This is, fundamentally, an engineering problem. You need to pick a business that you can run within your time/financial/etc constraints and then design your work life to match that business. Substantially more thoughts: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-business-on-5-hours-a-week/ …https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/962083336460972032 …
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Some people say “Can’t be done!” for, I think, cultural/aesthetic reasons. They’re wrong, objectively, but I can appreciate that cultural reasons are, in fact, reasons. It is true; there are places which will look down on you if you successfully execute on balance.
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For what it’s worth, my work/life balance has bounced around *wildly* during my career: Salaryman: if you know this word you can guess BCC: I really am not lying about 5 hours a week Appointment Reminder years: bounced around; typical was 20 Consulting: 40-50 during engagements
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Starfighter: (due mostly to my own choices!) Long periods of pretty brutal crunch for me, with substantial valleys. Stripe: highly variable; working on making it less variable.
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Life circumstances also changed substantially over the years (marriage, kids), which give me a new set of constraints and also a subtly different set of motivations. I am definitely not the same utility function I was 10 years ago.
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Sounds like you're increasing your workload over time. Would you recommend that? Or starting off with long hours and reducing as you get older?
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The graph is much more complicated than “goes up over time.”
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