how do you juggle your side project with work, life, everything else?

it’s about finding those pockets of time, staying organized, right?

sometimes it’s tough. motivation dips, life gets hectic.

but there’s also that thrill of creating something of your own.

share your tips - how do you keep your side project and life in harmony?

  • mastermog@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, its a hard balance.

    My wife and I run a Japanese language learning site as a side project, but I work full time, and we have two kids. We’re not exactly rolling in time!

    Our ultimate goal is to work on the side project full time, and I’m guessing that is the goal of most people here?

    For now though, its all about chunking up the day as best as possible, we need to be present for our kids but once they’re asleep we chip away as much as we can on the site.

    For us, it has to be a marathon, not a race. Perhaps its writing a lesson outline one night, the draft version the next night, and then final review the third night. Ditto from a coding perspective (my side of things), I create super small tasks in Trello, with checklists, and slowly work through them.

    We do sacrifice other things, we don’t head out as much but the reality with kids is we weren’t heading out that much anyway. Obviously everyone needs downtime, and we do have that, but in a lot of ways the project is our downtime because we’re passionate about it.