Shipping Side Projects with Wife + 3 Kids + Fulltime Job + Church + Open Source [Alex Reardon]

<p>Listen to the Egghead Podcast: <a href="https://egghead.io/podcasts/alex-reardon-on-balancing-work-life-and-large-side-projects">https://egghead.io/podcasts/alex-reardon-on-balancing-work-life-and-large-side-projects</a></p><p>Check out Alex's course: <a href="https://egghead.io/courses/your-ultimate-guide-to-understanding-dom-events-6c0c0d23">https://egghead.io/courses/your-ultimate-guide-to-understanding-dom-events-6c0c0d23</a></p><p><strong>Transcript</strong><br></p><p>[00:00:00] You mentioned that you had learned a lot about Dom events while you're like on the clock working on the D and D project. So presumably you got to learn some of it on the clock, but then you also have to, since, you're not paid to create courses by your day job. Like, how did you draw the lines between work time learning and free time teaching, I guess was, is the way I'd phrase  </p><p>it. </p><p>Yeah. I mean working in software engineering, I think we're always learning all the time, every day. I that's been my experience anyway and relearning. I feel like there's some things I learn. And then not that long later I have to re-look up again. There's just so much out there. Just always learning all the time and relearning. </p><p>It's just too hard to hold. Hold it all in your head or. So in terms of creating this course I set up very clear boundaries around my work time, and making sure that I'm doing and focusing on my work during work time. And then I set aside designated times at home where I was working on side projects. </p><p>So for me, that, what that looked like practically was one night a week. For me it was Wednesday night where I would work like on this. And that's not a large amount of time. But it was a balanced amount of time, cause I have a lot going on, full-time work at the time. I had two kids now, three kids, which is wild. </p><p>I'm doing stuff with my church and I'm doing stuff with my family, doing stuff with friends, like it's just my last very full. And so one night, a week was something quite pal