I love working for myself and working from home. The amount of freedom and flexibility is surreal. This makes me not ever want to go back to a 9 to 5 (or 6, or 7, or 10) job ever again. But it does have its trade offs.
I’ve been working pretty feverishly on Neely’s digital signage project for a while. But it seems to take forever to get something done nowadays. Compared to some of my previous code-heavy projects, this is really taking a long time! And the only difference I’ve noticed is — Bryan’s age.
Before Bryan walked and talked, everything was simple then. Grace was able to handle most of Bryan’s needs. But now that Bryan’s almost 2.5 years old, the amount of attention required to satisfy his needs is amazingly time consuming. So what used to take me to finish a block of code before will now triple in time and effort just to get things moving along in the presence of Bryan. And when he does go to bed, I also need to wind down before I could get in the “zone” to get things going.
For the past few days, I’ve been going to bed at 10AM (after working through the night). Before that, my effective work hours have been between 2AM to 6AM. Yes, it’s only four hours, but boy, when nobody is around to bug you, things get done!
This is probably good when the new baby finally arrives because that’d make me the de facto night-shift guard. But wait, that’ll mean it’d take me even longer to get shit done even during my “alone time”… Oh crap!