In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas by jermaustin1 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:23PM (#21466768)

Be a contractor a bunch of time, build up your network on linked in, and "Always Be Closing" small projects with your network. Each time a past manager moves to a new department, new company, new something, I reach out after a couple of months to see if they have any gaps in their current team I can temporarily fill.

It takes a lot of work to not work that much. I used to spend 20% of my time selling/pitching/quoting/etc for free.

Right now I have a semi-stable 30-35hr/week gig, so I'm not having to sell any.

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Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas by Ididntdothis on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @05:33PM (#21468308)

From my experience these gigs are great but also dangerous. When I was consultant I got lazy and complacent once i had a good gig and stopped selling. when this one customer went away I was back at zero.

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Re:In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas by jermaustin1 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @07:54AM (#21472732)

I agree with that. I've actually cut my income by a lot just because I don't do as much work. But I'm getting to an age where I don't really want to work more than this anyway.

So now I just need to keep upping my rate.

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