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Trying out entrepreneurship for the first time, and looking at my coding activity tracker I put in around 7-9 hours of coding, with perhaps 1-2 hours on top for non coding activities, each day. I usually take a day off each week with little to no work.
Remember to flip that around when you reach MVP.
So I probably only work around 1-2 days a week right now, if that. It's not healthy. I have a full time job paying 100k as well as an "on the side" freelance gig paying between 4 and 5k a month. I don't feel guilty as I feel I am still delivering "enough". Will it last forever? Probably not. Will I get more into it? Hopefully.
Been in the industry for 20 years, I should be able to retire before AI becomes even a close threat to me.
Not effected by layoffs - my company mostly runs of government money which appears to still be flowing.
Ai has saved me very little time so far. It's probably cost me work time as I ask it more non-work related stuff.
In the past few years I have taken substantial steps to reduce the amount of "work" I do and increase leisure time. It is what it is, I'm not here to toil my life away.
As an entrepreneur who mostly works independently, my work-life balance isn't the typical 9-to-5 setup. Instead, it's more like a "vertical" balance on a calendar, where I work intensely for 3-6 months (roughly 12 hours a day, no weekends, and minimal social life) and then take an equal amount of time off to relax and recharge. I often think of it as a sailor's lifestyle - you head out to sea for a while, where the w…
As an entrepreneur who mostly works independently, my work-life balance isn't the typical 9-to-5 setup. Instead, it's more like a "vertical" balance on a calendar, where I work intensely for 3-6 months (roughly 12 hours a day, no weekends, and minimal social life) and then take an equal amount of time off to relax and recharge. I often think of it as a sailor's lifestyle - you head out to sea for a while, where the w…
I work a regular 9to5 and want to switch to a similar schedule (basically work during the winter and then take every summer off). Sounds nice in theory but I wonder what it actually feels like.
As an entrepreneur who mostly works independently, my work-life balance isn't the typical 9-to-5 setup. Instead, it's more like a "vertical" balance on a calendar, where I work intensely for 3-6 months (roughly 12 hours a day, no weekends, and minimal social life) and then take an equal amount of time off to relax and recharge. I often think of it as a sailor's lifestyle - you head out to sea for a while, where the w…
Do you like that "vertical balance" or is it just something you "fell into"?
When I took up a project, I knew I had a limited amount of time before my body says it needs a serious break, and before I lose interest in a subject.
Since I got meds, 6 years ago, I can finally focus whenever I want to, and I experiment more with 9 to 5 kind of work. But I still find it less appealing - very difficult to do seriously deep work this way. If I find something I'm passionate about, I tend to focus all my attention on it.
The biggest challenge is that it's almost impossible to build a real startup this way. And with age, it's more difficult to find people to work with. When both me and my peers were students, it was ok for all of us to just skip school or live off savings for a while and build cool stuff. Now, most people my age have regular jobs and families, so they won't take 3-6 months off to build something cool.
As an entrepreneur who mostly works independently, my work-life balance isn't the typical 9-to-5 setup. Instead, it's more like a "vertical" balance on a calendar, where I work intensely for 3-6 months (roughly 12 hours a day, no weekends, and minimal social life) and then take an equal amount of time off to relax and recharge. I often think of it as a sailor's lifestyle - you head out to sea for a while, where the w…
Would you mind expanding more on your experience? Which type of projects do you work on? What do you do during your time off? How are you doing financially? I work a regular 9to5 and want to switch to a similar schedule (basically work during the winter and then take every summer off). Sounds nice in theory but I wonder what it actually feels like.
There is that saying - "If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together" - and it's very much true in terms of this work/lifestyle.
As for types of projects - over the last ~15 years, I've built probably 15 projects ;) Some freelance work at the beginning, then mobile apps around 2012, then I built AppCodes (which was covered by TC, and landed a few times on the HN top page), and I got into crypto very early on, building a few projects in that space (Eveem.org being the most successful and impactful - the page looks like crap, but it did serious waves in the Ethereum community :) ).
Financially - since 32 years old, extremely well, I could retire if I wanted to. But that's mostly because I got into Bitcoin, and then Ethereum very early on.
If not for crypto, AppCodes - a saas for iPhone devs - kept earning me a stable income that I could live off, for 8 years straight (right now the site is still up, but I don't charge people, and it's not working any more really). I think I could earn more off it, and for many more years, if I wanted to. Besides AppCodes, I could monetize Eveem.org extremely easy - it just isn't a priority now.
And besides AppCodes and Eveem, since I did so much stuff with various techs and business, I can charge easily for workshops, or trainings. I do paid gigs once a year, but more for fun than for money :)
I also keep rejecting job offers all the time - the amounts people offer me keep getting higher every year, so I guess that's an objective value of my competencies - more than winning the bet on crypto :D