How Long is Too Long?
Attempting to build an online empire is no easy task. It requires a lot of time and dedication, not mention many late nights and early mornings working on new ideas and trying to figure out the best ways of driving hits and revenue to your online space.
Speaking from experience, working a 9 – 5 job and trying to maintain a few websites that, at the moment, don’t make me any money, means that I am in front of a computer screen for around 12 hours a day. Just to give you an idea of how much time out of my day that is, here is my daily itinerary.
7am – Wake up
8am – Get on the train to work
9am – Start Work
1pm – Lunch
5:30pm – Finish work
6:30pm – Arrive home
7pm – Dinner
8pm – Pickup the laptop and get working on my own projects
12am – Bed
I work in IT, so I am spending 8.5 hours a day at work on a computer doing work. When I get home after work and dinner, I get back on the laptop for another 4 hours or so to do some work on my own websites and online projects.
So I guess the question I am asking is how long is too long? It is healthy to spend so much time in front of a laptop working?
At the moment I am spending 20 hours a week, of my own time, working online trying to make some money. As my sites are only a month or two old, they need alot of work and I am spending my time trying to build a community around the site and let people know it actually exists. Once it starts to become known and I am happy with the amount of hits it is getting, it will pretty much run itself as maintenance will be fairly minimal.
Will I stop there? Once I am happy with my current project, will I start all over again? Probably.
However, the point of me attempting to make money online is to one day, hopefully soon, be able to leave my 9 – 5 job and concentrate 100% on my online projects.
It is a massive sacrifice in order to get your online project up and running. My girlfriend feels neglected and I am constantly tired. Though my girlfriend and I both agree that it will be worth it if one day I can stop working and concentrate on my online portfolio as if it was my full time job.
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Yes daniel, it is very long and can make frustate