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Re: Ask Founders: What does your work schedule look like?

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Post by robodale » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 5:52 PM UTC

vincie wrote: post #8

For me, I cannot yet quit my day job. So everything is done through Basecamp. There are three people in the team. I am the developer. We have discussions, work out a to-do and post it on the calendar. When I come home from work I work on the to-do. I do this from ~6pm to ~10pm, 4 days a week. I work as a developer at my day job up to 10 hours a day. When I get home I can barely look at the screen I am so tired. This…

You better hope there is a market for your app/SaaS/whatever when you finally release...just saying.

Re: Ask Founders: What does your work schedule look like?

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Post by waivej » Tue, Oct 29, 2013, 8:04 PM UTC

I try to work no more than 9 hours per day 5 days per week. I schedule blocks of time on Google calendar and try to be super productive during those blocks and track the results week to week. (Pomodoro technique, phone won't ring before 11, etc.)

Usually this means 8-5 with a "go to bed" alarm set 9 hours before I want to wake up.

It's a daily struggle, but I feel like keeping the balance of time on projects is key. It's easy for me to fall into a rut and work on one area and neglect others.

Re: Ask Founders: What does your work schedule look like?

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Post by shawnreilly » Fri, Nov 01, 2013, 9:25 PM UTC

I have two alternating schedules because I work an Industry Job in addition to my Project(s). The first half of the week (3-4 days alternating) is dedicated to my Project(s). I work 10 Hour Days from Home, Lunch Break and all. The last half of the week (3-4 days alternating) I work my Industry Job, 12 Hour Shifts (Network Engineer) from 6am to 6pm. I'll usually work an additional 2 Hours on my Project(s) when I get home. So I'm looking at around 82-86 Hours a Week. Pretty wild schedule. I'm moving to San Jose soon so this will all change (finding a new Industry Job and hopefully finding success with some of these Projects)