diff --git a/_posts/2011-07-01-work-life-balance.markdown b/_posts/2011-07-01-work-life-balance.markdown deleted file mode 100644 index a83cfc7..0000000 --- a/_posts/2011-07-01-work-life-balance.markdown +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ ---- -layout: post -title: "On work-life balance" -date: 2011-07-01 -permalink: /on-work-life-balance/ -categories: ['Musings'] ---- - -I often find myself thinking that I work too many hours. And when I’m not actually at work, I am often thinking and worrying about work. In large part it’s my own fault because I’m a naturally anxious person who doesn’t have much of an “off” setting, but part of the blame has got to be placed on the high-pressure environment that exists when you work at a startup that’s growing by leaps and bounds. - - -A typical day looks like this for me: - -5:30 – 6:00am: Wake up. I don’t need to wake up this early but I am naturally awake by this hour, so I get up. I’m one of those weird people that doesn’t need an alarm clock to wake up, obviously. - -6:00 – 8:45: Have breakfast/get ready for the day and work on my own projects. I get a surprising amount of work done in the early morning hours of each day! The work varies from [knitting on a new design](http://chiagu.com/) to posting on my various blogs to coding on a side project. - -9:00am – 7:00pm (or later): Work. It’s very rare for me to leave the office before 7pm, and quite common to stay way later. If we’re working on a big launch, many of us end up working straight through the weekends doing 10-hour-days every day for a month! It’s exhausting. - -7:30pm-11:30pm: This is the part of the day that varies the most. Some of the more frequent options: - -* a date -* a tech meetup -* knit with the girls out in Queens -* go straight home and [cook something complicated and then blog about it](http://achefsdaughter.com/) -* go straight home to code on a project -* go straight home to read, and sometimes the reading isn’t about tech. I’m currently reading a book about the [psychological sources of chronic back pain](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446557684/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=p-e-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0446557684). If you’re part of the majority of the population that has back pain (or actually any other chronic pain), you should read this book. It’s only $7 on Kindle! Speaking of which, I love my kindle-for-iPad app. -* sometimes work people go out and get drunk together (we spend way too much time with each other considering how often we hang out outside of work!). -I’m pretty much always in bed by 11:30pm, and sometimes way earlier (I’ve been known to get in bed as early as 9pm if I’m particularly fried from work). - -Reading back through this post, I think one thing is abuntantly clear: - -###My life is mostly about work right now. - -And that’s (mostly) ok for right now. If I ever get married again and have a family, a typical day in my life will look very different than it does right now . . . but there’s no point worrying about that at the moment. - -This post was inspired by [Sara Chipps’ post on what a day looks like for her as a freelance developer](http://sarajchipps.com/post/55986321217/the-work-life-balance-of-an-independent-software) \ No newline at end of file