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by mindcrime 5449 days ago
what do you guys do on your time off?

Time off? What's that?

How do you achieve that work-life balance?

I'm working on a startup, I don't have time for work-life balance.

What do I do on the weekend? Well, I get off of my dayjob around 5:00pm on Friday, I drive home, swinging by the grocery store to stock up on coffee, sugar, cream, sodas, etc., then settle into my favorite chair with my laptop and start coding... continuing until around 6:00am or so, on Sat. morning. Sleep until 1 or so, get up, work another couple of hours, then take a brief break by going to Barnes & Noble for a latte or something and to browse books for a while, maybe sit in the cafe and read for a while. Then I come back home, and start working again. That goes on until 3-4 or so on Sun. morning. Sunday I usually get up around noon, work another hour or two, then do laundry, and the last few hours of the day before going back to bed, I either work, or -when I'm feeling burned out and needing of a break- watch a movie or something.

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Yikes! Sure hope the end result is worth it!
You and me both. But really, I couldn't do this forever, obviously. It's basically like what pg talks about... the goal is to make some serious sacrifices for a certain period of time, where the payoff - if things work out - is a lot of freedom later in return.

Yeah, it may not work out and - worst case - all this hard work goes for naught. But I turned 38 today, I'm not getting any younger, and if I intend to live out some of my dreams, it's time to make it happen.