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Some options: * Negotiate shorter workweek at your current job. Many people have successfully done this to reduce workweek. * Become a consultant or contracto
by itamarst 9y ago
Some options:
* Negotiate shorter workweek at your current job. Many people have successfully done this to reduce workweek.
* Become a consultant or contractor. If you do it right (and that's hard!) you can work shorter workweek. Or you can do OK and work shorter workweek and make less money.
* Negotiate shorter workweek at new job. This is much harder, but doable.
In my case, I was a consultant, got part time job with one of my consulting clients, then negotiated short workweek at new job. First two (consulting, first job) were <30 hours a week (when I started, at least), second job was 35 hour workweek.
(Also, every once in a while I've seen part time jobs advertised.)
Talk a bit more about this here (https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/ https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/), and a lot more in book which will be available as soon as I write the sales page (sign up at that page to hear about it).
- davelnewton 9y agoStep 2 is a bit South Park.
- itamarst 9y agoShould've been separate bullet points, not ordered bullet points. Fixed.
- bholabalak 9y agoSorry, didn't get the reference.
- jaredsohn 9y agohttp://knowyourmeme.com/memes/profit http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/profit (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zc4bGkU05o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zc4bGkU05o) This was also popular in Slashdot comments.
- shortoncash 9y agoI have the exact same experience. Adding a comment to add support to this approach.
- bholabalak 9y agoThanksMy company is not very strict about work hours, as in, you can decide to come and leave at your own timings but everyone stays pretty much 8 hours a day as a norm. My fear is that I will be seen as someone who doesn't want to do work if I leave early, but as other comments have suggested if I keep the expectations from me clear and deliver, reducing work hours shouldn't be an issue. If they see that I can do the work in only 5 hours a day, I fear they will increase the work I have. Does this usually happen? I'm a fresh grad so don't have much experience about how things work in the industry.
- shortoncash 9y agoDepends on your manager. If he thinks your work is great and it's solid for 5 hours, he might let you get away with it. If he's a hard-A or has pressure of his own to get serious deadlines, he'll give you more work. Depends on what his motivations are. It all depends on where he sees you fitting in achieving his objectives. If you're non-critical and on the side, it might not matter as much to him.
- itamarst 9y agoThis is not stuff you can do as a fresh grad, typically. Don't try this until you've been around long enough to demonstrate how much work you do and it's clear your boss trusts you. And even then probably really hard to do without a lot of experience.