Balancing home, family, work and the Affiliate Project
After Gary’s great post about how he spends his day I am going to do the same so you can get another perspective on how a part time affiliate spends their day. This is how most week days are spent at the moment. It is a busy day, fitting in a full time job, spending time with the family (which is my favourite part of the day) and putting in some quality hours for affiliate project work. Like Gary I have a young family and that is the most important thing for me.
06.00 – Alarm goes off and I try and see if I can get at least 2 snoozes in before getting up and getting ready for work and sneaking out of the house trying not to wake anyone else up.
06.20 – Pickup lunch made the night before, running kit and laptop and head for work.
06:45 – Arrive at work, grab a shower and get ready to start the working day in my full time job at 7am.
07:00 – Start work on full time job and work through to lunchtime taking the occasional break.
13:00 – Break for a lunchtime run and shower. Usually run between 4.5 and 6 miles. I like to keep fit as well and this does help the concentration levels so run most weekdays.
14:00 – Return from lunchtime run and continue work.
15:30 – Leave work and have 25 minute drive home.
16:00 – Walk in the door to be greeted by my wonderful family. Time to catch up on what they have been doing for the day and relax and spend time with them, have dinner and then think about bed time for the kids.
18:30 – My wife and I take it in turns to bath the kids, read them stories and put them to bed. One night it will be my turn to do my 2 boys (twins), the next it will be my turn to do my daughter.
19:30 – Finish bed time routine, now time to clear up the house and make lunches for the next day for myself and my daughter who is at school. I normally clear up while my wife makes lunches.
20:30 – Start-up Laptop and carry on with Affiliate projects. This normally involves checking emails, site design and content writing. Try not to get too distracted with the T.V. that will be on. Try to focus on good quality work rather than checking accounts and other blog posts too much.
22.30 – 23:00 – Shutdown for the night and try and have half hour to chill out. Normally try and read a book but usually only manage a few pages before falling asleep to get some well earned rest.
This is my routine for most weekdays, although there is room for the odd night out and I also spend some evenings away from the project with my wife, maybe having a takeaway or just chilling out. I actually really enjoy the affiliate work and with a long term goal to work towards don’t mind putting in the hours. I also try and have a couple of nights off a week.
Affiliate Project Groundhog day – how my day is structured
Affiliate Project has been going now since the end of January 2009. We update this blog with stats and updates on our progress, but came across another part time bloggers site and they asked the question – how do you spend your days as an Affiliate? Thanks Joe (howigotrich.net) for the idea
Myself and Paul (partner in crime, purely Internet Marketing) are constantly talking about how busy we are now we are doing Affiliate Marketing stuff.
So here is my answer, I’m sure Paul will post his in the next few days as he’s having a couple of days off to spend with his family.
5:45am alarm goes off, think shite where is my phone and then quickly hit the snooze button.
6:00am get out of bed, jump in shower to wake myself up, regret staying up late the night before and thinking I spent way too long on the laptop and feel bad for neglecting the misses most of the night.
6:10am chuck on clothes if ironed, otherwise head downstairs, iron clothes, make sandwiches for work, get gym gear ready, then rush to work for 7am
7:00am – meant to be at work as a Tech Support Engineer, suppose to be available for any live calls.
7:10am – whoops, arrived at work, check the Queue for any calls, if no calls, check e-mails and my widgets (buy.at and Affiliate Window) to see any earnings from the day/night before.
9:00am – meet up with Paul for a break aka morning meeting to discuss our daily Affiliate tasks, although we mostly end up talking about ‘when we can do this full time, we could just meet up on the golf course, then to the clubhouse every Monday. Pipe dreams I know, but its a nice thought 
9:30am – back to desk to do boring support cases
12:00am – lunch time, most often head to the gym
1:00pm – back to my desk, hope there is no Customer’s chasing, if not to busy, try and do any updates to sites, put any new ideas into google docs, check google reader to keep updated with other affiliates blogs
3:30pm – leave work, either head home to play with 18month old daughter or pick her up from nursery then feed her, spend the next few hours with her and my wife
7:00pm – daughter goes down for the night, myself or my wife will cook dinner, eat dinner then tidy up
8:00pm – Sit in front of the TV, trying not to spend too much time away from my wife, although this is probably when I’m least responsive as I’m focused on Affiliate stuff and finding it difficult to work with TV distractions and tiredness from the busy day. I try and spend this time trying to finish off niche sites, trying to improve existing sites, whether it be SEO or how to make them convert better. But I must admit most of the time is done doing research, trying to think of what could be a big earner to help reach the ultimate goal and do this full time earning a full time wage. Also I must check out other affiliate sites to get ideas of how they do things as they are obviously doing ok.
11:00-12:00pm – eventually close the lid on the laptop, think more to do the next day
I’d be very intersted to hear how other part time or even full time Affiliates days are spent whilst doing Affiliate Marteting.
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