no time for personal models
polycounter lvl 17
Hey there people, I would like to know if you guys can tell me how do you guys have time to do some personal models, challenges, etc. Like, I have a wife, but i dont have kids, I work like 12-14 hours a day and then I try sleeping 7-8hs. I work at weekends. I´m sure there´s a way, but I can´t, so, if someone could share your day time for personal things.
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2) Unplug your net connection...
3) Work less, sleep less, get fired and force your wife to support you both. She'll be out of the house, you'll have a hard time finding a job with all the modeling your doing.
4) Find a rich relative and become their favorite. This could take a while to pay off, or not.
5) If your in the industry say no to personal projects, leave it at work.
6) Not having time is an excuse for not using what you have efficiently or not working fast enough. Evaluate your time, and what you actually do when doing personal projects, cut out the fluff.
Personally I stay up late, or get up early. Work doesn't exceed more then 10hrs a day, and I don't work on personal projects while my daughter is up. Family first, she needs a dad not a potato.
- Yeah this one maybe will work.
2) Unplug your net connection...
- I can´t, how am I going to work remotely without net?
3) Work less, sleep less, get fired and force your wife to support you both. She'll be out of the house, you'll have a hard time finding a job with all the modeling your doing.
- My wife dont have a job, i can´t live without a home?
4) Find a rich relative and become their favorite. This could take a while to pay off, or not.
- I´m not that kind of person.
5) If your in the industry say no to personal projects, leave it at work.
- heh
6) Not having time is an excuse for not using what you have efficiently or not working fast enough. Evaluate your time, and what you actually do when doing personal projects, cut out the fluff.
- I do work fast enough, but I´m a contractor, I don´t have a fulltime job, so whenever there´s work they send I have to pay bills. But yes, I will try evaluating my time and try having 1 hour or 2 per day to do things for portfolio.
Yes, that´s the thing, Family first, and when I´m without work I go out and stay with wife, and for me this is sometimes rare!
THanks Vig
As for my remedy, I usually find a night or two to skip sleep (most of it anyway) and just bust ass on whatever I can at the time. I plan it out while I'm at work, or on the drive home. The next day at work is usually a pain, but there is at least some progress. My girlfriend has a hard time with it sometimes, but I just tell her that its my dream to do this and she understands.
Luck mate.
then when i phoned to get it sorted, i (rudely) hung up, halfway through, because i realised how much more productive i'd been without it. both in terms of modeling, and my music career.
Are you freelancing at the moment? Or just working in a studio that is demanding crazy amounts of work?
It should be obvious what needs to be changed in your life to allow you more time to do things. 12-14 hour days 7 days a week is not healthy.
Work faster by focusing 100% of your attention on what you're doing. Get autistic. Don't multi-task. So turn off msn and stop checking polycount ever hour. Turn off the TV. Tell your wife it's work time from 8-5 and Tuesdays evenings are for personal work.
It's not easy to have time as a freelancer I know. It's something I've struggled to balance for the past seven months. It is possible though.
1. You work too many hours
2. Your wife doesn't work
3. You don't have kids
Number three is your lucky charm. Unless your wife is physically incapable of working...she needs a job, if one is availabe. It takes two to live comfortably. What does she do?
I see that you work as a contract artist for games. So I see how that could be time consuming trying to support two people. Perhaps you should lessen the contract work, use the extra time working to get a in-house position.
At my age, I would not have the time I have to improve my skills if it wasn't for a very supportive and encouraging significant other. And low monthly bills.
...Or work less hours at work. (Depends on really why you're working those hours).
Working 12 - 14 hour days is what is hurting you the most. After working that long, you won't even have the energy necessary to work on personal projects, even if you could scrounge up the time. If your wife got a job, you would be able to afford to cut back on your own hours. If you and your spouse both work 8 - hour days, you'll probably earn more money that way, and have more time to spend with each other. (as well as more time for personal projects)
Only freelancing
Thanks man, usually my wife understands, because she knows how important is to me, but I, myself dont like to stay without her you know...
She works, but not all the time, she´s planner on marriages and make-up designer, so, sometimes she does these things for people who will marriage etc. She already tried to find a better job, but not worthy as my job gets 14 times better than what she will find in Brazil. So that´s why I say to her to not work and stay with me at home.
Yeah, good thing i don´t have any kids, just a Maltese pet doggy
Right, she does work as I said on the post before, but not all time.
If for some reason I lessen the contract work I won´t live exactly what im living now, and I don´t want to drop my style, I just would like to know how everybody manages its time. I think I need to know more of freelancers and not so much of people who works on studios. But yes, all info is important.
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2) Have her do half of the work.
Problem solved! And we need more girl power in game art anyways.
All kidding aside, I definitely agree on trying to find inhouse work. Even if this means moving, perhaps even to a different country if you have to.
If she's already a make-up designer or artist, show her how to paint textures... shouldn't be too hard!
what?
Couldn't resist.... CONFIRMED!