{"id":1851,"date":"2013-02-23T22:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/02\/23\/sixteen-hours\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T07:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T06:40:22","slug":"sixteen-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/02\/23\/sixteen-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"sixteen hours."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things become radically different once you quit your daily job. The first thing you&rsquo;ll notice is how much time you actually have.<\/p>\n<p>Working a daily job, there&rsquo;s simply <strong>no way to experience this degree of freedom<\/strong>. When you have a job, days generally fall in one of those three categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working day. 8 hours sleep, 8 hours work, 2 hours commute, 6 hours <em>left<\/em> to do whatever you want\/have to do. These 6 hours have dozens of things competing for them; balancing them is an art in itself. Also, this gets expontentially harder once you have kids.<\/li>\n<li>Weekend day. 8 hours sleep, 16 hours divided between: resting, spending time with friends\/family and doing whatever you wanted to do during the week but had no time to.<\/li>\n<li>Day off. 8 hours sleep, 16 hours frantically trying to get as much rest as possible.<\/li>\n<li>If you&rsquo;re a heavy drinker (like I once used to be), there&rsquo;s also a fourth kind: the hangover day. It consists of 8 hours of crappy, restless sleep and 16 hours of suffering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How does your schedule compare to mine?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A day. 8 hours sleep, 16 hours doing whatever I want or need to do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unless I&rsquo;ve committed to meeting a deadline (and it&rsquo;s approaching), I have complete freedom to choose whatever I want to do. Days of week no longer matter that much &#8211; and weekends actually become a bit annoying because stores are closed.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing about living in a free schedule is that I <strong>no longer wait for anything<\/strong>. Renovating my flat used to take pathetically long because I could only paint the walls during weekends (it&rsquo;s just plain unwise to paint without daylight). Now I can work during the afternoon every day and put off coding until late evening &#8211; which is the best time to code anyway.<\/p>\n<p>A nice side effect of not waiting is that there&rsquo;s almost no backlog. I used to have a fat TODO list with things which really should be done; right now I just do whatever needs doing next &#8211; and things rarely stay on the TODO list for more than three days. Also, doing some side project no longer involves waiting for free time &#8211; unless there&rsquo;s a deadline, I just sit down and do whatever strikes my imagination. This is the right way of living if you&rsquo;re an artist &#8211; and building open source software is, indeed, an art.<\/p>\n<p>Having my full sixteen-hour day back is something I&rsquo;ll not give up easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things become radically different once you quit your daily job. The first thing you&rsquo;ll notice is how much time you actually have. Working a daily job, there&rsquo;s simply no way to experience this degree of freedom. When you have a job, days generally fall in one of those three categories: Working day. 8 hours sleep, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}