Dotty Scott left her job to be self-employed so she could attend her daughter's school events without asking permission. She uses time-blocking to finish work early enough for a 3 pm track meet, calling this scheduling approach "gold" for balancing work and parenting.
When I made my leap from being employed to self-employed, it was scary. And my daughter was in the first grade. And one of the reasons that I really wanted to be self-employed is because I didn't want to have to ask permission to do whatever she needed me to do with her school or after-school activities. She's very athletic person. And I knew that even though she was just in the first grade, that moving forward she was gonna have a lot of afterschool sports and, and it ended up she was in band and just had all these activities. So I was able to integrate her activities into my calendar using the same scheduling techniques that you talked about. You know, and when she had a track meet, for example, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, I knew that day I needed to get up a little bit earlier, start a little bit earlier so that I could end earlier. So those types of things really helped me. That sched— that blocking scheduling is gold.
