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Create a Schedule that Makes Sense for How YOU Work
No more “Sunday Scaries.”
In the days of my corporate job, the weekend couldn’t come soon enough. As a product manager, I’d sometimes be caught up in the middle of a difficult release, dealing with a serious customer issue, or simply overwhelmed by the volume of work. Long workdays were the result of working on a team that was perpetually running behind. Someone else’s fire became my emergency to fix.
But at this company, weekends were typically quiet. Everyone at the company took a break on the weekend (for the most part), and customers’ businesses were closed on the weekends. I could enjoy my weekend time, until the “Sunday Scaries” crept in… the sense of dread on Sunday evening that I’d have to repeat the cycle starting Monday morning.
I left that company years ago and pivoted into content marketing and journalism. Now, I’m a solopreneur, running my own business. I no longer look at weekends as a “break” because the work I do doesn’t feel like such a grind. I also choose to work on weekends, but it is my decision.
And that’s one of the most important parts of running your own business: you get to create a schedule that makes sense FOR YOU. You’re not beholden to other people’s ideas of when and how work should get done.
