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Ask HN: Taking on Too Many Projects?
Hey guys,
So I'm one of those people who loves to join a great project or be involved in what I think will be a success.
But I already have a full time job and a part time blogging job, in addition to trying tofinish a major project (a fiction novel). A few weeks ago, I joined up with another start-up as a contractor for web-related work, and my work's been adequate, but nowhere near what I could do if I had full bandwidth. I find myself dragging my feet because, perhaps I'm just working too much.
When is a project one too many? Should I be more focused ona few specific things, or are there things you do to make sure you put 100% in all of your projects?
- Ben
- noodle 18y ago"When is a project one too many?" when you feel the other projects you do are suffering because of the latest project you just took on. you don't want, for one reason or another, one project to ruin some/all of the others. in your case, this sounds like what might be happening.
- akronim 18y agoIf you have 6 one month projects, you could either deliver all at the end of six months, or concentrate on one at a time. The total work is the same, but the average delivery is earlier. And you alleviate the risk of never actually delivering anything. Your job you probably need to keep. Can you split up the novel, the contracting etc into projects & features and tasks - deliverables - in those? Rather than spending a few hours on one, then a few hours on another, just focus on one project or feature at a time and keep going till you deliver it.
- curiousgeorge 18y agoAs long as the new stuff displaces less important and interesting projects, don't worry about it.