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How To Entertain Your Neighbours with Fake Lawyer Letters
By crooky | July 14, 2008
I apologize for being a bit lax on my blogging schedule these past few weeks. I will get back to some serious writing this week. I took a quasi-vacation last week in which I didn’t do a heck of a lot of work and played with my kids lots, drank beer, got a tan, hung out with friends, etc… It culminated this weekend past with me MCing my cousin Sheldon’s wedding.
Before we return to serious posts about serious business, I wanted to share tonight’s bit of insanity with you. My next door neighbours had an unfortunate incident about 18 months ago where one of their neighbours got drunk, got in her car and drove backwards at full-speed directly into my neighbours’ cars - totalling them both.
My neighbours have been much more charitable about the whole situation than I would have been. Their cars were older cars that the owner had restored to prime working condition but were on paper, worth essentially nothing. They received a few thousand dollars for the cars which had recently had over $6000 in parts alone put into them. The neighbour who totalled their cars drove her car back to her parking spot about 30 yards away and went back into her house, trying to sober up by drinking copious amounts of water before the police arrived.
When the police arrived, they charged her with speeding and leaving the scene of an accident. This week, the woman who committed this ridiculous crime has been petitioning my neighbour to sign a statement saying that she didn’t leave the scene of an accident when she clearly did. My neighbours, who never did receive proper compensation for their totalled vehicles, were so upset that they called me for advice about how to respond. At first, I told them to tell her to “fuck off and die” but realizing that this might not be in the best interest of neighbourly relations, gave them the following letter that I suggested they should give to the woman should she return:
They had a good laugh and decided to call her to tell her that they would, under no circumstances, sign any statement saying she did not leave the scene of an accident because that is exactly what she did. I hope you got a small laugh out of my letter and if you need a similar letter for your loved ones, drop me a line. Always happy to oblige.
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Tired of Being Crammed Between Gen X and Gen Y?
By crooky | July 10, 2008
This is something that I swore I would never advertise because I feel it is a liability to my business - I am 30 years old. Now that I’ve put that out there, it’s a much more interesting conversation to explore why my age has been a liability in my business these past five years.
Let me explain it this way - most people would agree that anyone born between 1980 and the late 90s is a Generation Y person (also known as Millenials). By that same token, most people would agree that anyone born between 1965 and 1975 is definitely a Gen Xer.
I was born in 1978. That makes me almost young enough to be a Gen Yer and almost old enough to be a Gen Xer but not really either. This is a bigger problem for me as a former employee and as a consultant than you might suspect. Here’s why:
1. Gen Yer clients of mine expect me to be significantly older than them.
Typically, when you hire a consultant or anyone to give you advice, you expect them to be older and/or more experienced that you. Obviously, I have some depth in a niche of my expertise area or no one would hire me but rarely am I older than my clients.
I avoid this topic like the plague. It actually came up recently with a client of mine. We got talking about demographic dividers as a way to categorize potential customers. They said “how old are you?” Doh! I hate that question. I copped to being 30 and they were quite taken aback. I’m only 2 years older than they are. I asked them what made them think I was older than that and they said “because you seem wiser and more knowledgeable than most 30 year-olds.”
Now, that was a compliment and they insisted that it wasn’t because I am in poor shape for a 30 year-old but this is exactly the kind of conversation I don’t want to get into with most of my clients. They’re very cool and I don’t think it will impact my working relationship with them but it’s come up in the past when I’ve worked for other 20-something entrepreneurs.
The fact is that most of them don’t take me as seriously when they find out that I’m only a handful of years older than them.
2. Gen Xer clients of mine expect me to be older than most Gen Yers they know.
Let’s face it - the newspapers and magazines are full of articles about how much Generation Y sucks. Where Generation X was supposed to be the slacker generation, Generation Y has gotten saddled with this “selfish, narcissistic, pompous, arrogant asshole” vibe that I don’t think is deserved.
You can see how this might be a bit of an image problem when my clients who are in their 40s find out that I could technically be lumped in with these Gen Yers. Most of them know that I am not as old as they are because I don’t have any grey in my hair (yet) and I have young kids. I’m sure they do the math and think “okay. He must have gotten married in his late 20s and now he has a pre-schooler daughter and a toddler son and he owns his own business.” They’re most likely pegging me at 35-40 years old.
When they find out I’m 30 - some of them are visibly angry. It’s like they think I’ve cheated or something. I understand the frustration. Most of my Gen X friends couldn’t find decent jobs when they left university. I was at the leading edge of the generation that didn’t have as much trouble finding work because so many people are retiring now. I entered my Big C “Career” at the same time as a lot of people as much as 10 years older than me.
Again, most of my older clients have been pretty cool when they find out how old I am because the quality of my work speaks for itself. However, I have lost a few clients over the years because of this and it has certainly strained my relationship with others.
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So, you can see how I might be reluctant to admit my age to most clients but I’m at a place in my life when I’m tired of lying about my age or refusing to say. If you judge me based on my age, that’s ageism - pure and simple. You might as well be judging me for being white, or male.
While I may have “outed” myself with this post, I’m certainly not going to make it a new policy to advertise my age to everyone I meet and work with. Even if they recognize that what they’re doing to me is ageism if they change the way they feel about me based on my age, it’s not going to change the fact that I’m suddenly different in their eyes.
I want to thank Maren Hogan over at Big O Recruiting for putting into words many of my thoughts about this issue and linking to one of my previous posts.
I’d also invite anyone considering writing a “how to manage Gen Yers in the workplace”-type article to kiss my ass. I’m sure you were a model employee at age 20. Being irresponsible and/or irrational in your youth is something that people born in 1980 or later invented. In fact, they have a patent on it so next time you want to do something assinine at work, you have to send $2 to the Generation Y Foundation. Sure, they’re going to spend it on piercings but you shouldn’t infringe on their IP.
While I’m at it, I’d like to throw out a big “fuck you” to my fellow Vancouverite Douglas Coupland. You’re a shitty writer, no one should interview you for your views on anything because you’re an asshole and my sister, who used to clean your apartment for a living, says you’re a fucking slob.
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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.
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Fuel Efficiency - the VW 1L, 110 MPG Mustang and the Impact of Biofuel on Food Prices
By crooky | July 7, 2008
A trio of articles caught my attention this weekend - all of them related to our obsession with high fuel efficiency vehicles that lower our impact on the environment. We’ll start with a follow up on the VW 1L, then a story about a suspicious highly efficient Mustang and finally an interesting statistic about biofuels.
1. Update on the 1L
Back in May, I introduced you to the Volkswagen 1L. I suspect that VW leaked the story to the mainstream media as an inexpensive tactic to gauge the marketability of the prototype. If that’s the case, it looks like they got a good response because they’re planning on putting out a limited number of these cars by 2010.
When I wrote about this in May, I reported that they would have production models out in 2010 but apparently they’ve gotten more official about it and have suggested that these cars will retail for about $30-45K. They’ve also decided to go with a 2 cylinder diesel motor instead of a one-cylinder motor.
We’ll see how the market responds when these things start hitting the market. I wouldn’t be surprized to see a few on the road here in Vancouver in 2010.
2. The 110 MPG Mustang
Another entrepreneur is claiming to have cracked the laws of physics and thermodynamics to bring us a car with an engine that is 640% more effient than the original. Wow! (SARCASM ALERT). See the video about this “amazing” discovery below:
Now, before you contact this individual to give him your life savings, let me recap the criticisms raised in the EcoModder article that first brought this “amazing” discovery to my attention:
- This car runs on the e85 flex fuel system which demonstrably decreases fuel economy from stock levels in most vehicles.
- He’s actually talking about Miles per Gallon Energy Equivalent MPGe which means the car doesn’t actually get 110 MPG but something far less than that.
- He’s claiming some crazy specs that defy the laws of physics and thermodynamics.
Two other things of note:
- One of the company founders just lost his job at a Ford factory and is probably desperate to try anything.
- The other guy on the video starts going into some crazy rant about how America should dictate gas prices that they’re going to pay to the market, not the other way around.
This whole concept/video depresses the hell out of me. I can’t go on with this section of the article.
3. Are Biofuels Driving Up Food Prices?
The Telegraph had an article today suggesting that biofuels (such as biodiesel based on refined plant materials) could be responsible for as much as 75% Of the increase in global food prices. Food prices have risen by 140% in the past six years and despite the US assertion that it is a hungry China that is driving up prices, a study by the World Bank puts the blame on corn and wheat-based ethanol production.
Never mind food prices, there is some talk that biofuels aren’t as good for the environment as old-fashioned fossil fuels once you account for the fuel used in producing these fuels.
You can argue that biofuels aren’t driving up food prices and they’re not hurting the environment but I believe that there has been enough contradictory evidence to warrant a more in-depth investigation of biofuels before we look to them to replace traditional fossil fuels.
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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.
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The Hatemail Bag
By crooky | July 2, 2008
When I go out to do research for clients, sometimes I have to send bulk mailers to a large number of people. Earlier this week, I had to send invitations for comments on a new post-secondary education program to several thousand people. Here are some of the better responses I got and how I responded in return:
1. My time is too precious to respond!!!
“I charge for my time just like you. 4 min @ $270.00/ hr.”
My response:
“So… you didn’t fill in the survey, saving you $18 of time that could generate some billable hours but you wasted $4.50 worth of billable hours to tell me that you’re not going to respond to me? Who’s the loser now? I got paid $4 to respond to your note.”
2. YOU’VE UNLEASHED THE FURY!!!!
Edit on July 3: This douchebag is threatening to sue so I’ve removed the actualy text he wrote. Here’s the summary.
“You sent me an e-mail! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!” (plus some wildly inappropriate suggestions about my sexuality, etc…)
My response: “Hahahahaha. How old are you?”
3. Looking for love in all the wrong places
“Take me off your list! No way!”
My response:
“Can’t blame a guy for trying. Have a nice long weekend.”
Her response:
“Hmmm… you`re sweet. Tell me about yourself.”
(10 e-mails later, she starts sending pics and asking about my marital status).
Anyhow, that`s the exciting life I lead as a market research professional. Just thought I`d share.
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BC Gas Tax to Start Tomorrow - So What?
By crooky | June 30, 2008
My wife got me panicked this morning because she said there was a “24 cent” per litre gas tax starting tomorrow. I said “WHAT?” and promptly got online to confirm. It’s actually 2.4 cents per litre. When I usually fill up, I put $50 in. A 2.4 cent per litre gas tax means I’m paying an exta 80 cents at the pump when I fill up. OH NO!!!! TIME TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT!!!! 80 CENTS! RISE UP AND SMITE OUR OPPRESSORS!!!! THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GET $30 - $50 per year MORE FROM THIS CITIZEN!!!
Here’s why I don’t give a shit about the gas tax and you shouldn’t either:
1. It’s not enough to affect me.
I don’t know about where you live but gas prices fluctuate by more than this on a daily basis where I live. 2.4 cents? My gas discount at Safeway is often 7 cents per litre. Rising gas prices have only impacted my driving behaviour slightly. What’s an extra 2.4 cents per litre going to do?
The big burn for me is parking fees. When I drive downtown in my new, fuel efficient VW Golf, I’m spending about $9 on gas for a 100km round-trip. Parking downtown for the day can run well in excess of $20 though. That’s the big stick that gets me to leave the car at home - the idea of paying double or triple what I paid in gas to park.
2. I write off most of my gas at the end of the year as a tax deduction.
This doesn’t apply to everyone but for the self-employed, I have to buy gas to put in my work vehicle (which I also write off) and I write that gas off at the end of the year. It doesn’t really matter if it’s 2.4 cents per litre more. In fact, the more expensive gas is, the bigger the writeoff I get - as long as I can afford to pay it up front.
I also write off my parking for business which is why I don’t fly off the handle about parking too often either.
3. As a straight sin-tax, I am in support of the concept of the gas tax.
I know that fossil fuels are killing the planet. I know that I could be more eco friendly. I’m not super eco-friendly and I’m happy to pay the sin tax on gas because of that. It’s the same thing with alcohol and tobacco. People should begrudge paying the sin tax on those either. They know that their vice is costing society in the long run. When that’s the situation, you pay the tax and shut up about it.
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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.
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The Role of Universities - Knowledge, Skills, Citizenship
By crooky | June 27, 2008
I read a really interesting post over at Dooney’s Cafe yesterday on the role of universities in educating young people and commented on it at length (aka a rant). I wanted to expand on my views on my own blog because I was tired when I wrote those comments and I feel like I came across as a bit of a lunatic.
My position on post-secondary education is that universities have a three-fold responsibility to the young people who spend their time and money at their institution:
1. To bequeath knowledge
This is the point that I expect to get the least amount of argument about. Universities, by their nature, are designed to educate. The kind of knowledge you gain varies wildly based on the program that you are in and the teachers that you have the priviledge of working with.
In a nutshell, I believe that it is the responsibility of the university to show you a world that you didn’t understand or didn’t understand as completely. When you leave the university, you should have gained new insight into the world around you and by extension, the ability to think more critically about the world in which you live.
The point that Stan Persky seemed to be trying to drive is that we (society) are too focused on hard skills and not focussed enough on the broader cultural learnings that a university education provides. On this point, I disagree. Most university programs do not spend enough time on skills and spend too much time on trying to mold us into “well rounded citizens”. I think that happens naturally when you’re in the university environment.
2. To teach marketable skills
This is where I run into some resistance amongst my more academically-inclined friends. I believe that the university also has a big responsibility to ensure that graduates of its programs have marketable skills. Granted, the ability to think critically is an important skill to have but this should be complemented by the ability to write concisely, the ability to manage projects and hard skills in the technical areas (if that’s where your studies take you).
Some university types that I meet seem to think that expecting to learn hard skills at a university somehow sullies the mandate of the university and commoditizes education. I disagree. I think that without teaching skills with an application in the world outside the unviersity, the university is just furthering its reputation as an “ivory tower”.
3. To connect with the community
This is an area where most universities need the most improvement. I’ve seen small, limited-scope programs like co-op and special speaking engagements where the university makes an effort to connect what’s taught in the classroom to what’s going on in the community but there’s so much more that could be done.
As a member of the Alumni Association at SFU, I hear many alumni who want to give back to the university by working with students in their programs and helping them put their “book learning” into context. These well-intentioned individuals are often frustrated in their efforts to reach out to the students in a meaningful way.
There are exceptions to this and some programs are very, very good at tying the program to the community but by and large, most programs do a poor job of this.
Stan Persky replied to my comment and thinks I missed the point of his article - which was a criticism of one auther’s view that some kids aren’t smart enough to go to university. I argue that my points are relevant because I’m posing the argument that universities are sometimes not smart enough for their students.
I’m actively working within the post-secondary system to correct this issue but it’s an uphill battle.
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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.
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Behaviour Modelling: Did it Go Out With A Whimper?
By crooky | June 25, 2008
An interesting article in Wired this month talks about how humanity is entering into the “Petabyte Age”. They describe the Petabyte Age as a time where there are sensors everywhere, data pouring in from myriad sources, unlimited data storage capacity and the processing power necessary to fill in the gaps. This article goes on to proclaim the “scientific method obsolete”. I want to argue for and against this idea.
Modelling, like Economics, assumes predictable, rational behaviour in all aspects of our universe. I’ve always had a beef with this supposition - especially on the economics side of the fence. If economic theory and models really worked, we’d have a utopia based on capitalism and the free market. These kinds of models and the political systems based on thse models fall down when they meet with reality because people do not behave rationally. In my experience, people behave irrationally. By extension, patterns in nature are equally as unpredictable.
On the other side of the argument is the fact that a model is only as good as the observations that form the basis of that model. If the observations are fouled, the model is fouled. Given an unlimited number of observations and validation points, you could build a model that could predict any behaviour. At that point - are we talking about a model anymore or omniscience?
That is what the Wired article is suggesting - that our modern ability to collect, store and analyze data about the world around us has made models irrelevant. We can measure and describe almost complete systems now. When you have a comprehensive description of a system, you don’t need a model because you have all of the data.
Models were originally designed to fill in holes in our ability to measure and analyze. Statistics helped us validate the accuracy of our models. The scientific method works as follows:
1. Define the question
2. Gather information and resources
3. Form a hypothesis
4. Collect the data
5. Analyze the data
6. Draw your conclusions and answer your question based on your analyses
The Petabyte Age allows researchers to skip step 3 - the point where models are developed. You can now just observe the data as it is and analyze the system that is in place. Modelling and hypotheses are important when you have limited resources and ability to collect data. When these limitations are taken out of the picture - are hypotheses really necessary? Wired says no.
My conclusion is that you still need to have some concept of what drives a system or motivations individuals in order to analyze even a comprehensive set of data. Otherwise, there is no patterns to guide our decision-making process. You could just say “well, this is how group A behaves” and when someone asks you to guess how Group B is going to behave, you say “we have to analyze their metrics before I can tell you that”.
Models and hypotheses form the foundation of wisdom - insight that can be applied to like situations without extensive data collection and analysis. Without wisdom, we’re all just fumbling around in the dark, hoping to find inspiration. Innovation in the research community comes from drawing on the wisdom of others - wisdom that is often embodied in models and hypotheses.
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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.
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Resigning Myself to Vista
By crooky | June 23, 2008
I have been a dyed in the wool Vista critic since it came out in early 2007. In a nutshell, my main beef with the system has been that it’s a resource hog, it has a few annoying features to improve security and it’s not a huge improvement over Windows XP. However, with this weeks’ deadline for downgrading, I finally caved and left Vista on my new computer.
It’s hard to fight a losing battle and let’s face it - when Microsoft decides that they’re going to stop supporting Windows XP, the majority of the market is going to make the switch with them. You can still obtain copies of Windows XP illegally but do you really want to deal with that hassel when you’re in a professional environment?
Here’s why I finally surrendered to Vista:
1. Downgrading is a pain in the ass
There are two ways to downgrade - you have to buy one of the two top-end versions of Vista which include an extended license that allows you to downgrade to XP, or you have to take your chances with pirated software (note: I do not advocate the use of pirated software).
In either case, it’s not an easy process if Vista is already installed on the machine you’re using.
2. If your machine has lots of RAM, no worries
Vista is an unabashed RAM hog. It uses most of that memory to do the same things that XP did but in a fancier way. Yay <-sarcasm. On my old laptop, Vista would have run like a one-legged asthmatic but now that I'm running a quad-core machine with 3 gigs of RAM, Vista runs just as good as XP did. Not better, mind you, but just as good.
3. You can tweak Vista to run better
There are some tweaks that I have implemented to make Vista run better. One of the big ones is to turn off all the fancy animated menus and that crap to make it look like good-old Windows 2000. No, it’s not sexy but it runs noticeably faster when you turn off the Aero interface.
There are other things you can do as well. Just Google Vista Tweaks for more information.
4. They are finally starting to get drivers for your peripherals
One of the biggest things stopping me from upgrading was the fact that my (not so) old HP Laserjet 1012 had no Vista drivers available. I was essentially told that I’d probably have to get a new printer to get it to work with Vista. I thought “fuck that”.
However, they recently released a driver for my printer and it works just fine. It’s about bloody time, too. I know there are still some hardware that won’t work with Vista but I’m satisfied because all of my gear works.
My pet peeves that are unresolved:
1. Where the fuck is the disc?
What the hell is this new policy with OEMs that when you buy a machine with Vista on it (which you pay for), you don’t get a disc? Apparently you can get a disc but you have to pay for it. I ALREADY DID YOU FUCKS! GIVE ME MY GODDAMNED DISC!
2. The security alerts that freeze your computer every time you try to install a new program
I’ve spent most of this weekend loading onto this computer everything that I used to have on my XP machine. Every time I try to install a new piece of software, the security warning pops up and lets me know that I’m trying to install something. I KNOW! GOD!
3. Bloatware
Vista comes pre-loaded with all kinds of useless bloatware installed. Norton Antivirus (bleac!), PC Doctor (those guys are still around?), etc… You’ll need to spend a good hour going through and uninstalling all the bloatware.
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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.
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Marketing You Can’t Buy - Verizon
By crooky | June 23, 2008
As I was trolling around my Google Reader feed this morning, thinking about what I was going to write today, I came across this gem:
Ah yes! Sponsored by Verizon - the company that makes people fake their own deaths to avoid doing business with them anymore. You can’t buy marketing like that, people!
I’m going to post again later this afternoon about me surrendering to Vista after 18 months of fighting but I couldn’t let this one slip by unnoticed.
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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.
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Consulting Business by the Numbers: How Are You Spending Your Time?
By crooky | June 20, 2008
I was going over my bookkeeping records today as a housekeeping exercise and I thought it might be interesting to look at how many billable hours I’ve racked up so far this year (since January 1, 2008). Aside from the fact that I should be using a proper bookkeeping system like Clarity Accounting, I learned some interesting tidbits about my business. Here are the highlights:
1. I accrued an average of 4.6 billable hours per day, every day of the week over the past six months.
That doesn’t sound very impressive but take into consideration that most people only work five days per week (I work seven) and even when someone has a 9-5 job, they don’t work 40 full productive hours every week. The average number of productive hours that Canadians work in a full work day is 6.5 hours. The Canadian average (including those who don’t work full-time) is 5.3 hours per day. If I worked those number of billable hours over five days and didn’t do a lick of work on the weekends, I’d average 6.4 billable hours per day - pretty much bang on the national average for productive hours.
However, as you can see from the graph above, my business requires that I spend time on things that a lot of working Canadians do not. The average Canadian does 1/4 the amount of volunteering I do. Most Canadians don’t spend any time on blogging and the majority of those that do don’t spend as much time on blogging as I do.
I spend about the same amount of time commuting as the average Canadian but I spend time on business development and networking (while not on the clock) that most Canadians do not.
Add it all up and I’m spending twice as much time on my business than most people spend on their jobs (including volunteer time). I also make more money than the average Canadian in six months - with 865 hours logged to date with Friuch Consulting at an average per diem rate of $500 (my rate varies), I’m at $56,000 for the first six months of 2008.
2. I have worked 25 days with more than 10 billable hours in the past six months.
As you can see from the graph above, my hours are all over the map. Note: the red line is the 5.3 hours/day that the average Canadian works. These hours also do not include my volunteer work, blogging, networking, business development or commuting (I don’t bill my clients for driving to see them). As you can see, there are some fun peaks hitting 14+ billable hours in a day. My record is 17.5 this year.
That might sound crazy but when you add up all the things that I do for my business, I’m only working twice as many hours as the average Canadian. Furthermore, I’m only working for 48% of the hours that I am awake, compared to the 25% of waking hours that the average Canadian works. I have more bandwidth!
The following chart shows how the 48% of my waking hours is spent:
If you’re self-employed like me, it shouldn’t surprize you that I spend only half my time on billable hours. Without the rest of the stuff on that chart, your sales pipeline runs dry pretty quick.
3. I divide my billable hours pretty evenly between different activities
The chart above shows how I spend those 865 billable hours this year. A full 30% of my time is spent on the phone booking meetings, arranging the logistics of projects that I am working on, coordinating with my clients and managing sub-contractors. 25% of my time is spent doing field (primary) research and a further 26% of my time is spend writing reports/documentation for my research. 12% of my time is spent in meetings (with clients) and 7% is spent doing secondary research (reading up on the subject I’m researching).
I wasn’t really surprized by any of these numbers except the amount of time that I’m spending on logistics/ coordinating resources. I think I’ve spent more time on that this year because the projects I’m working on are more complex than in previous years and I make more extensive use of sub-contractors now.
4. It turns out my least productive days are Fridays and Saturdays
If you’d asked me to guess before running this analysis, I would have guessed that my “weekend” was Sunday/Monday. Sundays and Mondays are a lot more productive than I had assumed.
So I put it to my readers - how much time do you spend working, blogging, volunteering and networking? Do you keep track of your time like I do? Do you feel like you have work-life balance?
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Aaron “Crooky” Cruikshank is the Principal and Founder of Friuch Consulting. He has written professionally about science and technology for ten years.
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