Engineer Enigma #3

I’ve been having a pretty great schedule over the last year. It looks like this:

Wake up at 8:30am
Get the Kids to School by 9:00am
Work from 9am-12pm
Walk and Lunch with my Wife
Engage in Curiosity from 1pm-4pm
Kids Home by 4pm, Help with Dinner and After School Activities

It’s a pretty easy flow type of system.
It’s a lot better than my previous schedule when I didn’t run my own business:

Wake up 7:30am
Drive 45 Minutes to Work (Light Morning Traffic)
Arrive at Work 9:00am
Eat Out Everyday for Lunch, Mostly Alone
Work, So Many Meetings!
Hour and Half Commute Home with Traffic
Get Home, always eat take out because Mom is frazzled being with toddlers all day

It’s a night and day difference how much better my mental health became. It’s far from perfect of course (with kids, nothing ever is) but having my butt in a seat for a Company that valued me as a number more than a individual, well, its a lot better feeling being able to be there for your kids when they come home than finding your wife completely frazzled sfter the end of long day of commuting.

We need to figure out work balance. Many engineers are working too long hours in an environment that does not help them produce their best work. If they don’t have social lives outside of work, they will NOT be good Employees, period. They’ll be depressed and it will show up in their work, no matter how much overtime you’re paying them.

Until Tomorrow,
Jason Ziebarth (Founder Club255)
JZ#381