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For me, personally, it's a much simpler formula. I feel exhausted when I've been doing something I don't want to for too long. Exhaustion and motivation are r

by wheels 18y ago

For me, personally, it's a much simpler formula. I feel exhausted when I've been doing something I don't want to for too long. Exhaustion and motivation are really tightly linked for me. I notice that I get brutally exhausted when it's time to change jobs or otherwise move on in life. Can't wake up, have trouble getting things done, generally just worn out. The funny thing is, if I start something else the next day, like a new job I'm excited about, boom, back to full steam. I don't sleep much and don't want to, work crazy hours and wake up excited about rather than dreading my to-do list. Thus far the startup life has catered well to that. At one year in I'm still excited almost every day about getting up to work. I work around 100 hours most weeks and it doesn't seem like a chore. I'm really hoping that pattern holds true for the long haul.

TJensen 18y ago
That is the description of my life at the moment. Unfortunately, life demands (wife, children, mortgage) make it difficult to move on. In the meantime, getting out of bed is a chore. OK, I'll stop whining now. :)
juliend2 18y ago
You mean that you work like 14 hours a day, 7 days/week? Is it full working hours that you could invoice or just 100 hours that you spend in front of the computer? What does your daily schedule look like? Just curious.
- wheels 18y ago
  It's not nearly consistent as 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. First, I don't sleep on a consistent schedule. Some nights I sleep 3 hours, sometimes 10. Usual is closer to 5. These hours of sleep may or may not actually occur at night. Second is that I'm not consulting, so "billable" and "work" aren't the same thing. Yesterday I spent: - 1 hour in a meeting with a potential customer - 2 hours traveling there and back on the subway, during which I read work-related research papers - 1.5 hours talking with my co-founder about stuff we've got coming up on the horizon - 1 hour reading and answering mails - 9 hours, from around 6:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., coding with a break in there for cooking dinner I then woke back up this morning at 7:30 a.m. and am about to get back to that code, after my morning routine of checking mail and news. :-)

by wheels 18y ago

TJensen 18y ago

That is the description of my life at the moment. Unfortunately, life demands (wife, children, mortgage) make it difficult to move on. In the meantime, getting out of bed is a chore. OK, I'll stop whining now. :)

juliend2 18y ago

You mean that you work like 14 hours a day, 7 days/week? Is it full working hours that you could invoice or just 100 hours that you spend in front of the computer? What does your daily schedule look like? Just curious.

wheels 18y ago
It's not nearly consistent as 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. First, I don't sleep on a consistent schedule. Some nights I sleep 3 hours, sometimes 10. Usual is closer to 5. These hours of sleep may or may not actually occur at night. Second is that I'm not consulting, so "billable" and "work" aren't the same thing. Yesterday I spent: - 1 hour in a meeting with a potential customer - 2 hours traveling there and back on the subway, during which I read work-related research papers - 1.5 hours talking with my co-founder about stuff we've got coming up on the horizon - 1 hour reading and answering mails - 9 hours, from around 6:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m., coding with a break in there for cooking dinner I then woke back up this morning at 7:30 a.m. and am about to get back to that code, after my morning routine of checking mail and news. :-)