When you bill by the hour, you’re effectively selling your life.
If everything you do is charged to a time slot and the things you do that are not chargeable time slots seem less valuable.
The risk is that the school concert or the sports day or the dog walk or doing the dishes or cooking or even cleaning the toilets is less valuable than work which you could do which was paid.
“Just pay someone to do that and you could go to work and earn more money” completely misses the point of doing tasks or activities that are not time bound that can actually give you satisfaction.
Recently my son, Callum, has started to wash cars at the weekend because he wants to earn some money (we don’t do the pocket money thing). It turns out he’s actually quite enjoying the finished product that he creates and the quality of what he’s doing is getting better and better.
He gets paid for the job, not for the time that he spends on it but there’s just a little bit of the fact that it’s becoming a reward in itself.
Also, recently I put a new picture on the wall of the office at work. It’s a Richard Whitehead Olympic jersey but it’s signed by Ed Clancy, the three-time Olympic champion who both Louis and I went to see speak recently and who is speaking next month at The Campbell Clinic.
I could have asked someone at work to put it on the wall, but Louis and I put it on the wall together.
I think it looks better for that, rather than me going downstairs to do more work, to earn a little bit of the money for somebody to put it on the wall.
We all have to make a living but once we have, we have to live that living too.
Blog Post Number - 2995
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