I'm working on a startup and working 80+ hrs per week..
Poll: How many hours do you work a week?
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#32My own experience is that above 50 hours you start destructing value, not creating some. Examples: writing code filled of bugs you have to fix later, getting upset on a problem you cannot find a solution for while you could be resting, taking the wrong decision, being cranky, etc. Agreed, sometimes you have to go beyond the limit, but it's not sustainable.
I only agree with you if you so the same work for those 50 hours. If you work for 80, but this is split between marketing, coding, networking and strategy then its not the same thing.
When I'm feeling the pressure, I just switch to another role.
Re: Poll: How many hours do you work a week?
#33My own experience is that above 50 hours you start destructing value, not creating some. Examples: writing code filled of bugs you have to fix later, getting upset on a problem you cannot find a solution for while you could be resting, taking the wrong decision, being cranky, etc. Agreed, sometimes you have to go beyond the limit, but it's not sustainable.
I only agree with you if you so the same work for those 50 hours. If you work for 80, but this is split between marketing, coding, networking and strategy then its not the same thing. When I'm feeling the pressure, I just switch to another role.
I see what you mean, but 80 hours means more than 11 / day without any rest. Not sustainable.
Try doing smaller weeks, you might be surprised by the result.
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#3425-30 consulting, 5-15 open source, 5-15 skill maintenance/hacker news/researching/learning
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only agree with you if you so the same work for those 50 hours. If you work for 80, but this is split between marketing, coding, networking and strategy then its not the same thing. When I'm feeling the pressure, I just switch to another role.
I see what you mean, but 80 hours means more than 11 / day without any rest. Not sustainable. Try doing smaller weeks, you might be surprised by the result.
Like that idea, but I'm working a day job and then my business. Not sure I can !
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#36Generally speaking, I do less than 20 hours of paid client work per week. On the other hand, I spend a significant amount of time reading CS material and working on personal projects.
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#37Since I quit my job I've been working more than twice as much and loving it (on my startup). I ran into a problem after about two weeks with my eye twitching from too much screen time but took a week vacation and have been fine the two months since. I now sit by a window so I occasionally glance out and exercise my eye focus muscles.
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#38I just pulled up the last year's worth of consulting invoices and yes, it looks like I managed to bill an entire 40 hours once in the last 52 weeks.
I have a personal policy of only billing for the time I'm creating value. So if I boot up, fire up the IDE, sip my coffee, pull up a bug report, then proceed to browse f'ng Hacker News for 2 hours, I don't charge my time. Similarly, if I notice by lunchtime that I'm just plain not smart enough to program computers for money today, I'll stop the clock and go climbing or something.
So yeah, I bill 20-30 hours each week, but they're good hours. Back in my salaried days I'd often find my butt in the Aeron for a good 60 hours a week, much of which was spent debating where to go for lunch, reading the internet, and maintaining the corporate HalfLife server. I doubt I got any more productive hours in then than I do now.
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#39I put 40-50 hours as real client work + essential other activities (finances, website work, etc) but in reality as a small business starting out I never stop thinking about what next to do with my company.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see what you mean, but 80 hours means more than 11 / day without any rest. Not sustainable. Try doing smaller weeks, you might be surprised by the result.
Like that idea, but I'm working a day job and then my business. Not sure I can !
Your body and psyche don't care what sort of excuses or goals you have for it.