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Hey!
Hey mate! Are you Canadian?
I am! From Quebec.
Oh, Quebec, that's very nice. So what does a normal day look like for you in Québec?
Hmm, depends if we’re talking a summer or winter day haha. There’s like a 50°C+ differential, so it tends to heavily dictate what we’re doing outside work/home/errands haha.
Ahh, so what are you typically doing on a summer day when you're not at work?
In the summer, on weekends, there’s a good chance I’ll have woken up early for a golf round, then spent some time with the wife and kids doing whatever.
Okay, what about on weekdays, when you have to go to work? What do you do?
I live in the middle of corn fields and hour out of the largest city in the province. I work from home on most days, and take the train to the office downtown a couple of days a month. I’m a tech lead in insurance, somewhat in between management and programming.