Right now, I’m struggling with balancing time between my full time prepress profession, my part-time freelance web/print design firm, family responsibilities and keeping my job skills up to date for the print/web world.
Suffice it to say, learning new software / programming languages outside my full time job is extremely difficult. I have freelance work to do, including REALLY revamping my own web presence (with video and other goodies). But I can’t legitimately put client work on the back burner, especially since my free time out of work is so limited.
I am spending time with my family at home plus church events, athletic and academic events outside of their regular school day, plus helping my wife with household things (since she’s trying to get her HR/Supply Chain / Finance degree). But trying to balance all of this and not feel further behind is getting pretty frustrating. I do want to know more about ActionScripting in Flash CS4, and setting up remote asset mgmt. databases in FileMaker. Brushing up on my CSS to make it more compact and learning more about JavaScript, PHP, JQuery are also high priorities.
Time, so precious a commodity, but so difficult to divide and use wisely…. I’ll have more on this (hopefully time for a video snippet to augment my ramblings).
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