A day in the life of a small software company CEO

Thanks for posting my Schedule...kind of.
I completely understand you!

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My goodness...I am tired just reading that. YOu better pencil inyour wife in there somewhere!

And the kids..... reminds me of a song "Cats in the cradle....."

Mind you, this is during the busy time.  My wife/ kids do see a lot of me. Particularly in the mornings (in the summer they usually come with me on the morning bike ride/walk.  So from 9am to 11am in the morning I see the kids quite a bit.

And when I come home, typically around 7pm to 8pm I am around them a lot before bed. And of course on weekends things are much more flexible. And they come to the office quite a bit.

Maybe I am wrong but I suspect, on many levels, you enjoy being this busy...or I should say this productive. It has to feel good, even as it is also draining, to be building something. For the most part I see the schedule of a man moving things forward, building interest in himself and his company, and making sure the ship is running like you want.

Tiring maybe...but it must also be very rewarding or you would just stop doing it (unless you just don't know any better).

when to you have time to be with your family???

oh never mind... but with a schedule like that, when do you, you know... have non-work fun?

I do enjoy my work. It's good to build things. And I do get to spend a lot of time with my wife because she's around most of the time in some capacity.

On Wednesdays, like today, I work from home entirely so the kids and wife are around the entire time.

So you could shave another hour of time off of your sleep to buy the liscence to Master of Magic and make a sequel?

before I worked here at Stardock my schedule was: Roll out of bed at 3:00PM, work on customer stuff till 6:00AM, go to bed. Repeat.

Read book before bed (reading Kingdom Come - super hero book)

I love this book. I reread the collected graphic novel and the hardcover novel regularly.

For fuck sake, do sleep with laptop between your legs?
Chillout dude :>

Jeeez and I fuss about working 3 days a week............... I guess I'm just spoiled.......

Just remember this the next time you call a developer lazy

My life as a small software company CEO.

Wake up at 9:30am.
Pray.
Read my favorite websites.
Read my favorite newsgroups.
Read email.
Call customers.
Count money made.
Eat lunch.
Fire up my favorite C++ editor.
Play with my 8 month old.
Take a nap.
Read email.
Eat dinner.
Spend time with my wife.
Go to bed.

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That's one hell of a schedule. You are passionate about your career and about Stardock and it shows. I suppose you wish you were raking in millions of dollars for your efforts, but I'm sure you get plenty out of it personally in more than just monetary ways or you would stop doing it.

I definitely enjoy doing it.  I say that as someone who's up at 2:23am right now making a video showing how to Make DesktopX objects.

sgsmitty64 - btw, your comment really annoyed me as you either didn't look very closely at my schedule or you have an exagerated sense of how many hours parents spend with their kids.

Even on my recent hectic schedule, your'e still looking at 2 to 3 hours per day of playing around with the kids.

In my experience, the typical working dad sees their kid, at best, for a couple hours in the evening.  They leave for work before the kids are up/at school and go to work. They get home at say 5:30pm.  They have, at best, a couple hours per day to spend with the kids which, from my observation, people rarely do. I see lots of dads come home, eat dinner, watch TV, visit with their kid maybe an hour or so per night.

Whereas in my case, At 10am from 11am I have time to play around with my kid both inside and outside and then when I'm working from home which varies (sometimes I'm home at 4pm sometimes I'm home at 9pm the location of where I work varies) I'm amongst my kids a lot who I play with and see a lot. Plus my kids come to the office a lot (such as today).

So the whole  "Cats in the cradle....." was really uncalled for IMO.

The point of the schedule which seems to have been lost is that when you're runnign a company, your schedule is 24 hour basically. That is, you're always on call doing something. But it's far lower impact. I'd rather be making comptuer games and desktop enhancements than working in factory or in a political-intensive office environment.

And the money I do make allows my wife and kids and I to spend a lot more time together.  Because I earn more, I can pay someone else for home improvement/repair/maint. So I'm not blowing 2 hours a week on law maintainence. I don't lose weekends fixing up the basement or fixing dry wall or building a deck or whatever.  Instead, I take my kids on "adventures" (essentially long walks in the woods) or to the comic book store or play laser tag or squirt guns or whatever. 

A lot of the time most working dads

hey draginol and jonnygoodboy, what do u think about outsourcing?? would u mind doing it??

Technically speaking, I already out-source all the time.  But I don't think of it as outsourcing. I think of it as not discriminating against someone simply because they didn't happened to be born in the United States.

I work with wonderful people in countries such as Poland (where Blog Navigator is developed), Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Australia, and elsewhere. We want to work with the best people we can find regardless of where they live.

thats nice draginol...good to hear this when a lot of hue and cry is being raised abt outsourcing...btw, do u work with any indians either at ur office or have u come into contact with them thru some of ur outsourcing??

No, we don't work with anyone from India.

ok...thanks drag...

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