Comments on: Freelance Evenings and Weekends

By: Who Keeps You in Check? || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Who Keeps You in Check? || Beyond the Rhetoric || — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:30:35 +0000

[...] perfectly acceptable to take well-deserved breaks. She tells me that I can choose not to work on evening and weekends. If it wasn’t for her, my freelance business would not be where it is today and I [...]

By: What’s Up Wednesdays: Dot Com Lifestyle || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:14:32 +0000

[...] Some of them explain how they got there, others explain how they would define the dot com lifestyle. For me, the biggest appeal to the dot com lifestyle is the relative freedom to embark on excursions like the Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival. It’s not really about making loads of money. It’s more about the relative “time freedom” that is afforded by working at home and not being bound to conventional working hours. [...]

By: Building a Strong Work Ethic || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Building a Strong Work Ethic || Beyond the Rhetoric || — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:26:15 +0000

[...] having a strong work ethic is conducive to a career in freelance writing. I’m known to work evenings and weekends. I’m known to go beyond the call of duty. It’s also because of this work ethic, [...]

By: Deborah

Deborah — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:32:32 +0000

I was trying to compare my corporate life to that of Office Space, but my fiance just didn’t get it. I’m going to have to rent the movie for him to see.

There is a misconception as far as freedom is concerned. Fortunately, when working for yourself you are only responsible for cleaning up your own messes!

By: betshopboy

betshopboy — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:49:31 +0000

I happened to believe that life is also about stopping to smell the roses, watching the children grow up, enjoying nature, and creating lasting memories with our love ones.

There are only 8760 hours in a year and taking away 1/3 of those as sleeping time will leave us with 5840 waking hours. If you work 100 hours per week, you would have worked 5200 hours a year. That only leaves you with 640 hours/year or 1.75 hours/day to spend time with the family, celebrate birthdays with the kids, watch junior’s first baseball game, run personal errands, not to mention spending quality time with your partner.

But if working 100 hours week makes you feel happy and improved, then well and good, it’s your life, your prerogative.

By: Maria Palma

Maria Palma — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:31:35 +0000

I tend to work "conventional" hours too, but on the weekends I do like to get out and just live ordinary life and hang out with friends and family. However, I do a little bit of work... I did take inventory of my work hours just to see what I was spending the most time on and if I needed to cut anywhere.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:18:49 +0000

I work 2 hours on saturday and 1 on sunday. Sort of…

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:16:27 +0000

Office Space rocks! Yeah, I have a similar issue as a teacher. I have papers to grade and lessons to prepare so I have to manage my time carefully. Nice post, thanks for the thought.

By: Conservatives and Normals

Conservatives and Normals — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:34:25 +0000

I work a full time job, and work many hours “after hours” taking care of my customers. Oh, and then there’s the website I’ve been building… working almost every other waking hour for the last 5 months just to get started.

I believe life is about constantly improving yourself. If you work 100 hours a week constantly improving yourself, you’ll be rich and happy, and the time you spend improving yourself won’t seem like work. No matter how long it takes, always work at what makes you happy.