Is your side Hustle affecting your work?
How do you manage your side hustle and job? Do you prefer to do freelancing or work full time on a company?
How do you manage your side hustle and job? Do you prefer to do freelancing or work full time on a company?
We have a Micro SaaS Community of builders and here are a few patterns I found.
Working for a startup is a good option. I am considering this option.
More power. Circle.so founder was once Gumroad.com employee when Gumroad was small. Circle founder mentioned multiple times that working for startups helped him do things better.
Does that mean. There will be no time for side projects?
Depends on what startup you pick work work for. Some companies allow 4 day work week.
Personally I have optimized my day job in a way that I have a lot of spare time during the day, which allows me to work on my passion project during day-jon hours. Key to that optimization has been to automize my spreadsheets for tracking of my hours, staff, staff allocation, all repetitive tasks. It's a bit annoying to setup , but once it's up you have tons of free time. This then allows for my passion projects to coexist, and I still have a social life. That being said, cards on the table,my projects have not taken off in a way that I wanted to. If that happens my plan might not work anymore haha
This is a nice idea. I am sure your side project will take off it just a matter of time. What tools have you used for automating the tracking of your hours? I want to build a system to track my effectiveness, but I am procrastinating on that.
Unfortunately I have a very unsatisfying answer: excel. I build one spreadsheet with a few vba bells and whistles around to help me track staffing, hours spend on projects, billing etc. I first wanted to build something clunky in excel that fits my needs, before I look for even better ways to automize it further. But my spreadsheets really cut my planning time by 60percent -and after all it's 'just' a dayjob. So rather than looking for professional tools I just roll with my excel now (80/20 rule). the main issue is really the procrastination of actually doing it -it took me forever too. But once you get over it, I really value the additional 4h a day tht I get, and no need to cut into social time etc.
That bei g said, I do know a lot of planning tools are out there, such as "monday.com' , just that I have never used them.
You are right about procrastination. The urge to solve every problem often leads to this path. I will also use excel .
The hardest is how do you find the time to live life when you have a side hustle and a full time job. Especially if you are trying to build the side hustle to be a full time gig. Definitely prefer to work for myself but have learnt a lot from working at different companies.
Honestly, a side hustle could never affect your day job or work. The reason is, when you build your side hustle, you actually enjoy the work.
It might seem that working on a side-hustle will make you more tired as you are working, but it can reduce fatigue and help you fight your burnout from work.
Although, when someone is freelancing and trying to support other founders build their products, the fatigue might increase and will affect work as you will be working on two different projects that you might not like.