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A Day In The Life

5:00 PM: You're finally off work. Ready to start working on the startup as soon as I get home. Just one problem... rush hour traffic. Your route home is somehow always under construction, making the "supposedly" two lane road into a permanent one lane road. To make matters worse, you end up behind someone who desperately needs to send a text as soon as the light turns green. 

6:13 PM: After an hour and thirteen minutes, you drove a total of six miles, and you're finally home. Your motivation is a little lower, now that you've been aggravated about the traffic. You know what to do... have an energy drink. 

6:48 PM: Now that the caffeine from the energy drink is coursing through your veins, you think you're finally getting into a groove. Too bad, your neighbors have a couple of screaming babies and they don't care about your work. Thankfully, you have noise cancelling headphones to drown out the noise. 

7:22 PM: The fire alarm in your apartment building just went off. You don't think there really is a fire, and seriously contemplate staying in and being engulfed in the flames. You decide not this time, but maybe next time. Your original suspicions are confirmed when you see the building manager sternly talking to a couple and their six year old kid, but you know damn well the little punk will pull the alarm again in about a week. 

8:04 PM: You're finally allowed to re-enter the building after the fire department does their search and confirms that there isn't actually a fire. Your motivation wanes even more with all of these distractions. You know what to do... have another energy drink. 

8:46 PM: You can really feel the caffeine taking effect and start the unfortunate rabbit hole that is googling to see if you're having a heart attack. As always, this search doesn't end well. You come to the incorrect conclusion that you're dying and start planning for your own funeral arrangements. 

10:18 PM: After about an hour and a half of coming face to face with your own mortality, you realize that you're gonna make it. You're ecstatic for a brief moment. After this, you come to the unfortunate realization that you haven't done any of the work you were supposed to do yet. 

10:51 PM: The last half hour was spent looking up reasons as to why I can't focus. A sudden thought comes into your head... you haven't had dinner yet. Thankfully, you have a start up, which means you also have ramen noodles. You're not sure how the ramen noodles ended up in your apartment, but everyone knows that as soon as you declare you're doing a start up, a lifetime worth of ramen shows up in your kitchen. 

11:17 PM: You've finished your ramen noodles. Your diet is questionable at best, and your daily consumption of ramen noodles and energy drinks ensures that cardiologists will always be employed. With this, you justify that your diet is a net positive, since it's good for the economy. 

12:17 AM: You've gotten an hour of low quality work done, since somehow there is a fly in your room even though you're on the fourth floor, and the combination of ramen and energy drinks has upset your stomach(surprising). 

1:15 AM: You're starting to get tired and debate going to sleep. After all, you have to get up at 6 AM for work. But you remember all of those talks about how sleep is for the weak, and how the best entrepreneurs only slept a couple hours a day for years before they made it. With this new found motivation, you decide to go the healthy route and have some coffee instead of an energy drink. 

2:42 AM: You finally got some work in. You know that everyone gets their best work done after being awake for the last 20 hours on an upset stomach. 

3:15 AM: You look at your phone and see that it's 3:15 AM now. You're seriously debating just staying up all night. What's the point of just a couple hours of sleep? However, your body makes the decision for you and you pass out at your desk. 

6:00 AM: The alarm rings and you don't remember falling asleep at all. You have drool crusted on the side of your face, but you still get up and try to give the appearance you took a shower and get ready for work. You end your morning routine with a cringey motivational Instagram post "The grind doesn't sleep and neither should you."

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