Work Happy

I decided to challenge myself to make a minimum of one commit a day for 31 days to have the MVP for Work Happy created by the end.

It was a great goal to have made because it allowed me to maintain focus on the project without burning out or feeling unproductive on days I had an intense day of my full-time job.

It showed me the importance of small, attainable goals and drove home the truth of under-promise and over-deliver that everyone talks about! I wrote a more in-depth article about the experience on my Medium page: https://medium.com/@zahradeenie/work-happy-one-commit-a-day-55b9554731df

In June 2019 my partner and I built a job board focused on companies offering benefits to enable a healthy work-life balance. While we had a good reception and consistent traffic, it didn't offer a whole lot of true value and I wasn't passionate about it to continue working on it.

When I started looking for a new job I realised there wasn't any information on what I could expect in the day-to-day operations of the company and that I would only learn more in the final stages of a lengthy interview process.

I wanted to have this info up front before I invested my time in a company to know whether a company fit with how I wanted to live my life. So I decided to take the premise of my previous venture and pivot - putting focus on the company and what they can offer rather than on the job. With this, Work Happy was born!