You Should Sweat the Small Stuff

I work two jobs: I work as a freelance web designer and software programmer in the evenings and on weekends, and to make sure I'm making ends meet, I keep a second full-time job, which I don't hate, but I don't particularly enjoy, either.

As you can imagine, the hours have a tendency to run long, and I find weeks slipping away without so much as a single memory outside of work, the gym, and my apartment. And when I had a live-in girlfriend, my time was even more thinly spread, which left me going to sleep every night an hour or two later than I'd wanted to and waking up feeling like I'd spent my whole REM cycle in a dead sprint.

Something had to change, but I didn't really know how to fix it. I... read more

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