{"id":3652,"date":"2020-01-06T17:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2020-01-06T17:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T21:55:01","slug":"day-in-the-life-senior-elearning-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/day-in-the-life-senior-elearning-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Day in the Life – Senior eLearning Developer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several years back, I was asked to share what a day in my life looks like, and I did<\/a>. However, it is still one of the most frequently asked questions I get, so I thought I’d share an update. I’m the Senior eLearning Developer at Traliant, where I spend my days building out different types of compliance training for various clients.<\/p>\n

I work remotely, and I love it. I have a cozy home office, a space heater, and all of my pets to keep me company!<\/p>\n

This time I’m sharing a Monday, which is one of my lighter meeting days. And wowee, it was a very productive Monday! Note:<\/strong> My days usually aren’t so translation heavy – a day like this happens every few months or so for me.<\/p>\n

630am – 8am<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wake up at 630am, hop in the shower, and sift through my emails, and respond to some, while I eat breakfast. Breakfast is a smoothie. At around 715am, I dry my hair, get dressed, and hop in the car to take my husband to work. I drop Joe off, spin by a cafe on the way home to grab a latte, and then I come home to get settled into work.<\/p>\n

8am – 930am<\/strong><\/p>\n

I fill all of my vessels (coffee, tea, water) and retreat to my office, where I get a jump on some translations before the rest of my team gets online. I manage to get through all of a French translation before hopping on a call with one of my coworkers.<\/p>\n

We catch one another up on our weekends, talk about what we have to get done today, and then we get to work again.<\/p>\n

945am – 1230pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

I finish a Hungarian translation and start a Norwegian translation before our weekly team meeting (we meet daily, but have a larger one on Mondays).<\/p>\n

Our team runs through a deep dive of all the projects we’re working on and their statuses.<\/p>\n

1230pm – 1pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

I get Oliver (our dog) ready for his lunchtime walk. It’s quite cold and salty out today, so he concedes to his nemesis – the booties, and we’re off. Lucky for him, there’s a lot of fresh, fluffy snow to rub his snout and body all over…I plan for a longer walk for this reason, even though it only takes us half an hour!<\/p>\n

1pm – 230pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

I finish up with the Norwegian translation and start running through some test publishes for the next release of one of our courses. I come up with some findings, but they leave me with more questions than when I started. We’ll see what conclusions we reach tomorrow.<\/p>\n

230 – 345pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a couple of drag and drop interactions in the new release that I need to program, so I do that. Once I’m finished, I tackle my last translation for the day – Spanish. I upload the course file and send all published translations out for QA before heading out to pick Joe up from work.<\/p>\n

430pm\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I get back home, I fill out my planner with tomorrow’s tasks, and power down my office for the night.<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve wrapped my Traliant work for the day, I’m going to make some dinner and settle in for some work on my ATDTK 2020 sessions.<\/p>\n

Here’s a time-lapse of about 4 hours of work distilled into 5 minutes (don’t come for my posture…I KNOW!):<\/p>\n