Unless you’re pushing parenting duties solely into your partner, like the absentee father who’s trying to make partner at the law firm, you’re going to be limited to working 40 hours per week, or less, and sleep deprived for months, maybe years depending when the baby starts sleeping through the night.
With that, if you’re one of those hyper-conscientious types that gets more done than everyone else yet always seems to have free time in the work day and never works nights or weekends, it may have little effect on your work.
If, however, you’re like me and take on more than you can chew but make up for it by obsessively learning every waking hour outside of regular working hours, your productivity is going to get crushed.
My only advice is:
* There’s the pain of the thing, and there’s the pain of resisting the thing, and one of those is optional.
Unless you’re pushing parenting duties solely into your partner, like the absentee father who’s trying to make partner at the law firm, you’re going to be limited to working 40 hours per week, or less, and sleep deprived for months, maybe years depending when the baby starts sleeping through the night.
With that, if you’re one of those hyper-conscientious types that gets more done than everyone else yet always seems to have free time in the work day and never works nights or weekends, it may have little effect on your work.
If, however, you’re like me and take on more than you can chew but make up for it by obsessively learning every waking hour outside of regular working hours, your productivity is going to get crushed.
My only advice is:
* There’s the pain of the thing, and there’s the pain of resisting the thing, and one of those is optional.