How many hours a week do you work?

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BlueYonder

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I'm still trying to get set up, and pretty inept technically so I had to hire 3 people over 4 days. Still, I'm working 16 hour days on my site and it's not ready yet. I haven't been outside in days, and my neighbors probably think it's because I went insane and won't leave the house. :eek:

Once you're finally set up and running, how much does this AM stuff take out of you? I'm pretty ragged now from the work I'm doing.
 


I am addicted to online marketing. I typically work a 8-10 hour day. Then play with the kid or wife (whoever is up for it) and then when they lay down, I am back online. But I love it. And I only sleep 3-4 hours a night so that helps.
 
Yeah I usually go about 14 to 16 hour days as well and everyone calls me crazy and shouldn't do those insane hours but sometimes to get to where you want to be you've got to haul ass and just get it done.
 
I'm amazed at the people who are able to work a regular full-time job AND work on their sites in the off hours. Back when I was a 9-5'er it was hard to find the time and energy.
 
affiliatehustle said:
I'm amazed at the people who are able to work a regular full-time job AND work on their sites in the off hours. Back when I was a 9-5'er it was hard to find the time and energy.
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Love your avatar.

I'm working from the crack of dawn into the night, but not at making money - just trying to set up and do simple things that should take 5 minutes but takes me hours. It's very frustrating and demoralizing.
 
I work a full and part-time wage earning job, write for pay, and am trying to develop sites. Nothing gets my full attention and I spend too much time at the computer. I am on track to be working one part-time job, write, and work on internet ventures by my 49th birthday (April 2009)!

TAKE A BREAK. You have stopped being efficient. Take a break, then get back to work, you will feel better and become more efficient.

Make sure you eat (especially protein) and sleep so your brain can function efficiently.

Pair up with someone who is good at what you need and needs what you are good at. When I first started I did my best to learn, but learned when to say when and let someone else do something. My son, Bob Schmuck, would help me with a problem on a site setup (his strength) and I'd write for him (my strength).

What exactly are you setting up that is so consuming? Maybe we can help with ideas to make it easier or tell you what not to waste your time on.
 
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What exactly are you setting up that is so consuming? Maybe we can help with ideas to make it easier or tell you what not to waste your time on.
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I'm working on a site that is to be what they call an authority site, a blog with affiliate links and Adsense. Writing is my strength as well. As far as the tech stuff goes, I am worse than pathetic.

I don't even know html or how to properly address a site to go live. The template I had custom made needs changes, and I don't know how to do anything without ruining the CSS. I'm trying to do simple things like make a graphic affiliate ad move to the right of the column. I spent the morning looking for the html code, but it still won't work.

I hired a guy in India and he's doing stuff piecemeal, like changing the link addressing, and we're trying to figure out what's wrong with my affiliate link masking. The widget I'm using to mask them is turning my affiliate links into 404 pages. I loaded a Kontera widget but no code shows up, so I loaded the code manually and I get funny boxes with no ads.

It goes on and on and on and on - from 7 a.m. until midnight. I haven't been away from the house in 3 days. Occasionally, I learn how to do a thing or two. I feel like crying, truly. I am so pathetic, I had to hire somebody to upload Wordpress to my server because it wasn't working.
 
9-5 as a developer/programmer plus an additional 4-6 hours after that on my own shit

In a given day I probably spend 14 hours in front of a comp actually programming..

Is it bad that my fingertips start to tingle?
 
My normal job right now I work 30-60 hours depending on the amount of work we have. I work on my AM stuff all the other time I have besides Thursday and Friday night, as those are reserved to keep me socially active and not a totally ass hat.
 
35-ish hours a week doing my "normal" job and then practically very single other hour of the day except when I make dinner and sleep I'm doing AM.
 
All of them pretty much. I always have a laptop or computer within reach. But it depends how you classify working. I spend a lot of time reading, researching and talking to people. Where I'm not technically working. I actually work, work very little. Setting up a campaign, ordering a landing page to be made, finding some keywords doesn't take a lot of time. Hiring people to build scrapers for data research on what stuff is working doesn't take a lot of time. Once you get the stuff down really it doesn't take long if you ask me. Knowledge is power so I spend most of my time reading, researching and networking. Looking for that 1 good idea that's going to make me 2-10k profit a day. It's out there you just have to know where to look and who to listen to. :)
 
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I feel like crying, truly. I am so pathetic, I had to hire somebody to upload Wordpress to my server because it wasn't working.
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Hehe that's funny cause I felt the same a couple of months ago. Well, now is much better and I even started my own blog about being a noob webmaster :).
Btw you can call me when you need such "big" problems. Chances are I'd be able to help. We newbies should support each other :xomunch:..

On the question:
I usually work 10-12 hours a day (full-time job as a developer and my recent web ventures). Trying to sleep at least 6 hours cause otherwise the next day I'm not able to keep my eyes open :anon.sml: .
 
I work about 30-35 hours, purely work. Then about 15 or so hours studying stuff, reading related books, learning php etc.
 
Right now around 20-25 hours a week while maintaing a part time job, full time college student, and somewhat of a social life. I'm not making excuses, I'm fine with how I manage my time. Can't wait to quit the part time job though, I'd love to be able to work more on online stuff. But when you aren't making any serious dough, you kinda need that part time job...
 
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