Planning Your Day To Ensure Time To Practice

When trying to learn any subject, it is important to have time to practice and study. This is especially difficult when you lead busy lives. For example, I have a daughter and a wife whom I care for and I work two jobs. Finding time to code is difficult when your work week is anywhere between 65 hours and 100 hours a week.

A typical day for me is wake up at 5AM, my daughter usually wakes up to the alarm clock; change my daughter’s diaper; get her some breakfast; wake my wife; shower; get dressed for work; have my wife drop me off at work; work 6:00AM-2:00PM; begin working my second job from 2:30PM-7:30PM; go home; read my daughter a bed time story; put her to bed for 8:30PM; begin my coding exercises; and finally, I go to bed at 11PM. On Saturdays, I only work my second job which goes from 8AM-11AM and 2:30PM-5:00PM. I use the time between 11AM and 2:00PM to do my coding exercises so that when I get home, I can dedicate the rest of my day to my daughter and my wife.

My schedule will soon change as the upcoming school term begins, and I will have to mold my new schedule to allow me time to code. That is the key factor that I have learned through my educational endeavors, learn to be flexible, but do your best to maintain a schedule.

What is your experience with creating a schedule? Did it work for you? How diligent were you? What were your main issues with maintaining a consistent schedule?

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