A Day in the Life of a Young Freelancer, part 1

One of my friends is a 25 year old web developer freelancer who also happens to hold a day job.  Here's what a busier day looks like for him:

6:54am - Two text messages received (from a client who texted him at 9:20pm the previous night to ask if he could help with a project by the next day in the morning).  These text messages woke him up when he was trying to get some much needed sleep.

9:30am - Luckily he's wide awake now after not sleeping well.  He manages to squeeze in a remote meeting with the above mentioned client.  The client is not very computer savvy and often takes a lot of coaching just to find a button on the screen.  This client does not own a computer mouse.  Surprisingly, the over 40 client is able to start their screen sharing session quickly.

10:01am - The meeting's objective is finished just in time.  He races downstairs, gulps a protein shake for breakfast (while driving), and zips off to his day job, hoping to be on time.

2:20pm - While on his lunch break at his retail day job, he listens to a voice mail from his biggest freelance client that something on an e-commerce website needs to be fixed ASAP.  The client does not say what needs to be fixed, but says it's "urgent". He calls back the client and has to leave a voice mail explaining that he will only be available from 6:20pm to 6:40pm to fix the the problem because he already has an evening commitment from 7pm to 9pm.

6:25pm - After leaving work about 10 minutes late to finish a purchase order, he arrives home and sits down to check out the problem with the e-commerce site. He knows the client is going to guilt trip him into spending time fixing the problem the next morning if he can't fix it right away.

6:35pm - By God's grace the e-commerce site problem only required one line of code to fix, but it was a major problem.  He emails and texts the client to let them know that the fix has been added.

7:20pm - After eating a quick dinner he arrives to his social event 20 minutes late, missing one of the most important parts of the event.

9:15pm - After finishing his social event, he's too tired to attend a smaller fun social gathering, and heads home.

10:50pm - He deletes a few hundred old non-personal emails from his Gmail inbox, creates a few filters to lower his inbox count, and unsubscribes from a few promotional emails.

11:00pm - He reviews matches on an online dating site and sends icebreakers to several women.

11:30pm - He checks his email and a small client has sent him an email message with two email message attachments that cannot be opened, he emails the client before going to bed to alert them to the problem.