I’m working on a Sunday for the first time in a long time  

 

And it’s far cry from what working on a Sunday used to mean 

 

I’m just doing a bit of admin - updating my website plugins, having a look over a new project I’m working on - nothing too taxing and quite satisfying. (I can always take Monday off If I choose to) 

 

Back when I was a technician and project manager in The AV industry things were very different

 

Working on a Sunday or a Saturday sometimes into the wee small hours was a financial necessity 

as we were paid double time 

 

But the work was definitely taxing. Sure you had the satisfaction of a job well done but you were sacrificing a lot for it 

 

Time specifically 

 

And that double time was usually on top of what had already been a long week 

 

Since moving into the Internet world double time has taken on an entirely new meaning 

 

Instead of working double, I now have at least double the free time I used to have - sometimes much more than that 

 

So putting a few hours in on the weekend is no biggie at all. 

 

Maybe this is something you can relate to? 

 

And maybe its not so bad - I certainly used to like the money and I worked with a team of great people so there were a lot of laughs along the way 

 

But as I got older the time I was sacrificing became much more valuable and It just wasn’t worth it 

 

What was the alternative though? 

 

I asked myself that question a lot during many long Sunday’s when I’d be running corporate events for people who would be going home many hours before us 

 

Eventually the Internet got to the stage where, with some retraining and application, it presented a whole new ball game - a viable alternative to exchanging time for money 

 

Thank you Tim Berners Lee: Inventor of the Internet - 

 

“The Martin Luther King of our new digital world “ - Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation

 

And thanks to SFM whose platform makes the transition possible for anyone who wants it. 

 

It's just a click away 

 

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

Dave