Has anyone tried freelancing after work?

Question

Freelance

Is it possible to work on a project for 4-5 hours a day? and what scale should be the projects?. It’s just that there was a similar person at the old job, but I didn’t even ask him.

Answer 1

Of course, people are different, but I can't. It is better to spend this time on personal projects (open source) and on development (new languages, improve fundamental knowledge), or on some other hobby (I have this music, for example). In the long run, this will bring more benefits, and the quality of life will be higher. Working two jobs, combining work / study - all this is either for very, very organized people (phenomenally organized, who can live according to a plan every day), or for those who don’t really delve into something (and this directly affects skill quality). In addition, no matter how I tried, the limit of productive work per day is about 6 hours. Everything else not only does not bring pleasure, it also turns out to be worse in quality. It's better to do one task, "be slower", but do it really cool.

Answer 2

I am a student and work as a web coder (freelance). According to measurements in Toggl, it is almost never possible to work more than 5 hours on sites (this is on weekends, and the measurement was taken directly from the work, and not from sitting at the computer). During weekdays I work with couples for 3-4 hours, and even then not always.
Although I am young / energetic, I can’t live at such a pace. I recently burned out and lay on the couch for a month ...
In general, even though this is a university, it also has enough time and energy. From the experience of my suffering, I do not recommend practicing "work after work."

Answer 3

I worked in parallel 40 hours a week in the office + 2-3 hours a day at home. I had to travel around the city for work. Sometimes trips or tasks were unexpected and this had a detrimental effect on freelance projects.
I concluded that freelancing in parallel with the office is possible if:
1. Income from freelancing is not critical for the family budget and you treat it like a hobby.
2. You plan to switch completely to freelancing in the future, and this stage is necessary to fill the portfolio of the client base, raise the rating on the stock exchange.
About myself. I have passed this stage and now I earn only on freelancing.

Answer 4

Always working multiple jobs and making time for multiple projects or activities is hard work.
But, it saves that a person wakes up either interest or life circumstances requiring money.
Man is a creature adapting to various difficulties, so any hard work eventually either becomes so hard that you quit it, or it becomes already quite easy and you don’t notice how you are working on two projects at the same time.
It may well be acceptable if you work at the same job, you have free time, or you are an efficient employee and do your work quickly, there is free time.
In many state offices, the fact that you give all your best and bend, do a bunch of things, your salary will not depend, they will give you more and more work ...
So you need to approach the situation wisely, look for the golden mean, so to speak.
Yes, and freelancing as a second income can even be just a hobby, it is better to find this kind. Coming home from work or even still at work, you start freelancing on a project, resting your soul, taking a break from routine work, but doing what you love, and even for which you get paid.
Everything depends on people, on the situation, on the psychophysiological characteristics of the human body, on the specifics of work, position, time, location, Internet access and the ability to be online.

Answer 5

I worked at my main job for half a year, then I went to an additional one (the same kind of as the main one but for 3 hours), in principle, I got tired, but it was interesting to work on the second one and I worked and I liked it.
Then we finished the project and I switched to freelancing for a second job, and now freelancing didn’t go like that. There are more nuances, then important edits, then the client is gone, then the project is stalled because of a colleague, and you have to do double work tomorrow. In general, it didn't work. Over time, he abandoned this scheme.
It is also important here if someone who can take over many other life-social things like going to the shops, cooking, cleaning, going to all sorts of institutions when something is needed.
For middle and above, the ideal option is 1 client 1 project, and free time to devote to your ideas and projects.

Answer 6

Have worked. It's hard no matter how self-organized you are. 8 hours of basic work is not -8 hours out of a day, but somewhere around -10. 4-5 hours of freelancing is 5-6 hours. In total, you will only sleep and work. You will have to eat either during work, or to the detriment of sleep. I exaggerate, of course.
I spent a few months freelancing after work and gave up. It is much more profitable to invest these remaining hours in yourself, in training, in relationships, or just in relaxation, so as not to burn out in six months. Educate yourself so that your main job brings you enough money.

Answer 7

If you don’t do garbage during the day, then you can combine full-time work with a part-time project (20 hours a week - 2-3 hours on weekdays and the rest on weekends) several months. If the main work allows you to cope with it faster than 8 hours a day, then longer.

Answer 8

I worked 13-14 hours a day at the office + freelancing. At what and this and that were full-time work. I had to take tasks one by one, first at the office complex (architectural / analytical / incomprehensible to anyone), at freelance routine / simple, then vice versa. Where he took the difficult one, he devoted more time per day, in proportions of 60/40 time. I worked like this for a year, from time to time I had to take a vacation at the office in order to unload and spend more time with my family (because family time flies into the pipe, there are only 3 hours left to at least sleep). The most difficult moments are blockages on projects - when deadlines are squeezed and it is necessary to do complex tasks on two projects at once. Then the work time increases to 14-16 hours a day (two full days) and the day turns into sleep + work and nothing more. Most of the time there were no days off. Because drank what was left of the week,
I quit the office because they raised the salary on freelance to the rate where, with my processing, even the minimum salary would be obtained for two jobs, I thought it was time to live a little.
Now I'm thinking about two simultaneous freelance jobs (full-time telecommuting) =))) The road to the office always took an hour and a half a day, and this time could be effectively allocated to work.
Well, often because of the family, sleep was reduced to 4 hours and a large amount of coffee.
Did you earn a lot from this? Yes. So I can't regret this year. I got what I wanted.
Will I repeat? It is possible, but it will be necessary to more effectively distribute project tasks in advance, abandon social networks, and most importantly - keep a clear daily routine, if you give up - everything will go awry, and with a constant pace of two works, it is very difficult to “push” some, but here somewhere to relax - easy.