My Part-Time Creator Routine 🎒
PTCC #011
In the mail 📧
The story 🎒: My part-time routine.
Small ideas💡: Ideas to ponder.
Web highlights 🌍: Cool things this week.
Tiny thought 🆕: On rushing.
Read time: 2 minutes
I’m a part-time creator.
You probably knew that already. I work a regular 9-5 job and in my spare time I work on my side hustle, side project, whatever you want to call it. For me, it’s bliss. I post my routine on Twitter this week, people loved it. I got all kind of kudos and a few odd questions (comes with the territory).
This is not a ‘quit the rat race’ vibe
But here’s the thing: I create on the side because I love it. I’m not trying to quit the rat race. I’m not getting up at 5am because I hate my job and want to escape. Nope. I know people tell you to feel this way, to quit, get out, free yourself from the cubicle life. Honestly, it’s never been that bad for me.
Getting a better job
It’s been bad, but then I just got a better job. For a while I subscribed to this mentality, I must quit and get out. But I found myself hating life and desperately trying to get rich online. I would fall for all those ‘How I Made $432,928 in Six Days’ videos. It fed this self-depricating mood.
The cycle
I read content about quitting the rat race ➡️ I was convinced I wanted to quit the rat race ➡️ I searched for solutions (i.e. any day trading, Amazon FBA selling course in sight) ➡️ I failed and felt even worst about myself.
That was until I realised, I didn’t hate the 9-5, I just didn’t like the job I was in.
You don’t have to quit your day job
It’s easy to put this idea of quitting on a pedestal but beside the reality that most people can’t just quit their day job, it hasn’t occured to online gurus that some people don’t want to. I know. Wild.
So I’ll say it: Some people like their jobs, they’re not trying to desperately escape the rat race and they also want to create on the internet.
That statement right there is exactly why I created www.parttimecreatorclub.com. You can, I repeat can, keep your day job and create on the internet and enjoy the both. No grand plan. Just joy.
My routine
Here’s what it looks like for me. Wake up, straight to the desk to write. I’m off coffee at the moment but if I was drinking it, I’d have a cup of the hot stuff next to my desk.
Then it’s simple as can be.
Write for 1 hour
Edit for 1 hour
Writing complete
That’s it done with the writing for the day (although I often do a little more) and then on with the rest of the day.
SMALL IDEAS 💡
Data-led but forward thinking - I heard this quote from Mark Rober this week. Apple knows what their customers want before they do. You can be data-led but leave room for innovation.
Great content must have great distribution - A lesson from 9 months building in the dark.
Sustainable > possible - You could write 28 tweets in a day, work until midnight and write a email newsletter everyday. You could. But it’s probably not sustainable.
Across the web 🌍
Lewis Capaldi shares Shell Rowe’s story.
Shaun and Sam talk about the unpopular lessons they’ve learned from MFM podcast.
Tiny thought:
The rushing. The rushing to buy presents, to clean the house, to be somebody, to get everything done. Why? Could you do all of those things and just, gulp, not rush? Instead of frantically racing around the house to get everything done, what if you just enjoyed the way the washing up liquid foams on the dishes, the simplicity of loading the dishwater, the fun of writing a newsletter? What if?
Just 2 hours for all that writing! Good for you Eve. You've built your systems seems like.