The Wasteful Activities of a Childless Designer
A little over a year ago, when I was a free, childless, freelance web designer, I had plenty of time to do things like:
- Encrypt my style sheets so plagiarists wouldn’t have such an easy ride with my portfolio site
- Put and manage traps to find out when somebody downloaded my portfolio site with a program (copyright threat)
- Review site statistics and traffic on a daily basis
- Download site logs for record keeping
- Read daily blog posts of several top web designers and industry publications
- Monitor several web design galleries for daily inspiration and to make sure nobody was plagiarizing my work
- Read Plagiarism Today on a daily basis
- Record purchases and receipts the same day they happened
- Read Martha Stewart Living the minute it came
- Play
- Feel unaccomplished compared to top web designers and bloggers
These days, all my schedule can fit is:
Joaquin • Groom • Eat • Make • Etsy • Blog • Photos • Read a few blogs • Feel unaccomplished compared to other artisans and artists
Children really force you to prioritize your activities and interests… I still don’t want people plagiarizing my work, but I don’t have the time to keep attempting to prevent it. I prefer to focus on what makes me happiest; I don’t have time to think further than a few hours ahead; reconciling my financial accounts has become a nightmare, and I still always manage to feel unaccomplished… Some things never change… But others do, so I have updated my About page to reflect better the person I am today.