Treating time as if it were money

Valuing, budgeting and saving time as if it is money is essential in the arts, where time is our most valuable resource.
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Falling Clock by Daniel Arsham

For most workers, valuing time means working less.

But when your working life is also your passion and you are juggling a portfolio career of arts projects, creative work and money-making top-ups how do you measure and apportion your time effectively?

For most artists and many arts workers the concept of an hourly rate is meaningless. Paid by the project or the work, their time is chewed up at a rate that would be even more pitiful indeed if amortized over time.

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Madeleine Dore
About the Author
Madeleine Dore is a freelance writer and founder of Extraordinary Routines, an interview project exploring the intersection between creativity and imperfection. She is the previous Deputy Editor at ArtsHub. Follow her on Twitter at @RoutineCurator