An average day for a developer advocate

Tim Berglund: My answer will be colored by the fact that I'm a leader of a developer relations team, so an individual contributor would have a slightly different answer.

On the road, I can be speaking at a conference during the day or traveling to a conference in the evening. There are meetings with people too. Those people might work with completely different tech or they might be people in my tech community who I'm catching up with. Maybe we're only going to see each other twice this year, so I have a lot of relationship maintenance to do in a short time.

At the same time, I still need to be on certain calls. I also need to attend to emails and Slack. Being on the road doesn't mean that office life stops. Since I'm the leader of a team, those management responsibilities don't go away.

At home, it will again be email, Slack, or phone calls that dominate my day. Every once in a while, I&apos...