Today the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
, Janet L. Yellen said that a sharp increase in worker productivity was “here to stay.”
She predicted that unemployment, now at 9.7 percent, would fall to 9.25 percent by the end of the year and around 8 percent by the end of 2011. And she described the current inflation rate as “undesirably low.”
But overall this wouldn’t be operating at its full potential until 2013 [Link to NY Time Article]. I’m working a lot, I have a 9-5, I do freelance website design, programming, and development along with aspects of social media marketing, and assist my wife with her business from time to time. So the question who needs friends is really where do I have time for friends.
How are you dealing with the juggle?
Since 4/4/09 A.T. (After Tessa), our social life has basically become nil. The thing is though – I'm not really bothered by it. I'm having too much fun being a dad to really care I guess. People I'm close too – I still see pretty regularly so it's all good.
We try to schedule social time to make sure we don't go crazy. Sometimes it's hard to get out of the house, but once you do, you realize how important it is to be with great friends, family!
we have 2-1/2 yo BBG trips in addition to an 8yo girl. i co-own a company that fabricates and installs granite countertops. my biz partner and i take turns running the company in alternating 2-month shifts. i also have a book that's recently come out. in addition to that, my wife and i assist her brother running their family business which primarily consists of commercial real estate holdings of theirs (and in rare cases, others) which they are the property manager of. friends? i got time for them. i just never see them. we've just resigned ourselves to one simple fact–with four kids, three of them toddlers, and with so much going on outside our family, we aren't expecting to win any awards for social activity during this stretch of our lives. it gets frustrating, but we try to see everything from 30,000 ft and appreciate this five-year chunk for what it is–an incredibly difficult blip in time for which, oddly, we will one day long to re-live.
side note, thanks for copying my handle on that 530 video. good stuff.