{"id":1259,"date":"2014-02-14T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2014-02-14T12:03:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:03:58","slug":"week-2-of-self-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 of self-employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1620631_695830207104809_259918035_n.jpg\" alt=\"ante-natal course\" width=\"399\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1620631_695830207104809_259918035_n.jpg 399w, https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/1620631_695830207104809_259918035_n-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took the morning off. <\/p>\n<p>Like, I have to literally &#8220;take leave&#8221; from myself. I&#8217;m such a bad employer of myself to the extend that I already overworked my mind 2 weeks after my last day &#8211; looks like there&#8217;re lots to learn for setting the right pace when working alone because it&#8217;s so easy to go into overdrive. <\/p>\n<p>Good thing I took the morning off. I ironed some shirts and prepare for next week&#8217;s trip to Bali, while spending some time away from MIDI sounding band music and emails in general. And to write this.<\/p>\n<p>At this juncture, I&#8217;ve collected some data based on simple metrics I set up earlier. Now my week looks like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30% actual music arranging \/ editing \/ publishing work (i.e. Sibelius time)<\/li>\n<li>30% meeting existing customers, as well as old friend + new people, discovering (and rejecting) opportunities, for the purpose of establishing an additional source of income (including travel time etc.)<\/li>\n<li>20% of family time (including ante-natal classes yay!) &#8211; which I think I will hold constant until when baby girl is born<\/li>\n<li>20% of daily chores (making own coffee now!) as well as really bad time management (slacking, gaming, facebook) which some people say is necessary to reset the mind, but I&#8217;m not so sure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s bad because the following hasn&#8217;t even been scheduled in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learning \/ Retooling just in case I ever had to go back to full time employment<\/li>\n<li>Exercising &#8211; which is like OMG-I-quit-my-job-and-I-still-can&#8217;t-find-time-to-go-jogging-ly maddening to me<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makehomey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Homey<\/a> time (which my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singtellifespark.com\/\" title=\"SingTel L!feSpark\" target=\"_blank\">L!fesparks<\/a> team is going to kill me)<\/li>\n<li>Hobbies and other personal development (including redoing this blog itself to 2014 looks)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not to mention if there are new opportunities to spend time to explore.<\/p>\n<p>The importance of focus wasn&#8217;t forgotten though. Which means I might need to start doubling the number of &#8220;no&#8221;s I say to people. The first 20% of &#8220;no&#8221;s are easy, the next 30% I&#8217;ve learned to say when I had a job. The subsequent 30% is really tough, when only the last 20% or even 10% is what I should really be doing.<\/p>\n<p>Time is really the most critical resource a freelancer has &#8211; and I&#8217;m going to spend the rest of the afternoon just optimising my time management mindset, processes and tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the morning off. Like, I have to literally &#8220;take leave&#8221; from myself. 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