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I agree and if I figured out how to make a comfortable living working 30 or fewer hours a week I'm sure as hell not telling this lot.
by KevinEldon 14y ago
I agree and if I figured out how to make a comfortable living working 30 or fewer hours a week I'm sure as hell not telling this lot.
- qq66 14y agoI know several people who make a comfortable living working under 10 hours a week. They've done two things: created a self-sustaining business with regularly paying customers, and adjusted their living situation to minimize expenses, by moving to low-cost-of-living areas, eating at home, and making use of the extra time so that it feels worth it.
- KevinEldon 14y agoSorry if my terse reply wasn't clear. My point wasn't that it could not be done, but rather that if I did it I probably wouldn't share it with a highly motivated, exceptionally creative, and motivated community. Competition isn't a bad thing, but advertising "hey I've got a good market come take my business" isn't a great idea.
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- rwallace 14y agoIf you can figure out how to make a comfortable living working sixty hours a week, I can tell you how to make one working thirty hours a week: take the sixty hour job and work thirty hours on it. Thirty hours of actual productive work instead of staring blearily at your screen, compulsively refreshing e-mail because you're too tired to do anything more useful, and botching work that will have to be redone next week, in between redoing work you botched last week. Seriously, this should not be a matter for debate anymore. We know humans evolved for something like a twenty hour working week, and cannot productively do more than thirty, maybe forty at most, on any job more demanding than repetitively putting component A into widget B - and those jobs are mostly done by robots nowadays. Useless sacrifice is not cool or heroic. It's just useless.