Do You Work Weekends?
One of the few positive things about having a brick-and-mortar 9-to-5 job is that, for the most part, your weekends are reserved for your family. Unless you are a high-flying senior executive who has to work around the clock to secure that business deal or go on a business trip to meet your counterpart, weekends are your opportunity to relax, enjoy life and spend some of that money 9-5 money on something other than transportation to your office.
For Internet Marketers, however, the reality is also difference. Our office is what we got to sleep in and wake up to every day. Our desk is the same desk at which we write love letters and have breakfast. Our company computer is the same computer that we use for gaming, watching YouTube and checking e-mail.
In short, as an Internet Marketer, the distinction between your personal and private life is blurred at best. As a result, we often end up pulling in more hours than 9-5 people - weekends included.
Personally, I have no objections to working during weekends. In fact, ever since I got involved in site flipping, I always treated them as an opportunity to get more work done. As they said in Wall Street, money never sleeps - regardless what time of the week it is.
What about you? Do you work on weekends? If so, do you generally do more or less IM-related work? Share your thoughts and let us know!
Most successful IMers have an office? And outsource work on weekends?
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Paul,
You’re partially correct. I should have qualified my post by separating between the really successful IMers and the average Joes and Janes - the category that I, at the moment, belong to.
And, I daresay, for this category, the assertion made in my original post is correct. A lot of marketers I work with have no issues with responding to their e-mails on weekends or getting the job done outside the 9-5 hours.
Obviously, things will be somewhat different when I’m working side-by-side with the likes of Filsaime and Reese!