Over the several years my padna and I have worked several projects for Felthos Foundry while maintaining our current sites and infrastructure at the same time. Our biggest complaint that we felt kept holding us back from releasing different sites, products and services was time.
We both have “burn rates” in our personal lives with mortgages or rent, utilities, car payments not to mention the women in our lives so we have been working Felthos Foundry as a second job. Over the past year we have been working between 40-50 hours for the man while struggling to keep our dreams alive. In addition to the 40-50 hours of work each week I also deal with 8-10 hours of commute time and another 35-40 hours of “Bri” time (my little girl) as well as the incidentals including cleaning, doing bills (or taxes), wife time and, oh yeah… sleeping! Basically what this boiled down for my padna and I is that we have around 16 hours per week to work on our ideas. This 16 hours is further reduced by the requirements of maintenance of our various sites in our network. If both of us have roughly 3 hours a weekday to spend on our company, we estimated that we both worked maintenance issues which include blogging, upgrading infrastructure, small items on our to do master list for 2 hours leaving only 1 hour per night for project work.
So, we have been spending our left-over one hour a day working projects which will increase revenue. To make matters worse, this is usually the last hour of our day. Brilliant! We trust the last hour we can barely keep our eyes open to forging our future.
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