I ended up catching Covid a few months before the vaccines were available. I had a very easy time of it. Basically felt like a bad cold, but the symptoms were mostly mitigated with OTC meds. I did run a fever for ~36 hours, and basically felt like crap for a couple days. Blessedly, I’ve been WFH since the beginning of the pandemic and was able to run at about half productivity for those days.
Both of my Moderna vaccines were about the same, with about a 12 hour crappy feeling. I was able to do my first on a Friday at 4PM, so I spent Saturday feeling achy and tired, but not too bad. The other sucked a touch more as it was on a weekday so I was about the same half-productive the next day, but no further issues.
I’m 100% going to get a booster when It makes sense, but would honestly be OK with sending those doses to another country or region that hasn’t had the chance to get any vaccine yet.