> Your employer (reasonably) has an expectation that you will give them 100% during at least 9-5 hours and also be available for overtime periods on occasion.
If you're consulting you can set expectations on how much time you give to clients daily.
If I give clients a focused (no HN, twitter, coffee breaks etc, pure heads-down work) five hours of effort then they will likely be happy with the results. This gives me time to work on product, do chores, play with the baby and do whatever else is important to me.
This is obviously not feasible if you're a full time employee, where the usual expectation is that you're there in person whether you're productive or not.
If you're consulting you can set expectations on how much time you give to clients daily.
If I give clients a focused (no HN, twitter, coffee breaks etc, pure heads-down work) five hours of effort then they will likely be happy with the results. This gives me time to work on product, do chores, play with the baby and do whatever else is important to me.
This is obviously not feasible if you're a full time employee, where the usual expectation is that you're there in person whether you're productive or not.