Nice thought provoking presentation. I once billed 150 hours in a 7 day period, and they were honest hours, too. Since then I've stopped working and raised a daughter; and parenting was harder work than the insane "i have no life" schedule I used to push. Bit over a decade into the family thing, it's certainly more rewarding. Other people would find other choices rewarding and that's great too. We're all too apt to f…
>150 hours in a 7 day period Doing what? Just curious. I could only image doing something like that if the job was extremely lax - like a toll booth operator in a slow town, or something.
Was to be an integrated Web / IVR phone bot "hotel room reservation" thing built on like the second public release of Asterix; which I'd never heard of before (nor had anyone else).
Of course I later found out a cow orker had pocketed the majority of that money and never paid the first contractor for more than the mockup in the first place, something like 3 months ago.
They'd bought a domain name and begun planning this more than a year earlier. They'd printed 10,000 high grade outdoor signs which were to be the physical token of subscription to this service. Comes the day and the domain name has expired and been snapped up by someone else. So the launch was delayed by a week so they could print up stickers to put over the signs. In the 3 months the system was up, there were i think 5 attempts to use it.
The shafting I got on that one was a big inflection point for me, where it hit me that I wasn't using my time the way I intended, and I wasn't receiving enough reward to justify that. I wish I'd had the thought sooner.