{"id":2990,"date":"2008-01-21T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T11:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2008\/01\/21\/ok-this-has-to-end\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T11:32:09","slug":"ok-this-has-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2008\/01\/21\/ok-this-has-to-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Ok&#8230; this has to end :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>*note: this is only a little rant&#8230; I am actually a pretty happy guy at the moment for a lot of reasons&#8230; so don&#8217;t let this get anyone all worried \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here we are 21 days into the new year&#8230; a new year I promised myself would see a more reasonable balance between life, work and play. Yet I have managed to be in a situation where for the last week or so I have been averaging 3 hours of sleep a day because I took a contract that has proved to require time constraints that are simply crazy.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? This is a &quot;perfect storm&quot; kind of situation. With my Sensei away I have no flex in my Dojo schedule (though the guys and Kimiko have been kicking ass on that) and because this project pays less than it should I have not been able to really put my other client work on hold. So I have learned a few lessons here&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As long as my income is at the mercy of freelance work&#8230; as long as I am trading the limited inventory of my hours for money <strong><em>directly<\/em><\/strong> I will fail to make significant progress in solving these problems.<\/li>\n<li>As long as I am selling my time for money directly, I should not compromise on the amount. At my normal hourly rate this job would be much more tolerable.<\/li>\n<li>As long as I am selling my time for money directly, I need to stick to my intuition on where and how I do the work. Being onsite is not only a pain in the ass it is inefficient and stupid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, I did a dumb thing. So I am not sleeping, stressed to within an inch of my life and by some measures loosing money.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I took a job that would require a lot of time and at a point in my life when I had almost no time to give. <\/li>\n<li>I then agreed to do it for less money than I should have<\/li>\n<li>I then agreed to do the majority of it on site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, I am not an idiot &#8211; I did have what seemed like good reasons. For instance there is good karma involved with my agency and that will pay dividends in the future. A number of factors seemed to be advantageous. It just turns out I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>No harm done really &#8211; it is a lesson well learned and a mistake I won&#8217;t make again. I will take contracts in the future, I will just do it on my terms, for what I know I am worth and I will be much more strict in how I evaluate the risk \/ benefit. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I am having some fun, learning some stuff and pulling in some cash. I might even get a trip to California out of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*note: this is only a little rant&#8230; I am actually a pretty happy guy at the moment for a lot of reasons&#8230; so don&#8217;t let this get anyone all worried \ud83d\ude42 Here we are 21 days into the new year&#8230; a new year I promised myself would see a more reasonable balance between life, work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}