{"id":1775,"date":"2018-03-01T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2018-02-27T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T20:05:32","slug":"freelancers-youre-freaking-out-too-much-about-working-too-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2018\/03\/freelancers-youre-freaking-out-too-much-about-working-too-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Freelancers: You&#8217;re Freaking Out too Much about Working too Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Short version<\/b>: Most office workers in the United States have a nearly 9-hour workday, but are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/melanie-curtin\/in-an-8-hour-day-the-average-worker-is-productive-for-this-many-hours.html\">only productive for about <i>3 hours<\/i><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I.e., if you are a freelancer doing work that an office worker <i>might<\/i> do, then you can almost certainly make a decent living on ~3 hours per day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Please stop beating yourself up and running yourself ragged.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Focus on doing good work for half of each day and you&#8217;ll be just fine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short version: Most office workers in the United States have a nearly 9-hour workday, but are only productive for about 3 hours.\u00a0 I.e., if you are a freelancer doing work that an office worker might do, then you can almost certainly make a decent living on ~3 hours per day.\u00a0 Please stop beating yourself up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2018\/03\/freelancers-youre-freaking-out-too-much-about-working-too-little\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freelancers: You&#8217;re Freaking Out too Much about Working too Little&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[265,52,42,26,171,36,66,264,266],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}