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This is shocking! You spend about $700 a month just to be woken up? I can’t get my head round this at all.

by GEBBL 6y ago

netsharc 6y ago
I've wanted to wake up at 5AM for the last... maybe 5 years, so I could do side projects before work; but I've always ended up waking up at the latest time where I can shower, get dressed and take the bus to work so I'm not late to the daily status meeting. Being able to have that 3 more hours every day is probably worth some money. Although 5 years of that service (let's say minus the time I'd be on vacation) is about $40000...
- abiogenesis 6y ago
  Make a baby, or adopt. Much cheaper way to wake up early.
  - abalashov 6y ago
    And, as I’ve learnt, a much more expensive way to do anything else whatsoever. :-)
  - ghostbrainalpha 6y ago
    But defeats the purpose of having MORE time for a side project. Babies are the side project destroyers.
DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
Probably closer to $1000/mo, actually. But as I said - it literally pays for itself: say my time is worth $100/hr[1] and paid on an IRS 1099 schedule - so it’s a deductible expense. The extra 3-4 hours it gets me ($300-400) is worth the $35 opportunity cost, because that’s $5,000+ extra monthly income - so minus the $1000 as a pre-tax deductible business expense then that’s $4000 I wouldn’t have had otherwise. Spreadsheets don’t lie! Even if I was paid on a W-2 basis, I could probably pay for it using pre-tax money from my HSA - though that would sap all of my HSA contributions though. [1]: Why yes, I do live on the US west-coast.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  1) Fascinating. 2) You could probably get a movie deal.
  - DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
    > You could probably get a movie deal I imagine a film about kind middle-aged ladies bringing coffee to a young, possibly hungover, technology worker who suffocates on his own pillow at night would not make for good entertainment.
    - koolba 6y ago
      Or it’d be a hit. Could probably frame it as a remake of As Good As It Gets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets
      - rmason 6y ago
        I could see the guy falling for one of the ladies who wake him up. Quirky but it might be a romcom that could work.
    - ponker 6y ago
      I see you’re not a screenwriter. As Good as it Gets, Harold and Maude, etc.
- treeman79 6y ago
  Have considered hiring someone to sit behind me, just to keep me on task. Adderal did a great job “teaching” me to stay on task. I do alright without it now, but energy level is just too low. Diet definitely makes a huge difference. Carbs are evil. Audio books for when I need to do chores.
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This is shocking! You spend about $700 a month just to be woken up? I can’t get my head round this at all.

by GEBBL 6y ago

This is shocking! You spend about $700 a month just to be woken up? I can’t get my head round this at all.

I've wanted to wake up at 5AM for the last... maybe 5 years, so I could do side projects before work; but I've always ended up waking up at the latest time where I can shower, get dressed and take the bus to work so I'm not late to the daily status meeting. Being able to have that 3 more hours every day is probably worth some money. Although 5 years of that service (let's say minus the time I'd be on vacation) is about $40000...

abiogenesis 6y ago
Make a baby, or adopt. Much cheaper way to wake up early.
- abalashov 6y ago
  And, as I’ve learnt, a much more expensive way to do anything else whatsoever. :-)
- ghostbrainalpha 6y ago
  But defeats the purpose of having MORE time for a side project. Babies are the side project destroyers.

DaiPlusPlus 6y ago

Probably closer to $1000/mo, actually. But as I said - it literally pays for itself: say my time is worth $100/hr[1] and paid on an IRS 1099 schedule - so it’s a deductible expense. The extra 3-4 hours it gets me ($300-400) is worth the $35 opportunity cost, because that’s $5,000+ extra monthly income - so minus the $1000 as a pre-tax deductible business expense then that’s $4000 I wouldn’t have had otherwise. Spreadsheets don’t lie! Even if I was paid on a W-2 basis, I could probably pay for it using pre-tax money from my HSA - though that would sap all of my HSA contributions though. [1]: Why yes, I do live on the US west-coast.

redis_mlc 6y ago
1) Fascinating. 2) You could probably get a movie deal.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
  > You could probably get a movie deal I imagine a film about kind middle-aged ladies bringing coffee to a young, possibly hungover, technology worker who suffocates on his own pillow at night would not make for good entertainment.
  - koolba 6y ago
    Or it’d be a hit. Could probably frame it as a remake of As Good As It Gets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_It_Gets
    - rmason 6y ago
      I could see the guy falling for one of the ladies who wake him up. Quirky but it might be a romcom that could work.
  - ponker 6y ago
    I see you’re not a screenwriter. As Good as it Gets, Harold and Maude, etc.
treeman79 6y ago
Have considered hiring someone to sit behind me, just to keep me on task. Adderal did a great job “teaching” me to stay on task. I do alright without it now, but energy level is just too low. Diet definitely makes a huge difference. Carbs are evil. Audio books for when I need to do chores.

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