{"id":846,"date":"2008-01-12T00:47:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T08:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/soho-woes\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T00:47:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T08:47:42","slug":"soho-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/soho-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"SOHO Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love working for myself and working from home. The amount of freedom and flexibility is surreal. This makes me not ever want to go back to a 9 to 5 (or 6, or 7, or 10) job ever again. But it does have its trade offs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working pretty feverishly on Neely&#8217;s digital signage project for a while. But it seems to take forever to get something done nowadays. Compared to some of my previous code-heavy projects, this is really taking a long time! And the only difference I&#8217;ve noticed is &#8212; Bryan&#8217;s age.<\/p>\n<p>Before Bryan walked and talked, everything was simple then. Grace was able to handle most of Bryan&#8217;s needs. But now that Bryan&#8217;s almost 2.5 years old, the amount of attention required to satisfy his needs is amazingly time consuming. So what used to take me to finish a block of code before will now triple in time and effort just to get things moving along in the presence of Bryan. And when he does go to bed, I also need to wind down before I could get in the &#8220;zone&#8221; to get things going.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few days, I&#8217;ve been going to bed at 10AM (after working through the night). Before that, my <em>effective<\/em> work hours have been between 2AM to 6AM. Yes, it&#8217;s only four hours, but boy, when nobody is around to bug you, things get done!<\/p>\n<p>This is probably good when the new baby finally arrives because that&#8217;d make me the de facto night-shift guard. But wait, that&#8217;ll mean it&#8217;d take me even longer to get shit done even during my &#8220;alone time&#8221;&#8230; <em>Oh crap!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love working for myself and working from home. The amount of freedom and flexibility is surreal. This makes me not ever want to go back to a 9 to 5 (or 6, or 7, or 10) job ever again. But it does have its trade offs. I&#8217;ve been working pretty feverishly on Neely&#8217;s digital &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/soho-woes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SOHO Woes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-stuff","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-dE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}