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Once you identify and remove the time-wasters, it gets easier to make time for other stuff, and I still get away with spending time with friends and some tv here and there.
If you do not have kids - I really do not see how you can say you do not have time for side projects. I live in manhattan, work between 50-70 hours per week, have a girlfriend, exercise 5 days a week for 1 hour, drink a lot, and watch some tv (HBO only), and have multiple side projects. Here is what I do not do: watch sports (huge time suck), watch TV (unless im programming at the same time), commute to work (5 minut…
Do you mean all sports? Or maybe Baseball, Basketball, and/or hockey? Since those sports have multiple games during the week, they can be a time suck. For hockey, I generally only watch Hockey Night in Canada on CBC (assuming I can find a bar that will put in on). For basketball, I generally only watch the 4th period during regular season (they don't start playing till the 4th). Baseball I don't watch on TV because they only show the pitcher and batter, and all the other cool parts aren't shown. But football isn't a time suck at all unless you are trying to watch EVERY game on Sunday. But even when I go on binges of watching every game on Sunday, I still make time for my side projects.
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What takes up the majority of the time in your day? Try these: * Sleep one hour less a night. * Don't drink alcohol. * Prepare all food for the week in advance. * Cut down your time from awake to shaved, showered, dressed to 15 minutes. * Work less at your day job.
* Sleeping less than the norm makes you stupid, I try to avoid this. * I don't drink alcohol at all. * Nice idea about food, which I mostly follow. Not all food can stay palatable for a week, though. * Faster startup is a nice idea, too. * Working less on my day job would be nice, but probably my employer won't be happy. I'm not overworking.
I made the decision not to get married or have children so that I would have time for side projects. Unfortunately, single people are often expected to stay later to enable those with family obligations to leave earlier.
"do minimum at work, you don't need to actually do more than that"
it frees your brain to work on the side stuff. its not just time that is needed. many of us keep working and thinking about work even when they're not technically "at work", for hours. Or the "i really should have this finished".
Nope, you don't.
I can tell you how I do it, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend my path to anyone else. I'm not even 100% sure I'd recommend it to a younger version of myself, although I'm also not sure I'd recommend against it either. Basically, I'm single and childless, and darn close to my every free minute goes into the startup project. When I was working full-time, that meant "after work" M-F and the majority of my Sat and Sun…
You just might be successful in your startup, but what is that worth if there is nothing else in your life, and no one to share it with?
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I dont know if I buy it completely. When you have a full time job and 4 kids you dont play video games, watch tv, etc... you just constantly do things that have to be done. Either his kids are older or he has someone else doing most of the parent work.
Either his kids are older or he has someone else doing most of the parent work. I have a full time job (40 hours per week), 3 kids under 10 and a side consulting job that takes from 15 to 20 hours per week where I make about an extra $80k per year on top of my full time gig. I also take my 3 kids to their basketball games, karate, cheerleading, baseball, soccer, lego mindstorms club, etc and help them practice each o…
20h kid time a week. Not too shabby.
Now i need this 20h a week 80k a year consulting gig of yours.
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Link might not be relevant for me, only been doing OT for a couple months, before that had an EMG done and nerve damage was shown to exist. Yeah, I had multiple EMGs done on both hands. Nerve damage in both. You know when you're doing an EMG and it is supposed to raise up super fast and then drop down super fast in a very thin inverted V? Well mine was a plateau of a couple inches wide, that's how much nerve damage I…
Eating two pieces of toast for breakfast is no way to live. Eating them while driving and you've given up.
I feel a Neil Stephenson level discursive diversion coming on, complete with descriptions of the proper feel of toast on the roof of the mouth as the butter softens, but doesn't eliminate the sharp pointy bits, but it's late, and I should be paying attention to my wife while the kids manage to sleep.
(((Thank gnu that the kids sleep now. 7 years of one of them waking up every. single. night. gets very old. )))
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I dont know if I buy it completely. When you have a full time job and 4 kids you dont play video games, watch tv, etc... you just constantly do things that have to be done. Either his kids are older or he has someone else doing most of the parent work.
Either his kids are older or he has someone else doing most of the parent work. I have a full time job (40 hours per week), 3 kids under 10 and a side consulting job that takes from 15 to 20 hours per week where I make about an extra $80k per year on top of my full time gig. I also take my 3 kids to their basketball games, karate, cheerleading, baseball, soccer, lego mindstorms club, etc and help them practice each o…
I think that's a little bit different (at least in my experience) to working on a side-project where you have your own deadlines (and can thus break them), having little guarantee of making anything for your time, and can more easily make the decision to rest one night when you're exhausted rather than keep pushing forward with the uncertainty.