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This has worked for me. By dropping cable for netflix and hulu....I end up spending more time usefully.
Streaming only what you actually want to watch is a great way to limit the time you spend watching things, especially with Netflix as there is never anything you want to watch on it.
Now, seriously, I don't have large blocks of free time anymore. So I had to change tactics. In the morning, I wake up first, so I start boiling water for the coffe, turn on the PC and check emails/facebook on my phone. My wife wakes up, we eat, dress up our baby, and she leaves with him. Every other day I have 20 minutes of free time, that I use to code or play games. Then I read books on my commute, when she's breastfeeding I read documentation, new technologies, my rss, and late at night while she is taking a bath, I have 30 minutes of coding or gaming.
And that's it. The New Reality. 30, 50 minutes, interwoven with 5 minutes throught the day. But no worries... the life of a husband and a father is what I want. It's a matter of priorities.
Here are a few things I took into consideration when making this move:
1. My employers current codes of conduct contract prevented me from earning income elsewhere. Moving to 3 days a week allows me to both get clients and keep my current work relationship intact.
2. The last 30% of my income was taxed at the highest rate (Canadian tax). When I took the time to do the math, surprisingly it wasn't all that big of a hit (at least it's not for me).
3. Doing this removes any complications around code-ownership, copyrights or product rights.
Just another option to consider for those who are really serious about their start up, but can't find the time or money otherwise.
Married, two children. I find myself wishing the days lasted 36 hours instead of 24. :P I have a full time job as well and do not have the time for pet projects. After work I get home and have some family time until it's bed time. Then my wife watches some TV while I work for about 1 hour tops. As you know, 1 hour is NOTHING when developing. I take at least 45 minutes to get into a groove and ultimately I do nothing…
1 - Wait until they go to sleep. Usually 10pm. Con: Most of the time you are really tired by then. Most likely won't happen.
2 - Wake up really early. 5am.
Doing either of these means you need to sacrifice entertainment. I rarely have time for TV or video games anymore. Be warned single devs!
Married, two children. I find myself wishing the days lasted 36 hours instead of 24. :P I have a full time job as well and do not have the time for pet projects. After work I get home and have some family time until it's bed time. Then my wife watches some TV while I work for about 1 hour tops. As you know, 1 hour is NOTHING when developing. I take at least 45 minutes to get into a groove and ultimately I do nothing…
Single guy here, and no sorry we can't work until our eyes drop out of our heads. I think working long hours is just a result of training to that over the years, bit by bit and it just comes by practice. I have done that as a student and a good enough part of my working career.
But its not something that someone could do forever. I mean to say the only reason after all these years I can thing of is 'money'. If its not worth the money, I don't even bother. I am not ashamed or afraid to admit that. I am going close to 30's for heaven's sake. Soon there will be family, expenses and what not. I don't like working like a cubicle bound wage slave my whole life. No easy way to get out of all this without working hard.
I just wish I could work on something interesting projects in my spare time, and make some money out of it.
So no, being single or married doesn't make a difference. Although I know having a baby in the home does become demanding, I've had that experience before with my sisters kids.
Looks like most of my commits are 9pm on wednesday.
-Focus on one project at a time, picking the one most interesting rather than the potentially most profitable.
-I like the quote "a mountain is climbed one step at a time". Ambitious pet projects can be overwhelming, but small steps of progress eventually lead to the goal.
-Cut TV time, web time, facebook time and hacker news time.
-Some people get up early to work an hour to 1.5 hours every morning before ordinary life intrudes.
-If possible reduce commute, work remotely a day or two or go down in time permanently to a 4 or even 3 day work week, if financials allow.
-Real work can be done in 1.5 hours (agree 1 hour is often too little). Try and schedule uninterrupted blocks of time. Regular blocks of little time accumulate quickly.
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Serious question, not trolling. Why did you make the choice to have a family, then?
I too have a wife and two children and often feel the same as parent. The choice to get married (at 18) and have kids (first one at 20) was actually quite deliberate. We talked about whether we wanted to live it up now and do all the serious stuff like having kids later in life ... or get the kids out of the way then while we have energy and save our "golden years" for traveling the world, or generally doing whatever…