For a freelancer, or for a person doing a bootstap startup, a job that only requires one day a week is wonderful. It provides a baseline of income, hopefully a decent bit of social interaction, and one consideration for a serial entrepreneur or freelancer, is that it provides a way for you to accumulate social security disability benefits. One of the biggest downsides of being a freelancer is that a safety net is either non-existent or much more expensive.
Eight hours a week at retail clerk wages may not seem like much, but I think one of the things YC has shown is that it doesn't take much money to do some pretty awesome things.
I'd be interested to know if anyone here has experience or advice on "sustance" type jobs that provide ramen and rent while not taking up so much time that you can't work on your main project. I'm not looking for such a thing now, since freelancing is more than paying the bills at the moment, but things can change quickly.
For a freelancer, or for a person doing a bootstap startup, a job that only requires one day a week is wonderful. It provides a baseline of income, hopefully a decent bit of social interaction, and one consideration for a serial entrepreneur or freelancer, is that it provides a way for you to accumulate social security disability benefits. One of the biggest downsides of being a freelancer is that a safety net is either non-existent or much more expensive.
Eight hours a week at retail clerk wages may not seem like much, but I think one of the things YC has shown is that it doesn't take much money to do some pretty awesome things.
I'd be interested to know if anyone here has experience or advice on "sustance" type jobs that provide ramen and rent while not taking up so much time that you can't work on your main project. I'm not looking for such a thing now, since freelancing is more than paying the bills at the moment, but things can change quickly.