Does More Time Equal More Money?

Recently my best friend (and only person outside my family who knows my debt situation) got a boyfriend.

While I’m happy for my friend, myself being a male, I’m seeing understandably alot less of her. More like once a week now vs. 3-4 times a week the past 12-18 months.

What has this meant for me and my whole mess? Well, mostly it’s meant more time to work on some side projects outside of “normal business hours”. In other words, prime time social time has turned into prime time work time.

I’ve made some other friends the last few months, and I feel like I “know” alot of people (names, basic facts, etc). But I don’t feel truly close to anyone here in Seattle besides my friend I mentioned above.

So, her getting a boyfriend has really opening up a whole lot of free time for me.

It’s both good and bad. It’s good that I’m getting lots done. It’s bad that I’m working on too many things at the moment (but time is allowing this for now). It’s good that I’m making money.

It’s bad (is it?) that I’m trying to make money on BOTH friday and saturday night this past week.

So far I’m up and down with the whole newfound freedom of time. At times, it’s very handy because I’m pretty motivated right now to work. But, like saturday morning….those big chunks of “free time” are actually a little scary.

Keeping myself motivated work-wise is priority number #1 right now. But in a close second is keeping myself motivated to take care of myself (keeping my apartment clean, doing laundry, running, hitting the weights). When I tend to slack on the second priority it really starts to affect my work motivation.

I guess it boils down to the fact that I work alot better when I feel better about myself.

So, does more time equal more money?

Right now, so far in my little experiment, it does. I’m not rushing to judgement just yet though. If this keeps up the next few months I’ll have a better idea of how this newfound extra time is affecting my bottom line both financially and emotionally.