Joachim Christensen

7.00 AM

On this Thursday, like most Thursdays, I get up around 7:00 am to make myself a full pot of coffee, knowing that I’ll be spending time seconded to the Kāinga Ora office.

I head out the door at 7:30 and walk through town to be at their offices by 8:00. Because they hot-desk there, I always sit at the window whenever I can so I can work with a view of the harbour.

The work I do at Kāinga Ora is for their Retrofit Program, and I spend most of every Thursday morning preparing for the weekly meetings we have with one of the contractors we’re partnered with.

The prep involves consolidating all outstanding tasks and required pieces of information to hopefully get a swift close-out of these items while everyone is together at these meetings.

12.00 PM

These meetings wrap up around lunchtime, and I had a scheduled fortnightly catch-up with my manager, so he and I went out to a spot by the water to have a quick kōrero with a bite to eat. These chats could be about many things, whether it be project-related and career paths, or out-of-work and personal-life stuff, like about the music festival I was going to that weekend!

2.00 PM

Following lunch, my manager and I headed back to the Frequency office from Kāinga Ora. Once again, I sat myself by the window so that I could work with a view, this time more of the city than the sea.

After a bit more work, actioning off any of the things noted from the morning meetings, I sat down with a few of our Wellington office for a bit of afternoon tea. We’d normally spend this time doing the Stuff quizzes, and we’d even managed to get 15 out of 15 that day (unfortunately this is a bit of a rarity and was in fact our first perfect score).

5.00 PM

Once that’s all done, there was just a couple more hours of work, and it was then time to head home at 5pm.

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