[satisfice]

“Starting out on your own” is not a way to work less, but you have a lot more control. To avoid burnout, work must be meaningful and it must be within your reasonable control.

I have that as an independent, yet I don’t have any fixed schedule and I basically work every day. (I work three to six hours a day in a mode that feels like work.)

Some of my work is coding or coding-like activity. I also teach, which does have a fixed schedule when underway.