> Essentially, you’re trading time against money. What’s most valuable to you?
It took me an embarrassingly long time for this to sink in all the way. I worked in crunch-time-heavy jobs like filmmaking and video games, sometimes doing 12 hours a day for 7 days a week for stretches. The problem with working that much is that it’s essentially using 100% of your time: after eating and sleeping, there is not enough left to have time for friends or family or much of anything else at all. I finally realized that when I trade all of my time away for money, I’m effectively putting a dollar amount on the value of my life, and it turns out that the number wasn’t anywhere near high enough for me.
It took me an embarrassingly long time for this to sink in all the way. I worked in crunch-time-heavy jobs like filmmaking and video games, sometimes doing 12 hours a day for 7 days a week for stretches. The problem with working that much is that it’s essentially using 100% of your time: after eating and sleeping, there is not enough left to have time for friends or family or much of anything else at all. I finally realized that when I trade all of my time away for money, I’m effectively putting a dollar amount on the value of my life, and it turns out that the number wasn’t anywhere near high enough for me.