Just curious how much work you guys actually do in a normal workday.
ex: how much coding vs web surfing do you do.

I suspect web developers work on a contract basis. Anyone who works as a web developer as a full-time job in a company likely has more than enough work to fill all the hours of a day.

ex web dev/designer was freelance so worked 2-12 hours a day depending on the day,
now im a UX Designer, so work most of 7 hour day, with some surfing when i need to look away from things, but mostly work, less so when I occasionally write code tho.

In the few stints I did at web design companies (i call them sweatshop design places) dev's are worked to the bone.

Thats me, I stay at the office for like 10 hours everyday, 1 hour surfing, reading forums and etc, like 6:30 to 7 hours working ( I work with .net c# and mvc, jquery and wcf, and i'm also scrum master ), and around 3 hours to study new things I wanna learn, and study for college ( it's best to study here, the computers at the college are not that good ). Besides that I work with some freelancers as well in the weekend, but its pretty tiresome to work on weekends, so i'm kinda giving it a break for some time, just finished a job last week.

thats pretty much it

I am full-time and run my own business on the side. Pretty much on 24/7.

what kind of assignments do you get stormhashe? for work that is.

I have always been curious as to what a daily plate for a dev is.

assuming your question is more about what developers in general do (not web developers specifically) -- a lot of it depends on the place you work. if you work at a startup, chances are that you'll be involved the development and maintenance in a fairly large chunk of a system -- sometimes from the ground up if you join early enough. if you work at a large company (like microsoft, google, oracle, etc), you'll be on a team which owns a product or a piece of a product, and your work will typically involve fixing bugs, extending existing features and functionality, and/or adding new functionality to an already-built system.

I work in 2 projects, both are home brokers. Most of the solutions the company I work at creates is focused on the stock market. one project is a maintenance contract of a concluded home broker, and the other is a new home broker that is being built. Both from the same company, called Votorantim Corretora.

This is the project I work maintaining: https://www.sagaz.com.br/Default.aspx
it's also a home broker, but its kinda bad built, a lot of flaws, was made as a mix of MVC 2 and WebForms ( dont ask me whyl ).

The other home broker is not in production yet, still only in development, that one is nice, all MVC 3 razor, .net 4 and JQuery. There's a lot of work to do, a lot of calculations and etc, kinda complex to built, so its a hand full job

Apart from that I work as a Scrum Master as well, I got 2 teams I'm working with right now.

It's nice work and the company has a modern thinking, Its a very nice place to work at, been here for almost a year now =)

This post was edited by StormHasHe on Nov 12 2012 06:21am

I own my own web design and IT creative agency called Quality Projects Agency. We just started but the four of us have work done for worldwide known clients and half of us worked at google. I am currently planning to create the website for our company at www.qpa.co which is currently in development. So when i finish perhaps i will post it for others to critique or get ideas from.

Average earnings in 2010: $114,761
2011: $321,917
2012: $56,678 (looking at projects, school and other things)

Net income last year for the four of us: $672,415.97

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