I thought this was a really interesting post, thanks! Did you have a full time job while working on your pilot project? If so I’d be interested to know how you navigated your time and any tips you have on that
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 thought this was a really interesting post, thanks! Did you have a full time job while working on your pilot project? If so I’d be interested to know how you navigated your time and any tips you have on that
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).