Seven year report
Published 2021-09-30
I just closed my September invoices & updated my books for the month. This is the seventh anniversary of my latest jag of full-time self-employment. I have had other, much shorter, such jags in the past — usually as a few months between “regular” employment. I pretty much always have at least one side gig, so that was a typical pattern, especially in my 30s and early 40s.
But this is also the 84th continuous month that I have maintained the same project management system (which I hand-rolled in Django, natch). So I can assess my productivity with some precision.
In the past seven years I have:
- produced 1551 deliverables
- in 152 projects
- across 56 initiatives (approximately: “websites,” “apps,” or “products”)
- for 17 clients
which means that every year, on average, I produce:
- more than 221 deliverables (more than 18 per month)
- on about 22 projects
- for seven websites or products
The past three years I have given more than 75% of my time to just a few initiatives for one client, which skews this rate a little.