Showing posts with label Time vs Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Time vs Money. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 January 2021

Jan 14, 2021 - The Questionable Trade off

A whole week just flew by. The realization that I traded 5 days worth of my prime-time hours (of my prime years) to an employer in return for money is a daunting realization. Hours I will never get back; and, - money that I will spend in less time than it takes to decide what shoes to wear. 

I think a lot about this trade off. Is it worth it? Is there a way to make double the amount by putting in half the time? Perhaps creating an online course, creating a product that sells, creating content on YouTube, starting your own business - basically not a 9-6 job. Then why is it that most of us - knowing that a 9-6 job is not the way to make more money with less time - still continue to do it? Only to retire 30 years later and realized life went by? Simple things like liking what you do comes into the picture.

We all sell different things. I sell my time. What do you sell? Have you made the switch to selling something other than your time?

Tuesday, 5 January 2021

Jan 6, 2021 - To pay or Not to pay

My place of work has limited parking. If you want to park in the same building - you have to shell out a mighty 1000 Dirhams per month. This is more than most people's starting salary in a developing country.

I can't imagine paying so much. So I walk 10 minutes to park for free. I meet additional traffic for about 20 minutes thanks to this free parking.

This is basically trading 40 minutes (10 minutes morning, 10 minutes evening, 20 minutes extra traffic in the evening) of my daily life or around 15 hours every month for 1000 Dirhams.

Is this a fair trade? For the time being yes - I haven't figured out a better use of my time. I am ignoring some amount of increased fatigue daily. I am anyways fatigued most days. 

I believe when I find something more productive to do with these 15 hours/month - I will pay 1000 Dirhams.

SS