If you are ever considering life working for an insurance agency, say goodbye to your weekends. You will need to and be forced to work on a six-day workweek. I did it for a year and a half. You will have to. The thing about any kind of retail/financial/service business is that they are the suppliers to a demand created by individuals who are working (in most cases). You do the math: if a person works a lot, the best time to meet with that person is on a weekend or very late/very early in the weekdays. When that person has a significant other that works an opposite shift, you WILL see them during the weekend. Same goes with shopping malls, they have more customers on the weekends.
So, what's the solution? Maximize your weekdays and NEVER schedule a weekend appointment unless it is necessary. Work 1/2 day every other weekend. It isn't perfect, but Americans seem to be hardwired to spend their hard-earned money on the weekends. Who am I to fight that? Another solution would be to make your weekends on Mondays/Tuesdays. The nice thing about being self employed is that you don't have anybody telling you that you're wrong.
So, what did I do with myself last weekend? I relaxed & went shopping with my gf on Saturday, and went for an awesome hike on Sunday. Mt. Diablo of Northern California boasts some awesome views. It is hard to find a mountain that sticks so far above any other hill around itself so that your view is fairly unobstructed the entire 360 degrees around itself.
A couple of pics for ya:
A view from the summit looking southeast.
Looking west towards the end of our hike as the sun began to set.
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