| TLDR: your intuition is irrelevant / incorrect. I ran and exited a startup with a young family. My daughter was 4 yrs old when I sold my company and I started it a year before my daughter was born. My strategy was to divide my work day as best as possible: Priorities:
1. Time with wife and kid
2. Customer calls
3. Everything else I started to wake up early to have an hour to get myself organized. I would then block 6-9am for breakfast with family. 9am-3pm (6 hours) of customer calls/coding etc. 3pm-10pm totally available for family and I would only skip for essential calls (i.e. the hell is about to break lose and I think I had one day every month like that lol). 6pm-7pm was bed time for my daughter that I was responsible for and I am still responsible for it till today. 7pm - 10pm was time with wife, completely available for her for anything she wants. 10pm-2am work on my startup again. This was the most productive time for me as everyone was sleeping and my customers didn't expect me to reply back to them either. It wasn't easy. Could not have done this without my wife who decided to stay at home with kid to help with everything. I ended up selling the company about a year ago and we made a decent return back that ensured that we are mortgage free, having enough saved for my daughter and now I am actually getting my proper night sleep. Itching to start something new though.. |
I'm trying something similar (prioritize family) and the scheduling aspect has been really brutal.