nice that there’re so many biz owners and freelancers. I’m the 9-6, 5 days a week type of guy
Funny, I go for the exact opposite. When I sit down in my office to get some work done, I feel good about it. I like the work.
When I am playing with my son in the backyard, work is the furthest thing from my mind. I am not the least bit concerned with any of it!
That is awesome.
I like my work, but I keep work and play strictly separated.
Lately… its about 50% time working and 50% management (includes sales, looking for leads, updating website). Business is a bit slow lately.
About 5 hours a day for administrative work + browsing. But travelling/biking time is always given priority, unfortunately. 
8 hours for daily working in, and 5 more hours on my own business;)
8.5 hours a day at my job as a webmaster, 1 hour a day on my own stuff. 8 hours over the weekend on my own stuff. More coffee needed.
Hi, most of the people works throught the all the days nearly except sunday. Except sunday and they enjoy that weekend.
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My on paper schedule is definitely different to my real life schedule, although so far it has been going back and forth from say the standard 9-5 hours to mid-day to early morning night owl style. I want to stick to the 9-5 standard but poorly managed mornings can really bite you in the butt big time.
My schedule allows for 4 working days. Then the rest is time to work on the other business projects: web software and writing. As well as social stuff… you know answering phone calls and telling people I’m too busy 
Very interesting to see the main two types of people are business managers and freelancers. Not many plain old 9-5, 5 day a week types so far. Many night owls.
I admire you Sagewing & dvduval for releasing control over the details. Was it difficult to give up the coding/designing control? or did you never really have a thing for that stuff and prefer managing people? When I was a team leader in a previous role it was definitely a totally different game than being a code-beaver. After I had things setup and running well, I became very bored though… and quit that job… then missed it for a bit.
I agree with jack here… the work hours come as needed in my case. I do not even count them up anymore. Just get up early and keep chugging along until i see the sun starting to go down. Then i actually take a look at the clock. I send most of the day managing people. It is hard to find good help these days even if you pay them.
I like to allot 100% of my time to business but end up with about 70% and the remaining 30% with my family.
I have a paid job which takes most of my time.
Anyway, i do work an average of two hrs daily on my personel biz
9 hours a day
tired ~~
Isn’t that the truth!
I normally schedule four hours a day billable but that’s just the beginning of my day!
Depends on the workload. I work a lot and when I can’t do billable work, I learn new things and administer the business. If I estimate work, I count on 6 hours billable per day which on a normal 8 hour day would leave 2 for potential administrative tasks and surprises popping up. And 8 hour days don’t exist.
For me it is impossible to say. Work and hobby and fun run all together, they are what I do with my life, seven days a week. Even if I take a walk, the camera is with me, I observe to have information stored in my head for use later on.
My life is a unit.
I spend 40 hours in working a week.
I spend most of my time managing and doing administrative work, but I try to get involved in every aspect of the business from time to time just to make sure things are running smoothly, and so that I understand how things are operating. I would say schedule is very similar to Sagewind.
I have a little software consulting firm. I owned a web development shop for a long time and I think the work breakdown was about the same.
If you spend most of your time doing billable work rather than working on your business, then you really aren’t ‘in business’ as much as you are freelancing/solo.