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Ask Founders: What does your work schedule look like?
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#4From pg's Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule:
When we were working on our own startup, back in the 90s, I evolved another trick for partitioning the day. I used to program from dinner till about 3 am every day, because at night no one could interrupt me. Then I'd sleep till about 11 am, and come in and work until dinner on what I called "business stuff."
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#57 days a week, 12 hours a day. Every other I take a trip (but still bring along needed tech)
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#6For me, it is 6 days per week, starting promptly at 7, ending between 6pm and 11 pm. I found that getting in early I can get organized and drive through priorities easier. The first two hours are golden, where I am fresh and focused. I also found after my first startup that regular, patterned, reliable sleep is incredibly important for your brain and mood. Mood being the biggest surprise, it matters a lot to the people you work with and customers that you're not a jerk. Go figure.
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#7For me, it is 6 days per week, starting promptly at 7, ending between 6pm and 11 pm. I found that getting in early I can get organized and drive through priorities easier. The first two hours are golden, where I am fresh and focused. I also found after my first startup that regular, patterned, reliable sleep is incredibly important for your brain and mood. Mood being the biggest surprise, it matters a lot to the peop…
Also having at least one day off has helped me keep my friends, some sanity, my hair, and my wife.
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#8For 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 start-up thing is no fun.
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#9I try to keep a normal 9-5 work schedule since keeping such a schedule is overall more productive for me. Sometimes I work on the weekend but usually just one day unless there is some big deadline. I sometimes go in early like 7am too (I am a morning person).
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#10I tried all sorts of schedules, time blocking, pomodoro, late, early, long hours, short hours, seven days a week, five days a week, etc.
Seven years in, I ended up here: working each day, working ONLY when I feel motivated, studying quite a bit, and not worrying about the hours. I instead focus on deliverables, being happy/healthy, etc. Oddly enough, I end up getting more done than when I forced 10/12 hour days of solid work. When I would force 70+ hour weeks, for years at a time, it was terribly draining. When I only work when I want, I actually still end up working roughly 60 hours (I like it, it is fun). However, each day seems like a vacation. Want to do some open source? Do it. Want to goof off for a while? Do it. Want to get some work done? Do it.
Works for me at least. I'll do the same routine when I am "retired". :)