Exactly the same as during the week. As I work for myself weekends are normal days like any other. I just take random days off with no regard for what name they have.
My wife has always worked weird shifts (and is now off for a year on maternity leave) so it works family-wise.. and we don't have to wrestle with the horrible weekend crowds at places. The only real benefit of the weekend is less e-mail to deal with :)
The 2 days you allocate to every week to keep yourself from burning out in 3 years and then spending 7 months doing nothing but following links on Reddit.
At this point I plan for burnout. It's just part of my productivity cycle. Small burnouts happen 1-2 times a year and involve about a week of doing nothing; large burnouts happen every 2-4 years and require a couple months. This happens with or without weekends.
Saturday is my sleep-in day, Sunday is Erin's. I'm on the hook for dinner Saturday night; I try to do something interesting. Sunday night I tend to watch TV.
In between, I get some super-unproductive computer time in and hang out with the kids. Recently, it's been Mindstorms. Last weekend we picked apples. This weekend is my sister's wedding. Next weekend I owe my son his belated promised Dim Sum birthday lunch.
A couple weekends from now, I'm doing a class in Chicago for cryptography for security testers. If that works out well, I'll probably try to do some kind of class every other month. A class occupies two weekends, one for the class (and dinner afterwards) and one before that to rehearse.
More than you wanted to know, but hey, thanks for giving me the chance to straighten my schedule out in my head.
Reminded me to check the website for the local orchard. Golden Delicious picking scheduled to start next weekend. Yum! And a few hours in the orchard is generally one of the highlights of the year. :-)
Microclimate keeps this one a bit behind others in the area, in addition to the region running a bit late this year. But will try to be there on the first day they open up the Golden Delicious to picking.
Well, it was only ~5-10 hours per weekend 2 weekends in a row, and it was in the name of making stuff easier for my team for the future. In general, I like my job.
And I actually got out on my bike the past two weekends without working, got some computers built to hopefully find their way into the homes of school kids who need something simple at home, and I'm about 18 chapters deep into Snow Crash, which I feel REALLY BAD for putting off for so long. Never read it before.
Get the hell away from a computer. Heh, that sounds negative. I love by job but I find it easiest to keep balanced by getting away as much as I can for the weekends. For me, that's hiking, climbing, and back-country skiing. I pay for managed hosting for a reason.
Or work on code of a more interesting variety. As a startup founder, there's usually an interesting problem percolating in the back of my mind, and some days just finding a nice coffee shop and working on code with less distractions is perfect.
Programming, Reading, Drinking, Poker, PC Gaming (Urban Terror, StarCraft, UT3, Quake), Magic: The Gathering, Catching up on entire seasons of good shows, Movie theater, Shopping (food), Walking (w/dogs)
Big fan of being home on the weekend. I like my home.
Surf, learn and practice bushcraft techniques, daydream about owning a campervan for kids/bikes/surboards, take photographs of clouds, go fishing but never catch anything.
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[ 203 ms ] story [ 1420 ms ] thread(Still Friday here..)
My wife has always worked weird shifts (and is now off for a year on maternity leave) so it works family-wise.. and we don't have to wrestle with the horrible weekend crowds at places. The only real benefit of the weekend is less e-mail to deal with :)
* mow the lawn
* exercise
* clean the house
* watch some TV with my wife
And then programming-wise, I work on my side projects and work on building my own software company.
ah, the good old corporate job.
Seriously, can we cut out the tech-babble so everyone can follow.
In between, I get some super-unproductive computer time in and hang out with the kids. Recently, it's been Mindstorms. Last weekend we picked apples. This weekend is my sister's wedding. Next weekend I owe my son his belated promised Dim Sum birthday lunch.
A couple weekends from now, I'm doing a class in Chicago for cryptography for security testers. If that works out well, I'll probably try to do some kind of class every other month. A class occupies two weekends, one for the class (and dinner afterwards) and one before that to rehearse.
More than you wanted to know, but hey, thanks for giving me the chance to straighten my schedule out in my head.
At night I try to be productive and hack, or I do some research/reading since my mind is not fatigued.
And I actually got out on my bike the past two weekends without working, got some computers built to hopefully find their way into the homes of school kids who need something simple at home, and I'm about 18 chapters deep into Snow Crash, which I feel REALLY BAD for putting off for so long. Never read it before.
- Sleep
- Spend time outside
- http://sfgames.org/
- http://www.berkeleygoclub.org/
http://shoptalkapp.com/
Ah, the joys of bootstrapping a startup on the side...
Or work on code of a more interesting variety. As a startup founder, there's usually an interesting problem percolating in the back of my mind, and some days just finding a nice coffee shop and working on code with less distractions is perfect.
Programming, Reading, Drinking, Poker, PC Gaming (Urban Terror, StarCraft, UT3, Quake), Magic: The Gathering, Catching up on entire seasons of good shows, Movie theater, Shopping (food), Walking (w/dogs)
Big fan of being home on the weekend. I like my home.