>>61610433
I do contract computer engineering. Mostly I deal with startups who don't want to do that sort of stuff in-house. It depends on who is hiring me, but recently I have been contracted to do a shit load of IOT stuff, which ends up being a combo of hardware and software development.
My typical day is pretty boring. I wake up around 6:30am, take a shower, eat breakfast, etc. I do the daily "standup" with whatever team I am working with, which is basically a phone call and go over a digital scrum board and talk about what we are working on that day. Then I work for about 8 hours without breaking, and then eat dinner and watch anime and old movies until I get tired and go to bed. It is petty depressing, and I want to get back into systems administration, but the money here is really good at the moment.
pic related is my homelab in the next room because why not.