I’ve worked on this full-time thanks to the grant, so sadly not much in the way of helpful tips.
The only rough point I can offer here is that I took the job as a waiter last summer (2021) quite intentionally. This allowed me to work 30-35 hours over 3 days, enough to cover my living costs and leave me 4 days free. One of these days was always lost to full slug-mode tiredness/ recovery, but then I’d have 3 days clear—of which 2 I’d try to treat as fairly full-time idea/ pitch development time.
I think this was a pretty effective method in helping me consistently spend time working on project ideas and culminated in my application to EAIF after about 3-4 months of this (I worked on a bunch of ideas before properly pursuing ESH).
I’ve worked on this full-time thanks to the grant, so sadly not much in the way of helpful tips.
The only rough point I can offer here is that I took the job as a waiter last summer (2021) quite intentionally. This allowed me to work 30-35 hours over 3 days, enough to cover my living costs and leave me 4 days free. One of these days was always lost to full slug-mode tiredness/ recovery, but then I’d have 3 days clear—of which 2 I’d try to treat as fairly full-time idea/ pitch development time.
I think this was a pretty effective method in helping me consistently spend time working on project ideas and culminated in my application to EAIF after about 3-4 months of this (I worked on a bunch of ideas before properly pursuing ESH).