends on the various engines.

After that I log into my analytics and check stats for sites making sure stuff is on par.

Dinner -

my wife and I really like to go out to dinner and we love to take the baby out. We do not venture out far but what dictates when we go is usually right after the baby has had a post 4pm nursing. We can usually get 1-2 hours of her being SUPER GOOD at a restraunt.

After dinner I will come home and try to get some new work done but this is really hit and miss. Most of the time at night I have to deal with issues from my various forums where somebody got there feelings hurt or there was a problem with something or just basic questions.

I will try to get in a shower so I can be to bed by 8pm. I then give the baby a night time bath and then she goes for more nursing.

During the night me and my wife have worked out a pretty good system. usually at 10pm 1am 3am 5am 7am I will get up and change her and then my wife will nurse then put her back to sleep. Its working well for us these first couple weeks. it just doesn’t really allow much sleep =)

I was talking to my developer today and I told him a bunch of stuff I wanted to focus on then he told me I already told him all of that yesterday…. weird stuff like that is happening to me a lot now lol..

Having a baby is a pretty amazing deal. I have learned that keeping the pace I was and being a good father is just not going to happen so learning to compromise is getting interesting.

Thanks again for all the nice words and advice.

Jon said on July 18th, 2006 at 3:58 pm

It’s refreshing to see someone with their child as priority.

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alek said on July 18th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

Nice job getting a schedule down Jeremy … now just wait until she has her first ear infection to completely mess up that routine!

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Dave Dugdale said on July 18th, 2006 at 6:28 pm

I love the post, takes me back three years on when i went through the same thing.

I know you probably have heard this 30 times already, but just incase you haven’t - “they grow up fast, so enjoy every minute with them”!

Dave

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Pete said on July 18th, 2006 at 10:51 pm

Isn’t being a dad just the best thing in the world?

Trust me, you sort of get used to being in a zombie state. Sort of.

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Hawaii SEO said on July 19th, 2006 at 3:54 am

That sounds great! You lucked out.

All babies are different. Some are good but some a real challenge. They are little people and some are more demanding of attention than others.

My boy is three years old now but he never stops amazing me. I’m sure all parents think their child is a genius and I’m no different. I gave him my old digital camera when he was two years old and he learned how to use the camera and review pictures right away and he’s actually taken some great pictures. (Seriously) He gets the subject in the center and holds the camera level and frames it quite well. The subject mater is also very interesting. The expressions on people’s faces are just different when a toddler is taking your picture. It’s very cool to look at the world through the lenses of your toddler.

Now he’s barely three years old and has his own computer. He’s real fast with that as well. He uses Photoshop to play with the pictures he’s taken, and prints them out when he gets it the way he likes it. It’s good stuff.

I’m sure I’ll be able to put him to work in no time building websites.

Aloha,
Dave.

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Tom said on July 19th, 2006 at 7:08 am

The best and hardest job in the world. My wife and I had the same sort of arrangememt and it is amazing how productive you get. Look back in 6 months and you will wonder how you survived being so lazy all the years before.

Best

Tom

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SteveM said on July 19th, 2006 at 10:25 am

Hey congrats Shoe, it sounds like you are balancing work and family very well. I have freinds with kids and it seems like a full time (but rewarding) job in itself.

All the best
Steve

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nsusa said on July 19th, 2006 at 1:50 pm

Welcome to fatherhood and the major lack of sleep. We went through the same rough times last year and partially still are due to food allergies and other unexpected stuff with our son. Anyway - I hope mom and baby are doing well. All the best.

Christoph

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Janet said on July 21st, 2006 at 8:32 pm

Life & my memory has never been the same since I had a child. But there’s something so elementary about it all. When the baby cries you respond. Takes you outside of yourself and makes you sacrifice what you want to help them. Then you love them like you’ve never loved anyone.

It’s so many things being a parent. I’m blown away by all the high tech babies that have their own blogs, domain names, etc. Just reading one of your comments makes me think my son should be taking pictures and editing them by now! I better get to work on that. lol.

Janet

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monks said on September 15th, 2006 at 7:06 am

great to see you prioritizing fatherhood…that is admirable

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saturn said on December 13th, 2006 at 10:17 am

Good day sir

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Directory said on December 31st, 2006 at 10:24 am

We like this post, but it is NY life is busy..

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