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  • The first thing I do when I come home from work is...

    Change clothes and get a bite to eat, usually followed by something non stressful and relaxing (surfing the web, watching TV, playing video games).

    What about you?
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  • #2
    Well, I mostly work at home.

    (Please don't hit me, ya'll)

    I generally just shut the computer down and go in the other room to decompress. Sounds silly, but just stepping away from the area of doom (aka - my call center phone and computer) does WONDERS for my mood.
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    • #3
      I tend to wander the aisles of the grocery store before going home. Or the aisles of my store if I don't close. It relaxes me and separates me from my day. When I get home I eat and watch TV while surfing the board.
      "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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      • #4
        Put my jammies on.
        Unseen but seeing
        oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
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        • #5
          Quoth CrazedClerkthe2nd View Post
          Change clothes and get a bite to eat, usually followed by something non stressful and relaxing (surfing the web, watching TV, playing video games).

          What about you?

          I do the exact same thing. Change clothes, get dinner going, and fire up the computer. I don't have a TV anymore so I just watch all my stuff online from things like Hulu.

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          • #6
            Sometimes I'll stop by the diner on the way home and get food.

            Other times I ride my bike home, and get a snack and hang out in the smoking room, read for about an hour or so before wandering into the bedroom and surf the web for about another hour and then I go to bed.

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            • #7
              When I worked this summer, I would come home, fix dinner, and sit on the computer playing games and sewing. Now that my sewing is full-time (not exactly a job, it doesn't pay any bills) I stop and play a game, or play with the lizard, or spend time with my husband.
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              • #8
                Leave the room and start supper mostly

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                • #9
                  Get in the door, make my dinner, get into jammies, and proceed to veg out on the computer, watch TV, or play games. It's like clockwork, but it's a routine I don't mind following.
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                  • #10
                    It really depends for me.
                    In the past, when working at shift-type jobs, I'd typically come home, change out of splattered clothing (food or dirt or Oh-Dear-God-What-Is-That!, depending), take a shower if the day was particularly bad, then get on with things like lazing around or homework or sleep if I got home from closing. I typically worked 4-8 hours, usually around 5 or so.
                    At the print shop, it's way different.
                    I can be in for anywhere to a half-hour to nine, depending on what's needed. I work hourly, so if there's nothing to do, like in the last four months or so, I don't go in, and if there's only a little, I work only a little, usually around whatever else I have to do in the day, typically classes. So, I could come in at 7 in the morning (when the back room where the work gets done 'opens'-- in other words, when Mike gets there), work until my first class, go to class, come back, work until lunch, eat during a break, work more, go to class, come back, leave when the front closes down (the office parts, around 5), and then just go home, which since working at the print shop has been no more than 10 minutes away on foot, and I walk more than that during the day. Any one of the "and then I work" parts could be cut out, all depending on what needs to get done when and by whom (and occasionally for whom, like, the government gives long periods of time, but isn't as forgiving on dates as the University is, since University typically just re-orders or gives it to us a week before they need it/ firm date.)
                    Usually however, after those 7-5 days, I'd come home, stuff my face with something, like milk or a hard boiled egg or a salad or ice cream, make something else that more resembles dinner, take off my shoes (which must be shoes that cover my feet, so no flip flops or flimsy shoes, so my feet get the whines), then take it to the computer to do whatever (writing, memes, fanfic, news sites, boards, games, chat) until it was consumed, then do homework or whatever.
                    (long post is long. )
                    EDIT: yeah that's right-- I have no assigned, scheduled hours! it's amazing and horrible at the same time! I can say no, but then there's no money. :3
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                    • #11
                      no matter the type of job ie. fast food or suit and tie, as soon as I hit the door (unless my doggie begs to be walked right that moment) I shed my work clothes and get into my "around the house clothes" shorts and a T-shirt, if it is during the summer or warmer months I will take a quick shower.
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                      • #12
                        I usually take off my coveralls, turn up the stereo in my car, drive home, smooch the wife and kidlets, shower, change, eat, catch up with the familys day, tuck in the kids, the wife and i play games either together or alone, smoke a bowl and go to bed lol.

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                        • #13
                          Change into sweats and my favorite old ratty sweater. Play with the cats. Nibble something to hold me before dinner (my sister cooks). Have a cup of tea, or coffee if a pot was made before I got home. Listen to the latest "Weasel Neighbors and Nosy Old Biddy" report from my sisters. Wish I was off the next day (except on Fridays...then it's YAY! Weekend!)
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                          • #14
                            I'm a full-time student, so Monday-Thursday are devoted entirely to school. I work Friday nights and Sunday day shifts. Saturday is my only day off.

                            Monday and Wednesday, I'm on campus until late, so my wife picks up our daughter from the babysitter. Tuesday and Thursday, I'm done with classes by 4:30, so I usually pick up our daughter from the babysitter.

                            I unload everything, and take my school stuff straight to the computer room so it's there when I get around to study time later.

                            I usually spend an hour or two on the couch watching TV with the family after classes. My wife and I decide whether to cook dinner at home or eat out. After supper, I grab a beer and venture back to the computer room. I go back and forth between studying and surfing the net until I get too tired to continue looking at the monitor. Meanwhile, I stop periodically to get another beer, go to the bathroom, tend to a crying baby, tend to a whining dog, or tend to an endless array of honey-do requests. It's a wonder I remember anything at all given the chaotic nature of my study habits. When my eyes are too tired to focus on the monitor, I hop in the shower if I feel the need. Otherwise, I just grab another beer, and plop down on the couch for some more TV before I finally feel tired enough to go to bed. It's usually late before I finally go to bed because I'm a night owl with insomniac tendencies by nature. I usually only sleep a few hours a night because I go to bed late, and don't always stay asleep when I do get to bed.

                            On workdays, I shower first thing when I get home from work. I work Friday evenings, so I stay home all day Fridays and bounce back and forth between homework, housework, baby, and dog until time to go to work. It's already late when I get home Friday nights, so I usually put off study time until Saturday since I'm off all day Saturday. Instead, I grab a beer and watch my shows I recorded on the DVR until I fall asleep. On Sundays, I shower as soon as I get home from work, and then it's basically like a school night.
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                            • #15
                              Usually it is get the mail come in the house. Then it is the restroom and then change out of the jeans and get that dang bra off. Then it is usually wait until the hubby gets home about 2 hours after I do. I will figure out dinner or what not. Lately the hubby and I have been deep cleaning the house so we have been working on that.
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