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I have two young kids, one 2.5 years and one 10 months. I have a full-time job and a lawn that needs to be mowed every week. My wife and I split childcare and h
by moron4hire 8y ago
I have two young kids, one 2.5 years and one 10 months. I have a full-time job and a lawn that needs to be mowed every week. My wife and I split childcare and house chores pretty evenly. I still manage to work out 2 or 3 times a week, run semiweekly meetup, and work on a side project or three, and get a full 8 hours of sleep every night.
What I don't do is hang out in bars or watch sports on TV. You have a lot more time per week than you think.
- gameswithgo 8y agogood for you, not everyone is going to be lucky and have it easy, a lot of us suffer.
- moron4hire 8y agoIf you are a single parent or have a deadbeat spouse or need to work two jobs on your own or have special needs children, yeah, that's a whole other ball of wax. But what I'm trying to say is, this standard narrative that "having children is the death of side projects", without any other qualifier, is a woefully tired story that is really nothing but projecting one's own inability to be disciplined in their work on one's children, the people with the least agency in their lives.